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DaBaby’s Rockstar was the UK’s biggest-selling song of the summer, says the Official Charts Company. Notching up 654,000 combined sales and streams over the summer, the brooding, guitar-driven rap song outsold hits by Lady Gaga and Harry Styles. It was one of several best-sellers this summer to be boosted by TikTok, where it triggered a […]
Taylor Swift has been presented with a prize in her own name at the BMI pop awards in Los Angeles. The eponymous award recognised the singer’s “artistic talent and influence”. Swift told the audience: “If they had chosen someone else to give the Taylor Swift Award to, I’d be kind of bummed about it.” It […]
Ellie Goulding’s second album has reached the top of the UK chart for the first time, more than a year after it was released. Halcyon, which came out in October 2012, features five top 40 singles, including her debut number one Burn. US rapper Pitbull scored the first number one single of the year with […]
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 […]
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