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Adele - Rolling In The Deep (Live) Itunes Festival HD

Adele's '21' Is The No. 1 Album For 23rd Week Adele's 21 clocks a 23rd week at No. 1 on the Billboard 200, selling 247,000 copies this week (down 17%), according to Nielsen SoundScan. It's the longest-running No. 1 since Prince & the Revolution's Purple Rain soundtrack scored 24 weeks at No. 1 in 1984 and 1985. The year-to-date sales for 21 now stand at 2.1 million (by far 2012's top album). Well behind in second place among the best sellers this year is Whitney Houston's Whitney: The Greatest Hits, with 527,000 sold. The last time an album sold more than 2 million copies this early in a year was in 2003, when 50 Cent's just-released Get Rich or Die Tryin' blew through 2.6 million by March 2. Considering that 21 was released more than a year ago, its 2012 sales are all the more impressive. Getting back to this week's Billboard 200, however, Adele leads a relatively quiet chart, as there is only one debut in the top 10. Over on the Digital Songs chart this week, fun.'

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