- Who
- Adele
- What
- 1800000 unit(s) sold
- Where
- United States ()
- When
- 2011
Adele (UK, b. Adele Adkins) raised the bar for digital album sales in both the US and the UK in 2011. Within five months of its February 2011 release, 21 had eclipsed Eminem’s Recovery – the first album to sell one million digital copies in the US – as the biggest-selling digital album in US chart history, with sales of 1.1 million units. By the end of the year, 21’s digital sales had risen to an unprecedented 1.8 million. 21’s digital sales had risen to more than 700,000 in the UK by the end of 2011, where it replaced Lady Gaga’s The Fame as the biggest-selling digital album on record in March 2011.
