AUDIO: Easy On Me by Adele

“Easy On Me” marks Adele’s return after a six-year hiatus. The song is the lead single off her fourth studio album 30. In an October 2021 BBC Radio 1 interview, Adele revealed that it was the first song written for the album, as she started it back in 2019. The song sees the singer speak about her fraught childhood, her lost marriage, and the lessons learned and unlearnt about family, love, and abandonment along the way.

Following recent teases of her long-awaited fourth album on October 5, 2021, Adele took to Twitter, announcing that she would be dropping a brand new song on October 15th, sharing the teaser trailer to this track. The first verse of the song was played during Adele’s Instagram Live on October 9, 2021.

Upon its release, “Easy On Me” broke the world record for the most streamed song in 24 hours, with 24 million streams. This unseated the previously record-holders BTS for their song “Butter.”