Adele will make her return to the Brit awards in 2016. The Brit school graduate is the first performer announced for next year’s ceremony which takes place on 24 February.
Brit chairman Max Lousada said of the singer’s 2016 performance: “You couldn’t get a bigger name in music right now. Adele is having an exceptional moment and The BRITs are delighted to be a part of her history, her present and future.”
Adele has won a total of three Brit awards throughout her career, and delivered an emotional performance of Someone Like You in 2011. It was her acceptance speech in 2012 that provided the most talked about moment of the evening once again, when she gave a one-fingered gesture to presenter James Corden after he cut off her acceptance speech for best album to make way for the final performers, Blur.
Adele’s current album, 25, made chart history on its release in November. In the UK, it sold more than 800,000 copies in its first week of release, and crossed the 5m sales mark in the US last week, making it the first album to sell more than 5m copies in a calendar year since her last album in 2011.
While the singer tours the world in 2016, she has so far kept her live performances limited to NBC and BBC TV specials.
Nominations for the Brits, which takes place at the O2, London and is broadcast live on ITV, will be announced on 14 January.
