"You guys seem to have an inflated sense of how much people in the States actually care about Adele"

Can't speak for the others but all I was doing was giving the hard facts. 10,500 million units sold in the States in the few years it has been out is a massive seller. It has sold more than Dark Side Of The Moon and almost as much as Sgt Peppers and they've had decades of a start on her. Going by sales she is as popular in the States as she is here. All I was suggesting was the fact that you are in the States is not the primary reason that you don't encounter her music. I am sure there are many people in the UK who are out of touch with aspects of popular culture and rarely here her music too.

Actually I recall one episode of (either American Idol or American X-Factor) when the judges collectively put their heads in their hands and said "not another bloody Adele song" as yet another in a long line of young American girls belted her way through one of the songs.