Taylor Swift
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Taylor Swift has swept the board at the Billboard music awards, winning eight of the 14 categories in which she was nominated. Among her prizes were best female artist, best streaming song for Shake It Off and the ceremony’s top honour, artist of the year. British star Sam Smith won best new artist – and […]
Musicians including Kanye West, Jack White, Rihanna, Madonna and Coldplay are uniting behind Jay Z’s “artist-friendly” streaming site, Tidal. They all turned their Twitter profiles teal blue, to reflect Tidal’s branding, on Sunday night. The site launches on Monday, promising CD-quality streaming and thousands of music videos, for a subscription fee. Taylor Swift, who pulled […]
British musicians enjoyed the biggest share of album sales in the UK in 2014, the British Phonographic Industry (BPI) has announced. Artists including Ed Sheeran, Sam Smith and Paloma Faith had more than half (53.5%) of all UK sales, according to Official Charts Company data. The last time British artists like Spice Girls, Oasis and […]
This time the guys have become the first group to have their first four albums debut at number one in the US. Their fourth album, conveniently named Four, topped the Billboard 200 album chart having sold 387,000 copies in its first week. Four is the second-fastest selling album of the year in the US. Only […]
Cheryl Fernandez-Versini has become the first British female solo artist to have five number one singles in the UK. Her latest song, I Don’t Care, entered the Official Charts in pole position on Sunday. The 31-year-old overtook Spice Girl Geri Halliwell and Rita Ora, who both have four chart-toppers. The star gave the credit for […]
Removing her entire back catalogue from music-streaming service Spotify doesn’t seem to have dented Taylor Swift’s massive popularity. Her 1989 album has debuted at No 1 on America’s Billboard 200 albums chart. It sold 1.287 million copies in its first week. According to Billboard that is the largest sales week for an album since Eminem’s […]
Taking home more than $115m (£72m) has made Beyoncé this year’s best paid woman in music. She had the “biggest year of her career”, playing 95 shows, bringing in an average $2.4m (£1.5m) per city, according to Forbes. Endorsement deals with companies like Pepsi and H&M, along with the surprise album she released in December […]
Former X Factor finalist Ella Henderson has called topping the UK album chart with her debut release Chapter One “a moment in time I will never forget”. “Being number one with my first album is where a dream has met reality.” The 18-year-old singer from Grimsby sold about 16,000 copies more of her record this […]