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Three million and counting, Adele breaks album sales record

By | Published on Thursday 8 September 2011

Adele

She may not have won the Mercury Prize, and she may have had to cancel more shows due to that pesky chest infection, but there’s some good news for Adele. She’s gone into the record books as the first artist to sell three million copies of an album in the UK in one calendar year. So well done her. Liquorice all round I say (some website I saw said liquorice was good for a chest infection, though our company doctor was too busy choosing what clubs to tip to comment).

Commenting on the record breaking success of Adele’s second album ’21’, Charts Company boss man Martin Talbot told CMU: “Three million albums in a year is a simply extraordinary achievement by Adele, who is now occupying an unparalleled position in the history of British music. In reaching such an elevated landmark so quickly, ’21’ has eclipsed any other album previously released in the UK – superseding even the likes of ‘Sgt Pepper’, ‘Thriller’, ‘Dark Side Of The Moon’ and ‘Brothers In Arms’. There is no questioning now that Adele has joined the ranks of British music legends”.



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