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Celeb Photos: Why Taylor Swift Is The Biggest Popstar In The World
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I am glad Jake loved 'Red'.
Also i love her pov about songwriting.
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Originally posted by JakeKills
21 was obviously bigger than any individual Taylor album, and its sales are near with Taylor's total sales, but it doesn't make Adele a bigger star than Taylor. Taylor is clearly the bigger brand, and that ultimately makes Her the bigger star.
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AWARDS
Grammy Awards:
2009 - Best New Artist
2009 - Best Female Pop Vocal Performance (Chasing Pavements)
2012 - Album of the Year (21)
2012 - Record of the Year (Rolling in the Deep)
2012 - Song of the Year (Rolling in the Deep)
2012 - Best Pop Solo Performance (Someone Like You)
2012 - Best Pop Vocal Album (21)
2012 - Best Short Form Music Video (Rolling in the Deep)
2013 - Best Pop Solo Performance (Set Fire to the Rain - Live)
Total: 9
- One of only two people ever to have won all of the top four Grammy awards (Best New Artist, Album of The Year, Record of the Year, Song Of the Year).
- Adele is the only British (or indeed, non-American) female singer to win 9 Grammies or more.
- Adele is only the second artist to win six or more Grammys one year and come back and win another Grammy the following year. The first was Michael Jackson.
- Adele became the first female solo artist to win back-to-back since Barbra Streisand took Best Female Pop Vocal Performance three years in a row, from 1963 through 1965.
- Set Fire to the Rain (Live) was only the second live song that won the category since Sarah MacLachlan's "I Will Remember You" (2000), if we were to combine the discontinued field of Best Female Pop Vocal Performance.
AIM Independent Music Awards:
2011 - Most Played Independent Act
2011 - Best "Difficult" Second Album (21)
2012 - Most Played Independent Act
Total: 3
American Music Awards:
2011 - Pop/Rock: Favorite Female Artist
2011 - Pop/Rock: Favorite Album (21)
2011 - Favorite Adult Contemporary Artist
2012 - Favorite Adult Contemporary Artist
Total: 4
Arqiva Commercial Radio Awards
2012 - Adele - PPL Most Played UK Artist on Commercial Radio
Total: 1
ASCAP Pop Music Awards:
2012 - Most Performed Work (Someone Like You)
Total: 1
Billboard Music Awards:
2012 - Top Artist
2012 - Top Female Artist
2012 - Top Billboard 200 Artist
2012 - Top Hot 100 Artist
2012 - Top Digital Songs Artist
2012 - Top Radio Songs Artist
2012 - Top Digital Media Artist
2012 - Top Pop Artist
2012 - Top Billboard 200 Album (21)
2012 - Top Pop Album (21)
2012 - Top Streaming Song (Audio) (Rolling in the Deep)
2012 - Top Alternative Song (Rolling in the Deep)
2013 - Top Pop Album (21)
Total: 13
BMI London Awards:
2009 - Award Winning Pop Songs (Chasing Pavements)
2012 - "Rolling in the Deep" - Song of the Year (most played on US radio & TV in 2011)
Total: 1
BMI Pop Music Awards:
2012 - Award Winning Songs: Pop (Rolling in the Deep)
Total: 1
Brit Awards:
2012 - British Female Solo Artist
2012 - British Album of the Year (21)
Total: 2
BT Digital Music Awards:
2011 - Best Independent Artist or Group
Total: 1
ECHO Music Awards:
2012 - Rock/Pop International Female Solo Artist
2012 - International Album of the Year (21)
Total: 2
European Border Breakers Awards:
2009 - Best Album (19)
Total: 1
Fryderyk 2012 Laureaci Prize:
2012 - Best International Album (21)
Total: 1
Glamour Women of the Year Awards:
2009 - UK Solo Artist of the Year
2011 - UK Solo Artist of the Year
Total: 2
IFPI Platinum Europe Awards:
2011 - Platinum Award (21)
Total: 1
Independent Music Awards:
2012 - International Album of the Year (21)
2012 - International Solo Artist of the Year
Total: 2
Ivor Novello Awards:
2012 - Songwriter of the Year
2012 - PRS for Most Performed Work (Rolling in the Deep)
Total: 2
Juno Awards:
2012 - International Album of the Year (21)
Total: 1
MOBO Awards:
2011 - Best UK R&B/Soul Act
Total: 1
MP3 Music Awards:
2011 - Radio/Charts/Downloads (Someone Like You)
Total: 1
Music Week Awards:
2012 - Manager of the Year (Jonathan Dickins)
2012 - Artist Marketing Campaign (Purple PR for Adele)
2012 - PR Campaign (Purple PR for Adele)
Total: 2 (For Adele)
MTV Europe Music Awards:
2011 - Best UK/Ireland Act
Total: 1
MTV Best Of:
2011 - Song of the Year (Rolling in the Deep)
Total: 1
MTV Video Music Awards:
2011 - Best Art Direction (Rolling in the Deep)
2011 - Best Cinematography (Rolling in the Deep)
2011 - Best Editing (Rolling in the Deep)
Total: 3
NRJ Music Awards:
2012 - International Breakthrough of the Year
2012 - International Song of the Year (Someone Like You)
Total: 2
Nickelodeon UK Kids Choice Awards:
2012 - Best UK Female
Total: 1
OGAE Song Contest
2011 - "Someone Like You" (as representer of UK)
Total: 1
Premios Fuse TV Awards:
2011 - International Album of the Year (21)
2011 - Best Cinematography (Rolling in the Deep)
Total: 2
Premios Oye! Awards:
2012 - International Album of the Year (21)
Total: 1
RIAA Diamond Awards:
2013 - Award for US sales
Total: 1
Q Awards:
2011 - Best Track (Rolling in the Deep)
2011 - Best Female
Total: 2
Swiss Music Awards:
2012 - Best International Rock/Pop Album (21)
2012 - Best International Hit (Rolling in the Deep)
Total: 2
UK Video Music Awards:
2011 - Best Pop Video (Rolling in the Deep)
2011 - Best Cinematography (Rolling in the Deep)
Total: 2
Urban Music Awards:
2008 - Best Jazz Act
Total: 1
VEVOCertified Awards
2012 - "Rolling in the Deep" (100M views on YouTube)
2012 - "Someone Like You" (100M views on YouTube)
Total: 2
TOTAL: 75 AWARDS WON
RECOGNITIONS
2011 - iTunes Artist of the Year
2012 - Time Magazine 100 Most Influential People
2012 - VH1 100 Greatest Women in Music (#5)
2012 - Entertainment Weekly Greatest Artists Right Now (#1)
2012 - People Magazine - Most Beautiful at Every Age
2012 - Forbes - World's Most Powerful Celebrities (earnings of $35m)
2012 - Forbes - Highest Paid Under 30 (6th place - $35m)
2012 - Forbes - Brightest Music Stars Under 30 (1st place)
2012 - Rolling Stone Magazine - "21" - Women who Rock: The 50 Greatest Albums of All Time (6th place)
2012 - The Associated Press - Entertainer of the Year
2013 - HM Queen Elizabeth II - Member of the British Empire Medal (MBE) - For Services to Music
Billboard Year-End Charts:
2011 - Adele - Artist of the Year
2011 - Adele - Hot 200 Artist of the Year
2011 - Adele - Top Digital Songs Artist of the Year
2011 - "Rolling in the Deep" - Top European Hot 100 of the Year
2011 - "Rolling in the Deep" - Top Digital Songs of the Year
2011 - "Rolling in the Deep" - Pop Adult Songs of the Year
2011 - "Rolling in the Deep" - Hot 100 Songs of the Year
2011 - "Rolling in the Deep" - Top Canadian Hot 100 Artist of the Year
2011 - 21 - Top 200 Albums of the Year
2011 - 21 - Top Digital Albums of the Year
2011 - 21 - Top Canadian Hot 100 Albums of the Year
2012 - Adele - Artist of the Year
2012 - Adele - Hot 200 Artist of the Year
2012 - Adele - Top Digital Songs Artist of the Year
2012 - Adele - Top Adult Contemporary Artist of the Year
2012 - 21 - Top 200 Albums of the Year
2012 - 21 - Top Digital Albums of the Year
2012 - 21 - Top Canadian Hot 100 Albums of the Year
Billboard Magazine:
2011 & 2012 - Artist of the Year
2011 - Song of the Year (Rolling in the Deep)
2011 & 2012 - Album of the Year (21)
- First Female to Top All Three Categories - 2011
Rolling Stone Magazine:
2011 - Best Song (Rolling in the Deep)
2011 - Best Album (21)
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US Records (Nielsen Soundscan/Billboard datas):
Artist
- Best Selling Artist of 2011 & 2012 (combined all album sales).
- Best Selling Artist of 2012 (combined album and digital track sales).
- 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").
- Second Artist with the most weeks in Top 5 of Billboard 200 (All time list) (68 weeks).
- Adele is one of only four female artists to have an album chart at #1 for more than 13 weeks (the other three artists being Judy Garland, Carole King, and Whitney Houston).
- First Artist with the most weeks in the Top 5 of Billboard 200 (in 21st century) (68 weeks).
- Artist with most weeks in the Top 3 of Billboard 200 in the All-Time list (63 weeks - Tied with Michael Jackson's Thriller).
- In May 2011, Adele became the first British singer to have topped both the Billboard Hot 100 and Billboard 200 charts in the same week since Leona Lewis did the same back in 2008.
- Adele is one of six acts that managed to have two songs in the year-end top 10 (2011).
- Adele is the first female solo artist to log five weeks or more weeks at #1 in a calendar year with two strictly solo recordings. Only three more female artists also did it, if we were to include collaborations.
- Adele became the only artist to sell 1 million or more copies of three different songs in the first quarter of 2012.
- Adele became the only act in Billboards' chart history, to be both the top artist of the year and have the No. 1 Billboard 200 album ("21") two years in a row.
- Adele is the first act to be the top artist two years in a row since 2000 and 2001, when Destiny's Child reigned. Only two more artists have acieved this feat, the first one is Garth Brook (1992 & 1993) and New Kids on the Block (1989 & 1990).
- Adele was the second most airplayed artist for 2012. Adele received more American radio airplay in 2012 than in 2011 (2011: 1.118.000 detections / 2012: 1.178.000 detections).
- Adele was the best-selling artist of 2012 in terms of combined sales of albums and digital tracks.
- Adele had five million-selling songs during 2012 which put her in a tie with Nicki Minaj and Rihanna for the most by any artist.
RIAA Diamond Award Anecdotes:
- Adele is the only artist or band in the last decade to earn an RIAA Diamond award for a one disc album in less than two years.
The last time any artist certified a one disc album Diamond in less than two years was ‘N Sync for “No Strings Attached” (Jive) in 2000.
- Adele is the only British or European artist or band in RIAA Gold & Platinum Program history to earn a Diamond award in less than two years.
- Adele is the only British or European female solo act in history to earn an RIAA Diamond award.
- Adele is the sixth female solo artist in Gold & Platinum Program history to earn a Diamond award in less than two years. She joins the ranks of other female Diamond acts such as Celine Dion, The Dixie Chicks, Whitney Houston, Alanis Morissette, Britney Spears, TLC and Shania Twain.
Album
- Best Selling Album of 2011 & 2012.
- Best Selling Physical Album of 2011 & 2012.
- Best Selling Digital Album of 2011 & 2012.
- Best Selling Internet Album of 2011 & 2012.
- Best Selling Digital Album of All Time
- Longest Running #1 Album by a Female Artist in Chart History (24 non-consecutive weeks).
- 21 is one of only two albums (Born in the USA) to have both spent longer at #2 than any others (24 weeks each).
- 21 is ranked 6th on the chart with albums wich spent 20 or more weeks at No. 1 in the 56-year history of Billboard 200.
- 21 achieved the biggest weekly sales increase following a Grammy win since Nielsen SoundScan began tracking data in 1991 (730K).
- In the US, 21 was the first album to hit 9 million since Usher's Confessions 7/24/05. 21 reached 9 million in 64 weeks, Confessions in 70 weeks.
- On 10 June 2012, 21 became the first album to rank #1 this deep into its chart run of 68 weeks, since Paula Abdul's Forever Your Girl ranked #1 for the final time in its 89th week on the chart in March 1990.
- On 7/1/2012, 21 sold 3,669,000 copies in the first half of 2012 (Soundscan year calendar), which is more than any other album has sold in the first half of the year since 50 Cent's The Massacre in 2005. (4,022,000). Only four albums have sold more copies in the first quarter of a year since 1994 than 21 has.
- By the end of 7/1/2012, 21 sold more copies in the first half of this year than it did in the first half of 2011 (2,517,000), as a new release.
- By the end of 7/1/2012, 21 is the only album that sold 1 million copies in the first half of 2012. This is the first time the industry had seen one album sell a million mid-way through the year in the 21 years SoundScan has been tracking sales data.
- 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".
- In its 76th week on the BB200 chart, 40 different albums have hit #1 since 21 entered the chart at #1 in February 2011. 21 was the only album that managed to stay the whole time at top 10.
- On 09/02/2012, by passing Def Leppard's "Hysteria", "21" became the longest-running top 10 album in the US by a British artist. The same feat is achieved for Top 20 & Top 40 as well.
- On 03/03/2012, 21 logged 81 non-consecutive weeks at the Top 10 of Billboard 200 chart -- the third-longest run in the top 10 since 1963. Only two albums have logged more weeks in the top 10 since 1963 (The Sound Of Music OST leads with 109 weeks and Bruce Springsteen's Born In The U.S.A. is second with 84 weeks).
- 21 spent 124 non-consecutive weeks in the top 40 having the 3rd best chart-run. 119 weeks were consecutive making 21the 3rd album with most weeks in the top 40 in the all time-list.
- In its 92nd week of release (11/25/2012), 21 pushed past the 10 million U.S. sales mark, according to Nielsen Soundscan. In doing so, it became the 21st album to shift 10 million since the firm began tracking data in 1991.
- "21" is one of only eight albums to hit the 10 million mark in under two years of release (104 weeks).
1. Backstreet Boys' "Millennium," (39 weeks to 10M)
2. N Sync's "No Strings Attached" (43 weeks to 10M)
3. Santana's "Supernatural" (60 weeks to 10M)
4. Alanis Morissette's "Jagged Little Pill" (66 weeks to 10M)
5. "The Bodyguard" soundtrack (72 weeks to 10M)
6. Adele's "21" (92 weeks to 10M)
7. Creed's "Human Clay" (93 weeks to 10M)
8. Shania Twain's "Come On Over" (96 weeks to 10M)
- Adele's "21" has become only the eighth album released this century to surpass 10 million sales in the US.
- The last albums in US to reach 10 million sales were Linkin Park's "Hybrid Theory" and Usher's "Confessions", both of which did so this year. However, in both cases it happened a number of years after release with "Hybrid Theory" coming out in 2000 and Confessions in "2004".
- "21" is the second album by a British artist, to reach the 10M plateau, following the Beatles' hit-studded compilation album "1". But taking into consideration that Beatle's album was not a studio recorded album, "21" is the first studio album to sell 10M in US.
- 21's overall U.S. sales (10,7M), makes it the 13th biggest seller in America since SoundScan began tracking sales in 1991.
- With its current overall US sales (10,7M), 21 becomes the best-selling album of the last 10 years and its the 5th best-selling album released since 2000.
- Adele's 21 topped iTunes' annual list of the best-selling album for the second year in a row (2011 & 2012).
- According to NielsenSoundscan year end sales report, Adele’s 21 is officially the first album to wind up as the year’s best-seller twice.
- It’s one of only four albums in the Nielsen SoundScan era to sell 4 million or more copies in each of two calendar years. It follows Alanis Morissette’s Jagged Little Pill (1995-1996), Shania Twain’s Come On Over (1998-1999) and Santana’s Supernatural (1999-2000).
- Even though it was in its second year of release, 21 sold more copies in 2012 than the best-selling albums of 2006 through 2010 did in those years.
- Adele’s 19 ranked #20 for the year, giving Adele two albums in the year-end top 20 for the second year in a row. Adele is just the third artist in the Nielsen SoundScan era to have two of the year’s top 20 albums two years running. She follows Celine Dion (1997-1998) and Justin Bieber (2010-2011).
- 21 was also the best-selling digital album of 2012, surpassing one million digital albums for the second consecutive year. No other album has sold more than one million digital albums in any year and now 21 has done it two years in a row.
- Adele's albums managed to sold 500K copies each of two albums in 2012. Only four more artists achieved the same feat.
Video Album
- Live at Royal Albert Hall has been #1 for 28 weeks in US. This set a new record for a music video with most weeks at #1 by a female artist (As of October 2013).
- By the end of 7/1/2012, Adele's Live At The Royal Albert Hall sold 464K in the first half, more than any video has sold in the first half since Collision Park by Jay/Z Linkin Park sold 493K in the first half of 2005.
- On week ending 12/2/2012, Adele's Live at the Royal Albert Hall DVD, hit one million in total sales. It's the first music video to sell 1 million copies since Garth Brooks' 2007 hit The Ultimate Hits, and that was a CD/DVD hybrid. What was the last music video that was not a CD/DVD hybrid to sell 1 million copies? Eagles' Farewell Tour: Live From Melbourne, which came out in June 2005.
Songs
- Best Selling Digital Song of 2011 ("Rolling in the Deep").
- Best Selling Digital Track of 2011 ("Rolling in the Deep").
- Biggest Selling Digital Song by a Female Artist ("Rolling in the Deep").
- Most Played Song on the Radio of 2011("Rolling in the Deep").
- "Rolling in the Deep" is the biggest crossover hit of the past 25 years, topping rock, pop, AC, R&B/hip-hop, dance and Latin charts. It went on to chart on 12 different radio formats.
- "Rolling in the Deep" has become her label XL Recordings' best selling single, overtaking M.I.A.'s "Paper Planes" released in 2008 which until 2011 held the record.
- In its 24th charting week, "Rolling in the Deep" stayed at number-one, making it the latest single at the top since Lady Gaga's "Just Dance" spent its third and final week at number one in its 24th charting week as well.
- "Rolling in the Deep" spent 65 weeks on Billboard Hot 100, placing it at 4th place in the list of most total weeks spent on the chart.
- "Rolling in the Deep" is the fourth song to top the Billboard Year-End Hot 100 singles chart and to win both Grammy Award for Record of the Year and Song of the Year in the same year.
- "Rolling in the Deep" is the 31st biggest hit of all times in the USA - Billboard Hot 100 55th Anniversary All-Time Chart.
- "Rolling in the Deep" is the second best-selling digital song in the all-time list.
- "Someone Like You" is the First Piano and Vocal Song to reach #1 on Billboard Hot 100.
- "Someone Like You" became the first "unquestionably slow song" to top the Hot 100 chart since Rihanna's song, "Take a Bow" (2008).
- Adele's leap from No. 19 to No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 with "Someone Like You," achieved the biggest jump to No. 1 in the chart's 54-year history that wasn't spurred by the release of a single.
- "Set Fire To The Rain" took 21 non-consecutive weeks for the song to reach the top spot in the United States. That's the seventh-slowest climb to #1 in Hot 100 history.
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Part 2 in my next post because this is too long to put in a single post
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Originally posted by JakeKills
Go ahead. I have a pretty good idea of Adele's achievements. All things considered, they actually seem somewhat even to me... Both have a number of unique chart accomplishments and have received a large variety of awards of various levels of prestige.
Ultimately, I do think the fact that Taylor is the bigger brand is what tipped the scales in her favor here. Of course, Adele strikes me as the type who is trying to avoid being a brand (hasn't acted, turned down that major cosmetics deal, etc)... Or perhaps the author just doesn't consider Adele a pop star. She wasn't mentioned by name in the article like a number of others were.
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Billboard's Top 25 best-selling artist by total unit volume (track and album sales combined) [January 2011 - August 2012]
- Adele has sold 33,3M records in USA in past 18 months, making her the best-selling artist by total unit volume.
- Adele's is the #1 album seller with 11,1M albums. She's by far outpaced the #2 album seller (a.k.a Justin Bieber) who has moved only 4,3M albums.
- Adele's track sales (22,2M tracks) brings her at #2 on Billboard's Top 25 best-selling artist by total unit volume, with a small difference from #1 (Katy Perry, 22,5M tracks).
- 21s' sales represents the 33,5% of the overall album sales during this 18-month period.
UK charts and sales records:
- Best Selling Album in 21st century, by a Solo Artist.
- Best Selling Download Album in the UK history.
- Second biggest selling singles artist of the decade so far.
- 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.
- On 29/12/2012, Official Charts Company announced that 21 overtook Oasis’ (What’s The Story) Morning Glory? to become the UK’s fourth biggest selling album of all-time.* (*By doing so, 21 becomes the best-selling album of all-time without a re-release).
- One in five households in the UK own 21.
- Most Cumulative Weeks at #1 on UK Albums Chart. 21 holds the record for a Solo album - regardless of gender - with 23 weeks (Previous record holder: Elvis Presley, GI Blues with 22 weeks).
- Most Consecutive Weeks at #1 on UK Albums Chart (Solo Female Artist).
- Most Grammy Awards Won in a Single Year by a Female British Act.
- Along with Eric Clapton in 1993, Adele jointly holds the record for most Grammies won by a British artist of either gender in one night.
- Most consecutive weeks in the top ten by a solo artist album - "21" with 71 consecutive weeks.
- Most cumulative weeks in the top 10 for a female artist in the charts history (76 non-consecutive weeks).
- With 74 non-consecutive weeks on top 10, 21 tied Mike Oldfield's "Tubular Bells" as the longest-running top ten album by a UK soloist.
- In its 76th non-consecutive run on the top 10, 21 has equalled Thriller's run on original release.
- 21 has the longest run for an album in the top 100 by a female solo artist without a re-release.
- As of now 21 has logged 141 consecutive weeks in the UK Top 100, putting it in the 17th place among the albums with the longest chart-run in the UK Top 100.
- On the 30th anniversary of CD format (10/01/2012), Adele's 21 has clocked up a cool 3.553.624 million CD sales in the UK after only 18 months on sale,to become the biggest selling studio album ever. (2nd place, behind Abba's compilation album "Gold - Greatest Hits" 1992).
- On week ending 23/12/2012, 21 spent its 100th consecutive week in the UK Top 100. She became only the second female (after Rihanna) to have two albums achieve this feat.
- HMV, reported that it sold its one millionth copy of Adele’s 21 during the Christmas sales period of 2012. HMV’s achievement means that nearly one in every four copies of Adele’s 21 purchased in the UK over the past two years has been through its chain of stores or its hmv.com and hmvdigital sites – more than any other retailer, including online and digital only outlets.
- Amazon named "21", the best-selling album since the site was launched in 1999. "19" occupied the 2nd place.
- Official Charts Company figures released by BPI, showed that Adeles' 21 was the 4th biggest-selling vinyl album in 2012.
- On 27 March 2011, "Someone Like You" become the first song to spend 5 weeks at the top of the UK Singles Chart since Katy Perry's "I Kissed a Girl" (2008).
- "Someone Like You" was the biggest selling single of 2011 in the United Kingdom selling over 1,000,000 copies as of 5th of July 2011 and became the first single of the decade to do so.
- "Someone Like You" is the 36th best-selling single in the history of the UK Singles Chart.
- "Someone Like You" is the best-selling digital song ever in UK with sales of 1,4M copies.
UK & US chart records (combined)
- 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).
- Rolling in the Deep has been played one billion times.
Guinness World Records:
- Most Successful Singles Sales in a Year
- Most Cumulative Weeks at #1 on UK Albums Chart (Solo Female Artist, Individual Album)
- Most Consecutive Weeks at #1 on UK Albums Chart (Solo Female Artist)
- Most Grammy Awards Won in a Single Year by a British Act (Female)
- Best Selling Download Album in the UK.
- Biggest-selling digital track in UK. ("Rolling in the Deep")
- Biggest-selling digital album in the UK.
- Biggest-selling digital track in US. ("Rolling in the Deep")
- Biggest-selling digital album in the US.
- First female artist to reach a million US digital sales.
- First UK artist to reach a million US digital sales.
- First UK artist who reached a million US digital sales so fast.
Chart & sales records by country
Overall
- 21 hit #1 in 38 countries.
- Adele's music is now tracked in 170 countries, the most regions PRS for Music has ever worked in to track an artist.
- Globally, 21 is the best-selling album of the past decade according to the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry.
- On average, a copy of 21 was sold every 6.5 seconds in the year 2011.
- "Rolling in the Deep" has sold over 13.5 million copies worldwide.
- As of 26 July 2011, "Rolling in the Deep" was the third best selling digital single across Europe with 1.26 million copies sold.
- Media Traffic. After 129 non-consecutive weeks on the list, the global sales of '21' stands at 25,9 million. (#35 - All Time List)
As of now 21 it is the best-selling studio album of the 21st century, trailing only the Beatles' best-of compilation album '1' (32 million).
With 122 weeks on the chart, 21 had the longest consecutive chart-run without a re-release.
It is also the best-selling studio album of the 21st century by a female artist and the best-selling solo album.
- Her record label in USA (Columbia), claimed that 21 has already sold 26 million copies worldwide and the respective global sales of Adele’s Live At The Royal Albert Hall DVD/CD are 3 million copies.
- In 2012 sales, 21 has outsold Gaga, Katy, Carrie, Nicki, Kelly, Madonna, Bey, Taylor, Florence, Rihanna, and Lana combined.
- 21 is one of the highest certified album of all time (10x Platinum) in Europe in the list of the IFPI Europe.
Countries
Austria
- 21 is the 10th longest charting album of all-time (118 weeks).
- 21 is the 6th album with most consecutive weeks in Top 10 (44 weeks).
Argentina
- 21 was the best-selling album of 2012.
Australia
- Longest-running No 1 album of all time by a solo artist (32 weeks).
- Adele is the 3rd artist who's spent the most weeks at #1 in the history of the Australian ARIA charts (1983-2013).
- In the week ending 17 July 2011, Adele also replicated her UK chart record when she achieved two titles in the top five of the ARIA Album and Singles chart simultaneously.
- Most consecutive weeks in the top 10 which means that is the 6th longest stay at the Top 10. (65 consecutive weeks)
- Biggest-selling album by a UK solo artist.
- 21 is the 5th album with the most weeks (110 weeks) in ARIA Top 50 Albums Chart (since 1988).
- 21 is among the eight best-selling albums in Australian history (1M).
- 21 is the first album to reach 1million sales since Delta Goodrems' Innocent Eyes (released 2003). It's the first album to achieve this feat in the digital era.
Belgium - Flanders
- Longest-running No 1 album of all time (38 weeks - Highest charting album by an international artist)
- Most weeks in top ten in the all-time time list (92 weeks).
- 21 became the best-selling album for two years in a row (2011 & 2012).
- 21 is the 7th best-charting album in the all-time list (126 weeks).
Belgium - Wallonia
- Most weeks in top ten in the all-time list (89 weeks).
- "Rolling in the Deep" is the second longest charting single since 1995.
- 21 became the best-selling album for two years in a row (2011 & 2012).
- 21 is the 6th best-charting album in the all-time list (126 weeks).
- 21 becomes the longest-running album by a female artist in the Wallonian top 50 since 1995 with 131 weeks. The only album with more weeks is Garou's Seul (137 weeks).
Brazil
- Adele is the first foreign artist along with Katy Perry with the most number-one hits (2). [Brazil Billboard's Hot Pop Songs chart]
- Adele is the first foreign artist that her songs spent the most cumulative months at #1 (8 months). [Brazil Billboard's Hot Pop Songs chart]
- In 2012, 21 was the best-selling studio album by a foreign female artist and the 6th overall.
- Since 2011, Adele has received 9 diamond plaques and 3 gold plaques = approximately 1,415,000 records sold.
Canada
- Longest-running No 1 album of all time list (35 weeks).
- Third best selling album since Soundscan began tracking sales (1,4M).
- 21 became the best-selling album for two years in a row (2011 & 2012).
Chile
- "Someone Like You" was the most played track of 2012.
- Adele's 21 is the 5th best-selling album of the XXIst century (albums released 2000-2013) with 45k copies sold so far.
France
- The longest-running English language No 1 album by a solo artist in France (21 weeks).
- The 10th longest-running No 1 of all time in France.
- 21 has the longest consecutive chart-run in the all-time list.
- The 3rd longest-running English language album in French charts.
- Most consecutive weeks in the top 10 in France (70 weeks).
- Most weeks in top ten in the all-time time list (88 weeks).
- 21 became the best-selling album for two years in a row (2011 & 2012).
- "Rolling In The Deep" has the all-time longest consecutive chart run. It is also the all-time best-charting single and the 4th all-time longest charting single.
- "Someone Like You" has the all-time 3rd longest consecutive chart run. It is also the all-time 2nd best-charting single and the 6th all-time longest charting single.
- On 09/2013, "Set Fire To The Rain" celebrated its 2-year-jubilee on the French Singles Chart. Only 7 singles have achieved this feat so far and three of them are by Adele.
Finland
- "Someone like You" rose to #1 in its twelfth week in early 2012, the week when Adele had three simultaneous top-ten songs ("Rolling in the Deep" at #2 and "Set Fire to the Rain" at #7).
- 21 became the fourth-best selling album of 2011 in Finland with triple-platinum sales (75K copies).
- 21 is the longest-charting studio album in Finland.
- 21 is now the second longest running chart album in Finland since the chart's beginning in 1966 (120 weeks).
- On the list of the Best 25 Songs of All-Times, Finnish radio listeners voted "Rolling in the Deep" as the 5th best song of all-times and "Someone Like You" as the 22nd best song in the respective list.
Germany
- Weeks in the top ten (76 weeks). This has been confirmed as the record for a solo album.
- 21 is the third most certified album ever. (8x Platinum - 1,6M).
Netherlands
- Longest-running No 1 album of all time (31 weeks)
- Most consecutive weeks in the top 10 (71 weeks)
- 21 became the best-selling album for two years in a row (2011 & 2012).
Ireland
- Longest-running No 1 album of all time (35 weeks).
- Biggest selling digital album of all time.
- 7th best selling album of all time.
New Zealand
- Longest-running No 1 album of all time (38 weeks).
- Most weeks in the top ten in the all-time list (93 weeks).
- 21 is NZ's 3rd best charting album (141 weeks - overall weeks).
- 21 with 141 consecutive weeks spent in the charts, has the longest consecutive chart-run.
- 21 became the best-selling album for two years in a row (2011 & 2012).
Norway
- With 121 weeks in the charts, 21 is the 2nd longest-running album in the Norwegian charts since 1967.
- 21 holds the record for the longest-running studio album in the Norwegian charts.
- Most weeks in the top ten in the all-time list (85 weeks).
Poland
- Most weeks in the top 10 in the all time list (76 weeks)
- 21 became the best-selling album for two years in a row (2011 & 2012).
Switzerland
- Most weeks in top ten in the all-time list (85 weeks).
- 21 became the best-selling album for two years in a row (2011 & 2012).
- 21 has the second most weeks at #1 in the all time list.
- Adele's 21 became the best charting album ever (since 1983) in Switzerland.
Sweden
- 21 has the longest consecutive chart-run ever with 115 weeks.
- 21 has the 3rd longest charting album ever there (behind ABBA's Gold: Greatest Hits and Metallica's Metallica).
Taiwan
- 21 has the longest consecutive chart-run with 113 weeks.
Number of weeks 21 spent on top of charts (by country)
42 – MediaTraffic (worldwide weekly sales chart)
38 – Belgium (Flanders), New Zealand
35 – Canada, Ireland
32 - Australia
31 – Netherlands
24 - US
23 – UK
21 – France
17 - Argentina
14 – Belgium(Wallonia), Switzerland
13 – Norway
12 - Taiwan
11 – Denmark, Finland
9 – Poland
8 – Germany, Mexico
5 – Italy
3 – Czech Republic, China
2 – Austria, Brazil, Sweden, Hungary
1 – Greece
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Part 2. Taylor is a big pop artist though
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Aside from the fact that most of the others have album sales, singles, tours like you said.
There's also the fact that being the biggest popstar just means how much power you have currently. Adele doesn't have a big tour(we all know that's partly because she chose not to go on tour) , and I doubt she'll ever has a tour that grosses that high simply because she's not that type of artist. And simply put there are certain artist who don't need a huge grossing tour to be the biggest popstars in the world ex. Mariah Carey . Her sales speak for themselves and show how global she is compared to the rest. Her last album sold 1mil + in 6 countries alone , more than taylor's last album. She wins highly esteemed awards such as Golden Globes (something taylor has failed at) . Quite simply sales and acclaim are more than enough to show that she's the biggest popstar in the world, taylor's too local to be that.
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Celine Dion says hi.
Anyway, like I just said she had ONE album that sold ALOT of copies.- more than, not just Taylor's, but everybody else's as well. Adele won the GG because of the 50th anniversary of James Bond. - Lets not. Safe and Sound was the better song, and should've won. Skyfall is the worst JB theme song- FACT. Once again, Adele had ONE album sale as many as Taylor has with 4- It is hands- down remarkable. ; but what about single sales, talent, (will leave touring out, since YOU don't think that should be included in being the biggest pop star in the world), songwriting, creativity!? Taylor trumps Adele in every aspect, except for vocals and albums (which they both have the same amount of album sales, might I add)
Stop saying "sales" When it's only album sales
And btw, Taylor is more critically acclaimed than Adele
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Go ahead. I have a pretty good idea of Adele's achievements. All things considered, they actually seem somewhat even to me... Both have a number of unique chart accomplishments and have received a large variety of awards of various levels of prestige.
Ultimately, I do think the fact that Taylor is the bigger brand is what tipped the scales in her favor here. Of course, Adele strikes me as the type who is trying to avoid being a brand (hasn't acted, turned down that major cosmetics deal, etc)... Or perhaps the author just doesn't consider Adele a pop star. She wasn't mentioned by name in the article like a number of others were.
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Anyway being a popstar is determined by how popular your music is. And I'd say having 3 #1's on the hot 100 is more than enough to prove your music is popular,even more so than others with less, wouldn't you?
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I legitimately didn't hear a single thing about this. This is actually news to me right now.
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!!!! I had no idea either nnnn. The self drag.
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The article was quite insighful. I am so ready for LP5 to puncH.
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At the end of the day Adele remains the most global pop artist. Taylor is simply not as big WW, but she still is a huge pop artist. I would place her at least in the top 5 though
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Red sold more copies outside of the US than Femme Fatale did WW, and it sold more copies outside of the US than ARTPOP will, so some of these fans of supposedly global artists should slow their horses.
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Inchinaru19- Your hardcore stanning
Taylor has achieved a lot of the same accomplishments that you listed darling. When it comes to being the over all biggest pop star, Taylor is definitely ahead of Adele. Love you boo
Now, if Adele smashes in the same ways you listed above the next year she releases, then she will be ahead of Taylor, but as of right now Adele is not
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Celine Dion says hi.
Anyway, like I just said she had ONE album that sold ALOT of copies.- more than, not just Taylor's, but everybody else's as well. Adele won the GG because of the 50th anniversary of James Bond. - Lets not. Safe and Sound was the better song, and should've won. Skyfall is the worst JB theme song- FACT. Once again, Adele had ONE album sale as many as Taylor has with 4- It is hands- down remarkable. ; but what about single sales, talent, (will leave touring out, since YOU don't think that should be included in being the biggest pop star in the world), songwriting, creativity!? Taylor trumps Adele in every aspect, except for vocals and albums (which they both have the same amount of album sales, might I add)
Stop saying "sales" When it's only album sales
And btw, Taylor is more critically acclaimed than Adele
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The first one is an opinion.
The rest subjective,subjective ,subjective . And the last one lies. Where's her oscar ?
Anyway you also seem to forget '19' outsold taylor's last two albums(with 7 mil ww) and won her a best new artist grammy.let me continue to laugh though.
And yes it is sales since RITD is the best selling digital single by a female artist.
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Yes bitch. She's DOING it.
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At the end of the day, there is no artist as powerful or even remotely like Taylor Swift in the United States right now. In fact, I'm not even sure what she should be compared to. Her power stateside is virtually unmatched in its consistency, and her appeal abroad continues to grow.
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@taylorswift13 12m
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Let them know, queen.
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She has singles albums and touring all she needs is performing ....
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At the end of the day, there is no artist as powerful or even remotely like Taylor Swift in the United States right now. In fact, I'm not even sure what she should be compared to. Her power stateside is virtually unmatched in its consistency, and her appeal abroad continues to grow.
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Lies overpowering
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Originally posted by RobynYoBank
At the end of the day, there is no artist as powerful or even remotely like Taylor Swift in the United States right now. In fact, I'm not even sure what she should be compared to. Her power stateside is virtually unmatched in its consistency, and her appeal abroad continues to grow.
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Someone who's finally in touch with reality
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Inchinaru19- Your hardcore stanning
Taylor has achieved a lot of the same accomplishments that you listed darling. When it comes to being the over all biggest pop star, Taylor is definitely ahead of Adele. Love you boo
Now, if Adele smashes in the same ways you listed above the next year she releases, then she will be ahead of Taylor, but as of right now Adele is not
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Yes I bring stanning to a whole new level to be honest
And Taylor and Adele shares the same WW stats?!?!?! That's something new
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