Adele - Promise This (Cheryl Cole cover)

This woman can cover any song and make it sound heartfelt and improve on the original.

Adele 21; set to be the UK number 1 album for the 7th week

Adele continues to blow the charts apart with her current album, 21.  UK industry bible 'MusicWeek' is suggesting that it's likely to hold off competition and remain at the top spot for its seventh week.

Check out the below promo video, featuring Adele being interviewed for the New York Post.  She's adorable - and so grounded.

Kylie Minogue and the battle of the singles

In all honesty, there isn't anybody on this earth that doesn't love Kylie Minogue (even just a little bit).  She is a legend, and of course a mahoosive gay icon.  From the early days of Stock, Aitken and Waterman, this tiny pop princess has captured the hearts of many.  Whilst other popsters have fallen by making bad life choices, rampant tabloid criticism and terrible haircuts (Kelis - what were you thinking?, honey) - Kylie has been relatively consistant.  She has created some of the finest pop songs that have ever existed.  She always looks gorgeous.  She's untainted.

Apparently, Kylie recently told a magazine that she is unhappy with the performance of the singles from her joyous current album, Aphrodite.  It's understandable that some artists are struggling because the music industry is desperately trying to keep up with technology, the internet and modern marketing techniques.  According to reports, Kylie has recognised that artists such as Britney and Lady Gaga are playing the game by releasing songs with very little pre-release promotion - sometimes hitting the stores at the same time as the radio.  It's a modern concept and it appears to work as both Britney and Gaga have reaped the rewards of high sales by using this method. 

Though nothing beats a heart-stopping live performance, such as what Adele gave at the recent Brit Awards ceremony.  That performance (and many others since) have blasted the singer to the top of the charts all over the world.  It's nice to see that raw talent is still the basis of success - but it's not always that simple.

Social networking, portable devices (ipads/phones, android phones etc..), online television, YouTube - are still growing and changing.  You can capture your audience in so many ways - perhaps too many ways as this comes with lots of competition - and even established artists can sometimes struggle a little bit to keep on top.

The news that Kylie will not release any more singles from 'Aphrodite' is not a suprise. Though she shouldn't be too disheartened by the lack of success of those recent singles.  Kylie's new tour is enormous - and that's where the real money is.

When it comes to the next album, a new strategy is needed.

UK Charts: Adele did it!

Congratulations to ADELE! She's the first living artist to have two Top 5 UK albums and two Top 5 singles simultaneously since The Beatles on 12th Dec 1964.


Adele has the number one spot in both the album and singles charts.  An amazing achievement!

Adele - Someone Like You

Uh oh.  Gaga might not get her UK number one today if Adele has anything to do with it.  Adele's heart-stopping performance of 'Someone Like You' at the 2011 Brits went down a storm and the song is currently number one in the iTunes charts.

Guests were in tears as Adele performed on stage.  RUDE!  She wasn't that bad!

Adele: Live

That voice. It never disappoints, does it?

Adele is touring everywhere this year. Check out those dates here: http://www.adele.tv/live/

Wow!: Adele is number one!

A massive congratulations to Adele who has gone to number one in the UK album charts with her second album, 21.  It's a massive feat because she sold 208k copies and it's also the biggest selling January album for 5 years.

Her debut album, 19, is also currently number four.

2011 is going to be a huge year for this outstanding artist.  She is also currently on the cover of US industry magazine 'Billboard'.