The XL/Columbia album returns to number one this week, despite its weekly sales falling by 5% to 114,000. However, its decline is significantly less than that of Lady GaGa's Born This Way, which spent the previous two weeks at the top but now falls to number two after a 42% week-on-week sales drop to 100,000 copies.

Adele's album has now sold more than 2.2m copies in the US, easily making it the year's biggest-selling album, while its 10th non-consecutive week ...