Adele`s `21` set to make history in top 40-album chart

Washington: Adele`s album `21` is on course of making history after spending its 118th consecutive week in the top 40 of the Billboard 200 album chart, according to Billboard.

The 25-year-old singer`s hit album was released more than two years ago in January 2011 and is now approaching the chart record set by Shania Twain with her 1997 album `Come On Over` which remained in the list for 151 weeks, the Huffington Post reported. Taylor Swift`s debut self-titled album stayed 126 weeks in the top 40 and Nickelback`s 2005 album, `All the Right Reasons` was there for 122 weeks. ` 21` debuted at top spot on the Billboard 200 and has been certified diamond; it also won six Grammy awards, including Album of the Year, as well as Record of the Year and Song of the Year for `Rolling in the Deep.` ANI