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Adele’s sparse releases make it easy to forget that she’s the world’s biggest pop star. Her 2011 album 21 is the best selling record of the last 25 years, and it’s not particularly close. A year after its release, one in six U.K. households owned a copy of the record. When Adele surprise dropped Easy On Me last month, the single went straight to №1 in 25 countries and received more first-week plays on U.S. radio than any other song in history. This past weekend, she single-handedly made Spotify remove the shuffle button.

When Easy On Me came out, we wrote, “though the song doesn’t offer listeners anything new, you can’t fault [Adele] for knowing what she does best.” It turns out, the song was a red herring because 30, her latest studio album, is anything but classic Adele balladry. 30 is the singer’s most…