Adele has been breaking records so fast that the music industry is now proclaiming the artist is a game changer. Unfortunately, perhaps due to her extreme success, other musicians have been in the headlines saying nasty things about Adele and her fans.
Nevertheless, Adele is ruling 2015 with her album 25, despite releasing it on November 20. About breaking her own record in such a short period of time, the Guardian reports the following on December 11.
“The pop star’s third album, 25, has crossed the 5 million sales mark in the U.S., making it the first album to sell more than 5 million copies in a calendar year since her last album in 2011.”
About the success of Adele, the Telegraph asks the question of whether or not 2015 was “the year of Adele” and partly answers with the following.
“Adele represents a throwback to a time when the whole world sang the same songs. It is the one album everyone will have heard or heard about. Interestingly, this sales success was achieved while the singer refused to allow her album to be streamed, the new favored technology of music distribution.”
This kind of data is hard to refute, and her success goes a bit deeper because Adele does not rely on tabloids to create awareness about her career as a singer.
About the celebrity musician hype machine, in the recent past, Daily Beast declared that there are no more music critics. Instead, music review writing has devolved into lifestyle reporting, but Adele seems to be an exception.
Adele’s sales prove that she is far from a pop celebrity who is worshiped by a select age demographic of fans for the way she lives her life. Additionally, Adele is leaving other pop celebrity musicians in the dust for reasons the music industry finds incomprehensible.
For example, Billboard reports on December 10 that Adele has done what few other musicians today can do: get fans to buy physical albums. Billboard goes on to explain that the reason why Adele’s sales numbers of 5 million (after only three weeks of release) are so exciting is because a large portion of those numbers were physical album sales.
Either way, as 50 Cent explained in his 2003 classic, “ Many Men ,” once you rise to the level of success that Adele knows, haters try to bring you down.
Alternatively, some cases of Adele haters have been a bit exaggerated in the headlines. In particular, Phil Collins was in the press for calling Adele a “slippery fish” for not recording with him for a track on her album, 25 . NME explains that this was a misunderstanding and that there was officially no beef between Phil Collins and Adele.
Alas, “Oasis guy” Noel Gallagher had nastier things to say about Adele. According to the Village Sun Times , Noel Gallagher said Adele was music for “grannies,” but Gallagher might be mad because he loves Coldplay.
Although they have no official beef with Adele, Coldplay might be rolling their eyes at her success because she has taken them down in the charts for the first time in their career. The Daily Mail reports that, in 15 years, Coldplay has never debuted at anything but number one in the U.K. until Adele’s 25 .
With only three weeks on the market and counting, Adele’s success with 25 is likely to continue to attract a lot of haters. While Adele has not yet responded to the beef with Oasis, she may have a few beefs with bettors in her home country for ruining their annual Christmas tradition.
As it appears, Adele has skewed the data needed for U.K. residents to bet on the most successful Christmas album or song. According to UnReality TV , “For the first time, William Hill [gambling company] have cancelled their Christmas album betting as Adele is the biggest certainty in music history.”
For fans looking for the next chapter of her music, USA Today reports that Adele Live in New York City will air on Monday, December 14 at 10 p.m. EST on NBC .
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