Hello is a song by English singer Adele, released on October 23, 2015 by XL Recordings as a single from her third studio album, 25 (2015). Adele co-wrote the song with its producer, Greg Kurstin. "Hello is a piano-driven ballad with soul influences and lyrics that touch on themes of nostalgia and regret. Upon its release, the song received acclaim from music critics, who compared it favorably to Adele's . previous work and praised the song's lyrics and Adele's vocals while many critics and publications listed it as one of the best songs of the year. It was recorded in London. reached number one in almost every country it charted in, including the United Kingdom where it became her second UK number one single, after "Someone like You", and achieved the biggest sales. of the opening week in three years. top of the Billboard Hot 100, reigning for 10 consecutive weeks while becoming Adele's fourth number one on the chart and breaking several records, including becoming the first song to sell over a million digital copies in one week, by the end of 2015, it had sold 12.3 million units worldwide (combined sales and track-equivalent streams) and was the best of the year. 7th best-selling single.[3] while it is one of the best-selling singles of all time. The accompanying music video was directed by Xavier Dolan and his co-stars Adele and Tristan Wilds. the Vevo record by achieving over 27.7 million views in 24 hours, previously held by Taylor Swift's "Bad Blood" which racked up 20.1 million views during that period. The record was later broken by Swift in 2017 for the video for her song Look What You Made Me Do, which received over 43.2 million views during that time. "Hello also broke the record for the shortest time to reach one billion views on YouTube (88 days). The music video received seven nominations at the 2016 MTV Video Music Awards, including Video of the Year and Best Female Video. Adele promoted the song with a live performance on a one-hour BBC special, called Adele at the BBC. At the 59th Annual Grammy Awards, "Hello" won three Grammy Awards: Record. of the year, song of the year and best pop solo performance." HelloMENU0:00A 21-second sample of the "chorus of Hello, where Adele sings the lines over layers of backing vocals, piano and drums "to a wall of very succulent sounds, drums, piano and keyboards, while Adele also played drums.[6] “Hello was written in Chiswick, London, which is not normally the case for Adele. , who said she enjoyed writing her music at home.[7] The songwriting process was slow, taking six months. Initially, Adele and Kurstin began writing the first verse; After completing half of the song, six months later, Adele contacted Kurstin about finishing the song with her, with Kurstin stating that he was unsure "if Adele would ever come back and finish it". Hello is a soulful piano ballad. 2][9] played in the key of F minor at a tempo of 79 beats per minute. The repeated chord progression heard in the verse, played by the piano, follows a progression of Fm–A♭–E♭–D♭. According to Musicnotes.com, Adele's vocals range from F3 to A♭5 in the song. During the chorus, Adele is heard singing the lines over layers of backing vocals, piano and drums which were described by the Daily Telegraph asleaning. "to a very luscious wall of sound.[5] Lyrically, the song focuses on themes of nostalgia and regret and unfolds like a conversation. The song was known for containing themes of regret and was considered a follow-up to his single "Someone Like You", appearing to reflect on a failed relationship. The song's lyrics were also considered to be conversational, revolving around "all the relationships from his past, ranging from friends, members of the family. family and ex-partners.[11] Speaking about the content of the song's lyrics, Adele told Nick Grimshaw on The Radio 1 Breakfast Show: "I felt like we were all going to move on, and it's not about an ex- relationship, of a romantic relationship, but of my relationship with everyone I love It's not that we fought, we all have our lives and I needed to write this song for them. all hear it, because I am not in contact with them.[12] "Hello on the other side means" the other side of becoming an adult, coming out alive from the end of adolescence, to the beginning of twenties [8] Release and reception [edit] On October 18, 2015, a 30-second clip of "Hello" was played during a commercial break on The X Factor in the United Kingdom. The ad teased what was then new material, with his voice accompanied by lyrics on a black screen. Josh Duboff of Vanity Fair wrote that "The internet collectively lost its mind after the trailer aired." » On October 22, Adele announced the upcoming release of 25 to her fans on Twitter. She also shared that "Hello" would be released. on October 23 as the album's lead single. On 23 October, Adele joined Nick Grimshaw's show on BBC Radio 1 to premiere the song. Alexis Petridis of The Guardian described it as "a great ballad, but a superior example of the genre, and opined that the song is "precisely the kind of epic, love ballad that made Adele one of the greatest stars of the world.[20] Writing for The Independent, Emily Jupp said in her review of the song that "it may not be groundbreaking, but Adele's return with her familiar, smoky sound is welcome. She called it " ballad "If It Ain't Broke" and said: "Adele is doing what she does best, telling emotional stories of love and loss much like with her last album, 21, but this time, with a little more self-forgiveness. » Greg Kot of the Chicago Tribune. wrote: "The lyrics that work best when zooming in on personal details fit his combination of vocal power and restraint.[22] Neil McCormick of The Daily Telegraph called it "a beautiful song of loss and regret, adding that "it takes the kind of memory every listener has somewhere in their heart and merges it with Adele's own drama . "Hello at number 6 on its end-of-year list of the 50 best songs of 2015.[23] Several publications have commented on similarities in the theme of the song and its accompanying video with that of "Hello " by American singer Lionel Richie.[23] 24][25]Chart performance[edit]Europe and Oceania[edit]Three days after its release, the Official Charts Company announced that "Hello had accumulated 165,000 chart sales in the United Kingdom, including 156,000 downloads. [26] Hello entered the top of the UK Singles Chart on October 30, 2015, – for the week of November 5, 2015 – with 333,000 combined sales, including 259,000 downloads. made the chart's best-selling number one single in three years. It was Adele's second number one single in the UK, following 2011's "Someone like You". Additionally, "Hello" received airplay 7, 32 million times in its first week, breaking the streaming recordpreviously held by Justin Bieber's "What Do You Mean?". Including streaming sales and excluding X Factor and Pop Idol winning singles, major charity campaign records and Christmas number ones, "Hello was the second best-selling number one of the 21st century in the United Kingdom, beaten only by Shaggy Me's "It Wasn't", which sold 345,000 copies in one week in February 2001.[27] The following week, the The song remained at number one after selling an additional 121,000 downloads and being streamed 5.78 million times, the same week the song was certified Gold by the BPI. On May 20, 2016, it spent its 30th week in the chart. charting Top 100 in the UK As of November 2016, the song has sold 918,700 copies in pure sales. The song also debuted at number one in Belgium, Czech Republic, France, Germany. Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Lebanon, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Scotland, Slovakia, Spain and Switzerland. In Australia, "Hello entered at number one on the ARIA Singles Chart on 31 October 2015". , sold over 59,075 units, earning the song a gold certification in its first week. The song also became the second best-selling single of the year, behind Wiz Khalifa's "See You Again". It is Adele's second number-one single on the ARIA Singles Chart following 2011's "Someone like You". The single remained at the top of the chart for a second week and was certified platinum selling over 70,000 units. On March 20, 2017, Hello re-entered the chart at number 50 and has so far been certified 7x platinum for sales over 490,000 units. In New Zealand, the song debuted at number one on the New Zealand Singles Chart, holding that position the following week and was certified platinum. North America In the United States, "Hello debuted atop the Billboard Hot 100 on November 2, 2015, for the chart dated November 14, 2015, becoming only the 24th song to debut at number one." debuted at number 49 on the Radio Songs chart, after three days of release. In its first full week on air, it fell from 45 to 9, up 146% to 70 million audience impressions across all formats. The track debuted at number one on the On-Demand Songs chart with a record 20.4 million on-demand streams, becoming his first number one song on the chart. Hello entered the top of the digital song chart with sales of 1,112,000, becoming the first track to sell over a million digital copies in a single week, almost doubling the record for the most downloads sold in one week, previously held by Flo Rida's "Right Round", which sold 636,000 downloads in the week ending February 28, 2009. "Hello began with 61.6 million streams in the United States, becoming thus his first number one song and the second largest weekly total on the Streaming Songs chart, behind Baauer's "Harlem Shake", which recorded 103 million streams on the week of March 3, 2013. selling over a million copies digital sales in a single week and the third-highest weekly sales total since Nielsen SoundScan began tracking sales in 1991. Only Elton John's "Candle in the Wind 1997/Something About the Way You Look Tonight" is sold more in a single week, selling 3.446 million copies in its opening week and 1.212 million copies in its second week. In its second week, "Hello remained at number one on the US Billboard Hot 100, selling an additional 635,000 digital copies, marking third". best weekof digital sales and the highest for a week without a debut. Hello also ranked at the top of streaming songs with 47.4 million streams in the United States, down 23 percent from 61.6 million in its first week, the track also remained at the top of the charts. songs on demand with 18.1 million. streams. On the Radio Songs chart, "Hello rose from 9 to 6, up 46% to 106 million audience impressions across all formats, becoming the Hot 100's No. 1 Airplay Gainer. The song also rose from two to one on Adult Alternative.” The songs received airplay on the chart and increased from nine to four in the Adult Contemporary format. The following week, the song remained at the top of the Hot 100 and Digital Songs charts, selling 480,000 downloads and becoming only the third song to sell over 400,000 copies. for three consecutive weeks. "Hello also went from 6 to 1 on the Radio Songs chart in just its fourth week (the biggest jump to number one in the chart's 25-year history), marking the fastest rise to number one on the ranking in 22 years since Mariah Carey's "Dreamlover" reached the top in its fourth frame on August 28, 1993. Additionally, "Hello became only the third song to simultaneously top the Hot 100, Digital Songs , streaming songs, on-demand songs and radio songs". in almost three years, the five charts had coexisted. only the 3rd for a number one debut, after "One Sweet Day by Mariah Carey and Boyz II Men (16 weeks) and "Candle in the Wind 1997/Something About the Way You Look Tonight by Elton John (14 weeks). Spending a tenth week at the top of the chart, it became Adele's most successful number one single old and the longest-running Hot 100 No. 1 by a female solo since Rihanna's "We Found Love," with Calvin Harris, who also led for 10 weeks in 2011-2012. As of January 2016, it has sold 3.7 million downloads. The Recording Industry Association of America certified the song quadruple platinum. The single also benefited from numerous Dance/EDM remixes. , resulting in "Hello" topping Billboard's Dance Club Songs and Dance/Mix Show Airplay charts. [41] [42] On the chart dated April 23, 2016, the song spent a 21st week atop the Adult Contemporary chart, tying the record set by Kelly Clarkson's "Breakaway (2005) and "A New Day Has Come (2002) ) by Celine Dion for the longest period. No. 1 among women since the list began in 1961. She also equals the third-longest stay at the top among all acts. Hello entered the top of the Canadian Hot 100 as the 100th song to top the chart, selling 140,000 copies and surpassing the sales of Justin Bieber's "Sorry", which sold 40,000 units and debuted at number two the same week. The song was streamed 4.79 million times, setting a record for the most streamed track in a week. ]When I heard the song, I immediately saw a story. [The video] is absolutely not original. The lyrics are "Hello, it's me" and then you see someone pick up a phone. I'm not good at coming up with super conceptual videos. . I just thought it would be nice to see her walking around the house, making phone calls and ending up in a forest, with maybe a few flashbacks.—Xavier Dolan, behind the concept of the music video[45]Music who accompanies him. The video for the song was directed by Canadian actor and director Xavier Dolan and released on October 22, 2015. The concept of the video revolves around a recently broken woman calling out to a younger version of herself. of the video - mainly the finale onthe pond and the shot of her opening her eyes at the beginning - were filmed with IMAX cameras, making it the first music video in IMAX format. The video is inspired by Dolan's semi-autobiographical. first I Killed My Mother, made when Dolan was just 20 years old.[45] The video was filmed on a farm in Quebec over 4 days in September 2015.[45] The video stars American actor Tristan Wilds. called him out after an unspecified incident of police brutality in the United States, suggesting that a white man not be cast as his love interest in the video. Dolan explained, "She was simply saying, 'I'm concerned about the reality of tensions between authorities and the black community, and I want to send a message there.' » Dolan contacted Wilds via Skype and explained. the concept of the video, which Wilds agreed to participate in. During filming, Adele and Wilds were asked to improvise and "draw on their past relationships in order to convey the correct emotions." Dolan also filmed shots of Adele and Wilds conversing and laughing. The sepia-toned video shows Adele performing the song in a small house and outside in a wooded forest, interspersed with scenes of her making a tearful phone call and flashbacks to a past relationship with Wilds' character. in the video was widely commented on due to its retro style. Dolan responded to the remarks by saying: "It makes me uncomfortable filming iPhones because it feels like I'm shooting a commercial. These things: iPhones, laptops, all these elements, for for me, they bring me back to reality: this is not what you want to get out of your own life; you want to enter someone else's; you want to travel somewhere; -maybe I was more distracting than anything else with that flip phone, but that wasn't intentional![53] The music video for the song broke Vevo's previous record by reaching over 27.7 million views. views over a 24-hour period.[54] Later, the video went on to break Miley Cyrus' "Wrecking Ball Vevo" record for the fastest video to reach 100 million views in 5 days the video recorded. a million views per hour in the first two days, peaking at 1.6 million in a single hour, surpassing the peak view rate of the Star Wars: The Force Awakens trailer, which peaked at 1 .2 million views per hour. [56] The video was parodied in a Thanksgiving-themed sketch on Saturday Night Live. As of January 2018, the video is the fifteenth most viewed video on YouTube, having gained over 2.2 billion views. The video also became the third video on YouTube to reach 10 million likes on May 29, 2016, and has over 12 million likes as of December 2017, ranking it fifth on the list of most liked YouTube videos. The other four videos have more than 10 million likes are "Gangnam Style", See You Again, "Despacito and "Shape of You. BBC, recorded on November 2, 2015 and broadcast on BBC One on November 20, 2015. She also performed the song at the 17th NRJ Music Awards on November 7, 2015, at Radio City Music Hall. in New York on November 17, 2015 as the opening number (Adele Live in New York) and on Saturday Night Live on November 21, 2015. On November 23, 2015, after appearing on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, Adele recorded the song with Fallon and his house band, The Roots, playing classy instruments. The version aired on the show the following night. 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