Rising 4-2 on the Billboard 200 albums chart, 21 last week sold another 80,000 units in the US - a 10% rise on the week - to take its cumulative total to 3.06 million. That makes it the first album by a UK artist in the market to sell as many copies since Susan Boyle's debut release I Dreamed A Dream at the end of 2009.

And at long last, the Adele album finally has a significant second American hit ...