Move over, Lady Gaga. The queen of the Monster Ball has ruled the Billboard 200 Chart with her Born This Way album for the past two weeks, but soulful songstress Adele is predicted to reclaim the number one spot next week. Adele’s album, 21, has spent 15 weeks on the Billboard 200, never falling below number three on the chart. Should Adele’s album peak once again, it will spend its tenth nonconsecutive week as the highest selling album in the country.
 Adele may not hatch from an egg or wear raw meat, but she gives one heck of a live performance!
Adele’s anticipated return to the top corresponds with an 84% decrease in sales of Lady Gaga’s sophomore album. Billboard attributes Gaga’s steep slump to the aftereffect of extremely inflated sales in the album’s first week, thanks to Amazon selling the entire album for a mere 99 cents for two days after its release. Last week, Born this Way fell from selling 1.1 million copies to 174,000 copies. Meanwhile, Adele held steady, selling 121,000 copies, a negligible four percent change from the previous week.
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Are there any hard feelings between the two divas? Probably not. In March, Lady Gaga singled out Adele as one of her favorite British artists. “I think Adele is wonderful and I’m so excited at the success she has had,” Gaga told British music outlet Radio 1.
Adele’s Rolling in the Deep is also number one on the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart.
In other news, the singer is currently facing controversy over her comments about paying high taxes in her native Britain. “I’m mortified to have to pay 50 percent,” Adele said in an interview with Q Magazine. Adele is also making headlines for confessing her crush on Britain’s Prince Harry. “I’d love a night out with him, he seems like a right laugh,” she dished in the July issue of Glamour UK.
Check out Adele’s latest single, Set Fire to the Rain.