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Top Ten Adele Songs

Adele is already a pop music icon for a reason. She is still quite young, but her immense talent was evident from very early on. Throughout her four albums, she did offer us great hits, but her best ones mostly come from her second and third albums released in 2011 and 2015. This is my ranking of her ten best songs with three honorable mentions.

10. Easy on Me

Easy on Me has to be the best song that Adele released in 2021 after a long hiatus. This album wasn’t all that great otherwise, but this song deserves the last placement on this list due to its sweet lyrics and a very elegant, timeless tone to it.

9. Send My Love (To Your New Lover)

Adele rarely released those energetic, modern pop songs that are very popular nowadays, but whenever she did, she also excelled in that arena. Case in point – Send My Love. It’s such a charming number easy to sing and dance to. It’s just so much fun.

8. Chasing Pavements

Having been released in 2008, this is the earliest Adele song that is truly great. It showed instantly just how talented she was, though the world would take notice of her only three years later. This song’s chorus is particularly memorable.

7. Million Years Ago

When it comes to her more underrated slower songs, Million Years Ago needs more attention. This 2015 song is gorgeously sung by the artist, but also genuinely impactful in its very touching lyrics. It’s such a poetic, sad number.

6. Water Under the Bridge

By far one of Adele’s most underappreciated numbers, Water Under the Bridge may be more on the fun side of things, but these breezier songs of hers should also be appreciated and not just the deep stuff. I just love how different this number is from others on this list and how catchy that refrain is.

5. Rolling in the Deep

Rolling in the Deep is one of the most popular Adele songs from her best album. The song is very breezy, fun and energetic. It is instantly memorable in its tune and is very catchy and fun throughout its four minutes. Still though, I find it a tad bit overrated as it’s not as majestically emotional as the above entries, which explains its somewhat lower ranking here.

4. Skyfall

One of her slowest major hits, it doesn’t quite register as emotional nor does it impress as a memorable tune, but Skyfall is still one of Adele’s best numbers due to an instantly striking darker, more somber tone to the whole proceedings, thus being perfect for the Bond movie that it accompanied. It’s a rare Adele song where the music is the star and not her singing.

3. Hello

I love Hello. I did not like it as much hearing it for the first time, but now I fully recognize its power and I respect it deeply. This is one of Adele’s deepest and most memorable songs. It benefits from a powerhouse chorus, but also a very striking opening with the titular word said in such a distinct manner and beautiful lyrics as well. It’s all very emotionally charged.

2. Someone Like Me

Definitely the most purely emotional and genuinely heartbreaking love ballad of a love lost, Someone Like Me usually appears on the top of many top-ten lists of Adele songs and it’s easy to see why. Though it’s not my personal favorite of hers, it comes in second. It is by far her best sung number with incredibly moving lyrics and astonishing vocals. It’s a joy listening her belt out this song each time.

1. Set Fire to the Rain

My number one pick is actually Set Fire to the Rain. I find the background story behind the creation of the song’s lyrics quite interesting. Adele’s vocals are incredible as always here while the song is a perfect mix of her more emotionally charged numbers with her more entertaining tunes. The result is a song that is both beautiful and catchy to sing along with. Due to all these reasons, it gets the first spot on my list.

Honorable Mentions:

Love in the Dark – The first honorable mention goes to this underappreciated number that is familiar, but gorgeously sung and operatic.

Oh My God – By far the most commercial song that Adele has ever released, this recent hit from the artist is too populist, but undeniably fun and catchy.

I Drink Wine – It’s a bit overrated in my opinion, but I Drink Wine benefits from solid lyrics and per usual great singing from Adele.