(London) British singer Adele, with her new single Easy on me, first track in six years, seized the first place of sales in the United Kingdom on Friday, shattering several records in the process.
A week after its release, Easy on me now occupies first place in the British ranking of singles with 217,300 sales, the highest figure since the release of Shape of You Ed Sheeran in 2017 (226,800 sales), the rankings body said in a statement.
This is the 3e title of the singer to occupy this place, according to the Official Charts Company.
With over 24 million plays in the UK alone, the single also broke the record for the most listened to online song in the country the week of its release, held since 2019 by 7 Rings Ariana Grande (16.9 million plays).
The track also became the best-selling digitally in one week of all of 2021, with 23,500 digital sales.
Easy on me is the first single from the highly anticipated album 30, the singer’s first after six years of distance taken from the world of music. The Londoner in exile in Los Angeles is engaged in these difficulties that marked her passage in her thirties, from her divorce to the sudden end of her career.
In 2017, Adele had indeed had to cancel two shows at Wembley Stadium in London because of problems with her voice, then had completely withdrawn from the scene.
In a magazine interview Vogue after five years of silence, the pop diva allergic to celebrity, despite her 15 Grammys and her Oscar, had confided that her “life had collapsed without warning at age 30”.
This very personal opus – which she says she produced to answer the questions of her son Angelo, soon to be 9 years old, about his divorce – is one of the most anticipated releases of the year, after the global success of her previous album. , 25.
The release of his new single has also resulted in “a resurgence of listening to his old repertoire,” added the Official Charts Company, noting that two of his tracks, When We Were Young (25) and Someone Like You (34), made their comeback in the Top 40 this week.