The List of Records That Adele Has Broken Is Truly Extraordinary

21, Adele's second record, set a ton of records in the UK, including being the biggest-selling album of the 21st century, having the most consecutive weeks (11) with a number-one album for a solo female, being the first album in UK chart history to sell three million copies in a calendar year, and being the most downloaded album in UK history.

It was also the best-selling album in the US and Canada in both 2011 and 2012, making it the first album since Michael Jackson's Thriller to be the best-selling album two years in a row.