The Music Industry - Adele and Jessie J

Adele Laurie Blue Adkins (born 5 May 1988) is an English singer and songwriter. She graduated from the BRIT School for performing arts and technology in 2006. Adele received a recording contract from XL recordings in the same year. She received commercial and critical success for her debut album 19 (2008), 21 (2011) and 25 (2015). Her net worth is said to currently be about £53 million.

Adele has won over 90 awards from a range of different music awards. Adele’s 25 album sold 3.38 million copies in its first week in the U.S., according to Nielsen Music. That’s the largest single sales week for an album since Nielsen began tracking point-of-sale music purchases in 1991. 25 is the first album to sell more than 3 million copies in a week in Nielsen history, and only the second to surpass 2 million sold in a single frame. 

Adele also made a huge impact in both the music and film industry with her song Skyfall which featured in the 23rd instalment of James Bond.

Adele was accused of plagiarism in 2015 over her song one million years ago after it was pointed out that it sounds very similar to Ahmet Kaya’s song Acilara Tutunmak which was released 30 year ago. Fans of the Kurdish artist were quick to point out similarities between the album track and Kaya's song, which was released in 1985.

Taking to social media one questioned: "Million Years Ago has too much similarity with Ahmet Kaya's Acilara Tutunmak to be just a coincidence @Adele"

Adele was also accused of stealing lyrics from Lionel Richie’s song Hello with her own song Hello. "I was so amazed. However, Lionel Ritchie said Everyone said, 'Lionel, Adele is doing your song Hello,' and I said, 'No she's not,' and all of a sudden I heard Hello. But it's Adele. Even though she didn't cover the song, [just] the word Hello, automatically everyone called me on the phone and said 'she used Hello,' and I said, 'Well, I kind of own Hello.'2 But not to the point where it's any kind of problem. I'll loan Hello to Adele."

Jessica Ellen Cornish (born 27 March 1988), better known by her stage name Jessie J, is an English singer and songwriter. Born and raised in London, she began her career on stage, aged 11, with a role in the West End Musical Whistle Down the Wind. She studied at the BRIT School where she graduated in the class of 2006 along with singers Adele and Leona Lewis before signing with Gut Records and striking a songwriting deal with Sony/ATV Music Publishing where she wrote for artists including Chris Brown and Miley Cyrus.

Jessie J was signed to Gut Records, recording an album for the label, but the company went bankrupt before any material was released. Since then Jessie j has won over 40 music awards. As of January 2015, Jessie J had sold over 20 million singles and 3 million albums worldwide with her net worth being around £5.6 million. Alike to Adele Jessie J featured her song Flashlight in the film industry in the film Pitch Perfect 2.

Jessie J has also been called out over plagiarism back in 2012 with her song Domino by TMZ Will Loomis from the band The Loomis & Lust over his song Bright Red Chords. She was also accused of fixing the votes on the singing show The Voice which she featured as a judge.