Adele, the singer behind the best-selling album of the decade so far, has confirmed that her new album will be out just in time for the holiday season.
The “Rolling in the Deep” singer posted a simple image on Instagram, possible showing the album cover. “25 out November 20th,” she wrote in the caption. She also tweeted, “I’m so bloody excited!!”
There have been rumblings in recent weeks and months that Adele was finally prepared to drop the follow-up to 2011’s 21, which hit 11 million copies sold in October 2014.
Earlier this week, Adele confirmed the rumors on Twitter with a long letter to fans, calling the new album a “make-up record,” since 21 came about after a break-up.
21 featured several hit singles, including “Rolling in the Deep,” “Rumour Has It” and “Someone Like You.” Therefore, there will be incredible pressure on 25 to do as well, but it could be impossible to live up to that kind of hype. 21 became a cultural phenomenon that appealed to multiple generations of listeners. The music industry is going to need something like that again to prop it up, because not even Taylor Swift’s albums have matched what 21 did.
Adele also won an Oscar for co-writing the title song to the James Bond movie Skyfall.