Claim: 25 was released through an English independent record label and was successful.
Evidence: It was released on 20 November 2015 , through XL Recordings.
XL Recordings -LRB- or simply XL -RRB- is an English independent record label founded in 1989 by Richard Russell , Tim Palmer and Nick Halkes , and owned by Russell and Beggars Group.
The album was a massive commercial success , debuting at number one in more than 25 markets and broke first-week sales records in multiple countries , including the United Kingdom and United States ; in the US , the album sold 3.38 million copies in its first week of release , marking the largest single-week sales for an album since Nielsen SoundScan began tracking point-of-sale music purchases in 1991.