According to SoundScan’s year-end sales and stats data, Adele’s 21 DOMINATED 2011.
The last time any album has been able to break and set records in one year like Adele’s 21 has for 2011, was when Usher dropped his critically acclaimed fourth studio album Confessions in 2004.
But Adele didn’t only beat Usher’s album sales and chart rankings – 21 BODIED all competition.
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According to SoundScan’s numbers, Billboard reports:
“21” — Adele’s second album — is the biggest-selling set of any year since 2004, when Usher’s “Confessions” sold 7.98 million. “21” also sells more than twice the amount of 2011’s second-largest album — Michael Buble’s “Christmas,” with 2.45 million.
Another impressive fact: 21 remained charted within the top ten ranks of Billboard’s Top 200 List and only dipped below #5 once during the entirety of its 44-week streak. As of today, Adele holds the #2 spot, with Buble’s “Christmas” leading the pack.
In a year where both CD and digital album sales increased for the first time since 2004 – with digital sales skyrocketing to an amazing 20 percent increase – Adele’s Rolling In The Deep sales dominate as the biggest selling digital song of ANY year since 2003 (when download tallying initially began).
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Adele’s Rolling in the Deep, which spent seven weeks at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart earlier in 2011, leads the year’s top-selling digital songs tally. It is ahead of LMFAO’s “Party Rock Anthem” featuring Lauren Bennett and GoonRock (No. 2 with 5.47 million) and Katy Perry’s “E.T.” (No. 3 with 4.83 million).
You can’t turn on the radio, or television without hearing or seeing Adele and her music. With these stats, her standing 6 Grammy nominations – including Album Of The Year, Record Of The Year & Best New Artist – are clearly all warranted.
Men lie, women lie, numbers don’t. See you at the Grammys, Adele!
