Sheldon Taylor's Souls of Black Notes

                                                                                                                                                                                                                      What's 2021's best-selling album? Here's a hint. It was released just weeks ago.   For a second straight week--- Adele's 30 sits atop the Billboard 100. Number one in nearly twenty countries, its first week numbers surpassed total sales of all music released this year. O ccupying every corner of consumer real estate from streaming platforms to CD/vinyl racks in retail store s, 30  is the only album in 2021 to sell a million copies.  Cannily released months before an already sold-out upcoming winter Vegas residency where she's projected to pocket 2M per show (there's 24 of them), Adele's uninterrupted trajectory continues after 13 years; surviving the transitional industry tidal wave of the late 2000s/early aughts capsizing the careers of many r