Song · Adele
“Turning Tables” by Adele
From the album 21 (2011)
“Turning Tables” by Adele appears on 2 radio countdowns from 1 station between 2011 and 2013. It was first released in 2011 on the album 21. Its best result is #90 on the WXPN Year in Review: Top 100 Songs of 2011. In the combined RockLists rankings it is the #393 indie & aaa song of 2011.
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Adele wrote "Turning Tables" with Ryan Tedder for 21, her second album, in 2011, and it started with a real-life row: the song grew out of an argument with a former lover. Jim Abbiss produced it as a soulful pop ballad of piano, guitar and sweeping strings, and the words find her narrator digging in and refusing to be pushed around by a manipulative ex in the middle of a domestic fight.
In November 2011, XL took it to British radio as the fifth single off 21. Critics praised the writing, the production and that voice, it went top 20 in four countries, Belgium, Italy and the Netherlands among them, and it went gold in the US on more than 500,000 downloads. She sang it on Late Night with David Letterman and The Jonathan Ross Show and kept it in the set on her Adele Live tour.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
RockLists rankings
Indie & Adult Alternative
All Rock Formats
Year-end countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 90 | WXPN Philadelphia, PA | WXPN Year in Review: Top 100 Songs of 2011 | 100 |
All-time and decade countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 | 459 | WXPN | WXPN 885 Greatest Songs of the New Millennium (2013) | 885 |
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