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achieved 2021's biggest opening week, [163] debuting atop the Billboard 200 with 839,000 album-equivalent units, including 692,000 pure album sales. Critics praised the rawness and intensity of the subject matter and the lyrical themes about hope and acceptance. The album's fourth track, "Cry Your Heart Out" is an uptempo piano-driven song, contrasting with its lyrics about depression and anxiety, but also the feeling of relief.

Adele's 30 already claims the UK's biggest opening week of 2021 on the Official UK Albums Chart, overtaking ABBA's Voyage". Three weeks before its release, 30 became the most pre-added album ever on Apple Music and achieved the largest number of pre-adds in a single day. Adele currently outselling rest of the Top 40 combined as 30 heads for Official Albums Chart Number 1". Adele experienced anxiety which, along with her separation from Konecki and the scrutiny of fame and motherhood, inspired 30.She later revealed that she had four or five songs that she might revisit at a later date, among them a Greg Kurstin-produced song that she felt was more appropriate once she was older. However, she would later confirm that the album's production and release had been delayed due to the COVID-19 pandemic. On Metacritic, which assigns a normalised score out of 100 to ratings from publications, the album received a weighted mean score of 88 based on 23 reviews, indicating "universal acclaim". The song is about falling in love in a long-distance relationship and the excitement that comes with it.

However, on her 31st birthday, Adele published a rare social media post in which she – seemingly jokingly – referred to her next album as 30, alluding to the theme of her previous three albums' titles. Heavily inspired by the Judy Garland biopic, [23] Adele was attracted to the new sounds, chords and cadences Göransson introduced to her which led to the song "Strangers by Nature". David Cobbald of The Line of Best Fit complimented the theatrical essence of 30 and the use of electronic instruments and synthesisers but was less impressed by its upbeat songs. The Sam Brown-directed music video for the song was uploaded on Adele's YouTube channel on 12 January 2022.

Drummer Matt Chamberlain confirmed that he had been in the studio with her for her fourth studio album, along with Rick Nowels, John Legend and Raphael Saadiq, in hopes of crafting an album "full of soul, with a more eclectic sound. Adele Erobert Die Doppelspitze Der Offiziellen Deutschen Charts" [Adele Conquers The Double Top Of The Official German Charts] (in German).

The ITV1 special An Audience with Adele, which was filmed at the London Palladium, aired on 21 November. Adele also announced a Las Vegas concert residency, Weekends with Adele, which was initially scheduled to begin on 21 January 2022 and run for 24 concerts. The International Federation of the Phonographic Industry reported that Adele was the world's second best-selling female artist of 2021. All image and audio content is used by permission of the copyright holders or their agents, and/or according to fair dealing as per the UK Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. The follow-up singles, " Oh My God" and " I Drink Wine", charted in the UK chart's top five simultaneously with it.We use cookies to give you the best possible experience on our site, provide personalised content and advertising, analyse our traffic, and ensure you see more of what you love. Unlike 25, 30 was made available on streaming services the same day as its release on physical formats. a] "All Night Parking" is built around the musical base of "Finding Parking" (2017) by Joey Pecoraro, which in turn samples the song "No More Shadows" (1964) by Erroll Garner. debuted at number two in France [145] and reached the top spot in its fifth week, achieving a double platinum certification less than two months later.