Adele released — no, unleashed — her new album, 25, in late November last year, and to be totally honest, we're still obsessed with it. She has already broken a few records with 25, adding to the records she already has, of course — so we're tallying all her new records, plus the ones she has already broken. Here's the list of the biggest records Adele has broken so far — and yes, we are prepared to update this list by a lot.
In its first 24 hours, Adele's new video for "Hello" got 27.7 million views on Vevo, knocking the previous record holder — Taylor Swift's "Bad Blood" — out of place.
Exactly 1.11 million, actually. Yeah, that's the most downloads in a week, ever.
It might not be the most exciting record to break, but this achievement lands Adele in good company. She joins Lady Gaga (who won for Born This Way) and The Beatles (who broke the record with 1) as one of the 20 records (she's #20, to be exact) to sell one million copies in one week since Nielsen Music started tracking music sales in the '90s.
With Adele's latest album, 25, she broke *NSYNC's record to have the fastest-selling album in one week with 2,433,000 in album sales. It took 15 years to break!
Remember this famous picture of Adele cradling all her Grammys in 2012? That's the year she won every single award she was nominated for, and she became the second female artist to win six Grammys in one year. She has 10 Grammys total, and is the second artist to have won the "Big Four" (album of the year, best new artist, record of the year, and song of the year).
21, Adele's second record, set a ton of records in the UK, including being the biggest-selling album of the 21st century, having the most consecutive weeks (11) with a number-one album for a solo female, being the first album in UK chart history to sell three million copies in a calendar year, and being the most downloaded album in UK history.
It was also the best-selling album in the US and Canada in both 2011 and 2012, making it the first album since Michael Jackson's Thriller to be the best-selling album two years in a row.
Adele's theme song for 2012, "Skyfall," wasn't the first Bond theme to get an Oscar nomination, but it is the first one to win an Oscar. It's also the first Bond theme to win a Golden Globe. Bonus: it also won a Grammy.
For being the first female artist to have two singles and two albums in the UK top five simultaneously.
She's also the first woman to have three top-10 singles on the Billboard's Hot 100 simultaneously.