Paolo Nutini
Former van driver Ben Haenow won last year’s X Factor with 57% of the public vote. Statistics later revealed Croydon-born singer had topped the phone vote for the last seven weeks of the contest – thanks to the unusual tactic of spurning saccharine ballads for full-throated rock songs (in an X Factor first, he performed […]
Ed Sheeran’s album X has sold more than 367,000 copies, making it the longest running number one album of 2014. It has spent four weeks at the top of the UK chart since its release in June. The previous record-holder, Paolo Nutini, had three weeks leading the charts in April with Caustic Love. Manchester boy […]
The late pop legend Michael Jackson has topped the album charts, nearly five years since his death, with Xscape. The second posthumous album of his previously unreleased tracks features eight songs recorded between 1983 and 1999. It was reworked by producers including Timbaland, Rodney Jerkins and Stargate. Lily Allen’s Sheezus fell to number six, while […]
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