

Named after the age of the singer during its release and production, 19 is a blue-eyed soul album with folk rock, indie pop, and jazz influences and lyrics describing heartbreak, nostalgia and relationships. The album also contains her first song, " Hometown Glory", written when she was 16, which is based on her home suburb of West Norwood in London. During this session for Peñate's song she met producer Jim Abbiss, who would go on to produce the majority of her debut album.įour singles were released from the album, with " Chasing Pavements" and " Make You Feel My Love" reaching the top ten on the UK Singles Chart, while the former became Adele's first entry on the Billboard Hot 100. This led to Adele signing a recording contract at age 17 with the label and providing vocals for Jack Peñate. Following Adele's graduation from the BRIT School in April 2006, she began publishing songs and recorded a three-song demo for a class project and gave it to a friend, who posted the demo on Myspace, where it became very successful and led to interest from the record label.


19 is the debut studio album by English singer-songwriter Adele, released on 28 January 2008 by XL Recordings.
