How Adele Owned 2015 in Just Two Months

In the pop world of 2015, there was Adele, and there was everyone else. Despite giving her peers a nine-and-a-half-month head start, she had no trouble blazing past the competition, becoming not only the year’s most talked-about artist, but its most wildly successful. Imagine a musical Donald Trump, using attention-monopolizing superpowers for good instead…