

But thanks to the power of the people, downloads totaling 2 million catapulted "Someone" up the singles chart. It has been No. 1 on the digital download chart for two weeks—finally convincing radio to play catch up. The ballad is at last No. 2 on the Billboard Airplay chart (behind former Hot 100 No. 1 "Moves Like Jagger"/Maroon 5 & Christina Aguilera)... giving Adele enough ammunition to reach the summit.


Adele keeps racking up chart-breaking records in 2011: She is one of only four lead artists to have two or more 2-million sellers in 2011 and the second British female artist in digital history to achieve the same record... not to mention everything she's already achieved with album 21.
And just wait until

While I love "Someone Like You," I still prefer "Set Fire To the Rain," her second European single from 21. With its robust, classic Brit-pop production (and a killer remix), I hope that's due next in the States.
Below is Adele's jaw-dropping live performance of "Set Fire"—which combines production of the album version with elements of the remix—from the U.K.'s Graham Norton Show. You'll have no trouble understanding why it has been viewed on Youtube more than 5 million times.
I love it when you write about music. It somehow makes the world make sense ,and today you wrote about ADELE- the pride and joy of the U.K.(my second home.)I hope she gets Record,Song and Album...if that old geezer Tony Bennett gets in her way with the Amy Winehouse collaboration I am so burning something!!!
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