Adele on course to beat David Bowie career record

The seemingly unstoppable Adele continues to blaze through chart achievement after chart achievement.

The Official Charts Company yesterday confirmed that the singer/songwriter’s second album 21 has overtaken Michael Jackson’s Bad to become the eighth biggest selling album of all time in the UK.  As if that wasn’t enough, Adele’s lead in today’s Official Albums Chart Update also now puts her on course to spend her 22nd non-consecutive week in the albums top spot.  Combined with the one week she spent at Number 1 with her debut album, 19, another chart-topping week would see Adele this Sunday overtaking music legend David Bowie in the number of career weeks spent at Number 1 in the Official Albums Chart.

Both David Bowie and Dire Straits have to date amassed 22 weeks in the albums top slot, Adele is set to score her 23rd this weekend if she maintains her lead.  It is The Beatles who currently hold the UK record with an astounding career total of 174 album weeks at Number 1, and in terms of female solo artists, Adele only has Madonna to beat now, who is just ahead at 29 weeks.

New entries

US rocker Meat Loaf is back with his new, and “most personal album to date” Hell In A Handbasket.  In a video interview with theofficialcharts.com, he talks about collaborating with Public Enemy main man Chuck D and how pleased and surprised he has been by the album’s critical reactions.  Hell In A Handbasket is today’s Number 5. Watch the video below:

Pink Floyd’s reissue of classic album The Wall is new in at Number 10, while The Ting Tings return to the Official Albums Chart with second studio offering Sounds From Nowheresville (13) featuring new single Hang It Up.  The Cranberries’ Roses (27), David Sylvian’s A Victim Of Stars 1982-2012 (36), High Contrast’s The Agony & The Ecstasy (37) and UFO’s Seven Deadly complete the Top 40.

Official Albums Chart Update
01 21 - ADELE
02 OUR VERSION OF EVENTS - EMELI SANDE
03 + - ED SHEERAN
04 BORN TO DIE - LANA DEL REY
05 HELL IN A HANDBASKET - MEAT LOAF
06 MAKING MIRRORS - GOTYE
07 MYLO XYLOTO - COLDPLAY
08 THE ESSENTIAL - WHITNEY HOUSTON
09 19 - ADELE
10 THE WALL - PINK FLOYD
11 CEREMONIALS - FLORENCE & THE MACHINE
12 LONELY ARE THE BRAVE - MAVERICK SABRE
13 SOUNDS FROM NOWHERESVILLE - TING TINGS
14 NOEL GALLAGHER'S HIGH FLYING BIRDS - NOEL GALLAGHER'S HIGH FLYING BIRDS
15 DOO-WOPS & HOOLIGANS - BRUNO MARS
16 WHO YOU ARE - JESSIE J
17 UP ALL NIGHT - ONE DIRECTION
18 NOTHING BUT THE BEAT - DAVID GUETTA
19 STEREO TYPICAL - RIZZLE KICKS
20 EL CAMINO - BLACK KEYS
21 IN CASE YOU DIDN'T KNOW - OLLY MURS
22 EVERY KINGDOM - BEN HOWARD
23 TALK THAT TALK - RIHANNA
24 WATCH THE THRONE - JAY-Z & KANYE WEST
25 HEAVEN - REBECCA FERGUSON
26 SORRY FOR PARTY ROCKING - LMFAO
27 ROSES - CRANBERRIES
28 LOUD - RIHANNA
29 LOVESTRONG - CHRISTINA PERRI
30 STRONGER - KELLY CLARKSON
31 TEENAGE DREAM - KATY PERRY
32 THE BEST OF - BLUR
33 LIONESS - HIDDEN TREASURES - AMY WINEHOUSE
34 SWEET SOUR - BAND OF SKULLS
35 NO MORE IDOLS - CHASE & STATUS
36 A VICTIM OF STARS - 1982-2012 - DAVID SYLVIAN
37 THE AGONY & THE ECSTASY - HIGH CONTRAST
38 SEVEN DEADLY - UFO
39 WHAT DID YOU EXPECT FROM THE VACCINES - VACCINES
40 GIVEN TO THE WILD - MACCABEES