10 Music Artists Who Released Their Best Album Second
4. 21 - Adele
Each year has merely a few defining moments.
2011 was the year the Iraq War finally ended, The Hunger Games took the film world by storm and CM Punk walked out of WWE (only to return two weeks later).
In the realm of music, it was Adele with her sophomore offering, 21, that ruled 2011. Epic, dense tracks like 'Someone Like You' and 'Set Fire To The Rain' rendered her previous album, 19, utterly redundant in comparison.
21 is proof that the learning curve of the first album can be improved upon returning to the studio the second time around, as its offerings were far more refined. Using her belting vocals to deliver a smorgasbord of ballads, Adele set herself apart from the landscape of other artist who mostly found success with hyperactive dance hits.
Album of the Year at the Grammy's was merely a formality, and after topping the UK Album Charts for an astonishing eleven weeks, it catapulted the London-born artist into the record books.
The album's success perhaps eclipses the success of even Adele herself. It's a defining album to an entire generation of people, and one that will never be void of praise.