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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 2013, helped her to the top spot. The self-titled album was released on iTunes with […]
It is four years since band One Direction were put together on the X Factor. They have since gone on to have three number one albums, and it was recently revealed they each made more than £6m last year. One Direction have announced another world tour next year as they prepare to release their new single. (Source: BBC News)
A US judge has ruled that a trial should settle a dispute over whether Robin Thicke and Pharrell Williams' hit Blurred Lines copied elements of Marvin Gaye's Got to Give It Up. Federal Judge John Kronstadt denied a request from Thicke and Williams to reject the plagiarism claims that were filed by Gaye's family last year. He said a jury must now decide "the intrinsic similarity of the works". The […]
TV duo Ant and Dec are to host the 2015 Brit awards, 14 years since the last time they presented the ceremony. The hosts of I'm a Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here! and Britain's Got Talent take over from actor James Corden, who hosted the event from 2011 to 2014. "We're really excited to be hosting the Brits again next year," the duo said. "It is undoubtedly the biggest […]
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 week than its nearest rival, Ed Sheeran's X. Henderson came sixth in the 2012 series of […]
For many people like Sam Smith, who took home four trophies, the Mobos were a highlight of the year. But for some viewers watching at home, the event was labelled a "shambles" on social media sites like Twitter. Others also criticised the number of white award winners at an event that celebrates "music of black origin". Complaints were made about the sound, while some people said the hosts seemed to […]
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 of £5.6m. However, the figure doesn't include the band's US income. Their earnings are up […]
Justin Timberlake and his wife Jessica Biel have settled legal action against Heat magazine after it published a "false and unfounded story" questioning their two-year marriage. The celebrity magazine has now apologised and retracted the story, which featured pictures of Timberlake at a party in a Paris nightclub. It was accompanied by quotes wrongly attributed to actress Biel. The couple lodged the defamation claim at the High Court in Dublin, […]
A new song previously unreleased by Luther Vandross has been unveiled. Listen to Love It, Love It, which appears on his upcoming retrospective album Luther Vandross – The Greatest Hits, below: The song is a previously unreleased track recorded in 1994 around the time of his Never Let Me Go album. The Greatest Hits – released November 10 via Sony – features 16 songs spanning Luther’s three decade career, including […]
