Adele — Hello

Ten years after it opened Adele's third album, the piano ballad that reintroduced her to the world is broadly charting again, appearing across 100 country and platform charts today after a two-and-a-half-month absence. The lead single from 25, written with producer Greg Kurstin, remains one of the definitive vocal-driven pop ballads of the 2010s — a phone-call-across-time conceit built on restraint until the chorus opens the throttle. It anchors curated soul-ballad playlists alongside Rolling in the Deep, per ad-hoc-news, which keeps Adele's catalog in steady rotation regardless of a release cycle. That durability — the song's ability to resurface without a fresh push — is what returns it to this kind of wide global presence.