Adele Makes History

[Au$tin]

Adele's DVD Live At The Royal Albert Hall sold 96,000 copies this week, which is the greatest one-week sales tally for a music video in four years. After just one week, Live At The Royal Albert Hall is the best-selling music video of 2011. It is followed by AC/DC's Live At River Plate (73K), Beyonce's I Am…World Tour (63K) and a 25th anniversary concert presentation of Les Miserables (63K). Adele is now assured of having the year's #1 album (21), #1 song ("Rolling In The Deep") and #1 music video.

No other artist in Nielsen SoundScan history has ever topped all three of these year-end charts. *NSYNC and 50 Cent each had the year's #1 album and #1 music video, but fell short on the list of the year's best-selling singles. The boy band scored in 2000 with the album No Strings Attached and the music video Live At Madison Square Garden. 50 Cent triumphed in 2003 with the album Get Rich Or Die Tryin' and the music video The New Breed.

Adele's DVD sold more copies this week than any of Michael Jackson's videos did in any one week in the wake of his death in June 2009. Live In Bucharest: The Dangerous Tour sold 74,000 copies in one week in July 2009. Jackson's Number Ones video sold 69,000 copies the following week. (These figures may not sound like much, but bear in mind that music videos are pricier than CDs or digital albums.)

What was the last music video to sell as many as 96K copies in one week? That's a surprisingly tricky question. Until February 2008, DVDs that were packaged with CDs were allowed to appear on both Top Music Videos and The Billboard 200. (Now, they appear on one chart or the other, depending on which component is predominant.) Under the old rules, Garth Brooks' The Ultimate Collection was considered both an album and a music video. The retrospective topped 100K in weekly sales in each of its first seven weeks of release in November and December 2007.
Live At The Royal Albert Hall is the third video recorded at the legendary London venue to reach #1 on the Top Music Videos chart. It follows a 10th anniversary presentation of Les Miserables, which entered the chart at #1 in October 1996, and Cream's Royal Albert Hall: London May 2-3-5-6 2005, which debuted at #1 in October 2005.

music.yahoo.com/blogs/chart-watch/week-ending-dec-4-2011-albums-headed-triple-164834637.html

Damn. Just... damn.

[worldwide]

Well it's just another day where adele breaks a record....

[musik...]

I think this thread should be retitled, "If You Can Think Of A Record, Adele's (Probably) Broken It"

[dbhmr]

Good for her. I can't believe that after only a few short years since Gaga exploded, we have an artist that has captured the world again, albeit in a totally different way.

[ListenToItTwice]

Dec 16, 2011 1:07:24 GMT -5 musik... said:

I think this thread should be retitled, "If You Can Think Of A Record, Adele's (Probably) Broken It"

I realize you're half-kidding, but that's not a bad idea. It would be nice to have a comprehensive list of her records/achievements in a single thread. I'll get it started in my next post here:

[ListenToItTwice]

*Most consecutive weeks in the top five of the Billboard 200 (starting with first week), 21: 39 weeks
*Most digital copies sold of an album, 21: 1.7 million
*Most copies sold in a calendar year of the digital era, 21: 5 million +
*Most copies sold in a calendar year of this millennium, Rolling in the Deep: 5.7 million +
*Most digital copies sold of an R&B/soul song, Rolling in the Deep: 5.8 million +
*Most digital copies sold of a song by a British artist, Rolling in the Deep: 5.8 million +
*Most copies sold worldwide in a calendar year of this millennium, 21: 13.6 million +
*Most copies sold in the UK in a calendar year, 21: 3.41 million +
*Most copies sold in the UK by a female artist, all-time, 21: 3.41 million +
*Only artist to have best-selling song, album, and music video in the same year, Rolling in the Deep, 21, Live at the Royal Albert Hall

Here are some records she hasn't broken yet but still might:
*Most copies sold in the digital era, All the Right Reasons by Nickelback: 7.7 million
*Most weeks in the top 10 on Billboard 200, Sound of Music Soundtrack: 109 weeks (okay that might be a hard one to beat )
*Most combined copies sold of a song and the album it comes from (digital era), Love Story and Fearless by Taylor Swift: 11.8 million (yeah sort of a made-up record but an interesting one, I think)
*Biggest hit world-wide of the millennium, I Gotta Feeling by the Black Eyed Peas (per Mediatraffic, Rolling in the Deep is currently #5)
*Biggest digital song by a female artist, Poker Face by Lady GaGa: 6.4 million copes

[babydoll9711]

it would be fun to see adele break some of those

[HolidayGuy]

Longest run at No. 1 for a female solo act on the UK albums chart

[slamina]

Congrats, Adele. Good for her. See, unlike many on this forum I'm happy when people other than my favorites break records. :)

[bornfearless2000]

Adele deserves it. Way to go, Adele.

[brucelover]

I thought this would be about weight loss.

[cesarams]

Adele it's just amazing, that's why everybody loves her. And who doesn't love her, respect her. The only singer who do it.

[neverduplicated]

Dec 16, 2011 9:11:44 GMT -5 ListenToItTwice said:

Here are some records she hasn't broken yet but still might:
*Most combined copies sold of a song and the album it comes from (digital era), Love Story and Fearless by Taylor Swift: 11.8 million (yeah sort of a made-up record but an interesting one, I think)

I think that's actually a very interesting stat. Adele should have no problem getting there very soon as RITD will go over 6 million in the not-too-distant future and 21 could easily make it to 7 million if not higher by the end of its chart run, making a total of ~13-14 million.