Adele - 21 [charts & sales]

[Wayne]

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_DhX38XecCPI/TQNRgTLOPYI/AAAAAAAABFk/WKKByoFxHi8/s1600/adele21.jpg

Adele's sophomore record is breaking chart records left, right & centre, scoring massive sales everywhere! In this thread, we can document the charts/sales side of the album, as its bound to end the year as one of - if not THE - biggest selling album(s)

Adele scorches to the top of the Official Albums Chart today as 21, her second album, achieves record sales of over 208,000 in just its first week of release, the Official Charts Company confirms today.

This makes 21 the biggest January album for five years since Arctic Monkeys sold some 363,000 copies of their debut album Whatever People Say I Am That’s What I’m Not in January 2006.

But 21 has also racked up more sales in one week than several of last year’s biggest releases managed to do at any time of year. Albums from Eminem, Kings Of Leon and Cheryl Cole all failed to break the 200,000 sales barrier in 2010. In fact, the feat was only achieved by Take That with their original line-up reunion album Progress, released last November, which has seen weekly sales of over 200,000 on no less than five occasions, including first week sales of over half a million.

Meanwhile Adele’s debut album, the double platinum, Mercury-nominated 19, which first entered the Official Albums Chart at number one back in February 2008, is this week’s number four giving the twenty-two-year-old Londoner two Official Albums Chart Top 5 hits simultaneously. The last time an act could boast a number one album and a second album in the Official Albums Chart Top 5 at the same time was almost twelve years ago when The Corrs were number one with Talk On Corners and number two with Forgiven Not Forgotten in April 1999. Michael Jackson’s Off The Wall and Thriller were both in Official Albums Chart Top 5 in July 2009 after the singer’s death the previous month but at chart positions number three and number four respectively.

Adele has also enjoyed a number of Official Singles Chart hits including her debut Chasing Pavements (number two, 2008), Make You Feel My Love (number four, 2008) and current single Rolling In The Deep which entered the Official Singles Chart last week at number two and is this week’s number three.

FRANCE - 21

#10 Physical - 5 572 Sales
#01 Digital - 6 055 Sales

Total : 11 627 Sales

#11 Rolling In The Deep - Digital

[Wayne]

And, as per Music Week once more (UK midweeks, Monday update):


After achieving an opening week of 208,090 units, XL act Adele’s second album has been hit by a week-on-week sales drop of 36.2% but that should still be good enough to give it a second week at one.

[Wayne]

Adele's album success spreads overseas

12:14 | Thursday February 3, 2011

By Paul Williams

Adele is following her chart-topping UK debut with second album 21 by entering at number one in more than half a dozen overseas markets.

The XL release, which opened with 208,090 sales domestically to top the OCC artist albums chart last Sunday, has become an instant number one in Austria, Belgium, Germany, Ireland, the Netherlands, New Zealand and Switzerland, while entering at two in Denmark and Norway, three in Australia and four in France. Several other overseas charts, including Italy and Sweden, are still to be published for this week, so there should be further high overseas chart debuts for Adele by week’s end.

Meanwhile, 21’s lead-off single Rolling In the Deep is number one in Germany, the Netherlands and Switzerland, while the new album is released in the US and Canada through XL/Columbia on February 22. Adele began a four-week North American promo trip last Sunday, breaking only to return briefly to the UK for the Brits where she will perform the album’s closing track Someone Like You.

SOURCE: Music Week

[Wayne]

U.K.

ADELE - 21
2 x Platinum Certification (Album) venerdì 11 febbraio 2011
XL BEGGARS (XL RECORDINGS)
Released lunedì 24 gennaio 2011

[Wayne]

OCC: Over 130,000 copies sold AGAIN this week! :o

[Neil]

It's only abut 1.5k less than last week... incredible.

[Wayne]

Completing the top five, Bruno Mars’ Grenade dips 2-4 (54,392 sales), while Adele’s Rolling In The Deep continues the orderly decline which has see it move 2-3-4-5. It sold 47,907 copies last week, to raise its career tally to 243,525.

Adele’s 21 is one of those to decline but also a likely beneficiary, capping its week-on-week decline at 1%, as it sold 134,241 copies to raise its 20 day total to 477,972. Chase & Status’ No More Idols was clearly not helped, and dips 2-5, with sales off 51.5% week-on-week to 25,560. Its decline allows Bruno Mars’ Doo-Wops & Hooligans to rebound 3-2 (44,395 sales).

[Wayne]

Someone Like You up to #5 on UK iTunes!

Also, in Italy, Rolling In The Deep is certified Gold for at least 15,000 copies sold (its actual sales are 26,451 - 3,093 of which are from this week!)

[Wayne]

Rolling In The Deep #10 US iTunes!

[Wayne]

US iTunes Top 100:

#9. Rolling In the Deep - Adele
#82. Rolling In the Deep - Adele
#92. Someone Like You - Adele

If this had radio support (RITD), it'd be assured top 10! :(

[Wayne]

ADELE - 21
3 x Platinum Certification (Album) Friday, February 25, 2011
XL BEGGARS (XL RECORDINGS)
Released Monday, January 24, 2011

ADELE - 19
3 x Platinum Certification (Album) Friday, February 25, 2011
XL BEGGARS (XL RECORDINGS)
Released Monday, January 28, 2008

[Wayne]

So this week:

USA: 350k
Canada: 31k
UK: 120k (?)

= 500k from those countries, and potentially even more (dependent on Soundscan #'s and UK #'s which might be higher)

[Wayne]

http://www.billboard.biz/bbbiz/charts-articles/chart-alert/adele-s-21-debuts-at-no-1-on-the-billboard-1005054242.story

Adele's '21' Debuts At No. 1 on the Billboard 200 With 352,000 Sales
March 02, 2011

By Keith Caulfield, Los Angeles

Adele storms in at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 albums chart with her sophomore album "21" selling a mighty 352,000 copies in its first week according to Nielsen SoundScan.

It's her best sales week -- and highest charting album -- and also the highest frame for any album since the sales week ending Nov. 28, 2010. That's when Kanye West's "My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy" and Nicki Minaj's "Pink Friday" started in the Nos. 1 and 2 slots, respectively, with 496,000 and 375,000.

Notably, "21" also bows atop the Digital Albums chart with 217,000 downloads -- 62% of the set's overall first week. Again, it's the fattest week for a digital set since West's "My Beautiful" moved 224,000 downloads in its premiere.

Adele, who took home the best new artist Grammy award in 2009, reached No. 10 with her debut set "19." It has spent a total of 71 weeks on the tally and has shifted 948,000 copies in the U.S. This week, it bounds 50-16 on the Billboard 200, giving the singer a pair of albums in the top 20. It's the first time an act has placed their first two releases concurrently in the top 20 since Justin Bieber did it on June 5, 2010 with "My World" and "My World 2.0."

This week, "Rolling In the Deep" -- "21's" first single -- vaults 13-7 on the Digital Songs chart, moving 151,000 (up 26%). To date, since its release to retailers on Nov. 30 of last year, it has sold 621,000.

Another "21" song, "Someone Like You," which she has been performing to great reaction on a number of TV shows lately, bows at No. 45 with 51,000. Adele memorably sung "Someone Like You" on the Brit Awards on Feb. 16 and in two weeks' time, its two clips with the most views on YouTube have racked up 3.3 million views. (To compare, Rihanna also performed on the Brits, singing a medley of songs from her "Loud" album and its most-viewed clips have tallied 1.3 million views.)

Prior to the album's release, Adele stopped by "The Ellen DeGeneres Show" (Feb. 24), "Jimmy Kimmel Live!" (Feb. 24), CBS' "Early Show" (Feb. 25) and "Chelsea Lately" (Feb. 28). The official video for "Rolling In the Deep" has picked up over 16 million views on YouTube and Vevo.

Adele's "21" is basically the only exciting news on the Billboard 200 chart this week, as the next-highest debut comes in at No. 29 from Destroy Rebuild Until God Shows and its "D.R.U.G.S." album (14,000).

After two weeks of sales increases from the Feb. 13 Grammy Awards, the chart gets quiet this week, where only two non-debuting titles in the top 50 had an increase in sales.

Falling one slot each to Nos. 2, 3 and 4, respectively, are Bieber's "Never Say Never: the Remixes" (102,000; down 38%), Mumford & Sons' "Sigh No More" (71,000; down 46%) and "Now 37" (58,000; down 38%).

Bieber is also at No. 5 with "My World 2.0" (up three, 42,000; down 22%), marking the first time an act has had two sets in the top five since Bieber himself managed it on April 10, 2010.

Bruno Mars' "Doo-Wops & Hooligans" (37,000; down 40%) and Eminem's "Recovery" (34,000; down 44%) both slip one rung to Nos. 6 and 7. Rihanna's "Loud" steps two spots to No. 8 (33,000; down 26%), Minaj's "Pink Friday" holds at No. 9 (32,000; down 30%) and Lady Antebellum's "Need You Now" drops six spaces to No. 10 (28,000; down 67%).

Over on the Digital Songs chart, Lady Gaga's "Born This Way" remains perched at No. 1 for a third week, selling 286,000 downloads (down 44%). It has sold 1.24 million in less than three full weeks. Cee Lo Green's "F**k You (Forget You)" holds at No. 2 (252,000; down 39%) while Jennifer Lopez's "On the Floor" (featuring Pitbull) debuts at No. 3 (170,000). The song was held back from digital retailers for about a month following its release to YouTube and radio.

That's unusual compared to some other recent releases by other pop divas, like Lady Gaga and Britney Spears, who commercially released their singles to digital retailers at about the same time they were serviced to radio and streaming sites.

Right behind J.Lo is Katy Perry's "E.T.," rising eight slots to No. 4 (170,000; up 41%). Rihanna's "S&M" is up one to No. 5 (169,000; down 2%), Dr. Dre's "I Need a Doctor" falls three spots to No. 6 (156,000; down 45%) and Adele's "Rolling In the Deep," as previously mentioned, rises six to No. 7 (151,000; up 26%). P!nk's "F**kin' Perfect" holds at No. 8 (143,000; up 1%), Bruno Mars' "Grenade" falls four to No. 9 (140,000; down 22%) and Ke$ha's "Blow" bulldozes up 13 slots to No. 10 (129,000; up 52%). The latter rises due to the buzz generated by its buzzworthy unicorn-filled new video, which co-stars James Van Der Beek.

Overall album sales in this past chart week (ending Feb. 27) totaled 6.5 million units, down 10% compared to the sum last week (7.2 million) and up 8% compared to the comparable sales week of 2010 (6 million). Year to date album sales stand at 46.5 million, down 9% compared to the same total at this point last year (51 million).

Digital track sales this past week totaled 26.5 million downloads, down 9% compared to last week (29 million) and up 11% stacked next to the comparable week of 2010 (23.8 million). Year to date track sales are at 215.2 million, up 6% compared to the same total at this point last year (202.4 million).

Next week's Billboard 200 competes with the same week in 2010 when: Lady Antebellum's "Need You Now" returned to the No. 1 slot (126,000; up 6%) while Sade's "Soldier of Love" slipped one rung to No. 2 (79,000; down 37%).

[Neil]

Doing so well digitally! Will probably end up being the most downloaded album in the UK as well.

[Wayne]

I'm sorry but FUCK MY LIFE:



No other album in chart history has reached a million sales so quickly in the first three months of a year.

Meanwhile, Jessie J’s debut album Who You Are storms straight in at number two with first week sales of over 105,000 which in any other week would have almost guaranteed her an Official Albums Chart number one.

The two artists also hold the top spots in the Official Singles Chart with Adele's Someone Like You and Jessie J's Price Tag featuring B.o.B at numbers one and two respectively for the third straight week.

Sales this week of 180,493 and to date sales of 1,020,950

[Neil]

Adele's sales for SLY & 21 both INCREASED this week as well. Insanity. I wouldn't be surprised if the album stayed at the top until GaGa releases.

[Wayne]

She'll prevent Britney from getting her first UK #1 album, as well as Elbow. Who knows, she might even prevent Gaga. What is incredible is that Someone Like You hasn't even been officially released yet.

Insanity isn't the word.

[Wayne]

ADELE - SOMEONE LIKE YOU
Gold Certification (Single) Friday, March 18, 2011
XL BEGGARS (XL RECORDINGS)
Released Saturday, January 01, 2000
Certification History:

ADELE - MAKE YOU FEEL MY LOVE
Gold Certification (Single) Friday, March 18, 2011
XL BEGGARS (XL RECORDINGS)
Released Monday, November 03, 2008
Certification History:

ADELE - 21
5 x Platinum Certification (Album) Friday, March 18, 2011
XL BEGGARS (XL RECORDINGS)
Released Monday, January 24, 2011
Certification History:
4 x Platinum Certification 04 March 2011
3 x Platinum Certification 25 February 2011
2 x Platinum Certification 11 February 2011
Platinum Certification 28 January 2011

ADELE - 19
4 x Platinum Certification (Album) Friday, March 18, 2011
XL BEGGARS (XL RECORDINGS)
Released Monday, January 28, 2008
Certification History:
3 x Platinum Certification 25 February 2011

ADELE - ROLLING IN THE DEEP
Gold Certification (Single) Friday, March 18, 2011
XL BEGGARS (XL RECORDINGS)
Released Monday, January 17, 2011
Certification History:

[Wayne]

UK

1 (1) 21
2 (4) 19

37 (33) Make You Feel My Love

[Wayne]

UK

1 (1) 21
2 (4) 19

37 (33) Make You Feel My Love

2 Someone Like You 86,584 -9.5%
8 Rolling In the Deep 33,468 +16.2%
37 Make You Feel My Love 8,864 -3.6%
192 Set Fire to the Rain 1,386 -2.8%

1 21 157,895 -2.3%
2 19 43,806 -2.8%

[Wayne]

19 is certified 1XPLATINUM (http://www.vanityedge.com/forum/showthread.php?2463-New-RIAA-Certs&p=70481#post70481) by the RIAA for having shipped at least 1,000,000 copies in the USA! :cheer:

[Wayne]

Irish Top 100 Albums Chart

01. (01) 21 - Adele *** 9th Week at No. 1 ***
02. (03) 19 - Adele

Irish Top 50 Singles Chart

01. (01) Someone Like You - Adele *** 4th Week at No. 1 ***
08. (05) Rolling In The Deep - Adele
32. (33) Make You Feel My Love - Adele


Adele retains the Singles and Album Chart crowns for a fourth consecutive week with ‘Someone Like You’ and ‘21’ – and with her previous album ‘19’ climbing from No3 to No2, Adele is only the third artist in 20 years to achieve this rare double in Ireland. She follows in the footsteps of Michael Jackson (posthumously) in July 2009 and Norah Jones in 2004.

[Neil]

21 is certified 1XPLATINUM (http://www.vanityedge.com/forum/showthread.php?2463-New-RIAA-Certs&p=70481#post70481) by the RIAA for having shipped at least 1,000,000 copies in the USA! :cheer:

You said it was 19 in the thread, not 21.

[Wayne]

Lies!

[Wayne]

As per this (http://www.vanityedge.com/forum/showthread.php?954-BPI-Certifications) thread:

ADELE - 21
6 x Platinum Certification (Album) Friday, March 25, 2011
XL BEGGARS (XL RECORDINGS)
Released Monday, January 24, 2011

So that's minimum 1.8m copies shipped in the UK. Quite unbelievable for a first quarter release. This will sell at LEAST 3m copies.

[Wayne]

Adele set to beat Radiohead for UK number one

Adele looks set to beat the 21st Century record for the most consecutive weeks at the top of the albums chart this Sunday, despite competition from Radiohead and Britney Spears.

Adele’s 21 (XL) has sold some 42,500 copies so far this week, according to OCC sales flashes, more than twice that of its nearest competitor, Radiohead’s The King Of Limbs (Ticket Tape / XL), which was finally released in stores yesterday after being on sale for a month via the band’s website.

21 has already spent nine consecutive weeks at number one in the UK, equalling the 21st Century record set by The Beatles’ 1 in 2000 / 1.

That result meant 21 has spent as long at the top of the charts as any album since 1986, when Dire Straits’ Brothers In Arms spent ten consecutive weeks at the top. 21 has now sold more than 1.5m copies in the UK.

Behind 21 in midweek sales flashes is The King Of Limbs, which sold more than 16,000 copies in the UK yesterday. The album was previously for sale via the band’s own website, but this was not chart eligible due to an accompanying competition.

In third position is Britney Spears’ Femme Fatale (Jive), ahead of Adele’s first album 19, which charted at two last week.

Also set for top ten debuts are new albums from Roadrunner’s Within Temptation (The Unforgiving) and Syco’s Mary Byrne (Mine & Yours).

On the singles chart Adele’s Someone Like You looks set to be toppled from number one by Jennifer Lopez feat Pitbull’s On The Floor (Mercury), which has racked up sales of almost 65,000 so far this week.

LMFAO / Lauren Bennett / Goonrock’s Parry Rock Anthem (Interscope) should climb into the top 10, from 22, while Katy B’s Broken Records (Columbia) should challenge for a top ten placing.

Source: MUSIC WEEK

[Wayne]

MUSIC WEEK REPORT & SALES

SINGLES
65414 Adele

ALBUMS
257731 Adele [21]
73276 Adele [19]

YTDs - Singles
698,020 Adele - Someone Like You

YTDs - Albums
1,754,319 Adele - 21

To Date Albums
1,196,100 Adele - 19


Singles

Someone Like You has been knocked off the top of the singles chart for the second time as the introductory single from Jennifer Lopez's seventh album, Love? claims the top spot.

Someone Like You dips to number two on the weekly chart but rises to number one on the year-to-date rankings. It sold 65,414 copies last week, to increase its overall sales to 698,020 – enough to relegate previous leader Bruno Mars’ Grenade (665,054) to number two.

Albums

With Mother’s Day gift-buying helping to boost album sales, the runaway chart champion, for the 10th week in a row, is Adele’s 21.

It is the first album ever to sell more than 100,000 copies for 10 weeks in a row, 21 scorched to 257,731 sales last week – its best weekly tally yet, easily besting the 208,090 copies it sold on its debut week - to raise its 69 day tally to 1,754,319.

The album moves ahead of Madonna’s Immaculate Collection in the category of most consecutive weeks at number one for an album by a female solo artist, and is a week away from sharing the title for most weeks at number one in total for an album by a female artist.

The record is currently shared by Sahnia Twain’s Come On Over (1999) and Alanis Morissette’s Jagged Little Pill (1996), both of which required multiple tenures to amass 11 weeks at number one. The last album to spend more consecutive weeks at number one by any act was Bob Marley & The Wailers’ Legend, which reigned for 12 weeks in 1984.

21’s domination is such that it has sold more than a million more copies in 2011 than its nearest challenger – which just happens to be Adele’s 2008 debut album 19, which moves 3-2 on the year to date rankings with 465,289 2011 sales (73,276 of them last week, just 64 below its first/best weeks sale), raising its career tally to 1,196,100. The album it displaces, Rihanna’s Loud, has sold 1,280,934 copies since its release, 441,326 of them this year, including 35,127 last week.

[Wayne]

Friday April 8 2011

ADELE - 21
7 x Platinum Certification (Album) Friday, April 08, 2011
XL BEGGARS (XL RECORDINGS)
Released Monday, January 24, 2011

Its taken 11 weeks! :o

[HeatSeeker]

Is there a diamond cert for 10x platinum in the UK?

[Wayne]

No, I've never understood why to be honest - the UK is definitely a strong enough market to warrant a diamond cert! Just to add to the discussion, these albums would all be eligible for a "diamond" cert in the UK, as they've shipped the qualifiying 10x platinum shipments:

1 GREATEST HITS QUEEN 1981 5.9m
2 SGT. PEPPER'S LONELY HEARTS CLUB BAND BEATLES 1967 5.25m
3 GOLD - GREATEST HITS ABBA 1992 4.75m
4 WHAT'S THE STORY MORNING GLORY OASIS 1996 4.6m
5 BROTHERS IN ARMS DIRE STRAITS 1985 4m
6 THE DARK SIDE OF THE MOON PINK FLOYD 1973 4m
7 THRILLER MICHAEL JACKSON 1982 4m
8 GREATEST HITS II QUEEN 2000 3.9m
9 BAD MICHAEL JACKSON 1987 3.75m
10 THE IMMACULATE COLLECTION MADONNA 1990 3.6m
11 STARS SIMPLY RED 1991 3.425m
12 COME ON OVER SHANIA TWAIN 1998 3.4m
13 RUMOURS FLEETWOOD MAC 1977 3.3m
14 BACK TO BEDLAM JAMES BLUNT 2004 3.25m
15 URBAN HYMNS VERVE 1997 3.2m
16 NO ANGEL DIDO 2003 3.1m
17 BRIDGE OVER TROUBLED WATER SIMON & GARFUNKEL 1970 3.1m
18 BACK TO BLACK AMY WINEHOUSE 2006 3.1m
19 TALK ON CORNERS THE CORRS 1997 3.0m
20 BAT OUT OF HELL MEAT LOAF 1978 3.0m
24 LIFE FOR RENT DIDO 2000 3.0m
26 1 BEATLES 2000 3.0m
27 SPIRIT LEONA LEWIS 2007 3.0m

+ loads more I can't think of at the moment!

[HeatSeeker]

How close is Mariah's biggest album? (is that Music Box?)

[Wayne]

Sales of over 1.75m [when factoring in music club estimations] and shipments of not much more [I'd put a maximum of 1.8m shipped]. Her only other potential million seller is Daydream, which I estimate has shipped approximately 1m copies in the UK.

[HeatSeeker]

Is it certified 6xP in the UK?

[Wayne]

No, but that's probably because it hasn't shipped 1.8m copies to stores, when records are sold through music clubs to, things become patchy.

Mariah's Music Box is currently certified 5x platinum [1,500,000+], having received its last cert in October of 1994!

[Wayne]

Rolling In The Deep is #3 on US iTunes, having overtaken Rihanna's S&M! :shocked:

[Jake]

Every time I see her sales I'm still amazed! she deserved all the sucess she's getting she's incredible

[xPopKillsx]

Her sales are the most impressive this year tbh. She could end up doing 10 mill of this ww :o

[Wayne]

1 30/1/11 1 208,090 N/A 208,090
2 6/2/11 1 135,585 -34.8% 343,675
3 13/2/11 1 134,241 -1.0% 477,916
4 20/2/11 1 188,767 +40.6% 666,683
5 27/2/11 1 173,719 -8.0% 840,402
6 6/3/11 1 180,493 +3.9% 1,020,895
7 13/3/11 1 161,580 -10.5% 1,182,475
8 20/3/11 1 157,895 -2.3% 1,340,370
9 27/3/11 1 156,162 -1.1% 1,496,532
10 3/4/11 1 257,732 +65.0% 1,754,264
11 10/4/11 1 114,476 -55.6% 1,868,740
12 17/4/11 2 107,000

[Wayne]

USA:

http://www.vanityedge.com/forum/images/itunes.PNG

INSANE.

[HeatSeeker]

And her lead has held despite Katy's AI performance. I hope RITD is top 3 on the Hot 100 this week! Does she have any promo for the US lined up anytime soon?

[Wayne]

She's got nothing lined up!

[HeatSeeker]

Not even Idol?

[Wayne]

Nope! But imagine what would happen if she did do Idol! If a contestant singing her song made it go to #1 on iTunes with a commandable lead, we can only assume what would happen if she herself performed it! :o

TOP 10

1. KATY PERRY - E.T.: 135.153 (+ 1.674)
2. RIHANNA - S&M: 126.573 (- 0.826)
3. CEE LO GREEN - F**k You (Forget You): 98.880 (- 1.334)
4. JEREMIH - Down On Me f/50 Cent: 96.572 (+ 0.787)
5. NICKI MINAJ - Moment 4 Life f/Drake: 80.476 (- 0.859)
6. PINK - F**kin' Perfect (Perfect): 80.356 (- 0.776)
7. BLACK EYED PEAS - Just Can't Get Enough: 77.687 (+ 2.772) ▲
8. CHRIS BROWN - Look At Me Now: 74.675 (- 0.291) ▼
9. KE$HA - Blow: 69.567 (+ 0.716)
10. BRITNEY SPEARS - Till The World Ends: 69.341 (+ 1.733)
11. ADELE - Rolling In The Deep: 62.944 (+ 1.498) ▲

[Wayne]

ROLLING IN THE GLEEKS: Adele’s XL/Columbia album, 21, continues to surge, set to return to #1 tomorrow with a total that looks around 150k, more than a 50% jump over last week, thanks, of course, to Easter weekend, but also because of a pair of cover versions on Glee and American Idol. Gwyneth Paltrow’s take on “Turning Tables,” from last week’s Glee, sold almost 50k downloads in its first week, as did Adele’s original version, up from 4,000 the week before. In addition, the current single, “Rolling in the Deep,” was up 100%, from 140k to 280k, thanks also to a performance by Haley Reinhart on last week’s American Idol. The pre-emptive Grammy front-runner and sales leader is being called the biggest phenomenon since the days of Alanis Morissette, leading industry insiders to wonder aloud, “Can Adele save the record business?” (4/25p)

SOURCE: HDD

[HeatSeeker]

280K? That means she'll be #3 on the H100 :cheer:

[Wayne]

280K? That means she'll be #3 on the H100 :cheer:

And would you believe it - almost a month later, she's spending her ... third?! week at #1, with almost an identical sale. Unbelievable.


Over on the Digital Songs chart, Adele's "Rolling in the Deep" is still tops, shifting another 297,000 downloads (down 16%), while Pitbull's "Give Me Everything" featuring Ne-Yo, AfroJack and Nayer, jumps 4-2 with 212,000 (up 14%). Katy Perry's "E.T." is stationary at No. 3 (173,000; down 14%) while LMFAO's "Party Rock Anthem" flies 13-4 with 163,000 (up 68%).

[Wayne]

Certified 9x PLATINUM in the UK for shipments of at least 2,700,000. In two months time, this will have sold sold its 9x platinum shipment over the counter - just unbelievable. So expect this to be 10x platinum by the end of Summer

[Wayne]

*TEST*

[Wayne]

She holds at Number 2 in the UK this week on 44,936, down a mere 8.8% on the previous week. 19 drops 2 places to Number 5, despite a lower percentage drop (6.5%, to 24,349 sales).
That brings the UK totals to:

19 - 1,477,657
21 - 2,488,049


Thanks irishguy28!

[Wayne]

All figures rounded UP.

WK | SALES

1 - 352,700
2 - 167,900
3 - 132,400
4 - 98,000
5 - 96,000
6 - 95,000
7 - 88,000
8 - 92,000
9 - 153,000
10 - 124,000
11 - 155,000
12 - 156,000
13 - 138,000
14 - 126,000
15 - 121,000
16 - 115,000
17 - 114,000

= 2,324,000

Weekly US album sales.

[Wayne]

UK ALBUMS CHART

02 [02] 44,509 (-23.9%)

[HeatSeeker]

Rolling In The Deep, while it remains top 10 on iTunes as I type this, has passed 4 million paid downloads in the US!

170,000 | 4,045,000

It took 6 months for it to reach this plateau. Amazingly (and annoyingly), a second single still hasn't been announced.

[Wayne]

CANADA

Overall sales are down by 1% here in Canada over last week, despite a hoped-for bump from the MuchMusic Video Awards. A little pacing ground has been lost, too, with sales now running just 2% ahead of last year. At least digital sales are running hot by 36%.

Adele’s 21 is back at #1 in Canada, selling 15,000 copies and maintaining it steady pace. Simple Plan’s Get Your Heart On! was a close second with 13,000 units. And despite her appearance on the MuchMusic Awards, Lady Gaga’s Born This Way slipped by 10%, selling under 10,000 copies and falling to #5.

http://exploremusic.com/new-releases/weekly-music-sales-report-11/

Adele has now sold 341,000 copies of 21 in Canada.

The best-selling albums per calendar year in Canada, since 2006. Adele could very well beat James Blunt's 2006 total

2006:

01. James Blunt - Back to Bedlam [456,281]
02. Dixie Chicks - Taking The Long Way [292,639]
03. Nelly Furtado - Loose [291,673]

2007:

1. Josh Groban - Noel [401,000]
2. Michael Buble - [304,000]
3. Celine Dion - Taking Chances [301,000]

2008:

1. AC/DC - Black Ice [341,000]
2. Coldplay - Viva La Vida [334,000]
3. Metallica - Death Magnet [265,000]

2009:

1. Susan Boyle - I Dreamed A Dream [319,000]
2. Lady Gaga - Fame [315,000]
3. Black Eyed Peas - E.N.D. (Energy Never Dies) [302,000]

2010:

1. Eminem - Recovery [415,000]
2. Taylor Swift - Speak Now [215,000]
3. Justin Bieber - My World [213,000]

[Wayne]

From CANADA:

Quintuple Platinum Album
400,000 Units
Adele
"21"

Quadruple Platinum Digital Download
320,000 Units
Adele
"Rolling In The Deep"

Gold Digital Download
40,000 Units
Adele
"Someone Like You"

[Wayne]

Adele's "21" is certified 10x platinum in the UK for shipments of AT LEAST 3,000,000 copies - this is by far and away, the most successful release in a calendar year in UK chart history

http://www.bpi.co.uk/certifiedawards/search.aspx

[Neil]

So amazing :)

[Wayne]

UK sales this week [with total sales in brackets]!

SINGLES:

Set Fire To The Rain - 27,009
Someone Like You - 12,029

21 – 43,526 [2,674,151]
19 – 18,882 [1,575,566]


SINGLES:

Adele’s 21 album surrenders its third Top 20 hit, with Set Fire To The Rain sprinting 21-12 (27,009 sales). The album’s second single, Someone Like You, passed the million sales mark on Tuesday, becoming only the 16th single in the 21st century, and the first in the 2010s to reach the figure.

Number one for five weeks earlier this year, it is the 104th million selling single in the UK, and the 15th by a female solo artist. It climbs 34-30 this week, with 12,029 sales raising its career tally to 1,008,891. On schedule to become the 105th million seller next month, Bruno Mars’ Just The Way You Are (Amazing) has thus far sold 989,761 copies.

ALBUMS:

No change at the top of the album chart, with last week’s top three all repeating their placings. That means that Beyoncé’s 4 is number one for the second time, albeit with a much reduced majority.

It sold 44,929 copies last week, 49.60% less than it managed on its debut, and just 1,403 more than Adele’s 21. It is the lowest sale for a number one album for 25 weeks, narrowly beating the year’s low of 44,827 set by Rihanna’s Loud in January. 4’s first week tally was helped massively by the singer’s Glastonbury performance, which also helped the singer to place 15 songs on the Top 200 singles chart.

Five of the songs depart the Top 200, and another nine dip this week, including 4’s second single, Best Thing I Never Had, which slips 3-6 (44,429 sales). Beyoncé’s only climber: If I Were A Boy, which rallies 106-59 (4,502 sales).

Meanwhile, Adele’s 21 spends its seventh straight week at number two. That might seem like a long time but it’s not a record – The Very Best Of Elton John reeled off nine straight weeks at number two in 1990/91, while Mike Oldfield’s Tubular Bells chimed in as the nation’s second most popular album for 10 weeks in a row in 1974. The all-time record holder is Cliff Richard’s second album, Cliff Sings, which was runner-up for 13 unlucky weeks in 1969/1960, all of them behind the South Pacific soundtrack. Adele’s first album, 19, climbs to number four, after four weeks in a row at number five. 19 sold 18,882 copies last week.

[Wayne]

So, to summarise her weekly sales in the four markets where we know each week's sales:


Canada


WK 01: 31,000
WK 02: 19,000
WK 03: 15,000
WK 04: 14,000
WK 05: 14,000
WK 06: 15,000
WK 07: 15,000
WK 08: 16,000
WK 09: 23,000
WK 10: 22,000
WK 11: 22,000
WK 12: 22,000
WK 13: 25,000
WK 14: 21,000
WK 15: 18,000
WK 16: 17,000
WK 17: 17,000
WK 18: 15,000
WK 19: 13,000
WK 20: 15,000


USA


WK 01: 352,000
WK 02: 168,000
WK 03: 133,000
WK 04: 98,000
WK 05: 96,000
WK 06: 94,265
WK 07: 88,233
WK 08: 93,000
WK 09: 153,000
WK 10: 124,000
WK 11: 155,209
WK 12: 156,000
WK 13: 137,000
WK 14: 126,000
WK 15: 120,913
WK 16: 114,314
WK 17: 114,540
WK 18: 101,000
WK 19: 91,535
WK 20: 79,000


UK


WK 01: 208,090
WK 02: 135,585
WK 03: 134,241
WK 04: 188,764
WK 05: 173,178
WK 06: 180,493
WK 07: 161,580
WK 08: 158,895
WK 09: 156,162
WK 10: 257,731
WK 11: 114,476
WK 12: 107,408
WK 13: 91,803
WK 14: 73,771
WK 15: 80,922
WK 16: 70,362
WK 17: 51,183
WK 18: 49,611
WK 19: 49,260
WK 20: 44,936
WK 21: 58,515
WK 22: 44,509
WK 23: 39,553
WK 24: 43,526


Japan


WK 01: 2,117
WK 02: 2,453
WK 03: 1,744
WK 04: 1,554
WK 05: 1,186
WK 06: 1,711
WK 07: 1,067
WK 08: 835
WK 09: 632
WK 10: 753
WK 11: 793
WK 12: 708
WK 13: 772
WK 14: 772
WK 15: 800
WK 16: 887
WK 17: 760
WK 18: 748
WK 19: 895
WK 20: 718
WK 21: 554
WK 22: 698
WK 23: 915
WK 24: 960


Pretty darn impressive, I'd say!

[HeatSeeker]

^ Thanks for that!


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 sold 25K digital copies this week, which puts it back at #1 on Top Digital Albums. This brings the album's total digital sales to 1,017,000, which makes it the best-selling album in digital history. It surpasses Eminem's Recovery, which has sold 1,005,000 digital copies. 21 took just 20 weeks to sell 1 million digital copies. Recovery, which topped 1M in digital sales just last week, took 54.

Adele's 2008 album 19 jumps from #34 to #22. It's #1 on Top Catalog Albums for the 18th week. This is the longest that an album by a female solo artist has held the top spot on the catalog chart since Nielsen SoundScan began tracking sales in 1991. The old record was held by Enya's Watermark, which was #1 for 17 weeks in 1992.

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Adele's "Rolling In The Deep" this week surpasses "E.T." by Katy Perry featuring Kanye West as the best-selling song so far in 2011. "Rolling In The Deep" has sold 4,227,000 copies so far this year, compared to 4,193,000 for "E.T." The Perry/West collabo became the year's top-seller since in May, when it pulled ahead of Cee Lo Green's "F**k You (Forget You)."

"Rolling In The Deep," a late 2010 release which has sold 4,335,000 copies overall, is the best-selling song by a female British artist in digital history. Last week, it pulled ahead of Leona Lewis' "Bleeding Love," which has sold 4,188,000 copies. Only two songs by British artists (male, female or group) have sold more digital copies than "Rolling In The Deep." Taio Cruz's "Dynamite" has sold 5,183,000. Coldplay's "Viva La Vida" has sold 5,026,000.

Source: Chart Watch (http://new.music.yahoo.com/blogs/chart_watch/;_ylt=Am.CK68yHtRkuRA_9RwHf2UPwiUv)

[Wayne]

French Albums Chart - January/June 2011

1. Les Enfoirés - Dans l'oeil des Enfoirés, 419,474
2. Nolwenn Leroy - Bretonne, 363,422
3. Adele - 21, 205,850
4. Iz - Alone in Iz World, 175,000
5. Johnny Hallyday - Jamais seul, 168,000
6. Black Eyed Peas - The Beginning, 165,565
7. Les Prêtres - Gloria, 163,569
8. Zaz - Zaz, 142,114
9. Shakira - Sale El Sol, 141,963 copies
10. Colonel Reyel - Au rapport, 130,773

That is VERY impressive.

[HeatSeeker]

French Albums Chart - January/June 2011
4. Iz - Alone in Iz World, 175,000

Wait, Iz the Hawaiian singer? Wow!

[Wayne]

**UPDATE**


Canada


WK 01: 31,000
WK 02: 19,000
WK 03: 15,000
WK 04: 14,000
WK 05: 14,000
WK 06: 15,000
WK 07: 15,000
WK 08: 16,000
WK 09: 23,000
WK 10: 22,000
WK 11: 22,000
WK 12: 22,000
WK 13: 25,000
WK 14: 21,000
WK 15: 18,000
WK 16: 17,000
WK 17: 17,000
WK 18: 15,000
WK 19: 13,000
WK 20: 15,000


Total: 369,000


USA


WK 01: 352,000
WK 02: 168,000
WK 03: 133,000
WK 04: 98,000
WK 05: 96,000
WK 06: 94,265
WK 07: 88,233
WK 08: 93,000
WK 09: 153,000
WK 10: 124,000
WK 11: 155,209
WK 12: 156,000
WK 13: 137,000
WK 14: 126,000
WK 15: 120,913
WK 16: 114,314
WK 17: 114,540
WK 18: 101,000
WK 19: 91,535
WK 20: 79,455


Total: 2,596,403


UK


WK 01: 208,090
WK 02: 135,585
WK 03: 134,241
WK 04: 188,764
WK 05: 173,178
WK 06: 180,493
WK 07: 161,580
WK 08: 158,895
WK 09: 156,162
WK 10: 257,731
WK 11: 114,476
WK 12: 107,408
WK 13: 91,803
WK 14: 73,771
WK 15: 80,922
WK 16: 70,362
WK 17: 51,183
WK 18: 49,611
WK 19: 49,260
WK 20: 44,936
WK 21: 58,515
WK 22: 44,509
WK 23: 39,553
WK 24: 43,526
WK 25: 43,556


Total: 2,717,706


Japan


WK 01: 2,117
WK 02: 2,453
WK 03: 1,744
WK 04: 1,554
WK 05: 1,186
WK 06: 1,711
WK 07: 1,067
WK 08: 835
WK 09: 632
WK 10: 753
WK 11: 793
WK 12: 708
WK 13: 772
WK 14: 772
WK 15: 800
WK 16: 887
WK 17: 760
WK 18: 748
WK 19: 895
WK 20: 718
WK 21: 554
WK 22: 698
WK 23: 915
WK 24: 960


Total: 25,032


France


WK 01: 11,767
WK 02: 5,800
WK 03: 5,000
WK 04: 5,552
WK 05: 6,369
WK 06: 6,765
WK 07: 6,880
WK 08: 7,843
WK 09: 8,501
WK 10: 10,853
WK 11: 10,040
WK 12: 9,476
WK 13: 10,089
WK 14: 10,002
WK 15: 10,284
WK 16: 9,858
WK 17: 9,024
WK 18: 11,749
WK 19: 9,561
WK 20: 14,539
WK 21: 12,324
WK 22: 8,531
WK 23: 9,153
WK 24: 11,148


Total: 221,108

[Wayne]

From RIAA's website:

3x Platinum
Adele, 21

[HeatSeeker]

Billboard 200

4 ADELE 21 72,722 -4 76,000 2,981,521
37 ADELE 19 11,480 -4 11,985 1,298,938


Billboard Digital Songs

15 ADELE ROLLING IN THE DEEP 79,591 -9 87,278 4,858,107
36 ADELE SOMEONE LIKE YOU 43,366 20 36,093 529,988
84 ADELE SET FIRE TO THE RAIN 21,288 -26 28,702 381,663
88 ADELE RUMOUR HAS IT 20,437 0 20,513 249,149

Global Album Chart

2 ADELE 21 218,000 (8.81 million)

It will reach 9 million in worldwide sales next week!

[Wayne]

Billboard 200

4 ADELE 21 72,722 -4 76,000 2,981,521
37 ADELE 19 11,480 -4 11,985 1,298,938


Billboard Digital Songs

15 ADELE ROLLING IN THE DEEP 79,591 -9 87,278 4,858,107
36 ADELE SOMEONE LIKE YOU 43,366 20 36,093 529,988
84 ADELE SET FIRE TO THE RAIN 21,288 -26 28,702 381,663
88 ADELE RUMOUR HAS IT 20,437 0 20,513 249,149

Global Album Chart

2 ADELE 21 218,000 (8.81 million)

It will reach 9 million in worldwide sales next week!

And next week, it will also top 3m US sales

[HeatSeeker]

And next week, it will also top 3m US sales

I reckon 4.5-5m US and 13-15m WW by the end of the year, surpassing The Fame.

[Wayne]

I reckon 4.5-5m US and 13-15m WW by the end of the year, surpassing The Fame.

Its already shipped around 10m copies worldwide [I do not now, nor will I ever buy into Mediatraffic's sales estimations - not my thing, but others are welcome to] - I think that it should comfortably have shipped 13m come year's end. 15m shipments is a push, but definitely not impossible!

[Wayne]

US iTunes:


01 - Someone Like You
11 - Rolling In The Deep
37 - Set Fire To The Rain
85 - Rumour Has It
113 - Turning Tables
142 - Make You Feel My Love
179 - Chasing Pavements
207 - One And Only
305 - Lovesong
448 - Don't You Remember
704 - Take It All
742 - He Won't Go
841 - I Can't Make You Love Me [LIVE]
922 - Hometown Glory

[Wayne]

HDD:



ADELE ALIVE: Adele’s Live at the Royal Albert Hall concert film DVD/CD comes out on Tuesday Nov. 29. The release follows her hit XL/Columbia album, 21, which has just gone over 4 million sold in the U.S. and 12 million worldwide. Recorded at the height of this amazing year, Live at the Royal Albert Hall will be available on DVD and Blu Ray and features the full 90-minute performance, plus behind the scenes footage shot throughout that day. The package also contains an exclusive live CD of the entire show. The CD also includes her stunning covers of Bonnie Raitt’s “I Can’t Make You Love Me” and The Steeldrivers’ “If It Hadn’t Been for Love.”