Adele 'Hello', new album set to be featured during hour-long BBC special in November

By Staff Reporter | Oct 28, 2015 | 06:11 AM EDT

With one of the most distinct voices to come from the U.K. in the last 10 years, Adele has made a huge comeback into the music industry with a new track to be followed by a full length album in November.

The single, titled "Hello" and debuted on Oct. 23, made history when its music video, which was uploaded to YouTube, was played one million times per hour in the first 48 hours that it was online, the Wall Street Journal reports. In fact, YouTube head of Culture and Trends Kevin Allocca said, "It's not data we track often. It happens occasionally when you have something really big where you have a lot of people talking about it. [There's] a lot of interest in a very concentrated amount of time."

The video for Hello also broke Vevo's record for most single-day views, a title previously held by Taylor Swift's "Bad Blood." If this is any indication, the world is indeed anticipating Adele's new record, which drops next month, along with an hour-long BBC special in which she will perform new tracks from the album, Entertainment Weekly reports.

Titled "Adele at the BBC," the special marks her first appearance since she performed the James Bond theme "Skyfall" during the 2013 Academy Awards. Adele will also be doing an interview with talk show host Graham Norton.

"This is the music event of the year and I'm thrilled to be part of bringing it to BBC One," Norton said in a statement. "This opportunity to spend an hour with Adele, her music and her stories is a truly rare treat. If I wasn't hosting this special I'd be sat at home watching it!"

Adele said, "The BBC has been wonderful to me over the years and Graham and I get on great so it's going to be a laugh."

The 27-year-old singer also recently opened up to i-D about the inspiration behind the latest record. Vanity Fair reports that according to Adele, the record is about her youth, saying, "Those were the most real and best moments of my life and I wish I'd known that I wasn't going to be able to sit in the park and drink a bottle of cider again. I think the album is about trying to clear out the past."

During Adele's time away from the spotlight, she also gave birth to her first child, a son, with her partner, entrepreneur Simon Konecki. She said that becoming a parent is "f---ing hard. I thought it would be easy. 'Everyone fucking does it, how hard can it be?' I had no idea. It is hard but it's phenomenal. It's the greatest thing I ever did."

Adele's album, 25, is set to be released on Nov. 20.

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