After six years of the musical diet, Adele's fans were starving.
They rushed to his latest title,
Easy on Me
, released on October 15.
As reported by
The Huffington Post
, the song, taken from album
30
, to be released on November 19, became the most “streamed” in 24 hours, with 24 million plays.
In the UK alone, the artist's homeland, the hit broke a record, reaching 3.2 million.
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"This is the first song I wrote on the album, it's wonderful that it becomes the first single"
, reacted the singer to the BBC on Friday October 15, confident to feel particularly close to this song. .
“After such a long absence, this is probably what people expected most from my songs,”
says the artist, who claimed to hate fame in an interview with
Vogue
magazine
.
The previous record was held by the track
Butter
, from Korean group BTS.
Released in March 2021, it had garnered 11 million plays in 24 hours.
The enthusiasm around Adele is not surprising given the musician's previous successes.
Her second album,
21
, released in 2012, remained at the top of the American Billboard charts for 24 weeks, supplanting a certain Whitney Houston, another queen of soul.
The Briton's third album,
25
(2015), confirms her musical hegemony.
In just three days, 2.3 million records were sold in the United States.
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The fifteen Grammy-winning singer, also an Oscar winner for the
Skyfall
soundtrack
, announced the release of her album on social media on October 14, confirming a rumor that's already deep in the minds of fans.
In early October, billboards bearing the number 30 popped up in London, Dublin and Rome, but also on the Empire State Building in New York.
The blue background was echoed on social media and the artist's official website, as was the typography used to claim what appeared to be the title of the record.
Adele is also used to titling her discography by referring to her age, hence her albums
19
,
21
and
25
, written between her 19 and 25 years old.
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