Adele has tightened her grip on the UK charts further, breaking all-time records with ‘21’ topping the album charts for a tenth consecutive week. In addition, Adele has two tracks in the top ten singles chart, with ‘Someone like you’ jumping back up to Number one.
Adele’s second LP has now smashed through the top female UK album record previously set by Madonna with ‘The Immaculate Collection’ compilation in 1990, alongside beating The Beatles run of nine weeks in 2000/1 with ‘1’ and has now stayed at the top for as long as any album since Dire Straits ‘Brother in arms’ in 1986. Adele’s debut album ‘19’ is also currently at number 2 in the album charts.
Whilst it seems unjust that Dire Straits are the flag on top of pop’s Mount Everest, Adele, signed to XL Recordings has experienced a whirlwind of unprecedented success since the release, given a major boost by a much talked about performance at the BRITS earlier this year.
In other chart news, The Strokes went in at number 2 this week with fourth album ‘Angles’, the follow up to 2006’s ‘First Impressions of Earth’.
With Adele set to storm the US charts this week as well, this will be music to the ears of Beggars group, the independent company which owns both XL and Rough Trade, who signed The Strokes in 2001. Martin Mills Chairman of Beggars Group will be "In Conversation" with BPI Chairman Tony Wadsworth at this years The Know How.
With a subsidiary of XL also physically releasing Radiohead’s ‘The King of Limbs’ this week, it looks set to be a fantastic week for the independent music sector.
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