Adele (singer) / discography

Adele  - discography
Adele (2016)
Publications
Studio albums	3
EPs	2
Singles	16
Video albums	1
Music videos	11

This discography is an overview of the musical works of the British pop , soul and jazz singer Adele . According to the sources, she has sold around 60 million albums and 62.3 million singles worldwide in her career, including over 25.5 million records in her home country alone. Adele's most successful release is the second studio album 21 with around 30 million units sold, of which over 1.6 million copies were sold in Germany alone, making it one of the best-selling music albums in Germany since 1975. Also 25 (1.2 million units sold) became a million seller in Germany, with a total of two albums cracking the one million unit sales mark.

Albums

Studio albums

year	Title music label	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, music label , placements, weeks, awards, notes)					Remarks
		DE	AT	CH	UK	US
2008	19 Columbia Records / XL Recordings	DE15th platinum (106 weeks)DE	AT29 (45 weeks) AT	CH15th platinum (84 weeks)CH	UK1 × 8 Eight times platinum (211 weeks)UK	US4th × 3 Triple platinum (218 weeks)US	First published: Jan 28, 2008 Sales: + 6,600,000
2011	21 Columbia Records / XL Recordings	DE1 × 8 Eight times platinum (148 weeks)DE	AT1 platinum (137 weeks)AT	CH1 × 7 Seven times platinum (204 weeks)CH	UK1 × 17 17 times platinum (… Where.)UK	US1 × 4 Diamond + quadruple platinum (… Where.)US	First published: Jan 19, 2011 Sales: + 30,000,000
2015	25 Columbia Records / XL Recordings	DE1 × 6 Six-fold platinum (82 weeks)DE	AT1 × 3 Triple platinum (75 weeks)AT	CH1 × 6 Six-fold platinum (100 weeks)CH	UK1 × 12 Twelve times platinum (… Where.)UK	US1 Diamond + platinum (181 weeks)US	Initial release: November 20, 2015 Sales: +20,233,113

EPs

year	Title music label	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, music label , placements, weeks, awards, notes)					Remarks
		DE	AT	CH	UK	US
2009	iTunes Live from SoHo XL Recordings	-	-	-	-	US105 (1 week) US	First published: February 9, 2009
2011	iTunes Festival: London 2011 XL Recordings	-	-	-	UK74 (1 week) UK	US50 (2 weeks) US	First published: July 13, 2011

Singles

As a lead musician

year	Title album	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, album , rankings, weeks, awards, notes)					Remarks
		DE	AT	CH	UK	US
2007	Hometown Glory 19th	-	-	-	UK19th platinum (29 weeks)UK	-	First published: October 22, 2007 Sales: +640,000
2008	Chasing Pavements 19	DE46 (10 weeks) DE	AT56 (9 weeks) AT	-	UK2 platinum (25 weeks)UK	US21st platinum (7 weeks)US	First published: Jan 11, 2008 Sales: + 1,715,000
	Cold Shoulder 19	-	-	-	UK18 (10 weeks) UK	-	First published: April 28, 2008
	Make You Feel My Love 19	-	-	-	UK4th × 2 Double platinum (73 weeks)UK	US- gold US	First published: October 27, 2008 Sales: + 1,955,000
2010	Rolling in the Deep 21	DE1 platinum (83 weeks)DE	AT3 (67 weeks) AT	CH1 × 3 Triple platinum (93 weeks)CH	UK2 × 3 Triple platinum (66 weeks)UK	US1 × 8 Eight times platinum (65 weeks)US	Initial release: November 29th, 2010 Sales: + 15,992,929
2011	Someone like You 21	DE4th platinum (50 weeks)DE	AT2 (36 weeks) AT	CH1 (95 weeks) CH	UK1 × 4 Quadruple platinum (78 weeks)UK	US1 × 5 Quintuple platinum (39 weeks)US	First published: Jan 24, 2011 Sales: + 12,138,929
	Set Fire to the Rain 21	DE6th platinum (60 weeks)DE	AT5 (41 weeks) AT	CH4th platinum (57 weeks)CH	UK11 × 2 Double platinum (78 weeks)UK	US1 × 4 Quadruple platinum (39 weeks)US	First published: July 4th, 2011 Sales: + 7,420,124
	Rumor Has It 21	DE68 (5 weeks) DE	AT26 (7 weeks) AT	-	UK85 silver (4 weeks)UK	US16 × 2 Double platinum (27 weeks)US	First published: November 5th, 2011 Sales: + 2,450,000
	Turning Tables 21	DE85 (2 weeks) DE	-	-	UK62 gold (3 weeks)UK	US63 gold (3 weeks)US	First published: November 5, 2011 Sales: + 1,428,000
2012	Skyfall Skyfall: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack	DE1 platinum (32 weeks)DE	AT2 (26 weeks) AT	CH1 (38 weeks) CH	UK2 platinum (34 weeks)UK	US8th platinum (20 weeks)US	Initial release: October 5th, 2012 Sales: + 3,140,716
2015	Hello 25	DE1 platinum (33 weeks)DE	AT1 (27 weeks) AT	CH1 platinum (61 weeks)CH	UK1 × 3 Triple platinum (49 weeks)UK	US1 × 7 Seven times platinum (26 weeks)US	First published: October 23, 2015 Sales: + 8,107,150
2016	When We Were Young 25	DE29 (14 weeks) DE	AT11 (17 weeks) AT	CH5 (17 weeks) CH	UK9 × 2 Double platinum (27 weeks)UK	US14th platinum (20 weeks)US	First published: Jan 22nd, 2016 Sales: + 2,672,500
	Send My Love (To Your New Lover) 25	DE31 (18 weeks) DE	AT14 (21 weeks) AT	CH18 (21 weeks) CH	UK5 platinum (23 weeks)UK	US8th platinum (27 weeks)US	First published: May 16, 2016 Sales: + 2,380,000
	Water Under the Bridge 25	DE80 (5 weeks) DE	AT42 (11 weeks) AT	CH77 (5 weeks) CH	UK39 platinum (17 weeks)UK	US26th gold (22 weeks)US	First published: November 4th, 2016 Sales: + 1,375,000
The following songs did not appear as single, but were made available for download and streaming through the album and were thus able to achieve a placement:
2010	My Same 19	DE61 (2 weeks) DE	-	-	-	-	Chart entry: February 12, 2010
2012	One and Only 21	-	-	-	UK99 silver (1 week)UK	-	Chart entry: September 22, 2012 Sales: + 240,000
	Can't Make You Love Me iTunes Festival London 2011	-	-	-	UK37 (3 weeks) UK	-	Chart entry: October 6, 2012
2015	Million Years Ago 25	DE74 (1 week) DE	-	-	UK64 (1 week) UK	-	Chart entry: November 27, 2015
	Love in the Dark 25	DE79 (1 week) DE	-	-	-	-	Chart entry: November 27, 2015
	Remedy 25	DE83 (1 week) DE	AT60 (1 week) AT	CH30 (1 week) CH	UK- silver UK	US87 (1 week) US	Chart entry: November 27, 2015 Sales: + 240,000
	River Lea 25	DE97 (1 week) DE	-	-	-	-	Chart entry: November 27, 2015
2016	All I Ask 25	-	-	-	UK41 silver (1 week)UK	US77 (1 week) US	Chart entry: January 28, 2016 Sales: + 240,000

As a guest musician

year	Title album	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, album , rankings, weeks, awards, notes)					Remarks
		DE	AT	CH	UK	US
2008	Many Shades of Black Consolers of the Lonely	-	-	-	-	-	First published: August 25, 2008 The Raconteurs feat. Adele
2009	Water & a Flame Love & War	-	-	-	-	-	First published: November 2nd, 2009 Daniel Merriweather feat. Adele

Video albums and music videos

Video albums

year	Title music label	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, music label , placements, weeks, awards, notes)					Remarks
		DE	AT	CH	UK	US
2011	Live at the Royal Albert Hall XL Recordings	DE5 × 4 Quadruple platinum (61 weeks)DE	AT1 (60 weeks) AT	CH1 (59 weeks) CH	UK2 × 3 Triple platinum (… Where.)UK	US1 × 10 Tenfold platinum (266 weeks)US	First published: November 25, 2011 Sales: + 2,741,500

Music videos

year	title	Director (s)
2008	Chasing Pavements	Mathew Cullen
	Cold shoulder	Phil Griffin
	Hometown Glory	Paul Dugdale (Version 1) Rocky Schenk (Version 2)
	Make You Feel My Love	Mat Kirkby
2010	Rolling in the deep	Cherise Payne (Version 1) Sam Brown (Version 2)
2011	Someone Like You	Jake Nava
2012	Skyfall	Nick Chappell
2015	Hello	Xavier Dolan
2016	Send My Love (To Your New Lover)	Patrick Daughters

Author participation

Adele writes most of her own songs. The following list includes songs that were written by Adele but not interpreted and that have made it into the charts:

year	Title artist	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, artist , rankings, weeks, awards, notes)					Remarks
		DE	AT	CH	UK	US
2015	Alive Sia	-	AT39 (4 weeks) AT	CH30 (7 weeks) CH	UK30th gold (22 weeks)UK	US56 (3 weeks) US	First published: September 24th, 2015 Sales: + 435,000
The following songs did not appear as single, but were made available for download and streaming through the album and were thus able to achieve a placement:
2011	Turning Tables Glee Cast feat. Gwyneth Paltrow	-	-	-	UK66 (1 week) UK	US75 (1 week) US	Chart entry: May 7, 2011
	Rolling in the Deep Glee Cast feat. Jonathan Groff	-	-	-	UK29 (2 weeks) UK	US49 (1 week) US	Chart entry: May 28, 2011
	Rolling in the Deep Linkin Park	-	-	-	UK42 (2 weeks) UK	-	Chart entry: July 16, 2011
	Rumor Has It / Someone like You Glee Cast	-	-	-	UK11 (3 weeks) UK	US35 (3 weeks) US	Chart entry: November 26, 2011
2014	Rolling in the Deep Aretha Franklin	-	-	CH74 (1 week) CH	-	-	Chart entry: October 12, 2014

Special publications

Guest Posts

year	Title album	Remarks
2007	My Yvonne Matinée	First published: October 8, 2007 Jack Peñate feat. Adele
2008	Many Shades of Black Consolers of the Lonely	First published: March 25, 2008 The Raconteurs feat. Adele
2009	Water & a Flame Love & War	First published: June 1st, 2009 Daniel Merriweather feat. Adele
	Every Glance Everything Is New	First published: June 22nd, 2009 Jack Peñate feat. Adele
2011	Reminded Black Thoughts 2	First published: April 12, 2011 Tyga feat. Adele

Soundtracks

year	Title soundtrack too	Remarks
2012	Skyfall James Bond 007: Skyfall	First published: October 29, 2012

statistics

Chart evaluation

The following list contains an overview of Adele's chart successes in the album, single and music DVD charts. In Germany, there is a special feature that video albums are also placed in the album charts. In Austria, Switzerland, the United Kingdom and the United States, separate chart lists are maintained for video albums.

DE  AT  CH  UK  US Number one albums DE2DE AT2AT CH2CH UK3UK US2US Top 10 albums DE3DE AT2AT CH2CH UK3UK US3US Albums in the charts DE4thDE AT3AT CH3CH UK4thUK US5US

DE  AT  CH  UK  US Number one singles DE3DE AT1AT CH4thCH UK2UK US4thUS Top 10 singles DE5DE AT5AT CH6thCH UK8thUK US6thUS Singles in the charts DE16DE AT11AT CH9CH UK18thUK US13US

	DE	AT	CH	UK	US
Number one video albums	DE-DE	AT1AT	CH-CH	UK1UK	US1US
Top 10 video albums	DE-DE	AT1AT	CH1CH	UK1UK	US1US
Video albums on the charts	DE-DE	AT1AT	CH1CH	UK1UK	US1US

Awards for music sales

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Country / Region	silver	gold	platinum	diamond	Sales	swell
Awards for music sales (country / region, awards, sales, sources)
Argentina (CAPIF)	-	gold1	-	-	20,000	Individual evidence
Australia (ARIA)	-	4 × gold4th	63 × platinum63	-	5,165,000	aria.com.au
Belgium (BEA)	-	3 × gold3	27 × platinum27	-	855,000	ultratop.be
Brazil (PMB)	-	gold1	2 × platinum2	12 × diamond12	2,520,000	pro-musicabr.org.br
Denmark (IFPI)	-	6 × gold6th	25 × platinum25th	-	995,000	ifpi.dk
Germany (BVMI)	-	-	24 × platinum24	-	4,800,000	musikindustrie.de
Europe (IFPI)	-	-	13 × platinum13	-	(13,000,000)	ifpi.org ( Memento from January 1, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
Finland (IFPI)	-	2 × gold2	4 × platinum4th	-	126,639	ifpi.fi
France (SNEP)	-	2 × gold2	-	-	2,564,800	snepmusique.com
Greece (IFPI)	-	-	platinum1	-	6,000	Individual evidence
Ireland (IRMA)	-	-	-	-	270,000	Individual evidence
Italy (FIMI)	-	5 × gold5	34 × platinum34	-	1,685,000	fimi.it
Japan (RIAJ)	-	gold1	-	-	156,481	riaj.or.jp
Canada (MC)	-	6 × gold6th	29 × platinum29	7 × diamond7th	8,228,650	musiccanada.com
Mexico (AMPROFON)	-	7 × gold7th	19 × platinum19th	2 × diamond2	1,890,000	amprofon.com.mx
New Zealand (RMNZ)	-	3 × gold3	40 × platinum40	-	630,000	nztop40.co.nz
Netherlands (NVPI)	-	-	20 × platinum20th	-	920,000	nvpi.nl
Norway (IFPI)	-	gold1	platinum1	-	35,000	ifpi.no
Austria (IFPI)	-	-	4 × platinum4th	-	65,000	ifpi.at
Poland (ZPAV)	-	-	2 × platinum2	3 × diamond3	340,000	bestsellery.zpav.pl
Portugal (AFP)	-	gold1	2 × platinum2	-	44,000	afp.org.pt ( Memento from February 20, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
Russia (NFPF)	-	-	platinum1	-	10,000	2m-online.ru
Sweden (IFPI)	-	gold1	8 × platinum8th	-	340,000	sverigetopplistan.se
Switzerland (IFPI)	-	-	19 × platinum19th	-	510,000	hitparade.ch
Spain (Promusicae)	-	gold1	16 × platinum16	-	800,000	elportaldemusica.es
South Africa (RISA)	-	-	2 × platinum2	-	80,000	Individual evidence
South Korea (KMCA)	-	-	-	-	6.103.134	Individual evidence
Hungary (MAHASZ)	-	-	6 × platinum6th	-	10,000	slagerlistak.hu
Venezuela (APFV)	-	2 × gold2	-	-	10,000	Individual evidence
United States (RIAA)	-	4 × gold4th	48 × platinum48	2 × diamond2	56,831,000	riaa.com
United Kingdom (BPI)	6 × silver6th	gold1	61 × platinum61	-	25,552,000	bpi.co.uk
All in all	6 × silver6th	52 × gold52	471 × platinum471	26 × diamond26th

Web links

Charts:

• Chart sources: DE AT CH UK US

Discography:

• Adele at Discogs (English)
• Adele at MusicBrainz (English)
• Adele at Musik-Sammler.de
• Adele at Rate Your Music (English)

swell

1. ↑ Sales from Jan.
2. ↑ Director of Chasing Pavements ( Memento from October 28, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
3. ↑ Director of Cold Shoulder ( Memento from February 16, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
4. ↑ Director of Hometown Glory (live) ( Memento from October 8, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
5. ↑ Director of Hometown Glory ( Memento from April 20, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
6. ↑ Director of Make You Feel My Love ( Memento from April 20, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
7. ↑ Director of Rolling in the Deep (Version 1) ( Memento from April 20, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
8. ↑ Director of Rolling in the Deep (Version 2) ( Memento from April 20, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
9. ↑ Director of Someone Like You ( Memento from May 15, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
10. ↑ Director of Skyfall ( Memento from April 20, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
11. ↑ Director of Hello
12. ↑ Director of Send My Love (To Your New Lover)