Adele’s “Hello” has already broken just about every first-week record there is. Still from the video for “Hello” A crucial part of being a star is knowing how to make an entrance. Perhaps no one knew ...

Both haunting and triumphant, “Hello” is pure Adele, powerful and vulnerable at once. Unlike the season of sorrow she endured due to a “rubbish romance,” which inspired so many of her early songs, she ...