Adele scores seventh week atop album chart

Adele has celebrated a seventh successive week at number one on the UK album chart.

The 'Someone Like You' singer shifted another 160,000 copies of her sophomore album 21, which last week crossed the million sales milestone.

The seven-day total is double that of this week's runner up, Elbow's fifth studio album Build A Rocket Boys!.

Also finishing high up on the rankings are veteran rockers REM, who score their 11th top ten album with Collapse Into Now, which is straight in at this week's five. The 'Everybody Hurts' hitmakers have sold almost 10 million albums in the UK alone throughout their extensive career.

Indie stars Noah And The Whale also clock up an impressive debut with their third studio album Last Night On Earth at eight, while the comeback record from Avril Lavigne, Goodbye Lullaby, lands immediately behind.

Meanwhile, Liam Gallagher's latest musical venture Beady Eye drop from three to ten with Different Gear, Still Speeding, finding an unlikely bedfellow in Daniel O'Donnell, whose Moon Over Ireland is a new entry at 11.

Olly Murs's self-titled debut album makes a hefty advance further down the double digits, rocketing 12 places from 29 to 17, while Tinie Tempah and Chase & Status are both down six with respective records Disc-Overy and No More Idols at 18 and 19.

Also slipping this week are Alexis Jordan and Clare Maguire, who both plummet into the 20s after arriving in the top ten last Sunday. Jordan's self-titled album is down to 22 from nine, while Maguire's Light After Dark loses 17 places to settle for 24.

The top ten in full:

1. (1) Adele: '21'
2. (-) Elbow: 'Build A Rocket Boys!'
3. (2) Jessie J: 'Who You Are'
4. (4) Adele: '19'
5. (-) REM: 'Collapse Into Now'
6. (5) Rihanna: 'Loud'
7. (6) Bruno Mars: 'Doo Wops & Hooligans'
8. (-) Noah And The Whale: 'Last Night On Earth'
9. (-) Avril Lavigne: 'Goodbye Lullaby'
10. (3) Beady Eye: 'Different Gear, Still Speeding'

Source: Official Charts Company

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