So, Adele’s 21 is turning into quite the juggernaut. In a week when tons of superstar albums came out (8 albums debuted in the Top Ten), the British R&B singer retains her stranglehold on the top of the Billboard charts, with another 155,000 albums sold. In addition, the set’s first single, “Rolling in the Deep”, finally makes it to the top of Billboard’s Top Digital Songs chart and probably would’ve already been #1 on the overall Hot 100 singles chart […]
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Spin Cycle: Adele’s “21”
The wave of the blue-eyed British soulstress started in the mid-Sixties with Dusty Springfield (the Queen of British soul) and has had two distinct boom periods. The first was in the mid Eighties and went hand in hand with the “New Romantic” MTV period that spawned soul influenced acts like Simply Red, Spandau Ballet and Wham! Worthy successors to the throne of Dusty were found in the likes of Annie Lennox, Tracey Thorn and Alison Moyet. Twenty years after the […]