Adele's 21 album has sold more copies than any other UK artist in the last decade.
Adele is still recovering from throat surgery, but that hasn’t stopped 21 from continuing its tear through the record books.Jacked from Music Mix
After picking up a half dozen Grammy nominations last week, 21 also officially became the best-selling album in the UK in the 21st century. In doing so, it eclipsed Amy Winehouse’s Back to Black, which has shifted 3.3 million copies since its release in 2006. 21, meanwhile, has moved 3.4 million copies in less than a year, a pretty remarkable feat in the current music-business climate.
What’s even more amazing is the number of high-profile homegrown acts who have released albums in the UK in the past 11 years who still haven’t sold as many albums as Adele. Considering the length of time the albums have been out, and the stature of the artists involved, you would think that U2′s All That You Can’t Leave Behind, Coldplay’s A Rush of Blood to the Head, or Radiohead’s Kid A would be contenders for the sales crown. In fact, the only other album from the 21st century that has put up Adele- and Winehouse-sized numbers is James Blunt’s 2004 debut Back to Bedlam (which was notable for its inclusion of “You’re Beautiful,” easily one of the most polarizing radio hits of the modern era).
18 comments:
Oh Beyonce fans will be mad! Ha!
Adele is taking over!!!
Let the negative comments start in 3....2.............
Yet we're only two years in!!! Hype much and bullsh!t news.
The decade just started though...
Adele is that bitch!!!! I love this girl....
Yessssssss!!! Real talent!!!!!
5:15, That's what I said though.
And If we're including the 00's, and as much as love Adele, 21 it ain't got shit on Craig David's debut "Born To Do It."
Hit or Miss,
While you were typing your comment, your mind is still on Beyonce.
Team Adele!!!!
I still like Bey best.
10:37- Yeah, I was sad Craig didn't do better over here but America is used to smooth R&B Black guys, England wasn't. It also would've helped if he used Black girls as love interests in his videos too.
5:15.... To count a decade, you just count back ten years.
Let me make it easier for you....
2001---2011
There you go.
Fat ho.
fat lovely girl with the kind of talent beyonce will never have. go on adele and fuck you beyonce you phony no talented having beyatch!
Shes not lovely, shes a fat ho.
10:33am
she's a fat ho with more talent than your whore beyonce will ever have.
They really need to specify that she has the highest selling album in the 21st Century in the U.K. The article did not say the rest of the world--what it said was only in the U.K. In reality, based on RIAA figures, etc. the best selling album of the 21st Century is the Beatles '1' which has sold 31 million copies since its release in 2000. It was released on I-tunes in Sept 2011 and went back on the charts for several weeks as well. I was really surprised to see the Beatles were back on the charts because I was looking at a Rolling Stone Magazine from Oct. 2011 and there they were. I was like, what the..... But it was because they had re-released the album for the folks who use the i-Pod, etc. So it sold like another 20 million albums after it's re-release in 2011, adding to the 11 million already sold, thus 31 million sold. The reason for that is that most people don't really want to buy all the Beatles albums to get their hit songs and the Beatles 1 is really just a compilation of all the #1 hits from the U.S. and U.K. The paltry 3 million albums Adele sold is nothing compared to 31 million.
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