TV Article Adele 25 sales surpass 3 million By Amanda Michelle Steiner Published on November 26, 2015 12:00PM EST Can you handle the hot heat rising? Adele’s 25 has surpassed 3 million in sales in the U.S., Billboard reports. Just two days earlier, it was announced that the singer-songwriter had broken the single-week sales record previously held by *NSYNC’s No Strings Attached, which sold 2.416 million in the U.S. when it was released in March 2000 WANT MORE EW? Subscribe now to keep up with the latest in movies, television, and music. When Adele’s highly anticipated third outing was released last week, there was no doubt that it would be the highest-selling of the year. Now, with a little more than one day left in the tracking week, we have to wonder what dizzying heights the album will have reached when the debut week sales are released on Sunday.