阿黛尔 Laurie Blue Adkins[2] MBE (born 5 May 1988), better known simply as Adele, is an English singer, songwriter, musician, and multi-instrumentalist. 阿黛尔 was offered a recording contract from XL Recordings after a friend 发布 her demo on Myspace in 2006. The 下一个 年 she received the Brit Awards "Critics' Choice" award and won the BBC Sound of 2008. Her debut album, 19, was released in 2008 to much commercial and critical success. It certified four times platinum in the UK, and double platinum in the US.[3][4] Her career in the US was boosted 由 a Saturday Night Live appearance in late 2008. At the 2009 Grammy Awards, 阿黛尔 received the awards for Best New Artist and Best Female Pop Vocal Performance.[5][6]
阿黛尔 released her 秒 album, 21, in early 2011.[7][8] The album was well received critically and surpassed the success of her debut,[9] earning the singer six Grammy Awards in 2012 including Album of the Year, equalling the record for most Grammy Awards won 由 a female artist in one night.[10][11] The album has also led to her receiving numerous other awards, including two Brit Awards and three American 音乐 Awards. The album has been certified 16 times platinum in the UK;[3] in the US the album has held the 最佳, 返回页首 position longer than any other album since 1985, and is certified Diamond.[12][13][14] According to IFPI, the album has sold over 26 million copies worldwide.[15]
The success of 21 earned 阿黛尔 numerous mentions in the 吉尼斯 World Records. She is the first artist to sell 更多 than 3 million copies of an album in a 年 in the UK.[16] With her two albums and the first two singles from 21, "Rolling in the Deep" and "Someone Like You", she became the first living artist to achieve the feat of having two top-five hits in both the UK Official Singles Chart and the Official Albums Chart simultaneously since the Beatles in 1964.[17][18] With her third release from the album, "Set 火, 消防 to the Rain", which became her third number one single in the US, 阿黛尔 became the first artist in history to lead the Billboard 200 concurrently with three Billboard Hot 100 number-ones.[19]
阿黛尔 is the first female in the history of the Billboard Hot 100 to have three singles in the 最佳, 返回页首 10 at the same time as a lead artist, and the first female artist to have two albums in the 最佳, 返回页首 five of the Billboard 200 and two singles in the 最佳, 返回页首 five of the Billboard Hot 100 simultaneously.[20] 21 is the longest running number one album 由 a female solo artist on the UK and US Albums Chart.[21][22] In 2011 and 2012, Billboard named 阿黛尔 Artist of the Year.[23][24] In 2012, 阿黛尔 was listed at number five on VH1′s 100 Greatest Women In Music,[25] and the American magazine Time named 阿黛尔 one of the most influential people in the world.[26] In 2013, she received an Academy Award as well as the Golden Globe Award for Best Original Song for her song "Skyfall", written for Skyfall, the twenty-third James Bond film.[27]
阿黛尔 released her 秒 album, 21, in early 2011.[7][8] The album was well received critically and surpassed the success of her debut,[9] earning the singer six Grammy Awards in 2012 including Album of the Year, equalling the record for most Grammy Awards won 由 a female artist in one night.[10][11] The album has also led to her receiving numerous other awards, including two Brit Awards and three American 音乐 Awards. The album has been certified 16 times platinum in the UK;[3] in the US the album has held the 最佳, 返回页首 position longer than any other album since 1985, and is certified Diamond.[12][13][14] According to IFPI, the album has sold over 26 million copies worldwide.[15]
The success of 21 earned 阿黛尔 numerous mentions in the 吉尼斯 World Records. She is the first artist to sell 更多 than 3 million copies of an album in a 年 in the UK.[16] With her two albums and the first two singles from 21, "Rolling in the Deep" and "Someone Like You", she became the first living artist to achieve the feat of having two top-five hits in both the UK Official Singles Chart and the Official Albums Chart simultaneously since the Beatles in 1964.[17][18] With her third release from the album, "Set 火, 消防 to the Rain", which became her third number one single in the US, 阿黛尔 became the first artist in history to lead the Billboard 200 concurrently with three Billboard Hot 100 number-ones.[19]
阿黛尔 is the first female in the history of the Billboard Hot 100 to have three singles in the 最佳, 返回页首 10 at the same time as a lead artist, and the first female artist to have two albums in the 最佳, 返回页首 five of the Billboard 200 and two singles in the 最佳, 返回页首 five of the Billboard Hot 100 simultaneously.[20] 21 is the longest running number one album 由 a female solo artist on the UK and US Albums Chart.[21][22] In 2011 and 2012, Billboard named 阿黛尔 Artist of the Year.[23][24] In 2012, 阿黛尔 was listed at number five on VH1′s 100 Greatest Women In Music,[25] and the American magazine Time named 阿黛尔 one of the most influential people in the world.[26] In 2013, she received an Academy Award as well as the Golden Globe Award for Best Original Song for her song "Skyfall", written for Skyfall, the twenty-third James Bond film.[27]