Adele dominates UK charts with double No 1, highest first week sales since 2017

New album 30 eclipses first-week sales of Abba’s Voyage, while singer occupies three out of five slots in the UK Top 5 singlesAdele has scored the highest opening week for an album in 2021, beating Abba’s recent blockbuster return.Her fourth album, 30, notched chart sales of 261,000, a figure derived from streaming, downloads and physical sales (including 16,700 copies shifted on vinyl). It’s the biggest first week sales figure since Ed Sheeran’s Divide in 2017, and beats