"Someone Like You" is now the 3rd biggest radio hit of 2011 in the USA!
MEDIABASE OVERALL AIRPLAY PEAKS IN MILLIONS OF IMPRESSIONS.
1. Rolling In The Deep: 169M
2. What's My Name?: 165M
3. Someone Like You: 152.7M (and still gaining)
4. Give Me Everything: 152M
5. E.T.: 151M
Rolling In The Deep is 2011's no1 song on the radio. It is also the no1 song on the US i-tunes for 2011. The song is gonna be at No1 on the year end Hot100 with a HUGE lead. It is also the Biggest Crossover Song of Past 25 Years according to Billboard.
"Earlier this year, when it debuted on the Latin Songs chart, it became the most widely crossed-over song of the past 25 years. The Latin tally was the record 12th Nielsen BDS-based Billboard airplay chart on which "Rolling" appeared."
Adele's "Rolling in the Deep" added Hot Latin Songs to its chart discography, marking the unprecedented and record-extending 12th Nielsen BDS-based Billboard airplay chart on which the song has appeared.
Since it debuted on the Triple A adult alternative radio chart the week of Dec. 11, 2010, where it would go on to lead for 14 frames - the list's longest reign for a song by a woman - "Deep" has dotted a dozen radio charts ranking such genres as rock, pop/adult, R&B/hip-hop, dance and Latin.
How historic is the cross-format saturation of "Deep"? Dating to the launch of Latin Songs the week of Oct. 4, 1986, just five other artists have even appeared on rock, pop/adult, R&B/hip-hop, dance and Latin song charts: Phil Collins, Eminem, Michael Jackson, Katy Perry and Suzanne Vega. Unlike Adele, however, all five acts have needed multiple songs to make their five-format crossovers."
And, of course, 21 is the most successful album of 2011 in America too.
http://www.billboard.biz/bbbiz/indus...05277742.story