If you were asked the question, who is the most popular and powerful woman in pop music right now? Guess what, Adele has taken the crown from Taylor Swift and shook it off of her.
Taylor Swift has been on top of the hit charts and never stopped to even take a breath since the start of the year until Adele came along with her hit single "Hello" hit the air waves. And her latest album "25" hit the ceiling hard!
In just four days, Adele broke the record held by NSync in 2000 with 2.433 million albums.
Just to give you a comparison, Taylor Swift's "1989" album through out the year only sold 1.287 million copies in the first seven days of its release. Adele's "25" album? It was able to sell 3.38 million copies in just one week. That's more than a 2 million difference right there.
Ralphie Aversa, a New York Radio host, comments that nothing can beat Adele as she is on her own level in the music industry.
Certainly from an album sales perspective, Adele is in a league of her own. But it's tough to compare the artists: Swift is younger and took a different career path to pop stardom; Adele was sidelined with vocal cord issues and took time away from the spotlight to have a child
Let's talk about music videos. Taylor Swift's "Bad Blood" video that featured a gorgeous squad which included Selena Gomez, Lily Aldridge, and Karlie Kloss garnered 20 million viewers. But Adele's "Hello" video was able to crush that number with a whopping 27.7 million.
There is no actual competition between the two female artists because Swift is a young adult and an All-American girl while Adele is a grown woman that knows what other women are going through.
As Lisa Durden explains, Swift may have the whole package but Adele's voice is on Aretha Franklin and the late Whitney Houston's level.
Concert tickets are already sold out as sources indicated online, and if you don't have Adele's "Hello" on your phone right now, you might just want to.
