Adele to release new music 'sooner' than expected - five years after last record

The chart topping star will be unleashing new music in 2020 'the sooner the better' [Image: PA]

Adele will finally be releasing new music this year - and fans should perhaps be braced for new tunes sooner than they expect, according to her closest work colleagues.

Fans of the 31-year-old chart topping star have endured an agonising wait for new tunes after her last album, the critically acclaimed 25, was released way back in 2015.