{"id":884,"date":"2016-01-04T23:48:13","date_gmt":"2016-01-04T15:48:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/01\/04\/adeles-25-was-the-best-selling-album-of-2015-to-no-ones-surprise\/"},"modified":"2016-01-04T23:48:13","modified_gmt":"2016-01-04T15:48:13","slug":"adeles-25-was-the-best-selling-album-of-2015-to-no-ones-surprise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/01\/04\/adeles-25-was-the-best-selling-album-of-2015-to-no-ones-surprise\/","title":{"rendered":"Adele&#039;s &#039;25&#039; was the best-selling album of 2015, to no one&#039;s surprise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Adele\" src=\"http:\/\/rack.2.mshcdn.com\/media\/ZgkyMDE2LzAxLzA0L2VlL2FkZWxlLjAwODI4LmpwZwpwCXRodW1iCTU3NXgzMjMjCmUJanBn\/3ea8da02\/40c\/adele.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div style=\"float: right;width: 50px\"><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share?via=Mashable&amp;text=Adele%27s+%2725%27+was+the+best-selling+album+of+2015%2C+to+no+one%27s+surprise&amp;src=http%3A%2F%2Fmashable.com%2F2016%2F01%2F04%2Fadele-25-2015%2F%3Futm_campaign%3DMash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial%26utm_cid%3DMash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\" style=\"margin: 10px\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Feed-tw\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/rack.1.mshcdn.com\/assets\/feed-tw-f7c0a094d16b7ee7c91a1e50839a8e00.jpg\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fmashable.com%2F2016%2F01%2F04%2Fadele-25-2015%2F%3Futm_campaign%3DMash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial%26utm_cid%3DMash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;src=sp\" style=\"margin: 10px\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Feed-fb\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/rack.1.mshcdn.com\/assets\/feed-fb-c0a21e8841794479b8086c32c6f24ba1.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>Here&#8217;s some shocking news: Adele&#8217;s <em>25<\/em> was the best-selling album of 2015, according to <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.billboard.com\/articles\/columns\/chart-beat\/6828916\/adele-25-sixth-week-no-1-billboard-200\">Billboard<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>The British singer&#8217;s triumphant third album sold 363,000 album units in the week ending Dec. 31, of which 307,000 were pure album sales. The record also ended the year as the <em>Billboard<\/em> 200&#8217;s no. 1 album for six straight weeks. In the U.S., <em>25<\/em> sold 7.44 million copies through the week ending Dec. 31.<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>See also: <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/2015\/12\/24\/best-adele-hello-covers-2015\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">10 epic Adele covers from 2015 that the world won&#8217;t forget in a hurry<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em>25<\/em> also finished the year as the &#8220;biggest seller of any calendar year since 2004,&#8221; says <em>Billboard<\/em>, when Usher&#8217;s <em>Confessions<\/em> sold 7.98 million copies. <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/2016\/01\/04\/adele-25-2015\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>More about <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/music\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Music<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/entertainment\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Entertainment<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/category\/adele\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Adele<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/Mashable\/~4\/LY8XVQUNVYs\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s some shocking news: Adele&#8217;s 25 was the best-selling album of 2015, according to Billboard The British singer&#8217;s triumphant third album sold 363,000 album units in the week ending Dec. 31, of which 307,000 were pure album sales. The record &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/01\/04\/adeles-25-was-the-best-selling-album-of-2015-to-no-ones-surprise\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":115,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[378,79,54,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-884","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adele","category-entertainment","category-music","category-other"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/884","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/115"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=884"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/884\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}