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  Who Charted? Adele's Stranglehold on No. 1 Reaches 15th Week

  January 11, 2012 – First! It's a new year, but the same album sits atop the charts. Adele's 21 entered its 15th week at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 with 124,000 copies sold, per Nielsen SoundScan. The mark puts the British singer one week away from matching the record of 16 weeks at the top of the charts, set by Titanic in 1998, and given the slow trickle of releases yesterday, she'll probably do just that. …
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  Adele Saved Music, Rock Recovered, and 12 More Fun Facts From SoundScan's Year-End Spectacular

  January 5, 2012 – The Nielsen SoundScan 2011 year-end review is in, and to the surprise of no one, Adele blew away her competition, locking up nearly superlative SoundScan has to offer, from Best Selling Album to Best Selling Digital Song and everything in between (except, sadly, Top Selling Seasonal Album). …
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  Who Charted? Adele Ends 2011 With 14th No. 1 Week

  January 4, 2012 – First! Now that Christmas is in our past, Christmas is, too — Adele's 21 returned to its comfy spot atop Billboard's 200 with 144,000 copies sold, per Nielsen SoundScan, and Michael Bublé fell to No 24. The haul gives the British singer her 14th week at No. …
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  Adele Hits New Sales Milestone, Returns to Twitter

  December 22, 2011 – If Adele was radiating a certain cheer in a photo posted on the English singing sensation's Twitter account yesterday, her hair and makeup stylists might not be able to take all the credit. Adele's 21, already the best-selling album of 2011, has reached U.S. sales of more than 5 million copies, surpassing single-year sales of every album since Usher's Confessions crossed the 8 million mark in 2004, according to Billboard. …
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  SPIN's 20 Best Songs of 2011

  December 9, 2011 – Check out more of SPIN's countdowns of 2011's best music here: SPIN's 40 Best Rap Albums of 2011 20. FLEET FOXES, "Helplessness Blues" An earnest orphan raised by '60s wolves turns up on the doorstep of 2011, tries to write a generational folk anthem, muddles allegiances, imagines he owns a frickin' orchard -- poignant confusion reigns. 19. …
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  Adele's '21' and 'Rolling in the Deep' Predictably Top iTunes' Year-End List

  December 9, 2011 – To no one's surprise, Adele's 21 and "Rolling in the Deep" have been named iTunes' best-selling 2011 album and single. The Apple music service's 2011 tally is fairly predictable, as all the usual suspects — Lady Gaga, Watch the Throne, Katy Perry, "Moves Like Jagger" —show up. …
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  Adele Will Not Accept Your North American Beer; Twix, However, Is OK

  December 6, 2011 – Adele has sold millions of albums worldwide while somehow managing to remain aloof from the flash and swagger of most other contemporary pop. She's palatable to the masses, then, but not exactly in a down-market way. …
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  Everything You Need To Know About the 54th Grammy Awards Nominations

  November 30, 2011 – Who got the most nods? Kanye West, who earned seven nominations.... in nearly every category but the one that likely meant the most to him, Album of the Year for My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy. Adele, Bruno Mars, and the Foo Fighters scored six nods each. Lil Wayne and Skrillex have five. Drake, Rihanna, Nicki Minaj, Cee Lo Green, Mumford & Sons, Radiohead, and Bon Iver have four. …
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  Hear Adele's Full 'Live at the Royal Albert Hall'

  November 28, 2011 – How good was Adele's 2011? So good the British singer-songwriter gets an Andre 3000 shout-out on one of the year's biggest hip-hop releases, Drake's Take Care. On Tuesday, Adele caps off her remarkable run with the release of concert CD/DVD Live at the Royal Albert Hall. …
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  Adele 'Just Chilling' After Throat Surgery

  November 16, 2011 – Adele is on the mend after undergoing throat surgery to treat the vocal cord problem that forced her to nix all of her remaining 2011 live appearances. "I'm doing really well, on the mend, super happy, relaxed and very positive with it all," the "Someone Like You" and "Rolling in the Deep" singer-songwriter said in a new blog post. …
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