It was another huge night for Adele, but this time at the 2012 BRIT Awards in London. She took home prizes for Best UK Female Artist and Album of the Year.
"It's been an amazing year. I'd like to thank my record company for letting me be the kind of artist I want to be," she said while accepting her first award.
During the show, she took to the stage for her second live performance since her throat surgery. Without missing a beat, she beautifully belted out "Rolling in the Deep."
While accepting the award for Album of the Year, Adele was unfortunately cut-off mid-speech. Watch her response below!
Celebs are starting to arrive at the 2012 BRIT Awards, being held at London's O2 Arena. Adele looked gorgeous on the red carpet in a black dress. If you're in the US, you can watch the show on Fuse at 9/8c. Those in the UK should tune in to ITV1 at 8pm. Be sure to check back, they'll be more to come!
Adele's 21 is set to have another big week on the Billboard Charts with sales now projected to hit the 650,000 to 680,000 range. We're coming up on the one year anniversary on the chart where it hasn't budged from the top 10 since. Coincidentally it will also be its 21st week at #1!
Billboard reports, "Presently, the set is now projected to sell somewhere in the range of 650,000 to 680,000 by week's end on Sunday, Feb. 19, according to industry sources. That's up from the half-million-plus forecast that Billboard reported on Thursday morning (Feb. 16)."
"Next week, "21" will mark its one-year anniversary on the chart -- a list where it's never left the top 10 in a single week. It will also notch its 21st week at No. 1 and surpass the 7 million U.S. sales threshold. Currently, its sales stand at 6.62 million."
"Finally, if "21" sells more than 650,000 this week, it will be the best week for any album since Lil Wayne's "Tha Carter IV" debuted with 964,000 at No. 1 on the chart dated Sept. 17, 2011. It will also be "21's" biggest sales week, period. Its highest frame came over the Christmas holiday, when it shifted 399,000."
Adele is set to hit the stage at the BRIT Awards tonight! If you're in the UK, be sure to tune in to ITV1 at 8pm!
"I am quite loud and bolshie," Adele tells Vogue magazine in their March 2012 issue. "I'm a big personality. I walk into a room, big and tall and loud."
Inside the magazine's feature on the Grammy winner, she talks about her throat troubles, her gripes with fame and being in love.
"I've been singing properly every day since I was about fifteen or sixteen," she said, "and I have never had any problems with my voice, ever. I've had a sore throat here and there, had a cold and sung through it, but that day it just went while I was onstage in Paris during a radio show. It was literally like someone had pulled a curtain over it."
She went on to note how her surgery helped her fully appreciate everything that she has accomplished over the last year. "I think I just needed to be silenced. And when you are silent, everyone else around you is silent. So the noise in my life just stopped. It was like I was floating in the sea for three weeks. It was brilliant. It was my body telling me to fix me. I had so much time to kind of go over things and get over things, which is amazing. I think if I hadn’t had my voice trouble, I would never have broached those subjects with myself. Now I just feel really at peace. And really proud of myself. I’ve never fully appreciated the things that I’ve achieved until now. In fact, my entire life has changed in the last ten weeks. I’ve never been so happy, and I love it."
I'm sure the new man in her life Simon Konecki has a little something to do with that as well. "He's wonderful," Adele gushes. "And he's proud of me, but he don't care about what I do or what other people think. He looks after me. I don't think I would have gotten through the recovery for my surgery if it hadn't been for him."
When the interviewer mentions that he's heard the notion it would take a brave man to date her again, Adele playfully responded, "Come on! I'm wifey material! I'm great. No one's got to be brave. It's not like, 'You fuck me over and I’m going to write a record and make you the most hated man in the world.' I am never writing a breakup record again, by the way. I'm done with being a bitter witch."
However, when it comes to the duties of fame, Adele is not exactly the poster child for red carpet events (who can blame her?). "I hate the red carpet. I don’t feel insecure, I just feel like, Oh, I don’t want to do this. I literally get a stomach cramp. At the VMA’s last year I felt really out of my comfort zone because there were so many superstars there. But that’s been the case from day one. I never feel like, Oh, yeah, I should be here. And I was missing my best friend’s hen night. So I was a bit bitter that I wasn’t there, to be perfectly honest."
How about her future plans? Adele responded, "I am fucking off for four or five years. If I am constantly working, my relationships fail. So at least now I can have enough time to write a happy record. And be in love and be happy. And then I don’t know what I'll do. Get married. Have some kids. Plant a nice vegetable patch."
Please visit Vogue for more of Adele's candid interview.
It has been a phenomenal night and year for Adele. She swept this year's Grammys winning all six awards she was nominated for.
Not only did her performance grant her a standing ovation, but she took home the coveted prizes for Record of the Year ("Rolling in the Deep") and Album of the Year (21). Adele also picked up Best Pop Solo Performance ("Someone Like You"), Best Pop Vocal Album (21) and "Rolling in the Deep" producer Paul Epworth was awarded Producer of the Year.
Watch her amazing performance below!
Adele shined on the red carpet at the 2012 Grammy Awards held at The Staples Center in LA this evening (February 12).
She donned a custom black, sequin Giorgio Armani gown. The mult-nom chart queen finished off her look with Harry Winston 12.4 carat diamond micropave ring set in platinum. Gorgeous!!
Video of her performance and more photos to come later!
Source: JustJared
