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Post by Admin on Oct 24, 2015 20:48:10 GMT
Award-winning singer Adele has said it is a “dream come true to make music for people to hear”. Appearing on BBC Radio 1 with Nick Grimshaw, the singer used the word “phenomenal” to describe the reaction to the announcement of her new music. The singer sent fans into a frenzy when she posted about her much-anticipated third album, 25, on her Instagram account earlier in the week. The simple post read: “25 out November 20th”, and was accompanied by a black and white headshot of her.
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Post by Admin on Oct 27, 2015 20:52:56 GMT
The video for the British singer’s long-awaited new single, “Hello” – her first video since 2011 – set a new record for Vivo, the top music video platform, racking up 27.7 million views in its first 24 hours. That knocks Taylor Swift’s “Bad Blood,” which had 20.1 million views in its first 24 hours in May, out of the top spot. It a good omen for Adele’s upcoming album 25, due out Nov. 20. High consumer interest can translate to strong sales of physical media – something that’s increasingly rare in today’s streaming music world. And Adele is one of the few consistent moneymakers the music industry has. “My last record was a break-up record,” Adele wrote about the new album in a note on Facebook last week, “and if I had to label this one, I’d call it a make-up record. I’m making up with myself. Making up for lost time. Making up for everything I ever did and never did.” Momentum for “Hello” hasn’t slowed since it debuted Friday, either. The video has now been watched nearly 71 million times. (To be fair to TSwizzle, it has a way to go before its total views get anywhere close to the 598 million views of “Bad Blood”.)
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Post by Admin on Nov 12, 2015 20:53:04 GMT
Unsurprisingly, Adele’s latest megasmash “Hello” remains at number one for another week. With such a massive debut last week, there was no way it was going to descend after just one stint at the top, especially because there are still people being turned on to it every day, and it is gaining traction at radio as well. Impressively, the second week sales of “Hello” are just 1,000 copies shy of the previous record for the biggest digital sales week ever. Before last week, rapper Flo Rida held the title of the largest number of downloads moved in one week, which was 636,000, and that was a debut. In its second week of availability, “Hello” has sold an additional 635,000 copies, bringing the two week total to over 1.7 million. After dipping beneath its runner up peak, Drake’s “Hotline Bling” is back at number two this week. Depending on how long Adele holds on to the top spot, Drake may yet nab his first solo Hot 100 number one. Beneath him is The Weeknd’s hit “The Hills”, which kept Drake from the coveted number one position for several weeks in a row before Adele arrived.
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Post by Admin on Nov 27, 2015 20:53:59 GMT
Adele is to embark on a UK and European arena tour next year - her first tour for five years. The star will start in Belfast next February and visit Dublin, Manchester, London, Glasgow and Birmingham before moving on to mainland Europe. Tickets for the UK dates go on sale to members of her website on 1 December before going on general sale on 4 December. Her third album 25 has sold 737,000 copies in the UK in just six days. It has also sold almost three million in the US since its release on Friday. In interviews, the singer has suggested she may not tour, blaming stage fright, her chequered vocal health, motherhood, and saying she finds touring lonely.
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Post by Admin on Feb 3, 2016 20:30:41 GMT
Add Donald Trump to the long (long) list of politicians whose taste in campaign music has gotten them in trouble. The presidential candidate has been using Adele's "Rolling in the Deep" -- "there's a fire / starting in my heart" -- as walk-on music during his political rallies for some time now. "Adele has not given permission for her music to be used for any political campaigning," says a spokesperson for the superstar in a statement provided to Billboard. (She might have more in common with Trump's policies than anyone would assume, taking issue with her tax bill in public comments, saying at the time that "I'm mortified to have to pay 50 percent!") Not to be outdone, another presidential candidate, Mike Huckabee, released a video last week featuring a satirical cover of Adele's most recent single, "Hello," addressing voters in Iowa. Huckabee told Fox News two days ago that the video was "shot on iPhones, for heaven's sakes." Huckabee's promo video has since been removed following actions from Adele's team. Huckabee told Fox she was being "very petty" about the video. This video of an event from Jan. 21 shows Trump's daughter, Ivanka, introducing her father to the audience as "Rolling in the Deep" begins to play.
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