21 Passes Thriller to be biggest solo Album in UK history!!

[shadesofblack]

Biggest solo album ever sold in the UK! Woo Hoo! What a huge milestone!
21 also moves to be the fifth biggest album in UK ever.
Happy (almost) birthday Adele! We love you girl!

And this is what we have been waiting for. From the great NS!

http://www.officialcharts.com/chart-new ... kson-1374/

Adele is now officially bigger than Michael Jackson.

According to the latest Official Charts Company sales data, Adele’s 21 has now outsold Michael Jackson’s Thriller and, in doing so, has become the UK’s fifth biggest selling album of all-time.

As of this morning, the London-born singer’s 2011 second album has now sold 4,274,300 copies in the UK, 500 more than Thriller. And with 21 selling an average of 20,000 copies per week over the last four weeks, that lead will significantly increase when this week's final Official Albums Chart sales data is published on Sunday.

“To add to her many landmark records, Adele's achievement in overtaking Thriller in the all-time sales list is truly remarkable,” comments the Official Charts Company’s Managing Director Martin Talbot. “Thriller has long been recognised as one of the most iconic albums of all time - there is now no doubt that 21 can be spoken of in the same breath.”

It’s been an amazing year-and-a-quarter for Adele; in the fifteen months since 21 was released, it has spent 65 weeks on the Official Albums Chart, 23 of those at Number 1, and has outsold Amy Winehouse’s Back To Black to become the biggest selling album of the 21st Century, and has also overtaken the sales of such seminal albums as Michael Jackson’s Bad, Pink Floyd’s The Dark Side Of The Moon and Dire Straits’ Brothers In Arms in the UK. To put that in perspective, one in six British households owns 21. She has also won six Grammy Awards, and two BRIT Awards.

The UK’s Top 5 biggest selling albums of all-time are now as follows:

01 GREATEST HITS (1981) - QUEEN
02 SGT PEPPER’S LONELY HEART’S CLUB BAND (1967) - THE BEATLES
03 GOLD - GREATEST HITS (1992) - ABBA
04 WHAT’S THE STORY MORNING GLORY (1995) - OASIS
05 21 (2011) – ADELE





I guessed on her birthday but this is close enough!

[studio29]

Woop Woop this is amazing!!!!

[right_as_rain]

yeap it's everywhere now ! God our Queen is a living legend !!and as much as I love her I never expected that she will beat MICHAEL JACKSON'S selling record. It's surreal too much exciting news for me today

[breeza12345]

simply put

HOLY SHIT!!!

i dont know how u can really congratulate someone on that type of accomplishment but hey well done Adele :D

[WeLove_ADELE]

Adele really deserves all of this,, all the blessings!

[Justine]

AMAZING :o

Oi Oi !

[GingerBiscuit]

This is exciting news! What a birthday gift!!

[adele4ever]

WOW!!!! This is AMAZING news!!! Way to go Adele!!!

[once]

This is fucking amazing. Wow.

[Lisokay]

Well done, baby Delly ! You deserve it, as you've always deserved everything that have happened to you. (Good things only) What a gorgeous birthday present, oi oi ! Love ! ♥♥♥