Adele’s big comeback just got even better!The singer’s new album30has become the No. 1 selling album in the country with more than half a million copies purchased through Sunday — which was just three days after its release — according toBillboard.The news outlet reported that30sales topped those of singerTaylor Swift’sEvermorealbum after its December 2020 release. Swift’s album was previously the best seller with 462,000 copies sold through last Thursday, Nov. 18,Billboardadded.Final first-week sales numbers for the album will be confirmed on Sunday, the outlet reported.The tracks on30drew inspiration from Adele’s split from husbandSimon Koneckiin 2019 and are about heartbreak, self-forgiveness, and liberation.Cliff Lipson/CBSSpeaking to Zane Lowe during an Apple Musicinterviewahead of the album’s release, Adele talked about creating the album and going “through hell and back” during her divorce.“It was like it really helped me, this album. It really, really did. And I truly do believe, like, when we started the interview where I was like, ‘There’s not an occasion or a scenario or a feeling where there is not the perfect song for it somewhere.’ I really do believe, and I’m not being arrogant or anything like that here, it’s just, like, it was my hell. But I really went to hell and back,” she said.She also drew inspiration from her 9-year-old son, Angelo, the former couple’s only child.In the third track of the album titledMy Little Lovethe 15-time Grammy winner includes voice notes recorded with him while discussing the divorce.In one of the voice notes Angelo can be heard telling Adele, “I feel like you don’t love me.“Adele responds, “You know mummy doesn’t like anyone else like I like you, right?”
Adele’s big comeback just got even better!
The singer’s new album30has become the No. 1 selling album in the country with more than half a million copies purchased through Sunday — which was just three days after its release — according toBillboard.
The news outlet reported that30sales topped those of singerTaylor Swift’sEvermorealbum after its December 2020 release. Swift’s album was previously the best seller with 462,000 copies sold through last Thursday, Nov. 18,Billboardadded.
Final first-week sales numbers for the album will be confirmed on Sunday, the outlet reported.
The tracks on30drew inspiration from Adele’s split from husbandSimon Koneckiin 2019 and are about heartbreak, self-forgiveness, and liberation.
Cliff Lipson/CBS
Speaking to Zane Lowe during an Apple Musicinterviewahead of the album’s release, Adele talked about creating the album and going “through hell and back” during her divorce.
“It was like it really helped me, this album. It really, really did. And I truly do believe, like, when we started the interview where I was like, ‘There’s not an occasion or a scenario or a feeling where there is not the perfect song for it somewhere.’ I really do believe, and I’m not being arrogant or anything like that here, it’s just, like, it was my hell. But I really went to hell and back,” she said.
She also drew inspiration from her 9-year-old son, Angelo, the former couple’s only child.
In the third track of the album titledMy Little Lovethe 15-time Grammy winner includes voice notes recorded with him while discussing the divorce.
In one of the voice notes Angelo can be heard telling Adele, “I feel like you don’t love me.”
Adele responds, “You know mummy doesn’t like anyone else like I like you, right?”
source: people.com
