Grammy Awards:
2009 - Best New Artist
2009 - Best Female Pop Vocal Performance (Chasing Pavements)
2012 - Album of the Year (21)
2012 - Record of the Year (Rolling in the Deep)
2012 - Song of the Year (Rolling in the Deep)
2012 - Best Pop Solo Performance (Someone Like You)
2012 - Best Pop Vocal Album (21)
2012 - Best Short Form Music Video (Rolling in the Deep)
Total: 8

AIM Independent Music Awards:
2011 - Most Played Independent Album (21)
2011 - Best "Difficult" Second Album (21)
Total: 2

American Music Awards:
2011 - Pop/Rock: Favorite Female Artist
2011 - Pop/Rock: Favorite Album (21)
2011 - Adult Contemporary Music: Favorite Artist
Total: 3

ASCAP Pop Music Awards:
2012 - Most Performed Work (Someone Like You)
Total: 1

Billboard Music Awards:
2012 - Top Artist
2012 - Top Female Artist
2012 - Top Billboard 200 Artist
2012 - Top Hot 100 Artist
2012 - Top Digital Songs Artist
2012 - Top Radio Songs Artist
2012 - Top Digital Media Artist
2012 - Top Pop Artist
2012 - Top Billboard 200 Album (21)
2012 - Top Pop Album (21)
2012 - Top Streaming Song (Audio) (Rolling in the Deep)
2012 - Top Alternative Song (Rolling in the Deep)
Total: 12

BMI London Awards:
2009 - Award Winning Pop Songs (Chasing Pavements)
Total: 1

Brit Awards:
2008 - Critics Choice
2012 - British Female Solo Artist
2012 - British Album of the Year (21)
Total: 3

BT Digital Music Awards:
2011 - Best Independent Artist
Total: 1

ECHO Music Awards:
2012 - Rock/Pop International Female Solo Artist
2012 - International Album of the Year (21)
Total: 2

European Border Breakers Awards:
2009 - Best Album (19)
Total: 1

Fryderyk Prize:
2012 - Best International Album (21)
Total: 1

Glamour Women of the Year Awards:
2009 - UK Solo Artist of the Year
2011 - UK Solo Artist of the Year
Total: 2

IFPI Platinum Europe Awards:
2011 - Platinum Award (21)
Total: 1

Independent Music Awards:
2012 - International Album of the Year (21)
2012 - International Solo Artist of the Year
Total: 2

Ivor Novello Awards:
2012 - Songwriter of the Year
2012 - PRS for Most Performed Work (Rolling in the Deep)
Total: 2

Juno Awards:
2012 - International Album of the Year (21)
Total: 1

MOBO Awards:
2011 - Best UK R&B/Soul Act
Total: 1

MP3 Music Awards:
2011 - Radio/Charts/Downloads (Someone Like You)
Total: 1

MTV Europe Music Awards:
2011 - Best UK/Ireland Act
Total: 1

MTV Best Of..
2011 - Song of the Year (Rolling in the Deep)
Total: 1

MTV Video Music Awards:
2011 - Best Art Direction (Rolling in the Deep)
2011 - Best Cinematography (Rolling in the Deep)
2011 - Best Editing (Rolling in the Deep)
Total: 3

NRJ Music Awards:
2012 - International Breakthrough of the Year
2012 - International Song of the Year (Someone Like You)
Total: 2

Nickelodeon UK Kids Choice Awards:
2012 - Best UK Female
Total: 1

Premios Fuse TV Awards:
2011 - International Album of the Year (21)
2011 - Best Cinematography (Rolling in the Deep)
Total: 2

Premios Oye! Awards:
2012 - International Album of the Year (21)
Total: 1

Q Awards:
2011 - Best Track (Rolling in the Deep)
2011 - Best Female
Total: 2

Swiss Music Awards:
2012 - Best International Rock/Pop Album (21)
2012 - Best International Hit (Rolling in the Deep)
Total: 2

UK Video Music Awards:
2011 - Best Pop Video (Rolling in the Deep)
2011 - Best Cinematography (Rolling in the Deep)
Total: 2

Urban Music Awards:
2008 - Best Jazz Act
Total: 1

TOTAL: 63 AWARDS WON
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RECOGNITIONS

2011 - iTunes Artist of the Year

2012 - Time Magazine 100 Most Influential People

2012 - VH1 100 Greatest Women in Music (#5)

2012 - Entertainment Weekly Greatest Artists Right Now (#1)

2011 Billboard Year-End Charts:
Top Artist
Top Hot 100 Song (Rolling in the Deep)
Top Billboard 200 Album (21)
Top Billboard 200 Artist
Top Digital Song (Rolling in the Deep)
Top Digital Album (21)
Top Digital Albums Artist
Top Adult Pop Song (Rolling in the Deep)
Top Catalog Album (19)
Top Canadian Hot 100 Song (Rolling in the Deep)
Top Canadian Album (21)

Billboard Magazine:
2011 - Artist of the Year
2011 - Song of the Year (Rolling in the Deep)
2011 - Album of the Year (21)
(First Female to Top All Three Categories)

Rolling Stone Magazine:
2011 - Best Song (Rolling in the Deep)
2011 - Best Album (21)

Music Week Awards:
2012 - Manager of the Year (Jonathon Dickins)
2012 - Artist Marketing Campaign (Purple PR for Adele)
2012 - PR Campaign (Purple PR for Adele)

Soundscan/Billboard Records:
Longest Running #1 Album by a Female Artist in Chart History
First Artist in History to Have 3 Singles at #1 on Hot 100 Concurrently With a #1 Album on Billboard 200
Biggest Selling Digital Song by a Female Artist (Rolling in the Deep)
First Female Artist to Place 3 Songs in the Hot 100 Top 10 Concurrently with 2 Albums in the Top 5 of Billboard 200 (The second artist overall to achieve this)
First Piano and Vocal Only Song to Reach #1 on Hot 100 (Someone Like You)
First Artist in History to Have the Year's #1 Album (21), #1 Single (Rolling in the Deep) and #1 Music Video (Royal Albert Hall)
Adele is one of only four female artists to have an album chart at #1 for more than 13 weeks (the other three artists being Judy Garland, Carole King, and Whitney Houston)
Artist with the most weeks in the Top 5 of Billboard 200 (in 21st century) (66 weeks)
Second Artist with the most weeks in Top 5 of Billboard 200 (All time)
21 is one of only two albums to have both spent longer at #2 than any others (24 weeks each)
Second Artist with most weeks in the Top 3 of Billboard 200 (All time) (61 weeks)
Since release in Feb 2011, 21 has only fallen out of the Top 5 on Billboard 200 only once (#7)

More Soundscan Records for 2011:
Best Selling Artist, Best Selling Album (21), Best Selling Physical Album (21), Best Selling Digital Album (21), Best Selling Internet Album (21), Best Selling Digital Song (Rolling in the Deep), Best Selling Digital Track (Rolling in the Deep), and Most Played Song on the Radio (Rolling in the Deep). 21 also scored the title of Best Selling Digital Album of All Time

Guinness World Records:
Most Successful Singles Sales in a Year
Most Cumulative Weeks at #1 on UK Albums Chart (Solo Female Artist, Individual Album)
Most Consecutive Weeks at #1 on UK Albums Chart (Solo Female Artist)
Most Grammy Awards Won in a Single Year by a British Act (Female)
First Female to Have Two Singles and Two Albums in the UK Top 5 Simultaneously
Best Selling Download Album in the UK

Other Current Sales Records:
Fifth Best Selling Album in History, in the UK (21)
Best Selling Album in History, by a Solo Artist, in the UK (21)
21 has most combined weeks at # 1 in US and UK ever (46 total weeks)
First artist album to spend 60+ weeks in the Top 5 in both US and UK
21 hit #1 in more than 26 countries
One of only two people ever to have won all of the top four Grammy Awards (Best New Artist, Album of The Year, Record of the Year, Song of the Year)
In 2012 sales, 21 has outsold Gaga, Katy, Carrie, Nicki, Kelly, Madonna, Bey, Taylor, Florence, Rihanna, and Lana combined
Adele's music is now tracked in 170 countries, the most regions PRS for Music has ever worked in to track an artist.
Rolling in the Deep has been played one billion times.
In the US, 21 is the first album to hit 9 million since Usher's Confessions 7/24/05. 21 reached 9 million in 64 weeks, Confessions in 70 weeks.
21 will be first album to reach 10 million in U.S. sales since Eminem's The Eminem Show (released 5/02. It topped 10M 10/2011).
Live at Royal Albert Hall has been #1 for 23 weeks in US. This sets new record for a music video with most weeks at #1 by a female artist. (As of May 16)
First album to sell 3 million copies in a calendar year in the UK.
One in six households own 21 in the UK (we've debated this but I'm adding it!)
Adele's the only artist to sell 1 million or more copies of three different songs in the first quarter of 2012.

Didn't she do well!

From Phoenix83! The premier stats guy!

Australia

- Longest-running No 1 album of all time by a solo artist (32 weeks)
- Most consecutive weeks in the top ten (62 weeks)*
- Biggest-selling album by a UK solo artist

Canada

- Longest-running No 1 album of all time (34 wks)
(previous record holder: Supertramp, Breakfast In America = 26 wks)

Netherlands

- Longest-running No 1 album of all time (31 wks)
- Most consecutive weeks in the top ten (70 wks)
(previous record holder for both: Caro Emerald, Deleted Scenes.. = 30 wks @ No 1, 68 consecutive wks in the top ten)

Ireland

- Longest-running No 1 album of all time (33 wks)
(not sure of previous record holder but this article says it was the longest-running No 1 when it was at 29 wks there: http://www.state.ie/35389-news/adele-to ... vd-blu-ray)
- Biggest selling digital album of all time (according to the same article)

New Zealand

- Longest-running No 1 album of all time (37 wks)
(previous record holder: Shania Twain, Come On Over - 23 wks; according to this article: http://tvnz.co.nz/entertainment-news/ad ... rd-4423222)
- Most weeks in the top ten, all-time (64 wks) **

Belgium - Flanders
- Most weeks in the top ten, all-time (72 wks) **

Switzerland
- Most weeks in the top ten, all-time (63 wks) **

Wallonia
- Most weeks in the top ten, all time (71 wks) **

* currently tied with Pink's "I'm Not Dead". But if it's still in the top 10 next week it will hold the record on its own.

** these weeks in the top ten records are from Timmy94's post here:http://www.ukmix.org/forums/viewtopi...sc&start=23375. The number of weeks in the top ten must have increased in each of these countries since then.

And one more which has to be a record but I can't find any confirmation of it anywhere;

Belgium - Flanders
Longest-running No 1 album of all time (38 wks)

Wow.

It puts all her peers firmly in the shade.

You go girl

Incredible....and she's only 24

What a flop..

Will her new album be called 25 do you think?

All those awards and I'd still rather listen to my next door neighbour taking a dump than ever hear Someone Like You again.

Still, whatever makes people happy.

Nevermind. Don't want to risk another ban!
Continue on!

She carry on promoting it!

well that was disappointing

Indeed, just ignore them.

'21' is the 'Thriller' of the digital era imo. Total and utter domination of its era.

Yeah, is that all ...

Why is it the end of an era?

She's stopped promoting it. No more singles etc.

I'm not much of an Adele fan but she definitely has done really well. Good for her

Shes the stand out contemporary performer. Its not just the quality of her material, its the fact it is real. It has depth and meaning, and in the modern era thats incredibly rare.

Just read today that 21 is 735,558 sales from reaching 10 million sold (diamond cerification) in the US which would be the 9th album released this century to do so.

Shes an absolute cert for the rock hall of fame, and one of a tiny handful of current artists who are (Eminem, Radiohead.. very few others).

From Phoenix83! The premier stats guy!

Australia

- Longest-running No 1 album of all time by a solo artist (32 weeks)
- Most consecutive weeks in the top ten (62 weeks)*
- Biggest-selling album by a UK solo artist

Belgium - Flanders

-Longest-running No 1 album of all time (38 wks)

Canada

- Longest-running No 1 album of all time (34 wks)
(previous record holder: Supertramp, Breakfast In America = 26 wks)

Netherlands

- Longest-running No 1 album of all time (31 wks)
- Most consecutive weeks in the top ten (70 wks)
(previous record holder for both: Caro Emerald, Deleted Scenes.. = 30 wks @ No 1, 68 consecutive wks in the top ten)

Ireland

- Longest-running No 1 album of all time (33 wks)
(not sure of previous record holder but this article says it was the longest-running No 1 when it was at 29 wks there: http://www.state.ie/35389-news/adele-to ... vd-blu-ray)
- Biggest selling digital album of all time (according to the same article)

New Zealand

- Longest-running No 1 album of all time (37 wks)
(previous record holder: Shania Twain, Come On Over - 23 wks; according to this article: http://tvnz.co.nz/entertainment-news/ad ... rd-4423222)
- Most weeks in the top ten, all-time (64 wks) **

Belgium - Flanders
- Most weeks in the top ten, all-time (72 wks) **

Switzerland
- Most weeks in the top ten, all-time (63 wks) **

Wallonia
- Most weeks in the top ten, all time (71 wks) **

* currently tied with Pink's "I'm Not Dead". But if it's still in the top 10 next week it will hold the record on its own.

** these weeks in the top ten records are from Timmy94's post here:http://www.ukmix.org/forums/viewtopi...sc&start=23375. The number of weeks in the top ten must have increased in each of these countries since then.

Belgium-Flanders has now been confirmed. Thanks again to P83!

The difference with Eminem and Radiohead is they made their money by selling actual albums. Actual things like cassette tapes, vinyl records and CDs. Don't get me wrong I know a lot of adults like to fool themselves on itunes that they are really buying an album and the kids just don't know any better but these other people that sell 10's of millions of record sold them by people walking into record stores and buying them at RRP prices, not on itunes for pennys.

Great awards and records though but if in this day and age, physical music was still the way people listen to music, no way would she have sold that much. Itunes has a lot ot answer for those records infact a lot of these female singers in the charts have itunes to thank because if it was even as little as say....5/6 years ago when CD singles were still big, they would never have sold millions. No chance. Buf for pennys online? Yeah They'll sell a lot. That's not a real single.

Itunes prices and prices in shops don't really differ that greatly anymore it makes no difference and most people back up there music onto hard copy yes itunes has had a part to play but it doesn't lessen the purchase or the records.

I call bs on this. In fact I think it's completely the opposite situation. Those physical albums sold when there wasn't illegal downloading available like today. How many more millions would 21 have sold w/o the ability to illegally download? And it sounds like you aren't familiar with club sales. They sold albums for pennies at times back in the day.

And Adele's 21 has yet to be deeply discounted. She will sell boatloads more when that happens.

We are watching history unfold for this album. And for the few haters or those who think they are so insightful, no badmouthing or shaking of the head and stomping feet is going to change that. I f*ing love that part so much.

Edit: 21 has shipped almost 25 million copies so far. The majority of the sales have been in stores; those physical copies in hand that you talk about. At the same time, in the first quarter of 2012 alone, three singles from the album sold over a million copies each in the US. Never under $1.29.
Adele does not need to give her music away for free.

It the era of illegal downloads, three singles have been #1 at the same time the album was at #1. That's never happened before and it probably will never be broken by a live artist again.

longliving obvioulsy hasn't bought anything off itunes err, ever. Pennies?? Certainly in regards to albums there is so little difference between the iTunes download price and the physical album. In fact, you can pick up the physical album online for pennies (see what i did there? ) less than you would pay for it on iTunes - and that includes delivery.

The rest of longliving's post has already been successfully picked apart in just the manner I would have so i'll leave it at that.

She is Adele.