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  Magnetic Fields' Merritt Says Adele Wins Because She's White

  March 23, 2012 – Magnetic Fields frontman Stephin Merritt has been branded both a racist and a rockist due to his opinions on popular music, so you'd think he might be wary of opening up his mouth and making any grand, sweeping, controversial statements about the most successful recording artist of the past year... but that's exactly what he did, telling the L.A. …
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  Who Charted? It's Cool, One Direction's Got This

  March 21, 2012 – First! In an unsurprising upset, Brit boy band One Direction stormed the Billboard 200 albums chart with Up All Night, which sold 176,000 copies, according to Nielsen SoundScan. That makes the English group the first U.K. act to open at No. 1 with their debut album. (Thanks, social media promotion!) Can we safely say that boy bands are back now? …
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  Watch 16-Year-Old Adele Singing in High School

  March 16, 2012 – Videos of a teenaged Adele performing and hanging out with pals in 2004, her days at the BRIT School for Performing Arts and Technology, have surfaced online. …
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  Who Charted? Bruce Springsteen Shows Adele Who's, Um, Boss

  March 14, 2012 – First! Only four artists have sent 10 or more albums to the top of the Billboard 200 chart. The Beatles had 19 No. 1 albums, Jay-Z has had 12, and now Bruce Springsteen is tied for third place with Elvis at 10 apiece. First-week sales of 196,000 for his Wrecking Ball were enough, just barely, to keep Adele's 21 from matching Prince & the Revolution's Purple Rain soundtrack with 24 non-consecutive weeks at No. 1. See? …
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  Surprise! Taylor Swift Tops Money Makers List, Beats U2

  March 9, 2012 – Sometimes it's nice to think about professional musicians as dedicated artistes regaling us with their melodies for the sheer joy of musical performance. Then the illusion-crushing annual Billboard Money Makers list drops and fans everywhere get to see how filthy rich even the most adorable of their favorite artists really are. …
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  Who Charted? Adele Slays WZRD, fun. Take Over Hot 100

  March 7, 2012 – First! Adele's 21 is, once again, the No. 1 album on Billboard's Top 200, selling another 247,000 copies, according to Nielsen SoundScan. Adele's album has now spent 23 non-consecutive weeks at No. 1, outlasting all albums from the SoundScan era. If 21 holds on for another week, it will tie Prince & the Revolution's 24 weeks at the top for 1984's Purple Rain soundtrack. …
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  Grammys Give Adele's '21' Mind-Boggling Sales Boost

  February 22, 2012 – If she'd been making music a few decades ago — hell, not even two decades ago — we wouldn't be asking this question, but, considering the current state of the music industry, we have to: Where the hell is Adele finding the better part of a million more people who haven't bought 21 yet? …
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  Brit Awards Breakdown: Adele Is Sassy! Blur Return! Lana Del Rey Is Adored!

  February 22, 2012 – The U.K. press is well-known for its ruthlessness, but last night at the Brit Awards, which took place at London's O2 Arena, they came off as far more forgiving than our own media. Not only did Adele, who naturally won top accolades for British Female Solo Artist and Mastercard British Album of the Year, get away with what M.I.A. …
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  Adele's Relationship With Spotify: It's Complicated

  February 17, 2012 – Spotify is friend to many artists, but (as we well know) not all. As SPIN has reported previously, there've been a number of big-name artists to turn their noses up at streaming catalog services like Spotify and Rhapsody, for myriad reasons of varying levels of merit. …
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  Who Charted? Van Halen and Whitney Houston Return to the Top 10

  February 15, 2012 – First! Quick, feign Taylor Swift's look of utter shock. Adele's 21 is the No. 1 album on Billboard's Top 200 with a holy-crap 237,000 more copies sold, according to Nielsen SoundScan. There is almost nothing more to say about this other than the following: • Wow. • Adele's album has now spent 20 non-consecutive weeks at No. …
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