Adele Laurie Blue Adkins
(born 5 May 1988), known under the mononym Adele, is an English singer-songwriter. She was the first recipient of the BRIT Awards Critics' Choice and was named the number-one predicted breakthrough act of 2008 in an annual BBC poll of music critics, Sound of 2008. At the 2009 Grammy Awards, Adele won the awards for Best New Artist and Best Female Pop Vocal Performance.

After performing at the 2011 BRIT Awards, the album track "Someone Like You
" reached number one in the United Kingdom, while the album also remained at number one. "Someone Like You
" held the number one position for four consecutive weeks. The song has also spent 2 weeks at number one in New Zealand and 5 weeks at number one in Australia. The Official Charts Company announced that Adele is the first living artist to achieve the feat of two top five hits in both the Official Singles Chart and the Official Albums Chart simultaneously since The Beatles
in 1964. 21
has spent eleven consecutive weeks at number one in the UK, the longest ever by a female solo artist on the UK Albums Chart, surpassing Madonna's
nine weeks at number one in 1990 with her greatest hits compilation The Immaculate Collection
. In the US the album has spent a total of nine weeks at the top of theBillboard 200 to date. The album has also broken the record for the most UK digital downloads. As of May 2011 the singer was worth £6 million tying her with Lily Allen
and Duffy
for 9th place on the list of the richest British and Irish music stars under age 30.
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