Adele wasn't initially keen on naming the new album 21, so continuing the number/age theme after 19: “I thought everyone would be like, ‘Ooh, she ain’t got much of an imagination, has she ...

Yet in their respective moments, Alanis and Adele were both at odds with what was happening in pop music, filling a similar void via bitter breakup albums that doubled as coming-of-age tales.

Adele burst onto the scene in 2008 with her debut album 19, named after the age she was when writing and recording the album. The record introduced the London-bred singer to audiences around the ...

The XL-issued 21 was being snapped up at such a rapid rate last week that the only album to better it for first-week sales over the past year was Take That's Progress, which opened its account by ...

In 2011, Adele sat down with USA Today to discuss her second album 21. “It appears to be a running theme that I call my albums after my age at the time,” she chuckled.

Adele croons about the passage of time and feeling stuck in a relationship in her new song "Easy on Me." Watch and listen here.

Molly Ringwald celebrated her twins Roman and Adele's 16th birthday in adorable fashion. The actress, 57, sweetly shared a ...

Video This week, British soul/pop singer Adele has one more thing to celebrate, as if she needed anything else. Her last album, 21, has now been sitting on the charts (specifically the Billboard ...

Two particular songs on ‘21,’ Adele’s accomplished follow-up to her debut, ‘19,’ both named for the age at which she recorded them, marvelously bookend the singer’s twin talents for ...

Artists “In an age of artifice, media management and manufactured pop stars she’s come through as a breath of fresh air": Inside the making of Adele's seminal second album, 21 ...

First came a brutal pandemic year. Then a career low point. In an intimate new interview, Adele talks about the artistic and personal rebirth that has her as happy as she’s ever been.

Our new GPS21C episode covers perhaps the quintessential quality-over-quantity pop star of the entire 21st century.