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Its 261,000 first-week chart sales mean it sped past the Swedish pop group's comeback album Voyage, which opened with 204,000 sales.

However, Adele's sales figures are significantly lower than those of her previous album 25, released in 2015.

That album, her third, opened with 800,000 first-week sales, which means 30 has sold 32% of its predecessor.

Acting Managing Director, Carolyn Blacklock, said this represents around 240,000 people.

She announced this during the MOU signing of a power project for Tambul-Nebilyer.

Blacklock said in the past, PPL have not been good implementers. However, this year she said they have done 10 times better than previous years.

Next year PPL is aiming for 30,000 connections at 8 people per connection, amounting to 240,000 people.