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Adele Announces Two Concerts At British Summer Time Hyde Park 2022
Gareth Cattermole/Getty Images for September Management – Adele performs at Wembley Stadium on June 28, 2017 in London, England.
It was one of two shows that wrapped to incredibly successful years of world touring.
Adele will perform two concerts at American Express presents BST Hyde Park in London next year, for what will be her first UK shows since 2017.
Fans can sign up at adele.com since today to access Adele’s presale which begins at 10 a.m. on Thursday, Oct. 28. American Express Cardmembers can access presale tickets from 10 a.m., Oct. 29.
Adele last toured the world in 2016/2017 in support of her third studio album 25, which topped the charts in almost every country on earth. Most of that tour, including the sold out European and North American legs, took place in 2016.
Highlights taken from Pollstar’s box office reports for “Adele Live 2016” include: eight sold out nights at London’s O2 between March 15 and April. 5, 2016, selling 126,043 tickets, grossing $14,269,362 in total. Adele performed the same amount of shows at the Staples Center in Los Angeles, CA, Aug. 5-21, 2016, generating $13,821,739 with 118,149 ticket sold.
That same year, Adele won four trophies at the BRIT Awards, for Best British Female Solo Artist; British Single; Album of the Year for (25) as well as the Global Success Awards.
Matias Delacroix/NurPhoto via Getty Images – Adele performs at Mt Smart Stadium on March 23, 2017 in Auckland, New Zealand.
That year, Adele began hinting that she might never tour again.
The tour visited Australia and New Zealand in 2017, before wrapping with two sold-out concerts at London’s Wembley Stadium, June 28-29, 2017. “Adele Live 2016” finished fifth on Pollstar’s Year End Top 100 Worldwide Tours chart 2016, with 1,530,196 tickets sold for a gross of $167.7 million. The tour also ranked fifth on the Top 200 North American Tours chart for that year, grossing $95.1 million with 852,303 tickets sold.
Adele also made the Top 30 in the following year’s Year End ranking of the world. The entire run was made up of 121 performances, which would have been two more, had Adele not been forced to cancel two performances due to damaged vocal chords.
Towards the tour’s end, Adele hinted on several occasion that she might have had enough of touring, or at least of world touring. At the last of her three shows at Mt. Smart Stadium in Auckland before 40,000 fans, for instance, she tearfully told the crowd, “Touring isn’t something I’m good at … applause makes me feel a bit vulnerable. I don’t know if I will ever tour again. The only reason I’ve toured is you. I’m not sure if touring is my bag.”
Ahead of her two final performances at Wembley Stadium in June 2017, the she included a signed, handwritten note in the program stating, “I don’t know if I’ll ever tour again and so I want my last time to be at home.”
Now that Adele has announced her return to the live stage at British Summer Time Hyde Park, her fans are eager to know if more live shows will follow. Her agent Lucy Dickins, WME’s co-head of music, wasn’t available for comment at press time.
Adele announced her new Album, 30, in the beginning of October, followed by the release of its first single, “Easy On Me”, Oct. 15. ‘30’ will be Adele’s fourth album and her first new music since 2015.
British Summer Time Hyde Park 2022 is shaping up nicely. With Elton John, the team around promoter Jim King, CEO European Festivals for AEG Presents and honoree on Pollstar’s inaugural Impact International list, has secured another superstar. John will perform in London’s most famous park on June 24, supported by special guests yet to be announced. Pearl Jam, with Pixies as support, will perform at the festival on two evenings, July 9-10.