Adele's New Album May Not Be Out Until the Second Half 2015: Singer Reportedly Taking Her Time with '21' Follow-Up

The follow-up to Adele's 2011 masterpiece, 21, will be the most important album of the young singer's career when it's released. Fans are anxiously waiting to see how the British songstress will follow hits like "Rumor Has It" and "Someone Like You." According to sources close to the artist, the third album will either be out toward the end of 2015 or sometime after. Adele is taking her time with the new effort.

Music Business Worldwide reports the low chance that fans will hear a new record by the "Rolling in the Deep" artist any time soon. "The album will be released when it's ready — [we] hope that will be at some stage in 2015. That's all I can tell you right now," a source told the publication.

Adele is supposedly in Los Angeles working on new material.

Sources also told MBW that the entire Adele camp, including her management and U.K./U.S. record labels, is behind the artist 100 percent.

Rumors plagued the effort in 2014. Phil Collins was reportedly helping Adele with the album, but he explained that those sessions never actually happened.

"She said, 'No, no, I'm moving house and the baby's taking up a lot of my time, I'm not actually doing anything at the moment.' And now I've heard there's a [new album] coming out. I'm not on it, I know that," Collins said after reportedly exchanging ideas with the singer. He went on to call her "a slippery little fish."

Damon Albarn, of Gorillaz fame, is also a rumored collaborator for the new record.

Adele pretty much disappeared from the spotlight following the 2011 awards season. She recorded "Skyfall" for the 2012 James Bond movie of the same name, but has not released any new music since. She gave birth to a son, Angelo, in 2012 as well.

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Adele, Phil Collins, Damon Albarn