Yeah

21 has also now sold 3,908,000 in the UK as of last sunday, making it 13x platinum in sales.

Hitsdailydouble (accurate USA music sales predictors) have updated their prediction for Adele this week:

21 ON FIRE: Look for sales of Adele's multiGrammy-winningXL/Columbia album 21 to soar past 650k this week, and continue to gain momentum, thanks to the triple play of last Sunday's awards show, her 60 Minutes interview withAnderson Cooper and Tuesday's Valentine's Day resulting in a perfect storm at retail. The album will spend its 21st week at #1, while total U.S. sales soar above 7.3 million with no end in sight. Will we have to wait five years for another one? Just call Ms. Atkins the Jeremy Lin of the record industry. (2/16p)

Wow, over 650k?! That is far higher than its peak during Christmas! 

Adele is unstoppable. I can't believe her album stands at 17.4 million copies sold today. It's been a while since an artist had such a tremendous success. Next week it will shoot at 850-900k.

If I am not mistaken if it reaches 20 million that is easily the best selling album since 2004 Usher's Confessions.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_best-selling_albums

Lol 2000 was a huge year!

Best selling albums since 2000

Beatles One at 32 million
Backstreet Boys at 24 million
Linkin Park Hybrid Theory at 24 million (lol thats massive)
Britney Spears Oops!... I Did It Again 20 million
Brittany Spears, Backstreet Boys and Beatles all had 20+ million selling albums.
Norah Jones Come Away with Me 20 million
Usher Confessions 20 million

All are worldwide numbers.

I am quite impressed with Linkin Park, for a recent rock Band to get that level of sales is most impressive, especially with a debut albulm. Explains why they remain so popular.

USA sales predictions:

In what can only be called a remarkable week following her six Grammy wins, Adele is on track to sell 650k+ on next week's chart. This will mark 21's 21st week at #1 and set a new record for the most weeks on top during the SoundScan era. As of next week's chart, 21will have sold 1.5m albums so far this year, giving it a sizable lead over any upcoming new releases for the best-selling album of 2012. Yes, we're calling it only seven weeks into the year. Here's how it looks post-Grammy/Valentine's Day:

Adele 21 (XL/Columbia) 650-680k
Now 41 (Capitol/EMI) 90-100k
2012 Grammy Nominees (Universal Republic) 90-100k
Whitney Houston Greatest Hits (RCA) 80-90k
Adele 19 (XL/Columbia) 80-90k
Van Halen (Interscope) 60-65k
Paul McCartney (Hear Music) 60-65k
Lady Antebellum (Capitol Nashville/EMI) 40-45k
Coldplay (Capitol/EMI) 35-40k
Jason Aldean (Broken Bow) 30-35k
The Fray (Epic) 28-32k
Bruno Mars (New Elektra) 28-32k
Drake (YM/CM/Universal Republic) 28-32k
The Civil Wars (sensibility) 28-32k
Kelly Clarkson (19/RCA) 28-32k
The Band Perry (Mercury Nashville) 28-32k
Kidz Bop 21 (Razor & Tie) 25-28k
Tony Bennett (Columbia) 25-28k
Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn (Chop Shop/Atlantic) 24-27k
Rihanna (Def Jam/IDJ) 24-27k
Mumford & Sons (Glassnote) 22-27k

Van Halen was number two because old people still actually buy music.

USA weekly sales:

716k after over 1 year of being released! Previous highest week was 399k. 

Wow.....

USA sales report:

Whitney Houston, Now 41, Grammy Nominees All in Top 5, as Post-Award Sales Spikes Cominate 

February 21, 2012

Between Grammy spikes and the untimely passing ofWhitney Houston, this week’s HITS Album Sales chart is filled with triple-digit gains, but XL/Columbia Recordssuper diva Adele tops them all with her 21 album’s 21st week at #1, the most in the Soundscan era, tying M.C. Hammer’s reign in 1990 with Please Hammer Don’t Hurt ‘Em. Next up: the Saturday Night Fever and Purple Rainsoundtracks at 24 weeks apiece.

The album sells another 716k this week, a nearly 200% gain, and is now up to 7.3 million, already a front-runner to be 2012’s best-selling release in only the third week of February.

Adele’s 2008 debut, 19, is also in the Top 5 at #4, with 86k, bringing its total up toward 2 million.

The late Whitney Houston’s Greatest Hits on RCA is #2 with 170k, +183% over the prior week, with Capitol/EMI’sNow 41 (#3) and Universal Republic’s 2012 Grammy Nominees (#5)  rounding out the leader board.

Hear Music/Concord’s Paul McCartney (#6),Interscope’s Van Halen (#7), New Elektra’s Bruno Mars(#28-8, +114%), Capitol Nashville/EMI’s Lady Antebellum (#17-9, +43%) and Capitol/EMI’s Coldplay(#10) complete the Top 10.

Other Grammy sales boosts are registered bysensibility’s The Civil Wars (#35-11, +145%), Big Machine’s Taylor Swift (#49-28, +78%), Glassnote’sMumford & Sons (#34-20, +63%) and Columbia’s Tony Bennett (#36-27, +46%).

Thanks to the awards show, Roswell/RCA’s Foo Fighters (#23), Jagjaguwar’s Bon Iver (#32), Warner Bros. Nashville’s Blake Shelton (#41),Startime/Columbia’s Foster the People (#42), Capitol Nashville/EMI’s Eric Church (#43), Big Beat’s Skrillex(#49) and Capitol/EMI’s Katy Perry (#50) all re-enter the Top 50.

In the wake of Whitney’s death, RCA’s Whitney Houstonalbum (36) and The Bodyguard soundtrack (#45) also return to the chart.

Next week’s releases include Fueled by Ramen/Atlantic’s fun., riding a huge hit with “We Are Young,” YM/CM/Universal Republic’s Tyga and Mom + Pop/RED’s Sleigh Bells, the musical guests on last week’s Saturday Night Live.

Source: hits daily double