GRAMMYS SPIKE ADELE

Her smash album 21 spends its 20th week at #1, tying the mark set, ironically enough, by the late Whitney Houston soundtrack for The Bodyguard in 1993.

The album sells another 242k this week, a whopping 102% increase, and will soar towards 400k next Tuesday, when it will mark its year in the marketplace with a 21st week at #1. It is currently over 6.6 million and counting.

Interscope’s Van Halen album, A Different Kind of Truth, the veteran SoCal rockers’ first with David Lee Roth since 1984, is one of five newcomers to the Top 10, with a more-than-respectable total of 187k at #2.

The latest installment of Capitol/EMI’s long-running Now series, the 41st, debuts at #3 with 141k, followed by Epic pop-rock outfit The Fray’s Scars & Stories at #4 with 90k.

Hear Music/Concord Music’s Paul McCartney album of standards, Kisses on the Bottom, debuts at #5 with 75k.

The late RCA Records artist Whitney Houston’s Greatest Hits re-enters at #6, with 60k in sales, almost all of which come via iTunes after her tragic death on Saturday night.

Capitol Nashville/EMI country star Dierks Bentley’s Home is the other Top 10 newcomer, debuting at #7 with 57k.

Universal Republic’s 2012 Grammy Nominees album (#8, +93%), Adele’s 19 (#18-9, +110%) and YM/CM/Universal Republic’s Drake (#10) round out the Top 10.

Other Top 50 new entries include BSeen Media’s Patrice O’Neal (#37) and Music World’s Brian Courtney Wilson (#47).

The DVD release of Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn moves the Chop Shop/Atlantic soundtrack back into the Top 50 at #20, while Capitol/EMI’s Frank Sinatra Best of the Best re-enters at #30 thanks to an iTunes Valentine’s Day sale.

Grammy sales spikes help fuel the return of sensibility music’s The Civil Wars (#35), Capitol/EMI’s David Guetta (#39, also part of iTunes sale) and A&M/Octone’s Maroon 5 (#42) to the chart.

Other Grammy-related boosts in the marketplace go to Capitol/EMI’s Coldplay (#27-12, +127%), New Elektra’s Bruno Mars (#47-28, +90%), Broken Bow’s Jason Aldean (#23-15, +69%), Republic Nashville’s The Band Perry (#31-24, +62%), 19/RCA’s Kelly Clarkson (#13-11, 52%), Capitol Nashville/EMI’s Lady Antebellum (#20-17, +52%) and Glassnote’s Mumford & Sons (#43-34, +46%).