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Rihanna will receive MTV’s lifetime achievement award at the Video Music Awards later this month. It’s MTV’s highest honour and is known as the Michael Jackson video vanguard award. Last year Kanye West won the trophy, with Beyoncé, Justin Timberlake and Britney Spears previously getting it. “[The award] reflects an artist’s impact not just on […]
The Weeknd has received 16 nominations for this year’s Billboard Music Awards. The 26-year-old is recognised in categories including top artist, top R&B artist and top male artist. Fellow Canadian Justin Bieber has 11 nominations, while Taylor Swift and Adele have eight each. David Bowie is nominated for Blackstar, his last album released before his […]
An Adele “doppelganger” who posed on stage for a selfie with the singer says she has been inundated with messages from fan groups around the globe. Emily Bamforth, 27, from Northampton, said her “Instagram had gone insane” after her moment of fame on Tuesday. Adele, also 27, got her up on stage after Ms Bamforth’s […]
Viola Beach have entered the singles chart at number 11, a week after the Warrington band died in a car crash. Tomas Lowe, Kris Leonard, River Reeves and Jack Dakin died along with manager Craig Tarry on Saturday while on tour in Stockholm. They were killed when their car plunged more than 25m (82ft) from […]
Taylor Swift’s 1989 has won the coveted album of the year award at this year’s Grammys in Los Angeles. The singer – who is the first woman to win the award twice – also won best pop vocal album and best music video for her track Bad Blood. Rapper Kendrick Lamar won the most prizes […]
Adele has been named the world’s best selling and most popular music artist of 2015. The International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI) awarded the singer its global artist of the year prize in recognition of her “simply phenomenal” success. Adele’s achievement is particularly notable as her third album 25 was not released until late […]
Adele looks set to take the limelight at this year’s Brit Awards after being nominated for four trophies. Her multi-million-selling album 25 is up for best British album, while she has also been shortlisted for best British female, single and video. Pop trio Years & Years and singer-songwriter James Bay have also been nominated for […]
Mark Ronson’s Uptown Funk has been named the biggest-selling song of 2015 in the UK – despite having been released at the end of 2014. The track notched up a combined sales and streaming total of 1.76 million, the Official Charts Company said. As well as spending seven weeks at number one from December 2014, […]