Adele

Adele Laurie Blue Adkins[5]  MBE ( / əˈdɛl / ; born 5 May 1988) is an English singer and songwriter. Graduating from the BRIT School for Performing Arts and Technology in 2006, Adele was given a recording contract by XL Recordings after a friend posted her demo on Myspace the same year. In 2007, she received the Brit Awards "Critics' Choice" award and won the BBC Sound of 2008 poll. Her debut album, 19, was released in 2008 to commercial and critical success. It is certified seven times platinum in the UK, and double platinum in the US. An appearance she made on Saturday Night Live in late 2008 boosted her career in the US. At the 51st Annual Grammy Awards in 2009, Adele received the awards for Best New Artist and Best Female Pop Vocal Performance.

Adele released her second studio album, 21, in early 2011. The album was well received critically and surpassed the success of her debut,[6]  earning the singer numerous awards in 2012, including a record-tying six Grammy Awards, including Album of the Year; two Brit Awards, including British Album of the Year, and three American Music Awards. The album has been certified 16 times platinum in the UK, and is the fourth best-selling album in the UK of all time.[7]  In the US it has held the top position longer than any album since 1985, and is certified Diamond.[8] [9]  The album has sold 31 million copies worldwide.[10]

The success of 21 earned Adele numerous mentions in the Guinness Book of World Records.[11]  She is the first woman in the history of the Billboard Hot 100 to have three simultaneous top 10 singles as a lead artist, and the first female artist to simultaneously have two albums in the top five of the Billboard 200 and two singles in the top five of the Billboard Hot 100.[12]  21 is the longest-running number one album by a female solo artist in the history of the UK and US Album Charts.[13] [14]  In 2012, she released "Skyfall", which she wrote and recorded for the James Bond film of the same name. The song won an Academy Award, aGrammy Award, and a Golden Globe Award for Best Original Song.[15]  After taking a three-year break, Adele released her third studio album, 25, on 20 November 2015. The album debuted at number one in most major markets and broke first week sales records in the UK and US.[16]  The lead single, "Hello", debuted at number one in many countries around the world, and became the first song in the US to sell over one million digital copies within a week of its release.

In 2011 and 2012, Billboard named Adele Artist of the Year. In 2012, she was listed at number five on VH1's 100 Greatest Women in Music,<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-VH1_100_17-0" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:isolate;font-size:11.2px;font-weight:normal;">[17]  and Time magazine named her one of the most influential people in the world.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Time_100_18-0" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:isolate;font-size:11.2px;font-weight:normal;">[18]  With sales of more than 100 million records, Adele is one of the best-selling recording artists in the world.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-19" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:isolate;font-size:11.2px;font-weight:normal;">[19]

Early Life
<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.4px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;font-weight:normal;">Adele Laurie Blue Adkins was born on 5 May 1988 in Tottenham, London, the daughter of an English mother, Penny Adkins, and a Welsh father, Mark Evans.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-20" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:isolate;font-size:11.2px;font-weight:normal;">[20]  Evans left when Adele was two, leaving her mother to raise her.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-21" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:isolate;font-size:11.2px;font-weight:normal;">[21] <sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-VanMeter_22-0" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:isolate;font-size:11.2px;font-weight:normal;">[22]  She began singing at age four and asserts that she became obsessed with voices.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-23" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:isolate;font-size:11.2px;font-weight:normal;">[23] <sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-24" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:isolate;font-size:11.2px;font-weight:normal;">[24]  Growing up, Adele spent most of her time singing rather than reading; the last book she read was Roald Dahl's Matilda when she was six years old.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Adele_DM_Interview_25-0" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:isolate;font-size:11.2px;font-weight:normal;">[25]  In 1997, at the age of nine, Adele and her mother, who by then had found work as a furniture maker and an adult-learning activities organiser, relocated to Brighton on the south coast of England.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-26" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:isolate;font-size:11.2px;font-weight:normal;">[26]

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.4px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;font-weight:normal;">In 1999, two years later, she and her mother moved back to London; first to Brixton, and then to neighbouring district West Norwood, in south London.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-27" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:isolate;font-size:11.2px;font-weight:normal;">[27]  West Norwood is the subject for Adele's first record, "Hometown Glory", which she wrote and composed in 2004, when she was 16.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-AmyWho_28-0" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:isolate;font-size:11.2px;font-weight:normal;">[28]  Adele graduated from the BRIT School for Performing Arts & Technology in Croydon in May 2006,<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Soul_29-0" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:isolate;font-size:11.2px;font-weight:normal;">[29]  where she was a classmate of Leona Lewis and Jessie J.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-nicole_5-1" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:isolate;font-size:11.2px;font-weight:normal;">[5] <sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-collis_30-0" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:isolate;font-size:11.2px;font-weight:normal;">[30]  Adele credits the school with nurturing her talent<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-BlogCriticsInterview_31-0" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:isolate;font-size:11.2px;font-weight:normal;">[31]  even though, at the time, she was more interested in going into A&R and hoped to launch other people's careers.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-nicole_5-2" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:isolate;font-size:11.2px;font-weight:normal;">[5]

2006-2010:  Beginnings and 19
<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.4px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;font-weight:normal;">Four months after graduation, she published two songs on the fourth issue of the online arts publication PlatformsMagazine.com.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-32" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:isolate;font-size:11.2px;font-weight:normal;">[32]  She had recorded a three-song demo for a class project and given it to a friend.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-nicole_5-3" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:isolate;font-size:11.2px;font-weight:normal;">[5]  The friend posted the demo on Myspace, where it became very successful and led to a phone call from Richard Russell, boss of the music label XL Recordings. She doubted if the offer was real because the only record company she knew was Virgin Records, and she took a friend with her to the meeting.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-collis_30-1" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:isolate;font-size:11.2px;font-weight:normal;">[30] <sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-AdeleBillboard_33-0" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:isolate;font-size:11.2px;font-weight:normal;">[33] Nick Huggett, at XL, recommended Adele to manager Jonathan Dickins at September Management, and in June 2006, Dickins became her official representative.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-hitquarters.com_34-0" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:isolate;font-size:11.2px;font-weight:normal;">[34]  September was managing Jamie T at the time and this proved a major draw for Adele, a big fan of the British singer-songwriter. Huggett then signed Adele to XL in September 2006.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-hitquarters.com_34-1" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:isolate;font-size:11.2px;font-weight:normal;">[34]  Adele provided vocals for Jack Peñate's song, "My Yvonne," for his debut album, and it was during this session she first met producer Jim Abbiss, who would go on to produce both the majority of her debut album, 19,and tracks on 21.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-penate_35-0" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:isolate;font-size:11.2px;font-weight:normal;">[35]  In June 2007, Adele made her television debut, performing "Daydreamer" on the BBC's ''[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Later..._with_Jools_Holland Later... with Jools Holland]''.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-36" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:isolate;font-size:11.2px;font-weight:normal;">[36] Adele's breakthrough song, "Hometown Glory", was released in October 2007.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-hitquarters.com_34-2" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:isolate;font-size:11.2px;font-weight:normal;">[34]

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.4px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;font-weight:normal;">By 2008, Adele had become the headliner and performed an acoustic set, in which she was supported by Damien Rice.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-37" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:isolate;font-size:11.2px;font-weight:normal;">[37] <sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-38" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:isolate;font-size:11.2px;font-weight:normal;">[38]  She became the first recipient of the Brit Awards Critics' Choice and was named the number-one predicted breakthrough act of 2008 in an annual BBC poll of music critics, Sound of 2008.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-39" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:isolate;font-size:11.2px;font-weight:normal;">[39] <sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-40" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:isolate;font-size:11.2px;font-weight:normal;">[40]  The album 19, named for her age at the time she wrote and composed many of its songs, entered the British charts at number one. The Times Encyclopedia of Modern Music named 19 an "essential" blue-eyed soul recording.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-BlueEyedSoul_41-0" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:isolate;font-size:11.2px;font-weight:normal;">[41]  She released her second single, "Chasing Pavements", on 14 January 2008, two weeks ahead of her debut album, 19. The song reached number two on the UK Chart, and stayed there for four weeks.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-nme.com_42-0" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:isolate;font-size:11.2px;font-weight:normal;">[42]  Adele was nominated for a 2008 Mercury Prize award for 19.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-43" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:isolate;font-size:11.2px;font-weight:normal;">[43]  She also won an Urban Music Award for "Best Jazz Act."<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-44" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:isolate;font-size:11.2px;font-weight:normal;">[44]  She also received a Q Awards nomination in the category of Breakthrough Act<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-45" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:isolate;font-size:11.2px;font-weight:normal;">[45]  and a Music of Black Origin nomination in the category of Best UK Female.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-46" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:isolate;font-size:11.2px;font-weight:normal;">[46]  In March 2008, Adele signed a deal with Columbia Records and XL Recordings for her foray into the United States.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Columbia_47-0" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:isolate;font-size:11.2px;font-weight:normal;">[47]  She embarked on a short North American tour in the same month,<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Columbia_47-1" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:isolate;font-size:11.2px;font-weight:normal;">[47]  and 19 was released in the US in June.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-BlogCriticsInterview_31-1" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:isolate;font-size:11.2px;font-weight:normal;">[31]  Billboard magazine stated of it: "Adele truly has potential to become among the most respected and inspiring international artists of her generation."<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Billboard2008_48-0" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:isolate;font-size:11.2px;font-weight:normal;">[48]  The An Evening with Adele world tour began in May 2008 and ended in June 2009.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-49" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:isolate;font-size:11.2px;font-weight:normal;">[49]

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.4px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;font-weight:normal;"> She later cancelled the 2008 US tour dates to be with a former boyfriend. <sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-cancelled_tour_50-0" style="font-weight:normal;line-height:1;unicode-bidi:isolate;font-size:11.2px;">[50]   She said in   Nylon   magazine in June 2009, "I'm like, 'I can't believe I did that.' It seems so ungrateful.... I was drinking far too much and that was kind of the basis of my relationship with this boy. I couldn't bear to be without him, so I was like, 'Well, I'll just cancel my stuff then.'" <sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-cancelled_tour_50-1" style="font-weight:normal;line-height:1;unicode-bidi:isolate;font-size:11.2px;">[50]   She referred to this period as her "early life crisis". <sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-cancelled_tour_50-2" style="font-weight:normal;line-height:1;unicode-bidi:isolate;font-size:11.2px;">[50] She is also known for her dislike of flying and bouts of homesickness when away from her native London. <sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Sanderson_51-0" style="font-weight:normal;line-height:1;unicode-bidi:isolate;font-size:11.2px;">[51]   By the middle of October 2008, Adele's attempt to break in America appeared to have failed. <sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-MELISSARUGGIER_52-0" style="font-weight:normal;line-height:1;unicode-bidi:isolate;font-size:11.2px;">[52] <sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-53" style="font-weight:normal;line-height:1;unicode-bidi:isolate;font-size:11.2px;">[53]   But then she was booked as the musical guest on 18 October 2008 episode of   NBC 's   Saturday Night Live.   The episode, which included an expected appearance by then US vice-presidential candidate   Sarah Palin, earned the program its best ratings in 14 years with 17 million viewers. Adele performed "Chasing Pavements" and " Cold Shoulder ," <sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-54" style="font-weight:normal;line-height:1;unicode-bidi:isolate;font-size:11.2px;">[54]   and the following day,   19   topped the iTunes charts and ranked at number five at Amazon.com while "Chasing Pavements" rose into the top 25. <sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-55" style="font-weight:normal;line-height:1;unicode-bidi:isolate;font-size:11.2px;">[55]   The album reached number 11 on the   Billboard 200   as a result, a jump of 35 places over the previous week. <sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-56" style="font-weight:normal;line-height:1;unicode-bidi:isolate;font-size:11.2px;">[56]   In November 2008 Adele moved to   Notting Hill, London after leaving her mother's house, a move that prompted her to give up drinking. <sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Cancel2008_57-0" style="font-weight:normal;line-height:1;unicode-bidi:isolate;font-size:11.2px;">[57]   The album was certified as gold in February 2009 by the   RIAA. <sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-58" style="font-weight:normal;line-height:1;unicode-bidi:isolate;font-size:11.2px;">[58]   By July 2009, the album had sold 2.2 million copies worldwide. <sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-59" style="font-weight:normal;line-height:1;unicode-bidi:isolate;font-size:11.2px;">[59]

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.4px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;font-weight:normal;">At the 51st Annual Grammy Awards in February 2009, Adele received the award for Best New Artist, in addition to the award for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance for "Chasing Pavements", which was also nominated for Record of the Year and Song of the Year.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-60" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:isolate;font-size:11.2px;font-weight:normal;">[60]  Adele performed "Chasing Pavements" at the ceremony in a duet with Jennifer Nettles. In 2010, Adele received a Grammy nomination for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance for "Hometown Glory."<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-61" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:isolate;font-size:11.2px;font-weight:normal;">[61]  In April her song "My Same" entered the German Singles Chart after it had been performed by Lena Meyer-Landrut in the talent show contest Unser Star für Oslo, or Our Star for Oslo, in which the German entry to theEurovision Song Contest 2010 was determined.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-62" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:isolate;font-size:11.2px;font-weight:normal;">[62] <sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-63" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:isolate;font-size:11.2px;font-weight:normal;">[63]  In late September, after being featured on The X Factor, Adele's version of Bob Dylan's "Make You Feel My Love" re-entered the UK singles chart at number 4.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-64" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:isolate;font-size:11.2px;font-weight:normal;">[64]  During the 2010 CMT Artists of the Year special, Adele performed a widely publicised duet of Lady Antebellum's "Need You Now" with Darius Rucker.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-65" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:isolate;font-size:11.2px;font-weight:normal;">[65]  This performance was later nominated for a CMT Music Award.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-66" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:isolate;font-size:11.2px;font-weight:normal;">[66]

2011-2014:  21, Worldwide Recognition, and Hiatus
<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.4px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;font-weight:normal;">Adele released her second studio album, 21, on 24 January 2011 in the UK and 22 February in the US.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-billboard21_67-0" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:isolate;font-size:11.2px;font-weight:normal;">[67] <sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-SecondAlbum_68-0" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:isolate;font-size:11.2px;font-weight:normal;">[68]  She said that the album was inspired by the break-up with her former partner.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-VanMeter_22-1" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:isolate;font-size:11.2px;font-weight:normal;">[22]  The album's sound is described as classic and contemporary country and roots music. The change in sound from her first album was the result of her bus driver playing contemporary music from Nashville when she was touring the American South, and the title reflected the growth she had experienced in the prior two years.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-SecondAlbum_68-1" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:isolate;font-size:11.2px;font-weight:normal;">[68]  Adele told Spin Magazine: "It was really exciting for me because I never grew up around [that music]."<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Spin21_69-0" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:isolate;font-size:11.2px;font-weight:normal;">[69]  21 hit number 1 in more than 26 countries, including the UK and the US.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Independent2012_70-0" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:isolate;font-size:11.2px;font-weight:normal;">[70] <sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-71" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:isolate;font-size:11.2px;font-weight:normal;">[71] <sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-72" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:isolate;font-size:11.2px;font-weight:normal;">[72]

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.4px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;font-weight:normal;">An emotional performance of "Someone like You" at the 2011 Brit Awards on 15 February propelled the song to number one in the UK.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-73" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:isolate;font-size:11.2px;font-weight:normal;">[73]  Her first album, 19, re-entered the UK album chart alongside 21, while first and second singles "Rolling in the Deep" and "Someone like You" were in the top 5 of the UK singles chart, making Adele the first living artist to achieve the feat of two top-five hits in both the Official Singles Chart and the Official Albums Chart simultaneously since The Beatles in 1964.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-74" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:isolate;font-size:11.2px;font-weight:normal;">[74]  Both songs topped the charts in multiple markets and broke numerous sales performance records. Following her performance of "Someone like You" at the 2011 MTV Video Music Awards, it became Adele's second number-one single on the Billboard Hot 100.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-75" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:isolate;font-size:11.2px;font-weight:normal;">[75]  By December 2011, 21 sold over 3.4 million copies in the UK, and became the biggest-selling album of the 21st century, overtaking Amy Winehouse's Back to Black,<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Jones_76-0" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:isolate;font-size:11.2px;font-weight:normal;">[76] <sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-77" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:isolate;font-size:11.2px;font-weight:normal;">[77]  with Adele becoming the first artist ever to sell three million albums in the UK in one calendar year.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-78" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:isolate;font-size:11.2px;font-weight:normal;">[78] <sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-79" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:isolate;font-size:11.2px;font-weight:normal;">[79]  "Set Fire to the Rain" became Adele's third number one single on the Billboard Hot 100, as Adele became the first artist ever to have an album, 21, hold the number-one position on the Billboard 200 concurrently with three number one singles.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-CapitalFM_80-0" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:isolate;font-size:11.2px;font-weight:normal;">[80]

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.4px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;font-weight:normal;">To promote the album, Adele embarked upon the "Adele Live" tour, which sold out its North American leg.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-81" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:isolate;font-size:11.2px;font-weight:normal;">[81]  In October 2011, Adele was forced to cancel two tours because of a vocal-cord haemorrhage. She released a statement saying she needed an extended period of rest to avoid permanent damage to her voice.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-82" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:isolate;font-size:11.2px;font-weight:normal;">[82]  In the first week of November 2011 Steven M. Zeitels, director of the Center for Laryngeal Surgery and Voice Rehabilitation at the Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, performed laser microsurgery on Adele's vocal cords to remove a benign polyp.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-83" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:isolate;font-size:11.2px;font-weight:normal;">[83] <sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-84" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:isolate;font-size:11.2px;font-weight:normal;">[84] <sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-85" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:isolate;font-size:11.2px;font-weight:normal;">[85]  A recording of her tour, Live at the Royal Albert Hall, was released in November 2011, debuting at number one in the US with 96,000 copies sold, the highest one-week tally for a music DVD in four years, becoming the best-selling music DVD of 2011.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-86" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:isolate;font-size:11.2px;font-weight:normal;">[86]  Adele is the first artist in Nielsen SoundScanhistory to have the year's number-one album (21), number-one single ("Rolling in the Deep"), and number-one music video.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-yahoomusic_87-0" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:isolate;font-size:11.2px;font-weight:normal;">[87]  At the 2011 American Music Awards on 20 November, Adele won three awards; Favorite Pop/Rock Female Artist, Favorite Adult Contemporary Artist, and Favorite Pop/Rock Album for 21.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-AMA_88-0" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:isolate;font-size:11.2px;font-weight:normal;">[88]  On 9 December, Billboardnamed Adele Artist of the Year, Billboard 200 Album of the Year (21), and the Billboard Hot 100 Song of the Year ("Rolling in the Deep"), becoming the first woman ever to top all three categories.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-KCaulfield_89-0" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:isolate;font-size:11.2px;font-weight:normal;">[89] <sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-90" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:isolate;font-size:11.2px;font-weight:normal;">[90]

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.4px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;font-weight:normal;">Following the throat microsurgery, she made her live comeback at the 2012 Grammy Awards in February.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-91" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:isolate;font-size:11.2px;font-weight:normal;">[91]  She won in all six categories for which she was nominated, making her the second female artist in Grammy history, after Beyoncé, to win that many categories in a single night.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-92" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:isolate;font-size:11.2px;font-weight:normal;">[92]  Following that success, 21 achieved the biggest weekly sales increase following a Grammy win since Nielsen SoundScan began tracking data in 1991.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-93" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:isolate;font-size:11.2px;font-weight:normal;">[93] <sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-PostGrammyRecord_94-0" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:isolate;font-size:11.2px;font-weight:normal;">[94]  Adele received the Brit Award for Best British Female Solo Artist, and British Album of the Year presented to her by George Michael.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-95" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:isolate;font-size:11.2px;font-weight:normal;">[95] <sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-96" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:isolate;font-size:11.2px;font-weight:normal;">[96]  Following the Brit Awards, 21 reached number one for the 21st non-consecutive week in the UK.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-PostBrits_97-0" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:isolate;font-size:11.2px;font-weight:normal;">[97]  The album has sold over 4.5 million copies in the UK where it is the fourth best-selling album of all time.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-98" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:isolate;font-size:11.2px;font-weight:normal;">[98]  In October, the album passed the 4.5 million mark in the UK, and in November surpassed the 10 million mark in the US.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-billboarddiamond_9-1" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:isolate;font-size:11.2px;font-weight:normal;">[9] <sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-riaadiamond_99-0" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:isolate;font-size:11.2px;font-weight:normal;">[99] <sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-100" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:isolate;font-size:11.2px;font-weight:normal;">[100]  As of 2014, the album has sold 30 million copies worldwide.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-theguardian1_101-0" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:isolate;font-size:11.2px;font-weight:normal;">[101] <sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-21_sales_102-0" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:isolate;font-size:11.2px;font-weight:normal;">[102]  She has sold an estimated 40 million albums and 50 million singles worldwide.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-103" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:isolate;font-size:11.2px;font-weight:normal;">[103]  Adele is the only artist or band in the last decade in the US to earn an RIAA Diamond certification for a one disc album in less than two years.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-riaadiamond_99-1" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:isolate;font-size:11.2px;font-weight:normal;">[99]

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.4px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;font-weight:normal;"> In October 2012, Adele confirmed that she had been writing, composing and recording the theme song for   Skyfall,   the twenty-third   James Bond film. <sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-104" style="font-weight:normal;line-height:1;unicode-bidi:isolate;font-size:11.2px;">[104] <sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-105" style="font-weight:normal;line-height:1;unicode-bidi:isolate;font-size:11.2px;">[105]   The song " Skyfall ," written and composed in collaboration with producer   Paul Epworth, was recorded at   Abbey Road Studios , and features orchestrations by   J. A. C. Redford. <sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-106" style="font-weight:normal;line-height:1;unicode-bidi:isolate;font-size:11.2px;">[106]   Adele stated recording "Skyfall" was "one of the proudest moments of my life." On 14 October, "Skyfall" rose to number 2 on the UK Singles Chart with sales of 92,000 copies bringing its overall sales to 176,000, and "Skyfall" entered the Billboard   Hot 100 at number 8, selling 261,000 copies in the US in its first three days. <sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-107" style="font-weight:normal;line-height:1;unicode-bidi:isolate;font-size:11.2px;">[107]   This tied "Skyfall" with   Duran Duran 's " A View to a Kill " as the highest-charting   James Bond theme song   on the UK Singles Chart; <sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-108" style="font-weight:normal;line-height:1;unicode-bidi:isolate;font-size:11.2px;">[108]   a record surpassed in 2015 by   Sam Smith 's " Writing's on the Wall ". <sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-109" style="font-weight:normal;line-height:1;unicode-bidi:isolate;font-size:11.2px;">[109]

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.4px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;font-weight:normal;">"Skyfall" has sold more than two million copies worldwide<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-110" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:isolate;font-size:11.2px;font-weight:normal;">[110]  and earned Adele the Golden Globe Award for Best Original Song<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-111" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:isolate;font-size:11.2px;font-weight:normal;">[111]  and theAcademy Award for Best Original Song.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-112" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:isolate;font-size:11.2px;font-weight:normal;">[112]  In December 2012, Adele was named Billboard Artist of the Year, and 21 was named Album of the Year, making her the first artist to receive both accolades two years in a row.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-113" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:isolate;font-size:11.2px;font-weight:normal;">[113] <sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-ArtistofYear_114-0" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:isolate;font-size:11.2px;font-weight:normal;">[114]  Adele was also named top female artist.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-ArtistofYear_114-1" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:isolate;font-size:11.2px;font-weight:normal;">[114]  The Associated Press named Adele Entertainer of the Year for 2012.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-115" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:isolate;font-size:11.2px;font-weight:normal;">[115]  The 2013 Grammy Awards saw Adele's live version of "Set Fire to the Rain" win theGrammy Award for Best Pop Solo Performance, bringing her total wins to nine.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-116" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:isolate;font-size:11.2px;font-weight:normal;">[116]

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.4px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;font-weight:normal;">On 3 April 2012, Adele confirmed that her third album would likely be at least two years away, stating, "I have to take time and live a little bit. There were a good two years between my first and second albums, so it'll be the same this time." She stated that she would continue writing and composing her own material.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-MTV2012_117-0" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:isolate;font-size:11.2px;font-weight:normal;">[117]  At the 2013 Grammy Awards, she confirmed that she was in the very early stages of her third album and was having meetings while staying in Los Angeles for the Oscars.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-newalbumconfirmation_118-0" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:isolate;font-size:11.2px;font-weight:normal;">[118] <sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-119" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:isolate;font-size:11.2px;font-weight:normal;">[119]  She also stated that she will most likely work with Paul Epworth again.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-newalbumconfirmation_118-1" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:isolate;font-size:11.2px;font-weight:normal;">[118]

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.4px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;font-weight:normal;">In September 2013, Wiz Khalifa confirmed that he and Adele had collaborated on a song for his upcoming fifth studio album, Blacc Hollywood,though the collaboration did not make the final track listing.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-120" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:isolate;font-size:11.2px;font-weight:normal;">[120]  In January 2014, Adele received her tenth Grammy Award with "Skyfall" winningBest Song Written for Visual Media at the 56th Annual Grammy Awards.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-121" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:isolate;font-size:11.2px;font-weight:normal;">[121]  On the eve of her 26th birthday in May 2014, Adele posted a cryptic message via her Twitter account which prompted media discussion about her next album. The message, "Bye bye 25... See you again later in the year," was interpreted by outlets including the Daily Mail and Capital FM as meaning that her next album would be titled 25 and released later in the year.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-122" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:isolate;font-size:11.2px;font-weight:normal;">[122] <sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-123" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:isolate;font-size:11.2px;font-weight:normal;">[123]  In 2014, Adele was nominated for nine World Music Awards.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-124" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:isolate;font-size:11.2px;font-weight:normal;">[124]  In early August, Paul Moss suggested that an album would be released in 2014 or 2015.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-125" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:isolate;font-size:11.2px;font-weight:normal;">[125]  However, in the October 2014 accounts filed with Companies House by XL Recordings, they ruled out a 2014 release.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-126" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:isolate;font-size:11.2px;font-weight:normal;">[126]

2015-Present:  25
<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.4px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;font-weight:normal;">On 27 August 2015, Billboard reported that Adele's label, XL Recordings, had intentions of releasing her third studio album sometime in November 2015.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Third_album_127-0" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:isolate;font-size:11.2px;font-weight:normal;">[127]  Danger Mouse has contributed a song, while [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tobias_Jesso_Jr. Tobias Jesso Jr.] has written a track, and Ryan Tedder is "back in the mix after producing and co-writing "Rumour Has It" on 21."<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Third_album_127-1" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:isolate;font-size:11.2px;font-weight:normal;">[127]  At the 72nd Venice International Film Festival in early September 2015, Sia announced that her new single "Alive" was co-written by Adele, and had originally been intended for Adele's third album.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-128" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:isolate;font-size:11.2px;font-weight:normal;">[128]  On 18 October, a 30-second clip of new material from Adele was shown on UK television during a commercial break on The X Factor. The commercial teases a snippet from a new song from her third album, with viewers hearing a voice singing accompanied by lyrics on a black screen.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Teaser_129-0" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:isolate;font-size:11.2px;font-weight:normal;">[129]

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.4px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;font-weight:normal;">In a statement released three days later she confirmed that the album is titled 25, with Adele stating, "My last record was a break-up record, and if I had to label this one, I would call it a make-up record. Making up for lost time. Making up for everything I ever did and never did. 25 is about getting to know who I've become without realising. And I'm sorry it took so long but, you know, life happened."<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Third_studio_album_130-0" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:isolate;font-size:11.2px;font-weight:normal;">[130]  Adele also believes 25 will be her last album with her age as its title, believing that 25 would be the end to a trilogy.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-131" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:isolate;font-size:11.2px;font-weight:normal;">[131]  On 22 October, Adele confirmed that 25 would be released on 20 November, while the lead single from the album, "Hello" would be released on 23 October.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-132" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:isolate;font-size:11.2px;font-weight:normal;">[132]  The song was first played on Nick Grimshaw's Radio 1 Breakfast Show on the BBC on the morning of 23 October with Adele interviewed live.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-133" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:isolate;font-size:11.2px;font-weight:normal;">[133]  The video of "Hello", released on 22 October, was viewed over 27.7 million times on YouTube in its first 24 hours, breaking the Vevo record for the most views in a day, surpassing the 20.1 million views for "Bad Blood" by Taylor Swift.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-134" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:isolate;font-size:11.2px;font-weight:normal;">[134]  On 28 October, news outlets, including BBC News, reported that "Hello" was being viewed on YouTube an average one million times an hour.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-135" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:isolate;font-size:11.2px;font-weight:normal;">[135]  "Hello" went on to become the fastest video to hit one billion views on YouTube, which it achieved after 88 days.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-136" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:isolate;font-size:11.2px;font-weight:normal;">[136]  The song debuted at number one in the UK Singles Chart on 30 October, with first week sales of 330,000 copies, making it the biggest-selling number one single in three years.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-137" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:isolate;font-size:11.2px;font-weight:normal;">[137]  "Hello" also debuted at number one in many countries around the world, including Australia, France, Canada, New Zealand, Ireland and Germany, and on 2 November, the song debuted at number one on the Billboard Hot 100, becoming the first song in the US to sell at least one million downloads in a week, setting the record at 1.11 million.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-138" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:isolate;font-size:11.2px;font-weight:normal;">[138]

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.4px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;font-weight:normal;">On 27 October, BBC One announced plans for Adele at the BBC, a one-hour special presented by Graham Norton, in which Adele talks about her new album and performs new songs.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Norton_Interview_139-0" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:isolate;font-size:11.2px;font-weight:normal;">[139]  This was her first television appearance since performing at the 2013 Academy Awards ceremony, and the show was recorded before a live audience on 2 November for broadcast on 20 November, coinciding with the release of 25.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-140" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:isolate;font-size:11.2px;font-weight:normal;">[140]  On 27 October it was also announced that the singer would make an appearance on the US entertainment series Saturday Night Live on 21 November.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Norton_Interview_139-1" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:isolate;font-size:11.2px;font-weight:normal;">[139] <sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-141" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:isolate;font-size:11.2px;font-weight:normal;">[141]  On 30 October, Adele confirmed that she would be performing a one-night-only concert titled "Adele Live in New York City" at the Radio City Music Hall on 17 November. Subsequently, NBC aired the concert special on 14 December.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-142" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:isolate;font-size:11.2px;font-weight:normal;">[142] <sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-143" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:isolate;font-size:11.2px;font-weight:normal;">[143]

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.4px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;font-weight:normal;">On 27 November, 25 debuted at number one on the UK Albums Chart and became the fastest selling album in UK chart history with over 800,000 copies sold in its first week.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-144" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:isolate;font-size:11.2px;font-weight:normal;">[144]  The album debuted at number one in the US where it sold a record-breaking 3.38 million copies in its first week, the largest single sales week for an album since Nielsen began monitoring sales in 1991.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-145" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:isolate;font-size:11.2px;font-weight:normal;">[145]  25 also broke first week sales records in Canada and New Zealand.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-146" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:isolate;font-size:11.2px;font-weight:normal;">[146] <sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-147" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:isolate;font-size:11.2px;font-weight:normal;">[147]  25 became the best-selling album of 2015 in a number of countries, including Australia, the UK and the US, where it spent seven consecutive weeks at number one in each country, before being displaced by the late David Bowie's final album, Blackstar.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-148" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:isolate;font-size:11.2px;font-weight:normal;">[148] <sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-149" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:isolate;font-size:11.2px;font-weight:normal;">[149] <sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-150" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:isolate;font-size:11.2px;font-weight:normal;">[150]  Adele's seven weeks at the top of the UK Albums Chart took her total to 31 weeks at number one in the UK with her three albums, surpassingMadonna's previous record of most weeks at number one for a female act ever in the UK.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-151" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:isolate;font-size:11.2px;font-weight:normal;">[151]

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.4px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;font-weight:normal;">In November 2015, Adele's 2016 tour was announced, her first tour since 2011.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-152" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:isolate;font-size:11.2px;font-weight:normal;">[152]  Beginning in Europe, Adele Live 2016 includes four dates at the Manchester Arena in March, eight dates at the O2 Arena, London in March and April, with further dates in Ireland, Spain, Germany, Italy and the Netherlands among others.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-153" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:isolate;font-size:11.2px;font-weight:normal;">[153]  Her North American Tour which begins in July, includes six dates at Staples Center, Los Angeles in August, six dates at Madison Square Garden, New York in September, four dates at Air Canada Centre, Toronto in October, and two dates at Palacio de los Deportes, Mexico City in November.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-154" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:isolate;font-size:11.2px;font-weight:normal;">[154]  While on stage at London's O2 Arena on 17 March, Adele announced that she would be headlining on the Pyramid Stage at the 2016 Glastonbury Festival; the festival's organizers later confirmed she would be appearing there.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-155" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:isolate;font-size:11.2px;font-weight:normal;">[155]

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.4px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;font-weight:normal;">At the 2016 Brit Awards in London on 24 February, Adele received the awards for British Female Solo Artist, British Album of the Year for 25, British Single of the Year for "Hello", and British Global Success.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Brits_2016_156-0" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:isolate;font-size:11.2px;font-weight:normal;">[156]  She closed the ceremony by performing "When We Were Young", the second single from 25.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Brits_2016_156-1" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:isolate;font-size:11.2px;font-weight:normal;">[156]

Concert Tours

 * Headlining tours
 * An Evening with Adele (2008–09)
 * Adele Live (2011)
 * Adele Live 2016 (2016)

List Of Subscriber Milestones
Adele Hit 1 Million Subscribers On June 30, 2012.

Adele Hit 2 Million Subscribers On January 11, 2013.

Adele Hit 3 Million Subscribers On March 14, 2013.

Adele Hit 4 Million Subscribers On November 13, 2014.

Adele Hit 5 Million Subscribers On March 26, 2015.

Adele Hit 6 Million Subscribers On October 24, 2015.

Adele Hit 7 Million Subscribers On November 4, 2015.

Adele Hit 8 Million Subscribers On November 22, 2015.

Adele Hit 9 Million Subscribers On December 15, 2015.