Looks like Adele will take the number 2 spot in the US next week too. I assume that means another 100-150 albums sold. With these kind of sales I will be very surprised if 21 isn't the biggest Album in the US for 2012 too.
Completing this week’s Top 5 is Adele's 21. In another extraordinary record-breaking week for the London-born singer, the Official Charts Company can confirm that 21 is now the sixth biggest selling album of all time in the UK. On Monday it was revealed that Adele’s 21 has now overtaken Pink Floyd’s 1973 epic, The Dark Side Of The Moon, having already overtaken Michael Jackson’s Bad three weeks previously. By the end of the working week, Adele had also leap-frogged Dire Straits’ 1985 hit Brothers In Arms. 21 has now sold over 4.16m copies in the UK.
Is the album in the top 5 of the best-selling albums in the UK already?
There's some controversy regarding the actual sales of "sergeant pepper..", like 1 million copies to its total that seemingly came out of nowhere, so in real it might already be top 5.
But officially it's #6, around 100k from Thriller
Looks like shipments worldwide are running at just over 2 million above Mediatraffic figures!
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Adele heads IFPI 2011 global countdown
11:39 | Monday March 26, 2012
By Paul Williams
Adele’s 21 has topped IFPI’s top global sellers chart for 2011 with the highest calendar sales since the countdown was created a decade ago.
The XL album finished as the past year’s biggest seller after shifting 18.1 million copies worldwide, easily beating the highest previous tally recorded by the IFPI for Eminem’s The Eminem Show in 2002. His album sold 13.9 million units that calendar year.
Adele claims two of 2011’s Top 10 sellers with her debut 19 occupying sixth position......