This week Adele’s Grammy-nominated sophomore LP 21 sails past the Titanic soundtrack’s lengthy stretch of 16 weeks atop the main album chart. Now at 17 weeks in the peak position on Billboad‘s Top 200, 21 is the longest chart-topping album since Whitney Houston spent 20 weeks at #1 with The Bodyguard soundtrack between 1992 and 1993.
Adele’s chances at catching up to Bodyguard, if not surpassing it, are aided by the fact that third 21 single “Set Fire To The Rain” is currently burning up radio and is nicely perched at #2 on the Hot 100, just behind Rihanna and Calvin Harris’ “We Found Love”.
Also, the photogenic cover girl is heading into the Grammys on February 12 with six nominations, including Album, Record and Song Of The Year. A win in any of the big categories could boost 21‘s visibility even higher — if that’s possible at this point — and ensure additional winter weeks of high sales.
Do you think 21 has strength to get past Whitney’s Bodyguard? Let us know below!
The Top 10 Of Billboard’s Top 200 Chart
1. Adele, 21 *17 weeks*
2. Kidz Bop, Kidz Bop 21 *new*
3. The Black Keys, El Camino
4. Drake, Take Care
5. Rihanna, Talk That Talk
6. Young Jeezy, TM 103: Hustlerz Ambition
7. James Fortune & FIYA, Identity *new*
8. Toby Keith, Clancy’s Tavern
9. Coldplay, Mylo Xyloto
10. Nickelback, Here And Now
It will be number one for at least another 10 weeks…also the singe, Set Fire to the Rain, is number one this week on the Billboard Hot 100.
Yes Adele will break all curent records of whoever, she is the greatest and she was awarded for this at the grammies.Amazing to beat Whitney Houston though and she will. Love Adele.
Y-E-S. This will make sure that Born This Way’s intent of being an album of the decade a joke – REDUCTIVE.
Xadax, what is your obsession with bringing down Gaga? You don’t have to like her music or her image, but can’t you just accept the fact that she’s a good singer and that she’s talented? Also, why can’t people just appreciate Madonna AND Gaga AND Adele AND Rihanna AND Beyonce? I am able to love and appreciate each one of them at the same time, but it seems like I’m an anomaly and that for most people that’s impossible! The only female pop stars I’m not fond of right now are Katy Perry, Ke$ha and Britney (I do have a soft spot for Brit since I grew up with her though) because they appear to have minimal talent and seem fake. You and others might think Lady Gaga is a phony and/or uses Gay people (from all I’ve seen and read about her, I don’t think she is/does), but if you’ve seen even one video of her performing live, you can’t deny that she has a good voice, is a great pianist and has tons of stage presence. Talent is not all subjective, it’s partly objective and objectively speaking, she has talent.
Anyway, yay for Adele! Set Fire to the Rain might just be my favorite song off 21!
well said evan I am exactly the same as you with music I can enjoy lots of different people but some just get stuck and rubbish other performers pretty sad hey.