Can anything stop Adele? Apparently not. The pop starlet’s current album, 21, spent its 16th week at #1 on the Billboard 200 chart this week with 103,000 copies sold, making the LP’s rule the lengthiest since the soundtrack to the box office hit Titanic was #1 for 16 weeks in 1998. Adele vs. Celine Dion – it’s quite a matchup!
Since SoundScan first started driving the Billboard 200 count in 1991, Adele’s release is one of only five albums to hit the 16-week mark atop the list. Besides 21 and Titanic, the other toppers include Billy Ray Cyrus’s Some Gave All, at 17 weeks on the chart in 1992; Garth Brooks’s Ropin’ the Wind, at 18 in 1991 and 1992; and the Whitney Huston-headed soundtrack to The Bodyguard, with 20 in 1992 and 1993.
Adele’s 21 arrived last February and has pushed over six million copies since. The album has sold over 100,000 copies each week for 33 weeks. Adele also grabbed the top spot on the Digital Songs chart this week with her single, “Set Fire to the Rain,” with last week’s #1 download, Jason Mraz’s “I Won’t Give Up,” falling to #9 with 127,000 units sold.
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