Adele’s ’21’ reaches diamond status

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10,000,000: Number of copies sold of Adele’s “21,” giving it Diamond status. The Grammy-award winning CD was released in Feb. 2011 and stayed atop the charts for 24 straight weeks. The last album to reach Diamond in the U.S.? *N Sync’s “No Strings Attached” which was released in 2001.

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