Adele "21" album will hit a few milestones this week on the Billboard 200, as it basks in the glow of many of Britain's diva wins a Grammy February 12.
This is the biggest sales weeks for each album from Lil Wayne's "Tha Carter IV" debuted at No. 1 with 964.000 on the chart dated 17 September 2011. 730.000 is the biggest week for the "21", as his previous-best weeks went to the Christmas holidays, when it moved to 399.000.
More impressively, the last time you did not debut album sold more than "21" did last week was on the chart dated 5 January 2008. Then Josh Groban in "Noel" album moved over 757.000 copies in a busy week of Christmas 2007.
Of all the albums, since SoundScan began tracking sales in 1991, "21" is the second largest sales week for the album out Christmas shopping season and its first month of release. Only "Titanic" soundtrack movement (of the qualifiers) on the chart dated 28 February 1998, when it sold 848.000 in the No. 1 - two months after its debut. (This was a huge profit this week on the chart - it was about 44% - thanks to Valentine's Day holiday.)
"21" is number 1 on the Billboard 200 for 21 nonconsecutive week, marking the longest No. 1 album in the SoundScan era. It surpasses "The Bodyguard" soundtrack (20 weeks at No. 1 in 1992-1993) for the most chart-topping the Billboard 200 frames started using SoundScan data in 1991.
"21" - the second album from Adele - also becoming the longest No. 1 album by a woman in history, ahead of Whitney Houston-led "Bodyguard" album.
Next in the historic "21's" is M.C. Hammer "Please Hammer Do not Hurt 'Em", which is also deposited 21 weeks at No. 1 in 1990.
Here are albums with the most weeks at No. 1 in the near-56 year history of the Billboard 200:
Weeks at No. 1, the title, artist, the peak year
54, "West Side Story" soundtrack, 1962 **
37, "Thriller" by Michael Jackson, 1983
31 "Rumours" Fleetwood Mac, 1977
31, "South Pacific" soundtrack, 1958
31, "Calypso" Harry Belafonte, 1956 24, "Purple Rain" Prince and the Revolution / Soundtrack, 1984
24, "Saturday Night Fever" soundtrack, 1978
21 "Please Hammer Do not Hurt 'Em" M.C. Hammer, 1990
21 "21" Adele, 2011
** (54 weeks Figure 1 combines a summary of the time on top of a separate stereo and mono LP chart before Billboard 200 ranking has become a quaint weeks from 17 August 1963).
"21" also includes one-year-old on the Billboard 200, according to the 52nd weeks on the chart. Motherboard never left the top 10 throughout its route chart, only dipping as low as No. 7 on December 10, 2011.
Adele not only No. 1 on the Billboard 200 this week, but it is also No. 4 in his debut set "19" (87 000, to 144%). This is the album the best weeks of sales and the highest position. In combination, "21" and "19" shifted 817.000 copies last week.
This is the first act has two parallel albums in the top four in the table since October 9, 2004, when Nelly simultaneously released "Suit" and "Sweat" was No. 2 and 4 in the second week on the chart.
The last time the act snare two albums in the top five - that have not been issued at the same time - was 4 April 1992. Then Garth Brooks' "Ropin 'Wind' is No. 2 and" No Fences "was the No. 4
It should be noted that during the Billboard 200 allowed the catalog (older) albums on the chart from the end of 2009 (that is why we see "19" in the top four), that was not always so. In the now-defunct Comprehensive Albums chart (which in the ranking of both new and old albums), Michael Jackson posthumously scored three of the top four on seven nonconsecutive weeks in 2009.
Finally, "21 is" three singles so far moved to an incredible number of downloads in the last week - the total sum of 709.000. "Rolling In the Deep" moved 271.000 (maximum 115%), "set fire to the Rain" did 254.000 (up to 36%) and "Someone Like You" has sold 183.000 (up to 44%).
Adele in numbers:
6 - Grammy Awards won by Adele on February 12. Her Grammy total number now stands at eight, and won two trophies in the 2009 ceremony.
730 000 - Number of copies "21" sold in the U.S. last week (ending 19 February), according to Nielsen SoundScan.
207% - increase in sales of "21" grossed a week after the February 12 Grammy Awards.
7.353 million - Total number of copies of "21" was sold in the U.S.
2.34% - Percentage of the U.S. population, which is the owner of "21" (based on current U.S. Census Bureau estimates the population of 313,059,000, and if every "21" the owner has only one copy).
21 - Number of weeks "21" delivered at number 1 on the Billboard 200 albums.
9 - Number of albums, which spent 21 weeks or more at No. 1 in history.
52 - Weeks that "21" was in release. Also the total number of weeks the album was in the top 10 on the Billboard 200 list
October 2, 2004 - In "21," Adele, and "19" in the top four at the same time, the first act had a few albums in the top four from Nelly on 2 October 2004.
3 - "21" lived to see three singles so far, and all hit No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 singles: "Rolling In the Deep," "Someone Like You" and "set fire to the rain."
709.000 - Downloads sold in the last week of the three singles: "Rolling In the Deep" moved 271.000 (up to 115%), "set fire to the Rain" did 254.000 (up to 36%) and "Someone Like You" has sold 183.000 (up to 44%) .
Album sold 730 000 copies in the U.S. last week (ending 19 February), according to Nielsen SoundScan - up as much as 207%. It spends the 21st week at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 chart.
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