British Musicians: Adele

The Brit Pack: British Musicians.
#12: Adele.
 
Adele is a singer-songwriter from North London, UK. Since her first album ‘19’ Adele has received much recognition both commercially and critically. It debuted at no.1 and has been certified 4x platinum in the UK. Also her career in the US was boosted by a view record-breaking Saturday Night Live in 2008. For the Grammy Awards in 2009, she won the awards for Best New Artist and Best Female Pop Vocal Performances.
 
Her second album titled ‘21’ was a record breaking success, selling 208,000 copies in its first week in the UK and made it to no.1 UK Albums Charts and managed to hold that position for 16 weeks. 21 had been certified ten times for shipment of 3.0 million units. It also debuted in the US at no.1 as well, selling 352,000 copies in the first week. Her album has charted at no.1 in 17 countries, including a number of charts across Europe, Australia and the US.
 
Her song ‘Someone Like You” reached the no.1 spot after performing at the BRIT Awards 2011, whilst her album stayed at no.1 in the UK. Someone Like You remained no.1 for 4 weeks and also spent 2 weeks at no.1 in New Zealand and 5 weeks at no.1 in Australia. Following her performance at the MTV Video Music Awards in 2011, it has become Adele’s second single to make it on the Billboard Hot 100 in the US.
 
According to the Official Charts Company, they declared that Adele is the first living Artist to accomplish the feat of the two top five hits in both the UK Official Singles Chart and the Official Albums Chart at the same time, since The Beatles in 1964. The 21 album has spent 11 weeks at no.1 in the UK which is the longest ever by a female solo artist in the UK Album Charts, beating Madonna’s 9 weeks at no.1 in 1990 along with her greatest hits. As well, in the US, the album has spent a total of 12 weeks a the top of the Billboard 200 up to the present time, which is the most weeks at a no.1 spot since 2000. 21 has broken the record for the most UK digital downloads, and starting from May 2011, the singer is apparently worth £6 million, along with Lily Allen and Duffy for 9th Place on the list for Richest British and Irish Music stars under the age of 30.
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Adele is definitely the star of the moment! :) It’s amazing what she has achieved, as well as the recognition for her talent. What I loved about her was that she said that her music is made her ‘ears’ and not for ‘eyes.’ If you see the musicians these days such as Rihanna, Britney Spears, Miley Cyrus Katy Perry, to name a few - they flaunt their bodies in provocative ways on stage, which is obviously for ‘eyes’ rather than ears, just like that vulgar X-Factor performance last year which was awful.
Adele is a role model for aspiring artists I think, because she proves that you don’t need to use your body to create good music. It’s all about the voice.
Adele is a little mainstream but she’s a good kind of mainstream. She looked amazing in the Vogue photoshoots! I loved them, even though she made a comment how she didn’t want to be on the cover of Vogue.
 
Okay according to my list...12 sets out of 47 now :-)