One thing hasn’t changed since 2011- Adele’s acclaimed sophomore album 21 continues to top the Billboard album charts.

Since the new year has started, 21 has sold over 144,000 copies to claim the number one spot. Newer album, Drake’s Take Care, swings in at number 2 with almost less than half the amount of copies sold- 72,000.

Tallying up all the numbers, Adele’s album has sold some 5.8 million copies in the US alone!

It looks like Adele has become an unstoppable force and the numbers don’t lie. Adele will surely continue to be one of the stars to follow going into 2012. Let’s hope that the powerhouse singer recovers quickly and is able to grace us with her deeply emotional songs sometime soon.

Source: MTV News

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In a recent Billboard interview with Adele, the “Someone Like You” record breaker relates her worldwide hit 21 album to Robyn’s lyrics: “I love that Robyn lyric from ‘Call Your Girlfriend’: ‘The only way her heart will mend is when she learns to love again.’ I was bitter as fuck and so sad about my relationship that 21 is about.”

The music video for “Call Your Girlfriend” is a visual feast that features Robyn dancing to a medley of lights in an empty gymnasium. The clip appears to be filmed in one take and we get the sense that the singer is stripped down to her bare emotions.

Watch “Call Your Girlfriend” below:

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Recently, Billboard emailed Adele to chat about her latest success in both her career and love and get’s updated on how she’s faring after her vocal surgery. Read an excerpt from her interview below:

You’ve had a remarkable year. Yet you seem to go about your career almost as an indie artist, and by all accounts, don’t seem to have changed your personality. What keeps you grounded… and real?

Well I started on an indie label in the U.K. before I signed to Columbia here in the U.S., and I’m still there. What I like about indie artists and indie labels is they don’t do everything. Obviously, the main reason for that is because they don’t have the clout and don’t get the chance to. Ha! 

But why does a huge artist have to do everything? Quality control is vital. If I did everything, my artistry and music would become diluted. Performances and interviews travel globally and instantly nowadays because of YouTube, Twitter, Facebook and blogs. I’d be repeating myself and be overexposed if I did every TV and every magazine cover I was given the opportunity to do. I don’t change up my style, and live, it just is what it is. I only do things I like as well, TV shows I watch and publications I read. I won’t do something simply because I should, so I’ll sell a few more records. 

When it comes to staying myself — my career isn’t my life, it doesn’t come home with me. So it’s a piece of piss staying grounded and not being changed by it. The same things I’ve always liked still satisfy me. My team’s the same and my group of friends are the same. Of course I’m bowled over by people’s response to “21,” and when I meet artists I love, it blows my mind. But it baffles me as well. I go home and my best friend laughs at me, rather than going to a celebrity-studded party to rub shoulders with people who know me but who I don’t know. I’m Z-list when it comes to that shit. 

I think one of the things that sets me apart from other artists who have had the same kind of success is that my life isn’t speculated about. And you can’t escape that, which makes you more high-profile whether you want to be or not! I feel very lucky that isn’t really part of my life. Then again, I did do a tell-all on my record anyway, haha! I’m incredibly private but I’m also incredibly honest and I think that creates a kind of “meet in the middle” respectable ground.

To that end, much has been made about your place in the pop universe, and how you are so real and uncontrived compared to a lot of other pop stars. Did you always feel supported in your decision to just be yourself?

I’m not sure. I’m never self-conscious and never have been. The thought of changing yourself or toning yourself down or up for that matter, to please someone else seems ridiculous to me. I’m not drawn to people who feel like they have to do that, so I’m not really aware if there was ever a shift.

It’s been a long year. Have you found love again?

It’s been the most erratic year. It’s been fucking brilliant and exciting and emotional. Professionally, it’s been a year that will define my life forever. But because of the success, obviously things have been unearthed and people have crawled out of the woodwork publicly and privately. But that’s to be expected. And those things personally have forced me to address things I wouldn’t have. I probably wouldn’t have until my thirties. 

Not having someone to share all this with made me miserable at times, to be honest. I wanted nothing more than to be in love and be loved back. That was until I remembered I was sharing it with millions and millions and millions of people!! I haven’t been ready to be in love again since summer 2009… until now. And I hadn’t met anyone along the way who has changed that. 

I love that Robyn lyric from “Call Your Girlfriend”: ”The only way her heart will mend is when she learns to love again.” I was bitter as fuck and so sad about my relationship that “21″ is about. Obviously it was intensified because the record exploded, and it was a constant reminder of him that I couldn’t avoid. But I hadn’t met anyone else. I missed him because I didn’t like feeling lonely and so I just kept going over and over the fuck-ups and resenting him and regretting our time together. But really recently, I realized that that had to happen for me to know what I want and need from myself. And of course in someone else.

How was your vocal surgery? How much longer until you can sing again?

The surgery couldn’t have gone better. But because I was singing with damaged vocal chords for three or four months and because of the surgery and because of the silence after the surgery I now have to build myself back up vocally. It’s gonna be a lot easier for me to sing now. And mentally I won’t be worried about my voice on stage anymore. So I have to get used to that. That’ll take most of January, so February I’ll be singing properly!

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The magnitude of this feat is exemplified by the large amount of UK artists who released albums in the past 11 years.  Not one of them have reached Adele’s caliber in such a short amount of time despite the big names attached to them. Take Radiohead’s Kid A for example or James Blunt’s Beck to Bedlam in 2004 (think radio fav, “You’re Beautiful”).

Although Adele is currently recovering from throat surgery, 21 looks as if it will be carrying her straight to the hit-making hall of fame. I wouldn’t be surprised if she’ll be joining the ranks of ABBA’s ABBA Gold and Queen’s Greatest Hits. It’s the crème de la crème of music legends, but Adele’s achieved the hard numbers these monumental albums have taken decades to gain.

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