List: Adele dominates best-sellers

Sorry, but I had to post this, even though Adele is pretty much the music equivalent of Marmite (except I would hope Marmite isn’t all over the goddamn place all the freaking time). Her second album, imaginatively titled 21, has just broken the record for the best-selling album of the twenty-first century.

Of course this was far from unexpected; having your music used as soundtrack to everything certainly helps. But it was the margin of her victory that proves how much of a hold Miss Adkins had on the year.

The Official Charts Company reports that 21 sold a massive 3.4 million copies this year alone. That doesn’t sound a lot, maybe, but the nearest rival was herself. 19, her debut album released in 2009, was second with 1.1 million. That’s less than a third of the sales of the winner. Unreal.

Although, to me, the most remarkable entry is Michael Buble’s Christmas - despite having only been released for the festive season, it is still somehow the seventh-best seller this year ahead of Ed Sheeran’s fairly awesome + and Coldplay’s… uhm, interesting effort Mylo Xyloto.