Chart News: HDD: ANTI may debut with 150K?

UNCHARTED WATERS: Adele is rearranging people’s heads. This extraordinary artist is in the process of pulling off a feat that is nothing less than inconceivable, with 25 on track to sell a monumental 7m+ by year’s end—which averages out to 1m+ units during each of the six weeks between Nov. 20 and Jan. 1. This revelation means that no other act with a scheduled of possible December release will challenge Adele for the rest of the year—not Coldplay, whose 12/4 release is projecting to just under 200k at presstime, roughly 450k south of Adele’s projection for the week. Not Rihanna —if this were a conventional physical/digital rollout, handicappers think it would debut with 150k. But has her team at Roc Nation figured out a way to make the Samsung giveaway count toward her sales total? Will these releases be subject to the “Tidal curse”?