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Reflecting On Adele’s ‘21’ Ten Years Later · Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest

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  Speaker 1: Direct from Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest, Adele's second album twenty
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  Speaker 1: one turned ten years old earlier this week, and Billboard
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  Speaker 1: marked the anniversary by compiling some of the staggering stats
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  Speaker 1: accumulated since it released in the era defined by streaming
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  Speaker 1: more than sales. The records still sold over twelve million
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  Speaker 1: traditional copies today, a feat which is unheard of these days.
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  Speaker 1: But make no mistake, it's dominating streaming as well, played
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  Speaker 1: more than two point six billion times. In fact, it's
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  Speaker 1: also the first and only album since Michael Jackson's Thriller
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  Speaker 1: to be the number one overallbum of two consecutive years,
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  Speaker 1: and it also is the only album of this century
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  Speaker 1: to spend twenty weeks at number one on Billboard's Album
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  Speaker 1: two hundred and with their fourth album Do this year,
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  Speaker 1: she might make history again. That's direct from Hollywood.