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Adele

Adele

Actor · b. 1988 · Tottenham, London, England, UK

Adele Laurie Blue Adkins (/əˈdɛl/; born 5 May 1988) is an English singer-songwriter. Regarded as a British icon, she is known for her mezzo-soprano vocals and sentimental songwriting. Her accolades include 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 from the BRIT School in 2006, Adele signed a record deal with XL Recordings. Her debut album, 19 (2008), included the UK top-five singles "Chasing Pavements" and "Make You Feel My Love", becoming one of the best-selling debut albums ever in the UK. She received the Grammy Award for Best New Artist. Adele's second studio album, 21 (2011), became the best-selling album of the 21st century. 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 (2015), broke first-week sales records in both the UK and the US. In the US, it became the first 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 worldwide success. Her fourth studio album, 30 (2021), contains "Easy on Me", which won her a Grammy Award in 2023. 25 and 30 became the best-selling albums worldwide, including the US and the UK, in 2015 and 2021, respectively. As of 2024, 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 in the US. Her studio albums 21 and 25 were the top two best-selling albums of the 2010s in the UK. 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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Adele, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Movies20

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  • Movie7.1

    Katy Perry: Part of Me

    2012 · 291 votes

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    Adele One Night Only

    2021 · 65 votes

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    P!NK: Staying True

    2013 · 4 votes

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    An Audience with Adele

    2021 · 44 votes

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    Adele - Live in London

    2012 · 1 votes

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    Adele at the BBC

    2015 · 15 votes

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    Adele: A New Chapter

    2021 · 1 votes

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    ... Sings Dylan II

    2015 · 2 votes

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    Saturday Night Live

    1975 · 527 votes

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    The Graham Norton Show

    2007 · 290 votes

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    NPR Tiny Desk Concerts

    2008 · 10 votes

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    The Ellen DeGeneres Show

    2003 · 179 votes

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    ZDF-Fernsehgarten

    1986 · 5 votes

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    Ugly Betty

    2006 · 293 votes

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    MTV Video Music Awards

    1984 · 24 votes

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    The Jonathan Ross Show

    2011 · 24 votes

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    Never Mind the Buzzcocks

    1996 · 65 votes

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    Entertainment Tonight

    1981 · 27 votes

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    The Grammys

    1959 · 46 votes