LWKMD! who did this? I knew this was going to happen, Adele is the original business woman!
According to the Official Charts Company, the single is currently sitting at number one on the charts, four days before the official countdown is released, and is clocking up an average of 52,000 downloads per day. Since its release on 23 October 2015, Hello has sold more than 165,000 copies in the UK with 156,000 of those from downloads.
Adele, 27, is on course to overtake Ellie Goulding’s record for the biggest opening week sales with her Fifty Shades Of Grey soundtrack song, Love Me Like You Do, shifting 173,000 in its first week of release in January 2015. It is predicted that Adele will surpass Goulding’s figures by this Friday (30 October 2015).
-IB Times, UK.