Adele’s album 21 becomes the biggest selling UK album by a female of all time after clocking up 5MILLION sales worldwide
Adele’s 2011 album 21 is the biggest selling UK album ever, BBC Radio 2’s Official All-time Female Artist Chart revealed on Saturday.
The news comes after the singer, 33, released her new single Easy On Me on Friday and ahead of her upcoming album 30, which is set for release on 19 November
BBC Radio 2 host Jo Whiley announced on her show: ‘Adele has enchanted us from the very beginning with her voice, her songs and her personality.
Superstar: Adele’s 2011 album 21 is the biggest selling UK album ever, BBC Radio 2’s Official All-time Female Artist Chart revealed on Saturday
‘When she writes, she writes from the heart and that’s why her music resonates with so many people.
‘She tells it like it is, whether onstage to thousands of people at Glastonbury or through the songs on her albums, and that’s why she is so loved and a global superstar.
‘She sings it like she means it – because she does. She also has a phenomenal voice and hasn’t changed from the very first Live Lounge I did with her at Radio 1 to when I spoke to her just before she headlined Glasto.
Chart success: Announcing the news, BBC Radio 2 host Jo Whiley said of the news: ‘Adele has enchanted us from the very beginning with her voice, her songs and her personality’
It’s out! It comes after Adele’s new single Easy On Me has topped the charts in the UK and US and racked up a whopping 34 million views on YouTube after just 20 hours
‘Always honest, down to earth, a superstar and very very funny.’
Laura Busson, Commissioning Executive for Radio 2, added: ‘Radio 2 is proud to support National Album Day by celebrating this year’s theme of Women in Music playing tracks from female artists all day.
‘The Top 30 chart is a wonderful reminder of the incredible contribution women have made – and continue to make – to the music industry, and congratulations to Adele on topping the chart.’
The chart of the top 30 best-selling albums by women is based on UK sales and downloads as compiled by The Official Charts Company.
Adele’s 21 achieved 5,007,000 sales and it was closely followed by Amy Winehouse’s Back to Black with 3,912,000 units sold.
The remaining released in the top five include The Immaculate Collection by Madonna (3,771,000), Come On Over by Shania Twain (3,411,000) and 25 by Adele (3,364,000).
The news came after Adele’s new single Easy On Me has topped the charts in the UK and US and racked up a whopping 34 million views on YouTube in just 20 hours.
Wow: Spotify also revealed on Friday the track has set a new record by becoming the most-streamed song in a single day ever, with a tweet captioned: ‘and just like that @adele set a new record’
Spotify also revealed on Friday the track has set a new record by becoming the most-streamed song in a single day ever, with a tweet captioned: ‘and just like that @adele set a new record.’
The singer left her fans in tears as she finally released her first new track in five years – which reflects on the pain she felt amid her divorce from husband Simon Konecki.
The highly-anticipated single, released on YouTube at midnight on Friday ahead of her album 30 set to drop next month, soon shot to YouTube’s top trending clip.
Along with the music video – which sees the star pack up her house and drive away, as pages of sheet music flutter out of the windows onto the road – the single went down a storm with fans who took to Twitter to claim it was giving them ‘goosebumps’ and making them ‘sob’.
Former flames: The singer left her fans in tears as she finally released her first new track in five years – which reflects on the pain she felt amid her divorce from husband Simon Konecki (pictured in 2012)