What no one wants is for an artist to have to go out on tour before their records can go out. Sometimes it happens, especially in the current climate, and when it does, it’s not great. Overall for the industry, though, the surge in demand for vinyl records isn’t a terrible problem to have. Adele Sets U.K. TV Concert Special". Billboard. 3 November 2021. Archived from the original on 11 November 2021 . Retrieved 3 November 2021.

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Adele’s 30 has generated some headlines and speculation about whether she’s making vinyl delays worse. Five hundred thousand records is a lot of records, but in the grand scheme of things when 160 million records are being made, it’s not really the end-all, be-all. None of this is to say Adele isn’t a huge deal. Her 25 in 2015 sold more than 3 million copies in the US in a week; her recent Oprah special averaged 9.92 million viewers, beating all programming except the NFL in primetime. Her 30 is something people want to hear, including on vinyl. Adele confirms I Drink Wine is the next single from new album 30". OfficialCharts.com. Archived from the original on 11 November 2021 . Retrieved 15 December 2021. Wow japan has resumed pressing records again? sterling in the deadwax which means US metal pressed on good ol' japanese virgin vinyl (if they still follow the old routines that is) In the United States, 30 became the top-selling album of 2021 [154] with 500,000 copies and 575,000 album-equivalent units in its first three days. [155] The next day, 30 surpassed Certified Lover Boy by Drake for 2021's biggest opening week, earning 660,000 album-equivalent units in the US. 560,000 of that sum was album sales. [156]