Adele Becomes Latest Superstar to Close Las Vegas Residency

Adele's time at Caesars Palace will soon be coming to an end, and these shows could be some of her last anywhere. (Image: FeelingVegas / Alamy)

It is not all about where to gamble in Las Vegas, nor is it about what club to visit or celebrity chef’s food to consume. Many of music’s greatest performers have found Las Vegas to be a wonderful place to set up shop for long-running “residencies” that have made them (and the casinos) millions. Alas, these residencies eventually must come to an end, as with the superstar vocalist Adele’s stay at Caesars Palace.

‘Hello’ Singer Saying ‘Goodbye’

Over the weekend, the 16-time Grammy winner admitted to a crowd in Munich, Germany, that once she wrapped up her residency at Caesars in November, she will be taking what she is calling a “break” from performing. 

“I have spent the last seven years building a new life for myself, and I want to live it,” Adele said during the Munich concert. “I want to live the new life that I have been building.”

So the remaining Las Vegas shows could be the last time to see Adele perform for a while. Adele said she would not be taking the stage again “for an incredibly long time” following the completion of her dates at Caesars Palace. Adele will resume her residency at Caesars on Oct. 25 (the dates are rescheduled affairs from March 2022) and conclude on Nov. 23. 

It is quite understandable that the British songstress is looking to slow the pace of life down. Since her first album, the highly acclaimed 19 in 2008, Adele has achieved levels of success that few have been able to reach. Along with her 16 Grammys, she also has notched 12 Brit Awards (the British equivalent of a Grammy), an Oscar (for “Skyfall” from the James Bond film of the same name), an Emmy Award, and a Golden Globe Award. 

Adele is responsible for over 120 million album sales in her career, making her the biggest-selling female artist of the 21^st century in the UK and the best-selling artist of the 2010s in the US. If that weren’t enough, she has also achieved a rarity in the recording industry, earning two Diamond certified albums (10 million in sales). Only 22 artists and bands in history have reached this lofty milestone, including the late Michael Jackson, Def Leppard, The Beatles, Led Zeppelin, and fellow Las Vegas resident-performers Celine Dion and Shania Twain. 

More Performers Leaving the Strip in 2024

Adele is not the first name to close her performances in Las Vegas. This summer saw Lady Gaga wrap up her phenomenally successful “Jazz & Piano” residency at the MGM Dolby Live Theater on June 19, with no further shows being scheduled at this time. On a sadder note, the legendary Aerosmith, following the inability of their vocalist Steven Tyler to recover from several vocal chord surgeries, retired from performing in August and shuttered their planned residency in Las Vegas. 

Two other contemporary acts ended their long-running shows in Las Vegas. On Sept. 1, hometown heroes The Killers ended a 10-show residency at the Colosseum at Caesars Palace, which packed the 4,300-seat venue consistently. Former The Voice coach and pop superstar Christina Aguilera began her series of concerts in Las Vegas at the very end of 2023, and tickets for her shows at the Venetian were some of the toughest tickets to get. The “Genie in a Bottle” warbler finished off her tour of Las Vegas duty on Aug. 31.

The aforementioned Twain will continue her residency in Nevada – at least for the immediate future. Twain’s “Come on Over” residency at PH Live at Planet Hollywood has a series of dates beginning in September and running through December that are available through Ticketmaster. The country superstar has also tabbed dates for her final nine performances of the residency at PH Live, to coincide with the New Year festivities beginning on Jan. 22 and closing on Feb. 8, 2025. 

Who will be the next huge superstars to take the stages of the various locales around Las Vegas? The days of the “washed up” musicians or artists coming to Las Vegas to resurrect a career are long gone, as currently popular acts flood the Strip and surrounding areas to ply their trade. Especially with such venues as The Sphere (which just closed a run by Dead & Company on Aug. 10) and, with the end of Adele’s residency, the Caesars stage being empty, you can certainly count that the casino operators aren’t going to waste time filling those stages with more quality entertainment.