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BRITs MasterCard British Album of the Year winner, Adele, gets her moment in the spotlight today as her multi-platinum album, 21, returns to the top of the Official Albums Chart for its 21st non-consecutive week at the peak. 21 climbs two places while enjoying a week on week sales uplift of 37%. 21 has impressively never left the Top 10 since its release, the album has now spent 57 weeks on the chart.
The Official Charts Company can today confirm that Adele has now broken 6 million album sales in the UK, with 21 hitting 4 million sales in the same week that her debut album clears the 2 million milestone. As also reported earlier this week, since her career-changing performance at the BRIT Awards with MasterCard in February 2011, 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.
Her singles have climbed a collective 159 places north this week, with signature tracks Someone Like You (32) and Rolling In The Deep (28) both going Top 40. Rolling In The Deep was performed by the singer/songwriter at Tuesday’s BRITs ceremony and has earned Adele a 33% uplift in sales week on week.
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21 is up two spots at #1, while 19 is up 2 spots at #7
Current list of most weeks at #1 in the UK:
South Pacific Soundtrack - 115 weeks
The Sound of Music Soundtrack- 70 weeks
The King and I Soundtrack - 48 weeks
Simon & Garfunkel - Bridge Over Troubled Water - 33 weeks
The Beatles - Please Please Me - 30 weeks
The Beatles - Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band - 27 weeks
Elvis Presley - G.I. Blues soundtrack - 22 weeks
The Beatles - With The Beatles - 21 weeks
The Beatles - A Hard Day's Night - 21 weeks
Adele - 21 - 21 weeks.
21: 4,020,833
19: 2,015,416.