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Song of the Day #4,875: ‘Easy On Me’ – Adele

I haven’t done the math, but on a per-album basis, is there a more successful female artist than Adele? She currently sits at #10 on the all-time sales list for women based on the performance of just three albums. Everybody above her has released at least twice as many.

Even more impressive is that she makes those numbers with seemingly very little effort. She just emerges every 4-5 years after being almost completely out of the spotlight, drops a new song, and watches it break every streaming record in the book.

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Song of the Day #3,656: ‘Water Under the Bridge’ – Adele

‘Water Under the Bridge’ is one of the best songs on Adele’s 2015 album 25, which is a fine album start to finish. A fine album, but not a remarkable one, which makes its record-shattering commercial performance even more astounding.

These days it’s rare for an album to sell a million copies. Selling 2 million is a pipe dream. Over the past three years, only Taylor Swift (Reputation) and Ed Sheeran (รท) have reached the 2 million threshold.

That’s 2 million copies, total.

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Song of the Day #3,251: ‘Louisiana 1927’ – Randy Newman vs. Adele

Women have faced an uphill battle in this first round of Montauk Madness, going up against the likes of Frank Sinatra, Bob Dylan, Tom Petty, David Byrne, Elvis Costello and Ben Folds Five. Here’s another example, as the talented and mega-successful Adele faces off against one of our greatest songwriters, Randy Newman.

I feel bad for Adele, who I like both as an artist and a personality, but this is an easy call for me. Newman is a unique and special talent who deserves to go far in this contest.

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Song of the Day #3,015: ‘Send My Love (To Your New Lover)’ – Adele

adele-25Rounding out Billboard’s top ten this week is ‘Send My Love (To Your New Lover),’ the latest single from Adele’s smash hit 25.

Though Adele destroyed every album sales record with the release of 25, it doesn’t seem like that record has permeated the culture. Compare it to Beyoncé’s Lemonade, which sold far fewer copies but dominated the conversation for months.

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Song of the Day #2,735: ‘When We Were Young’ – Adele

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‘When We Were Young’ – Adele

Nobody thought NSYNC’s record of 2.4 million albums sold in a week would ever fall. Not so much because NSYNC is some pinnacle of creative success but because the music industry has changed so much that a million-copy sales week is now unheard of. Two million? More? That’s fantasy land.

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