Eminem and Adele set selling records

Both Eminem and Adele were praised for notable selling achievements by Nielsen, an international music sales tracking agency. Eminem's 2010 studio effort Recovery has become the first album ever to sell over one million digital copies in the US.

Its haul now stands at 3.9 million copies, with 1.001 albums sold online.

Adele's single Someone Like You was praised as the first single in UK to sell more than one million copies this decade. Meanwhile, singer's second studio effort 21 is the biggest selling album this year.

In May Adele and her team topped The Guardian's annual list of the most influential persons in British music industry. Singer was placed higher than Universal Music Group CEO Lucian Grainge, who became second, and famous music and TV producer Simon Cowell, who was third.

List creators pointed that through this year Adele's second studio effort 21 was one in every ten albums bought in the UK.