Adele’s ‘30’ Album Due on Nov. 19; Singer Calls It a Document of ‘the Most Turbulent Period of My Life’

We’re just a few short weeks away from the release of Adele‘s new album!

Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorHarry Styles will finish his 2021 “Love on Tour” with the first concert at the new UBS Arena in Belmont Park, NY, on Sunday, November 28. Tickets for the newly announced show will go on sale starting Friday, November 5 at 12 p.m.The new arena is just outside New York city limits, on the border of Queens and Nassau Counties.Presale registration is available now via Ticketmaster’s Verified Fan program now through Tuesday, November 2 at 12 p.m.

Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorIn the decades after ABBA — one of the most popular and influential groups in the history of the world — announced their breakup in 1983, journalists grew so tired of receiving the same skeptical answers about the group reuniting that they largely stopped asking.

Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorGlobal royalties collections for music creators dropped 10.7% during 2020 due to the pandemic, declining by nearly €1 billion (approximately $1.16 billion) to a pre-2017 level of €8.12 billion (approximately $9.3 billion), according to the 2020 Global Collections Report published Wednesday by CISAC, the International Confederation of Societies of Authors and Composers.The collections were a setback after years of consecutive growth — including an 8% boost in 2019 to

Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorAdele, master of the slow reveal, has unveiled what appear to be the first two dates of the tour in support of her forthcoming album “30” — and they’re a blockbuster: two nights in London’s Hyde Park next summer, the sprawling green in the middle of her hometown that has hosted concerts by everyone from the Rolling Stones and Queen to Elton John and Blur.Adele announced the dates, which are scheduled for July 1 and 2, 2022, on social media early Tuesday.Oiii

Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorWe at Variety usually reserve our get-out-the-vote efforts for things like presidential and congressional elections.

Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorEd Sheeran has given fans a preview of each song on his forthcoming album, “=” (Equals) via 14 YouTube Shorts ahead of its official release this Friday.According to the announcement, the 14 Shorts “encapsulate the very personal journey of Sheeran’s album – four-years-in-the-making – with each one bringing to life the intimate and everyday moments that are reflected in the songs.

Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorMoon Kissed are an all-female New York trio whose music is equal parts pop, indie and attitude. It’s an angle they hit you with, straight off the bat and in no uncertain terms, on their sophomore album’s lead-off track, “Bubblegum,” which has a gritty synth-pop sound, an indelible hook and, well, “I know your tiny ego’s bruised/ Don’t try to blame me” singer Khaya Cohen sweetly snarls.

Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorAfter decades of not really dealing with their catalog, the Rolling Stones have been digging deep into their vaults for the past dozen years or so, releasing expanded versions of past albums, many full-length archival concerts, and finishing up old songs that they’d started recording decades earlier.The latest in this series, released just a few weeks after the 40th anniversary of its original release (vinyl pressing plants are really backed up these days), finds

Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorRapper-entrepreneur A$AP Ferg has joined the management roster at Jay-Z’s Roc Nation. The Harlem-born member of the hip-hop collective A$AP Mob — who will go by just Ferg for his non-A$AP efforts — has been in the studio over the past couple of months, and fans can expect a new song from him produced by the Neptunes (Pharrell Williams and Chad Hugo) on October 29th.

Galway singer-songwriter Niamh Regan has released a new song, Love You Senseless. 

Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorOn Nov. 14, five days before the release of Adele’s long-awaited fourth album “30,” CBS will air a two-hour special called “Adele One Night Only,” featuring a concert performance that will be the earliest opportunity for most of the world to hear the singer’s first new material in six years.The two-hour event will be broadcast Sunday, Nov.

Adele, 33, revealed she played her new album 30 for friend Drake, 34, a year ago. “I played it to Drake last year when he was in town,” she began on Saturday, Oct. 16 during an appearance on radio show Capital Breakfast. “And I was like ‘is this what people want, or not want?’ And he said ‘absolutely’ but that’s it really,” she explained.

Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorFifty-one years later, how do we appraise “Let It Be,” the Beatles’ swan song, the document of their breakup, the one that the bandmembers themselves initially disliked so much that Paul McCartney took legal action and John Lennon dubbed it a salvage job from “the shittiest load of badly recorded shit — and with a lousy feeling to it — ever”?Of course, the men doth protest too much: The group’s high standards guaranteed that there is no such thing as a bad Beatles

Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorPrimary Wave has acquired a stake in the catalog of Gerry Goffin, lyricist for dozens of classic songs with his former wife Carole King: “Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow,” “(You Make Me Feel Like a) Natural Woman,” “Up on the Roof,” “The Loco-Motion,” “One Fine Day,” “Take Good Care of My Baby,” “Wasn’t Born to Follow,” “Pleasant Valley Sunday,” “I’m Into Something Good” and many, many other songs that epitomized the “Brill Building” sound that dominated the hit

Adele is gearing up to release the most important album of her career.The singer took to Instagram on Wednesday, October 13 to announce that herr highly-anticipated project, 30, will be out on November 19.

Adele has confirmed her new album is indeed called 30 and will be released on November 19 as she explained it was her "ride or die throughout the most turbulent period of my life".

announcement that her new single “Easy On Me” will debut on Oct. 15, the 33-year-old British songstress announced Wednesday in a lengthy Instagram post that her highly anticipated upcoming album “30” will be released on Nov.

Adele has officially announced the the title and release of her new album.