While final data for the October 23-29 tracking week has not yet been published, enough insight is available to report that “Hello” broke the single-week US digital sales record.<\/p>\n
And it did so by a comfortable margin.<\/p>\n
Reports emerging from Columbia Records sources (and first shared by Hits Magazine) indicate that “Hello” sold in the general neighborhood of 1 million US copies during the October 23-29 tracking week. The total easily breaks the previous weekly record of 636,000, which was held by Flo Rida’s smash “Right Round.”<\/p>\n
More precise data, which will officially<\/i> confirm the new record, should emerge by Monday.<\/p>\n
“Hello” was additionally downloaded over 250,000 times in conjunction with pre-orders for Adele’s “25” album. Those “instant gratification” downloads do not count toward the song’s sales total, but they provide further evidence of its dominant first week.<\/p>\n
(Editor’s Note: It appears the “750,000 songs in three days” figure initially reported by Columbia Records included the “instant gratification” downloads)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[1047],"tags":[1756,5200],"adace-sponsor":[],"yoast_head":"\n