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- REAL NAME: Adele Laurie Blue
Adkins
- BIRTHDAY: May 5, 1988
- BIGGEST
POP SINGLE: "Easy On Me" (2022)
- BIGGEST
LP: 21 (2011)
- GRAMMY
AWARDS: 16
- "I'm
really mouthy about not having the Hollywood
look. Everyone asks me 'Why don't you feel
pressured to get the Hollywood look?' and I'm
like 'Because I don't'. I quite like my eyes
and my lips. I don't like my double chin or
my gut, but I don't not like them enough to
do something about it." - Adele
- Adele was born Adele Laurie
Blue Adkins on May 5, 1988 in North London.
Artists who have influenced Adele's music include
Etta James, Mary J. Blige, The Cure,
Jeff Buckley, Peggy Lee,
Jill Scott, Alicia Keys, Dusty Springfield,
and Bjork. Her love of music led to
an audition at London's BRIT school (a
performing-arts high school). While finishing at
the BRIT (graduating in May, 2006), Adele was
able to let her music be heard on MySpace.com
which led to signing with a record label. With
her debut LP, Adele made a name for herself in
the UK and in the US, but it was her sophomore LP
that propelled her into worldwide success with
fans and critics and dominating radio and record
sales in the summer of 2011. Rolling Stone
described her surge of success: "In a year
of sex bombs and art projects on the pop charts,
the biggest surprise hit of 2011 is a breakup LP
that could have been recorded in Muscle Shoals,
Alabama - the work of an earth, full-figured 22
year-old whose go-to outfits are billowy
turtleneck sweaters..."
- October: Adele released her first
single "Hometown Glory" in the UK. The
song eventually hit the Top 20 on the UK charts 9
months later as a re-release. The song also
eventually became known to US audiences through
the TV shows Grey's Anatomy, One
Tree Hill, and So You Think You Can
Dance.
- February 9: Adele topped the UK LP
chart for 1 week with 19.
- February 20: Adele won the Critic's
Choice Award at the BRIT Awards.
- March: Adele topped the singles
chart in Norway and the Top 10 in the UK,
Ireland, and the Netherlands with "Chasing
Pavements."
- June 10: Adele released her debut
LP 19 in the US. The LP was
released in Europe in January, 2008. 19 hit #1 in Holland and the
Top 10 in the US, Australia, Canada, Germany,
Ireland, New Zealand, and Norway. Entertainment
Weekly described Adele's debut as
"...lovelorn lyrics in a smoky voice much
more mature than her 20 years would
suggest..." Adele said of the LP: "The
whole album is about being 18 and 19; about
love."
- Adele hit the Top 10
in the UK, Ireland, and the Netherlands with
"Make You Feel My Love."
- October 18: Adele performed
"Chasing Pavements" and "Cold
Shoulder" on Saturday Night Live.
The show received high ratings with the
appearance of failed Vice Presidential candidate
Sarah Palin, and subsequently interest in Adele's
single "Chasing Pavements" reignited
downloads for the song and LP.
- February 5: Adele topped the UK LP
charts for 18 weeks with 21.
- February 12: Adele topped the
Billboard Adult Alternative Songs chart for 14
weeks with "Rolling In The Deep."
- February 20: 19 was certified gold.
- February 22: Adele released 21 in the US. The LP was
released in Europe a month earlier. 21 hit #1 in Australia,
Austria, Brazil, Canada, Holland, Finland,
France, Germany, Ireland, New Zealand, Norway,
Scotland, and Switzerland, and the Top 10 in
Argentina, Greece, Italy, Mexico, Poland, Spain,
and Sweden.
- February 26: Adele topped the UK
singles chart for 5 weeks with "Someone Like You." The song also
topped the charts in Australia, Ireland,
Scotland, and New Zealand.
- March 5: Adele hit the ARC Weekly Top 40 with "Rolling In The Deep."
- March 12: Adele topped the
Billboard 200 LP chart for 24 non-consecutive
weeks, Top Digital Albums chart for 16 weeks, and
Top Internet Albums chart for 13 weeks with 21. The LP sold over 352,000
copies its first week of release in the US.
- March 17: 19 was certified platinum.
- March 28: 21 was certified platinum.
- April: Adele topped the singles
chart in Belgium, the Netherlands, and Poland
with "Set Fire To The Rain."
- April 28: Adele appeared on the
cover of Rolling Stone and proclaimed in
the interview: "I don't make music for eyes,
I make music for ears."
- May 7: Adele hit the
Top 10 with "Rolling In The Deep."
- May 7: Adele topped the
Billboard Hot Digital Tracks chart for 8 weeks
and the Rock Digital Songs chart for 16 weeks
with "Rolling In The Deep."
- May 14: Adele topped the
Billboard Adult Top 40 Tracks chart for 13 weeks
with "Rolling In The Deep."
- May 21: Adele topped the
Billboard Hot 100 chart for 7 weeks and Hot
Digital Songs chart for 6 weeks with "Rolling In The Deep." The song also
topped the charts in Belgium, Brazil, Canada,
Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, and Switzerland.
- May 17: 21 was certified 2x platinum.
- January 4: 21 was certified 6x platinum.
- January 28: Adele topped the
Billboard Digital Songs chart for 1 week, Digital
Tracks chart for 1 week, and Pop Digital Songs
chart for 2 weeks with "Set Fire To The Rain."
- March 5: Adele's huge sales for
her LP 21 became even bigger
following her Grammy Award win with her best sales
week after a year on the chart. 21 sold over 730,000 copies
in the US during the week and topped the LP chart
for a 21st week - making it the longest #1 LP by
a woman in chart history. The same week, Adele
became the first woman in chart history to have 3
hits simultaneously in the Top 10. Her first LP 19 also rebounded into the
Top 5 and a new peak on the LP charts.
- March 5: Adele hit the ARC Weekly Top 40 with "Rumor Has It."
- March 30: 21 was certified 9x platinum.
- March 31: Adele topped the
Billboard Adult Contemporary chart for 11 weeks
with "Set Fire To The Rain."
- June 23: 21 returned to the top of the
Billboard LP chart for the 24th week making it
only one of 8 LPs in history to do so.
- December 31: 21 was the top-selling LP of
the year (again) with 4.4 million copies sold.
- December 31: Adele topped the Billboard 2012
Year-End Chart-Toppers chart as the Top Pop
Artist, Top Pop Artist - Female, Top Pop
Billboard 200 Album Artist, Top Pop Billboard 200
Album Artist - Female, Top Pop Digital Album
Artist, Top Pop Digital Songs Artist, Top Adult
Contemporary Artist, and with the Top Pop
Billboard 200 Album and Top Pop Digital Album (21).
- January 13: Adele was nominated for a
Golden Globe Award for Best Original Song ("Skyfall").
- December 3: Adele topped the UK LP
charts with 25.
- December 5: Adele topped the
Billboard Pop Songs chart for 4 weeks and Adult
Pop Songs chart for 7 weeks with "Hello."
- December 11: 25 was certified 5x platinum.
- December 12: Adele topped the
Billboard 200 LP chart for 10 weeks, Album Sales
chart for 11 weeks, Internet Albums chart for 8
weeks, and Digital Albums chart for 8 weeks with 25. The LP sold over 3.3
million copies its first week of release in the
US - shattering all exisitng first week sales
records and becoming the best-selling LP of the
year.
- December 12: Adele topped the
Billboard Dance/Mix Show Airplay chart for 3
weeks with "Hello."
- December 26: Adele hit the ARC Weekly Top 40 with "When We Were Young."
- December 26: Adele topped the
Billboard Dance Club Play Songs chart for 1 week
with "Hello."
- August 14: Adele announced that she
wouldn't be performaing at the Super Bowl next
year: "I mean, come on, that show is not
about music. And I don't really - I can't dance
or anything like that. They were very kind, they
did ask me, but I did say no."
- August 20: Adele topped the
Billboard Adult Pop Songs chart for 2 weeks with
"Send My Love (To Your New
Lover)."
- August 22: 25 was certified 11x
platinum.
- August 28: The video for "Hello" was nominated for 7 MTV Video Music Awards including Video of the Year, Best Female Video, Best Pop Video, Best Direction, Best Art Direction, Best Editing, and Best Cinematography. The video for "Send My Love (To Your New Lover)" was nominated for Best Visual Effects.
- January: Adele was set to play 24
concerts at the Caesars Palace Colosseum in Las
Vegas but had to cancel the day before the first
performance due to not being ready: "I'm so
sorry, but my show ain't ready. Half my team have
Covid and it's been impossible to finish the
show..."
- January 12: 30 was certified 3x platinum.
- January 22: Adele hit the Top 10 with "Oh My God."
- February 19: Adele topped the
Billboard Adult Alternative Airplay chart for 1
week with "Oh My God."
- July: Adele unveiled new dates
for her residency at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas
that was put on hold back in January. The
'Weekends With Adele" will run from November
to March, 2023 with 24 rescheduled shows and 8
additional shows.
- August 31: Adele announced in Munich
that she will be taking a length
"break" after her Las Vegas residency
ends on November 23rd: "I have spent the
last 7 years building a new life for myself, and
I want to live it."
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19
Released: June 10, 2008 (US)
US: 3x Platinum
Billboard Top
200 LPs
peak: # 4
Rolling Stone: - Entertainment
Weekly: B
Tracks:
"Daydreamer" - "Best For
Last" - "Chasing Pavements" -
"Cold Shoulder" - "Crazy For
You" - "Melt My Heart To
Stone" - "First Love" -
"Right As Rain" - "Make You
Feel My Love" - "My Same" -
"Tired" - "Hometown
Glory"
Import Edition includes:
"Painted Pictures" - "Now And
Then" - "That's It I Quit, I'm
Moving On"
Import Deluxe
Edition includes live versions of:
"Chasing Pavements" - "Melt My
Heart To Stone" - "That's It, I
Quit, I'm Moving On" - "Crazy For
You" - "Right As Rain" -
"My Same" - "Make You Feel My
Love" - "Daydreamer" -
"Hometown Glory" - and the tracks:
"Many Shades Of Black" (with The
Raconteurs)
Limited Edition includes live versions
of: "Right As Rain" - "Melt My
Heart To Stone" - "My Same" -
"That's It, I Quit, I'm Movin' On"
- "Chasing Pavements"
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iTunes
Live From Soho (EP)
Released: February 3, 2009
Billboard Top
200 LPs
peak: # 105
Live Tracks: "Crazy For
You" - "Right As Rain" -
"Make You Feel My Love" -
"Melt My Heart To Stone" -
"Hometown Glory" - "Chasing
Pavements" - "Fool That I Am"
- "That's It, I Quit, I'm Moving
On"
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21
Released: February 22, 2011
(US)
US: 14x Platinum
Billboard Top
200 LPs
peak: # 1 (24
weeks)
Billboard #1: Digital Albums,
Internet Albums
Grammy Winner: Album of the Year, Best Pop Vocal Album
Rolling Stone: - Entertainment
Weekly: A-
Tracks: "Rolling In The Deep" - "Rumour Has It" - "Turning
Tables" - "Don't You Remember"
- "Set Fire To The Rain" - "He
Won't Go" - "Take It All" -
"I'll Be Waiting" - "One And
Only" - "Lovesong" - "Someone Like You"
Import Edition includes:
"Turning Tables" (live) -
"Don't You Remember" (live) -
"Someone Like You" (live)
Limited Import
Edition includes: "If It Hadn't
Been For Love" - "Hiding My
Heart"
Limited Deluxe
Edition includes: "Need You
Now" (live with Darius Rucker) - "Someone Like You" (live) -
"Turning Tables" (live) -
"Don't You Remember" (live)
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iTunes
Festival: London 2011 (EP)
Released: July 14, 2011
Billboard Top
200 LPs
peak: # 50
Live Tracks: "One And
Only" - "Don't You Remember" -
"Rumour Has It" - "Take It
All" - "I Can't Make You Love
Me" - "Rolling In The Deep"
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Adele
Live At The Royal Albert Hall (DVD/CD)
Released: November 21, 2011
Live Tracks: "Hometown
Glory" - "I'll Be Waiting" -
"Don't You Remember" -
"Turning Tables" - "Set Fire
To The Rain" - "If It Hadn't Been
For Love" - "My Same" -
"Take It All" - "Rumour Has It" - "Right As
Rain" - "One & Only" -
"Lovesong" - "Chasing
Pavements" - "I Can't Make You Love
Me" - "Make You Feel My Love"
- "Someone Like You" - "Rolling In The Deep"
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25
Released: November 20, 2015
US: 11x Platinum
Billboard Top
200 LPs
peak: # 1 (for 10
weeks)
Billboard #1: Album Sales, Internet
Albums, Digital Albums
Grammy Winner: Album of the Year, Best Pop Vocal Album
Rolling Stone: - Entertainment
Weekly: A-
Tracks: "Hello" - "Send My Love (To Your
New Lover)" - "I Miss You"
- "When We Were Young" -
"Remedy" - "Water Under The Bridge" - "River
Lea" - "Love In The Dark" -
"Million Years Ago" - "All I
Ask" - "Sweetest Devotion"
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30
Released: November 19, 2021
US: 3x Platinum
Billboard Top
200 LPs
peak: # 1
Billboard #1: Album Sales
Grammy Nominee: Album of the Year, Best Pop Vocal Album
Rolling Stone: - Entertainment
Weekly: A-
Tracks: "Strangers By
Nature" - "Easy On Me" - "My
Little Love" - "Cry Your Heart
Out" - "Oh My God" - "Can I
Get It" - "I Drink Wine" -
"All Night Parking" - "Woman
Like Me" - "Hold On" -
"To Be Loved" - "Love Is A
Game"
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1 |
Easy On Me
from the LP 30
ARC chart run: 21 - 9 - 8 - 4 - 2 - 1 - 1 - 1 - 1 - 1 - 1 - 1 - 1 - 1 - 1 - 1 - 1 - 4 - 4 - 4 - 6 - 9 - 16 - 26 - 39 - off
Year-End Chart
Position: # 2
RIAA
Certification: 4x Platinum
Billboard # 1: Hot 100, Radio Songs, Pop
Songs, Digital Song Sales, Adult Contemporary
Tracks, Adult Pop Airplay
Grammy Winner: Best Pop Solo Performance
Grammy Nominee: Record of the Year, Song of the Year, Best Music Video
MTV VMA Nominee: Song of the Year |
1(12) |
25 |
2022 |
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2 |
Rolling In The Deep
from the LP 21
ARC chart run: 40 - 38 - 37 - 34 - 31 - 25 - 20 - 17 - 12 - 9 - 5 - 3 - 2 - 1 - 1 - 1 - 1 - 1 - 2 - 2 - 4 - 4 - 8 - 10 - 13 - 18 - 31 - 36 - off
Year-End Chart
Position: # 1
RIAA
Certification: 8x Platinum
Billboard # 1: Hot 100, Radio Songs, Pop
Songs, Digital Tracks, Digital Songs, Adult Top
40 Tracks, Adult Contemporary, Rock Digital
Songs, Adult Alternative Songs, Alternative
Digital Songs
Grammy Winner: Record of the Year, Song of the Year, Best Music Video, Short Form
MTV VMA Winner: Best Art Direction, Best Editing, Best Cinematography
MTV VMA Nominee: Video of the Year, Best Female Video, Best Pop Video, Best Direction |
1(5) |
28 |
2011 |
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3 |
Someone Like You
from the LP 21
ARC chart run: 35 - 30 - 19 - 14 - 11 - 10 - 5 - 2 - 2 - 1 - 1 - 1 - 1 - 4 - 5 - 5 - 8 - 10 - 12 - 12 - 14 - 16 - 26 - 32 - off
Year-End Chart
Position: # 9
RIAA
Certification: 4x Platinum
Billboard # 1: Hot 100, Hot Digital
Songs, Hot Digital Tracks, Rock Digital Songs,
Adult Contemporary
Grammy Winner: Best Pop Solo Performance
MTV VMA Nominee: Best Cinematography |
1(4) |
24 |
2011 |
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4 |
Hello
from the LP 25
ARC chart run: 29 - 14 - 8 - 3 - 1 - 1 - 1 - 1 - 1 - 2 - 2 - 3 - 5 - 8 - 8 - 13 - 16 - 18 - 21 - 25 - off
Year-End Chart
Position: # 9
RIAA
Certification: 7x Platinum
Billboard # 1: Hot 100, Radio Songs, Pop
Songs, Digital Songs, Adult Contemporary Songs,
Adult Alternative Songs, Adult Pop Songs, Dance
Club Play Songs, Dance/Mix Show Airplay, Adult
R&B Songs
Grammy Winner: Record of the Year, Song of the Year, Best Pop Solo Performance
MTV VMA Nominee: Video of the Year, Best Female Video, Best Pop Video, Best Direction, Best Art Direction, Best Editing, Best Cinematography |
1(5) |
20 |
2015 |
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5 |
Set Fire To The Rain
from the LP 21
ARC chart run: 39 - 29 - 20 - 13 - 9 - 7 - 5 - 4 - 3 - 2 - 1 - 1 - 1 - 1 - 1 - 2 - 4 - 7 - 9 - 15 - 18 - 40 - off
Year-End Chart
Position: # 14
RIAA
Certification: 3x Platinum
Billboard # 1: Hot 100, Digital Songs,
Pop Songs, Radio Songs
Grammy Winner: Best Pop Solo Performance |
1(5) |
22 |
2012 |
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6 |
Send My Love (To Your New
Lover)
from the LP 25
ARC chart run: 37 - 26 - 22 - 20 - 19 - 15 - 14 - 12 - 11 - 10 - 7 - 4 - 4 - 3 - 3 - 4 - 2 - 3 - 7 - 9 - 23 - 37 - off
Year-End Chart
Position: # 24
RIAA
Certification: Platinum
Billboard # 1: Pop Songs, Adult Pop
Songs, Adult Contemporary
MTV VMA Nominee: Best Visual Effects |
2 |
22 |
2016 |
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7 |
Rumour Has It
from the LP 21
ARC Chart Run: 33 - 24 - 21 - 18 - 18 - 16 - 10 - 8 - 7 - 9 - 10 - 16 - 20 - 25 - 27 - 28 - 30 - 35 - 40 - off
Year-End Chart
Position: # 49
RIAA
Certification: 2x Platinum
Billboard # 1: Adult Alternative Songs |
7 |
19 |
2012 |
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8 |
Water Under The Bridge
from the LP 25
ARC chart run: 33 - 27 - 24 - 21 - 21 - 21 - 18 - 17 - 15 - 15 - 13 - 15 - 18 - 21 - 26 - 28 - 28 - 26 - 25 - 26 - 37 - off
Year-End Chart
Position: # 43
RIAA
Certification: Gold |
13 |
21 |
2017 |
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9 |
Oh My God
from the LP 30
ARC chart run: 40 - 23 - 16 - 13 - 12 - 12 - 11 - 10 - 8 - 7 - 7 - 6 - 12 - 25 - 40 - off
Year-End Chart
Position: # 49
RIAA
Certification: Gold
Billboard # 1: Adult Alternative Airplay
MTV VMA Nominee: Best Art Direction |
6 |
15 |
2022 |
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10 |
When We Were Young
from the LP 25
ARC chart run: 33 - 26 - 19 - 17 - 15 - 12 - 12 - 12 - 10 - 9 - 14 - 20 - 29 - 39 - off
Year-End Chart
Position: # 60
RIAA
Certification: Platinum
Billboard # 1: Dance Club Play Songs |
9 |
14 |
2016 |
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11 |
Skyfall
from the Skyfall soundtrack
ARC chart run: 33 - 27 - 27 - 33 - 37 - 39 - off
Year-End Chart
Position: # 126
RIAA
Certification: Platinum
Grammy Winner: Best Song
Written for Visual Media |
27 |
6 |
2012 |
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Chasing Pavements
from the LP 19
RIAA
Certification: Platinum
Grammy Winner: Best Pop Vocal Performance - Female
Grammy Nominee: Record of the Year, Song of the Year |
** |
** |
2008 |
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Cold Shoulder
from the LP 19 |
** |
** |
2008 |
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Tired
from the LP 19 |
** |
** |
2008 |
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Make You Feel My Love
from the LP 19
RIAA
Certification: Gold |
** |
** |
2008 |
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Hometown Glory
from the LP 19
Grammy Nominee: Best Pop Vocal Performance - Female |
** |
** |
2009 |
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Turning Tables
from the LP 21
RIAA
Certification: Gold |
** |
** |
2011 |
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I Drink Wine
from the LP 30 |
** |
** |
2022 |
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