"music inflections. Instruments such as the saxophone, harp, banjo and the accordion contributed to its exploration of blues and soul. The singer drew from the music of Mary J. Blige, Kanye West, Elbow, Mos Def, Alanis Morissette, Tom Waits, and Sinéad O'Connor in the cultivation of the album's sound, and credited Yvonne Fair, Andrew Bird, Neko Case, and The Steel Drivers with its musical direction. Adele's style on ""21"" is generally characterised by critics as soul, although some suggest that the album eschews any distinct stylistic epithet. John Murphy of musicOMH characterises the album as British soul. Jon Caramanica of"
"achieved separate consecutive number-one spells during its 2011 chart run on the UK Albums Chart, claiming the top spot for 11 straight weeks between February and April 2011, then for five consecutive weeks between April and June, and then for another two weeks in July 2011. It amassed 23 weeks at number one to date. Midway through 2012, ""21"" was the best-selling album of the year despite being released in early 2011. In December 2012, ""21"" overtook Oasis' ""(What's the Story) Morning Glory?"" to become the fourth best-selling album of all time in the UK. By December 2012, ""21"" had"
"Rain"" becoming international number-one songs, while ""Rumour Has It"" charted in the top 20 across Europe and North America. Globally, ""21"" was the biggest selling musical release for both 2011 and 2012, and helped revitalise lagging sales of the UK and US music industry. With over 31 million copies sold worldwide, ""21"" is one of the best-selling albums of all time. Critics hailed the album as a shift from the overtly sexual and musically bombastic status quo, and attributed its success to its deeply autobiographical yet universal songs. Shortlisted for the 2011 Mercury Prize, ""21"" won the 2012 Grammy Award"
"""21"" became the UK's best-selling album of the 21st century and its fourth best-selling album of all time in 2011, certified platinum 16 times. During the same year, ""Back To Black"" by Amy Winehouse became the UK's second best selling album of the 21st century and its 13th best-selling album of all time following her death in 2011, certified platinum 11 times. In 2013, despite the trend of declining album sales persisting, the British music industry saw a 9% growth in revenue which could be traced to ""individual revenues by musicians, singers, composers, songwriters and lyricists"", adding £3.8bn to the"
"21 (Hunter Hayes song) ""21"" is a song recorded by American singer Hunter Hayes as the lead single for his third studio album, ""The 21 Project"" (2015). Written by Dallas Davidson, Kelley Lovelace, and Ashley Gorley, the song is Hayes' first to not feature an official writing credit. It was released in the UK on May 21, 2015 before being released to digital retailers in North America on May 26, 2015. It is also included on his second extended play, ""21"" (2015). ""21"" impacted country radio on June 8, 2015 and entered the ""Billboard"" Country Airplay chart at number 32."
"of many of the songs, a fault that he said would have been more apparent had they been performed by a lesser talent. Allison Stewart of ""The Washington Post"" claimed that many tracks were remarkable ""only because Adele is singing them."" Robert Christgau gave the album a two-star honourable mention in his consumer guide for ""MSN Music"", writing that ""part of me likes how many albums this proud white-soul normal has sold, but the part that likes fast ones wins."" ""21"" debuted at number one on the UK Albums Chart on 30 January 2011 with first-week sales of 208,000 copies."
"record formerly held by Whitney Houston's soundtrack """". ""21"" spent its 23rd week at number one in March 2012, making it the longest-running album at number one since 1985, and it became the fourth best-selling album of the past 10 years in the US. The best selling album in the UK of the 21st century, and the best selling album by a female in UK chart history, ""21"" is also the fourth best-selling album in the UK of all time. ""21"" was her first album certified diamond in the US. On 6 March, ""21"" reached 30 non-consecutive weeks at number"
"Epworth, Ryan Tedder, Jim Abbiss, and Dan Wilson. Praised by critics for its understated production, vintage aesthetic, and Adele's vocal performance, ""21"" defied the modest commercial expectations of her indie record label XL Recordings. The album topped the charts in more than 30 countries and became the world's best-selling album of the year for 2011 and 2012. In the United Kingdom, it is the best-selling album of the 21st century and fourth best-selling album of all time, while its 23-week tenure atop the UK Albums Chart is the longest by a female solo artist. In the United States, the album"
"the UK singles chart at number 4. During the 2010 ""CMT Artists of the Year"" special, Adele performed a widely publicised duet of Lady Antebellum's ""Need You Now"" with Darius Rucker. This performance was later nominated for a CMT Music Award. Adele released her second studio album, ""21"", on 24 January 2011 in the UK and 22 February in the US. She said that the album was inspired by the break-up with her former partner. The album's sound is described as classic and contemporary country and roots music. The change in sound from her first album was the result of"
"her bus driver playing contemporary music from Nashville when she was touring the American South, and the title reflected the growth she had experienced in the prior two years. Adele told ""Spin Magazine:"" ""It was really exciting for me because I never grew up around [that music]."" ""21"" hit number 1 in 30 countries, including the UK and the US. An emotional performance of ""Someone Like You"" at the 2011 Brit Awards on 15 February propelled the song to number one in the UK. Her first album, ""19,"" re-entered the UK album chart alongside ""21,"" while first and second singles"
"Airplay chart for the week ending June 6, 2015. The song has sold 117,000 copies in the US as of December 2015. 21 (Hunter Hayes song) ""21"" is a song recorded by American singer Hunter Hayes as the lead single for his third studio album, ""The 21 Project"" (2015). Written by Dallas Davidson, Kelley Lovelace, and Ashley Gorley, the song is Hayes' first to not feature an official writing credit. It was released in the UK on May 21, 2015 before being released to digital retailers in North America on May 26, 2015. It is also included on his second"
"21 in Australia. ""No Ordinary Love"" was released as the album's lead single in the United Kingdom on 28 September 1992, by Epic Records. It peaked at number 26 in the UK when originally released, but reached number 14 when it was re-released in June 1993. In the accompanying music video, Sade Adu is dressed as a mermaid and a bride. ""Music & Media"" wrote about the song: ""With a serious competitor in the person of Des'Ree coming up, this is the answer by the grande dame of sophisticated soul, who has updated her beats a little bit and added"
"Awards, including British Album of the Year; and three American Music Awards. The album has been certified 17 times platinum in the UK, and is overall the fourth best-selling album in the nation. In the US, it has held the top position longer than any album since 1985, and is certified diamond. The best-selling album worldwide of 2011 and 2012, ""21"" has sold over 31 million copies. The success of ""21"" earned Adele numerous mentions in the ""Guinness Book of World Records."" She was the first female artist to simultaneously have two albums in the top five of the ""Billboard"""
"Adele discography English singer and songwriter Adele has released three studio albums, two extended plays, and 16 singles. Adele signed a record deal with XL in 2006, and released her debut album ""19"" in 2008. The album reached number one on the UK Albums Chart, and her single, ""Chasing Pavements"", reached number two on the UK Singles Chart. Another single, ""Make You Feel My Love"", reached number one in the Netherlands. ""21"", Adele's second studio album, was released on 19 January 2011. The album was immediately certified platinum by the British Phonographic Industry while debuting at number one. ""21"" has"
"21, 2011, by Scott's imprint label, Blue Babe Records. It received positive reviews from most critics and debuted at number one on the ""Billboard"" 200 in the United States, where it sold 135,000 copies in its first week. The album became Scott's first American number-one record, and as of March 2015, it had sold 478,000 copies in the US. It was promoted with three singles: ""So in Love"", ""So Gone (What My Mind Says)"", and ""Blessed"". Scott also promoted the album with her Summer Block Party concert tour. Following her 2007 album, """", Scott took a break from recording music."
"space of 12 months. In late November 2012, ""21"" fell out of the Top 40 of the UK Albums Chart for the first time since its release in January 2011. With ""21"", Adele became the first female to have three singles simultaneously in the top 10 of the ""Billboard"" Hot 100 as a solo artist. In the week ending 23 February 2012, she also became the first female artist to place two titles in the top five of both the ""Billboard"" 200 and Hot 100 concurrently, with ""21"" and ""19"" occupying number one and number four on the ""Billboard"" 200"
"gimmicks in Adele's music undermined the widespread perception that female performers have to conform to specific body-types, or imbue their music with gratuitous sexual imagery, in order attain success. In September 2011, Adele claimed ""Guinness World Records"" for becoming the first female artist to have two singles and two albums in the UK top five simultaneously. ""21"" also became the first album in UK chart history to reach sales of three million copies in a calendar year, and set records for the most consecutive weeks with a UK number-one album (solo female) with 11 weeks (overtaking Madonna's 1990 compilation ""The"
"Chart, more than any other female artist. Adele discography English singer and songwriter Adele has released three studio albums, two extended plays, and 16 singles. Adele signed a record deal with XL in 2006, and released her debut album ""19"" in 2008. The album reached number one on the UK Albums Chart, and her single, ""Chasing Pavements"", reached number two on the UK Singles Chart. Another single, ""Make You Feel My Love"", reached number one in the Netherlands. ""21"", Adele's second studio album, was released on 19 January 2011. The album was immediately certified platinum by the British Phonographic Industry"
"the 55th Annual Grammy Awards. On 21 February 2012, ""21"" won the British Album of the Year at the 2012 BRIT Awards. It also won the 2012 Juno Award for International Album of the Year. ""21"" appeared on many year-end best-of lists. The album was ranked the best album of the year by the Associated Press, ""The Austin Chronicle"", ""Entertainment Weekly"", ""Star Tribune"", Digital Spy, MSN Music, ""New York Daily News"", ""Rolling Stone"", ""TIME"" magazine, and editors of ""USA Today"". Critics at ""Billboard"" voted the album number-one of the year, while Scottish newspaper the ""Daily Record"", editors of Amazon and"
"21 (Omarion album) 21 is the second studio album by American R&B singer Omarion. It was released on December 26, 2006, by Epic Records and Sony Urban Music. The album was produced by Timbaland, The Neptunes, Eric Hudson and Bryan-Michael Cox and saw Omarion co-write every song on the album. The album's title was inspired from when Omarion turned 21 years old months before the album's release. ""21"" received mildly positive reviews from critics, who saw it as an improvement over his debut record ""O"" (2005). The album debuted at number one on the US ""Billboard"" 200, selling 119,000 copies"
"respectively, and ""Set Fire to the Rain"" and ""Rolling in the Deep"" at number two and five respectively. On 14 June 2012, ""21"" scored its 24th week atop the US album charts, the longest since Prince's ""Purple Rain"" finished a non-consecutive 24-week run in 1985. The album is also the longest-running number-one by a UK studio album (excluding soundtracks and group acts), the longest-running number-one album by a female solo artist ever in the US, and the longest-running number-one in the SoundScan era. The album also spent 24 non-consecutive weeks at number 2. ""21"" is credited with saving the first"
"#21 on the UK chart in 1982. Players Association also covered the track in 1977, as did Stanley Turrentine on ""The Man with the Sad Face"" in 1976. British soul singer Pauline Henry (former lead vocalist of the Chimes) recorded a contemporary version of the track in 1995 (released as a single), singer Jody Watley recorded a downtempo version for her 2006 album, ""The Makeover"", and Australian singer-songwriter Tina Arena recorded a version in 2007 for her album ""Songs of Love & Loss"". The song was sampled in Monica's 1998 hit ""The First Night"", which hit #1 on the Billboard"
"21 (Hunter Hayes EP) 21 is the second extended play by American country music artist Hunter Hayes, released to streaming services on August 7, 2015. It is expected to be made available to digital retailers at a later date and serves as a prelude to Hayes's forthcoming third studio album, scheduled for released in the fall of 2015. ""21"" includes all of the digital-only singles releases from Hayes Spotify-exclusive ""The Drop"" campaign, led by the project's eponymous lead single, ""21"", released on May 21, 2015. In May 2015, Hayes released his then-new single, ""21"", exclusively to streaming service Spotify (and,"
"for 21, in February 2012 she won the Grammy Awards for Album of the Year and Best Pop Vocal Album for ""21"", Record of the Year, Song of the Year and Best Short Form Music Video for ""Rolling in the Deep,"" and Best Pop Solo Performance for ""Someone like You"" at the 54th Annual Grammy Awards Her producer, Paul Epworth won Producer of the Year, Non-Classical. In February 2013, a live rendition of the album's third single ""Set Fire to the Rain,"" included on ""Live at the Royal Albert Hall"", won the Grammy Award for Best Pop Solo Performance at"
"and the first truly impressive record of 2011."" Sputnikmusic's Joseph Viney stated that ""21"" combined the ""best bits of Aretha Franklin's old-school soul with Lauryn Hill's sass and sense of cynical modern femininity."" Sean Fennessey from ""The Village Voice"" wrote that the album ""has a diva's stride and a diva's purpose. With a touch of sass and lots of grandeur, it's an often magical thing that insists on its importance ... the line here between melodrama and pathos is wafer-thin, and Adele toes it deftly. It's what separates her from her contemporaries in the mid-'00s wave of British white-girl r&b-dom."""
"""Rolling in the Deep"" and ""Someone Like You"" were in the top 5 of the UK singles chart, making Adele 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. Both songs topped the charts in multiple markets and broke numerous sales performance records. Following her performance of ""Someone Like You"" at the 2011 MTV Video Music Awards, it became Adele's second number-one single on the ""Billboard"" Hot 100. By December 2011, ""21"" sold over 3.4 million copies in the UK,"
"Tribune"", Greg Kot deemed the music an improvement over ""19"", writing that """"21"" beefs up the rhythmic drive and the drama of the arrangements."" Simon Harper of ""Clash"" wrote, ""[In] two years ... she's clearly seen the world. Where ""19"" marked the turbulent swan song to a teenage life, ""21"" introduces the realities of adult life, where grown-up responsibilities collide with heartache and emotional scars run deep."" John Murphy of ""MusicOMH"" said that it shared the themes of ""pain, sadness and anger"" explored on Amy Winehouse's ""Back to Black"" (2006), while hailing ""21"" as ""one of the great 'break-up' albums,"
"Beyoncé were among the artists vocal in their praise of her music. Beyoncé cited Adele as one of the influences for her fourth album, ""4"". In the United Kingdom, the album debuted at number one. In the same week as ""21"" was released, ""19"" re-entered the UK Albums Chart at number 4, with sales of 25,419 copies. On 6 February 2011, the album remained on the chart at number 4, with strengthening sales of 27,660 copies. It was the second best selling album of 2011 in the United Kingdom, behind ""21"", as it tripled its 2008 seven non-consecutive week-long top"
"21, 2013 in Los Angeles. Relativity Music Group released a soundtrack album for the film on November 10, 2014, which features the original song ""Grateful"", written by Diane Warren and performed by Rita Ora. Three songs featured in the film but absent from the soundtrack are Beyoncé's ""Drunk in Love,"" India.Arie's ""I Am Light"" and Amel Larrieux's ""Don't Let Me Down"" as they already appear on each artist's respective albums. ""Beyond the Lights"" received positive reviews from critics. Based on 81 reviews on Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds a ""Certified Fresh"" rating of 83%, with an average rating of 6.8/10."
"Immaculate Collection""), and the most cumulative weeks at number one (solo female) in the UK. ""21"" sold 4 million copies by February 2012 and by March, it had been certified 16-times platinum by the British Phonographic Industry for shipments of 4,500,000 units, the highest ever certified album in the UK. It is also the most downloaded album in UK history, the biggest-selling album of the 21st century in the UK, and the 4th best selling album in the UK of all time. Sales of ""21"" helped increase XL Recordings', Adele's record label, bank balance from £3million to £32million in the"
"Solo Artist, and British Album of the Year presented to her by George Michael. Following the Brit Awards, ""21"" reached number one for the 21st non-consecutive week in the UK. The album has sold over 4.5 million copies in the UK where it is the fourth best-selling album. In October, the album's sales surpassed 4.5 million in the UK, and in November it surpassed 10 million sales in the US. The best-selling album worldwide of 2011 and 2012, , the album has sold over 31 million copies. By the end of 2014, she had sold an estimated 40 million albums"
"taken the rap bonafides a bit too far with ""Stronger"" – especially considering she's respected enough to cover Sade – but much of the rest of Friends & Lovers is grown and sexy cool."" Andy Kellman of AllMusic said, ""Had it not been for fellow English singer Adele's ""21"", ""Late Nights & Early Mornings"" would have topped the Billboard 200 the week after its 2011 release date. Marsha Ambrosius' solo debut had staying power, too. One of its singles, ""Far Away,"" was nominated for two Grammy Awards. While she continued to make occasional guest appearances, highlighted by spots on Robert"
"21, 2017. ""Babe"" featuring Taylor Swift, the second single from the album, was released on April 20, 2018. The title-track, ""Bigger"", was released as a promotional single on April 12, 2018. ""Mother"" was released April 27, 2018 as another promotional single. Stephen Thomas Erlewine of All Music gave it four out of five star rating saying, that the album ""does indeed deliver on its titular promise to be a grand, majestic album, but emotions are not in its skyscraper sweep."" Brittany McKenna of ""Rolling Stone"" was positive saying, ""The arrangements of ""Bigger"" are grander, the vocals more theatrical, and the"