Adele becomes first artist to match the Beatles in latest chart success
Adele has become the first artist since the Beatles to have two top five singles and two top five albums in the charts at the same time.
Her most recent single Someone Like You has just become the singer's first ever No 1 hit, jumping 46 spots to claim the number one slot only a week after she performed it stunningly at the annual Brit awards (have a look below).
That song joins (my favourite) Rolling in the Deep, which sits at No 4; on the album charts, Adele's first two LPs – 21 and 19 – are also at No 1 and No 4 respectively.
The singer who was born in Tottenham and brought up in Brixton was clearly very chuffed and told the BBC: "It's amazing. I've never had a No 1 single [before]. I'm probably annoying everyone as well, as I cried at the Brits and everything. I'm just so overwhelmed – I can't believe the response to it."
The last time an artist had top five hits on both charts it was January 1964 and Britain and America were in the throes of Beatlemania, with I Want to Hold Your Hand and She Loves You filling the airwaves while the albums With the Beatles and Please Please Me flew off the shelves. Then again, I Want to Hold Your Hand was the first single to have an advance order of a million copies; Someone Like You has sold just over 100,000 copies since its release.
Source: The Guardian
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rluz
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Adele is amazing!!! I loved her performance at the Brit Awards, breathtaking!
- 1 year ago
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rluz
