Sales for the Adele ‘21’ in the USA last year are stagging. The ‘21’ album accounted for 5.1% of all new release album sales during 2011. Adele ‘21’ sold 5,824,000 units in America last year. It was the first album since Usher ‘Confessions’ in 2004 to sell more than 5 million. (Usher did 8 million).