Does Adele Write Her Own Songs?

Yes. Adele writes her own songs, but she usually does it as a co-writer rather than as a completely solo songwriter on every track.

The cleanest way to answer this is to look at official credits. Adele’s own site centers her catalog of original songs at Adele.com, while current credit databases and platform credits show her listed as a songwriter on signature tracks such as Someone Like You, Hello, Chasing Pavements, and All I Ask.

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What the official credits show

Apple Music’s credit view for Adele recordings lists Adele Adkins in the songwriting credits on major songs from multiple eras. For example, Someone Like You credits Adele Adkins and Dan Wilson as songwriters, and Chasing Pavements credits Adele Adkins and Eg White.

That means the short answer is not just fan lore or branding. Her name appears in the formal songwriting credits attached to the music itself.

Adele is usually a co-writer, not always a solo writer

Most mainstream pop records are collaborative, and Adele is no exception. BMI’s reporting on awards tied to her catalog lists writer credits alongside collaborators, including Paul Epworth for Rolling in the Deep and Adele Adkins as songwriter on Hello. GRAMMY.com’s oral history of 25 also describes how songs on that album were built in sessions with collaborators such as Greg Kurstin, Tobias Jesso Jr., and Bruno Mars.

So if you are asking whether Adele sits apart from the writing process while others write everything for her, the evidence points the other way. If you are asking whether she writes entirely alone every time, the answer is also no.

Examples from Adele’s catalog

Song	What current credits show
Someone Like You	Apple Music credits Adele Adkins and Dan Wilson as songwriters.
Chasing Pavements	Apple Music credits Adele Adkins and Eg White as songwriters.
Hello	BMI lists Adele Adkins as a writer on the song, and GRAMMY.com’s 25 oral history says Greg Kurstin and Adele developed it together.
Rolling in the Deep	BMI names Adele and Paul Epworth as writers.
All I Ask	Apple Music’s song page identifies Adele Adkins among the songwriters, alongside collaborators.

Does Adele write every song she records?

No. The strongest example is Make You Feel My Love, which is a Bob Dylan song that Adele recorded on 19. In that GRAMMY.com feature, Adele explained that she initially resisted putting a cover on her debut because she did not want people to think she could not write enough of her own songs.

That is useful context because it shows both things can be true at once: Adele is a genuine songwriter, and her catalog still includes occasional material she did not write herself.

How involved is she in the writing itself?

Current primary and near-primary reporting points to heavy creative involvement. In GRAMMY.com’s oral history of 25, Greg Kurstin says Hello started with him playing chords while Adele sang ideas, and the feature explicitly says she handled the lyrics for that song. The same piece describes other songs as coming out of sessions guided by what she wanted to say.

A separate GRAMMY.com interview with Tobias Jesso Jr. says Adele showed up ready to write songs in a stripped-back piano setting, which fits the broader picture of her as an active writer, not a passive vocalist.

Has Adele written for other artists?

There is at least one clear, source-backed example to cite carefully: Sia’s Alive. Apple Music credits for the song list Adele Adkins, Tobias Jesso Jr., and Sia Furler as songwriters. That supports the narrower claim that Adele has co-written music released by another artist.

What I would not do is stretch that into a broad claim that she has a huge publicly documented outside-writing catalog. The safer reading from current sources is that Adele has written or co-written for herself extensively and has at least some confirmed outside credits.

Why the confusion keeps coming up

Part of the confusion is that pop stars often work in teams, so people treat collaboration as proof that someone did not really write the song. The credits do not support that shortcut for Adele. Another reason is that singers with a very recognizable vocal identity sometimes get discussed more as interpreters than writers, even when the official metadata says otherwise.

What is the most accurate one-sentence answer?

Adele writes and co-writes her own songs, appears in the official songwriting credits on many of her best-known releases, and is not best described as an artist who simply sings songs written entirely by other people.

Bottom line

Yes, Adele writes her own songs. The most accurate version of that answer is that she is a singer-songwriter who frequently collaborates, with official credits confirming her writing role on major songs across 19, 21, 25, and beyond.