Friday, July 3, 2026

Adele Ratings: 11 Million Viewers Watch Special, Most in Decade for a Pop Star Special

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Adele: Live from New York City” scored 11 million viewers last night on NBC, the most for any pop star special in over a decade. That’s 9 million more than any of the current pop stars’ TV specials in recent years, as I wrote yesterday.

Still developing….Adele’s demo was 3.0 in the 18-49 age group. Good but not great. She has an older audience.

Ironically, the big ratings didn’t spur sales of any of her singles. “Hello” has been knocked to number 4 on iTunes by singles from “The Voice” finale which preceded Adele last night. Go figure.

PS Kudos to Lorne Michaels, who produced the show at Radio City. The edited program is perfect.

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Roger Friedman
Roger Friedman
Roger Friedman is the founder and editor-in-chief of Showbiz411. He wrote the FOX411 column on FoxNews.com from 1999 to 2009, where he covered Michael Jackson, and previously wrote the "Intelligencer" column at New York magazine in the mid-1990s, where he covered the O.J. Simpson trial. He also edited Fame magazine. His bylines have appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, the New York Daily News, the New York Post, Vogue, Details, and the Miami Herald. He is a voting member of the Critics Choice Awards (Film and Television branches), and his movie reviews are tracked by Rotten Tomatoes. With D.A. Pennebaker and Chris Hegedus, he co-produced the 2002 documentary "Only the Strong Survive," which screened at Directors' Fortnight at the Cannes Film Festival.

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