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Ed Sheeran, Rita Ora and Calvin Harris have all risen up the Sunday Times Rich List after enjoying huge chart success. Sheeran made £28m last year – taking his total estimated wealth to £80m. But that still only puts him at 35th on the list of the UK’s richest musicians, which is dominated by golden […]
A global arena tour and a few million more album sales earned Adele £40m last year, according to the Sunday Times Rich List. Her fortune rose from £85m to £125m – meaning she’s the richest solo female musician in the paper’s annual wealth survey. But she’s only joint 19th in the list of the UK and […]
Adele has finally confirmed she has married Simon Konecki, after months of media speculation. The singer was on stage in Brisbane, Australia, talking about her track Someone Like You, when she said, “I’m married now”. There had been rumours the pair had wed and Adele had also referred to him as her husband at the […]
Beyoncé will perform at this year’s Grammys complete with that twin baby bump, according to her dad Mathew. In an interview with a US TV show, he said the star sounds “tired” because she’s been working on the performance. He also said he was “shocked” to hear her pregnancy news and only found out after […]
David Bowie, Skepta and Craig David are up for some of the biggest prizes at the 2017 Brit Awards. Bowie received posthumous nominations for best British male and best album, for his haunting swansong Blackstar. After a row over diversity at last year’s ceremony, the rest of the best male category comprises artists from BAME […]
Beyoncé tops the nominations for this year’s NME Awards. She’s up for five prizes including best international female, album, video, music moment of the year and hero of the year. The 1975, Bastille, Christine And The Queens and Skepta all have four nominations while Wolf Alice, Kanye West and Adele have three each. The winners […]
Vinyl sales topped three million last year, the highest UK total in 25 years. More than 3.2 million records were sold in 2016, a rise of 53% on the previous year, according to the BPI, which represents the music industry. David Bowie’s Blackstar was the most popular album on vinyl, selling more than double the […]
Swizz Beatz, who’s made hits for Drake, Jay Z and Kanye West, says the best hip-hop is being made in the UK. “Just last night I did a track with Giggs and it’s a movie. There’s a lot of talent out here,” he said. “Musically the UK is stronger than the US right now. As […]