Adele’s new single Easy On Me has topped the charts in the UK and US and racked up a whopping 25 million views on YouTube in just 15 hours. The singer, 33, left her fans in tears as she finally released her first new track in five years, which reflects on the pain she felt amid her divorce from husband Simon Konecki. The highly-anticipated single, released on YouTube at midnight on Friday ahead of her album 30 set to drop next month, soon shot to YouTube’s top trending clip.
Along with the music video – which sees the star, 33, pack up her house and drive away, as pages of sheet music flutter out of the windows onto the road – the single went down a storm with fans who took to Twitter to claim it was giving them ‘goosebumps’ – with one going as far to claim it made them want to get a divorce themselves.
On fan gushed: ‘Adele never disappoints! This song is sooooo good’.
Many fans shared that the song had made them emotional.
One fan guessed the single would break every record, and it seems they might be right.
‘One of my best friends in the world’: Drake was excited about the release as he took to Instagram to show his support by posting this sweet message.
Celebrity pals: Normani was also quick to voice her support for the singer.
Wow! While Easy On Me had obvious parallels to her hit Hello, eagle-eyed fans pointed out that the connection goes as far back to her 2018 song, Chasing Pavements.
Bored: While the overwhelming response to Adele’s single was positive, there were some who complained that they found the song boring.
Most others, however, continued to praise the track.
Some fans shared the lyrics that spoke to them most deeply.
Liking it, are you? Fans took to Twitter to gush over the song after waiting five years for it.
Intense: Fans were quick to joke that while the single may have been called Easy On Me, Adele hadn’t taken it easy with the vocals and lyrics, which left them blown away.
Hilarious: There was no shortage of funny memes to be shared by the fans.
Praise: Forbes had high praise of Adele and said the British singer’s newest single was a ‘superb return to form’.
Simple: Variety praised the song as being simple: ‘Adele and just a piano from beginning to end’.
Crying: Rolling Stone magazine praised Easy On Me and said Adele’s comeback single has ‘reduced the world to tears’.
