"25," the third album by Adele, sold 3,378,000 copies in the first week after its release — handily breaking a single-week record that was previously set by *NSYNC in 2000.
"25" went on to sell 1,160,000 copies in its second week and 1,190,000 in its fifth week.
It remains the only album in history to sell one million copies in at least two different weeks.