Stole this from the Adele forum but it's so amazing
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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)
Total: 8
- 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).
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)
Total: 12
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:
2008 - Critics Choice
2012 - British Female Solo Artist
2012 - British Album of the Year (21)
Total: 3
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
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: 73 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 - Rolling Stone Magazine - "21" - Women who Rock: The 50 Greatest Albums of All Time (6th place)
2011 Billboard Year-End Charts:
Top Artist
Top Hot 100 Song (Rolling in the Deep)
Top Billboard 200 Album (21)
Top Billboard 200 Artist
Top Digital Song (Rolling in the Deep)
Top Digital Album (21)
Top Digital Albums Artist
Top Adult Pop Song (Rolling in the Deep)
Top Catalog Album (19)
Top Canadian Hot 100 Song (Rolling in the Deep)
Top Canadian Album (21)
Billboard Magazine:
2011 - Artist of the Year
2011 - Song of the Year (Rolling in the Deep)
2011 - Album of the Year (21)
(First Female to Top All Three Categories)
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
- 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 became the only artist to sell 1 million or more copies of three different songs in the first quarter of 2012.
Album
- Best Selling Album of 2011.
- Best Selling Physical Album of 2011.
- Best Selling Digital Album of 2011.
- Best Selling Internet Album of 2011.
- 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.
- 21 has already become the first album to sell 4 million copies in two different calendar years since Santana's Supernatural, Alanis Morissette's Jagged Little Pill, and Shania Twain's Come On Over.
- 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.
- On 10/30/2012, 21 logged 80 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 soundtrack leads with 109 weeks and Bruce Springsteen's Born In The U.S.A. is second with 84 weeks).
- 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, makes it the 21st biggest seller in America since SoundScan began tracking sales in 1991 (November 2012).
Video Album
- 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).
- 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.
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.
- "Someone Like You" is the First Piano and Vocal Song to reach #1 on Billboard Hot 100.
- "Someone Like You" is the 30th song to sell 5 million digital copies in US digital history.
- "Someone Like You" became the first "unquestionably slow song" to top the Hot 100 chart since Rihanna's song, "Take a Bow" (2008).
- "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.
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.
- 21s' sales brought in $96,4M revenue (using a blended wholesale price of $8,69) and track sales brought in $19,95M (based on a wholesale price 90 cents).
UK charts and sales records:
- 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.
- Fifth Best Selling Album of All Times.
- 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.
- One in six 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 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.
- 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 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" also became the 16th song which sold more than 1,000,000 copies from the 2000s.
- "Someone Like You" is the decade's biggest-selling single to date (2010's).
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 more than 30 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 94 weeks on the list, the global sales of '21' stands at 23,9 million. (#41 - 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).
It is also the best-selling studio album of the 21st century by a female artist and the best-selling solo album.
- 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
Australia
- Longest-running No 1 album of all time by a solo artist (32 weeks).
- 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 among the eight best-selling albums in Australian history.
Belgium - Flanders
- Longest-running No 1 album of all time (38 weeks - Highest charting album by an international artist)
- Most weeks in the top ten in all-time time list (87 weeks).
Belgium - Wallonia
- Most weeks in the top ten in the all-time list (86 weeks).
- "Rolling in the Deep" is the second longest charting single since 1995.
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]
Canada
- Longest-running No 1 album of all time list (35 weeks).
- Third best selling album since Soundscan began tracking sales (1,3M).
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.
- The 3rd longest-running English language album.
- Most consecutive weeks in the top 10 in France (70 weeks)
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).
Germany
- Weeks in the top ten (76 weeks). This has been confirmed as the record for a solo album.
Netherlands
- Longest-running No 1 album of all time (31 weeks)
- Most consecutive weeks in the top 10 (70 weeks)
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 (91 weeks).
- 21 is NZ's 4th best charting album since 1975.
Poland
- Most weeks in the top 10 in the all time list (76 weeks).
Switzerland
- Most weeks in the top ten in all-time list (78 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
11 – Denmark, Finland
9 – Poland
8 – Germany, Mexico
5 – Italy
3 – Czech Republic
2 – Austria, Brazil, Sweden, Hungary
1 – Greece
and its sad for me to say I don't have 21 or 19 and I am a HUGE Adele fan XD I own RAH though
I'll probably buy it for Christmas though haha...
Did they even submit it?