Her music has always been about real people and real lives - but this time Adele is turning the spotlight on herself. As yet, there is no release date for the star's new album, but several media reports have pointed towards 20 November as the likely day. Adele's statement, which appeared on Twitter and Facebook , is the first official confirmation of 25's existence.
In it, she said: "I feel I've spent my whole life so far wishing it away. Always wishing I was older, wishing I was somewhere else, wishing I could remember and wishing I could forget too. Teetering on the edge of being an old adolescent and a fully-fledged adult, I made the decision to go into who I'm going to be forever without a removal van full of my old junk.
Adele 'teases new material in TV ad'. Is this a clip from Adele's new album? Adele wins damages over photos of son. Adele — BBC Music. Image source, Reuters. Fans have had to wait four years for a new Adele album.
This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Met wereldwijd meer dan dertig miljoen verkochte exemplaren is het een van de best verkochte platen van het afgelopen decennium. Voor het album werd Adele onderscheiden met tientallen prijzen waaronder twee Grammy Awards in voor album van het jaar en beste popalbum.
Ook Billboard noemde 21 het beste album van Comercialmente, o disco desafiou as expectativas modestas da XL, e tornou-se um sucesso inesperado em A "dark, bluesy, gospel, disco tune" in the singer's own words, it was written in response to disparaging comments he made towards her during an argument. With bluesy guitar riffs and instrumental backing from the banjo and the accordion, the Rick Rubin-produced song is one of the more potent examples of the country music influences that permeate the album.
In the song, Adele wishes her former lover happiness on his new relationship and begs him to never forget her. Adele - The revenge song "Rolling in the Deep" was conceived only hours after Adele's separation from her ex-lover. Celebrity bloggers, including Perez Hilton, also contributed to Adele's campaign through repeated promotion. Beginning 1 February, Adele's personal site hosted a " 21 Days of Adele " promotion with exclusive daily content, including a live chat and a video of Adele explaining the inspiration for each album track.
Adele also embarked on a mini-promotional tour in New York, Los Angeles and Minneapolis to reacquaint herself with the American public. The album has produced four international singles and five singles overall. The song, along with " I'll Be Waiting , " was released unofficially in the US after both songs received major radio airplay in the summer of Adele embarked on her second concert tour, Adele Live , in support of 21 , scheduling over sixty shows across Europe and North America.
However, Adele cancelled her appearance at Minneapolis's First Avenue due to problems with her voice, and after consulting with an Otolaryngology specialist, she was diagnosed with acute laryngitis, and was forced to cancel the rest of her North American tour dates.
Following her month-long hiatus, Adele resumed the North American leg of her tour with a newly revised tour itinerary; some concerts were moved to venues with increased capacity and some additional dates were scheduled. Eventually Adele was forced to cancel the remainder of the tour and underwent vocal surgery in order to save her voice after discovering she had a vocal chord hemorrhage. The surgery, performed by Dr. Steven Zeitels , was a success, although there were too many tour dates cancelled for her to make up.
She officially made her comeback at the 54th Annual Grammy Awards when she performed "Rolling in the Deep. Upon its release, 21 received general critical acclaim; at Metacritic , which assigns a normalized rating out of to reviews from selected mainstream critics, the album had a score of 76 based on 34 reviews, which indicates "generally positive reviews.
While both albums explore similar themes, critics generally considered 19 vocally and lyrically subdued, with the singer's "wandering vocals" underpinned by sparse production. Ryan Reed of Paste also commented that, with the exception of "Chasing Pavements," songs on 19 were "lazy" and "eschew hooks in favor of coffee-house atmosphere. Comparing both her albums, Barry Walters, writing for Spin , noted that "[On 21 ], she wails harder and writes bolder, piling on the dramatic production flourishes to suggest a lover's apocalypse.
Giving the album four-and-a-half out of five stars, John Murphy, writing for MusicOMH , compared Adele to Amy Winehouse , contending that, "Almost every song oozes pain, sadness and anger. Adele received almost unanimous praise for her vocal range, power and versatility, with Ryan Reed of Paste describing her voice as "a raspy, aged-beyond-its-years thing of full-blooded beauty.
The album was nominated for the Barclaycard Mercury Prize. Critics at Billboard voted the album number-one of the year, while Scottish newspaper the Daily Record , editors of Amazon and the editors at Rhapsody also ranked the album at number one.
On 13 February , in its third consecutive week at number-one, the album sold , copies, outselling the top five combined. When "Someone Like You" leaped from number forty-seven to number-one, and "Rolling in the Deep" ascended five to four on the UK Singles Chart, Adele became the first living act since The Beatles in to have two UK top five albums and singles simultaneously.
In the album's fifth consecutive week at the top, 19 rose to number-two in its nd week of release, making Adele the first act to occupy the chart's top two positions since The Corrs ' Talk On Corners and Forgiven, Not Forgotten landed at number-one and two in Adele occupied the top two positions for five non-consecutive weeks between February and May Weekly sales for 21 exceeded , copies until its twelfth week on the UK Albums Chart.
It experienced its strongest sales in its tenth week at the top, in the week ending 3 April , when a Mother's Day sales boost pushed the album to a peak of , copies sold. Also in its tenth week, 21 overtook Madonna 's compilation The Immaculate Collection for the most consecutive weeks at number-one by a female solo artist.
In its eleventh week, the album became the longest-running consecutive number-one album since Bob Marley and The Wailers ' Legend in , which spent twelve consecutive weeks at number-one. On 22 May the album achieved sixteen non-consecutive weeks at number one, the longest stay at the top since the Saturday Night Fever soundtrack, which spent eighteen weeks at number one in As of 8 July , 21 has been certified ten-times platinum by the British Phonographic Industry BPI for shipments of three million units, as well as becoming the most downloaded album in UK history.
On 17 July, after its previous eleven-week stint at number-one between February and April , followed by another five-week number-one stretch between April and June, 21 returned to the summit for a third run, marking its seventeenth, and eighteenth non-consecutive week at the top as of 24 July. As of 7 December , 21 has sold 4,, copies in the UK making it the 4th best selling album ever.
In the Netherlands, the album debuted at number one, and topped the Dutch album chart for twenty-three weeks, making it the third longest period at No. In Germany, 21 topped the chart for four weeks. As of August 8, the album has spent a total of twenty-four weeks at the top of the Irish Albums Chart.
In Australia 21 has, to date, spent 14 weeks at number-one on the ARIA Top 50 Albums Chart, ten of which were consecutive, while "Someone Like You" dominated the corresponding singles chart for seven consecutive weeks. Both titles led the album and singles charts simultaneously for seven consecutive weeks.
On 11 April, while "Someone Like You" and 21 continued their reign at the top, "Rolling in the Deep" and 19 also ascended to the top ten of the singles and album charts, peaking at number three and six respectively, giving Adele the distinction of placing two entries in the top-ten of both charts simultaneously. The following week, while the other entries maintained their positions, 19 ascended to number-three on the albums chart, giving Adele two entries in the top-five of both the album and singles charts concurrently.
Billboard and in Canada, selling , copies in its first week in the U. In April , in its ninth week at the chart summit, 21 became the first album to sell one million copies in the U.
Billboard reported that 21 is the sixteenth album by a female artist to spend at least nine weeks on top of the Billboard , and the first by a British act since George Michael 's Faith which peaked at number-one for a total of twelve weeks in Remaining resilient at number-one in its twenty-fourth week, 21 is the first album to spend as many weeks inside of the Billboard 's top-three since the Whitney Houston 's The Bodyguard soundtrack , which spent twenty-eight weeks in the top-three back in As of mid, 21 has become the best-selling album of the year and the only release to sell over 2 million copies.
It is also the best-selling digital album of all time in the U. As of January , it has sold over Returning to No. It currently is the 37th best selling album worldwide of all time. In response to the success of the album, Joseph Viney of Sputnikmusic declared Adele as the sole purveyor of the British retro-soul music that gained popularity in the U. While their initial popularity incited a "new wave of British invasion," Viney stated that their subsequent commercial decline has worked to Adele's advantage: "Amy Winehouse disappeared in a haze of smoke, Lily Allen took the money and ran whilst Kate Nash and Duffy dropped off the radar after two poorly received second albums.
In a review of one her live performances at the Beacon Theatre, Jon Pareles wrote, "[Adele is] fully in command of a big, supple, emotive voice, joining the lineage of British soul and pop singers like Dusty Springfield , Petula Clark , Alison Moyet of Yaz and Annie Lennox.
In addition to its vintage sound, Guy Adams of The Independent stated that 21 ' s success also signals the reemergence of the more traditional approach to commercial success: There are two approaches to the business of being noticed by today's record-buying public. The first, showcased by Lady Gaga at the recent Grammys , revolves around oodles of hype and ever-more preposterous wardrobe selections. The second, adopted by Adele at this year's BRITs, is more understated: it requires a simple black dress and the confidence to let your music do the talking Amazingly, given preconceived notions about America's supposed preference for style over substance, it is the second of these two sales techniques which appears to be working better.
Ethan Smith, writing for The Wall Street Journal , stated that Adele's "deliberately unflashy" nature and full figure has given her a lucrative niche in the market, while her tendency to emphasize "substance over style", makes her the "Anti-Lady Gaga. Citing an absence of "gimmicks" in her music, Russell stated that the success of 21 is "almost political and sort of radical", in its critique of the common perception that female performers have to conform to certain body-types, or imbue their music with gratuitous sexual imagery, in order to be successful.
Adele has addressed the lack of sexualization of her music, stating, "If you've got it, flaunt it, if it works with your music But I can't imagine having guns and whipped cream coming out of my tits," referring to Katy Perry 's music video for " California Gurls.
I make music for ears. She writes, is a fantastic singer and in total control She bares her soul in her songwriting, and it's the real thing She uses her vocal instrument in a way that we don't get to hear a lot.
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