Album · Adele
25 by Adele
25 is an album by Adele, released in 2015. 2 songs from it have charted on rock radio countdowns, with 24 countdown appearances in total. The biggest is “Hello”, on 19 lists with a best position of #3.
25, Adele's third album, came out on 20 November 2015 through XL Recordings and Columbia Records, named for the age she was when she made it. She called it a make-up record, and it's full of looking back: missing the person she used to be, aching over how fast time moves, alongside songs about motherhood, new love and regret. Greg Kurstin is credited as producer, and the sound nudges her big-ballad soul toward new places, with electronic touches, livelier rhythms, organ and a hint of 1980s R&B.
"Hello" was the opening salvo, a slow-building, cavernous torch song that went to number one around the world and sold more than a million downloads in a week in the US. The album itself broke first-week sales records in the UK and the US, became the best-selling album of 2015, and won both the Brit Award for British Album of the Year and the Grammy for Album of the Year.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs from 25 on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Hello | 19 | #3 | – | 2015–2026 | |
| 2 | When We Were Young | 5 | #28 | – | 2016–2025 |
Only songs that appear on at least one countdown are listed. Release data from MusicBrainz.