For all Adele likers or haters it's a good read
She even mentions her thoughts on that in this article.Don't feel so guilty about trying to bring her popularity 'down a peg' as she did it herself she admit's, with other artists.Was never a hater really, Just never 'saw what all the fuss was all about'.Adele might agree with me about that

What are your thought's about this well written & retrospective enlightening article, as she only had early success then.
http://www.japantimes.co.jp/culture/.../#.V84WF-jTXxA

To use a horce racing analogy, Adele is the only one of these who has 'trained on' (one of them we will sadly never know if the same outcome would have happened). Is the reason simply luck? No chance, as a singer who moves people she's arguably the best of her generation. And bloody fantastic live as well (another attribute that sets her apart).

I've not seen Adele in concert but from the clips I've seen on YouTube she is genuinely hilarious.

I think people like Adele because she comes across as a normal person who has an incredible singing voice. She has a natural ability to invite people on stage regardless of wherever in the world she is, and it's as if she's just chatting to her friends from school or something.

No wonder Adele is the ultimate female singer right now. She is the complete package and proves that even at her concerts she doesn't need a complex lazer light show, fireworks and backing dancers to put on a fantastic show. When they say "less is more", Adele is proof of this.

I'm not sure how much of a success 25 has been really. It's hard to judge a lot of sales would have been based on it being the follow up to 21, but really aside from 'Hello' nothing much seems to have joined the jugganauts of 'Rolling', 'Somebody Else', and 'Set Fire'. 'When We Were Young' never seemed to fully catch fire (maybe on a 'Rumour has it' level), and 'Send My Love' hasn't really made an impression at all (Personally I believe this is because it's easily her worst single).
It's a weird one and feels like success generates success. I'm not sure 25 would have been the massive hit it was if 21 didn't exist.

She left it 4/5 years between releases so anything could have happened with '25' TBH. There's absolutely no guarantee that the follow up to a huge selling album will sell on the strength of what's gone before (ask Duffy if you don't believe me ). Make no mistake, '25' has been huge. Huge. Singles-wise, hard to judge given the fact that streaming plays a much bigger part in assessing chart positions than when '21' was released. You only have to look at the (imo) dross songs that are dominating the charts these days to realise things have changed...

I'm not doubting it's been huge. I'm just wondering how much of it was based on being the follow up to '21' (which built it's own success with 3 towering singles leading the charge). I just feel after 'Hello' 25 just seem to run out of stream somewhat - what you say about streaming and the charts is a factor (I'll be honest I don't understand that).

'25' has simply sold in a totally different way to '21' in that it has been inevitably front-loaded whereas '21' was a bit of a slow burner in comparison. Another factor in the singles from '25' being seemingly less 'successful' than the singles from '21' is that at the time they were released '25' had sold way more than '21' at the same stage in its trajectory. But to sell 17/18 million albums worldwide since November 2015 is an absolutely extraordinary achievement, especially taking into account the dire state of album sales in these times and even in comparison to 2011 (when '21' was released).