6 Most Popular Musicians Who Got Discovered Online

3. Adele

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Who doesn’t know Adele? She’s a worldwide phenomenon with a huge voice and a personality to match. In 2006, Adele was a graduate from the BRIT School for Performing Arts and Technology. Somehow (read that “thanks to a friend”) one of her demos ended up on MySpace and it soon got discovered by a music industry insider. In no time she was being offered a contract by XL Recordings.

One year later she was already swooping in and receiving awards such as the Critics’ Choice at the Brit Awards.

In 2008 she released her first album, titled 19, which also was a hit among fans and critics alike. It has been awarded seven-times platinum in the UK and two-times platinum in the United States.

Ever since then she’s released two more albums, 21 in 2011 and 25 in 2015, taking a break in between them to raise her newborn child. Her voice remains the same, however, and her songs continue to touch hearts everywhere. She has won 10 Grammys, 13 Billboard Music Awards and an Academy Award for Best Original Song in a movie — “Skyfall” from the synonymous 2013 James Bond movie.

Adele has over 62.4 million Facebook fans, 8.2 million subscribers on YouTube and her videos have over 2.6 billion views on the original channel alone, which makes her one of the 6 most popular musicians who got discovered online.