{"id":9130,"date":"2012-05-22T15:38:00","date_gmt":"2012-05-22T15:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.talentmanagement.com\/blog\/?p=9130"},"modified":"2012-05-22T15:38:00","modified_gmt":"2012-05-22T15:38:00","slug":"adeles-british-vogue-cover-was-one-of-the-worst-sellers-ever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.talentmanagement.com\/blog\/2012\/05\/adeles-british-vogue-cover-was-one-of-the-worst-sellers-ever\/","title":{"rendered":"Adele&#8217;s British Vogue Cover Was One Of The Worst Sellers Ever"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_9131\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9131\" style=\"width: 229px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.talentmanagement.com\/blog\/2012\/05\/adeles-british-vogue-cover-was-one-of-the-worst-sellers-ever\/5666e4dccfb6fe6b_d233790cf552e114_4ebb4a7c8dfc7df8_article-1315163854338-0db47a5b00000578-354705_465x608\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-9131\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-9131\" title=\"Adele's October cover of British Vogue \" src=\"http:\/\/assets.talentmanagement.com\/blog\/wp-uploads\/2012\/05\/5666e4dccfb6fe6b_d233790cf552e114_4ebb4a7c8dfc7df8_article-1315163854338-0DB47A5B00000578-354705_465x608-229x300.jpg\" alt=\"Adele's October cover of British Vogue \" width=\"229\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com\/talentmanagementblog\/2012\/05\/5666e4dccfb6fe6b_d233790cf552e114_4ebb4a7c8dfc7df8_article-1315163854338-0DB47A5B00000578-354705_465x608-229x300.jpg 229w, https:\/\/s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com\/talentmanagementblog\/2012\/05\/5666e4dccfb6fe6b_d233790cf552e114_4ebb4a7c8dfc7df8_article-1315163854338-0DB47A5B00000578-354705_465x608.jpg 465w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 229px) 100vw, 229px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-9131\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Adele&#39;s October cover of British Vogue<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Talent Management has been shocked to hear that one of the world\u2019s best-selling recording artists isn\u2019t so popular when it comes to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.talentmanagement.com\" target=\"_blank\">modelling<\/a> on magazine covers.<\/p>\n<p>Adele&#8217;s October cover of British Vogue was one of our favourites here at the agency, not just because we\u2019re all big Adele fans, but because we loved seeing a curvy body type on a magazine that usually worships\u00a0 skinny models.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nHowever, the magazine\u2019s Editor-In-Chief Alexandra Schulman has recently revealed that despite it attracting a lot of positive attention, the country\u2019s love for Adele didn\u2019t translate into sales.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAdele is the most popular woman in the world, but one of the worst sellers we&#8217;ve ever had. 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Our most successful cover was the millennium issue &#8211; which didn&#8217;t have anyone on it, but acted like a mirror so you could see your own reflection,\u201d she said during a talk in London last Wednesday evening.<\/p>\n<p>To say that recent reports revealed that Adele\u2019s success had influenced high street retailers to buy more plus-size mannequins, we\u2019re confused to say the least.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Talent Management has been shocked to hear that one of the world\u2019s best-selling recording artists isn\u2019t so popular when it comes to modelling on magazine covers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44,7,16],"tags":[755,1683,1467,279],"class_list":["post-9130","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-beauty","category-models","category-musicians","tag-adele","tag-alexandra-shulman","tag-british-vogue","tag-plus-sized-models"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.7 - 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