Adele along with the 2008 vice president candidate Sarah Palin appeared on Saturday Night Live October 18, 2008. The show earned the highest ratings in 14 years with a total of 17 million people watching. Adele performed her songs Chasing Pavements and Cold Shoulder. The songs topped the iTunes chart the next today. After the performance, Adele’s album jumped 35 places and was number 11 on the U.S. chart the following week.
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