Adele scores world's biggest-selling album

Adele has reached another milestone as her career continues to soar - she's become the fourth British star in five years to record the world's biggest-selling album.

The Someone Like You hitmaker has now shifted 18 million copies of her record 21, accounting for 1.6 per cent of total album sales around the world.

It means she follows her fellow Brits Amy Winehouse, Coldplay and Susan Boyle, who have all topped the international album sales chart since 2007.