Adele

30 becomes 2021's fastest-selling album despite sales drop

Its 261,000 first-week chart sales mean it sped past the Swedish pop group's comeback album Voyage, which opened with 204,000 sales.

However, Adele's sales figures are significantly lower than those of her previous album 25, released in 2015.

That album, her third, opened with 800,000 first-week sales, which means 30 has sold 32% of its predecessor.

Adele gets Spotify to take shuffle button off all album pages

The singer tweeted: "We don't create albums with so much care and thought into our track listing for no reason.

"Our art tells a story and our stories should be listened to as we intended. Thank you Spotify for listening."

The streaming service replied "anything for you". A statement later hailed their "new premium feature... to make play the default button on all albums".

A Spotify spokesperson said they were "excited" to be rolling out the feature which was "long requested by both users and artists".

Adele says new album will explain her divorce to her young son

"I wanted to explain to him through this record, when he's in his twenties or thirties, who I am and why I voluntarily chose to dismantle his entire life in the pursuit of my own happiness," the star told Vogue.

"It made him really unhappy sometimes. And that's a real wound for me that I don't know if I'll ever be able to heal," she added.

The 33-year-old pop superstar has given separate interviews to Vogue's British and American editions - her first for five years - as she prepares to release her highly anticipated fourth album.

Saturday Night Live: Adele 'excited' and 'terrified' to host

Well, as of this weekend, they will all have recently guest presented the coveted US comedy sketch series Saturday Night Live.

Adele announced the news on Instagram on Sunday, saying she is "so excited" and "absolutely terrified".

The Grammy-winning UK pop star will have one of her favourite US singer-songwriters, H.E.R, as a musical guest.

Her big presenting debut on the long-running NBC series is described as "a standalone moment", and as such is not necessarily tied to her releasing any new music.

Adele takes Grenfell families on a trip to the flicks

Same as the rest of us - go an watch Despicable Me 3 of course.

Turns out that's what Adele did last week and she treated some of the families who live near Grenfell Tower in the process. Only difference was it was a private screening...but then we'd all do that too if we could.

The singer, who recently cancelled two big dates at Wembley Stadium at the end of her world tour due to vocal issues, was seen down on the ground in North Kensington in June helping with the relief effort in the wake of the fire which killed scores of people.

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Adele fans #SingForAdele

The #SingForAdele campaign began after the singer broke the news she would be unable to perform the final two concerts of her world tour.

"On medical advice, I simply am unable to perform over the weekend," the singer posted on social media Friday. "To say I'm heartbroken would be a complete understatement."

But while damaged vocal cords kept the Grammy winner from "Rolling in the Deep" at her scheduled Wembley Stadium gigs in the U.K., fans gathered there anyway as part of the #SingForAdele campaign, which went viral.

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Adele "Heartbroken" after damaging vocal cords

Just days before the "Hello" singer was scheduled to perform at Wembley Stadium in the U.K., the Grammy winner shared some upsetting news about her health.

As it turns out, Adele has temporarily damaged her vocal cords forcing her to cancel the last two nights of her tour.

Adele meets firefighters for 'tea and cuddle'

Fireman Rob Petty posted about the star's impromptu meeting with the team at Chelsea Fire Station on Monday on his Facebook page.

Petty said Adele, who posed for photos with firefighters at the station and in front of one of their fire trucks, "wonderfully grounded and caring."

"She just turned up at the station and knocked on the window and said she has some cakes for us," station manager Ben King said in a statement.

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Adele earned £40m last year, says Sunday Times Rich List

The pop star's fortune rose from £85m to £125m - meaning she's the richest solo female musician in the paper's annual wealth survey.

But she's still only joint 19th in the list of Britain's richest musicians, which is dominated by older men.

Sir Paul McCartney is in the top spot with £780m with wife Nancy Shevell.

They are followed by West End mogul Lord Lloyd Webber, U2, Sir Elton John, Sir Mick Jagger and his Rolling Stones bandmate Keith Richards.

Adele is tied in 19th place on £125m with Queen guitarist Brian May.

What happened on Adele's Aussie tour

During the performance in Melbourne she said: "Just before we go to the next song… excuse me sir? Could you stop telling people to sit down?"

But it's just the latest Adele-ism from her Australian tour to get people talking.

In her time down under she's had run-ins with bugs, announced a secret social media account and revealed her unusual approach to getting on stage.

She loves a proposal