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Old 08-03-2012, 11:14
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I am going to crank it up with the windows down! I love RHI!

Has any body noticed my posting restraint of late?! I will not top that list in part three! Charlie, that will have to be you! Or Hotelier!
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Old 08-03-2012, 15:42
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Hotelier, you are just a baby! You obviously write thoughtful posts since I thought you had way more. I'm going to just start calling this my blog! Charlie, you are right behind me (nothing but the facts!). I'm pulling for you!

Since I'm now condensing posts lets go into Adele news:

Music Week is congratulating Adele and 21 on selling 21 million copies. Obviously that's a shipped total but still. It's a great number to see! I would have expected that 21 would be settling down to 75k a week in the states. Instead it's caught fire and is on autopilot. It's like a snowball effect happened here. I hope she can grab number 1 again. I love that 21 has been the only number 1 album of 2012.
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Old 08-03-2012, 15:47
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Hotelier, you are just a baby! You obviously write thoughtful posts since I thought you had way more. I'm going to just start calling this my blog! Charlie, you are right behind me (nothing but the facts!). I'm pulling for you!

Since I'm now condensing posts lets go into Adele news:

Music Week is congratulating Adele and 21 on selling 21 million copies. Obviously that's a shipped total but still. It's a great number to see! I would have expected that 21 would be settling down to 75k a week in the states. Instead it's caught fire and is on autopilot. It's like a snowball effect happened here. I hope she can grab number 1 again. I love that 21 has been the only number 1 album of 2012.
In a way it has, but in a way it hasn't. According to Wikipedia (yes, I know!) Billboard publish their charts with an issue date 10 days in advance usually. (It's March 8 today, but the current week for sales data is March 17. Don't ask why.) Buble grabbed one week at the beginning of the year (w/e January 7), although the published date on the Billboard article at the end of this article is December 28 2011. So, 21 has been the only #1 of 2012, but it hasn't, if that makes sense.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...012_%28U.S.%29

And I demand that your blog, as you're now calling it, is shared by me. That is all.
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Old 08-03-2012, 22:40
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1 Adele - 21 9
XL Recordings - 429.000 - 36 weeks at No.1

6 Adele - 19 2
XL Recordings - 71.000

'21' YTD total = 4,005,000

'19' YTD total = 637.000

Madness, lol.

* Thanks to arab on UKMix for these figures.
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Old 09-03-2012, 01:11
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4 million ww?..already?!. 10 weeks into the year. Thats enough for number 4 on last years end of year chart! and we are only at the start of March.
Apparently Adele has now sold 52 million records(combined albums and singles) world wide according to the this forum. I'm not sure how accurate that is though. Anyone have a verifiable source?. I asked the question on ukmix, but noone answered....
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Old 09-03-2012, 07:52
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From HDD:

In one of the closest races we've seen for #1, Bruce Springsteen gets a slight edge over Adele in the battle for the top of next week's chart. Here's how things look at midweek:

*Bruce Springsteen (Columbia) 210-220k
Adele 21 (XL/Columbia) 210-220k


Adele 19 (XL/Columbia) 25-28k
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Old 09-03-2012, 08:47
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4 million ww?..already?!. 10 weeks into the year. Thats enough for number 4 on last years end of year chart! and we are only at the start of March.
Apparently Adele has now sold 52 million records(combined albums and singles) world wide according to the this forum. I'm not sure how accurate that is though. Anyone have a verifiable source?. I asked the question on ukmix, but noone answered....

Apparently so. That's why I'm coming round to the belief that sales ww this year (and certainly in the US) will be more than in 2011. Which would be the definition of crazy
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Old 09-03-2012, 08:55
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Apparently so. That's why I'm coming round to the belief that sales ww this year (and certainly in the US) will be more than in 2011. Which would be the definition of crazy
I'm backing your craziness Koney! Never doubt the octopus!

So rumor has it that she has bought a house with a sea view! Girl after my own heart.

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage...-Brighton.html
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Old 09-03-2012, 11:51
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Apparently so. That's why I'm coming round to the belief that sales ww this year (and certainly in the US) will be more than in 2011. Which would be the definition of crazy
I know, its just unreal!.
Do you think the 52 million estimate of combined albums and singles is accurate?.(thats sales , not shipments).
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Old 09-03-2012, 13:03
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Friday update:

21 #4
19 #15
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Old 09-03-2012, 13:25
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I know, its just unreal!.
Do you think the 52 million estimate of combined albums and singles is accurate?.(thats sales , not shipments).

It wouldn't surprise me at all (it may even be a conservative figure!). I think the amazing arab on UKMix gave a figure a month or 2 back, I'll see if I can find it.
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Old 09-03-2012, 13:28
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I'm backing your craziness Koney! Never doubt the octopus!

So rumor has it that she has bought a house with a sea view! Girl after my own heart.

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage...-Brighton.html

Yay. Yes, embrace the craziness, it's worked for me in the past. 'Proper' chart experts are rubbish at predicting this album because they just can't think outside the box! This album just isn't selling to historical precedents so it gives a chancer/amateur like me the chance to show up the experts. I can't deny loving doing it
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Old 09-03-2012, 15:26
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Adele had sold 3,989,000 WW by 14th April last year. thats about 11weeks after album release in the UK.
It's just incredible shes already sold over 4 million of the same album in just 10 weeks of this year.!
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Old 09-03-2012, 15:32
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Interesting snippet. I discovered that royalties for songs that are co-written are paid in order of whoever is named as a writer on the credits, with the person who contributed most to writing the song listed first, and others subsequently.
Guess who has first credit on ALL the songs on 21 that aren't covers.
Lays to rest the myth that she 'may only have contributed a word', as few others were so fond of saying.
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Old 09-03-2012, 15:39
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Interesting snippet. I discovered that royalties for songs that are co-written are paid in order of whoever is named as a writer on the credits, with the person who contributed most to writing the song listed first, and others subsequently.
Guess who has first credit on ALL the songs on 21 that aren't covers.
Lays to rest the myth that she 'may only have contributed a word', as few others were so fond of saying.
I love this. It somehow must come up in a thread other than this one. I did note that it was just her and Paul Epworth named on RITD for record of the year. Bruno had like ten people. Mumford and sons had their five or six. Bon Iver and Adele had the least.
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Old 09-03-2012, 16:11
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I love this. It somehow must come up in a thread other than this one. I did note that it was just her and Paul Epworth named on RITD for record of the year. Bruno had like ten people. Mumford and sons had their five or six. Bon Iver and Adele had the least.
Some guy called Jack said the 'one word' thing..that was back when the first Adele app thread was called the Adele '21 thread.', before it got renamed.
The top posters for that thread(now called Adele appreciation) were...ta-daaaa...
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Note the number 9, more posts at the time than she had made in the TS app thread...gawd bless 'er ..
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Old 09-03-2012, 20:45
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Not sure if this has already posted here, can't remember it anyway!

21 is now 15x platinum in the uk. The highest amount of platinum!! It's official too, I saw it on wiki but double checked it on bpi! How exciting, and in just over a year!

Sorry if it has already been posted!
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Old 09-03-2012, 21:00
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Some guy called Jack said the 'one word' thing..that was back when the first Adele app thread was called the Adele '21 thread.', before it got renamed.
The top posters for that thread(now called Adele appreciation) were...ta-daaaa...
konebyvax 602
shadesofblack 340
Dr. Linus 292
molybecks 223
Mr. Fahrenheit 217
james-belfast 161
casualtyno1fan 159
Hotelier 106
geordielady 65
MrIncredible 59

Note the number 9, more posts at the time than she had made in the TS app thread...gawd bless 'er ..

hahahaha! That little batsh!t crazy girl! Who started this war exactly?! I have never posted in TS appreciation. Because I don't appreciate!
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Old 09-03-2012, 23:39
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So umm, John Mayer didn't have what Adele had right?! Cause he's got his problem back. Ouch. Considering that Adele's doctor gave her the all clear, I'm guessing they didn't have the same thing.

http://abcnewsradioonline.com/music-...ms-return.html

So I'm now waiting for new mag spread in Bazaar to come out. Have you guys seen the pics?

http://www.google.com/imgres?q=adele...:429,r:22,s:12
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Old 10-03-2012, 10:05
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God bless the DM:

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Old 10-03-2012, 16:40
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Hey guys, could someone tell me where 21 sits in current WW sales? And what number it could realisitcally top, thanks!
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Old 10-03-2012, 16:46
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21+ million shipped (which is the figure used in all the all time best selling lists). I've already nailed my colours to the mast and predicted she will outsell 2011s sales ww in 2012 so that would be probably 33 million shipped by year end. Sounds crazy, I know, but this is Adele and '21'....

According to this list:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...selling_albums

That would put her in the Top 15. I have no way of verifying those figures in that list, btw, but i have been told by people who seem to know what they are doing chart wise that the figure for Thriller is ridiculously over-inflated.

PS the most recent album in that top 15 list is 15 years old!
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Old 10-03-2012, 17:02
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21+ million shipped (which is the figure used in all the all time best selling lists). I've already nailed my colours to the mast and predicted she will outsell 2011s sales ww in 2012 so that would be probably 33 million shipped by year end. Sounds crazy, I know, but this is Adele and '21'....

According to this list:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...selling_albums

That would put her in the Top 15. I have no way of verifying those figures in that list, btw, but i have been told by people who seem to know what they are doing chart wise that the figure for Thriller is ridiculously over-inflated.

PS the most recent album in that top 15 list is 15 years old!
Be amazing if she did surpass 30m! Thanks for the answers
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Old 10-03-2012, 20:44
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I'm stunned that Ace of Bass sold 23,000,000.

How the hell did we let that happen?
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Old 10-03-2012, 21:06
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I'm stunned that Ace of Bass sold 23,000,000.

How the hell did we let that happen?

Lol. Or how about Billy Ray Cyrus selling 20 million?? What the ......
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