Adele covers Rolling Stone ahead of new single release

While Katy Perry managed to nab Billboard‘s Woman of the Year honors, Adele was able to score the coveted cover slot of Rolling Stone’s annual Women Who Rock issue.

The-Dream puts foot in mouth with Adele / Beyonce comments

The-Dream suffers from a severe case of word vomit, and he’s been sick with it for years. It’s kind of what I like about him though — sure, he says a lot of stupid shit, but I’ll take a moronic loose cannon (see: Rihanna) over a media-trained Britbot (Sowwy B) any day of the week. [...]

Adele’s 21 has now sold a billion trillion copies

The numbers for Adele‘s post-Grammys sales surge are in, and Jesus Christs, are they big. According to Hits Double Daily, 21 will shift approximately 716,000 copies this week in the States alone, giving it the best sales week since Lil’ Wayne somehow managed to sell almost a million copies of his hit-and-miss Carter IV album [...]

Adele’s huge comeback weekend and 21′s mammoth future

Every time that I go to do an Adele post, I always check the current sales total of 21 first, and each and every time I do, I’m always shocked at the figure. According to the World Chart, sales for 21 now stand at 17 million copies worldwide, and with the album still at the [...]

Will Kelly Clarkson dethrone Adele on the Hot 100?

Kelly Clarkson‘s “Stronger (What Doesn’t Kill You)” rockets to No. 2 on this week’s Hot 100, narrowly missing out on the top spot thanks to the almighty Adele and her latest monster hit “Set Fire to the Rain”. Much like the infamous Susan Boyle chart reign of 2009 –which saw the Scottish diva stop the [...]

Who mad? Rihanna & Adele notch another week at #1

While Rihanna kicks back in Hawaii with a blunt and gets more blazed than me on a Friday night, her iconic anthem “We Found Love” has just notched its tenth non-consecutive week atop Billboard’s Hot 100 chart. “We Found Love” is the first song by a female artist since Beyonce’s “Irreplaceable” to notch ten weeks [...]

Last.fm’s ‘Most Listened to Arists of 2011′ list yields surprising results

The world’s biggest music-based social network Last.fm has just released its annual list the most listened to artists of the past year, and some of the results are quite surprising. Naturally, first place was a no-brainer, with Adele storming in as 2011′s most scrobbled artist by a mile (which ranks by the number of individual [...]

Sales Update: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly in 2011′s Top Pop Divas!

There’s nothing that stans love more than comparing the current record sales of their favorite pop divas and arguing about it until they’re blue in the face, so I went out and got an updated sales tally of the top pop tarts of 2011 so we can separate the fact from the fiction and find [...]