The revenge song "Rolling in the Deep," a "dark, bluesy, gospel, disco tune" in the singer's own words, was written as a "fuck you" to her ex-lover after his disparaging remarks that she was weak and that her life without him would be "boring and lonely and rubbish. In December 2021, it was announced that 21 was the first album by a woman to spend an entire decade on the Billboard 200 chart. This makes 21 only the seventh album to ever achieve this feat in Australia and the first to do so since Delta Goodrem's Innocent Eyes. climbed to number four on the UK Albums Chart, making Adele the first living act since The Beatles in 1964 to have two UK top five albums and singles simultaneously. Take It All," the seventh track, written and recorded with Francis "Eg" White and Jim Abbiss before the breakdown of Adele's relationship, is a piano and vocal ballad that borrows heavily from pop, soul, and gospel.

An advocate of a more free-form approach to music-making, Rubin relied on the moods and feelings behind the music itself to guide the instrumental and melodic arrangement of the songs. After working with Smith, Tedder, and Epworth, Adele travelled to the United States for the remainder of the album's production. Indie label XL Recordings founder Richard Russell discussed what he believed to be the quasi-subversiveness of 21 's chart dominance. Critics also suggest that the album's understated musical production and relative lack of artifice are striking deviations from the "bombastic theatrics" of the mainstream music industry.Throughout February, Adele's personal site hosted a "21 Days of Adele" [68] promotion, which featured exclusive daily content, including a live chat and a video of the singer explaining the inspiration for each album track. Er stand 2013 für 10 Wochen an der Spitze der Single-Charts, war Sommerhit 2013, Hit des Jahres 2013 – und schaffte es im Frühjahr 2018, kurz nach dem Tod Aviciis, noch einmal bis auf Rang 13. In July 2012, the album was certified decuple platinum by the IFPI, denoting sales of ten million copies across Europe, making it the highest-certified album in Europe since the IFPI Platinum Europe award was launched in 1996.

This particular release is a fine vinyl record close to the finest analog stereo experience: warm, rich and dynamic. If you like how your copy sounds, please - all of you - look in the deadwax, reply to this comment and lemme know whether it's a WG or an RJ cut. Universal Music Deutschland +++ "21" von Adele ist das am häufigsten in Deutschland heruntergeladene Album.Interview: Feisty, fashionable and feted by the stars, Adele could be set for Amy-style success with her second album". copies by January 2013, making it the third best-selling album in Canada since Nielsen SoundScan started tracking sales. The lead single " Rolling in the Deep" was released in November 2010 and peaked on the charts in the Netherlands, [73] Germany, [74] Belgium, [75] Italy, and Switzerland. but the mastering is pretty top notch by ray janos(im sure everyone at sterling knows what they are doing). was the best-selling album of both 2011 and 2012 in the United States and Canada despite being over a year old.

By November 2012, it had sold 10million copies, a feat achieved in 92weeks, making it the fastest album to sell 10million since 'N Sync's No Strings Attached in 2000. To achieve a fuller sound, producer Fraser T Smith incorporated the popular " wall of sound" reverberative technique in framing the song's dense instrumentation. The sound recording is fine, but the record itself is 9 out of 10 times scratched and/or with marks in the vinyl. In 2012, Rolling Stone ranked the album number six on its list of Women Who Rock: The 50 Greatest Albums of All Time.Praised for its understated production, vintage aesthetic, and Adele's vocal performance, 21 was shortlisted for the 2011 Mercury Prize, and won the 2012 Grammy Award for Album of the Year and the Brit Award for British Album of the Year. Globally, 21 is the best-selling album of the past decade according to the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry, [113] and topped the charts in more than 30countries. Adele performed "Someone like You" at the 2011 BRIT Awards ceremony, which was well received and resulted in a sales increase for both 19 and 21. Amazingly, given preconceived notions about America's supposed preference for style over substance, it is the second of these two sales techniques which appear to be working better. A downtempo country music-styled ballad, [42] the song was added late to the production of the album after the singer grew ashamed of her continued negative portrayal of her ex-lover throughout the album.

also became the first album in UK chart history to reach sales of threemillion copies in a calendar year, and set records for the most consecutive weeks with a UK number-one album (solo female) with 11weeks, [114] and the most cumulative weeks at number one (solo female) in the UK.Album Sales Still Strong After Three-Quarters: Artists including Adele and Eminem contributed to a 3. At the 2012 Billboard Music Awards, the singer was nominated for twenty categories, winning a record-breaking twelve, including Top Billboard 200 Album and Top Pop Album for 21, and Top Streaming Song (Audio) for "Rolling in the Deep". Fusing elements of doo-wop and Tin Pan Alley blues, [48] the percussion-driven song is built on girl-group harmonies, piano chords, pounding kick drum, and handclaps, [46] [49] and finds the singer "channeling a '40s, piano-vixen lounge singer. In the United States, it is the best-performing Billboard 200 album of all time, [2] holding the top position for 24 weeks, longer than any other album since 1985 and the longest by a female solo artist in Billboard 200 history.