For a woman that has only released 2 albums to date Adele has pretty much turned the record book on its head. Her debut album 19 was released in 2008, and went to Number 1 in the UK (and Holland), and was a top 5 success in 7 other countries, including the US, Canada, and Ireland.
Now if you thought that was impressive you ain’t see nothing yet, as her follow up album 21 which was released in 2011 went to Number 1 in 29 different countries, of which for 14 of them (including the UK and US) it was the biggest selling album of 2011, and quite impressively despite being over a year old was also the biggest selling album of 2012 in 10 countries too! And bizarrely enough it is the biggest selling album of all time in Belgium! It also spawned the monster hits, Rolling In The Deep, Someone Like You, and Set Fire To The Rain, all of which went to Number 1.
And if that hasn’t left you open-mouthed then her awards list (these are ones won, not nominated) from the 2 albums probably will, with 13 US Billboard Awards, 4 Brits, 10 Grammy’s, 2 Ivor Novello’s, 1 MOBO, 4 MTV Music Awards, and another 50 (yes fifty) awards we haven’t got the time to list here to her name, oh and an Academy Award and Golden Globe Award for the James Bond theme song Skyfall.
However with her popularity astronomical she stepped away from the limelight to take a break……that is until now.
She is now back with a new album announced and single. The album is called 25 (not the most ground breaking of titles, but expected, and who are we to judge anyway?) and is due out of November 20th. However the first single from the album came out on Friday, and as expected has garnered huge publicity. It is called Hello, and as you might’ve expected it is an emotional ballad.
The Sepia-toned video that goes with it, which stars Tristan Wilds features Adele performing the song in a small house and outside in a wooded forest, intercut with scenes of a tearful phone call and flashbacks to a past relationship with Wilds' character.
Portions of the video—mostly the finale on the pond and the shot of her opening her eyes in the beginning—were filmed with IMAX cameras making it the first music video to be in IMAX format.
Check out the video below which broke Vevo records when it was released on Friday by achieving 23.2 million views in the first 24 hours.