--- description: Forget Bing Crosby and Eartha Kitt: Adele’s 25 is officially the biggest album of Christmas title: Adele’s '25' Continues to Break Records image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltc836d8e5cbd72637/698876e70a4a22ab169c7acc/500221974.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  * [Entertainment](/section/entertainment/) ## Entertainment Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # Adele’s _25_ Continues to Break Records, Sells Another 1.15 Million Copies by [Devan Coggan / Entertainment Weekly](/author/entertainment-weekly/) ## Devan Coggan / Entertainment Weekly Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Dec 28, 2015 3:59 AM CUT  Adele attends the television show 2015! Menschen, Bilder, Emotionen - RTL Jahresrueckblick on December 6, 2015 in Cologne, Germany Adele attends the television show 2015! Menschen, Bilder, Emotionen - RTL Jahresrueckblick on December 6, 2015 in Cologne, GermanySascha Steinbach— Getty Images by [Devan Coggan / Entertainment Weekly](/author/entertainment-weekly/) ## Devan Coggan / Entertainment Weekly Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Dec 28, 2015 3:59 AM CUT Forget Bing Crosby and Eartha Kitt: Adele’s _25_ is officially the biggest album of Christmas. According to [Billboard](http://www.billboard.com/articles/columns/chart-beat/6821619/adele-25-billboard-200-fifth-week-sells-another-million "undefined"), _25_ sold 1.15 million in pure album sales in the week leading up to Christmas, making this the third week that _25_ has sold more than a million copies. The week ending on Dec. 24 marks _25’s_ second-best frame yet after the album debuted in late November and sold 3.38 million copies in one week. When it was first released, _25_ [shattered records](http://www.ew.com/article/2015/11/29/adele-25-sales-first-week "undefined"), becoming the first album to sell more than 3 million in a single week and earning the largest sales week for an album since Nielsen SoundScan began tracking sales in 1991. In its second week, _25_ became the first album ever to sell more than a million copies in two different weeks. Now, it’s done the same over three weeks. In total, _25_ sold 1.19 million equivalent album units for the week, putting it at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 albums chart for the fifth week in a row. To date, _25_ has sold more than 7 million copies, and more than 10 million fans [tried to buy tickets](http://www.ew.com/article/2015/12/20/adele-concert-tour-tickets-10-million-fans "undefined") to her North American tour. 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