Adele – triumph of the ordinary | Michael Cragg

Unlikely to ever appear in a giant egg, Adele's everyday universality has let her talent translate into phenomenal salesLast week Adele's second album, 21, sold 257,000 copies in the UK, a sales figure that would look incredible as an opening sales week for any album by any global superstar. The fact that the album was celebrating its 10th week at No 1, and that each of the previous nine weeks it had sold over 100,000 copies, makes what Adele has achieved look miraculous. The last female singer ...

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