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Pump it up Magazine, Reach for the stars while standing on earth! Website Facebook Twitter YouTube. Previous Affiliates. All rights reserved. It became the year's best-selling album and broke first-week sales records in the UK and US. The lead single, " Hello ," became the first song in the US to sell over one million digital copies within a week of its release.
Her upcoming fourth studio album, 30 , which contains the chart-topping single " Easy On Me ," is set to be released in November Adele's accolades include fifteen Grammy Awards and nine Brit Awards. In , and , Billboard named her Artist of the Year. Time magazine named her one of the most influential people in the world in and Evans walked out when Adele was young, leaving her year-old mother to raise her single-handedly, for which Adele has still not forgiven him.
She has a younger half-brother on her father's side named Cameron. She began singing at age four and asserts that she became obsessed with voices. Adele has cited the Spice Girls as a major influence in regard to her love and passion for music, stating that "they made me what I am today.
At the age of nine, Adele and her mother, a furniture-maker and adult learning activities organiser, relocated to Brighton. Despite this move, she remains an ardent fan of her hometown Premier League football club Tottenham Hotspur. Two years later, she and her mother moved back to London; first to Brixton , and then to neighbouring district West Norwood , in south London.
West Norwood is the subject for Adele's first record, " Hometown Glory ," written when she was Adele says that one of the most defining moments in her life was when she watched P! I had never heard, being in the room, someone sing like that live [ It was incredible. Adele states she "started listening to Etta James every night for an hour", and in the process was getting "to know my own voice.
Four months after graduation, she published two songs on the fourth issue of the online arts publication PlatformsMagazine. She had recorded a three-song demo for a class project and gave it to a friend who posted it on MySpace where it became very successful and led to a phone call from music label XL Recordings.
She doubted if the offer was real because the only record company she knew was Virgin Records , and she took her friend and future guitarist, Ben Thomas , with her to the meeting. 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 Adele's breakthrough song, " Hometown Glory ," was released in October In , Adele was the headliner and performed an acoustic set; she was supported by Damien Rice.
She became the first recipient of the Brit Awards Critics' Choice and was named the number-one predicted breakthrough act of in an annual BBC poll of music critics, Sound of The Times Encyclopedia of Modern Music named 19 an "essential" blue-eyed soul recording. She released her second single " Chasing Pavements " on 14 January , two weeks ahead of her debut album, The song reached number two on the UK Chart, and stayed there for four weeks.
Adele was nominated for a Mercury Prize award for She embarked on a short North American tour in the same month. Billboard magazine stated, "Adele truly has potential to become among the most respected and inspiring international artists of her generation.
She later cancelled the US tour dates to be with a former boyfriend. She said in Nylon magazine in June , "I was drinking far too much and that was kind of the basis of my relationship with this boy.
I can't believe I did that It seems so ungrateful. Then, she was the musical guest on 18 October episode of Saturday Night Live. The episode included an expected appearance by then US vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin. The program earned its best ratings in 14 years with 17 million viewers. Adele performed "Chasing Pavements" and " Cold Shoulder ," and the following day, 19 topped the iTunes charts and ranked at number five at Amazon. The album reached number 11 on the Billboard as a result, a jump of 35 places over the previous week.
In November Adele moved to Notting Hill after leaving her mother's house, a move that prompted her to give up drinking. By July , the album had sold 2. She said that the album was inspired by the breakup with her former partner. 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. Adele told Spin Magazine , "It was really exciting for me because I never grew up around [that music].
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 Both songs topped the charts in multiple markets and broke numerous sales performance records.
In May , Adele caused some minor controversy with critical statements about high taxes. By December , 21 sold over 3. To promote the album, Adele embarked upon the Adele Live tour, which sold out its North American leg. In October , Adele was forced to cancel two tours because of a vocal-cord hemorrhage.
She released a statement saying she needed an extended period of rest in order to avoid permanent damage to her voice. The singer underwent laser microsurgery at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston during the first week of. A recording of her tour, Live at the Royal Albert Hall was released in November , debuting at number one in the US with 96, copies sold, the highest one-week tally for a music DVD in four years, becoming the best-selling music DVD of Adele is the first artist in Nielsen SoundScan history to have the year's number-one album 21 , number-one single "Rolling in the Deep" , and number-one music video.
On 9 December, Billboard named Adele artist of the year, Billboard Album of the year 21 , and the Billboard Hot Song of the year "Rolling in the Deep" , becoming the first female ever to top all three categories. Following the throat microsurgery, she made her live comeback at the Grammy Awards in February. Following that success, 21 achieved the biggest weekly sales increase following a Grammy win since Nielsen SoundScan began tracking data in After the Grammys, Ryan Tedder revealed " Rumour Has It " would be the album's fourth single; Adele's manager Jonathan Dickins later confirmed it would be the final single from 21, although " Turning Tables " was also released in some European countries.
The album has sold over 4. In October, the album passed the 4. 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. On April 3, , 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. One show in Amsterdam I was so nervous, I escaped out the fire exit. Once in Brussels, I projectile vomited on someone. I just gotta bear it. I have anxiety attacks a lot. Before the show, the album was ranked No.
Less than 24 hours later, it was the number one album and Adele was on her way to becoming a household name. As fate would have it, just as her professional life was taking off, her personal life was falling apart. She found out her boyfriend at the time was cheating on her while working on her debut album.
The album was released in and was nominated for a Mercury Prize. So what became of the ex-boyfriend? The song was modestly successful in the UK and US charts and, after it was featured in the show Skins, it re-entering the top Written after being thrown out of a pub for punching her ex-boyfriend, Adele sang and recorded it on her mobile phone and arranged the chords when she got home.
Her manager Jonathan Dickins is a massive Bob Dylan fan and was insistent she record her own version of one of his songs.
Another album inspired by a break-up, it went on to become the biggest-selling album of the 21st century, establishing her as a star worldwide. I want to write a fierce tune.
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