Adele’s 30 was the best-selling album of 2021, after just six weeks on sale.
The star sold more than 600,000 copies of her so-called “divorce album”, with 80% of those sales on CD and vinyl, bucking the trend towards streaming.
However. the total falls far below the 800,000 copies her previous album, 25, sold in its first week.
Ed Sheeran had 2021’s biggest-selling single, Bad Habits. US pop sensation Olivia Rodrigo had the second and third-biggest songs, with Good 4 U and Drivers License.
All of the top five were by solo acts, without featured artists, for the first time since 2009.
