
Her accolades include sixteen Grammy Awards (including two Album of the Year wins), twelve Brit Awards (including three British Album of the Year wins), an Academy Award, a Golden Globe Award and a Primetime Emmy Award. She was named as the best-selling artist of the 2010s decade in the US and worldwide as well as best-selling female artist of the 21st century in the UK. All of her studio albums except 19 topped the yearly best selling albums chart worldwide more than any artist in the 21 century as of 2023.Īdele is one of the best-selling music artists, with sales of over 100 million albums worldwide. 25 and 30 became the year's best-selling albums worldwide including the US and the UK in 20 respectively. Her fourth studio album 30 released in 2021 contains the chart-topping and Grammy winning single " Easy on Me". The lead single, " Hello", became hugely successful worldwide. 25 earned her five Grammy Awards, including the Album of the Year. Her third studio album, 25, was released in 2015 to breaking first-week sales records in the UK and US, where in the US, it is the only album to sell over three million copies in a week. In 2012, Adele released " Skyfall", a soundtrack single for the James Bond film Skyfall, which won her the Academy Award for Best Original Song. The album received a record-tying six Grammy Awards, including Album of the Year.

21 is the top-performing album in the US chart history, topping the Billboard 200 for 24 weeks with singles " Rolling in the Deep", " Someone Like You", and " Set Fire to the Rain" topping the charts worldwide to become her signature songs. It became the world's best-selling album of the 21st century, with sales of over 31 million. Adele was honoured with the Grammy Award for Best New Artist.Īdele released her second studio album, 21, in 2011. 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. Her debut album, 19, was released in 2008 and spawned the UK top-five singles " Chasing Pavements" and " Make You Feel My Love". After graduating in arts from the BRIT School in 2006, Adele signed a record deal with XL Recordings.


"But I'm still spinning out of control from the fall.Adele Laurie Blue Adkins MBE ( / ə ˈ d ɛ l/ born ) is an English singer-songwriter."I am a grown woman and I do what I want to do."."It's what keeps me comin' back even though I'm terrified."."I don't have to explain myself to you."."Teetering on the edge of heaven and hell is a battle that I cannot fight.".I'd rather be a fool than leave myself behind." "I'm a fool, but they all think I'm blind."What is the likelihood of jumping out of my life and into your arms?"."Wish that I would let you break my wall."."Maybe, baby, I'm just losing my mind."."I know that it's wrong, but I want to have fun."."Boy, you give good love, I won't lie."."I ain't got too much time to spare, but I'll make time for you to show how much I care.".Check out some of the lyrics below that you can use for your next Instagram caption. The lyrics also make flawless Instagram captions for when we're especially up in our feels. OK, oh my God.'"ĭating can be scary whether or not you're coming out of a long-term relationship, which is why "Oh My God" is one we keep coming back to.

"I remember the first time, and I was like, 'do you mind? I'm married.' And my friends were like, 'but you're not.' And I was like, 'oh s***. 12, is about moving on from her divorce from Konecki and how things kind of hit her, like, "Oh my god." She told Audacy in November that the lyrics are "about the first time that I basically left my house after my anxiety and stuff like that started to sort of subside." She said her friends were encouraging her to get back out there and date again, which she was not down to do in LA, and she was actually just scared. "Oh My God," which got its own video on Jan. No big deal.īut divorce or no divorce, Adele has the unique ability to tell stories through song that her listeners can relate to in a way that makes us say, "I feel that - that's me." Her first official single of 2022, "Oh My God," is one such song that really hits you. "So I took it with a pinch of salt, and it was fine." And deliver she did - the album was the US's top-selling album in 2021 (despite it being released in December) and the only new release to sell a million copies. "In reality, their responsibility as a fan is to want a good record and to hope I deliver," she said. Before the release of the album, she shared with Rolling Stone that she knew fans were expecting her divorce to make for a memorable album. The songs, largely based on her split from husband Simon Konecki, are incredibly raw and real. Adele's 30 has been in heavy rotation for people pretty much everywhere since it was released in November.
