Adele's 21 has sold more copies in the UK than any other album this millennium.
It sells more copies in one week than Vogue manages in a month.
I Did it Again, sold more copies in its first week than any other chart album.
"We are dearly hoping we'll get more copies in a couple of weeks," Mr. Ingram said.
The novel sold more copies in its first two days, about 8,000, than any of Mr. Brown's previous books had ever sold in hardcover.
Bay's own debut performed none too shabbily last year, selling more copies in the UK than any other released in 2015.
Note in the second chart that, in percentage terms, it has lost more copies in the past year than any other title.
Best of times Swift's fifth album, 1989, released in 2014 sold more copies in its opening week than any album in the previous 12 years.
Conrad even revived elements of "The Sisters" in "The Arrow of Gold" (1919) — which sold more copies in America than any other English-language novel published that year.
Only a few long-established, all-purpose cookbooks, such as Irma Rombauer's "Joy of Cooking," have sold more copies in hardcover.
Ironically, as a consequence of the emergence of "new India" and the burgeoning of the country's affluent middle classes, the Economist – a magazine previously considered the preserve of business elites – is now selling more copies in India.
