BBC News has been unable to confirm whether this TV spot—which aired during Sunday night’s episode of the British X Factor—features a snippet of a new song by Adele. Neither has Billboard. I was unable to reach anyone at Columbia Records’ press office who could confirm or deny the news, so I guess we’re left to wonder which female singer who sounds like Adele could possibly be singing this new song that sounds like an Adele song. Anybody could be singing this new song that sounds like an Adele song. It could even be Adele.

Audio of the purse-carrying gift from heaven Aretha Franklin's cover of Adele's "Rolling in the Deep" (with a twist of "Ain't No Mountain High Enough") made the rounds on the internet yesterday. Later, she tore the roof off David Letterman's studio when she performed the medley on the Late Show (it's the first release off her upcoming Aretha Franklin Sings The Great Diva Classics album). While her voice has noticably aged and isn't quite as acrobatic as it once was, the woman can still wail. Her pipes remain among our country's greatest natural resources.

Multi-genre dance producer Diplo's typically loose lips have suggested that Beyoncé has scrapped work she's done on her upcoming album, the creation of which she's been talking about forever (or at least, since January). "Fuckin' thing sucks!" is how I like to imagine King Bey regarding this rejected body of work, but the truth is that she's probably just nodding and grinning serenely about it.

The top-selling album of 2012 was Adele's "21," which came out in 2011. RIP, music industry.

It's only been around a day or so, but the single-topic Tumblr "What if Adele was Mrs. Doubtfire?" is already garnering high praise from across the web:

Crying is only natural, but only for humans, says The New York Times in their super academic op-ed, "I Cry, Therefore I Am." Michael Trimble, the author of the teary piece in question, is an emeritus professor of behavioral neurology and a consultant neuropsychiatrist at the Institute of Neurology, University College London.

I'm bringing the sound of real music back…I think Adele does a great job - they are catchy pop songs, but it's real music and there are instruments. I want to bring a lot of that back.

Adele's "Someone Like You" is No. 22 on the Co-operative Funeralcare's chart of songs played at funerals, according to NME. Who knows how scientific the polling of "the UK's leading funeral director" is, but this does point to the fact that at least more than one person has selected a song whose narrator describes her object of affection as ultimately replaceable to play in tribute to the deceased.

Here's Adele's Bond theme, "Skyfall," in its entirety. Spoiler alert: It's smoky, brassy and utterly inoffensive.

Hip hop artist Nicki Minaj displays plenty of vocal variation — but at what cost?

5-year-old Aubrey Anderson-Emmons, better known to the world writ large as Lily Tucker-Pritchett from ABC's Modern Family, is "crazy into Adele right now," according to her mother Amy.

Adele has announced via her personal blog that she is with child. The father is boyfriend Simon Konecki, also British, also a singer, also often swathed in layers upon layers of fabrics while out strolling the streets of London.

Leila Neve was getting ready to say goodbye to her comatose daughter Charlotte when Adele's hit song "Rolling in the Deep" came on the radio, and the seven-year-old suddenly began smiling.

Céline Dion started a new leg of her latest Las Vegas residency show last weekend and her setlist included a cover of Adele's ubiquitous "Rolling in the Deep," which you can hear above.

Rock's answer to Eeyore, Magnetic Fields brainchild Stephin Merritt, was once accused of being racist for his professed love of the song "Zip-A-Dee Doo-Dah" (from Song of the South, the insanely minstrely black sheep of the Disney catalog) and for not seeming too into black music. Well, two can play that game, as Merritt has called out Adele's legion of fans for some bigotry of their own in an interview with Dan Weiss for L.A. Weekly. Here's how it goes down:

When your country's national musical treasure returns home to London after winning six Grammys and endearing herself to millions of bitter, cynical Americans with a single snort, it is probably in best practice to allow said treasure a fair number of seconds to bask in the moment of winning Album of the Year at her homeland's biggest music awards show. If you don't, said treasure can always flip everyone off on national television.

The "rubbish relationship," the snot, it was all great.

Amazing. And the first bit of truly inspired anything tonight.

The Grammy Awards nominations were announced on Wednesday night! Hooray! Everyone loves the Grammys. They're like the Oscars for blind people. And your mom's entire iPod was nominated. Here are the nominees. Congrats, Skrillex! Exchange bitcoins accordingly.

There are three annual things I hate: The start of daylight savings time, the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade, and the Glee mash-up episode. This year I get all three things at once. God, this is always the worst fucking episode.