Adele (UK soul/jazz singer)

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Legal name: Adele Adkins, Adele Laurie Blue Adkins

Wikipedia

Adele Laurie Blue Adkins (; born 5 May 1988), known mononymously as Adele, is an English singer-songwriter. She is known for her mezzo-soprano vocals and sentimental songwriting. Adele has received numerous accolades including 16 Grammy Awards, 12 Brit Awards (including three for British Album of the Year), an Academy Award, a Primetime Emmy Award, and a Golden Globe Award.

After graduating in arts from the BRIT School in 2006, Adele signed a record deal with XL Recordings. Her debut album, 19, was released in 2008 and included the UK top-five singles "Chasing Pavements" and "Make You Feel My Love". 19 has sold over 2.5 million copies in the UK and was named in the top 20 best-selling debut albums of all time in the UK. She was honoured with the Grammy Award for Best New Artist. Adele released her second studio album, 21, in 2011. It became the world's best-selling album of the 21st century, with sales of over 31 million. 21 holds the record for the top-performing album in US chart history, topping the Billboard 200 for 24 weeks, with the singles "Rolling in the Deep", "Someone like You", and "Set Fire to the Rain" heading charts worldwide, becoming her signature songs. The album received a record-tying six Grammy Awards, including Album of the Year. In 2012, Adele released "Skyfall", a soundtrack single for the James Bond film Skyfall, which won her the Academy Award for Best Original Song.

Adele's third studio album, 25, was released in 2015, breaking first-week sales records in the UK and US. In the US, it remains the only album to sell over three million copies in a week. 25 earned her five Grammy Awards, including the Album of the Year. The lead single, "Hello", achieved huge success worldwide. Her fourth studio album, 30, released in 2021, contains the chart-topping and Grammy-winning single "Easy on Me". 25 and 30 became the best-selling albums worldwide, including the US and the UK, in 2015 and 2021, respectively. As of 2023, all of her studio albums, except 19, have topped the yearly best-selling albums chart worldwide in the 21st century.

Adele is one of the world's best-selling music artists, with sales of over 120 million records worldwide. The best-selling female artist of the 21st century in the UK, she was named the best-selling artist of the 2010s decade in the US and worldwide. Her studio albums 21 and 25 were the top two best-selling albums of the 2010s in the UK and both are listed among the best-selling albums in UK chart history, while in the US both are certified Diamond, the most of any artist who debuted in the 21st century.

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Discography

Album

YearTitleArtistRatingReleases
200819Adele422
201121Adele4.2525
201525Adele4.1517
202130Adele4.3512

Album + Live

YearTitleArtistRatingReleases
2011Live at the Royal Albert HallAdele4.355

Album + Mixtape/Street

YearTitleArtistRatingReleases
200888 (Mixed By Mick Boogie)Adele & Mick Boogie2

Single

YearTitleArtistRatingReleases
2007Hometown GloryAdele10
2008Chasing PavementsAdele3
2008Cold ShoulderAdele6
2008Make You Feel My LoveAdele3
2009Water and a FlameDaniel Merriweather feat. Adele51
2010Rolling in the DeepAdele59
2011Someone Like YouAdele4.255
2011Rumour Has ItAdele2
2011Set Fire to the RainAdele7
2015HelloAdele55
2016When We Were YoungAdele2
2016Send My Love (to Your New Lover)Adele2
2016Water Under the BridgeAdele1
2021Easy on MeAdele4
2021Oh My GodAdele1

Single + Soundtrack

YearTitleArtistRatingReleases
2012SkyfallAdele9

Single + Remix

YearTitleArtistRatingReleases
2011Rolling in the Deep (Jamie xx shuffle)Adele2
2012Skyfall (Santi J and Gae B Moore remix)Adele1

EP + Live

YearTitleArtistRatingReleases
2009iTunes Live From SoHoAdele41
2011iTunes Festival: London 2011Adele52

Broadcast + Live

YearTitleArtistRatingReleases
20162016-06-25: Glastonbury Festival of Contemporary Performing Arts, UKAdele1

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