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''19'' is the debut studio album by English singer Adele. It was first released on 28 January 2008, through XL Recordings. Following Adele's graduation from the BRIT School for Performing Arts & Technology in May 2006, she began publishing songs and recorded a three-song demo for a class project and gave it to a friend. The friend posted the demo on Myspace, where it became very successful and led to interest from XL Recordings. This led to Adele signing a recording contract with the label and providing vocals for Jack Peñate, during this session for Peñate's song she met producer Jim Abbiss, who would go on to produce the majority of her debut album. Adele wrote most of the album's material solely, but did work with a select few writers and producers including Jim Abbiss, Eg White and Sacha Skarbek. Their collaborations created a blue-eyed soul album with lyrics describing heartbreak and relationship.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Interview: Adele—Singer and Songwriter—Blogcritics Music )〕 Upon release, ''19'' received generally positive reviews from critics, who praised the singer's vocals and noting her as having the "potential to become among the most respected and inspiring international artists of her generation."〔 ''19'' was also won and was nominated for numerous accolades including a Mercury Prize, and the Grammy Award for Best New Artist.〔 The second single, "Chasing Pavements" also won the Grammy Award for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance at the 51st Annual Grammy Awards. ''19'' was a commercial success, debuting at number one on the UK charts during its release, and peaking at number four on the US ''Billboard'' 200 in 2012. The album is certified 7× Platinum in the UK, and 3× Platinum in the US.〔("Gold & Platinum – February 19, 2011". ) Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). Retrieved 19 March 2012 〕 Worldwide sales for the album are at an estimated 7 million copies.〔(Adele says she won't change herself for any man (we give her a little high five) ) Daily Mirror. Retrieved 7 March 2012 〕 ==Background and recording== Adele graduated from the BRIT School for Performing Arts & Technology in Croydon in May 2006, where she was a classmate of Leona Lewis and Jessie J.〔〔Collis, Clark (19 December 2008), "Spotlight on... Adele." ''Entertainment Weekly.'' (1026):62〕 Adele credits the school with nurturing her talent〔 even though, at the time, she was more interested in going into A&R and hoped to launch other people's careers.〔 Four months after graduation, she published two songs on the fourth issue of the online arts publication ''PlatformsMagazine.com.'' She had recorded a three-song demo for a class project and given it to a friend.〔 The friend posted the demo on Myspace, where it became very successful and led to a phone call from Richard Russell, boss of the music label XL Recordings. She doubted if the offer was real because the only record company she knew was Virgin Records, and she took a friend with her to the meeting.〔〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Billboard presents: Adele )〕 Nick Huggett, at XL, recommended Adele to manager Jonathan Dickins at September Management, and in June 2006, Dickins became her official representative. September was managing Jamie T at the time and this proved a major draw for Adele, a big fan of the British singer-songwriter. Huggett then signed Adele to XL in September 2006.〔 Adele provided vocals for Jack Peñate's song, "My Yvonne," for his debut album, and it was during this session she first met producer Jim Abbiss, who would go on to produce both the majority of her debut album, ''19,'' and tracks on ''21.'' Adele recorded a cover of Bob Dylan's "Make You Feel My Love" on the recommendation of her manager Jonathan Dickins, who loved the song. The first single released from ''19'' was "Chasing Pavements", which Adele wrote in collaboration with Eg White. "Chasing Pavements" was inspired by an incident Adele had with a former boyfriend of six months.〔Frehsée, Nicole (22 January 2009), "Meet Adele, the U.K.'s Newest Soul Star". ''Rolling Stone''. (1070):26〕 After learning he had cheated on her, she went to the bar he was at and punched him in the face.〔 After being thrown out, Adele walked down the street alone and thought to herself, "What is it you're chasing? You're chasing an empty pavement." She sang and recorded it on her mobile phone and arranged the chords when she got home.〔 Adele and White co-wrote two other songs for the album: "Melt My Heart to Stone" and "Tired".〔 She also collaborated with Sacha Skarbek on the single "Cold Shoulder".〔 However, most of the songs were written solely by Adele, including "Best for Last", "Crazy for You", "First Love", and "My Same", as well as her debut single, "Hometown Glory".〔 "Hometown Glory", was written by Adele in 10 minutes after her mother tried to persuade her to leave her home town of West Norwood in London for university.〔(TWO-TIME GRAMMY® AWARD WINNER ADELE TO PERFORM ON CBS ) ''CBS Radio'' Retrieved 23 February 2011 〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「19 (Adele album)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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