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Her last two albums, Como Ama una Mujer and Brave, both released in 2007, sold fewer than 400, 000 units combined, prompting a split with her longtime label, Sony.
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She normally tours with a harmonica player to give the midrange a warm, reedy buzz "Harmonica is great for travel, " she noted but here she wanted an accordion, which also helped color her two landmark albums of the mid-'90s.
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It was for this label that she released her two most acclaimed albums, At Last and The Second Time Around.
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To cap it all off, Adele's 2008 record, "19, " finds itself as the tenth-highest selling record so far this year with 539, 000 sold, making her the first artist to have two albums in the top 10 since Justin Bieber scored a pair halfway through 2010 with "My World 2.0" at No. 2 and "My World" at No. 9.
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Two years later, the first of her five comedy albums, "Phyllis Diller Laughs, " was released.
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