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Adele Tops Billboard Again, Closes In On Three Million

11:17 a.m. · August 10, 2011 · by Andrew Winistorfer

It's a story that has been repeated over and over this year, but here it is again: Adele's 21, for the 12th non-consecutive week, is the number one album in the U.S., after it moved 77,000 copies this past week. That brings Adele's total sales up to 2.9 million, a number that is going to be hard to beat for any other album this year, even Jay and Kanye's Watch the Throne, which will undoubtedly top Billboard next week (with sales projected to be at least 500,000).

While you're still thinking about Adele, how about you read our recent feature about the singer, in which we try to figure out why she's popular.