That's more than 11 million per day! Adele's smash-hit Hello becomes the first video to achieve 1 billion YouTube views within three months

Stunning success: The black and white clip joins sixteen other videos which have also reached 1 billion views

 

Storming the charts: 'If anyone deserves it, it's Adele and that song,' said Susanne Daniels, the head of original programming at YouTube

The news comes just weeks after Adele's third album, 25, smashed global records with its chart success - beating the Fifa 16 computer game to become the UK's biggest-selling home entertainment title of 2015.

The singer, 27, who returned to the scene in November after a four-year hiatus, sold 2,604,850 copies, compared to 2,516,079 for Fifa 16, according to The Independent.

Despite the fact that the album was only released at the end of the year, Adele managed to smash all previous records, whilst helping to drive a four per cent increase in UK music sales, according to the newspaper.

Welcome back: Adele kicked things off in October with the release of her comeback single Hello - which was the sixth biggest-selling single of the year

 

Hello... well done! Adele's third album, 25, has smashed global records with its chart success and even beat the Fifa 16 computer game to become the UK's biggest-selling home entertainment title of 2015.

However, the star failed to make the list of top ten most-streamed artists - headed by Ed Sheeran - after refusing to allow 25 to feature on platforms where people could listen to the songs for free.

Streams through services such as Spotify and Apple Music have been counted in the Official Albums Chart since March, with 100 streams equating to one purchase.

The album sold 800,307 copies in its opening week and, by the 29th day, the Someone Like You hitmaker had become the fastest artist ever to smash through the two million sales mark at that rate.

See more of the latest on Adele as 25 is revealed as the UK's biggest-selling album of 2015 

The singer did, however, fail to reach the top of the list of the biggest songs of 2015, taking sixth place with Hello, the album's debut single. 

Nevertheless, the hit comeback single has been named as the fastest seller of the year.

In second and third place in the list of the biggest albums of 2015 were Ed Sheeran's x and Sam Smith's In The Lonely Hour - despite both albums being released in 2014.

Unstoppable: The album sold 800,307 copies in its opening week and, by the 29th day, the Someone Like You hitmaker had become the fastest artist ever to smash through the two million sales mark at that rate

Sheeran released x in June 2014 but it shot to the top of the charts again in July 2015 ahead of his sold-out Wembley Stadium shows. It finished the year on 971,000 combined sales - with a grand total of 2.66 million to date across its lifetime.

The 24-year-old's debut album, +, also made the Top 40 four years on from its release - placing at 38.

Smith's In The Lonely Hour notched up 893,000 combined sales in 2015, bringing it to 2.14 million in total. It hit number one on four occasions and also achieved a record-breaking 67 weeks in the Top 10.

Going strong: Ed Sheeran's x came in second place on the list of 2015's biggest-selling albums, despite the fact it was released in June 2014

Elvis Presley came in fourth place, achieving posthumous success with his 2015 album If I Can Dream, an orchestral reworking of his biggest hits.

Cilla Black's Very Best Of, which became her first number one album ever following her death in August, was 25th on the list.

Justin Bieber's Purpose made fifth place, with combined sales of 645,000, despite never reaching number one in the charts - while One Direction's Made In The A.M. only made it to 14th place.