Adele's album 25 has outsold all others records in 2016 so far - despite being released in 2015.

Her third studio album is the fastest selling of all time and was the biggest seller of 2015.

The British singer's album currently has 623,000 combined chart sales of physical purchases, digital downloads, and streaming equivalent sales this year, according to the Officials Charts Company.

Her last album, 21, also made it on to the 2016 list as the 31st best selling album of the year so far.

Justin Bieber's Purpose ranks second in the list with a combined chart sales total of 413,000, even though that was also released in 2015.

The biggest album released in 2016 so far is David Bowie's Blackstar, the third biggest record of the year with combined sales of 376,000.