Awards and achievements

At the 51st Annual Grammy Awards in 2009, 

Adele won awards in the categories

of Best New Artist and Best Female Pop Vocal 

Performance. She was also 

nominated in the categories of Record of the 

Year and Song of the Year.That same 

year, Adele was also nominated for three Brit 

Awards in the categories of Best 

British Female, Best British Single and Best 

British Breakthrough Act.Then British 

Prime Minister Gordon Brownsent a thank-you 

letter to Adele that stated "with the 

troubles that the country's in financially, you're a 

light at the end of the 

tunnel."With 21 non-consecutive weeks at number 

1 in the US, Adele broke the 

record for the longest number-1 album by a 

woman in Billboard history, beating 

the record formerly held by Whitney 

Houston's soundtrack The 

Bodyguard. 21 spent its 23rd week at number one in 

March 2012, making it the 

longest-running album at number one since 

1985,and it became the fourth best-

selling album of the past 10 years in the United 

States.

In February 

2012, Adele was 

listed at number 

five on VH1′s 

100 Greatest Women 

Music. In April 2012, 

American magazine 

Time named Adele 

one of the 100 most 

influential people in 

the world.People 

named her one of 2012 

Most Beautiful at Every Age.On 30 April 

2012, a tribute to Adele was held at New 

York City's(Le) Poisson 

Rouge called Broadway 

Sings Adele, starring various Broadway 

actors such as Matt Doyle. In July 2012, 

Adele was listed at number six in Forbes list of 

the world's highest-

paid celebrities 

under the 

age of 30, having 

earned £23 million 

($35 million) 

between May 2011 

and May 2012.

On the week 

ending 3 Marco 

2012, Adele

became the first 

solo female artist 

to have 

three singles in the 

top 10 of 

the Billboard Hot 

100 at the same 

time, and the first female artist 

to have two albums in the top 5 of 

the Billboard200 and two singles in the top 5 

of  the Billboard Hot 100 simultaneously.

Adele topped the 2012 Sunday Times Rich 

List of musicians in the UK 

under 30 and made the Top 10 of Billboard 

magazine's "Top 40 Money Makers".

Billboard also announced the same day that 

Adele's "Rolling in the Deep" is the 

biggest crossoverhit of the past 25 years, 

topping pop, adult pop and adult contemporary 

charts and that Adele is one of four female 

artists to have an album chart at number one 

for more than 13 weeks (the other three artists 

being Judy 

Galand, Carole King, and Whitney Houston).

On 6 March, 21 reached 30 non-consecutive weeks 

at number one on the 

Australian ARIA Chart, making it the longest-running 

number one album in Australia 

in the 21st century, and the second longest-running 

number one ever.

At the 2012 Ivor Novello Awards in May, Adele was

 named Songwriter of the Year, 

and "Rolling in the Deep" won the award for Most

 Performed Work of 2011. At the 

2012 BMI Awards held in London in October, Adele

won Song of the Year (for "Rolling in the Deep") in 

recognition of the song being the

most played on US television and radio in 2011.

In 2013, Adele won the Academy Award for Best 

Original Song for the James 

Bond theme "Skyfall". This is the first James Bond 

song to win and only the fifth to 

be nominated (after "For Your Eyes Only" (1981), 

"Nobody Does It Better" (1977) 

(from The Spy Who Loved Me), "Live and Let Die" 

(1973), and "The Look of Love" 

(1967) (from the original Casino Royale)). "Skyfall" 

won the Brit Award for Best 

British Single at the 2013 Brit Awards.

In June 2013, Adele was appointed a Member of the 

Most Excellent Order of the 

British Empire (MBE) in the Queen's Birthday 

Honours list for services to music, and 

she received the award from Prince 

Charles at Buckingham Palace on 19 December 

2013. In February 2013, she was assessed as one of 

the 100 most powerful women in 

the United Kingdom by Woman's Hour on BBC 

Radio 4.