Adele Laurie Blue Adkins (born May 5, 1988) is an English singer and songwriter who goes by the single name Adele in her work. Adele got a record deal with XL Recordings after she got her arts degree from the BRIT School in 2006. Her first album, 19, came out in 2008, and “Chasing Pavements” and “Make You Feel My Love” both reached the top five in the UK. In the UK, the album got 8 platinum, and in the US, it got triple platinum. Adele was given both the Rising Star Brit Award and the Best New Artist Grammy Award.

Adele put out her second studio album in 2011. It was called 21. It sold more than 31 million copies, making it the best-selling album of the 21st century. It was given an 18 platinum rating in the UK, which was the highest ever for a solo artist, and a Diamond rating in the US. Billboard says that 21 is the best-selling album in US chart history. It was at the top of the Billboard 200 for 24 weeks (the longest for a female artist ever). She was the first woman in the history of the Billboard Hot 100 to have three top-ten singles as a lead artist at the same time. These singles were “Rolling in the Deep,” “Someone Like You,” and “Set Fire to the Rain.” Six Grammy Awards, including Album of the Year, and the Brit Award for British Album of the Year were given to the album. Adele got a lot of mentions in the Guinness Book of Records because of how well 21 did. Rolling Stone put her album “21” on their list of the 500 best albums of all time (2020).

Adele put out “Skyfall,” a soundtrack single for the same-named James Bond movie, in 2012. The song won both the Academy Award and the Golden Globe Award for Best Original Song. Her third studio album, 25, came out in 2015 and was the best-selling album of the year. It also broke first-week sales records in the UK and US, where it is the only album to sell more than three million copies in a week. 25 was her second album to be certified Diamond in the US. It won her five Grammy Awards, including Album of the Year, and four Brit Awards, including British Album of the Year. The lead single, “Hello,” was the first song in the US to sell over one million digital copies in less than a week after it came out. Her fourth studio album, 30, came out in 2021. It included the top-charting single “Easy on Me” and was the best-selling album of the year everywhere, including the US and UK. The British Album of the Year award for 2022 went to 30.

Adele is one of the best-selling music artists in the world. As of 2022, she had sold more than 170 million records. She was named the best-selling female artist of the 21st century in the UK and the best-selling album artist of the 2010s worldwide. [5] She has won fifteen Grammy Awards, twelve Brit Awards, an Academy Award, a Golden Globe Award, and a Primetime Emmy Award. Billboard named her Artist of the Year in 2011, 2012, and 2016. The Ivors Academy named Adele Songwriter of the Year at the 2012 and 2016 Ivor Novello Awards. In 2012, 2016, and 2022, Time magazine named her one of the most influential people in the world. She was given an MBE for her work in music at the 2013 Queen’s Birthday Honours. She is number 22 on Rolling Stone’s list of the 200 best singers of all time (2023). [6] Insider magazine said that she was the best artist of the 2010s. [7]