There aren't many artists who take a break from music for almost four years and expect their career to have survived.

There are even fewer who can announce their comeback in a 30 second television advert.

And it's only Adele who can sing a couple of lines of new music and make headlines around the world.

There's no name, no release date, no comment - but rumours suggest her third album will drop in November.

It might only be a month to wait but from the reaction on social media, Adele fans might not be able to last that long.

The lyrics she sang during The X Factor ad break were: "Hello/It's me/I was wondering if after all these years you'd like to meet/To go over everything.

"They say that time's supposed to heal ya/But I ain't done much healing..."

Gnarls Barkley's Brian Burton, Swedish producer Max Martin and One Republic's Ryan Tedder are all rumoured to be working on the upcoming release.

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