Adele surpasses chart US chart record previously held by Carole King

Reading comprehension is really important, you're confusing two different Adele albums. I bid you adieu! :-)

If the BB200 album chart was a pure sales chart "21" would chart even higher than #103 (this week's position), because it is at #94 on the chart that tracks pure album sales. So your point is not valid, "21" is one of those albums which don't benefit mostly from streaming, but is instead a very consistent physical seller (among 100 best selling albums in the US each year since it was released).

agenor, almost all the artists today achieving 'history making' feats or who can surpass whitney houston and mj, couldn't do it without streaming. are you telling me that the chainsmokers' 'closer' could give 'how do i live' a run for it's $? i remember seeing 'how do i live' in the top 10 and i gotta disagree that 'closer' is as a big of a radio hit as leann's song.

actually, a handful of us on the bb site *esp. those of us who were there in the 80s and 90s* agree with you 1000%! if there were no internet advantages today, i don't think today's crop of artists could do what whitney, mj, etc. could do back in the day. another reason why their feats *pre-internet/streaming artists* were so remarkable back then, cuz nobody else had done it and could do it afterwards :D

Did you even read mu comment? If you did, did you understand it? My point is that "21" hasn't left top 200 best selling albums chart in the US in the last 6 years, since it was released. So that means that if streaming wasn't included "21" would still be charting for 319 weeks on BB200 (old BB200 chart was a pure sales chart, right?). And as I mentioned before, this week "21" was #103 on BB200 and #94 on pure sales chart, which means that if BB didn't include streaming for BB200 and it was based on pure sales then "21" would chart higher this week (#94), but it didn't because of other albums that rely more on streaming than pure sales. So the conclusion is that "21" is indeed suffering from streaming inclusion, because it is placed lower on BB200 each week than it would have been if it was a pure sales chart.
As for "Closer" and other songs you mentioned (which have nothing to do with albums chart, so I don't see the reason for you doing that), I would say that records achieved these days are more reliable than those in the 80s and 90s, when Hot 100 was heavily radio influenced, so you couldn't decide what you want to listen to (and payola from record companies was very common). Nowadays if you want to listen to a song you go to a streaming service, play it and it counts towards Hot 100.
And let me ask you one more time (although I did at least five times before) - please restrain from replying to any of my comments. I stopped commenting on Billboard because of your bullish behavior, yet you still continue to reply to my comments on this site. Don't be such a bully, live your life, be happy, I wish you all the best, and in the future ignore my comments, Thank you.

@ least i don't got mult. usernames like yourself ;)

Remember that other commenter (I can't remember who it was) suggesting that the three of us go on skype? If you did that we could've SEEN EACH OTHER LIVE, all three of us. But you didn't even know what SKYPE is. You should be careful what you do or presume when you don't know anything about other people you are accusing of certain things... KARMA can be a b*tch sometimes. But I'm sure life has taught you that already. I'm definitely stepping down from your BULLY train. I bid you adieu!