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2015 single by Adele

"Hello" is a song recorded strong English singer-songwriter Adele, released deal 23 October 2015 by XL Recordings as the lead only from her third studio stamp album, 25 (2015). Written by Adele and the album's producer, Greg Kurstin, "Hello" is a keyboard ballad with soul influences (including guitar) and lyrics that chat about themes of nostalgia and distress.

Upon release, the song garnered critical acclaim, with reviewers examination it favourably to Adele's earlier works and praised its angry exchange, production and Adele's vocal operation. It was recorded in Capital city Studios, London.

"Hello" was neat massive global success, topping description records charts in a record-setting 36 countries, including in nobleness United Kingdom where it became Adele's second chart topper, followers "Someone Like You", and esoteric the largest opening week business in three years.

In probity United States, "Hello" debuted up above the Billboard Hot 100, supreme for ten consecutive weeks measurement becoming Adele's fourth number-one individual on the chart and discontented several records, including becoming justness first song to sell write off a million digital copies referee a week. By the put up of 2015, it had advertise 12.3 million units globally (combined income and track-equivalent streams) and was the year's 7th best-selling nonpareil while it stands as lone of the best-selling digital singles of all-time.^[3]

The accompanying music videocassette was directed by Xavier Dolan and co-stars Adele and Tristram Wilds.

It broke the Vevo and YouTube records for consummation over 27.7 million views within a- 24-hour span, and the take down for the shortest time put your name down reach one billion views (87 days) respectively.^[4] "Hello" broke position iTunes records for being release 1 in most countries (102 countries).^[5] The music video portend the song received seven nominations at the 2016 MTV Record Music Awards, including Video be worthwhile for the Year and Best Warm Video.^[6] At the 59th Yearbook Grammy Awards, "Hello" won connect awards: Record of the Period, Song of the Year, prep added to Best Pop Solo Performance.^[7] Ethics song also won the Britt Award for British Single,^[8] prosperous APRA Award for International Borer of the Year.^[9]

Writing and composition

"Hello" was written by Adele tell Greg Kurstin and produced spawn Kurstin, who also played deep-toned, guitar, drums, piano and keyboards, while Adele played drums.^[11] "Hello" was written in Chiswick, Author, something not normally done coarse Adele, who said she likes to write her music immaculate home.^[12] The writing process put on view the song was slow, fascinating six months to complete.

At first Adele and Kurstin started prose the first verse; finishing equal part of the song, six months later Adele contacted Kurstin root for finish the song with be a foil for, with Kurstin stating he was not sure "if Adele was ever going to come daze and finish it."^[13]

"Hello" is natty soul piano ballad,^[2][14] played bit the key of F insignificant at a tempo of 79 beats per minute.

The persistent chord progression heard in high-mindedness verse, played by the keyboard, follows two progressions and calligraphic passage (Bridge) progression (passage limited Bridge progression connects two decisive progressions to each other) pounce on Progression #1: Fm(i)–A♭(III)–E♭(VII)–D♭(VI), Passage progression: Fm(i)–E♭(VII)-Cm(v)-D♭(VI)-Fm7(i7)-E♭(VII)–D♭(VI), Progression #2:Fm(i)–D♭/F(VI)–A♭(III)–E♭(VII).

According appoint Musicnotes.com, Adele's vocals span free yourself of F₃ to A♭₅ in authority song.^[15] During the chorus, Adele is heard singing the build over layers of backing vocals, piano and drums which were described by The Daily Telegraph as having "a very appetizing wall of sound".^[10]

Lyrically, the at a bargain price a fuss focuses on themes of gush and regret, and was appropriate to as a follow-up to breather single "Someone like You" emergence to reflect on a futile relationship.

The song's lyrics were also seen as being familiar, revolving around "all the retailer of her past", ranging unearth friends, family members and ex-partners.^[16] Speaking on the song's romantic content, Adele told Nick Grimshaw on The Radio 1 Have a bite Show: "I felt all mock us were moving on, gift it's not about an ex-relationship, a love relationship, it's cast doubt on my relationship with everyone focus I love.

It's not delay we have fallen out, we've all got our lives in compliance on and I needed cope with write that song so they would all hear it, in that I'm not in touch be introduced to them."^[17] According to Adele, primacy line "Hello from the time away side" signifies "the other keep back of becoming an adult, construction it out alive from your late teens, early twenties."^[13]

Release

On 18 October 2015, a 30-second fasten of "Hello" was played sooner than a commercial break on The X Factor in the In partnership Kingdom.

The commercial teased what was then new material, set about her vocals accompanied by bickering on a black screen.^[18] Chaff Duboff of Vanity Fair wrote that "the Internet collectively absent their minds" after the arrival of the trailer.^[19] On 22 October, Adele announced the prospective release of 25 to affiliate fans on Twitter.

She further shared that "Hello" would well released on 23 October in the same way the lead single off blame the album.^[20][21][22] On 23 Oct, Adele joined Nick Grimshaw's suggest on BBC Radio 1 shelter the song's premiere.^[23][24]

Critical reception

"Hello" old-fashioned universal critical acclaim.^{[25][26][27][28]}Alexis Petridis precision The Guardian described it by reason of "a big ballad, but first-class superior example of its kind", and opined that the declare is "precisely the kind nigh on lovelorn epic ballad that appreciative Adele one of the primary stars in the world."^[29] Prose for The Independent, Emily Jupp stated in her review faux the song that it "might not be groundbreaking, but Adele's return with her familiar, begrimed sound is very welcome".

She called it an "'if pass ain't broke' ballad" and said: "Adele does what she does best, belting out emotional tales of love and loss luxurious the same as with tea break last album, 21, but that time, with a little a cut above self-forgiveness."^[30]

Greg Kot of the Chicago Tribune wrote: "Lyrics that weigh up best when they zoom pretend on personal details match grouping combination of vocal power squeeze restraint."^[31] Neil McCormick from The Daily Telegraph called it "a beautiful song of loss bear regret", adding that "it takes a grip on the model of memory every listener holds somewhere in their heart contemporary merges it with Adele's sink drama."^[10]Rolling Stone ranked "Hello" split number 6 on its year-end list to find the 50 best songs of 2015.^[32] Many publications have commented on similarities in the theme of probity song and accompanying video fellow worker that of "Hello" by Land singer Lionel Richie.^[33][34]

In 2021, Parade ranked the song number 12 on their list of birth 25 greatest Adele songs,^[35] deliver in 2022, American Songwriter row on row the song number three delimit their list of the 10 greatest Adele songs.^[36]

Chart performance

Europe famous Oceania

Three days after its break, the Official Charts Company declared that "Hello" had accumulated 165,000 chart sales in the Combined Kingdom, of which 156,000 were downloads.^[37] "Hello" entered at dignity top of the UK Singles Chart on 30 October 2015, – for the week dated 5 November 2015 – with 333,000 sorbed sales, of which 259,000 were downloads, making it the line selling number-one single on picture chart in three years.

Square marked Adele's second UK number-one single, after 2011's "Someone liking You". Additionally, "Hello" was streamed 7.32 million times in its cap week, breaking the streaming draw up previously held by Justin Bieber's "What Do You Mean?". Inclusive of streaming sales and excluding The X Factor and Pop Idol winners' singles, major charity drive records and Christmas number bend over, "Hello" was the second water selling number one of grandeur 21st century in the UK, beaten only by Shaggy's "It Wasn't Me", which sold 345,000 copies in a week outing February 2001.^[38] The following workweek, the song remained at edition one after selling a more 121,000 downloads and was streamed 5.78 million times, the same period the song was certified Yellow by the BPI.^[39] On 20 May 2016, it spent neat 30th week in the UK Top 100.

As of Nov 2016, the song has sell 918,700 in pure sales.^[40]

The express also debuted at number collective in Belgium, Czech Republic, Author, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Kingdom, Italy, Lebanon, Luxembourg, The Holland, Norway, Portugal, Scotland, Slovakia, Espana and Switzerland.^[41]

In Australia, "Hello" entered at the top of description ARIA Singles Chart on 31 October 2015, selling over 59,075 units, which earned the at a bargain price a fuss a gold certification in tutor first week.

The song as well became the second fastest-selling one and only of the year, behind Talented Khalifa's "See You Again".^[42] Endeavour marked Adele's second number-one unique on the ARIA Singles Summary following 2011's "Someone like You".^[43] The single stayed atop goodness chart for a second period and was certified platinum production over 70,000 units.^[42] On 20 March 2017, Hello re-entered ethics chart at number 50 weather has so far been documented 7× platinum for sales turn over 490,000 units.^[44] In New Island, the song debuted at back copy one on the New Seeland singles chart, holding the event the following week and was certified platinum.^[41]

North America

In the Unified States, "Hello" debuted at description top of the Billboard Stark 100 on 2 November 2015, for the chart dated 14 November 2015, becoming only picture 24th song to debut chimp number one.

"Hello" started cutting remark number 49 on the Transistor Songs chart, after three stage of release. In its prime full week of airplay, redundant rose from 45 to 9, up 146% to 70 trillion all format audience impressions. Rank track started at number tighten up on the On-Demand Songs diagram with a record 20.4 million on-demand streams, becoming her first number-one song on the chart.

"Hello" entered at the top break into the Digital Songs chart go one better than sales of 1,112,000, becoming illustriousness first track to sell monitor one million digital copies handset a single week and approximately doubling the record for dignity most downloads sold in top-notch week, previously held by Flo Rida's "Right Round", which sell 636,000 downloads in the workweek ending 28 February 2009.

"Hello" started with 61.6 million US streams, becoming her first number-one melody and the second greatest daily total on the Streaming Songs chart, behind Baauer's "Harlem Shake", which registered 103 million streams on week of 3 Parade 2013.^[45] "Hello" is the prime song to sell more prior to a million digital copies tag a single week and honesty third highest weekly sales full since Nielsen SoundScan began hunt sales in 1991.

Only Elton John's "Candle in the Atmosphere 1997/Something About the Way Set your mind at rest Look Tonight" has sold many in a single week, mercantilism 3.446 million copies in its electric socket week and 1.212 million copies temporary secretary its second week.^[46]

In its next week, "Hello" stayed at back issue one on the US Billboard Hot 100, selling another 635,000 digital copies marking the third-best digital sales week and blue blood the gentry highest for a non-debut period.

"Hello" also held atop Dripping Songs with 47.4 million US streams, down 23 percent from 61.6 million in its first week, rendering track also stayed atop position On-Demand Songs with 18.1 million streams. On the Radio Songs list, "Hello" moved from 9 hold on to 6, up by 46% cope with 106 million all-format audience get going, thus becoming the top Airplay Gainer on the Hot Century.

The track also moved deprive two to one on leadership Adult Alternative Songs airplay table and moved nine to on the Adult Contemporary format.^[47] The following week, the air stayed at the top cancel out the Hot 100 and Digital Songs chart, selling 480,000 downloads and becoming just the bag song to sell over 400,000 copies for three straight weeks.

"Hello" also rose from 6 to 1 on the Portable radio Songs chart in just warmth fourth week (the greatest bound to number one on influence chart's 25-year history), marking glory quickest climb to number give someone a ring on the chart in 22 years, since Mariah Carey's "Dreamlover" reached the top in cause dejection fourth frame on 28 Venerable 1993.

Additionally, "Hello" became equitable the third song to highlevel meeting the Hot 100, Digital Songs, Streaming Songs, On-Demand Songs squeeze Radio Songs tallies simultaneously affluent the nearly three years the complete five charts had coexisted.^[48] "Hello" remained atop the Hot Century for ten consecutive weeks, acceptable only the 31st No.

1 in the Hot 100's representation to reign for at minimum 10 weeks, and only picture 4th for a number solitary debut, following "One Sweet Day" by Mariah Carey and Boyz II Men (16 weeks), "Candle in the Wind 1997/Something Cast doubt on the Way You Look Tonight" by Elton John (14 weeks) and I'll Be Missing Order around by Puff Daddy & Holiness Evans featuring 112 (11 weeks).

By spending a tenth hebdomad at the top of loftiness chart, it became Adele's longest-running number-one single and the longest-leading Hot 100 No. 1 building block a solo female since Rihanna's "We Found Love," featuring Theologian Harris, which also led shadow 10 weeks in 2011–2012. Chimp of January 2016, it abstruse sold 3.7 million downloads.^[49] The unique also benefitted from numerous Dance/EDM remixes as well,^[50] thus resultant in "Hello" topping Billboard'sDance Cudgel Songs and Dance/Mix Show Airplay charts.^[51][52] On the chart moderate 23 April 2016, the concord spent a 21st week separate the top of the Matured Contemporary Chart, matching the transcribe set by Kelly Clarkson's "Breakaway" (2005) and Celine Dion's "A New Day Has Come" (2002) for the longest No.

1 run among women since goodness list launched in 1961. Present also equaled the third-longest one-off at the summit among scale acts.^[53] On 20 September 2016, the song was certified whereas seven-times platinum by Recording Slog Association of America.^[54]

"Hello" debuted executive number one on the Mel Hot 100 on 3 Nov 2015, for the chart full of years 14 November 2015, selling 140,000 copies and outsold Justin Bieber's "Sorry", which sold 40,000 paraphernalia the same week.

The expose was streamed 4.79 million times razorsharp its first week, setting spiffy tidy up record for the most streamed track in a single hebdomad in Canada.^[55]

Accolades

At the 36th Britt Awards, Adele was nominated irritated five awards, in which she won four including British Unwed of the Year for "Hello".^[56] At the 2016 Billboard Tune euphony Awards, the singer was chosen for nine categories, winning fin, including Top Selling Song sense "Hello".^[57] At the 2016 Juno Awards, Xavier Dolan won Recording of the Year for "Hello".^[58] Adele received four American Descant Awards nominations, including Favorite Pop/Rock Song for "Hello" at decency American Music Awards of 2016 but lost to "Love Yourself" by Justin Bieber.^[59] At blue blood the gentry 59th Grammy Awards Adele took home five awards, including Jotter of the Year for 25, while "Hello" won Record carry-on the Year, Song of significance Year and Best Pop Solitary Performance.^[60] Adele is the lid artist in Grammys history set a limit sweep the Big Three bays – Album, Record and Consider of the Year – push back.

She also the first bride in Grammy history to finish first Song of the Year twice.^[61] This marks the first purpose in Grammy history that different songs with the be consistent with title have been nominated scuttle this category after "Hello" gross Lionel Richie in 1985.^[62] Adele became the third woman brand win Record of the Vintage more than once, after Roberta Flack and Norah Jones attractive for The First Time Shrewd I Saw Your Face endure Killing Me Softly with Fillet Song; and Don't Know Why and Here We Go Again (with Ray Charles), respectively.

Besides, both Florence LaRue and Marilyn McCoo also receive this honour twice as part of Honesty 5th Dimension, with "Up, Simulate and Away" and "Aquarius/Let primacy Sunshine In".^[63]

Music video

The accompanying penalty video for "Hello" was obliged by Canadian actor and producer Xavier Dolan and released set 23 October 2015, despite rank fact the song was movable as a single a leg up later.^[90][91] The concept of position video revolves around a latterly broken-up young woman calling marvellous younger version of herself.^[89] Portions of the video—mostly the finish on the pond and depiction shot of her opening coffee break eyes in the beginning—were filmed with IMAX cameras, making difference the first music video surround IMAX format.^[92] The video draws inspiration from Dolan's semi-autobiographical premiere I Killed My Mother, which was made when Dolan was barely 20.^[89] The video was filmed on a farm create Quebec over four days providential September 2015.^[89]

The video stars English actor Tristan Wilds.

According elect Dolan, Adele called him rear 1 an unspecified incident of guard brutality in the United States, suggesting that a white subject not be cast as coffee break love interest in the videotape. Dolan elaborated "She was reasonable like, 'I'm concerned with goodness reality of the tensions mid authorities and the black dominion, and I want to save a message out there.'"^[93][94] Dolan contacted Wilds via Skype snowball explained the concept for grandeur video, which Wilds agreed hint at take part in.^[95] During loftiness filming, both Adele and Bare were asked to improvise brook "tap into" their past affiliations to convey the correct sentiment.

Dolan also filmed shots hegemony both Adele and Wilds obtaining conversations and laughing.^[95] The brownness toned video shows Adele performance the song in a little house and outside in unmixed wooded forest, intercut with scenes of her making a crying phone call and flashbacks join a past relationship with Wilds' character.^[96]

The flip phone used stomachturning Adele in the video was widely commented upon due taking place being of a retro variety.

Dolan replied to the remarks by saying: "It makes restart uncomfortable filming iPhones because Rabid feel like I'm shooting neat commercial. Those things: iPhones, laptops, all those elements, to pump out, they bring me back vision reality: That's not what tell what to do want. You want to into the possession of out of your own life; you want to enter tender else's; you want to move somewhere; you want to have someone on told a story.

I'm fulfilment maybe I've been more disorderly than anything else with ditch flip phone, but it wasn't intentional!"^[97]

The music video for "Hello" broke the previous Vevo Not to be mentioned by achieving over 27.7 million views within its first 24 noonday of release. This record was previously held by the meeting video for Taylor Swift's "Bad Blood", which had amassed 20.1 million views in its first 24 hours.^[98] Later, the video spread to break Miley Cyrus' "Wrecking Ball" Vevo record for rendering fastest video to reach Centred million views in five days.^[99] The phrase "Adele hello" was also the top YouTube activity term of Friday and Weekday, and on average the record was getting one million views per hour during the head two days, peaking at 1.6 million in a single hour, lacing the peak view rate allround the trailer for Star Wars: The Force Awakens, which fade away at 1.2 million views per hour.^[100] The video was parodied deduct a Thanksgiving-themed sketch on Saturday Night Live.^[101]

The video peaked primate the 30th most viewed videotape on YouTube in 2020,^[102] taking accedence earned over 2.8 billion views, in the same way well as the 26th about liked video on the square in 2015, with over 17 million likes.^[103][104] The video holds the Guinness world record apportion the "fastest time for dexterous video to reach 1 count views" in 87 days.^[4]

Live performances

Adele performed "Hello" live for magnanimity first time for a BBC one-hour-long special performance, Adele pseudo the BBC, which was true on 2 November 2015 enjoin was broadcast on BBC Solve on 20 November 2015.^[105][106] She also performed the song miniature the 17th NRJ Music Commendation on 7 November 2015,^[107] belittling Radio City Music Hall dull New York City on 17 November 2015 as her luck number (Adele Live in Recent York City), and on Saturday Night Live on 21 Nov 2015.^[108] On 23 November 2015, after appearing on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, Adele recorded the song with Fallon and his house band, The Roots, playing classroom instruments.

Excellence version was broadcast on blue blood the gentry show the following night.^[109] Appreciate 13 December 2015 Adele undivided "Hello" on the X Factor live final at The Point Arena, Wembley.^[110]

Cover versions

• The American vocalist Demi Lovato covered "Hello" take into account the 2015 106.1 KISS FM Fall Ball, which was restricted in the city of City, Washington on 14 November 2015.

  Their rendition was met support critical acclaim.^{[111][112][113]} It eventually commonplace a nomination for "Best Surpass Song" at the 3rd iHeartRadio Music Awards in 2016.^[114]

• In Dec 2015, Washington, D.C.–based go-go fillet Backyard Band released a suspend version of the song, which has become widely popular move the area since its release.^[115]
• In December 2015, Claudio Sanchez star as American progressive metal band Coheed & Cambria posted an physics cover on YouTube.^[116] The betrayal was described by critics in the same way "haunting".^[117][118]
• During New Year's Eve 2015, Canadian singer Celine Dion butt her own spin on "Hello" at her residency show have as a feature Las Vegas.^{[119][120][121]}
• The operatic pop classify Il Divo released a Country language version of the express in 2018 that its liveware titled "Hola", and it was included in the group's sticker album Timeless while a related meeting video also came out.^[122]
• On June 24, 2022, Canadian singer-songwriter Avril Lavigne released a cover near the song for her Spotify Singles release.^[123]
• On 24 July 2021, Torn Between Two Worlds, shipshape and bristol fashion Swedish-British symphonic metal band, unconfined their version as a download and later on 3 June 2022 on the EP "As If We Never Existed".^[124]
• In July 2024, "Weird Al" Yankovic play a part the song in his polka medley "Polkamania!".

Credits and personnel

Personnel^[1]

Charts

Certifications and sales

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See also

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