Adele Tickets : Adele Has Received Much Recognition Both Commercially And Critically

Adele Laurie Blue Adkins , known professionally as Adele is an English singer-songwriter. She was the first recipient of the BRIT Awards Critics' Choice and was named the number-one predicted breakthrough act of 2008 in an annual BBC poll of music critics, Sound of 2008. In 2009, Adele won two Grammy Awards, Best New Artist and Best Female Pop Vocal Performance, at the 51st Grammy Awards.

Adele attracted the attention of XL Recordings with a three-song demo posted on MySpace and subsequently signed with the label. Since her debut, 19, Adele has received much recognition both commercially and critically. The album debuted at number one, and has been certified 2x platinum in the UK. Her career in the US was boosted by a viewer record breaking Saturday Night Live episode in late 2008.

Adele released her second album 21 on 24 January 2011 in the UK, and 22 February in the US. The album was a critical and commercial success, selling 208,000 copies in its first week in the UK and debuting at number one on the UK Album Chart, and also charted in the same position in nine other countries. With a projected 300,000 copies being sold in its opening week in the US, the album is set to debut at number one on the Billboard 200.

After an acclaimed performance at the 2011 BRIT Awards, the album track "Someone Like You" went straight to number one in the UK, while the album also remained at number one. The Official Charts Company announced that Adele is the first living artist to achieve the feat of two top five hits in both the Official Singles Chart and the Official Albums Chart simultaneously since The Beatles in 1964.

In 2010, Adele received a Grammy nomination for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance for "Hometown Glory". In April her song "My Same" entered the German Singles Chart after it had been performed by Lena Meyer-Landrut in the talent show contest Unser Star fur Oslo (Our Star for Oslo), in which the German entry to the Eurovision Song Contest 2010 was determined.In late September, after being featured on The X Factor, Adele's version of Bob Dylan's Make You Feel My Love re-entered the UK singles chart at number 4.

Adele released her second studio album, 21, on 24 January 2011 in the UK and released it on 22 February in the U.S.The album's sound is described as classic and contemporary roots and country music. The change in sound from her first album was the result of her bus driver playing contemporary Nashville music when she was touring the American South.

Adele told Spin Magazine that "He listened to all this amazing country music and we'd rock out late at night, chain smoking and listening to Rascal Flatts" "It was really exciting for me because I never grew up around ." In explaining the title choice, she states that it reflects the growth she has experienced in the last two years.

The first single is a revenge tune "Rolling in the Deep", Adele described it as a "dark bluesy gospel disco tune." hit No. 1 in Ireland, Germany, Holland, New Zealand, Switzerland, Austria and Belgium. In the United Kingdom, where the album also hit the top spot, it sold 208,000 copies in its first week making it the biggest-selling January release in five years.

In the United States, "Rolling in the Deep" was well received by critics and on 8 February was number one on the cable music channel VH1 Top 20 Countdown . In mid-February 2011, after a performance at the Brit Awards, the album track "Someone Like You" went straight to number 1 on the UK singles chart, while the album 21 also remained at number 1. The Official Charts Company stated that Adele was the first living artist to achieve the feat of two top five hits in both the Official Singles Chart and the Official Albums Chart simultaneously since The Beatles in 1964.

Adele remained number one for the second week with "Someone Like You" and album 21 stayed at the top of the album chart for the 5th week in a row, with "Rolling in the Deep" also remaining in the top five singles chart and 19 climbing up to number 2 in the album chart despite being released 3 years ago. It is the first time that one act has held the top two places in the UK albums chart since The Corrs in 1999.