Adele's 25 clings to albums Number 1 for a sixth week
Adele refuses to budge from the top of the Official Albums Chart, as 25 remains in pole position for a sixth week and claims the first Number 1 album of 2016.
The album - which passed 2 million sales in record time last month - leads the tally 6,000 sales ahead of her closest rival, Elvis Presley’s If I Can Dream, which holds at 2. Click here to see where all of Adele's singles and albums have charted
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Meanwhile, Justin Bieber’s Purpose remains at 3, Jess Glynne’s I Cry When I Laugh climbs a place to 4, and One Direction rebound from 8 to 5 with Made In The A.M.
New entries and high climbers
Taylor Swift’s 1989 makes its first appearance in the Top 10 for 19 weeks, jumping from 18 to 8, Ed Sheeran’s X is up 2 to Number 9, and James Bay’s Chaos And The Calm leaps seven spots to 10.
Other big climbers on this week’s tally include The Weeknd’s Beauty Behind The Madness (up 14 to 13), Years & Years’ Communion (up 17 to 15), Hozier’s self-titled debut (up 20 to 19), Bring Me The Horizon’s That’s The Spirit (up 42 spots to 28), and Oasis’ Time Flies – 1994-2009 (up 63 to 29).
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I Am A Stegosaurus
Definitely bored of it now.
MusicFan2017
Really surprised by the performance of that elvis album. It might even take no.1 next week. Who could've guessed it would be doing so well?
MusicStan_1997
Well done Adele, another week at No.1 and the album has gone 8X platinum. Well done to Taylor too, still love 1989 more than a year after it's release.
Brian Quinn
Actually Adele only beat Elvis by 4,785 units and they were for downloads. Elvis actually sold more Physical Units than Adele. IICD also topped the Scottish Album Chart with Adele's '25' at No.2.
MusicStan_1997
How many copies did Adele sell this week?
Brian Quinn
75,783.
MusicStan_1997
Really? It's been selling over 350K for the past five weeks, how did sales drop that much in one week?
Brian Quinn
Sales always drop in the first couple of weeks after Christmas for all artists.
MusicStan_1997
I thought they got higher because a lot of people get iTunes vouchers. I wonder what her sales will be like next week then.
Jessica Wettasinghe
Elvis has given her a good run for her money. Not bad for someone who's been dead for 38 years!!
AB
Anthony Brennan
No, they always drop, always. And her album shift has been on track for an artist who sold 30 million before. She did 350 2 weeks ago, 150 the week before and 75K now. Those targets are perfectly in line.
de Sascha
Xmas is over dear...