Adele Rumours True or Just Hype? Management Denies Album
Adele's management has denied reports she is recording a new album in north London. Contacts in her team say there is no new music and no plan to end her break. Her own recent words point the same way.
Adele's management has denied reports that the singer is secretly recording a new album at a studio in Crouch End, north London. So are the Adele rumours true, or do fans just want them to be? Her team says there is nothing to them.
Stories resurfaced in recent days that she was working again with producer Paul Epworth. He collaborated with her on Rolling in the Deep and on her Oscar-winning Bond theme Skyfall.
One report quoted an unnamed insider who said she was "drawing on inspirations in her hometown". There were few photographs or other evidence, which the story put down to her "keeping a low profile".
Album and gig claims
Another newspaper reported claims that a new album might be released "without fanfare... as early as this month". A further paper passed on a rumour of a secret concert at Camden's Roundhouse to road test new material. That gig, the rumour went, was cancelled "at the last minute".
The Roundhouse appears to know nothing about it. Fan accounts went further. One, Adele Adkins Daily on X, wrote that her fifth album would arrive this month and that "holds" had been placed "on major UK venues for potential massive UK shows".
What her team says
Adele's management has firmly denied that she has been recording with Epworth in Crouch End. A journalist who has contacts within her team wrote that they insisted there was no truth to any of the rumours.
They said there was no new music on the horizon and no current plan for her to end her sabbatical. Their reaction, he wrote, was to guffaw and ask: "Oh my God, Neil, where is this rubbish coming from?"
Her own words
Adele last performed on November 23, 2024. That night she played the final show of a 100-show residency at the Caesars Palace Colosseum in Las Vegas, reported at $100m (£80m). "I don't know when I'm going to perform again," she told the audience.
She had been open about needing time off. During a summer run of 10 stadium shows in Munich, she said: "I want a big break after all this… my tank is quite empty."
On August 31, 2024, she said she had spent six or seven years building a new life and wanted to live it. "I will not see you for an incredibly long time," she added.
She lives on a Beverly Park, Los Angeles, estate she bought for £40m. Her fiancé Rich Paul, a sports agent, and her 14-year-old son Angelo live there with her.
In July she and her son visited the McLaren Technology Centre in Woking to meet the Formula 1 team. Driver Lando Norris asked in a filmed exchange whether she still enjoyed singing as much as she ever did. "I don't sing very often anymore," she replied.
