Live at the Royal Albert Hall | ||||
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Video by Adele | ||||
Released | 29 November 2011 | |||
Recorded | 22 September 2011 | |||
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Royal Albert Hall (London, England) |
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Length | 90:00 | |||
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Adele chronology | ||||
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Source | Rating |
Metacritic | 76/100 |
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AllMusic | |
American Songwriter | |
Consequence of Sound | |
The Independent | positive |
Los Angeles Times | |
News.com.au |
Live at the Royal Albert Hall is the debut DVD, Blu-ray and CD release from British singer Adele, which became available on 29 November 2011 in Australia, 27 November 2011 in the United Kingdom and 29 November 2011 in the United States. The concert was recorded as part of Adele's Adele Live tour at the Royal Albert Hall in London, including songs from her multi-platinum albums 19 and 21.
On 26 October 2011, it was announced Adele would be releasing her Royal Albert Hall concert from her Adele Live tour on both DVD and Blu-ray along with an accompanying CD. The release included 90 minutes of concert footage in addition to behind-the-scenes video segments. The track list consists of songs taken from Adele's 19 and 21 as well as covers of Bonnie Raitt's "I Can't Make You Love Me" and The SteelDrivers' "If It Hadn't Been for Love". As part of the launch, the DVD was screened at cinemas in 26 cities around the world.
Live at the Royal Albert Hall holds the record for the most weeks spent at number one in the United States for a music DVD by a female artist, and has sold more than three million copies worldwide. The live version of "Set Fire to the Rain" taken from Live at the Royal Albert Hall won the Grammy Award for Best Pop Solo Performance at the 55th Grammy Awards.
Live at The Royal Albert Hall was well received by music critics. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalised rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album received an average score of 76, based on 5 reviews, which indicates "generally favorable reviews".