Adele cries as new song gets first play on Radio 1

Adele became tearful as her new song Hello was played for the first time on the BBC Radio 1 Breakfast Show.

"I obviously want people to like it," she said. "I knew this would be the first thing everyone heard from me."

The star had already revealed her third album, 25, will be released on 20 November.

So did the track, played for the first time just before 8am on Friday, live up to the hype?

Radio 1 tweeted: "LISTEN to @grimmers' 1st play of the new @Adele song + the interview."

When she first joined Nick Grimshaw in the studio, she told him: "I feel so sick. I'm so nervous."

But the reaction she got on social media suggests she didn't need to be.

Ruby tweeted: "YES #adele #AdeleOnGrimmy sooooooooooo good. Welcome back"

The unparalleled success of her last album, 21, has meant Adele has become one of the most famous people on the planet.

"Fame is not real. And I don't want to live a fake life," she said.

"Sometimes I have my moments, but not that often, when I think it would be a lot easier to be on a yacht all the time.

"But I don't want to be on a yacht - I'm scared of the sea," she laughed.

Steven tweeted: "#AdeleOnGrimmy brilliant play it again"

"I find fame quite frightening and I find it really toxic.

"It's very charming and it's very persuasive but it doesn't last so why would you want to get involved in something that you will miss so much when it's gone - and it always goes."

Watch Adele's new video for Hello here.

On staying out of the limelight for the last three years, she said: "I like the way I've lived my life and that's why I'll keep on living it that way.

"I get to live my life and do normal things because of it.

Lea tweeted: "Adele could be singing the wheels on the bus and I'd still get goosebumps - amazing soul! @grimmers #adeleongrimmy #ADELEISBACK"

"No one else in my life is famous so they'd just think I was being an idiot if I ever got carried away with it."

Her third record has been shrouded in secrecy, prior to the release of Hello this week.

"I want to surprise people. I don't want to say something for the sake of it.

"We've been sitting on it [the album]. There have been five people doing 300 people's jobs," said Adele.

Radio 1 Breakfast Show tweeted a picture of her and Grimmy in the studio.

"Because of my last album, because of what it went on to do, it was kind of a write-off to ever expect anything with this album, the new one, like that," she said.

"So actually it made it [writing 25] a bit easier."

She added: "I feel like every album I'm ever going to write is always going to be following 21. Even no matter what this album does, my next record's going to be following 21."

Hello is out now to stream and buy. It's the first single she's released since Skyfall, the James Bond theme she put out in 2012.

A 30-second teaser of Hello first dropped during an advertisement break on The X Factor on Sunday, sparking speculation on social media.

"I thought no-one's going to know it's me. It'll backfire," Adele told Grimmy.

"When I looked there were three tweets. I thought I'd missed my window. But then my boyfriend told me there were loads."

Newsbeat tweeted a video of the clip of Hello.

The third album deals with her transition into adulthood, Adele said previously.

"My last record was a break-up record," she wrote in a statement.

"And if I had to label this one, I would call it a make-up record. Making up for lost time. Making up for everything I ever did and never did."

The video was shot in the countryside around Montreal, Canada, and is directed by Xavier Dolan (Mommy, Tom at the Farm).

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