Adele calls a halt to her tour, London will be her final stop

The Hello singer Adele plans to call a halt to her tour program with London. She has already done a total of 119 shows and the last four in London will make it 123. She has dropped hints that she may never tour again and is happy that her final shows will be in London.
The 29-year-old award-winning singer waved goodbye to a Wembley crowd and said that she had been on the road for 15 months and admitted that touring doesn't suit her because she is more of a homebody. She is now at the end of her run of gigs across the UK, Ireland, Europe, the US, Australia and New Zealand.
This has been reported in skynews.com dated 29 June 2017.

She ended by saying that she wanted to do her last shows in London and that is happening.


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26-year-old Taylor Swift is today the highest-paid woman in music with earnings of $170m which is more than double than that of her nearest competitor Adele. This is as per Forbes' Highest-Paid Women in Music list for 2016.
Shake It Off star Taylor Swift made most of her gains from her 1989 World Tour and netted a quarter of a billion dollars worldwide.
This has been reported in news.sky.com dated 2 November 2016.

Forbes has listed her lucrative marketing deals with well known brands like Diet Coke, Apple and Keds - these were a few sources of her income. She has completely overtaken everyone else because of the phenomenal success of her 1989 World Tour. She played nearly twice as many dates as her competitors like Adele and Rihanna during our scoring period, and she also managed to fill stadiums - the largest type of building one can play - throughout lucrative North American markets and beyond. The complete list of top-earning female musicians for 2016
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2 Adele - $80.5m
3 Madonna - $76.5m
4 Rihanna - $75m
5 Beyonce - $54m
6 Katy Perry - $41m
7 Jennifer Lopez - $39.5m
8 Britney Spears - $30.5m
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10 Celine Dion - $27m


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The British star Adele's latest album 25 has gone diamond platinum in the US within a year after it was released. It has sold more than 10 million copies in America alone and she was awarded with a diamond plaque in New York after performing the last of six sell-out shows in Madison Square Garden.
This has been reported in news.sky.com dated 28 September 2016.

Earlier, her 2011 album, 21, had also reached diamond status and as per the Recording Industry Association of America, that album has sold more than 14 million copies to date. It is a record of sorts because no other artist has managed to go diamond platinum once, let alone twice, in 12 years.
Before Adele, the last person to sell 10 million copies of one album was Usher in 2004 - with Eminem and Norah Jones also securing diamond status with their 2002 records.
Adele's decision to keep '25' off streaming services for seven months after its release could have given her sales a boost.
The success of her third studio album, which features singles including Hello and Send My Love (To Your New Lover), has helped cement her status as the century's top-selling artist and, it has been announced that Adele was nominated in four categories at MTV's Europe Music Awards. These include best song for Hello, and best female act.


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