6. After reaching 24 weeks at No. 1 on the Billboard 200, Adele broke Whitney Houston‘s file for longest-running No. 1 album by a feminine solo artist in U.S. historical past (The Bodyguard soundtrack tapped out after 21 weeks). The run at the prime made 21 the longest-running No. 1 in the trendy Nielsen SoundScan period, which started 30 years in the past.
7. 21 was the best-selling album in each the U.S. and Canada in 2011 and 2012, making it the first album to tug off that individual feat since Michael Jackson‘s Thriller in 1983 and 1984.
8. In December 2011, Billboard named Adele Artist of the 12 months, awarded 21 the Billboard 200 Album of the 12 months and revealed “Rolling in the Deep” as the Billboard Scorching 100 Track of the 12 months, making her the first girl to ever prime all three classes directly. Due to the enduring gross sales of the album, she was awarded Artist of the 12 months and Album of the 12 months in 2012 as nicely, making her the first artist to ever win each back-to-back.
9. At the 2012 Grammys, she gained all six classes she was nominated in, together with Album of the 12 months, File of the 12 months and Track of the 12 months, making her solely the second feminine artist in historical past (behind Beyoncé) to win that many awards in one night time. Coupled along with her earlier win for Finest New Artist, she grew to become the first feminine and second artist ever to win all 4 normal discipline awards all through her profession, following Christopher Cross, who gained them unexpectedly in 1980. (Billie Eilish would, after all, grow to be the first girl to brush all 4 directly in 2020.)
10. When the Recording Business Affiliation of America awarded 21 with Diamond certification for greater than 10 million copies bought in November 2012, Adele grew to become the solely artist or band in a decade to earn it with only a single-disc album in that wanting time. She would, after all, go on to interrupt her personal file when 25, launched in 2015, did it in lower than a 12 months.