LONDON (Reuters) - Singer Adele's album "21" returned to the number one spot in the charts, becoming the longest chart-topping album release in nearly 42 years, the Official Charts Company said on Sunday. The album has been number one, on and off, for 19 weeks since its release in January 2011. It is also the biggest selling album in the 21st century having sold more than 3.8 million copies. In the singles chart, U.S. rapper Flo Rida climbed two places to number one with "Good Feeling." Making way was Coldplay's "Paradise" which slipped to number two. New entrant "Troublemaker" by Taio Cruz went straight to number three. (Reporting by Avril Ormsby)

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'DEEP' ROLLS ON: Adele is starting 2012 the same way she spent most of 2011: making notable news on Billboard charts. As her album "21" - Billboard's top album of last year - returns to the leadoff spot on the Billboard 200 , the set's first single, "Rolling in the Deep" - 2011's top song - completes a full year on the Billboard Hot 100. "Deep" rallies 35-30 as the chart's top Airplay Gainer, due, in part, to renewed radio interest as adult stations returned to non-seasonal programming, as well as from prominent placing on stations' year-end countdowns across multiple formats. "Deep" becomes one of just seven singles by women to have tallied 52 weeks or more on the Hot 100. Here is the elite list: Chart Weeks, Title, Artist, Years on Chart 69, "How Do I Live," LeAnn Rimes , 1997-98 65, "You Were Meant for Me"/"Foolish Games," Jewel, 1996-98 64, "Before He Cheats," Carrie Under...

The Nielsen SoundScan 2011 year-end review is in, and to the surprise of no one, Adele blew away her competition, locking up nearly superlative SoundScan has to offer, from Best Selling Album to Best Selling Digital Song and everything in between (except, sadly, Top Selling Seasonal Album). The Grammy favorite sold a combined 5.8 million copies of her Album of the Year-nominated 21 , and "Rolling in the Deep" alone was downloaded 5.8 million times on digital music services. In short, it was a good year to be Adele, and shockingly, the music industry as a whole ended 2011 on a positive note after a half-decade of decline. The biz's best news is that overall music sales an amalgamation of digital sales, physical sales, music DVDs, etc. reached 1.6 billion in 2011, an 6.9 percent increase over 2010's overall numbers. Even better: For the first time since 2004, total album sales were up from the previous year: 330 million albums in 2011, bettering the record low of 326 ...

Posted 1 hr ago by MTV News in Adele By Zachary Swickey Adele had a stellar year in 2011. Despite persistent voval chord problems that required surgery, she still managed to have the best selling album of the year with 21 , which has moved more units than any release since Ushers 2004 effort Confessions . So its pretty safe to say most of us are familiar with the heartache Adele channels on the album, which makes us happy to hear that shes supposedly got a new beau to start the New Year with. According to reports from The Sun (along with photographic evidence), Adele was seen kissing on her new boyfriend Simon Konecki while they were enjoying themselves at Floridas Everglades National Park indulging in an airboat ride together through some marshes, while both donning aviator shades. She may have gotten better about choosing a gentleman too, because Konecki sounds like a pretty stand-up guy hes the head of Drop4Drop, an English charity that is devoted to solving the worlds current...

Adele has mirrored her success in the UK by doing a chart double in the US in 2011, scoring the top-selling album and track of the year. Her album 21 moved 5.8 million copies, while Rolling In The Deep also sold 5.8m, according to Nielsen SoundScan. The singer's second album was the biggest-selling album in the US since Usher's Confessions seven years ago. Adele's success helped give US album sales a boost. Overall they rose for the first time since 2004. 'Phenomenal year' A total of 330 million albums were sold last year, an increase of 1% from 2010. BIGGEST-SELLING ALBUMS OF 2011 IN THE US Continue reading the main story Adele - 21 - 5.8m Michael Buble - Christmas - 2.4m Lady Gaga - Born This Way - 2.1m Lil Wayne - The Carter IV - 1.9m Jason Aldean - My Kinda Party - 1.6m Adele's 21 has not left the Billboard top 10 since it was released in March 2011. It sold 352,000 copies in its first week. The 23-year-old scored more than double the sales of the second bi...

To the surprise of virtually no one, Adele 's "21" is officially the top-selling album of 2011, with a final tally of 5.82 million copies, while the British soul singer's single "Rolling in the Deep" was the year's bestselling song with 5.81 million copies, according to Nielsen SoundScan's year-end sales report issued Wednesday. Adele's album entered the chart at No. 1 in February and has never dropped out of the Top 10. This week marks the CD's 14th nonconsecutive week as the nation's top-selling album. Michael Bubl's latecomer holiday entry, "Christmas," was the No. 2-selling album of the year with nearly 2.5 million copies, followed by Lady Gaga's "Born This Way" (2.1 million), Lil Wayne's "Tha Carter IV" (1.9 million) and Jason Aldean's "My Kinda Party" (1.6 million). Industry-wide perhaps the best news in the year-end figures is that album sales increased over the previous ye...