Claim: Adele has an album.

`` Hometown Glory '' is the debut single by British singer Adele , released on 22 October 2007 in the United Kingdom . The song appears on her debut studio album 19 -LRB- 2008 -RRB- . In 2008 , the song was re-released as her fourth single . Adele wrote the song in 10 minutes after her mother tried to persuade her to leave her home suburb of West Norwood in London for university . `` Hometown Glory '' is the first song that Adele ever wrote .   In 2007 , `` Hometown Glory '' was released on singer Jamie T 's Pacemaker Recordings label as a limited edition 7 '' vinyl single , of which only 500 copies were made . The song failed to chart initially . However , due to high downloads of the song during the release week of 19 , the song managed to chart inside the UK Singles Chart top 40 for the first time . In 2010 , the song received a Grammy nomination for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance , but lost to Beyoncé 's `` Halo '' .