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Adele has celebrated a seventh successive week at number one on the UK album chart.
The 'Someone Like You' singer shifted another 160,000 copies of her sophomore album 21, which last week crossed the million sales milestone.
The seven-day total is double that of this week's runner up, Elbow's fifth studio album Build A Rocket Boys!.
Also finishing high up on the rankings are veteran rockers REM, who score their 11th top ten album with Collapse Into Now, which is straight in at this week's five. The 'Everybody Hurts' hitmakers have sold almost 10 million albums in the UK alone throughout their extensive career.
Indie stars Noah And The Whale also clock up an impressive debut with their third studio album Last Night On Earth at eight, while the comeback record from Avril Lavigne, Goodbye Lullaby, lands immediately behind.
Meanwhile, Liam Gallagher's latest musical venture Beady Eye drop from three to ten with Different Gear, Still Speeding, finding an unlikely bedfellow in Daniel O'Donnell, whose Moon Over Ireland is a new entry at 11.
Olly Murs's self-titled debut album makes a hefty advance further down the double digits, rocketing 12 places from 29 to 17, while Tinie Tempah and Chase & Status are both down six with respective records Disc-Overy and No More Idols at 18 and 19.
Also slipping this week are Alexis Jordan and Clare Maguire, who both plummet into the 20s after arriving in the top ten last Sunday. Jordan's self-titled album is down to 22 from nine, while Maguire's Light After Dark loses 17 places to settle for 24.
The top ten in full:
1. (1) Adele: '21'
2. (-) Elbow: 'Build A Rocket Boys!'
3. (2) Jessie J: 'Who You Are'
4. (4) Adele: '19'
5. (-) REM: 'Collapse Into Now'
6. (5) Rihanna: 'Loud'
7. (6) Bruno Mars: 'Doo Wops & Hooligans'
8. (-) Noah And The Whale: 'Last Night On Earth'
9. (-) Avril Lavigne: 'Goodbye Lullaby'
10. (3) Beady Eye: 'Different Gear, Still Speeding'
Source: Official Charts Company
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Nicole Scherzinger has notched up her first solo UK singles chart number one with 'Don't Hold Your Breath', which ends Adele's four-week stay at pole position.
The X Factor guest judge, who last appeared on the rankings in December with top three hit 'Poison', became the first artist to outsell 'Someone Like You' since its release last month.
Scherzinger has topped the UK singles chart twice before as part of the Pussycat Dolls, who reached number one with their first two singles 'Don't Ya' and 'Stickwitu' in 2005. The girl group went on to have eight more top 20 hits in the UK before Scherzinger's departure last year.
Follwing Scherzinger and Adele are The Wanted, who score their third top five hit with Comic Relief single 'Gold Forever' at three, while Jessie J's 'Price Tag' and Rihanna's 'S&M' are bumped down two apiece to round out the top five.
The last single digit spot is snapped up by Dr Dre, Eminem and Skylar Grey, who take 'I Need A Doctor' to a new peak of nine in its seventh week of release, while up-and-coming girlband Parade make a respectable debut with 'Louder' at 10.
Dropping five places each to 11 and 12 are Chris Brown's 'Yeah 3x' and Alexis Jordan's 'Good Girl', but the biggest tumble in the top 20 belongs to Chipmunk and Chris Brown, who are down from eight to 14 with 'Champion'.
Meanwhile, The Black Eyed Peas ascend 12 positions with 'Just Can't Get Enough'. The song's video was shot in Japan a week before the country's earthquake and tsunami, and has been dedicated by the band to victims of the twin disasters.
The final new entry of this week's top 20 belongs to Snoop Dogg and 'Sweat' at 16, while George Michael's comeback release 'True Faith' fails to crack the upper half of the chart, settling instead for 27.
The top ten in full:
1. (-) Nicole Scherzinger: 'Don't Hold Your Breath'
2. (1) Adele: 'Someone Like You'
3. (-) The Wanted: 'Gold Forever'
4. (2) Jessie J ft. B.o.B: 'Price Tag'
5. (3) Rihanna: 'S&M'
6. (5) Wiz Khalifa: 'Black And Yellow'
7. (4) Lady GaGa: 'Born This Way'
8. (9) Adele: 'Rolling In The Deep'
9. (11) Dr Dre ft. Eminem and Skylar Grey: 'I Need A Doctor'
10. (-) Parade: 'Louder'
Source: Official Charts Company
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Adele has snatched an eighth week atop the UK album chart with 21.
The 'Someone Like You' star claimed the top two positions on the rankings this week after her debut LP 19 climbed back to the runner-up spot from last Sunday's four.
Adele's sophomore collection has now added another record to its wealth of achievements, beating Lady GaGa's benchmark for the most digital sales in the UK.
The 'Poker Face' singer became the first artist to break the 300,000 digital sales barrier in March with 2008 release The Fame, while 21 has shifted 320,000 downloads in just two months.
Martin Talbot of the Official Charts Company said: "Adele's 21 has achieved in just two months what took Lady Gaga's The Fame over two years. This really is a coming of age for digital album sales."
The highest new entry of the week belongs to London band The Vaccines, who finished third behind Jessie J and James Blake in the BBC Sound Of 2011 contest, and their debut LP What Did You Expect From The Vaccines? at four.
Right behind are The Overtones, who rocket 31 places up the chart with Good Ol' Fashioned Love after featuring in the Dancing On Ice quarter-final, and last week's runners-up Elbow, down to six with Build A Rocket Boys!.
The top ten is rounded out by veteran performers Daniel O'Donnell and Michael Ball, as the former steps two places to nine with Moon Over Ireland, and Ball arrives just after with Heroes, the 16th top 40 album of his 27-year career .
Further down the list sees R.E.M's Collapse Into Now plummet eight places to 13 from last week's five, while Bread And Circuses, the third studio LP by The View, is a new entry at 14.
Also crashing to the back end of the top 20 are Avril Lavigne and Mumford & Sons, who are down eight and seven places respectively with Goodbye Lullaby and Sigh No More at 17 and 19.
The top ten in full:
1. (1) Adele: '21'
2. (4) Adele: '19'
3. (3) Jessie J: 'Who You Are'
4. (-) The Vaccines: 'What Did You Expect From The Vaccines?'
5. (36) The Overtones: 'Good Ol' Fashioned Love'
6. (2) Elbow: 'Build A Rocket Boys!'
7. (6) Rihanna: 'Loud'
8. (7) Bruno Mars: 'Doo Wops & Hooligans'
9. (11) Daniel O'Donnell: 'Moon Over Ireland'
10. (-) Michael Ball: 'Heroes'
Source: Official Charts Company
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Adele has regained pole position on the UK singles chart with 'Someone Like You'.
The 21 star scored a fifth week at number one after knocking previous chart-topper Nicole Scherzinger and her track 'Don't Hold Your Breath' down to two.
Third place this week belongs to 'Just Can't Get Enough' by The Black Eyed Peas, which gains a hefty 12 spots from last Sunday, while The Wanted's 'Gold Forever' and Jessie J's 'Price Tag' complete the top five.
Adele's debut release 'Rolling In The Deep' also continues to hang within the single digits at nine, as Lady GaGa rounds out a largely unchanged top ten with 'Born This Way', down three from last week's seven.
Outside the top sellers, Peter Kay's Britain's Got The Pop Factor... alter-ego Geraldine McQueen and Susan Boyle win the second highest new entry of the week with their Comic Relief duet 'I Know Him So Well', while Snoop Dogg nestles in behind them at 12 with 'Sweat', which is up four from 16.
Also making progress this week are Noah And The Whale with 'L.I.F.E.G.O.E.S.O.N.', at 14 from its previous position of 20, and the 50 Cent remix of LA rapper Mann's track 'Buzzin', which breaks into the top half of the chart after climbing nine places to 15.
Kanye West and Rihanna collaboration 'All Of The Lights' also sneaks its way into the top 20 by climbing 13 places to 19 in its tenth week of release, while the Glee cast score the second biggest hit of the show's second season with their 'Thriller/Heads Will Roll' mash-up at 23.
The top ten in full:
1. (2) Adele: 'Someone Like You'
2. (1) Nicole Scherzinger: 'Don't Hold Your Breath'
3. (15) The Black Eyed Peas: 'Just Can't Get Enough'
4. (3) The Wanted: 'Gold Forever'
5. (4) Jessie J ft. B.o.B: 'Price Tag'
6. (5) Rihanna: 'S&M'
7. (6) Wiz Khalifa: 'Black And Yellow'
8. (9) Dr Dre ft. Eminem and Skylar Grey: 'I Need A Doctor'
9. (8) Adele: 'Rolling In The Deep'
10. (7) Lady GaGa: 'Born This Way'
Source: Official Charts Company
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Adele has clocked up a record-breaking ninth week atop the UK album chart with her second studio LP 21.
The mega-selling singer has now managed the longest reign in pole position on the chart this century, and has matched Madonna's record for the most consecutive weeks at number one by a female solo artist, which the legendary popstar set in 1990 with compilation album The Immaculate Collection.
Adele's sophomore album was last week confirmed as having racked up the most UK downloads ever, and previously became the fastest LP to sell a million copies between January and March.
By returning to the top spot on the UK singles chart with 'Someone Like You', Adele also celebrates achieving the chart double for a fifth week. Her 2008 debut album 19 also holds steady in the runner-up spot, making this the third week in the last five that the London singer has managed to occupy the top two spots on the ranking.
Elsewhere on the chart, The Strokes secure the highest new entry of the week with their fourth studio album Angles at three, while Ronan Keating and Burt Bacharach are close behind with When Ronan Met Burt at five.
Also debuting within the top chunk of the chart are Nicole Scherzinger and Chris Brown, whose respective albums Killer Love and F.A.M.E. touch down at eight and ten.
The new entries continue further down the listings, as Duran Duran's All You Need Is Now and Joe Bonamassa's Dust Bowl land at 11 and 12, while Awesome As F**k by Green Day and The Drifters' best of record Up On The Roof are at 14 and 17.
Sandwiched between the latter two newcomers at 15 and 16 are mighty fallers, in the shape of The Vaccines' What Did You Expect From The Vaccines?, down 11 from last week's four, and Daniel O'Donnell's Moon Over Ireland, which crashes seven places from nine.
The top ten in full:
1. (1) Adele: '21'
2. (2) Adele: '19'
3. (-) The Strokes: 'Angles'
4. (3) Jessie J: 'Who You Are'
5. (-) Ronan Keating & Burt Bacharach: 'When Ronan Met Burt'
6. (5) The Overtones: 'Good Ol' Fashioned Love'
7. (7) Rihanna: 'Loud'
8. (-) Nicole Scherzinger: 'Killer Love'
9. (6) Elbow: 'Build A Rocket Boys!'
10. (-) Chris Brown: 'F.A.M.E.'
Source:Official Charts Company
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The top ten in full:
1. (-) Jennifer Lopez ft. Pitbull: 'On The Floor'
2. (1) Adele: 'Someone Like You'
3. (22) LMFAO ft. Lauren Bennet & Goonrock: 'Party Rock Anthem'
4. (3) The Black Eyed Peas: 'Just Can't Get Enough'
5. (2) Nicole Scherzinger: 'Don't Hold Your Breath'
6. (7) Wiz Khalifa: 'Black And Yellow'
7. (5) Jessie J ft. B.o.B: 'Price Tag'
8. (-) Katy B: 'Broken Record'
9. (6) Rihanna: 'S&M'
10. (8) Dr Dre ft. Eminem & Skylar Grey: 'I Need A Doctor'
Source: Official Charts Company
Singles Charts 03/04/11
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Adele's 21 has posted its strongest seven-day sales figures yet to secure a tenth consecutive week atop the UK album chart.
Over 250,000 copies of the mega-successful LP were purchased since last Sunday, a week-on-week increase of 65%. Adele now becomes the first artist to spend ten weeks in a row at number one with a studio album since Dire Straits managed the feat in 1986 with Brothers In Arms.
The London-born singer's debut album 19 also holds steady at two, while Ronan Keating achieves a new peak of three with Burt Bacharach collaboration When Ronan Met Burt.
Just behind are a trio of new entries in the shape of X Factor favourite Mary Byrne's Mine & Yours at six, Radiohead's eighth studio record The King Of Limbs at seven and Britney Spears's long-awaited comeback album Femme Fatale at eight.
The so-called 'Mother's Day Effect' also bumps Eva Cassidy collection Simply Eva back to ten from last week's 19, while Michael Bublé's Crazy Love and The Drifters' best-of disc Up On The Roof are buoyed a respective 11 and four places by the special occasion to this Sunday's 12 and 13.
However, previous best-sellers Nicole Scherzinger and The Strokes find themselves on the brink of the top 20 in their second week, as the former Pussycat Doll's Killer Love slips nine to to 17, while the New York band sit at at 18 after falling from three.
The top ten in full:
1. (1) Adele: '21'
2. (2) Adele: '19'
3. (5) Ronan Keating & Burt Bacharach: 'When Ronan Met Burt'
4. (6) The Overtones: 'Good 'Ol Fashioned Love'
5. (7) Rihanna: 'Loud'
6. (-) Mary Byrne: 'Mine & Yours'
7. (-) Radiohead: 'The King Of Limbs'
8. (-) Britney Spears: 'Femme Fatale'
9. (4) Jessie J: 'Who You Are'
10. (19) Eva Cassidy: 'Simply Eva'
Source: Official Charts Company
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Jennifer Lopez has hung on to the UK singles chart top spot for a second week with 'On The Floor'.
The American Idol judge fought off competition from LMFAO's 'Party Rock Anthem' and Adele's mega-selling 'Someone Like You' to retain the title for another Sunday.
Following behind are climbers in the shape of Katy Perry & Kanye West collaboration 'E.T.', up seven to five, and Mann's 50 Cent remix of 'Buzzing', which steps to six from last week's 11.
Also breaking into the top ten for the first time is Snoop Dogg's 'Sweat', which slides seven places to nine, but former high-flyer 'S&M' by Rihanna loses its place in the single digits after stumbling to 12 from nine.
Advancing two apiece this week are Kanye West's 'All Of The Lights' at 15 and Cee Lo Green's 'Bright Lights, Bigger City' at 17, while The Wanted are down four to 18 with 'Gold Forever' and a new entry from Chris Brown and Benny Benassi entitled 'Beautiful People' lands at 20.
The top ten in full:
1. (1) Jennifer Lopez ft. Pitbull: 'On The Floor'
2. (3) LMFAO ft. Lauren Bennet & Goonrock: 'Party Rock Anthem'
3. (2) Adele: 'Someone Like You'
4. (4) The Black Eyed Peas: 'Just Can't Get Enough'
5. (12) Katy Perry ft. Kanye West: 'E.T.'
6. (11) Mann ft. 50 Cent: 'Buzzin'
7. (5) Nicole Scherzinger: 'Don't Hold Your Breath'
8. (6) Wiz Khalifa: 'Black And Yellow'
9. (16) Snoop Dogg vs. David Guetta: 'Sweat'
10. (7) Jessie J ft. B.o.B: 'Price Tag'
Source: Official Charts Company
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Adele has made it an astonishing 11 weeks at number one on the UK album chart with her sophomore record 21.
The seven-times platinum LP, which was today named as the most downloaded album of all time on Amazon.co.uk, has now spent the most consecutive weeks in pole position for a solo artist's studio album.
Adele's effort previously became the fastest album to sell one million copies between January and March, and broke the record for most downloads in the UK.
The London singer also dethroned Madonna as the female artist to have spent the longest time at number one on the album chart.
Sandwiched between 21 and Adele's previous album 19 is Katy B and her debut LP On A Mission, while Jessie J completes the Brit School reunion after climbing four places to five with Who You Are.
Also shuffling upwards this week are Michael Buble's Crazy Love, which advances five spots to seven in its 77th week of release, former number one Doo Wops & Hooligans by Bruno Mars, up three to eight, and Elbow's Build A Rocket Boys!, which is at nine from last Sunday's 14.
The top ten is rounded out by a new entry from Scottish indie rockers Glasvegas entitled Euphoric/Heartbreak, while Mother's Day favourites Ronan Keating, Mary Byrne and Eva Cassidy all tumble into the double digits in the aftermath of the special day.
Keating's Burt Bacharach collaboration When Ronan Met Burt slips from three to 11, Byrne's Mine & Yours is down nine to 15 in its second week of release, while Cassidy collection Simply Eva goes from 10 to 19.
Just beyond the upper half of the chart, Katy Perry's Teenage Dream is buoyed from 31 to 22 following the release of her long-awaited E.T. video, but Chase & Status win the title of biggest climber this week with No More Idols, which is up 15 places to 24.
The top ten in full:
1. (1) Adele: '21'
2. (-) Katy B: 'On A Mission'
3. (2) Adele: '19'
4. (5) Rihanna: 'Loud'
5. (9) Jessie J: 'Who You Are'
6. (4) The Overtones: 'Good Ol' Fashioned Love'
7. (12) Michael Bublé: 'Crazy Love'
8. (11) Bruno Mars: 'Doo Wops & Hooligans'
9. (14) Elbow: 'Build A Rocket Boys!'
10. (-) Glasvegas: 'Euphoric/Heartbreak'
Source: Official Charts Company
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LMFAO, Lauren Bennet and Goonrock have climbed to the top of the UK singles chart with 'Party Rock Anthem'.
The trio's dancefloor favourite, which debuted at 22 on the rankings three Sundays ago, pushed Jennifer Lopez's comeback track 'On The Floor' into the runner-up spot after a two-week reign at number one.
The next two places see Katy Perry and Snoop Dogg inch forward a respective two and five spots with 'E.T.' and 'Sweat', while Adele's former chart-topper 'Someone Like You' misses out on the top five for the first time after falling three to six.
Meanwhile, buzz over Rihanna's "sexy" new 'S&M' team-up with Britney Spears propels the original track back into the top 10 at seven, next to Chris Brown and Benny Benassi's 'Beautiful People', which glides to eight from last week's 20.
In the double digits, Cee Lo Green hitches four places higher with 'Bright Lights, Bigger City', this week's 13, as Lady GaGa's long-awaited new single 'Judas' arrives at 14 despite having only been released little over 48 hours ago.
Finally, Katy B's 'Broken Record' crashes eight places to 19 in its third week of release and 'I Need A Doctor' by Dr Dre, Eminem and Skylar Grey follows suit, plummeting from 13 to 20.
The top 10 in full:
1. (2) LMFAO ft. Lauren Bennet & Goonrock
2. (1) Jennifer Lopez ft. Pitbull: 'On The Floor'
3. (5) Katy Perry ft. Kanye West: 'E.T.'
4. (9) Snoop Dogg vs David Guetta: 'Sweat'
5. (4) Black Eyed Peas: 'Just Can't Get Enough'
6. (3) Adele: 'Someone Like You'
7. (12) Rihanna: 'S&M'
8. (20) Chris Brown ft. Benny Benassi: 'Beautiful People'
9. (6) Mann ft. 50 Cent: 'Buzzin'
10. (7) Nicole Scherzinger: 'Don't Hold Your Breath'
