Live at the Royal Albert Hall (Adele album)

Live at the Royal Albert Hall
Live album by
Released29 November 2011
Recorded22 September 2011
VenueRoyal Albert Hall
(London, England)
Genre
Length1:08:50
Label
Adele chronology
21
(2011)
Live at the Royal Albert Hall
(2011)
25
(2015)

Live at the Royal Albert Hall is a live album and video album by the English singer-songwriter Adele,[1] which became available on 29 November 2011 in Australia,[2] 27 November 2011 in the United Kingdom[3] and 29 November 2011 in the United States.[3] The concert was recorded as part of Adele's Adele Live tour at the Royal Albert Hall in London,[4] including songs from her global best-sellers 19 and 21.

On 26 October 2011, it was announced Adele would be releasing her Royal Albert Hall concert from her Adele Live tour on both DVD and Blu-ray along with an accompanying CD.[5] The release included 90 minutes of concert footage in addition to behind-the-scenes video segments.[4] The track list consists of songs taken from Adele's 19 and 21 as well as covers of Bonnie Raitt's "I Can't Make You Love Me" and The SteelDrivers' "If It Hadn't Been for Love".[5] As part of the launch, the DVD was screened at cinemas in 26 cities around the world.[5]

Live at the Royal Albert Hall holds the record for the most weeks spent at number one in the United States for a music DVD by a female artist,[6] and has sold more than three million copies worldwide. The live version of "Set Fire to the Rain" taken from the special won the Grammy Award for Best Pop Solo Performance at the 55th ceremony in 2013.

  1. ^ "Adele > Live at The Royal Albert Hall". XL Recordings. Archived from the original on 24 October 2013. Retrieved 11 November 2011.
  2. ^ Adele on DVD auspOp, 27 October 2011
  3. ^ a b "Adele to release 'Live at the Royal Albert Hall'". ToyazWorld.com.
  4. ^ a b "Adele Announces 'Live at the Royal Albert Hall CD/DVD'". Billboard.com.
  5. ^ a b c "Adele: Live At the Royal Albert Hall — Blu-Ray/DVD and CD, 26 Oct 2011". Adele.tv.
  6. ^ Cite error: The named reference yahoomusicwatch was invoked but never defined (see the help page).

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