The numbers are in, and Adele is a winner even without releasing a new album.

Her 2010 album, “21,” sold over 27,000 copies in CDs, digital downloads and streams. Her earlier recording, “19” did just over 10,000 copies.

This means she outsold new recordings from veterans like Rod Stewart and Harry Connick Jr, a new record from Joanna Newsome, and one from DJ Khaled.

If you combine Adele’s album sales, she finishes the week at about number 6, just ahead of Blake Shelton.

All of this is heat from her record breaking single “Hello,” which has stayed at number 1 for more than a week. The album “Hello” will be on, “25,” is set for sales of a million copies or more when it’s released November 20th.

What’s interesting is that even though pop rival Justin Bieber has had three hits on the charts recently, none of them has re-activated sales of his catalog albums.

But “Hello” has stirred the pot, so to speak, while Bieber has just smoked it.

I don’t know anything about Connick’s new record. Stewart’s had a lot of potential, but I would say it was dumped. Total sales are around 15,000 copies. What a shame.

Janet Jackson’s new album, “Unbreakable,” is now out of the top 50 altogether after three short weeks. Wow. The initial rush of sales petered out to zilch, leaving her at less than 150,000 for all that work. But she didn’t appear on any TV shows or do any major press. The album is now a souvenir at her concerts. Maybe that was the plan all along. If so, it worked.

Demi Lovato’s new album dropped 71% in sales from last week to this week.

Pop brat Justin Bieber is having a bad bad time.

Adele and One Direction are stealing his thunder as the clock counts down to all three releasing new albums at the same time.

Adele’s “25” comes on November 20th, one week after Bieber’s “Purpose” and One Direction’s “Made in the AM” collide on the 13th.

All signs point to Bieber finishing second to One Direction on their debut. And then the next week Adele is supposedly wiping the floor with each of them. Her “25” will sell over a million copies in its debut by all accounts. It’s the top selling album by pre-orders on all services.

So Bieber, a petulant child whose monotone music is now dotted by bird sounds, isn’t reacting well. He had not one but two meltdowns abroad in the last 48 hours. He walked out of a Spanish radio interview because he didn’t understand what was going on. Then he walked off the stage in Oslo during a TV taping after someone spilled water on the stage.

The irony is that his latest single is called “Sorry.” He isn’t. He’s still the same Bieber who’s abused people, spit on fans, had a few arrests, and made fun of Anne Frank.

Adding Charlie Puth, Halsey, Nas, and a bunch of guest artists to cover his deficiencies isn’t enough. Sorry!

The Beatles’ “A Day in the Life” is a remarkable recording, of course. It ends “Sgt. Pepper” with a gravity from which popular music has never recovered. Now we’ve got the video coming on the Beatles “1 + 1” collection which comes November 13th. This is an actual must have box set with a CD of the Beatles’ 27 number 1 hits all remixed after all this time in new enhanced stereo– and superior even to the 2009 box set. There’s also two DVDs (plain or Blu Ray) with all recovered, enhanced, or discovered videos– including “A Day in the Life.”

On this track in particular, listen for Ringo. He is an amazing drummer. He gives these records a sophisticated personality that is too often underrated.