As of today, 10/19/11, the top song in the Billboard Hot 100 chart is Someone Like You by the 23 year old British singer Adele. This song took hold of the #1 position on 10/15/11 replacing Moves Like Jagger by Maroon 5, and has been in the chart for 14 weeks.
Someone Like You was released on January 24 2011 under the album 21; also currently in a Billboard chart - the Billboard 200. The album has prevailed the prestigious albums chart for 33 weeks; never below the #4 position, and has been on the #1 position various times - currently it stands on position #2. The album has managed 4x Platinum (4,000,000 copies shipped) in the US and 10x Platinum (3,000,000 copies shipped) in the UK. Someone Like You has penetrated many other charts apart from the Billboard charts including the UK Singles Chart, the Australian Singles Chart and the New Zealand Singles Chart. The song gained a surge in popularity after Adele performed at the MTV Video Music Awards shortly after the single for the song was released in the US.
Adele said that the song was written shortly after her breakup of the 18 month relationship with a 30 year old man she thought she would marry. She said "We were so intense I thought we would get married. But that was
something he never wanted ...So when I found out he does want that with
someone else, it was just the horrible-est feeling ever. But after I
wrote it, I felt more at peace. It set me free ... I didn't think it
would resonate ... with the world! I'm never gonna write a song like
that again. I think that's the song I'll be known for."
She also said that "I wrote that song on the end of my bed. I had a
cold. I was waiting for my bath to run. I'd found out that he'd got
engaged."
Although Adele thought the song wouldn't resonate it is clear now that it did, evidence being that the song is currently at the peak of the most distinguished chart in the world - the Billboard 100.
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