don't know...i think it's too early to tell..she's talented but not so fantastic!

Posted by elisabetta on Sunday, 01/20/2013 @ 13:29pm

People are so jaded by bad pop swill that now they're saying ADELE is talented? Seriously? She doesn't do anything that hasn't already been done. Not to mention the lyrics of the songs on 21 sound like they came off a teenage girl's LiveJournal. No, Adele should not get in

Posted by Marth on Monday, 01/21/2013 @ 18:43pm

Marth, you have no taste, the songs on both her albums are extremely well written and mature, some could have came strait from the 70s, I would even put their quality above much of the sappy crap from that era. But I did not come here to reply to your poor taste, but rather to highlight the most sucessful artist, and fastest grown legend status of the new decade so far.

reasons why she is a lock:


Even if 21 is her peak (which it probrably will be), it is the biggest-selling album of the 21st century, and a classic that defines a generation.


In 2011 and 2012, Billboard named Adele Artist of the Year, she is the only act to be artist of the year twice in a row

She has been nominated for 285 awards and won 100 including 8 grammies(soon 9), 12 billboard awards, 3 brit awards (and soon to be more), a golden globe, 5 MTV awards, and soon an Oscar as well

Adele became the first artist in history to lead the Billboard 200 concurrently with three Billboard Hot 100 number-ones.

Adele is the only artist or band in the last decade in the US to earn an RIAA Diamond certification for a one disc album in less than two years. Ironically, "21" was the 21st album to gain this status

The Associated Press named Adele Entertainer of the Year for 2012

She is the first artist to sell more than 3 million copies of an album in a year in the UK. (not the beatles, not madonna, not michael jackson, none of them achieved this)

21 is the longest running number one album by any female artist ever

she became the first living artist to achieve the feat of having two top-five hits in both the UK Official Singles Chart and the Official Albums Chart simultaneously since the Beatles in 1964

it is the fourth best selling album in the U.S. of the last 10 years.

it is the forth best-selling album of all time in the UK.

it the longest-running number one album in Australia in the 21st century, and the second longest-running number one ever.

both of her two albums were nominated for mercury prizes

number one on the Australian ARIA Chart, making it the longest-running number one album in Australia in the 21st century

Adele became the first artist ever to have an album, 21, hold the number-one position on the Billboard 200 concurrently with three number one singles.


"Rolling in the Deep" won the award for Most Performed Work of 2011

21 was certified 16 times platinum in the UK, held the top U.S. position longer than any other album since 1985, and certified diamond.

Time named Adele one of the most influential people in the world

At the 2012 Ivor Novello Awards in May, Adele was named Songwriter of the Year

Live at the Royal Albert Hall the highest one-week tally for a music DVD in four years, becoming the best-selling music DVD of 2011

first female in the history of the Billboard Hot 100 to have three singles in the top 10 at the same time as a lead artist, and the first female artist to have two albums in the top five of the Billboard 200 and two singles in the top five of the Billboard Hot 100

21 hit number 1 in more than 26 countries

Adele is the first artist in Nielsen SoundScan history to have the year's number-one album (21), number-one single ("Rolling in the Deep"), and number-one music video

She won in all six grammy categories for which she was nominated, making her the second female artist after Beyoncé Knowles in Grammy history to win that many categories in a single night Following that success, 21 achieved the biggest weekly sales increase following a Grammy win since Nielsen SoundScan began tracking data

she is the front (so far) along with Amy Winehouse and numerous boybands of third British Musical Invasion of the US

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 Garland, Carole King, and Whitney Houston).

Members of the hall, such as Guns N Roses, Madonna, and Nirvana (lets just consider them in) already have support for her

the music industry as a whole ended 2011 on a positive note after a half-decade of decline, For the first time since 2004, total album sales were up from the previous year, thanks to adele. It can actually be proven with statistics that she saved music

How do you sve the music buisness and NOT be a lock?

Posted by mikhail on Tuesday, 01/29/2013 @ 20:37pm

"she is the front (so far) along with Amy Winehouse and numerous boybands of third British Musical Invasion of the US"

blimey, this British Invasion sure sucks compared toe the first one.

Posted by GFW on Wednesday, 01/30/2013 @ 11:48am

These days, music has taken a nose dive with too many artists relying on technology and using auto-tuning but, Adele relies on the power of her voice. In my mind, the only other female singer who has that powerful of a voice is Janis Joplin. Songs like "Rolling In The Deep" show how someone can use thier voice to great effect without using any sort of technology.

If Adele ever gets in the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame, she's got my vote!

Posted by Andrew on Wednesday, 02/6/2013 @ 13:35pm

Adele is going to put out a new album this year. Hopefully it will give her a boost. But we don't know when

Posted by Karl Singleton on Monday, 03/17/2014 @ 23:06pm

8 million albums sold so far for the classic R&B sounding yet alternitive like "25" penned by adele herself and the best writers in the industry, and it hasn't even been a month. Music critics all over the world are praising her for being the woman that saved the music business and broke numerous records, I look forward to her domination of 2016 the same way "21" dominated 2011. By 2017 she will oficcially be the biggest trend setting musical phenomenon of the 2010s, maybe even 21st century so far. Her and Pharell are the only locks that come to mind for the 2010s. If the rock hall is still running by the time Adele is eligible, she is a solid lock. WELL DONE ADELE.

Posted by amy on Friday, 12/11/2015 @ 16:41pm

add "set fire to the rain", "rumor has it", "make you feel my love", "hometown glory"(iffy), "hello", "when we were young", and whatever other songs become huge influential hits ("a million years ago", "i miss you", "all i ask") to essential songs please

and "25" to essencial albums

Also, Adele should induct kate bush in 2021!

Posted by eh on Sunday, 01/10/2016 @ 22:02pm

A brilliant, heartfelt artist- honestly there is no telling what Adele will do in the decades upcoming but even if her remaining output doesn't stand up like here trio of 19, 21 and 25 or even of she retire from recording music before the decade is over like Billy Joel or take a Sade-type of hiatus (which i wouldn't put either past her) she's define;t going to get in within the first two years of eligibility (2033-36) because her songs literally defined a generation and the magnificence and timelessness of 21 will be on the minds of the world forever. Long live Adele.

Posted by ABJ on Wednesday, 06/17/2020 @ 16:47pm

I was always hesitant to accept Adele as the prodigal talent she is until I matured a bit more and could recognize the brilliance she brings to the music industry

Posted by jacob on Saturday, 10/10/2020 @ 02:14am

first-year inductee at this point

Posted by hai on Tuesday, 11/16/2021 @ 15:21pm

I'm a 25 year old singer/songwriter, I've grown up to this woman's music for 10 years now. Her latest work, 30 in my opinion is one of the most important and soon to be influential records ever made. Many critics have stated she saved popular music in more ways than one. Adele's 30 has became the highest selling record of the year in 3 days. She deserves every bit of attention she's about to get for this record, and our culture desperately needs to recognize the significance of using real instruments and putting real art/emotion into music so people physically buy it again like they used to, out of respect for the art rather than just the convenience of having it on a Spotify account. She's the definition of a lock to what this institution stands for to such a degree that inducting her before she's even eligible should be in question. I wish I could go back to the first time I heard "to be loved" "my little love" and "love is a game", what a life altering moment that was. It reminded me of Kate bush, Elton John, Donny Hathaway, Nina Simone, Jeff buckley, nick drake, al green, among many other artists I hold dear. Her influence is the future of music and I hope her prime continues long into the next 2 decades. This relatable woman is my biggest inspiration as a singer and one of the most important acts in music ever. She gives people like me hope that music like this can ever be allowed to exist in a modern music industry run by some of the most evil people in the world destroying and demeaning our culture. That she can break through all the barriers of a billboard top 200 void of double the depth each year, to be heard and chosen by so many people makes her a Complete undeniable legend that crosses multiple generations. 1960s-now shed of been just as big. Timeless.

Posted by Mikhail on Tuesday, 11/23/2021 @ 20:01pm

For the idiot who speak aganist Adele, just shut up, she deserve the induction in the future, your welcome

Posted by Monica Yaneth on Friday, 04/21/2023 @ 15:38pm