First Artist in History to Have 3 Singles at #1 on Hot 100 Concurrently With a #1 Album on Billboard 200.
- First Female Artist to Place 3 Songs in the Hot 100 Top 10 Concurrently with 2 Albums in the Top 5 of Billboard 200 (The second artist overall to achieve this).
During this run, Adele also appeared on 4 of the top 5 albums: in addition to her own two top five albums, her songs were included on the 2012 Grammy Nominees album and the album Now! 41.
- First Artist in History to Have the Year's #1 Album (21), #1 Single (Rolling in the Deep) and #1 Music Video (Royal Albert Hall).
- First woman ever to win Best Artist, Best Album and Best Song of the Year.
- First non-US artist to land two 5 million-sellers, as "Someone Like You" tops the 5 million mark. (the other one is "Rolling in the Deep").
- On 7/15/2012, 21 logged its 73rd week in the top 10. That means "21" had spent more weeks in the top 10 than any other album by a woman in history. It surpassed the 72-week run of Alanis Morissette's "Jagged Little Pill".
- Best Selling Digital Album of All Time
- Longest Running #1 Album by a Female Artist in Chart History (24 non-consecutive weeks).
- Live at Royal Albert Hall has been #1 for 23 weeks in US. This set a new record for a music video with most weeks at #1 by a female artist (As of November 2012).
- "Someone Like You" is the First Piano and Vocal Song to reach #1 on Billboard Hot 100.
- Adele has sold 33,3M records in USA in past 18 months, making her the best-selling artist by total unit volume.
- 21s' sales represents the 33,5% of the overall album sales during this 18-month period.
- Best Selling Album in 21st century, by a Solo Artist.
- Best Selling Download Album in the UK history.
- First Female to Have Two Singles and Two Albums in the UK Top 5 Simultaneously.
- 21 it is the UK's Most Certified Album (16x Platinum certification - shipments).
- 21 is the only album in UK history to sell over 3 million copies in one year.
- 21 is the biggest selling digital album of all time.
- 21 had most combined weeks at # 1 in US and UK ever (47 total weeks).
- 21 had longer cumulative chart run in Top 3 than MJs' Thriller on original release* (112 vs 95 weeks). The same applies for Top 5 (129 vs 123 weeks), for Top 10 (156 weeks vs 154 weeks) and Top 20 as well (178 weeks vs 177 weeks).
*(i.e. excluding the additional weeks it got for 25th anniversary edition and after MJ's death).
