Adele

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Adele

Born 1988-05-05 · 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.

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An Audience with Adele poster
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Joining multi-Grammy Award winning and one of the biggest UK artists of all time, Adele, for a unique and special night at the legendary London Palladium, where she performs her chart-topping single Easy On Me, as well as tracks from her new album, 30.

An Audience with Adele

2021

Cry to Heaven poster
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Set in 18th-century Venice, the paths of two unlikely collaborators: a Venetian noble and a castrated singer from Calabria, both tries to succeed in the world of the opera.

Cry to Heaven

2022 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony poster
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The 37th Annual Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony take place on Saturday, November 5, 2022 at Microsoft Theater in Los Angeles, California. This year’s Performer Inductees are Pat Benatar, Duran Duran, Eminem, Eurythmics, Dolly Parton, Lionel Richie, and Carly Simon. Judas Priest and Jimmy Jam & Terry Lewis will receive the Musical Excellence Award, Harry Belafonte and Elizabeth Cotten the Early Influence Award, and Allen Grubman, Jimmy Iovine, and Sylvia Robinson the Ahmet Ertegun Award.

2022 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony

2022

Katy Perry: Part of Me poster
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Giving fans unprecedented access to the real life of the music sensation, Katy Perry: Part of Me exposes the hard work, dedication and phenomenal talent of a girl who remained true to herself and her vision in order to achieve her dreams. Featuring rare behind-the-scenes interviews, personal moments between Katy and her friends, and all-access footage of rehearsals, choreography, Katy’s signature style and more, Katy Perry: Part of Me reveals the singer’s unwavering belief that if you can be yourself, then you can be anything.

Katy Perry: Part of Me

2012

Adele One Night Only poster
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A primetime special with performances from the superstar including Adele’s first new material in six years plus her chart-topping hits. The special will also feature an exclusive interview with Adele by Oprah Winfrey from her rose garden, in Adele’s first televised wide-ranging conversation.

Adele One Night Only

2021

Ladies & Gentlemen... 50 Years of SNL Music poster
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Untold stories behind the culture-defining and newsmaking musical performances, sketches and cameos of the past 50 years.

Ladies & Gentlemen... 50 Years of SNL Music

2025

Adele - Live in London poster
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Eight-time Grammy Award-winning singer and musical phenomenon Adele performs live from her hometown in her first-ever network spectacular featuring an exclusive sit-down with Matt Lauer. In the one-hour event, Adele recaps the amazing year that followed the release of her sophomore album, "21." The special also features, for the first time on network television, six performances from the singer's "Adele Live at The Royal Albert Hall," including hit songs "Someone Like You" and "Rolling in the Deep."

Adele - Live in London

2012

P!NK: Staying True poster
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Pink breaks the mold once again, bringing her career to a new level in 2013 with a world tour that entertains unlike ever before! Get inside access to "the girl who got the party started" with exclusive interviews and rare live performances.

P!NK: Staying True

2013

Adele: Live at the Royal Albert Hall poster
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On September 22nd 2011, Adele played The Royal Albert Hall in London. A dream come true moment and a highlight of her record breaking year with the album '21'.

Adele: Live at the Royal Albert Hall

2011

The BRITs at 40 poster
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In 2020 the BRIT Awards celebrated a massive 40th ever show. In this documentary Jack Whitehall delves into the archives to narrate an entertaining look back at over four decades of highlights from Britain’s biggest music show.

The BRITs at 40

2020

Adele: Live in New York City 2015 poster
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Multiple Grammy Award-winning singer Adele performs a special one-night only concert in New York at Radio City Music Hall. This extraordinary performance marked the artist's first concert in the U.S. since fall 2011 and her largest show in New York to date.

Adele: Live in New York City 2015

2015

Adele: 30 Greatest Moments poster
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A countdown of memorable events from the singer's career, from the time the north London teenager first burst onto the scene in 2008 to the present day. The programme visits some of the key places in Adele's life, from her old school to the studios in which she has recorded her record-breaking albums, and hears from those who have known her along the way.

Adele: 30 Greatest Moments

2022

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TV Special with Adele, Susan Boyle & Cheryl plus 9 other Performers in front of Prince Charles and Camilla Parker-Bowles

Royal Variety Performance 2010

2010

VH1 Divas 2009 poster
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VH1 Divas: An Honors Concert For The VH1 Save The Music Foundation aired live on September 17, 2009 at the Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM) Howard Gilman Opera House in Brooklyn, New York. Paula Abdul hosted and performed. This concert, which featured a new and younger crop of divas as headliners, has not been released on CD or DVD.

VH1 Divas 2009

2009

Adele at the BBC poster
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In this one-off BBC Music exclusive celebrating the release of her new album 25, Adele performs some of her world-famous classic tracks, as well as eagerly awaited new material, accompanied by her band in front of a live studio audience. Plus host Graham Norton talks to Adele about her career and extraordinary life to date. There's also some fun to be had as Adele gets up close and personal with some of her biggest fans. The show includes Adele's first television performance of Skyfall since the 85th Academy Awards in February 2013, where she won Best Original Song for the theme music to the 23rd James Bond film.

Adele at the BBC

2015

Burt Bacharach at the BBC poster
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A celebration of one of the all-time songwriting greats, featuring a selection of the finest songs from his extraordinary back catalogue and performances from the BBC's archives.

Burt Bacharach at the BBC

2023

... Sings Dylan II poster
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A feast of cover versions of Bob Dylan songs from the BBC archives, with classic tracks old and new and some surprises from the 1960s to the present.

... Sings Dylan II

2015

Adele: Someone Like Me poster
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Adele has recieved iconic status from fans and industry proffesionals alike. With sold out concerts around the world and multiple awards to her name Adele came from humble beginnings and has gone on to be one of the biggest Artists in the world.

Adele: Someone Like Me

2016

Adele The Only Way Is Up poster
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She was signed in 2006, released her debut album in 2008, and the follow-up in 2011. And the rest, as they say, is history. But Adele Adkins' history is one that deserves investigation, analysis, documentation and review. Using rare archival interviews (during which she speaks candidly about her life and career), live and studio performance footage, and contributions from collaborators and industry insiders, ADELE: THE ONLY WAY IS UP reveals just what it is that has transformed this seemingly ordinary girl from Croydon into the most successful musical icon of the third millennium.

Adele The Only Way Is Up

2012

Adele: A New Chapter poster
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Adele: A New Chapter

2021

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She’s broken records and won every award going, and as Adele’s latest album is conquering the charts across the world, the programme looks into the BBC’s archives to look at how it all started for one of the 21st century's biggest music stars. As well as delivering the chance to enjoy all her biggest hits once again, this is an opportunity to explore and savour Adele's early performances on a selection of programmes, dating back to her first TV appearance, singing Daydreamer on Later... with Jools Holland in the summer of 2007 - a debut that announced a new star was born.

Adele: The BBC Sessions

2021

Adele: Live at iTunes Festival London poster
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Adele July 7, 2011 The Roundhouse (iTunes Festival 2011) London, United Kingdom 01. Hometown Glory 02. I'll Be Waiting 03. Don't You Remember 04. Turning Tables 05. Set Fire to the Rain 06. If It Hadn't Been for Love (The Steel Drivers cover) 07. My Same 08. Take It All 09. Rumour Has It 10. Right as Rain 11. One and Only 12. Lovesong (The Cure cover) 13. Chasing Pavements 14. I Can't Make You Love Me (Bonnie Raitt cover) 15. Make You Feel My Love (Bob Dylan cover) Encore: 16. Rolling in the Deep 17. Someone Like You

Adele: Live at iTunes Festival London

2011

Adele: Homecoming poster
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The eagerly anticipated wait is over, after 5 years since the release of her last album, Adele is back! Fans have applauded her return, by breaking the record for most viewed video in a single day, reaching an astounding 28.7M views in the first 24 hours. The British singer has knocked Taylor Swift off the record, previously holding most viewed video in a single day for her Bad Blood video which reached 20 million views. “Hello” has now been viewed nearly 89 million times on Vevo alone since the day of its release, and has already topped the iTunes charts in 85 countries. The success of this debut single has blown everyone away and the rest of her album will most likely follow suit. Through her own words, video and live performance this documentary takes an incredible look at the life and times of this truly amazing young artist.

Adele: Homecoming

2017

Adele: From 19 to 30 - In Her Own Words poster
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A look at the career of the singer ahead of the release of her new album 30, her first in six years, examining how she is able to retain such a loyal fan base after disappearing from the business for long periods. The movie explores Adele's latest press appearances, including two simultaneous Vogue covers after sitting for separate interviews and photo shoots for the magazine's US and UK editions

Adele: From 19 to 30 - In Her Own Words

2021