30 is the name of the long-awaited fourth studio album by British singer-songwriter, Adele, released on November 19, 2021. Videos and songs from “30” the 2020 Pop Soul album and fourth full-length studio release for British singer-songwriter, Adele.more For Adele, 30 is an emotional breakthrough — a refreshingly candid body of work that is revelatory. While the album is about “divorce, babe,” the record’s 12 songs go deeper. In the United States, 30 became the top-selling album of 2021 [160] within its first day. [161] 30 achieved 2021's biggest opening week, [162] debuting atop the Billboard 200 with 839,000 album-equivalent units, including 692,000 pure album sales. Adele has never sounded more ferocious than she does on 30 — more alive to her own feelings, more virtuosic at shaping them into songs in the key of her own damn life. But, almost two years after much of it was completed, Adele did release 30. And remarkably, considering the world has been using her back catalog to channel its rawest emotions since 2008, this is easily Adele’s most vulnerable record. There are 30 days in the months April, June, September and November (and in unusual circumstances February—see February 30). Although the number of days in a month vary, 30 is used to estimate months elapsing. Her first studio album in six years following 25, 30 was inspired by Adele's experiences and anxiety following her divorce and its impact on her son's life, along with motherhood and fame. 30 is the first sphenic number, that is the smallest number with 3 distinct prime divisors 30 is the largest number with the property that all smaller numbers relatively prime to it are prime. With that water-treading sequel, she’d zigged to making the weakest of her four albums. With “30,” she’s zagged to a richer, more compelling collection that feels like her best.