Adele’s 30 becomes 2021’s official Christmas Number 1 album

Olivia Rodrigo has claimed the biggest album of 2021 in Ireland, the Official Charts Company can reveal. 

NEW YORK -- New data from the music industry confirms what a lot of people long suspected — 2021 was a very good year for Morgan Wallen, Adele and vinyl.MRC Data's year-end report, presented in collaboration with Billboard, showed that Wallen’s “Dangerous: The Double Album” ended 2021 as both the top country album of the year and the most popular album across all genres, with 3.2 million equivalent album units earned during the year.That's despite Wallen being rebuked by the music industry after a video surfaced showing him blurting out a racial slur. The singer was dropped by his label, disqualified from the Academy of Country Music Awards, and his music was temporarily pulled by radio stations and streaming services.Other top albums in 2021 include Olivia Rodrigo's “SOUR,” Pop Smoke's “Shoot for the Stars Aim for the Moon" and Doja Cat's “Planet Her.” Dua Lipa's single “Levitating” was unstoppable, with 804.7 million on-demand audio and video streams, the top hit of the year.Adele's album “30” arrived late last year and she recorded the highest album sales debut in four years, with first-week sales of 839,000 equivalent units.

Secretary of State Antony Blinken is out with his 2021 Spotify playlist, in the spirit of other political figures (Barack Obama, for one) who’ve taken to releasing their end-of-year favorites.

Olivia Rodrigo has shared a clip of a Christmas song she wrote when she was five years old – scroll down the page to listen to it now.The breakthrough artist posted a snippet of ‘the bels’ on Instagram last week, giving fans a look at her early songwriting.“in honor of Christmas Eve may I present to you my very first Christmas song “the bels” written by 5 year old me lol,” she captioned the post, which also featured a photo of her as a child, wearing a Christmas dress and holding a microphone.

Olivia Rodrigo has been writing music ever since she was a child and she just released the Christmas song that she wrote when she was only five-years-old!

Even as a kid, Olivia Rodrigo was aiming for a holiday hit.

Red rerelease to the debut of Olivia Rodrigo, and both jazz and EDM confections by Lady Gaga. Throw in some anthems from Cardi B, Megan Thee Stallion, and Justin Bieber, and you have quite the dynamic year in music. Here are our picks for the best songs of 2021.I'll spare you from my 10-minute dissertation (Anna's Version) on the genius of Taylor Swift reframing what history wrote off as a bitter breakup song into a thoughtful discussion about the weaponization of memory.

LadBaby is the Christmas number one for 2021, meaning they have now topped the UK festive chart for four years running with sausage roll themed parody songs.Although, of course, this year they won the Christmas chart race with a little help from their main rivals, Elton John and Ed Sheeran.

Ed Sheeran and Elton John’s Merry Christmas claims this year’s Christmas Number 1 on the Official Irish Singles Chart.

the grand divorce drama of single mom Adele, there was a little something for your every musical mood in 2021.Here, 10 songs that provided the soundtrack of our lives — and our feels.Is there anything that Bruno Mars can’t do? As if he was bored with all the 24-karat magic he’s been dropping on us as a solo star, he teamed up with alt-R&B artist Anderson .Paak to form Silk Sonic. The superduo’s first single, which went to No.

After the first 48 hours in the 2021 Christmas Number 1 race (#XmasNo1), LadBaby take an early lead and could be on course to make Official Charts history this Friday.

Manori Ravindran International EditorThe Brit Awards, one of Britain’s biggest music events, have unveiled their 2022 nominees, with the likes of ABBA, Adele, Ed Sheeran, Måneskin and Olivia Rodrigo up for awards.Adele and Ed Sheeran picked up four nominations apiece with both getting nods for album of the year, artist of the year, best pop/R&B act and song of the year.

Adele’s 30 holds steady for a fourth consecutive week at Number 1 on the Official Albums Chart. 

The story of Don’t You Want Me is an extraordinary tale of how The Human League’s stubbornness was rightly ignored, became a worldwide chart-topper selling millions, and managed to save their record label as a bonus.

Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorOlivia Rodrigo and Morgan Wallen topped the RIAA’s 2021 gold and platinum awards, the organization announced on Wednesday, with both artists’ latest albums attaining double-platinum status and Rodrigo’s blockbuster “Drivers License” single being certified four-times platinum.A total of 16 albums and 98 singles released this year achieved gold or platinum status; highlights appear below.RIAA Chairman and CEO Mitch Glazier said: “With another year of Gold & Platinum

It may not as highly regarded as a Christmas Number 1 single, but topping the Official Albums Chart at Christmas still carries a hefty amount of cachet.

Adele is surging towards her fourth consecutive week at Number 1 on the Official Albums Chart with 30.