Adele free her second album, 21, in early 2011.[7][8] The album was well received critically and surpassed the success of her debut,[9] earning the singer six Grammy Awards in 2012 together with Album of the Year, equalling the record for many Grammy Awards won by a feminine creator in one night.[10][11] The album has conjointly crystal rectifier to her receiving various different awards, together with 2 Brit Awards and 3 yankee Music Awards. The album has been certified sixteen times Pt within the UK;[3] within the U.S.A. the album has command the highest position longer than the other album since 1985, and is certified Diamond.[12][13][14] in line with the IFPI, the album has sold-out over twenty six million copies worldwide.[15]
The success of twenty one attained Adele various mentions within the Guinness World Records. She is that the 1st creator to sell quite three million copies of associate degree album in a very year within the GB.[16] together with her 2 albums and therefore the 1st 2 singles from twenty one, "Rolling within the Deep" and "Someone Like You", she became the primary living creator to attain the achievement of getting 2 top-five hits in each the united kingdom Official Singles Chart and therefore the Official Albums Chart at the same time since The Beatles in 1964.[17][18] together with her third unharness from the album, "Set hearth to the Rain", that became her third favorite single within the U.S.A., Adele became the primary creator in history to guide the signboard two hundred at the same time with 3 signboard Hot one hundred number-ones.[19]
Adele is that the 1st feminine within the history of the signboard Hot one hundred to possess 3 singles within the high ten at identical time as a lead creator, and therefore the 1st feminine creator to possess 2 albums within the high 5 of the signboard two hundred and 2 singles within the high 5 of the signboard Hot one hundred at the same time.[20] twenty one is that the longest running favorite album by a feminine solo creator on the united kingdom and U.S.A. Albums Chart.[21][22] In 2011 and 2012, signboard named Adele creator of the Year.[23][24] In 2012, Adele was listed at range 5 on VH1's one hundred Greatest girls in Music,[25] and therefore the yankee magazine Time named Adele one amongst the foremost powerful individuals within the world.[26] In 2013, she received associate degree honour moreover because the Golden Globe Award for Best Original Song for her song "Skyfall", written for Skyfall, the ordinal fictitious character film.[27]
