Singer's 21 will bump down a notch next week to make room for Bruce Springsteen's Wrecking Ball.
By Gil Kaufman
<P><a href="http://www.mtv.com/music/artist/adele/artist.jhtml">Adele</a> got so comfortable sitting in the #1 spot on the <i>Billboard</i> 200 chart during the first 10 weeks of 2012 that we started to forget anyone else could knock her off the perch. But after 23 non-consecutive weeks in the pole position dating back to last year and a board-running sprint for every chart week of the year so far, her good thing will come to an end next week when <a href="http://www.mtv.com/music/artist/springsteen_bruce/artist.jhtml">Bruce Springsteen</a>'s <a href="/news/articles/1681048/bruce-springsteen-adele-billboard-charts.jhtml"><i>Wrecking Ball</i></a> edges her out of the top position. </P><P> </P><P>Sure, she came in at just 1,300 copies below the Boss at #2, and there's a good chance she'll be back in the hunt for #1 in the near future, but with a pause in the action, now is as good a time as any to take another look at her incredible run. </P><P> </P><P>Some <i>21</i> facts: </P><P> </P><P><b>»</b> Her 23 non-consecutive weeks at #1 put Adele just one week short of the chart domination of two classic soundtracks: Prince's <i>Purple Rain</i> and <i>Saturday Night Fever.</i> </P><P> </P><P><b>»</b> Though she'll have to start over now, Adele was closing in on another all-time chart record: the most consecutive weeks at #1 by an album by a female solo act. That record still belongs to Carole King's <i>Tapestry,</i> which did it back in 1971 by running the board for 15 weeks. (Whitney Houston's "Bodyguard" soundtrack actually stayed in the #1 slot for 20 consecutive weeks, but that was not strictly a solo album.) </P><P> </P><P><b>»</b> Adele absolutely destroyed the record for the biggest <a href="/news/articles/1679672/adele-breaks-record-sales-grammy.jhtml">post-Grammy sales</a> boost in history when <i>21</i> moved 733,000 copies the week after she took home her six-pack of statues in February. </P><P> </P><P><b>»</b> The last album to hold the #1 spot before Springsteen took it was Michael Bublé's <i>Christmas,</i> which edged out Adele during the week ending December 25. So far, she's sold more than 8 million copies of <i>21,</i> including more than 2 million in 2012 alone. </P><P> </P><P><b>»</b> During the course of her 55-week run on the charts, Adele has only fallen out of the top five once. In fact, she's been in the #1 or #2 spot in all but 17 of those weeks.</p>
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