{"id":17570,"date":"2017-08-02T14:23:38","date_gmt":"2017-08-02T21:23:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/?p=17570"},"modified":"2017-08-02T14:54:17","modified_gmt":"2017-08-02T21:54:17","slug":"sesac-signs-global-superstar-adele","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/2017\/08\/sesac-signs-global-superstar-adele\/","title":{"rendered":"SESAC Signs Global Superstar Adele"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-17571 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/adele-sesac.jpg\" alt=\"adele-sesac\" width=\"660\" height=\"440\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/adele-sesac.jpg 660w, https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/adele-sesac-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 660px) 100vw, 660px\" \/>SESAC Signs Global Superstar Adele<\/strong><\/h1>\n<h3><strong>Multiple GRAMMY\u00ae-winning Artist Joins Nation\u2019s Only Music Rights Organization<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>GRAMMY\u00ae award-winning, multi-platinum recording artist and songwriter Adele has moved to SESAC Performing Rights for representation in the United States\u2014announced by John Josephson, chairman and CEO, SESAC Holdings, Inc., the only Music Rights Organization in the U.S.<\/p>\n<p>Adele, whose chart-topping singles include \u201cRolling in the Deep,\u201d \u201cSomeone Like You,\u201d \u201cSet Fire to the Rain,\u201d \u201cRumour Has It,\u201d \u201cSkyfall\u201d and \u201cHello,\u201d is the music industry\u2019s top-selling artist of the decade.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are humbled and grateful to have been selected to represent Adele\u2019s performing rights in the United States,\u201d said Josephson. \u201cWith each new release, she surpasses her own prior record of achievement and confirms her place as a global superstar in a category all her own.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>With the release of her 2008 multi-platinum debut album, <em>19<\/em>, Adele earned two GRAMMY\u00ae Awards, including \u201cBest New Artist.\u201d Her second release, <em>21<\/em>, was named the 2012 GRAMMY\u00ae Album of the Year and sold an unprecedented 35 million copies\u2014eclipsing all other sales records. Adele released her third studio album, <em>25<\/em>, in late 2015\u2014which went straight to #1 in 100 countries around the world and became the only album to sell over 3 million copies in one week.\u00a0 <em>25 <\/em>has gone on to sell more than 23 million copies worldwide, and has earned Adele five additional GRAMMY\u00ae Awards.<\/p>\n<p>During her career, Adele has garnered more than 130 awards and received more than 250 nominations for some of the industry\u2019s most prestigious honors\u2014the GRAMMY Awards\u00ae, Brit Awards, an Academy Award, a Golden Globe Award, Billboard Awards, American Music Award, and Ivor Novello Awards, among others. Adele just completed a multi-year international tour, and performed her finale in the U.K. at London\u2019s Wembley Stadium.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SESAC Signs Global Superstar Adele Multiple GRAMMY\u00ae-winning Artist Joins Nation\u2019s Only Music Rights Organization GRAMMY\u00ae award-winning, multi-platinum recording artist and songwriter Adele has moved to SESAC Performing Rights for representation in the United States\u2014announced by John Josephson, chairman and CEO, SESAC Holdings, Inc., the only Music Rights Organization in the U.S. Adele, whose chart-topping singles [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1058,7],"tags":[9377,2391,9378,9379,8462,9380,1008,9381,8467,9382,9383,8470,8475,8478,2621,9384,8489,8796],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17570"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17570"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17570\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17572,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17570\/revisions\/17572"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}