3 years ago today, #Adele released her history-making 4th studio album ‘30’!💪🎂3⃣💿🐐👑💙
'30' was inspired by Adele's experiences and anxiety after her divorce and its impact on her son Angelo's life! The critically acclaimed album was praised for Adele's amazing vocals and the album's incredible lyrics! Three weeks before its release, '30' became the most pre-added album in history on Apple Music with the largest number of pre-adds in a single day! '30' reached No. 1 in 25 countries! In the US it became the top-selling album of 2021 in its first day! It holds 2021's biggest opening week in the US, with 839,000 album-equivalent units, including 692,000 pure sales, and spent 6 weeks atop the Billboard 200! In the UK it scored the highest first-week sales for any album by a female artist since Adele's 3rd studio album, '25', and spent 5 weeks at No. 1. '30' was the best-selling album of the year in the US, UK and globally with 5.54 Million copies sold! '30' was nominated for 6 Grammy Awards, including Album of the Year, and won the Brit Award for British Album of the Year in 2022, with Adele becoming the 1st Solo Artist in history to win AOTY 3 times, after also winning for '21' and '25'. 30' also spawned the history-making lead single, "Easy on Me", which broke the Spotify record for the most streamed song in a single day (19.7M)! In the UK, "Easy on Me" opened with 3.2 million Spotify streams, breaking the record for the most streamed song in a single day and also broke the record for the most streamed song in a single week (24M)! "Easy on Me" reached No. 1 in 28 countries, becoming Adele's longest-running chart topper in the US and UK! It was the 6th-bestselling song globally of 2022 and was certified multiplatinum in 15 countries and 3x Diamond in Brazil!