White remembers that Chasing Pavements came about after he started playing some “some very boring chords” that Adele sang over and then turned into something magical.

Rarely has a single word been freighted with so much meaning and emotion. From the opening piano chord and that very first hello she sounds nervous, sad, determined.

With “Hello,” Adele has formulated the perfect comeback song. Here’s how it’s perfectly designed to break just about every record there is.

The short clip shows Adele in a car putting a cassette of the track into her stereo. There’s a bit of nostalgia-inducing hiss and crackle, and then in comes the piano chord progression - F, Dm7, F/A ...

Adele's new video for "Hello" has broken records in its first weeks since release. It's also led to countless Internet memes and mashups.

“Hello” is the new song from Adele – her first single in three years. “Hello” debuted in the early hours of October 23.

Producer Greg Kurstin on songwriting with Adele: “I have to find the right sequence of chords or the beginning of a song that ignites something in her” ...

If not, I'm specifically proposing Adele and Lionel Ritchie should combine forces to create the ultimate hello-themed top 40 hit. The radio would melt with the power of these two superstars.

Get your tear ducts ready. Adele makes an emotional return in her new video for Hello, a fitting title for her first single in three years.

In “Hello,” a record which (like her runaway #1 “Someone Like You”) is mostly just block chords on a piano and her voice, you can hear the dense reverb sheen and a few notes that have been ...

“Hello” is the new song from Adele – her first single in three years. “Hello” debuted in the early hours of October 23.