Who wants to be right as rain
It's better when something is wrong
You get excitement in your bones
And everything you do's a game
When night comes and you're on your own
You can say "I chose to be alone"
Who wants to be right as rain
It's harder when you're on top
Cause when hard work don't pay off and I'm tired
There ain't no room in my bed
As far as I'm concerned
So wipe that dirty smile off
We won't be making up
I've cried my heart out
And now I've had enough of love
I was watching some award show thing that she won for songwriting for 21 and she said she looked at what critics said for 19 and the main thing was that the songs weren't good enough for her voice to save them, which is exactly how I feel about most of the album
That being said, all of the singles and My Same are fantastic
I was watching some award show thing that she won for songwriting for 21 and she said she looked at what critics said for 19 and the main thing was that the songs weren't good enough for her voice to save them, which is exactly how I feel about most of the album
That being said, all of the singles and My Same are fantastic
I prefer 21 over 19 but 19 has great songs on it as well DD
Physical Albums
109 COL 9 14 16 ADELE 21 12,178 -12 13,898 7,590,513
111 COL 86 99 120 ADELE 19 2,316 -13 2,667 1,734,321
Digital Albums
109 COL 36 55 34 ADELE 21 4,148 -2 4,215 2,910,537
Internet Albums
109 COL 19 17 28 ADELE 21 1,129 -24 1,485
Catalog Albums
121 COL 11 28 23 ADELE 19 3,230 -10 3,603 2,510,035
YTD Albums
19 COL ADELE 21 263,372
96 COL ADELE 19 52,512
YTD Digital Albums
32 COL ADELE 21 69,824
RTD Albums
13 INT EMINEM MARSHALL MATHERS LP 10,686,976
14 RCA SPEARS*BRITNEY BABY ONE MORE TIME 10,584,670
15 COL ADELE 21 10,501,047
RTD Digital Albums
1 COL ADELE 21 2,910,537
14 COL ADELE 19 775,720
Top Music Videos
69 COL 1 2 3 ADELE LIVE AT THE ROYAL ALBERT HALL 2,132 -7 2,294 1,070,179
Digital Songs
25 COL 50 63 77 ADELE SKYFALL 25,671 -14 29,784 1,806,526
114 COL 148 177 194 ADELE ROLLING IN THE DEEP 9,611 -5 10,074 7,800,677
YTD Digital Songs
COL 45 ADELE SKYFALL 529,200
COL 155 ADELE ROLLING IN THE DEEP 160,613
COL 159 ADELE SET FIRE TO THE RAIN 155,912
COL 184 ADELE SOMEONE LIKE YOU 134,756
RTD Digital Songs
COL 2 ADELE ROLLING IN THE DEEP 7,800,677
COL 27 ADELE SOMEONE LIKE YOU 5,504,663
COL 56 ADELE SET FIRE TO THE RAIN 4,477,790
Digital Tracks
25 COL 49 62 72 ADELE SKYFALL 25,671 -14 29,784 1,806,526
117 COL 151 177 191 ADELE ROLLING IN THE DEEP 9,453 -5 9,903 7,713,751
Top Singles
21 COL 2 2 2 ADELE SKYFALL 1,000 -30 1,432 72,375
AP: Even Adele's "Rolling in the Deep" didn't seem like it would become a radio hit, and I wasn't sure Top 40 radio would play the track.
Tedder: I thought the same thing. When I handed in the demo of 'Rumour Has It' (which Tedder produced and co-wrote), her label said, 'Oh, this is such a radio hit for us. This is great.' I didn't want to say anything contrary to that, but in my mind I was thinking, 'You're crazy. None of this is radio.' I didn't work with Adele to get on the radio. That's not the kind of move you make. ... But that's what I love about culture, if you get too much candy or too much of the hyper-, engineered-to-be-No. 1 type records — which there's a ton of them out and they're all done by the same two or three guys — you hear enough of that and all you want to hear is the other stuff.
AP: At the 2012 Grammys, you talked about how rock music was sort of dying on Top 40 radio. Would you say that's changed?
Tedder: ... That very month at the Grammys, fun. released 'We Are Young.' Two months later, Imagine Dragons came out. ... Of Monsters and Men, Lumineers and ... I was like, 'Oh my god.' It just went from no bands to lots of bands. Having said that, rock as Dave Grohl would define it is still not in my mind really happening. ... In terms of radio, rock as it's been defined in the '90s is just not happening. I'm sure it will come around.
Who wants to be right as rain
It's better when something is wrong
You get excitement in your bones
And everything you do's a game
When night comes and you're on your own
You can say "I chose to be alone"
Who wants to be right as rain
It's harder when you're on top
Cause when hard work don't pay off and I'm tired
There ain't no room in my bed
As far as I'm concerned
So wipe that dirty smile off
We won't be making up
I've cried my heart out
And now I've had enough of love