Beyoncé
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It was a night of tears, beers, hopes and fears (and balloons). More importantly, the 2014 Brit Awards put some of the sparkle back into the show after a rather lacklustre 2013. Arctic Monkeys won two awards, as did One Direction, who described themselves as “a bit drunk”. But an absent David Bowie stole the […]
Bombay Bicycle Club have landed their first number one album with So Long, See You Tomorrow. Their fourth album went straight in at number one, while Avicii’s True climbed from number four to number two. Ellie Goulding’s former number one album, Halcyon, slipped one place to number three. London Grammar climbed three places to number […]
British Rock band You Me At Six have the topped the UK album chart for the first time in their career. The group’s fourth album, Cavalier Youth, knocked Ellie Goulding’s Halcyon off the number one spot, outselling it by nearly two copies to one according to the Official Charts Company. Band member Josh Franceschi said […]
Quartet Clean Bandit have gone straight to the top of the UK singles chart with Rather Be, featuring Jess Glynne. The group knocked Pharrell Williams’s Happy off the top spot while Pitbull’s Timber, featuring Kesha, fell from two to five. The rest of the top five was made up of new entries, with the Vamps’ […]
Beyonce and Jay Z have been jointly recognised as the most powerful people in music by Billboard. The celebrity couple were voted top of Billboard’s Power 100 list by the magazine editors who analysed market share, revenue and other data. Both have founded their own companies – Beyonce’s Parkwood Entertainment and Roc Nation, created by […]
Pharrell Williams saw out 2013 with his third UK number one single of the year, Happy, knocking X Factor winner Sam Bailey into second place. The 40-year-old previously topped the charts on Daft Punk’s Get Lucky and Robin Thicke’s Blurred Lines, with writing credits on both. Happy, a feel-good pop song featured in the hit […]
Beyoncé has unexpectedly released her fifth album on iTunes overnight, with 14 new songs and 17 music videos. The self-titled record is the follow-up to 2011’s 4, and features guest spots from her husband Jay-Z and daughter Blue Ivy. “Surprise!” wrote the 32-year-old in a press release, adding she was “bored” of releasing music the […]
Lily Allen has held on to the number one spot in the UK singles chart for a second week with her cover version of Keane’s Somewhere Only We Know. The song, used in a festive television advert for department store John Lewis, is tipped to be Christmas number one. In the album chart, Swings Both […]