Adele’s latest album, 30, has remained at the top of the Billboard 200 for the second week in a row, according to Billboard.
30 sold 288,000 equivalent album sales in its second week, a 66 percent drop from its enormous launch, but the biggest second week for an album since Drake’s Scorpion in 2018. Adele’s latest album has 225,000 conventional album sales and 61,000 SEA units, for a total of 81.33 million on-demand streaming of the set’s songs.
Adele revealed this week that she will be joining Lady Gaga, Jennifer Lopez, and Britney Spears in taking her skills to Vegas for a 12-week residency at the Caesars Palace Hotel, following in the footsteps of Lady Gaga, Jennifer Lopez, and Britney Spears. Weekends With Adele will take place every Friday and Saturday from January through April, with the artist performing every Friday and Saturday.
Red (Taylor’s Version), Taylor Swift’s re-recorded album, debuted at No. 2 for the second week in a row, with a solid showing of 102,000 equivalent album units. Swift has continued to gather units in the six figures in the weeks after her current album’s release, after reaching her 10th No. 1 on the Billboard 200 late this month and nearly claiming the biggest weekly amount of 2021.
Last week, Michael Bublé’s Christmas made its annual holiday season return to the chart, but this week, it jumped from ninth to third place after selling 59,000 sales. According to Billboard, Christmas hit No. 1 in 2011 and 2012, and has been in the top 10 every year thereafter.