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Adele Laurie Blue Adkins, (born 5 May 1988), is a Grammy Award-Winning English from Enfield, North London. Her debut album, 19, was released in January 2008 and entered the UK album chart at #1. The album has since received four-times Platinum certification in the UK and has sold 5,500,000 copies worldwide. The album included the hugely popular song Chasing Pavements. 19 earned Adele two Grammy Awards in February 2009 for Best New Artist and Best Female Pop Vocal Performance.

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Adele overtakes Michael Jackson in all-time biggest selling albums chart
By Dan Lane The Official Charts Company can today reveal that sales of Adele's 21 have overtaken those of Michael Jackson's Bad in the UK. Adele's second album, 21, smashed the 4 million sales barrier after her BRITs performance last week and went on ...

Adele breaks chart record
THE late Whitney Houston was unable to oust Adele from the top spot on the Billboard 200 album chart, and the British singer's 21 replaced The Bodyguard as the longest running No. 1 album by a woman. Boosted by her six Grammy awards and performance ...

Adele, Coldplay Enjoy BRIT Awards Bump on UK Charts
Adele's already packed award shelf just got that extra bit crowded: the singer took home two of the biggest prizes at the 2012 Brit Awards, held tonight (Feb. 21) at London's O2 Arena. The organizers of this year's Brit Awards have issued an apology to ...

Is Adele's Boyfriend Planning To Pop The Question?
We all know how loved up Adele is with her man Simon Konecki but is the singer's besotted boyfriend planning a birthday proposal? A friend of Simon's has been spilling secrets to the Daily Star Sunday and apparently the 37-year-old is preparing to ask ...