Adele’s latest release 25 is the biggest album of the year after becoming the fastest to sell a million copies in UK history.

The Oscar-winning singer’s number one record hit the one million sales mark within 10 days of its release and is the biggest album of 2015, overtaking Ed Sheeran’s x, according to the Official Charts Company.

Ed Sheeran
Ed Sheeran (Ian West/PA)

Racking up sales of more than 800,000 in its debut week, 25 smashed the record previously held by Oasis’s third album, Be Here Now, which took 17 days to hit the one million milestone in 1997.

Adele’s album, which features the chart-topping single Hello, also had one of the biggest first day totals ever – selling more than 300,000 copies in 24 hours.

Described by the London-born singer as a “make-up album”, 25 is also the UK’s most downloaded number one release, having sold 252,423 digital copies, more than double the previous record.

The album has also had huge success in the US, smashing the first week sales records having sold 3.38 million copies, and is the first record to sell more than three million copies within that time in Nielsen’s history.

Justin Timberlake and NSync at the MTV VMAs 2013
*NSync (Doug Peters/PA)

Adele, 27, surpassed *NSync’s 15-year record, as the group’s 2000 album, No Strings Attached, sold 2.4 million copies in its first week.

25 has also become the US’s best-selling album of the year, flying past the 1.8 million copies sold of Taylor Swift’s 1989.

The album, which will be accompanied by Adele’s first tour dates in four years, has enjoyed more success than its predecessors, 21 and 19.

Adele’s 21, which was released in January 2011 and included singles such as Rolling In The Deep, Rumour Has It and Someone Like You, sold 208,000 copies in its first week, while her debut, 19, had first week sales of 73,000 when it came out in February 2008.