Adele just made the ARIA charts her bitch. Following fleeting resistance from Gotye’s Making Mirrors which sunk to third this week behind Red Hot Chilli Peppers newie I’m With You, the 23 year old Brit said you shall not pass and spent a record sixteenth week atop the ARIA album charts. This marks rarified territory for the recent UK Vogue cover star, matching chart-topping tenures from Simon & Garfunkel’s Bridge Over Trouble Water (1970) , Skyhooks’ Living In The 70’s, The Beatles’ White Album (1968) and Abba’s The Best Of Abba. Not bad company there, Adele.
Unlike the anomaly that is Pink, Adele’s Australian success echos just as dominant international numbers; 10 million copies sold worldwide, number ones in 19 countries and the not insignificant title of biggest selling album of the year. Australians count for over 500,000 of those units making Adele’s sophomore album seven times platinum in Australia and one of the highest selling albums of this decade.
The Genghis Khan of album sales has already penned seven new songs for an as-yet-untitled followup, subscribing to a philosophy held by fellow chart topper Lil Wayne: No time for resting ’cause I don’t take breaks, I just break records.
