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[Iceman]

can you please use the threads on artists, it's annoying to have to merge them

[Smithy]

[Iceman]

Adele's 'Someone Like You' has become the first song to sell more than a million copies in the UK this decade, the Official Charts Company has revealed.

The track spent four weeks at number one in February before returning to the top of the chart for another week in March.

The song's popularity surged after the singer-songwriter's performance at the Brit Awards in February this year.

Since 2000, only 16 singles have reached the million sales mark. The last singles to reach this were Lady GaGa's 'Poker Face' and 'I Gotta Feeling' by the Black Eyed Peas, both released in 2009.

Adele's latest album 21 has spent 16 weeks at the top of the Official Albums Chart. It has so far sold 2.6 million copies. Her first album, 19, has also doubled its sales this year, selling 800,000 copies.

Official Charts Company managing director Martin Talbot said: "With an almost certain Mercury Music Prize nomination and 21's first Christmas season to come, I suspect her record-breaking antics are not over yet."

[King Gizzard]

Good on her

[InOne]

Well done to her but Someone Like You is pretty annoying now lol

[Smithy]

That song has been so raped now



SFTTR >

[Zippy]

Number one in Australia now too.

[Iceman]

Hopefully now she's better she can get on with Set Fire To The Rain

[Zippy]

Originally Posted by Iceman

Hopefully now she's better she can get on with Set Fire To The Rain

I think that was just released monday

well it was kinda released febuary but not really.

[Iceman]

Adele has had the two best-selling albums of the first half of 2011 in the UK.

The 'Set Fire To The Rain' singer topped the list with her second album 21, which has managed to shift over 2.6 million units in the UK since its release on January 19.

Second place goes to her debut record 19, which is still selling well over three years after its initial release on January 28, 2008. It has sold over 800,000 units in 2011 alone.

The news follows the confirmation that Adele's recent single 'Someone Like You' has become the first song to sell over a million copies this decade, despite only being available in digital format.

Reacting to the feat, Official Charts Company director Martin Talbot predicted that the 24-year-old's "record-breaking antics are not over yet".

[MeMyselfAndI]

omg LOL at 19 selling more than BTW in 2011 in yhe UK after 3 years

I knew Leonas schoolmate would succeed

[Iceman]

Adele's 21 has become the biggest-selling digital album to date in the US.

The 'Set Fire To The Rain' singer's second studio album has managed to surpass one million downloads in the US just a week after Eminem became the first artist to do so with Recovery.

21 has now tallied up over 1.017 million downloads compared to Recovery's 1.005m, while Lady GaGa's The Fame and Mumford & Sons' Sigh No More are expected to pass the million digital sales milestone by the end of 2011.

Just under a third (32%) of the 155.5m albums sold in the US in the first six months of 2011 were digital, marking a 19% rise in downloads compared to the same period in 2010, reports USA Today.

Billboard's associate director of charts and retail Keith Caulfield said that Adele is "not just a digital phenomenon", saying: "She appeals to older consumers, who will still buy full albums, and to younger people who may just buy a single track.

"She connects with people in a way where they feel she is a 'full-package artist' and you want to hear everything she sings."

Adele's 'Someone Like You' became the first digital single to pass the one million UK sales mark this decade earlier this month.

The singer-songwriter's first two albums 19 and 21 are currently the top two best-selling albums in the UK this year.

[Zippy]

21 has now sold 7.71 million worldwide. Set to break 8mill within 2 weeks. With nearly 6 months of the year to go and christmas sales the album is set for incredible 2011 sales. Certainly over 10 mill and pushing towards 15 mill although that may happen next year.

[Fetch The Bolt Cutters]

i want i found a boy as a single

[Zippy]

In America

Adele's 21 is the first album to spend its first 20 weeks inside the top three since Celine Dion's Let's Talk About Love, which spent its first 22 weeks inside the top three from December 1997 to May 1998. Both albums have strong adult contemporary appeal. Both housed smash #1 singles. Dion's album featured "My Heart Will Go On (Love Theme From ‘Titanic')," which won Grammys for Record and Song of the Year. Adele's album features "Rolling In The Deep," which is the front-runner to win both awards this year.

21's amazing billboard chart run;
{1}-1-2-1-3-3-1-2-1-1-1-1-1-3-2-1-3-3-2- (first entry: 12/3/11) 19 weeks

Rolling in the deeps billboard chart run;
97-84-69-64-41-26-13-18-25-26-17-10-10-6-2-2-{1}-1-1-1-1-1-1-2-3- (second entry: 29/1/11) 25 weeks

RITD is the years biggest single to date worldwide selling over 6 million.....including 4 million in America.

[Iceman]

21 goes back to number 1 in the UK with 19 back at number 3.

[Iceman]

21 on course for Number 1 spot in the UK again. And a mercury nod too

[Callum]

21 number one for an 18th week. Looks like Amy will knock her off next week though

[Doogle]

[Lewis.]

She's gonna be loaded

[Zippy]

She was already loaded from 19

which is also still selling incredible numbers

[Iceman]

Adele's 21 has become the longest-running number one album in 40 years.

The singer's second studio LP has matched a record set by the Bee Gees' Saturday Night Fever in 1977, which also spent 18 weeks at the top of the UK chart.

In total, there are only eight albums that have surpassed Adele's run as number one in UK chart history.

Simon & Garfunkel's Bridge Over Troubled Water managed to tally up 41 weeks at the top back in 1971, while other notable chart-dominators include The Beatles' 1967 album Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band and 1965's The Sound Of Music soundtrack.

21 recently surpassed 3 million sales in the UK, meaning the album has now been certified 10x platinum by the British Phonographic Industry.

The Brit School alum has dominated the world music chart since the record's release back in January and has so far sold over 8 million copies of the album worldwide.

[Callum]

That's a pretty great feat! Will she ever release a video for "Set Fire to the Rain" or is she just gunna rely on airplay for sales?

[Smithy]

I heard she isn't even going to film one :/

Which imo is really lazy