TMN magazine issue 02

An appearance she
made on Saturday
Night Live in late 2008
boosted her career in
the US.
At the 51st Annual Grammy Awards in 2009,
Adele received the awards for Best New
Artist and Best Female Pop Vocal
Performance.
Adele released her second studio album, 21,
in early 2011.
The album has been certified 16 times
platinum in the UK, and is the fourth bestselling
album in the UK of all time.
She is the first woman in the history of the
Billboard Hot 100 to have three
simultaneous top 10 singles as a lead artist.
She is the first female artist to
simultaneously have two albums in the top
five of the Billboard 200 and two singles in
the top five of the Billboard Hot 100.
21 is the longest-running number one
album by a female solo artist in the history
of the UK and US Album Charts.
Adele released her third studio album, 25,
in 2015. It became the year’s best-selling
album and broke first week sales records in
the UK and US.
The lead single, “Hello”, became the first
song in the US to sell over one million
digital copies within a week of its release.
PHOTO: DANNY KAAN
Adele has cited the Spice Girls as a major
influence in regard to her love and passion for
music, stating that, "they made me what I am
today".
While “Someone like You” was at number one
on the US chart, Adele's previous single,
"Rolling in the Deep" was still at number four.
With that achievement, Adele became the first
living artist since The Beatles in 1964, who
simultaneously had two top five hits in the
charts.
Adele is one of four female artists to have an
album chart at number one for more than 13
weeks (the other three artists being Judy
Garland, Carole King, and Whitney Houston).
In July 2012, Adele was listed at number six in
Forbes list of the world's highest-paid
celebrities under the age of 30, having earned
£23 million ($35 million) between May 2011 and
May 2012.
She has 5 tattoos: two on her left wrist, one on
each hand, and one behind her right ear.
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