Adele | 21

by **NorfolkScot** » Mon Feb 20, 2012 5:33 pm

According to the latest Official Charts Company sales data, Adele is on course to sell over 6 million albums in the UK by the end of this week.

Since her career-changing performance at the BRIT Awards with MasterCard last February, someone has bought one of her albums (either her 2008 debut album, 19, or her 2011 record-breaking follow-up, 21) on average, every seven seconds.

And with 19 and 21 teetering just below the 2 million and 4 million sales marks, respectively, following her UK live return at tomorrow night’s BRITs, sales of her albums easily rocket past six million copies.

After winning the Critics’ Choice Award in 2008, Adele returned to The BRITs last year to perform a track from her then recently released second album. Accompanied only by a piano, her heartfelt rendition of Someone Like You pretty much made the Tottenham-born singer/songwriter a household name over night. That week, Someone Like You climbed 46 places up the Official Singles Chart to Number 1, while both 19 and 21 were well on course to break the million sales barrier. Within ten months of that performance, 21 had overtaken Amy Winehouse’s Back In Black to become the biggest selling album of the 21st Century.

"In the past year, Adele has gone from being one of many popular British talents, to being bona fide international superstar,” comments the Official Charts Company’s managing director, Martin Talbot. “No-one could possibly have imagined, when she stepped on the O2 stage for last year's BRITs, that a year later she would be able to count a total of 6 million album sales and an album which would sit alongside Thriller, Brothers In Arms and Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band as one of the Top 10 biggest sellers of all time."

by **UKMusicLova** » Mon Feb 20, 2012 5:35 pm

DAYUM! That's like 1 in 10 people in the UK have an album of hers!

by **Wayne** » Mon Feb 20, 2012 5:36 pm

UKMusicLova wrote:DAYUM! That's like 1 in 10 people in the UK have her album

Like an album selling 30 million in the US!

Its combined sales of her two albums - 21 has sold 4m copies, which is still unrivaled in such a short time period.

by **NorfolkScot** » Tue Feb 21, 2012 10:08 pm

Brit Awards

Won

Album of the Year
Best British Female

by **denise** » Tue Feb 21, 2012 10:28 pm

NorfolkScot wrote:Brit Awards

Won

Album of the Year
Best British Female

Congratulations!
Well done and deserved!
8-)

by **hellohello** » Tue Feb 21, 2012 10:39 pm

denise wrote:
NorfolkScot wrote:Brit Awards

Won

Album of the Year
Best British Female
Congratulations!
Well done and deserved!

Most definitely. :wink:

by **pcdm3** » Wed Feb 22, 2012 12:20 am

Adele getting cut off during her acceptance speech for Album of The Year at the Brit... giving middle finger :lol:

by **NorfolkScot** » Wed Feb 22, 2012 10:32 am

US Sales for this week 730K.

by **lenor** » Wed Feb 22, 2012 6:27 pm

NorfolkScot wrote:US Sales for this week 730K.

omg! WOW! she deserves it though, great album and i love her!

but DAMN! hasnt everyone got this album already???!! like how is she consistently selling so much??!! good for her! i knew there would b a rise after the grammys but that is awesome!

she'll be certified "Diamond" in no time!

by **battlefield427** » Wed Feb 22, 2012 6:34 pm

lenor wrote:
NorfolkScot wrote:US Sales for this week 730K.
...DAMN! hasnt everyone got this album already???!! like how is she consistently selling so much??!!

That's what I have been thinking for like the past 6 months! I know it's a stupid question, but how is she still selling so many copies? Who in the world doesn't own this album yet? Hahaha

by **GetBack** » Wed Feb 22, 2012 6:48 pm

Do you guys think she can reach double diamond? 8-)

by **Supernatural** » Wed Feb 22, 2012 7:08 pm

GetBack wrote:Do you guys think she can reach double diamond?

where ?

USA 1xDiamond is 10 mln she got now 7.35 mln

by **Play** » Wed Feb 22, 2012 7:32 pm

GetBack wrote:Do you guys think she can reach double diamond?

As much as I'd want it to, I think it is kinda impossible in this sales climate..

why not at least wait till it reaches Diamond and celebrate it! :lol:

by **LetMeLoveU** » Wed Feb 22, 2012 9:33 pm

Play wrote:
GetBack wrote:Do you guys think she can reach double diamond?
As much as I'd want it to, I think it is kinda impossible in this sales climate..

why not at least wait till it reaches Diamond and celebrate it!

this album will sell til xmas and with a nice little re-release or package def reach 10x

by **Timmy94** » Thu Feb 23, 2012 1:38 am

@2x Diamond: Even I call this idea a bit weird but who knows :lol:

...
Someone knows how long Shania Twain's Come On Over took to reach where 21 is at the moment (sales of 7.3 mio.)?

by **NorfolkScot** » Thu Mar 08, 2012 2:59 pm

Congratulations Adele for Selling 21 Million copies of "21" Worldwide.

by **denise** » Thu Mar 08, 2012 4:38 pm

NorfolkScot wrote:Congratulations Adele for Selling 21 Million copies of "21" Worldwide.

30 milion is the next goal

by **Thriller** » Mon Apr 23, 2012 9:47 pm

23rd week at #1 with 17,065 copies, lowest #1 sales in almost 17 years!

by **loxi** » Tue Apr 24, 2012 4:41 am

Thriller wrote:23rd week at #1 with 17,065 copies, lowest #1 sales in almost 17 years!

I think we all can agree though that the lowest sales in 17 years aren't her fault right? She has done more than enough for the industry already.

by **spiritboy** » Thu Jun 28, 2012 8:03 am

Still love this album, didn't get bored yet. Apart from He Won't Go, my new favourites off the album are Take It All and One And Only

by **Play** » Thu Jun 28, 2012 8:08 am

I never listen to this album from start to finish I must confess.

Some of the songs are out of this world beutiful, but some dull songs make me colder as well!

by **Supernatural** » Fri Sep 14, 2012 8:14 am

wtf ??

by **cooldeepak** » Fri Sep 14, 2012 7:05 pm

is this true or joke

?

by **GetBack** » Sat Sep 15, 2012 5:34 am

That is official! :lol:

by **cooldeepak** » Sat Sep 15, 2012 9:10 am

GetBack wrote:That is official!

I can't stop laughing at that