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Whether or not All I Ask is performed at the Brits in 6 weeks time, I'd say it'd do well to stay top 10 of iTunes for the next few days. If it does, it could be looking at a top 20 chart appearance next week, which would be incredible.

Exactly. By Jan 2012 it had sold 3.8m, all its singles had been released, and it was selling less than 25 on a week to week basis. Yet it still sold almost 800k in 2012. So chances are 25 will easily pass 500k this year in my opinion.

^^Well, in the exact same sales week of 2012, Adele's 21 sold 23,831. Since then it has sold over a million further copies.

It has to sell double its current total (2.5m+) to outsell 21 in the UK. It has to sell double its current total (15m+) to outsell 21 Worldwide. I think both are very unlikely. However, I do think it will end up as the 2nd biggest selling album of the millennium in the UK, behind 21. 3.7m is required for that.

^^ It's still selling, but slowly. It's ~2.29m at the moment and has been overtaken by both Ed Sheeran and Michael Buble since the above list was compiled. However, since 19 was released in 2008, only 8 albums have sold more than it (and 2 of those are also Adele albums)

I'd say very slim. In fact, I'd be surprised if it sells above 200k ever again. It's already sold 2.4m and we are entering January low sales. Imo if it can sell a few more weeks this year at 100k+, it'll be doing very well.

Great, thanks!

Another 2 more Adele weeks to add to this list

Of course there are songs that can be singles. Radio 2 (the biggest radio influence on album sales) will be falling over themselves to playlist the next song XL decides is a single. Whether or not the song itself is successful in the singles chart when the album is approaching 3m sales in Feb is another question. That is not it's job though, it's job is to sell more albums. Don't forget 21 has sold nearly 5m albums and only had two top 10 singles.

I would imagine she wanted to leave the first live performance of a "new" single until the Brits in February, to try to extend the life of the album. That way she can release a 3rd coming into Summer, and then get a 4th or 5th single on the radio in the run up to next Christmas, when she can perhaps do another tv performance to make the album a seller again. Plus Simon Cowell might have asked her pretty pretty please to perform Hello, so there's no risk of her shooting to #1 with a performance of a new song and stopping the xfactor winner getting it.

So Adele gets another place in the top 20 this week. Anyone know the reason for the discrepancy between the OCC putting this week's total as 15th all time? Judging from this list I'd say it's 19th.

I would imagine Hello is being performed with album longevity in mind. 2nd single can be performed at the Brits in Feb, a 3rd single during the Summer, and a 4th to make the album relevant next Christmas.

Here's an out of date list (2012) for total single sales. A few weeks ago the OCC gave Adele's total singles as ~7.8m. It would now be closer to 8.5m now, putting her in the top 20 singles artists of all time. 01 THE BEATLES 21.9m 02 ELVIS PRESLEY 21.6m 03 CLIFF RICHARD 21.5m 04 MADONNA 17.6m 05 MICHAEL JACKSON 15.3m 06 ELTON JOHN 14.8m 07 QUEEN 12.6m 08 ABBA 11.2m 09 DAVID BOWIE 10.6m 10 RIHANNA 10.4m 11 PAUL McCARTNEY 10.2m 12 KYLIE MINOGUE 10.1m 13 ROLLING STONES 9.9m 14 ROD STEWART 9.9m 15 TAKE THAT 8.9m 16 STEVIE WONDER 8.9m 17 OASIS 8.9m 18 EMINEM 8.6m 19 WHITNEY HOUSTON 8.4m 20 SPICE GIRLS 7.9m 21 GEORGE MICHAEL 7.8m 22 ROBBIE WILLIAMS 7.5m 23 BEE GEES 7.5m 24 U2 7.4m 25 SHAKIN' STEVENS 7.3m 26 BRITNEY SPEARS 7.2m 27 STATUS QUO 7.2m 28 LADY GAGA 7.2m 29 BOYZONE 7.0m 30 BLONDIE 7.0m 31 SLADE 6.9m 32 THE BLACK EYED PEAS 6.8m 33 BONEY M 6.8m 34 WESTLIFE 6.8m 35 CELINE DION 6.6m 36 BEYONCE 6.6m 37 UB40 6.6m 38 OLIVIA NEWTON JOHN 6.6m 39 MARIAH CAREY 6.6m 40 TOM JONES 6.3m 41 MADNESS 6.1m 42 THE POLICE 6.1m 43 WHAM! 5.9m 44 PHIL COLLINS 5.8m 45 DIANA ROSS 5.7m 46 THE JAM 5.7m 47 BRYAN ADAMS 5.6m 48 PET SHOP BOYS 5.6m 49 DAVID GUETTA 5.6m 50 ADAM ANT 5.5m 51 DURAN DURAN 5.4m 52 FRANK SINATRA 5.4m 53 FRANKIE GOES TO HOLLYWOOD 5.3m 54 PRINCE 5.3m 55 KATY PERRY 5.2m 56 WET WET WET 5.1m 57 THE EVERLY BROTHERS 4.9m 58 THE SHADOWS 4.9m 59 PINK 4.9m 60 COLDPLAY 4.8m

My wife wanted his albums a couple of Christmases ago, so I bought her his most recent two. I have to say, we both really like them, they are full of such interesting mixes of songs and styles. We probably prefer the album "like drawing blood" (2006) over "Making mirrors" (2011) slightly, and she still sings "Hearts a mess" from it randomly from time to time :D "Thanks for your time" is a great track too, and "Easy way out" has an excellent video.

I'm referring to the totals with streaming included, MYFML is a million seller, and Hello may be by the end of the year. Skyfall, with streams, is heading towards 900k. However, I did say "in a few weeks" Adele will have 4 million sellers, not currently, so even if just talking about actual sales, the occurrence is not far away. MYFML is only ~40k from actual sales million, it is #51 on iTunes and the Adele BBC video featuring it is going viral, so it should sell well for the next few weeks. Hello is combined #1 on iTunes and should very sell into the new year. Skyfall has sold 820k+ actual downloads, is currently #22 on iTunes, and was discussed and performed on the BBC show last night. It will also sell 1m actual downloads, but will take a while.

MYFML is a million seller and from the album 19. SLY & RITD million sellers from the album 21. Hello soon a million seller from the album 25. Skyfall heading towards 900k and selling well. In the next few weeks she will become the first solo artist EVER to have 4 million selling singles in the UK (excluding "featured" artists) and a 5th million seller not far away. So although she is , probably correctly, perceived as an album artist, she is actually a record breaking singles artist in the UK also.

I wouldn't rule "Someone Like You" out of the equation just yet. At the moment, BL and SLY have sold exactly the same (to nearest 5k), and BL is ~70 on iTunes and dropping, whereas SLY is around ~130 on iTunes and constantly between 100-200. If Adele releases soon it'll get a boost too.

Just a tiny adjustment.. Skyfall is on about 773,000 I believe, or 770,000 to the nearest 10k

Gezza, brilliant rundown and I'm very appreciative. One little thing that frustrates is the wording of this quote I'm commonly seeing alongside Emeli Sande now.... "Spending a record 66 weeks consecutively in the top 10" The record for consecutive top 10 weeks is actually held by Adele, with 71. Sande's record is only for a debut album, which really is much less significant, but the word 'debut' is commonly dropped now which is sneaky. E.g. Biggest selling album ever: Everyone knows is Thriller Biggest selling debut album ever: No one ever asks!

I'd say Rolling in the deep is one of the closest of all the songs mentioned here. My estimates put it roughly 10k short of the million.

I would agree with this. I would say come mid-2014, Someone Like You will be selling more per week than Blurred Lines, esp if Adele brings out a new album and promotes herself etc. So it would seem there's a good chance of Someone Like You retaining the top decade of the decade spot even if it loses it in Q1 2014.

The most recent update (rounded to nearest 100k :rolleyes: ) from the OCC was in May and is as follows 1. GREATEST HITS QUEEN 1981 5.9 MILLION 2 GOLD - GREATEST HITS ABBA 1992 5.1 MILLION 3 SGT PEPPER'S LONELY HEARTS CLUB BAND BEATLES 1967 5.1 MILLION 4 21 ADELE 2011 4.6 MILLION 5 (WHAT'S THE STORY) MORNING GLORY? OASIS 1995 4.6 MILLION Adele is still a long way from "officially" overtaking Sgt Pepper, although there are plenty of in depth discussions by chart experts that can be found on Ukmix that would dispute the veracity of Pepper's figures. Anyway, to the OP- there is no constantly updated list as most of the albums are trickle selling to various degrees, we just have to make do with updates from the OCC when we can. Sande is not yet inside the top 50 selling albums ever, which may come as a surprise the way the media have constantly hyped her "debut album weeks in top 10" record.

The record for consecutive top 10 weeks is held by Adele's 21, which had 71- that's 5 more than Sande, who just holds the record for a DEBUT album. However the way it has been reported in the press for weeks on end would make anyone think Sandé has the all time record for any album, which she doesn't. In fact I'm noticing some sites just dropping the "debut" part when referencing the record, such as digitalspy did today, which is just shoddy journalism.

Looking at this consecutive top 10 weeks record purely from a charts/sales success point of view, it seems appropriate that the record is still held by Adele's "21"- An album that was STILL in the top 10 after selling over 4m copies and outselling nearly every other album in history, and has also had unprecedented worldwide chart success, and has only had minimal by comparison "first-hand" promotion with no price cuts or re-releases. As oppose to an album that is still well outside the top 50 biggest selling albums of all time, has sold less than half of 21 in the UK, and less than a sixth of it worldwide, and having relied on what most would say was massive "first-hand" promotion, and numerous "well-timed" price-cuts and re-releases.

Really? "A Little Respect" still gets played on radio and I've seen the video for it on TV a lot more than "Teenage Dirtbag", so does that count or does it just mean there are quite a few ill-informed people here? I actually remember the 3rd single from that album- "Leroy" getting a lot of airplay at the time too. They could definitely be described as one hit album wonders though!