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Adele

Solo artist Tottenham United Kingdom UK soul/jazz singer

Adele is an artist from Tottenham. Adele has 220 chart appearances on 104 radio countdowns from 39 stations on RockLists, spanning 2008–2026. The most successful song on radio countdowns is “Rolling in the Deep”, which appears on 52 lists and was voted number one eight times. In total the artist has topped 9 countdowns. The station that charted Adele most often is WXPN (Philadelphia, PA), with 40 appearances. The artist’s biggest year on year-end countdowns was 2011.

220appearances

104countdowns

21songs charted

39stations

9#1 finishes

2008–2026years

Adele came out of the BRIT School in 2006, signed with XL Recordings, and turned up in 2008 with 19, a debut built on a voice that sounds far older than the girl singing it: smoky, soulful, a mezzo-soprano with enough power to knock over the furniture. "Chasing Pavements" and "Make You Feel My Love" both went top five in Britain, "Hometown Glory" glowed in the corner, and she took home the Grammy for Best New Artist.

Then came 21 in 2011, and pop music tilted on its axis. "Rolling in the Deep" is a stomping, gospel-fired stormer, "Someone Like You" a ballad that could reduce a stadium to tears, and "Set Fire to the Rain" builds into a tempest. The album sat on top of the Billboard 200 for 24 weeks, won 6 Grammys including Album of the Year, and no album this century has outsold it.

She won an Oscar for the Bond theme "Skyfall" in 2012, then broke first-week sales records in Britain and America with 25 in 2015, led by the colossal ballad "Hello", before 30 arrived in 2021 with "Easy on Me". With 16 Grammys and over 120 million records sold, she's the rare heavyweight who got there almost entirely on the strength of her voice.

Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.

Songs by Adele on radio countdowns

#	Song	Strength	Lists	Best	#1s	Peak year
1	Rolling in the Deep	4,131	52	#1	8	2011
2	Someone like You	1,990	28	#2	–	2011
3	Rumor Has It	1,814	28	#3	–	2011
4	Chasing Pavements	1,077	16	#12	–	2008
5	Hello	1,068	19	#3	–	2015
6	Set Fire To The Rain	942	16	#19	–	2011
7	Easy On Me	680	11	#5	–	2021
8	Right As Rain	520	12	#3	–	2009
9	Send My Love (To Your New Lover)	419	5	#3	–	2016
10	Skyfall	366	6	#1	1	2012
11	Make You Feel My Love	319	5	#165	–	–
12	When We Were Young	240	5	#28	–	2016
13	I'll Be Waiting	218	4	#7	–	2012
14	Lovesong	112	2	#360	–	–
15	Oh My God	88	3	#52	–	2022
16	Hometown Glory	73	1	#28	–	–
17	Sweetest Devotion	69	1	#33	–	2015
18	Turning Tables	59	2	#90	–	2011
19	Can I Get It	57	1	#44	–	2022
20	One And Only	37	1	#559	–	–
21	Water Under The Bridge	20	1	#41	–	2016

Albums with charting songs

Where each song was first released, from MusicBrainz.

Year-end chart timeline

Combined year-end countdown points per year. Taller bars mean more songs placing higher across more stations.

08 09 10 11 12 15 16 21 22

Every countdown appearance

Year	#	Song	Countdown
2026	124	Rolling in the Deep	WYEP Greatest Songs of All Time
2026	287	Rolling in the Deep	KXT 917 Song Countdown
2026	675	Hello	WYEP Greatest Songs of All Time
2026	893	Chasing Pavements	KXT 917 Song Countdown
2025	20	Rolling in the Deep	90.9 The Bridge Top 909 Songs of the 21st Century
2025	29	Someone like You	893 Essential Songs of The Current: 2005 to Now
2025	41	Rolling in the Deep	893 Essential Songs of The Current: 2005 to Now
2025	48	Someone like You	90.9 The Bridge Top 909 Songs of the 21st Century
2025	89	Chasing Pavements	90.9 The Bridge Top 909 Songs of the 21st Century
2025	148	Hello	90.9 The Bridge Top 909 Songs of the 21st Century
2025	170	Chasing Pavements	893 Essential Songs of The Current: 2005 to Now
2025	255	Rumor Has It	90.9 The Bridge Top 909 Songs of the 21st Century
2025	296	Hello	893 Essential Songs of The Current: 2005 to Now
2025	338	Rumor Has It	893 Essential Songs of The Current: 2005 to Now
2025	537	Right As Rain	90.9 The Bridge Top 909 Songs of the 21st Century
2025	692	Right As Rain	893 Essential Songs of The Current: 2005 to Now
2025	895	Set Fire To The Rain	90.9 The Bridge Top 909 Songs of the 21st Century
2025	6	Rolling in the Deep	WYEP Best Songs of the 21st Century (So Far)
2025	153	Chasing Pavements	WYEP Best Songs of the 21st Century (So Far)
2025	166	Rumor Has It	WYEP Best Songs of the 21st Century (So Far)
2025	220	Someone like You	WYEP Best Songs of the 21st Century (So Far)
2025	244	Set Fire To The Rain	WYEP Best Songs of the 21st Century (So Far)
2025	374	When We Were Young	WYEP Best Songs of the 21st Century (So Far)
2025	376	Hello	WYEP Best Songs of the 21st Century (So Far)
2024	44	Rolling in the Deep	WYEP Best Songs of the Past 50 Years
2024	48	Rolling in the Deep	The Colorado Sound Top 1055 Songs of the 21st Century
2024	253	Rumor Has It	The Colorado Sound Top 1055 Songs of the 21st Century
2024	442	Chasing Pavements	WYEP Best Songs of the Past 50 Years
2024	788	When We Were Young	WYEP Best Songs of the Past 50 Years
2024	906	Someone like You	WYEP Best Songs of the Past 50 Years
2024	959	Chasing Pavements	The Colorado Sound Top 1055 Songs of the 21st Century
2024	7	Rolling in the Deep	WXPN The 885 Greatest Songs of the 21st Century (2024)
2024	13	Someone like You	WXPN The 885 Greatest Songs of the 21st Century (2024)
2024	61	Chasing Pavements	WXPN The 885 Greatest Songs of the 21st Century (2024)
2024	91	Hello	WXPN The 885 Greatest Songs of the 21st Century (2024)
2024	165	Make You Feel My Love	The Colorado Sound Top 850 Cover Songs
2024	174	Set Fire To The Rain	WXPN The 885 Greatest Songs of the 21st Century (2024)
2024	267	Make You Feel My Love	WXPN The 885 Greatest Songs of the 21st Century (2024)
2024	349	Rumor Has It	WXPN The 885 Greatest Songs of the 21st Century (2024)
2024	360	Lovesong	The Colorado Sound Top 850 Cover Songs
2024	435	Rolling in the Deep	The Best Opening Tracks of All Time
2024	442	When We Were Young	WXPN The 885 Greatest Songs of the 21st Century (2024)
2024	741	Right As Rain	WXPN The 885 Greatest Songs of the 21st Century (2024)
2023	231	Rolling in the Deep	90.9 The Bridge Top 909 Songs of All Time
2023	576	Hello	90.9 The Bridge Top 909 Songs of All Time
2023	630	Rolling in the Deep	WYEP Countdown to Fall 2023
2022	44	Can I Get It	WXPN Top 100 Most Played Songs of 2022
2022	52	Oh My God	WEXT Top 97 of 2022
2022	79	Easy On Me	Studio Brussel De Eindafrekening 2022
2022	83	Oh My God	The Current Top 89 Songs of 2022
2022	1254	Hello	WYEP Countdown to Fall 2022
2022	268	Chasing Pavements	90.9 The Bridge Top 909 Songs of the 2000s
2022	788	Right As Rain	90.9 The Bridge Top 909 Songs of the 2000s
2021	5	Easy On Me	WYEP Top 91 Songs of 2021
2021	6	Easy On Me	WTMD Top 89 Songs of 2021
2021	18	Easy On Me	The Current Top 89 Songs of 2021
2021	20	Easy On Me	WERS Top 88 Songs of 2021
2021	23	Easy On Me	WFUV Top 90 Songs of 2021
2021	26	Easy On Me	WRNR Top 103.1 Songs of 2021
2021	29	Easy On Me	WXPK Top 107 Songs of 2021
2021	46	Easy On Me	90.9 The Bridge Top 90 Songs of 2021
2021	71	Oh My God	WRNR Top 103.1 Songs of 2021
2021	98	Easy On Me	WXPN Top 100 Most Played Songs of 2021
2021	153	Easy On Me	Lightning 100 Top 200 Songs of 2021
2020	178	Rolling in the Deep	WXPN 2020 Greatest Songs of All Time
2020	504	Make You Feel My Love	WXPN 2020 Greatest Songs of All Time
2020	798	Someone like You	WXPN 2020 Greatest Songs of All Time
2020	815	Set Fire To The Rain	WXPN 2020 Greatest Songs of All Time
2020	1729	Skyfall	WXPN 2020 Greatest Songs of All Time
2020	2016	Rumor Has It	WXPN 2020 Greatest Songs of All Time
2020	97	Rolling in the Deep	Triple J Hottest 100 of the 2010s (2020)
2019	214	Set Fire To The Rain	WYEP Labor Day Weekend Countdown 2019
2019	214	Set Fire To The Rain	WYEP Big Spring Countdown 2019
2019	888	Hello	WYEP Labor Day Weekend Countdown 2019
2019	888	Hello	WYEP Big Spring Countdown 2019
2019	1001	Rumor Has It	WYEP Labor Day Weekend Countdown 2019
2019	1001	Rumor Has It	WYEP Big Spring Countdown 2019
2019	12	Rolling in the Deep	WEQX Top 102.7 of the 2010's Decade
2018	278	Someone like You	The Current's 893 Essential Songs
2018	446	Hello	The Current's 893 Essential Songs
2018	475	Rolling in the Deep	The Current's 893 Essential Songs
2018	12	Chasing Pavements	WTMD Listeners' Top 897 Songs, 2003-2018
2018	105	Rolling in the Deep	WTMD Listeners' Top 897 Songs, 2003-2018
2018	166	Someone like You	WTMD Listeners' Top 897 Songs, 2003-2018
2018	285	Rumor Has It	WTMD Listeners' Top 897 Songs, 2003-2018
2016	3	Send My Love (To Your New Lover)	WRNR Top 103.1 Songs of 2016
2016	6	Send My Love (To Your New Lover)	WTTS Top 50 Songs of 2016
2016	17	Send My Love (To Your New Lover)	Lightning 100 Top 100.1 Songs of 2016
2016	28	When We Were Young	WTTS Top 50 Songs of 2016
2016	37	Send My Love (To Your New Lover)	WXPK Top 107 Songs of 2016
2016	41	Water Under The Bridge	WTTS Top 50 Songs of 2016
2016	170	Rumor Has It	WYEP 913 Countdown 2016
2016	253	Hello	WYEP 913 Countdown 2016
2016	266	When We Were Young	WYEP 913 Countdown 2016
2016	652	Someone like You	WYEP 913 Countdown 2016
2015	34	Hello	91X Top 91 Songs of 2015
2015	3	Hello	The Current Top 89 Songs of 2015
2015	5	Hello	WTMD Top 89 Songs of 2015
2015	10	Hello	WRNR Top 103.1 Songs of 2015
2015	21	Send My Love (To Your New Lover)	WRNR Top 103.1 Songs of 2015
2015	28	Hello	WFUV Top 90 Songs of 2015
2015	31	Hello	WTTS Top 50 Songs of 2015
2015	33	Sweetest Devotion	WRNR Top 103.1 Songs of 2015
2015	34	Hello	WXPK Top 107 Songs of 2015
2015	47	Hello	Studio Brussel De Eindafrekening 2015
2015	94	Someone like You	Studio Brussel De Tijdloze 100 (2015)
2014	778	Rolling in the Deep	CD101 Top 2014 Songs of All-Time (2014)
2014	46	Rolling in the Deep	WXPN 885 All-Time Greatest Songs (2014)
2014	51	Someone like You	Studio Brussel De Tijdloze 100 (2014)
2014	272	Someone like You	WXPN 885 All-Time Greatest Songs (2014)
2014	415	Chasing Pavements	WXPN 885 All-Time Greatest Songs (2014)
2014	551	Set Fire To The Rain	WXPN 885 All-Time Greatest Songs (2014)
2014	613	Make You Feel My Love	WXPN 885 All-Time Greatest Songs (2014)
2013	756	Rolling in the Deep	CD101 Top 2013 Songs of All-Time (December 2013)
2013	1	Rolling in the Deep	WXPN 885 Greatest Songs of the New Millennium (2013)
2013	17	Someone like You	WXPN 885 Greatest Songs of the New Millennium (2013)
2013	19	Chasing Pavements	WXPN 885 Greatest Songs of the New Millennium (2013)
2013	28	Hometown Glory	BBC 6 Music 100 Best Tracks Of The Last 10 Years
2013	56	Set Fire To The Rain	WXPN 885 Greatest Songs of the New Millennium (2013)
2013	128	Rumor Has It	WXPN 885 Greatest Songs of the New Millennium (2013)
2013	231	Skyfall	WXPN 885 Greatest Songs of the New Millennium (2013)
2013	335	Make You Feel My Love	WXPN 885 Greatest Songs of the New Millennium (2013)
2013	402	Lovesong	WXPN 885 Greatest Songs of the New Millennium (2013)
2013	459	Turning Tables	WXPN 885 Greatest Songs of the New Millennium (2013)
2013	485	Right As Rain	WXPN 885 Greatest Songs of the New Millennium (2013)
2013	559	One And Only	WXPN 885 Greatest Songs of the New Millennium (2013)
2012	1	Skyfall	KFOG Foghead Favorites 2012
2012	7	I'll Be Waiting	WTTS Top 50 Songs of 2012
2012	19	Set Fire To The Rain	WTTS Top 50 Songs of 2012
2012	21	Set Fire To The Rain	WXPK Top 107 Songs of 2012
2012	36	Skyfall	The Current Top 89 Songs of 2012
2012	45	Skyfall	WXPK Top 107 Songs of 2012
2012	49	Set Fire To The Rain	Lightning 100 Top 100.1 Songs of 2012
2012	63	I'll Be Waiting	Lightning 100 Top 100.1 Songs of 2012
2012	86	Skyfall	WXPN Year in Review: Top 200 Songs of 2012
2012	138	Rolling in the Deep	WYEP Top 500 Songs Countdown
2012	166	Someone like You	WYEP Top 500 Songs Countdown
2012	332	Rumor Has It	WYEP Top 500 Songs Countdown
2011	17	Rolling in the Deep	KROQ Top 30 Songs of 2011
2011	2	Rolling in the Deep	91X Top 91 Songs of 2011
2011	36	Rumor Has It	91X Top 91 Songs of 2011
2011	5	Rolling in the Deep	WFNX Top 101 Songs of 2011
2011	28	Rolling in the Deep	WFNX Top 101 Songs of 2011
2011	6	Rolling in the Deep	CD101 Top 102 Songs of 2011
2011	71	Rolling in the Deep	102.1 The Edge Top 102 Songs of 2011
2011	1	Rolling in the Deep	WXPK Top 107 Songs of 2011
2011	1	Rolling in the Deep	WEXT Top 97 of 2011
2011	1	Rolling in the Deep	KFOG Foghead Favorites of 2011
2011	1	Rolling in the Deep	WFUV Top 90 Songs of 2011
2011	1	Rolling in the Deep	106.1 The Corner Top 107 of 2011
2011	1	Rolling in the Deep	WXRT Listener Poll: Top 25 Songs of 2011
2011	1	Rolling in the Deep	WTMD Top 89 Songs of 2011
2011	2	Rolling in the Deep	103.1 The River Top 103 of 2011
2011	2	Rolling in the Deep	Lightning 100 Best of 2011
2011	2	Someone like You	WXPN Year in Review: Top 100 Songs of 2011
2011	2	Rolling in the Deep	WRNR Top 103.1 Songs of 2011
2011	3	Rolling in the Deep	WERG Top 90 of 2011
2011	3	Rumor Has It	Lightning 100 Best of 2011
2011	3	Rolling in the Deep	WXPN Year in Review: Top 100 Songs of 2011
2011	3	Rolling in the Deep	Radio 104.5 Top 50.5 Songs of 2011
2011	4	Rumor Has It	KFOG Foghead Favorites of 2011
2011	4	Rolling in the Deep	WEQX Top 102.7 of 2011
2011	4	Rumor Has It	WTMD Top 89 Songs of 2011
2011	4	Someone like You	WRSI Top 93 Songs of 2011
2011	5	Rumor Has It	WXPK Top 107 Songs of 2011
2011	6	Rolling in the Deep	WTTS Top 50 Songs of 2011
2011	9	Rumor Has It	WTTS Top 50 Songs of 2011
2011	9	Rumor Has It	106.1 The Corner Top 107 of 2011
2011	10	Someone like You	103.1 The River Top 103 of 2011
2011	10	Rumor Has It	WEXT Top 97 of 2011
2011	10	Rumor Has It	WRNR Top 103.1 Songs of 2011
2011	11	Rolling in the Deep	KSLG Top 94 Slugtracks of 2011
2011	11	Someone like You	WFUV Top 90 Songs of 2011
2011	11	Someone like You	WXRT Listener Poll: Top 25 Songs of 2011
2011	11	Someone like You	WTMD Top 89 Songs of 2011
2011	11	Someone like You	Radio 104.5 Top 50.5 Songs of 2011
2011	12	Someone like You	KFOG Foghead Favorites of 2011
2011	15	Someone like You	WTTS Top 50 Songs of 2011
2011	15	Rolling in the Deep	X96 Top 50 Songs of 2011
2011	16	Someone like You	WXPK Top 107 Songs of 2011
2011	17	Rumor Has It	WXPN Year in Review: Top 100 Songs of 2011
2011	18	Rumor Has It	WXRT Listener Poll: Top 25 Songs of 2011
2011	22	Someone like You	Lightning 100 Best of 2011
2011	22	Set Fire To The Rain	Radio 104.5 Top 50.5 Songs of 2011
2011	24	I'll Be Waiting	WRNR Top 103.1 Songs of 2011
2011	25	Someone like You	106.1 The Corner Top 107 of 2011
2011	25	Rumor Has It	WRSI Top 93 Songs of 2011
2011	26	Rolling in the Deep	88.3 The Sting WBWC Top 88 Songs of 2011
2011	32	Rolling in the Deep	Studio Brussel De Eindafrekening 2011
2011	34	Rumor Has It	KSLG Top 94 Slugtracks of 2011
2011	37	Set Fire To The Rain	WXPN Year in Review: Top 100 Songs of 2011
2011	38	Set Fire To The Rain	WTMD Top 89 Songs of 2011
2011	41	Someone like You	WERG Top 90 of 2011
2011	42	Set Fire To The Rain	WTTS Top 50 Songs of 2011
2011	46	Someone like You	WEXT Top 97 of 2011
2011	51	Rumor Has It	WFUV Top 90 Songs of 2011
2011	53	Rumor Has It	WEQX Top 102.7 of 2011
2011	56	Rolling in the Deep	KJEE Top 92 Songs of 2011
2011	57	Set Fire To The Rain	WRNR Top 103.1 Songs of 2011
2011	61	Rumor Has It	WERG Top 90 of 2011
2011	78	I'll Be Waiting	WTMD Top 89 Songs of 2011
2011	84	Rolling in the Deep	99Rock WFRD Top 99 of 2011
2011	90	Turning Tables	WXPN Year in Review: Top 100 Songs of 2011
2011	1019	Rolling in the Deep	CD101 Top 2012 Songs of All-Time (December 2011)
2010	12	Rolling in the Deep	WTMD Top 89 Songs of 2010
2010	27	Rolling in the Deep	103.1 The River Top 103 of 2010
2010	28	Right As Rain	WRSI Top 94 Songs of 2010
2010	65	Rolling in the Deep	WFIV Top 105 of 2010
2010	67	Rolling in the Deep	WFPK Top 100 Songs of 2010
2009	12	Chasing Pavements	106.1 The Corner Top 106 Songs of 2009
2009	23	Right As Rain	WTTS Top 50 Songs of 2009
2009	31	Right As Rain	106.1 The Corner Top 106 Songs of 2009
2009	43	Right As Rain	88.3 The Sting WBWC Top 88 Songs of 2009
2009	73	Right As Rain	WRSI Top 93 Songs of 2009
2009	567	Chasing Pavements	WYEP 913 Essential Songs
2009	112	Chasing Pavements	WYEP 913 Songs That Matter from the Last Decade
2008	3	Right As Rain	88Nine Radio Milwaukee Top 100 Songs of 2008
2008	12	Chasing Pavements	WXPN Year in Review: Top 100 Songs of 2008
2008	64	Chasing Pavements	103.1 The River Top 103 of 2008
2008	94	Right As Rain	103.1 The River Top 103 of 2008

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