Adele recently announced that she plans to take a hiatus from her music career after her Las Vegas shows conclude in November. She mentioned that she had been sick at the end of the last leg of her shows and throughout her break, and hadn’t fully recovered before the shows resumed.

Now, she’s feeling unwell again. It’s not uncommon for Adele to take breaks in her music career.

She has taken time off between releasing her albums *19* in 2008, *21* in 2011, *25* in 2015, and *30* in 2021. These breaks, which ranged from three to six years, allowed her to focus on her personal life, which in turn served as inspiration for many of her popular hits like “All I Ask,” “When We Were Young,” and “Rolling in the Deep.”