Her second album, which Nielsen SoundScan announced this week to no great surprise was 2011's biggest seller with 5.8 million Stateside sales, progresses a place to spend a 14th non-consecutive week at number one. It sold another 144,000 copies last week, a 64% drop on the week, and this is the sixth time the album has now returned to the top, itself a record.

In what amounts to a New Year clear-out with seasonal records either plummeting down the chart ...