Adele
In 2008 Adele won the Grammy for Best New Artist. She had earned the respect of the music industry, but her debut album and single were still very much under the radar and far from getting mainstream acceptance.
All of that changed in 2011 with the release of Rolling In The Deep, the first single from her second album called 21. The song had a slow build at radio and on the sales chart, but once people started to know about this amazing song, there was no stopping it. It eventually went on to spend 5 weeks at #1 on the Billboard HOT 100, but the bigger story is with the album.
Since it's release, the album 21 has been in the top 5 every week while other new releases have come and gone. This has lead to 21 being the first album in over 6 years to sell over 5 million copies!
And the momentum is showing no signs of slowing down. The second single, Someone Like You, also hit #1 on the Billboard HOT 100 and the third single, Set Fire To Rain is on it's way to the top of the charts also. In addition, with the recent announcement of the Grammy nominations, Adele is the front runner with nods in all of the top categories including Record of the Year, Song of the Year and Album of the Year.
If you have somehow not heard this music, climb out from under your rock and find out for yourself that all of this praise and recognition for Adele is very rightly deserved.
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