Re: ADELE - 21 THREAD

[Sinéad]

[Gabe]

That's for Gary right there.

[Alonso]

LOL.

[Gary]

[Gabe]

[Alonso]

1 * ADELE 21 115973 22 95144 6263290
19 * ADELE 19 16700 14 14671 1806046

HDT
2 ADELE SET FIRE TO THE RAIN 166540 -10 184673 2193109
20 ADELE SOMEONE LIKE YOU 64747 -9 71481 4078230
33 ADELE ROLLING IN THE DEEP 46161 -6 49150 6076666
110 ADELE RUMOUR HAS IT 15872 -15 18583 716307

Catalog Tracks
54 ADELE MAKE YOU FEEL MY LOVE (ALBUM) 7438 -7 8000 796357
118 ADELE CHASING PAVEMENTS (ALBUM) 5569 -11 6230 1272269

Adele's Live At The Royal Albert Hall is #1 on Top Music Videos for the ninth straight week. The DVD sold 17K copies, bringing its total to 528K.

Billboard:

Adele's "Set Fire to the Rain" spends a second week at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 songs chart, just holding off a furious push from Kelly Clarkson's "Stronger (What Doesn't Kill You)," which bounds from No. 8 to No. 2.

As Adele's set "21" leads the Billboard 200 album chart for an 18th week, "Fire" tallies a second frame atop the Hot 100, fueled largely by its 5-4 advance on the Radio Songs chart (118 million audience impressions, up 12%, according to Nielsen BDS).

On the Digital Songs survey, "Fire" remains at No. 2 after topping the chart two weeks ago. The song sold 167,000 downloads (down 10%) in the list's tracking week, according to Nielsen SoundScan.

As announced yesterday, Adele will perform at the 54th annual Grammy Awards in Los Angeles Feb. 12, marking her first live performance since undergoing vocal surgery late last year.

[Gabe]

Adele set fire to the effin' competition!!! That's what she did.

[Alonso]

Media Traffic

1 (1) 53 Adele - 21 254.000 - 32 weeks at No.1

Will this album ever sell less than 200k per week? The album at no.2 sold 98k. Adele is killing the charts.

[GlenMarley]

#slaying

[Alonso]

http://www.billboard.com/column/chartbeat#/news/van-halen-vs-adele-for-no-1-next-week-on-1006135552.story

Van Halen might be on its way to a sixth career No. 1 album on the Billboard 200 chart -- unless Adele's "21" stands in the veteran band's way.

Industry sources suggest that Van Halen's "A Different Kind of Truth" may sell about 180,000 to 200,000 copies by the end of the tracking week on Sunday, Feb. 12. Under normal circumstances, that would be enough for the recently-signed Interscope act to bump Queen Adele from the top slot.

However, this isn't a normal week. The 54th Grammy Awards take place on Feb. 12, at 8-11:30 PM on CBS -- where Adele is scheduled to perform. The artist is nominated for six Grammys this year, and the performance will mark her first since undergoing surgery last year on her vocal chords. Further, Adele will sit down with Anderson Cooper for an interview on CBS' "60 Minutes" immediately before the Grammys.

It's certainly possible that whatever buzz is generated by Adele on Grammy night -- the final day of the tracking week for next week's Billboard 200 -- could engineer a big gain in sales for "21." This past week, the set shifted 122,000 (up 5% according to Nielsen SoundScan) in its 19th nonconsecutive week at No. 1 on the Billboard 200.

Billboard 200

1 1 1 ADELE 21 121,940 5 115,973 6,385,230
15 19 19 ADELE 19 17,693 6 16,700 1,823,739

Hot 100

2. (1) Set Fire To The Rain [23 weeks]
22. (21) Someone Like You [31 weeks]
44. (43) Rolling In The Deep [57 weeks]

Sorry Taylor, apparently your record will be broken next week:
Adele - 21 - 6,385,230
Taylor Swift - Fearless - 6,494,173

If she sold 122k this week, I can't even imagine what her sales are going to be after the Grammys. Plus, there's an interview on 60 Minutes before the ceremony. Here's a preview:

http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=7397981n

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