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Adele has won 16 Grammy Awards. Her wins span multiple ceremonies, including six at the 2012 Grammys for the album 21, five at the 2017 Grammys for 25 and the single "Hello", and one in 2023 for "Easy on Me" from 30.
21, released in 2011, is Adele's best-selling album. It has sold over 31 million copies worldwide, held the top position on the Billboard 200 for 24 non-consecutive weeks, and remains the best-selling album by a woman in UK chart history.
Adele was born on the 5th of May 1988 in Tottenham, London. She was raised by her mother Penny after her father Marc Evans left when Adele was 2. She lived in Tottenham, Brighton, Brixton, and West Norwood before graduating from the BRIT School for Performing Arts and Technology in Croydon in May 2006.
A friend posted Adele's three-song class demo on Myspace, where it attracted attention and led to a phone call from Richard Russell, director of XL Recordings. Nick Huggett at XL referred her to manager Jonathan Dickins, and Huggett formally signed her to XL in September 2006.
Adele won the Academy Award for Best Original Song for "Skyfall", the theme to the 2012 James Bond film of the same name. It was the first James Bond theme ever to win the Oscar and the fifth to receive a nomination.
"Hello" set the Vevo record for most views in a day with over 27.7 million YouTube views in its first 24 hours, surpassing Taylor Swift's "Bad Blood". It became the fastest video to reach one billion YouTube views, achieving that in 88 days, and was the first US song to sell at least one million downloads in a week, reaching 1.11 million.