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Adele to release fourth studio album soon?

By Megan Armstrong | Last updated Oct 4, 2021 2:27 PM ET

Adele is playing coy, but every subtle move is mounting an obvious case that something is going on.

On Monday, the 15-time Grammy winner quietly updating her Instagram and Twitter:

Adele’s new era is coming!

The singer has changed her social media layouts ahead of her new music. pic.twitter.com/94gNmYXmMW
— Pop Crave (@PopCrave) October 4, 2021

This comes after mysterious "30" billboards popped up last Friday:

Mysterious billboards with the number '30' have began appearing in different parts of the world amidst speculation that Adele will be dropping her album soon. pic.twitter.com/nWhAvoBIqm
— Pop Crave (@PopCrave) October 1, 2021

There has been plenty more abstract fuel to theorize with over the last week. When Taylor Swift bumped her release of Red (Taylor's Version) up one week to Nov. 12, fans speculated that her decision was based on not wanting to overlap with an Adele drop.

Then Billboard randomly tweeted about Adele's chart history:

.@Adele's history on the #Billboard200:

#1, 21
#1, 25
#4, 19
#50, iTunes Festival: London 2011 (EP)
#105: iTunes Live From Soho (EP)
— billboard charts (@billboardcharts) September 28, 2021

.@Adele's top-charting songs on the #Hot100:

#1, Rolling in the Deep
#1, Someone Like You
#1, Set Fire to the Rain
#1, Hello
#8, Skyfall
#8, Send My Love (To Your New Lover)
#14, When We Were Young
#16, Rumour Has It
#21, Chasing Pavements
#26, Water Under The Bridge
— billboard charts (@billboardcharts) September 28, 2021

The 33-year-old icon last released 25 in November 2015, which housed "Hello," "Send My Love (To Your New Lover)" and "When We Were Young."

Megan Armstrong

Megan Armstrong (@megankarmstrong) is a writer whose work has appeared in places such as Billboard, GQ, Esquire, Bleacher Report, Uproxx, and others. Megan has also produced various podcasts and hosted a daily radio show at Mizzou. She grew up obsessed with sports — impressing adults by memorizing NFL statistics as a kindergartner — and grew into an obsession with music

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