One Direction
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One Direction earned more than £49m last year, according to their latest accounts. The papers reveal the group’s turnover in the UK amounted to a wage of £134,000 a day during 2013. The documents show Harry Styles, 20, Liam Payne, Niall Horan and Zayn Malik all 21, and 22-year-old Louis Tomlinson each paid themselves a salary […]
Es Devlin, who has created spectacular tours for Kanye West and Take That, is to design the stage for next year’s Brit Awards, organisers have announced. The British artist also designed the closing ceremony of the 2012 London Olympics, and recently won an Olivier Award for her work on Chimerica. The play, inspired by events […]
James Arthur has said on Twitter that he is no longer with Simon Cowell’s record label. He said he wanted to thank the staff there for helping make his self-titled debut album, which came out in November last year. In April the 26-year-old denied rumours that he had been dropped by Syco. The singer, whose […]
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 […]
Ellie Goulding features in two of the five nominees for the newly resurrected Brit award for best British video. The 27-year-old is shortlisted for the promos for UK number one Burn and I Need Your Love, her collaboration with Scottish DJ Calvin Harris. John Newman’s Love Me Again, La La La by Naughty Boy featuring […]
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 […]
One Direction star Harry Styles has won a court order stopping the paparazzi from harassing him. The 19-year-old applied to the High Court as a last resort, after asking photographers to stop following him voluntarily, his lawyer said. “This is not a privacy order,” David Sherborne told the court. “Mr Styles is not trying to […]
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 […]