The Pogues
X Factor winner Ben Haenow has won the race for the Christmas number one, the Official Charts Company has announced. The former van driver sold 214,000 copies of his single Something I Need, which was originally recorded by US pop band OneRepublic. His nearest rivals were Mark Ronson and Bruno Mars, whose song Uptown Funk […]
The US rapper’s duet with Rihanna tops the Official Streaming Chart today for a fourth consecutive week. The Monster made its Official Streaming Chart debut back in November, entering at Number 82. It climbed a massive 80 places the following week, before claiming the top spot four weeks ago. It is Eminem’s first Number 1 […]
Rarely does a new Christmas pop song reach the heights of such classics Merry Xmas Everybody and Fairytale of New York, and the resulting royalties which earn six-figure bonuses for the musicians who created them bear this out. Analysts using data from the Performing Right Society (PRS), which collects fees when songs are played in public, have estimated […]
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