By singing almost exclusively about a relationship gone wrong, Adele made songs that anyone could identify with . The song spent seven consecutive weeks at the top of the Hot 100, [81] [82] and was ranked as the top song and the best-selling song of the year. 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.

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The album was nominated for the 2011 Barclaycard Mercury Prize [216] but lost to Let England Shake by PJ Harvey. A routinely great artist, much of Sufjan's universal appeal comes from his skills as a gifted narrator, pairing personal musings on love and devotion with commentary on American culture, whilst welding folk and electronica, the ambient and existential. Adele also replicated her UK chart record when she achieved two titles in the top five of the ARIA Album and Singles chart simultaneously. As of January 2020, 21 has sold 12million copies in the United States, becoming the ninth largest-selling album since Nielsen Music started tracking sales in 1991 and best selling album of the 2010s decade.I hope that somewhere the original recording of this album has been given the treatment it deserves, and the poor quality of this album is down to poor mastering and pressing. Type Adele in the box under the ARTISTA column headingand 21 in the box under the TÍTULO column heading. In December 2021, it was announced that 21 was the first album by a woman to spend an entire decade on the Billboard 200 chart.

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Adele began writing 21 in April 2009, while still involved in the relationship that subsequently inspired the record. The Rick Rubin-produced fourth track "Don't You Remember," co-written by Adele and Dan Wilson, marks a shift in the album's theme, from anger and defensiveness to reflection and heartbreak.

The cancellation of the North American leg of the tour was due to a vocal haemorrhage on her vocal cords. 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. Ryan Reed of Paste regarded her voice as "a raspy, aged-beyond-its-years thing of full-blooded beauty", [39] while MSN Music 's Tom Townshend declared her "the finest singer of [our] generation".