Adele is officially the best-selling artist of 2015
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Loading...Adele, who broke records with her song "Hello" and latest album "25," has been named the best artist of 2015.
The International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI), a global music industry body, said that the British ballad singer was the top-selling musical act last year based on worldwide sales of recordings.
According to IFPI data, Adele,27, sold more than 15 million copies of her latest album "25" worldwide since its release in November, including 2.65 million in the UK alone.
The 10-time Grammy winner achieved the feat for the full year even though she did not release "25" until November 20 and declined to put the album on streaming sites, a rare move at a time when such on-demand services are growing rapidly.
"25," Adele's third album which came more than four years after its predecessor, broke records for first-week sales in both the US and UK.
The first track "Hello," an introspective ballad in line with Adele's previous work, was the first single to be downloaded more than one million times in the US in one week. According to Billboard, Adele sold 1.11 million copies of "Hello."
She has had seven singles chart Billboard's Hot 100, but "Hello" was the first of her career to debut at No. 1.
IFPI chief executive Frances Moore, in a statement issued from Europe on Monday, called "25" the "runaway global sensation of 2015" and said Adele's achievement was "simply phenomenal."
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