Singer becomes first living artist since the Fab Four to have two releases in each of the top five singles and album charts at once
Adele has become the first artist since the Beatles to have two top five singles and two top five albums in the charts at the same time. Buoyed by her rendition at last week's Brit awards, the singer's newest single, Someone Like You, jumped 46 spots to become her first No 1 hit. That song joins Rolling in the Deep, which sits at No 4; on the album charts, Adele's first two LPs ? 21 and 19 ? are also at No 1 and No 4 respectively.
"It's amazing," Adele told BBC Radio 1. "I've never had a No 1 single [before]. I'm probably annoying everyone as well, as I cried at the Brits and everything. I'm just so overwhelmed ? I can't believe the response to it."
The last time an artist had top five hits on both charts, Sir Alec Douglas-Home was prime minister. It was January 1964: Britain and America were in the throes of Beatlemania, with I Want to Hold Your Hand and She Loves You filling the airwaves while the albums With the Beatles and Please Please Me flew off the shelves. Then again, I Want to Hold Your Hand was the first single to have an advance order of a million copies; Someone Like You has sold just over 100,000 copies since its release.
Adele isn't the only one to have received a chart boost from a performance at the Brits. Although the televised ceremony was the lowest-rated Brits broadcast in five years, total album sales for Brits artists were up 70%, according to the Official Charts Company. Laura Marling's album I Speak Because I Can was the biggest gainer, leaping from No 80 to No 21. Mumford & Sons' Sigh No More, named British album of the year, climbed from No 15 to No 2 on its 72nd week in the chart.
Source: http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2011/feb/22/adele-matches-beatles-chart-success
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