Adele reacts to Ed Sheeran releasing new album weeks before her: ‘I ain’t panicking’

Musicians were quaking in their boots and scrambling to reschedule release dates when Adele announced her new album would be out next month.

And the Easy On Me singer reckons even other chart heavyweights should be breaking out in a cold sweat.

Adele joked that Ed Sheeran should be ‘panicking’ that his fourth studio album is coming out around the same time as 30.

Where is the lie?

The 33-year-old was doing the promo rounds this morning following the release of her comeback single Easy On Me, and dropped by Heart to discuss her upcoming fourth album.

Host Jamie Theakston said: ‘Ed Sheeran’s got an album coming out at the same time.’

Adele interrupted: ‘On the 19th?’, with Jamie responding: ‘Not the 19th, no, don’t panic.’

The albums are coming out within three weeks of each other (Picture:
Heart/ Getty)

The singer laughed: ‘I ain’t panicking. He can panic.’

There’s no beef, though, with Adele adding: ‘No, I love Ed, and I really love his wife Cherry.

In any other year, an Ed Sheeran album would be the runaway biggest seller, but = (pronounced Equals) is going to have major competition this year.

His album, preceded by the singles Bad Habits and Shivers, is out on October 29, three weeks before Adele’s 30 hits the shelves on November 19.

Ed’s last album, Divide, spent nine consecutive weeks at number one upon its release in March 2017, before racking up a further 11 weeks at the top spot.

But it looks like = will only get three weeks at number one before Adele arrives – unless 30 underperforms (don’t make us laugh).

30 is Adele’s fourth album (Picture: PA)

Adele’s last album, 25, spent seven weeks at number one upon its release in December 2015, and returned to the top spot for another six weeks.

Her second album 21 performed even better, spending 11 consecutive weeks at number one in 2011 (23 weeks at number one overall) and becoming the best-selling album of the 21st century.

So, no pressure, Ed.

Adele has penned 30 about her divorce from husband Simon Konecki and her ‘self destruction, self reflection and self redemption’.

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The lead single is all about Adele attempting to explain her reasons for the split to her nine-year-old son Angelo.

She told British Vogue: ‘I just felt like I wanted to explain to him, through this record, when he’s in his twenties or thirties, who I am and why I voluntarily chose to dismantle his entire life in the pursuit of my own happiness. It made him really unhappy sometimes. And that’s a real wound for me that I don’t know if I’ll ever be able to heal.’

Easy On Me is expected to take the number one spot on the charts next Friday.

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