Adele - Hello (Official Music Video)

Released in October 2015

Genre considered - Soul

Themes - Nostalgia & Regret

No. 1 in 30 countries 

Second No. 1 in the UK (after Adele's "Someone Like You")

No. 1 on Canadian Hot 100

No. 1 on Billboard Hot 100

No. 1 on U.S. Digital Songs Chart

Record - First song to sell over a million digital copies in a week

(1,112,000 in sales)

12.3 million copies sold globally by the end of 2015

7th best-selling single of 2015

One of the best-selling digital singles of all time

Vevo & YouTube records - Achieved over 27.7 million views within a 24 hour span) ... Shortest time to reach one billion views (87 days)

iTunes record - No. 1 in 102 countries 

2016 MTV Video Music Awards - 7 nominations 

2017 Grammy Awards - Record of the Year, Song of the Year, Best Pop Solo Performance*

*Adele is the first to win a Grammy for the Big Three categories (Album of the Year, Record of the Year, Song of the Year) twice.

*Adele is the first female to win Grammy Song of the Year twice.

*Adele is the third woman to win Record of the Year more than once.

Brit Award for British Single 

2016 Billboard Music Award for Top Selling Song

APRA Award for International Work of the Year (Australia)

No. 6 on Rolling Stone's 50 Best Songs of 2015

No. 12 on Parade's 25 Greatest Adele Songs (2021)

No. 3 on American Songwriter's 10 Greatest Adele Songs (2022)

No. 1 on UK Singles Chart 

No. 1 in Belgium, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Lebanon, Luxembourg, The Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Scotland, Slovakia, Spain, & Switzerland

No. 1 on ARIA Singles Chart (Australia)

Adele's second No. 1 on ARIA (behind her 2011 "Someone like You")

No. 1 on New Zealand Singles Chart

Charts

Certified Platinum in Germany, South Korea, & Switzerland 

Certified 3x Platinum in Belgium & Spain

Certified 4x Platinum in Denmark 

Certified 5x Platinum in the UK

Certified 6x Platinum in Italy, New Zealand, & Norway

Certified 7x Platinum in Australia & the U.S.

Certified Diamond in Canada 

Certified Diamond+Gold in Mexico

Certified 3x Diamond in Brazil 

(Wikipedia)