Adele celebrates tenth week at albums No. 1

Adele's 21 has posted its strongest seven-day sales figures yet to secure a tenth consecutive week atop the UK album chart.

Over 250,000 copies of the mega-successful LP were purchased since last Sunday, a week-on-week increase of 65%. Adele now becomes the first artist to spend ten weeks in a row at number one with a studio album since Dire Straits managed the feat in 1986 with Brothers In Arms.

The London-born singer's debut album 19 also holds steady at two, while Ronan Keating achieves a new peak of three with Burt Bacharach collaboration When Ronan Met Burt.

Just behind are a trio of new entries in the shape of X Factor favourite Mary Byrne's Mine & Yours at six, Radiohead's eighth studio record The King Of Limbs at seven and Britney Spears's long-awaited comeback album Femme Fatale at eight.

The so-called 'Mother's Day Effect' also bumps Eva Cassidy collection Simply Eva back to ten from last week's 19, while Michael Bublé's Crazy Love and The Drifters' best-of disc Up On The Roof are buoyed a respective 11 and four places by the special occasion to this Sunday's 12 and 13.

However, previous best-sellers Nicole Scherzinger and The Strokes find themselves on the brink of the top 20 in their second week, as the former Pussycat Doll's Killer Love slips nine to to 17, while the New York band sit at at 18 after falling from three.

The top ten in full:

1. (1) Adele: '21'
2. (2) Adele: '19'
3. (5) Ronan Keating & Burt Bacharach: 'When Ronan Met Burt'
4. (6) The Overtones: 'Good 'Ol Fashioned Love'
5. (7) Rihanna: 'Loud'
6. (-) Mary Byrne: 'Mine & Yours'
7. (-) Radiohead: 'The King Of Limbs'
8. (-) Britney Spears: 'Femme Fatale'
9. (4) Jessie J: 'Who You Are'
10. (19) Eva Cassidy: 'Simply Eva'

Source: Official Charts Company

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Watch 'Rolling In The Deep' from Adele's number one album 21 below: