21 (Adele album) broke the record for the longest-charting album by a female artist on the "Billboard" 200, surpassing "Tapestry" by Carole King. In Canada, "21" spent 28 weeks at number one, and was certified diamond in January 2012 by Music Canada for shipment of 800,000 copies of the album. "21" had sold over 1.489 million copies by January 2013, making it the third best-selling album in Canada, since Nielsen SoundScan started tracking sales. The album was nominated for the 2011 Barclaycard Mercury Prize. In November 2011, Adele won three American Music Awards including Favorite Pop/Rock Album for "21". Adele has seven Grammys
Barry Palmer (British singer) Asia on a song called ""Love The One You Live / Feel the Fire"", written by Stephen Stills and Palmer/Payne respectively. After his period with Mike Oldfield, Barry Palmer then decided to focus totally on his own solo career. In 1985, he released his solo album titled, "Without an Aim". Around the same time, he also released a cover version single of Manfred Mann's ""Doo Wah Diddy Diddy"" together with his own song, ""Spirit of America"", on the B side. 1987 saw the further release of an EP by Palmer entitled "Shimmering Gold / Unknown Singer" which had previously been