Can you sing “Someone Like You” by Adele? Key and vocal range
“Someone Like You” by Adele is in A major, and the commonly cited lead-vocal range is E3–E5 — 24 semitones — which, on span and top note, rates hard for an untrained voice.
This song asks for E3–E5. Take the free range test and this page will tell you whether it sits inside your voice — and by how much when it does not.
What the voice is asked to do
Two full octaves from a hushed E3 to the chorus's repeated E5 peaks, sung over nothing but piano. The chorus tessitura hangs high and stays there, and the emotional dynamic asks for those top notes in a cry-adjacent mix rather than a hard belt. Those two demands are what to check against your own range before choosing a key.
Figures are the cited key and lead-vocal range (Musicnotes original-key arrangement, E3–E5 in A major), not lab measurements. No lyrics or melody are reproduced here — this page is about what the song demands of a voice.
The voice behind it
- Adele's catalog range — reported C3–A#5 (Mezzo-soprano)
A song's written range and a singer's reported catalog range are different facts — the catalog page explains what is and is not verified.