Another Chart Record For Adele

Tomorrow Adele's 21 returns to the top of Billboard's Top 200 album chart for the 24th week, placing it in the stratosphere of only seven other albums with #1 runs of six months or longer. It was the album of the year for 2011 and is on track to repeat in 2012.

54 weeks: West Side Story – Soundtrack (1962–63)
37 weeks: Thriller – Michael Jackson (1983–84)
31 weeks: Calypso – Harry Belafonte (1956–57)
31 weeks: South Pacific – Soundtrack (1958–59)
31 weeks: Rumours – Fleetwood Mac (1977–78)
24 weeks: 21 – Adele (2011-12)
24 weeks: Saturday Night Fever – Soundtrack (1978)
24 weeks: Purple Rain – Prince and the Revolution (1984–85)

It should be noted that having the most weeks at #1 is an achievement relative to the sales of other albums in the marketplace at that time. The actual list of top numerical sales is something very different.