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A judge has upheld a jury ruling which states Lady Gaga's former producer Rob Fusari must pay $7.3m (£4.4m) to the songwriter who discovered the star. In November last year, a jury found Fusari broke a 2005 agreement to compensate Wendy Starland if she brought him a "charismatic" performer. Earlier this week, US District court Judge Jose Linares ruled against Fusari's argument to reduce the amount. Lady Gaga had backed […]
Ellie Goulding's song Love Me Like You Do has gone straight to number one in the UK singles chart, ending Mark Ronson's reign at the top. The song, from the soundtrack to the Fifty Shades Of Grey film, sold more than 172,000 copies, about 87,000 more than Ronson's Uptown Funk, featuring Bruno Mars. It is Goulding's second number one, after Burn in 2013. Love Me Like You Do - her […]
Ed Sheeran has been measured by Madame Tussauds staff so they can create a waxwork effigy of him. The waxwork company confirmed it had plans to add Sheeran to one of its six museums in the US. Sheeran said being measured in his underwear was "one of the weirdest experiences of my life". Madame Tussauds could not confirm when the waxwork would be ready for display or which museum it […]
Rihanna has won a legal battle against high street store Topshop over a T-shirt bearing her image. The Court of Appeal in London upheld a ban on the store selling a sleeveless T-shirt featuring a photo of the star without obtaining her permission. In the first successful celebrity case of its kind, three appeal judges agreed marketing the item without Rihanna's approval amounted to "passing off". In other words, the […]
An Israeli man has been arrested on suspicion of hacking into the computers of celebrities including Madonna and selling unreleased songs online. Israeli police said the man was suspected of stealing work from several unnamed international stars. A private investigator connected to the case confirmed Madonna was among them. Madonna said she was "profoundly grateful" to those who helped arrest the hacker, and described the experience as devastating and hurtful. […]
Jessie J says she was bullied when she was a teenager because the medication she took turned her skin green. The singer was diagnosed with a heart defect as a child and suffered a minor stroke when she was 18. She said that the strong drugs she needed to take to normalise her heartbeat "didn't work" and gave her an "alien tint". Jessie spent much of her childhood in hospital, […]
Uptown Funk featuring Bruno Mars has spent six weeks in the chart, all at the top except for when it was briefly ousted by X Factor winner Ben Haenow. Philip George's Wish You Were Here remained at two, while Hozier's Take Me to Church rose to three, having spent 25 weeks in the charts. The album chart saw George Ezra back at number one. Ezra, Ed Sheeran and Sam Smith […]
Sam Smith has taken his debut album, In The Lonely Hour, back to number one on the Official UK Chart. The record, which recently passed the million sales mark in both the UK and the US, last topped the charts in September and, before that, in June. It has now spent five non-consecutive weeks at number one. In the singles chart, Bruno Mars and Mark Ronson's Uptown Funk claimed the […]
