She Was Recognised As Uk Best Female Selling Artist Of The Century

After six long years, record-breaking singer Adele is back, with a preview of her first new music since the 2015 Grammy Award-winning album 25.

The British singer shared a 20-second black-and-white trailer for new single Easy On Me on social media on Tuesday, along with the release date October 15, sending fans into a tizzy. The Instagram post has been liked more than 12 million times in less than 24 hours.

In the clip, Adele pops a tape bearing the song title Easy On Me into a car cassette player. She then glances in the rearview mirror and turns up the volume before soft piano notes start playing in the background and she’s seen driving down a road, with sheets of music flying out of the back seat.

The announcement comes days after Adele changed the profile picture and mastheads on her social media channels to a blurred teal image, which caused her name to trend worldwide as eager fans waited for an announcement.

Adele is known to name her albums – 19, 21 and 25 – after her age during a pivotal year in her life. The singer, now 33, separated from her now ex-husband Simon Konecki when she was 30.

Her website now bears the same font and colour scheme that has been seen on the billboards, with fans able to sign up for a newsletter. No official confirmation of an album has yet been announced.

The frenzy is not unexpected. As one of the world’s bestselling music artists, Adele has sold more than 120 million records. She has won more Grammys than any other female singer who was born outside the US, with her third album, 25, winning six Grammys in 2017 including Album of the Year and Best Pop Vocal Album and its lead single Hello earning Record of the Year, Song of the Year and Best Pop Solo Performance.

In March, Adele was recognised as the UK’s bestselling female artist of the century so far, topping a list compiled by the British Phonographic Industry, ahead of some of the world’s top artists including Beyonce, Britney Spears and Lady Gaga. The list took into account the number of albums sold by artists since the year 2000, while also including streaming data.

Ahead of her long-awaited musical return, here is our ranking of 10 Adele songs so far:

The song that started it all. Adele reportedly wrote her debut single in 10 minutes when she was 16, after her mother tried to persuade her to leave her home for university. Released in 2007, it was the lead single for her debut studio album, 19.

“I played it to her as a protest song and said this is why I’m staying,” she told Observer Music Monthly.

An ode to her south London hometown, the piano-heavy sentimental ballad showcases Adele’s vocal range and proved to be her perfect introduction to the world of music, which she would go on to rule.

Another Adele classic, When We Were Young’s soulful musical style and sentimental lyrics perfectly showcases the singer’s musical heft. A slow-burner that builds up to a powerful climax, the song, which Adele co-wrote with Canadian musician Tobias Jesso Jr, is at once gentle and powerful.

Released as the second single after Hello from the album 25, Adele told BBC Radio 1’s Nick Grimshaw that When We Were Young was her favourite track off the album, also sharing that her favourite lyric on the track is “You look like a movie / You sound like a song / My god this reminds me of, when we were young.”

Although it’s her lowest-charting single from 25, the song, which Adele co-wrote with producer Greg Kurstin, eventually became the third bestselling song from the album, according to Billboard music magazine.

Despite it not being a typical Adele song with its disco-pop vibes, the singer infuses the mid-tempo tune with the same vocal finesse that fans have come to love her for, making the song a standout

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At the beginning of her career, Adele faced unfair comparisons with the great Amy Winehouse, and this song, produced by frequent Winehouse collaborator Mark Ronson, didn’t do much to dispel that correlation.

But on its own, the upbeat tempo and silky guitar riffs juxtaposed with Adele’s striking lyrics and soulful vocals earns this song a place as one of her very best works.