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[EvilTwinTwo]

Adele's '21' breaks US album chart record

Adele is on course to spend a ninth week on top of the Billboard 200 chart next week with her second album 21.

The 'Someone Like You' star broke records earlier in the week by spending an eighth week at number one, giving her the longest album reign in the US since early 2009.

The feat also means that Adele is the only British act in over 20 years to remain at the top for a sustained period of time since George Michael's Faith spent 12 non-consecutive weeks at number one in 1987/88.

According to Billboard, the 23-year-old singer is looking to manage another week at the top with predicted sales of 55,000. However, it is expected that the record-breaker will not be able to fight off competition from Lady GaGa, who will release her highly-anticipated Born This Way album on Tuesday.

Adele's 'Rolling in the Deep' has also spent its second week at number one on the US Hot 100 chart.

http://www.digitalspy.com/music/news/a320698/adeles-21-breaks-us-album-chart-record.html

 

[EvilTwinTwo]

Adele - Someone Like You (Live in Her Home)

[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NAc83CF8Ejk&feature=player_embedded[/ame]

 

[miaedu]

Adele on the cover of OUT

She had to have her heart broken -- twice -- to break the charts, but Adele is not about to let fame to go her head. As she begins a U.S. tour, the singer opens up about the heartache behind her music, the danger of fan mail, and why she thinks singer is too big a word for her.

By Aaron Hicklin

Meeting Adele can be discombobulating. She's a global sensation whose latest album, 21, has broken records left, right, and center, but to call her a pop star seems, somehow, to miss the point of someone so lacking in ego, so resolutely determined to downplay her celebrity -- even when that someone is the first living artist since the Beatles, in 1964, to have had two albums and two singles in the British top 5. "I always say I'm a singing lady, rather than a singer," says Adele. "Singer is a big word for me. My interpretation of a singer is Etta James and Carole King and Aretha Franklin."

It is a sunny day in Amsterdam, and Adele is in her pajamas, her long hair splayed out around her head, a cigarette dangling from one hand (she smokes 20 a day). Boats float by on the canal just below us; on one, a trio of adolescent girls starts squawking, "Are you Adele?" and collapse into gasps and sighs when she flashes them a corroborating smile. Later, she will perform to a frenzied crowd in Paradiso, a converted church booked before it was clear that she could fill venues many times the size. It's a story that's been repeated across Europe: venues too small to accommodate her exploding career. "We're playing Shepherd's Bush in London, and I didn't even think I'd sell that out," she says of the 2,000-capacity venue. "It went in about 10 seconds. It's still hard to take it all in. Every now and then I wonder when it's going to slow down." She says she's lost a few friends "who just don't get it and treat me weird," but that she has managed to maintain her identity and keep sight of the things that count. "I've met people I admire, and people I don't admire who are completely affected by their success, and I fucking hate them," she says. "There's so many people who believe their own hype and treat people like shit, and if I was ever like that I would absolutely stop doing what I'm doing for a while and go and find myself again. I find it grotesque when people change because of it, but maybe it's because they're not as good at keeping in contact with the people who love them for a reason."

It may be premature to claim that Adele stands comparison with any of her idols, but at 23, it's clear that she is something special. She wrote her breakout single, "Hometown Glory," in 10 minutes -- when she was 16 -- after a row with her mom, who wanted her to leave home for university. It was released in 2007, just 500 copies, in vinyl. Two years later she walked away from the 2009 Grammys clutching two awards -- for Best New Artist and for her single "Chasing Pavements." Her shoes were off and her belt was undone when the announcement was made. "I had just come back from the toilet, so my Spanx weren't even all the way up," she recalls. "Then I won Best New Artist, and it was like time slowed down, and I was hovering over myself, pissing myself laughing. It was amazing."

http://www.out.com/features/2011/05/Adele-Lady-Sings-The-Blues/

 

[ILLBFIRE]

I can't decide who I want to see in concert more...Britney or Adele

 

[miaedu]

I can't decide who I want to see in concert more...Britney or Adele

Adele Cancels Remaining U.S. Tour Dates Due to Illness

British singer Adele has scrapped the remaining nine dates of her sold-out North American tour due to laryngitis.

She already had postponed five shows under doctor's orders following her recent diagnosis. While resting in Los Angeles, she met with an Otolaryngology specialist who determined it was imperative that she take the next few weeks to recover.

"I'm really frustrated. I was hoping with a weeks rest I'd be better to sing again straight away," she said in a statement Friday. "However there is absolutely nothing I can do but take the doctor's advice and rest some more. I'm so sorry. See you soon, love Adele."

Plans to reschedule the cancelled tour dates will be provided when available.

http://www.billboard.com/#/events/adele-cancels-remaining-u-s-tour-dates-due-1005215932.story

 

[Sigma-taylor-E]

I'm sorry rolling in the deep is just fantastic..A group did a cover of this at my school..Needless to say Justice needs to be brought to them

 

[ILLBFIRE]

Adele Cancels Remaining U.S. Tour Dates Due to Illness

British singer Adele has scrapped the remaining nine dates of her sold-out North American tour due to laryngitis.

She already had postponed five shows under doctor's orders following her recent diagnosis. While resting in Los Angeles, she met with an Otolaryngology specialist who determined it was imperative that she take the next few weeks to recover.

"I'm really frustrated. I was hoping with a weeks rest I'd be better to sing again straight away," she said in a statement Friday. "However there is absolutely nothing I can do but take the doctor's advice and rest some more. I'm so sorry. See you soon, love Adele."

Plans to reschedule the cancelled tour dates will be provided when available.

http://www.billboard.com/#/events/adele-cancels-remaining-u-s-tour-dates-due-1005215932.story

NO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! This sucks

I guess the choice has been made for me

 

[miaedu]

Adele's "Rolling in the Deep" continues ruling the airwaves as it slides onto the R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart at No. 100. The singer, who announced the cancellation of her remaining U.S. tour dates due to laryngitis today (June 3), saw the first single from sophomore album "21" receive over a dozen spins each from San Francisco station KBLX and KMEL. The track still sits atop the Hot 100 and Mainstream Top 40 charts for a 4th week, and stays at No. 18 on the Rock Songs chart.

 

[miaedu]

Adele's Still 'Deep' Atop Hot 100

Adele's "Rolling in the Deep" claims a fifth week at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100, to be released tomorrow (June 9) on Billboard.com, while Coldplay's "Every Teardrop Is a Waterfall" charges in as the chart's top new entry.

"Rolling in the Deep" spends a second week atop Radio Songs (150 million in audience, up 5%, according to Nielsen BDS). The multi-format hit rewrites the weekly plays record (5,069) on Adult Pop Songs, where it reigns for a fifth week, tops Pop Songs for a second week and bullets at No. 3 on Adult Contemporary and No. 18 on Rock Songs. "Rolling in the Deep" additionally continues making inroads at urban radio, rising 100-82 on R&B/Hip-Hop Songs.

On Digital Songs, "Deep" logs a fifth frame at No. 1 (244,000 downloads sold, down 4%, according to Nielsen SoundScan).

http://www.billboard.com/#/news/adele-s-still-deep-atop-hot-100-coldplay-1005221272.story

 

[miaedu]

Adele’s quiet power amid the pop girl riot


Imagine the pop music marketplace in summer 2011 as an extravagant, glitzy party, a bacchanal in a Vegas ballroom. Mirror balls spin as the sonic bombast pushes into the sparkling throng, lasers cutting the space with red, dancers laughing and screaming, reckless joy and cocktails flying.

The women are dressed in their richest peacock best. There's Lady Gaga in a deconstructed Christian Lacroix gown, Rihanna's in a corner wearing S&M leather, Katy Perry with her skirt so short that it could be a belt, Beyoncé's beauty shining and Ke$ha in a leopard print something-or-other.

Into this chaos glides Adele Laurie Blue Adkins, alone, with a show-stopping grace and penetrating green eyes, full-figured and fearless, in an elegant evening gown and a string of pearls, unconcerned with eclipsing the princesses and queens. So self-assured as to silence the room, all heads turning, her presence negating the rhinestones and ridiculousness. Whispers.

That's one way to understand British singer Adele's breathtaking arrival into America's consciousness over the last three years. Another way is to play her “Rolling in the Deep” — No.1 on the singles chart for the fifth straight week — very loud and listen to a pearl of a pop song that combines essential ingredients of the Western popular music canon. So much funky, dynamic unity drives “Rolling in the Deep” that after it's over you want to hear it again because it'll be a different kind of great next time around.

The song's a humming machine of R&B: the strummed acoustic guitar opening, that thumping rock 'n' roll rhythm, the claps, the choir doing call-and-response in the background, the teeny curlicue of guitar that sneaks in from time to time, the bass occupying the “deep” of the title, the counterpoint piano punctuating as if from a Memphis church, snare drum, not sounding chaotic like so much of Gaga's “Born This Way” but offered with an effortless confidence. (Another metaphor: If pop music is an automobile, Lady Gaga fancies herself a souped-up Ed “Big Daddy” Roth two-seater muscle car, and Adele is a black Cadillac sedan, so comfortable on the inside.)

That's no small feat coming from a young British singer, born in North London to a teenage mother in 1988 and discovered on MySpace in 2007. Along with the dear (chemically) departed Amy Winehouse, Joss Stone (currently working with Mick Jagger), and Welsh singer Duffy and her curiously strong pipes, Adele is part of a small group of female British singers who over the past half-decade have drawn from vocalists as diverse as Mary J. Blige, Dusty Springfield, Aretha Franklin and Ann Peebles to create new soul music.

more...

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/mus...deles-quiet-power-amid-the-pop-girl-riot.html

 

[ILLBFIRE]

Yey! Adele is back at #1



...Columbia/Epic Label Group Chairman Rob Stringer says of Adele's success: "Adele is the real deal... She writes, is a fantastic singer and in total control... It just goes to show you don’t have to sell your soul to be successful... the public responds when it gets something authentic."

 

[EvilTwinTwo]

Yes Adele's "21" returns, as expected, to the No. 1 slot on the Billboard 200 albums chart for a tenth non-consecutive week (114,000; down 5%) and Lady Gaga's "Born This Way" falls to No. 2 (100,000; down 42%).

Adele's "Rolling in the Deep" continues to roll at No. 1 (224,000; down 8%) On the Hot 100.

Adele's "21" has sold 2,209,533 copies in the US so far making it the biggest seller this year!

 

[miaedu]

Rick Rubin on Why Adele's Hot Streak Is 'Just Beginning'

As Adele's "21" enjoys its tenth non-consecutive week atop the Billboard 200 -- though it's projected to be knocked out this week by the "Hell: The Sequel" debut by Bad Meets Evil (Eminem and Royce da 5'9") -- Rick Rubin says he doesn't think the British singer and songwriter's sophomore album has peaked yet.

"Really, we are just on our first single ('Rolling in the Deep,' with 'Someone Like You' just coming out in the U.S.) and we think there are probably five, so I think it's just the beginning," Rubin, who produced five tracks on "21" -- including Adele's remake of the Cure's "Lovesong" -- and is also co-chairman of Columbia Records, Adele's label, tells Billboard.com. "And she's barely toured at all, so really it's in the baby stages. I think it's a beautiful album that we're all really proud of, and it's amazing that it's connecting with people in the way that it is and we just hope it continues to do so."

Rubin says that the success of "21" -- which is double-platinum in the U.S. and this year's top-selling album so far at more than seven million copies worldwide -- has surpassed any of his expectations, and he chalks it up to the simple appeal of Adele as an artist. "She is an incredible singer," he notes. "She bares her soul in her songwriting, and it's the real thing...She uses her vocal instrument in a way that we don't get to hear a lot. What she is doing, it's a very pure expression of herself and it resonates with people. There is no trickery involved. It's a really honest album."

http://www.billboard.com/#/news/rick-rubin-on-new-chili-peppers-metallica-1005242142.story

 

[ILLBFIRE]

2011 = Adele

 

[EvilTwinTwo]

Grammy Awards 2012 = Adele

 

[EvilTwinTwo]

Here are Adele's rescheduled North American tour dates:
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Aug. 9: Vancouver, B.C. (Orpheum Theatre)
Aug. 11: Troutdale, Oreg. (Edgefield)
Aug. 12: Seattle, Wash. (Paramount Theatre)
Aug. 14: Berkeley, Calif. (The Greek Theatre)
Aug. 15: Los Angeles, Calif. (The Greek Theatre)
Aug. 17: Los Angeles, Calif. (The Palladium)
Aug. 18: San Diego, Calif. (Open Air Theater)
Aug. 20: Las Vegas, Nev. (The Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas)
Aug. 21: Salt Lake City, Utah (Gallivan Center)
Aug. 24: Saint Paul, Minn. (Theater at Xcel Energy Center)
Oct. 7: Atlantic City, N.J. (Borgata Spa & Resort)
Oct. 8: Durham, N.C. (Durham Performing Arts Center)
Oct. 10: Nashville, Tenn. (Ryman Auditorium)
Oct. 11: Asheville, N.C. (Thomas Wolfe Auditorium)
Oct. 13: Orlando, Fla. (Hard Rock Live)
Oct. 14: Miami, Fla. (Waterfront Theater at American Airlines Arena)
Oct. 16: Atlanta, Ga. (Fox Theatre)
Oct. 18: Spring, Tex. (Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion)
Oct. 19: Austin, Tex. (Frank Erwin Center)
Oct. 21: Grand Prairie, Tex. (Verizon Theatre at Grand Prairie)

 

[DigitalFudge]

I do not like one track from this chick.

And I am all about the Leona Lewis', the Amy Whinos, the Lily Allens (Not saying they are the same but I love them)


All that I need to love her is a hot dance beat behind the track and there is a lot of that floating around.

Basically if her album sounded like this I would all over her

[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WL6sAzH67CQ[/ame]

 

[RKJCNE]

I'm disappointed she isn't rescheduling in MN, I bought tickets to the show here before it was cancelled.

 

[ILLBFIRE]

Grammy Awards 2012 = Adele

So. Fucking. True!!

 

[miaedu]

Adele hits the dance floor....

Adele - Set Fire To The Rain (Plastic Plates Remix)

[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6e8WUGKrFJc&sns=fb[/ame]