Adele out here breaking records

[Ohene]

This is a girl from the UK. Ain't no privilage. I think it's harder for a girl from London to blow in US music than a black artist.

Adele is just brilliant and extremely likeable. People just fell in love with the idea of the purity of it too. No collabs, chubby chic who's just a brilliant writer and singer. Her songs really move people emotionally too.

There's a lot of good singers but writers? Nah. Most these singing girls got writers

This song was the blow up. I won't admit to tearing up to it

Fair enough... But how does that differ from Jasmine Sullivan or Jennifer Hudson

 

[IllmaticDelta]

This is a girl from the UK. Ain't no privilage. I think it's harder for a girl from London to blow in US music than a black artist.

Totally false. The UK white privilage into the USA has existed since the 1960's British Invasion. It's easier for a white UK singer to blow in the USA than it is for a black uk singer because the black UK singers are seen as inferior to black american singers whereas the white uk singer no matter what, taps into the bigger white american audience.

 

[IllmaticDelta]

I'm not saying by comparison. I'm saying that's an underrated part of her fanbase. Her demographic is widespread.

Of course she's going to have some young fans but it's not her core

4 numbers that explain Adele's total dominance of the music industry

As prophesied in the book of Pop Music Revelations, Adele's 25 is out and has fully taken over the world. And there's nothing any leaks can do about it.

The comeback album emerges four years after 21, her last release, which smashed records, garnered numerous awards, and sponsored countless breakup recoveries. However anxious Adele's fans were for new music, though, they can't possibly rival the music industry's excitement over her return. The internet introduced myriad ways to listen and own music — not all of them legal — but Adele's soulful torch songs have buoyed her beyond the industry's reduced expectations.

To explain what, exactly, that means, here are four major numbers that make Adele such a formidable artist.

11.2 million: Number of 21 albums sold in the United States
When you factor in the rest of the world, 21 sold more than 30 million albums.

There are a few things that make these numbers notable. First and foremost, buying actual albums has become an anomaly — yet Adele managed to sell almost as many albums in 2011 as fellow belter Celine Dion did for her smash hit album Falling Into You in 1996.

But Dion recorded in an era when albums that sold that many copies were far more common. (There were three by women artists alone in 1995, for instance.) That's no longer true now. If you take into account the rise of streaming (which isn't counted in album sales), Adele's numbers would far surpass Dion's.

Adele still dominates when you stack her up against her contemporaries. Taylor Swift, for example, sold 3.66 million copies of 1989 in the USlast year. In 2011 alone, Adele sold over 2 million more, with 5.82 million.

The easiest explanation for Adele's success in album sales is that, quite simply, her fan base is not just broader but older. "A lot of her following is older than Taylor Swift's," Rolling Stone editor Anthony DeCurtis recently told USA Today, "and they are people who will buy a CD or download a record," as opposed to listening on Spotify or another streaming service.

4 numbers that explain Adele's total dominance of the music industry

 

[IllmaticDelta]

as a dude who has never peeper her....why?
whats the appeal? i mean i know shes talented but so have plenty of other artists. i dont wanna reduce her success to white privilege beacause thats probably unfair but i cant think of anything else. so would one of her fans clear this up? just been curious thats all

Simply put, white person with soulful voice and good songs.

 

[Wallychamp]

Lol at dudes hating on her talent... she can sing and is very soulful... that's all that matters...

 

[WickedGames]

Fair enough... But how does that differ from Jasmine Sullivan or Jennifer Hudson

None of those 2 music has moved me at all Those just some girls who are good at singing to me.

 

[Bawon Samedi]

Was doing shipment at Target and was keep seeing people ordering her album. I was like who is this bytch?

 

[WickedGames]

Totally false. The UK white privilage into the USA has existed since the 1960's British Invasion. It's easier for a white UK singer to blow in the USA than it is for a black uk singer because the black UK singers are seen as inferior to black american singers whereas the white uk singer no matter what, taps into the bigger white american audience.

People just make shyt up for their own agendas without the receipts.

Amy Winehouse and Adele have BY FAR put out the best singing albums out of England in terms of quality and potential for mass appeal. Thats why they have blown.

Niqqas wanna use race as an excuse for anything.

 

[Uncle Phil 36]

Was doing shipment at Target and was keep seeing people ordering her album. I was like who is this bytch?

You never heard of Adele?

 

[Bawon Samedi]

You never heard of Adele?

I don't listen to that type of music.

 

[PhonZhi]

Her songs really move people emotionally too.

This is the key too. People respond to music that touches the soul. This is happening in rap too. Notice the Lamars' & Cole's selling because they make "relateable" music while everyone else bricking

 

[IllmaticDelta]

Lol at dudes hating on her talent... she can sing and is very soulful... that's all that matters...

She has talent but I wouldn't say she's that unique/stands out. She's just overall, perfect for older white women to get into and skyrocket her sales. For example why isn't Brittany Howard from Alabama Shakes known more when she's the total package musically? I already know the answer She has the same influences as Adele and more bu with more talent.

Alabama Shakes's Brittany Howard: the lioness of soul

At the end of a period in which everyone from Amy Winehouse to Sam Smith has ruled the charts with their own version of soul music, Alabama Shakes appear to come with an extra badge of authenticity. When they emerged three years ago from the tiny Southern town of Athens in Alabama, they were greeted as retro revivalists of the glorious Sixties sound associated with the nearby Muscle Shoals Sound Studio. Muscle Shoals produced a golden run of recordings from the likes of Aretha Franklin, Otis Redding and Percy Sledge, and later became the place where the Rolling Stones and Bob Dylan went to try to tap into the tight, rhythmic grooves and sweat-drenched atmosphere.

Alabama Shakes’ rise in 2012 seemed meteoric. Their recession-era anthem Hold On was named song of the year by Rolling Stone magazine and nominated for three Grammy awards. At one stage in the UK charts, their debut album Boys & Girls was outselling Adele’s 21.

We never expected to become so big, but we were treated as a novelty band
For Howard – 5ft 10in tall, bespectacled and wild haired – this period was both exciting and infuriating. “We never expected to become so big, so everything was exciting at first,” she says. “Everything was new to us. But we were also being treated as a novelty… we were made out to be a retro, cute band. I found it frustrating. They had this picture of us and this little box they put us in.”

Sitting backstage before the Dublin gig, snug inside a fur-trimmed black leather jacket, the 27-year-old Howard is softly spoken, far removed from the lioness she becomes on stage. Some of her calm confidence undoubtedly comes from the fact that Alabama Shakes have pulled off something rare and returned this year with a second album that proved that they were far from either one-hit wonders or a Muscle Shoals tribute band. A leap forward from the simple garage rock and soul of their debut, with Sound & Color they shifted into the textured, psychedelic experimentation of Curtis Mayfield, Prince and Erykah Badu, mixed with harder, droning rock edges. The album went straight to number one in the United States and over the summer they played on the main stages at festivals from Glastonbury to Bonnaroo.

Alabama Shakes's Brittany Howard: the lioness of soul

 

[PhonZhi]

lil girls like her too. Probably because she's a megastar that is never involved in fukkery. She does her music, sings her songs, wins her awards, and then goes away to raise her kid.

Yep, she has "mystique". Thats rare in artists these days. Thats what made artists so special when i was growing up

 

[IllmaticDelta]

People just make shyt up for their own agendas without the receipts.

Amy Winehouse and Adele have BY FAR put out the best singing albums out of England in terms of quality and potential for mass appeal. Thats why they have blown.

Niqqas wanna use race as an excuse for anything.

The proof is in the pudding ..they aren't the only UK whites who blew up singing "black" styles in America. Even Duffy was huge in the USA and she was a fraud.

 

[3rdWorld]

She's a great singer by cac standards that are generally weak. She's not even a great singer..only reason she's doing well is black people have stopped making soulful music.