{"id":65281,"date":"2025-10-10T06:54:11","date_gmt":"2025-10-10T06:54:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/65281\/"},"modified":"2025-10-10T06:54:11","modified_gmt":"2025-10-10T06:54:11","slug":"riaa-adeles-21-breaks-tie-with-taylor-swifts-1989-for-highest-certified-female-album-of-the-century","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/65281\/","title":{"rendered":"RIAA: Adele&#8217;s &#8217;21&#8217; Breaks Tie with Taylor Swift&#8217;s &#8216;1989&#8217; for Highest-Certified Female Album of the Century"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                  <a href=\"https:\/\/thatgrapejuice.net\/2025\/10\/riaa-adeles-21-breaks-tie-with-taylor-swifts-1989-for-highest-certified-female-album-of-the-century\/\" class=\"post-image-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns=\" http:=\"\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"300\" data-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/adele-21-thatgrapejuice-2025-riaa-diamond-taylor-swift-1989-600x300.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Not so fast, <a href=\"http:\/\/thatgrapejuice.net\/category\/taylor-swift\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Taylor Swift<\/a>!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Just days after the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) reported a <a href=\"https:\/\/thatgrapejuice.net\/2025\/09\/riaa-taylor-swift-breaks-mariah-careys-record-for-best-selling-female-album-artist-by-becoming-first-woman-to-surpass-100-million-sold-in-usa\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">massive update<\/a> to the Pop diva\u2019s certification logs, she learned a title she held for just 24 hours was quickly snatched by <a href=\"http:\/\/thatgrapejuice.net\/category\/adele\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Adele<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">On Tuesday (September 30), the RIAA reported Swift\u2019s 2014 crossover album \u20181989\u2018 had been certified 14x Platinum \u2013 a feat that denotes 14 million in sales in the United States.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">With the certification upgrade, the project \u2013 home to singles \u2018Shake It Off,\u2019 \u2018Blank Space,\u2019 \u2018Bad Blood,\u2019 \u2018Style,\u2019 and \u2018Wildest Dreams\u2019 \u2013 tied Adele\u2019s blockbuster \u201821\u2018 LP for highest-certified album of the century released by a female act.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Just as Swift\u2019s fans (affectionately called #Swifties) trumpeted the news across social media, the RIAA came back with an update of Addy\u2019s stats and announced the 2011-released opus now sits at 17x Platinum for sales of 17 million in the U.S.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">This update makes \u201921\u2019 the overall best-selling album of the century among all genres and genders, \u00a0leaving its nearest competitors (14 million-sellers Swift\u2019s \u20181989\u2019 and Usher\u2018s 2004 \u2018Confessions\u2018) in its rear view.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The news came just ahead of reports Tay\u2019s latest album, the October 3-released \u2018Life of a Showgirl,\u2018 has snatched Adele\u2019s record for <a href=\"https:\/\/thatgrapejuice.net\/2025\/10\/taylor-swift-breaks-adeles-record-the-life-of-showgirl-surpassing-3-5-million-us-sales-in-week\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">highest first-week sales of all-time<\/a> \u2013 a record the Brit-born beauty achieved with the <a href=\"https:\/\/thatgrapejuice.net\/2015\/11\/177236\/#comments\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">2015 release<\/a> of \u201921.\u2019<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">[<a href=\"https:\/\/www.riaa.com\/gold-platinum\/?advance_search=1&amp;tab_active=awards_by_album&amp;awardal=D&amp;formatal=Album&amp;typeal=&amp;type_optional=ST#search_section\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">source<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Not so fast, Taylor Swift! 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