Adele’s comeback single “Easy On Me” topped the British charts for the first time in six years on Friday, achieving the best first-week sales since 2017.
According to the Official Singles Chart, the track, in which she discloses details of the painful years she has undergone since her previous release, scored 217,300 chart sales in its first week, the highest week one statistics since Ed Sheeran’s “Shape of You” in 2017.
It also surpassed Ariana Grande’s record of 24 million streaming in the United Kingdom within its first week of release. The singer confirmed last week that her highly anticipated new album, 30, will be released on November 19.
Her “year of worry,” during which her marriage broke apart, was recently revealed.
At a period when her life was “a maze of total disaster and inner torment,” she posted on Twitter.
She broke a five-year quiet in an interview with Vogue published earlier this month, in which she discussed living as a recluse while battling anxiety.
