In less than seven days, Adele has broken the UK record for first week album sales.<br />As of Thursday, sales for Adele's third album reached 737,000, passing the 696,000 opening week sales that Oasis achieved for their 1997 record Be Here Now, The Official Charts Company announced.<br />However, Oasis released their record-holding album on a Thursday, giving them only three days to amass figures that could have potentially been even higher.<br />Earlier this week, it was revealed that Adele topped *NSYNC's 2001 record in the U.S., selling 2.4 million copies in just over three days.
