Adele also announced a Las Vegas concert residency, Weekends with Adele, which was initially scheduled to begin on 21 January 2022 and run for 24 concerts. The Sam Brown-directed music video for the song was uploaded on Adele's YouTube channel on 12 January 2022.

debuted at number two in France [145] and reached the top spot in its fifth week, achieving a double platinum certification less than two months later.The Wall Street Journal believed that 30 "largely came and went" compared to Adele's previous albums. She decided to have regular conversations with him, which she recorded following advice from her therapist. I just felt like I wanted to explain to him, through this record, when he's in his 20s or 30s, who I am and why I voluntarily chose to dismantle his entire life in the pursuit of my own happiness.

Drummer Matt Chamberlain confirmed that he had been in the studio with her for her fourth studio album, along with Rick Nowels, John Legend and Raphael Saadiq, in hopes of crafting an album "full of soul, with a more eclectic sound. I feel like this album is self-destruction, then self-reflection and then sort of self-redemption", she said. Adele received four nominations at the Brit Awards 2022, winning three: British Album of the Year for 30, Song of the Year for "Easy on Me", and Artist of the Year. Likewise, NME 's El Hunt appreciated the incorporation of new sounds but disapproved of "Hold On", "I Drink Wine", and "Can I Get It" as jarring.The song is about falling in love in a long-distance relationship and the excitement that comes with it. The song is built around a sample of Joey Pecoraro's "Finding Parking" (2017), which in turn samples Garner's "No More Shadows" (1964). The CBS special Adele One Night Only, which featured Adele's interview with Oprah Winfrey along with performances of previously released material and 30 tracks, aired on CBS on 14 November 2021. During the conception of her third studio album, 25 (2015), Adele wrote enough material for what she believed could be three or four albums.

All image and audio content is used by permission of the copyright holders or their agents, and/or according to fair dealing as per the UK Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. Originally a 15-minute song, inspired by Elton John and Bernie Taupin, "I Drink Wine" was written by Adele to express her remorse for not being present for a close friend and was later cut short following label feedback.Adele's 30 already claims the UK's biggest opening week of 2021 on the Official UK Albums Chart, overtaking ABBA's Voyage". All 12 tracks from 30 charted on the Billboard Hot 100 following its release, with six of them in the top 40.