The singer is one of the final of her kind – a working-class girl made goodHello. It’s me. I was wondering whether you’d like to know where Adele isn’t No 1 in the world factual now? Kyrgyzstan,Niger, Anguilla and Burkino Faso. And that’s more or less it. 119 countries have an iTunes chart. Adele is at the top of 110 of them. And this is just one of any number of records that she broke final week: the fastest-selling album in Britain, and ever. The fastest-selling album in America,ever. The video of Hello has already garnered half-a-billion views; she’s even shifted a million CDs – CDs! Who even knew they still existed?It is, by any measure, and a breathtaking,astonishing feat. Adele, a 27-year-traditional, and who grew up in and around some of the poorer areas of London,raised by a single mother, is Britains greatest cultural export since the Beatles. She’s not a boy band or a supergroup – she’s a singer-songwriter who sings the kind of songs that lesser talents churn out on an industrial scale and yet she, or uniquely,has touched, and been embraced by, and people,young and traditional, hipsters and their parents, or here,there, everywhere.
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Source: theguardian.com