Adele Tickets : Her Album Has Spent A Total Of Nine Weeks At The Top Of The Billboard 200 To Date

Adele Laurie Blue Adkins known under the mononym Adele, is an English singer-songwriter. She was the first recipient of the BRIT Awards Critics' Choice and was named the number-one predicted breakthrough act of 2008 in an annual BBC poll of music critics, Sound of 2008. At the 2009 Grammy Awards, Adele won the awards for Best New Artist and Best Female Pop Vocal Performance.

After performing at the 2011 BRIT Awards, the album track "Someone Like You" reached number one in the United Kingdom, while the album also remained at number one. "Someone Like You" held the number one position for four consecutive weeks. The song has also spent 2 weeks at number one in New Zealand and 3 weeks at number one in Australia. The Official Charts Company announced that Adele is the first living artist to achieve the feat of two top five hits in both the Official Singles Chart and the Official Albums Chart simultaneously since The Beatles in 1964.

21 has spent eleven consecutive weeks at number one in the UK, the longest ever by a female solo artist on the UK Albums Chart, surpassing Madonna's nine weeks at number one in 1990 with her greatest hits compilation The Immaculate Collection.

In the US the album has spent a total of nine weeks at the top of the Billboard 200 to date. The album has also broken the record for the most UK digital downloads. As of May 2011 the singer was worth 6 million tying her with Lily Allen and Duffy for 9th place on the list of the richest British and Irish music stars under age 30.

Adele released her second studio album, 21, on 24 January 2011 in the UK and released it on 22 February in the U.S.The album's sound is described as classic and contemporary roots and country music. The change in sound from her first album was the result of her bus driver playing contemporary Nashville music when she was touring the American South. Adele told Spin Magazine "[h]e listened to all this amazing country music and we'd rock out late at night, chain smoking and listening to Rascal Flatts" "It was really exciting for me because I never grew up around [that music]."

In explaining the title choice, she states that it reflects the growth she has experienced in the last two years. The first single is a revenge tune "Rolling in the Deep", Adele described it as a "dark bluesy gospel disco tune." The single was a major success and was well received by critics. It has reached number 1 on the Billboard Hot 100.21 hit number 1 in Ireland, Germany, Belgium, The Netherlands, New Zealand, Switzerland, Austria and in March 2011 it debuted at number 1 in the United States.

By June 2011, "Rolling in the Deep" had reached the top of the Billboard 100 as the album which had sold 2.2 million U.S. copies had occupied the top of the Billboard 200 for 10 (not all consecutive) weeks.By the end of June 2011, Adele had sold 2.5 million copies and 992,000 digital copies of 21 in the United States, making it the best selling album in both categories in the first half of 2011.

By then, Rolling in the Deep sold 4.1 million digital US copies, the sales of which were the leading factor in the first increase in overall record sales since 2004. In the early summer of 2011, Adele was overcome with a case of Laryngitis and had to take a break for about a month, but recently performed at the iTunes Festival on July 7, 2011, at which she stated she would be getting back to her concert, Adele Live, soon.