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Beyoncé is in the running for eight prizes at the MTV Video Music Awards including video of the year, best female and best choreography. Her song Drunk in Love, performed alongside husband Jay-Z, is up against rivals including Pharrell Williams' Happy for best video. Rappers Eminem and Iggy Azalea scooped seven nods apiece in key categories including best male and female. The awards ceremony takes place in Inglewood, California, on […]
Cheryl Cole married her French boyfriend Jean-Bernard Fernandez-Versini in secret earlier this month, the pop star has revealed. The 31-year-old X Factor judge said she had made the announcement to stop speculation about her private life. The pair had reportedly been seeing each other for just three months when they wed on the private island of Mustique. Cole separated from footballer Ashley - her husband of four years - in […]
Pharrell Williams has taken home two gongs at the BET Awards in Los Angeles. The rapper was named best R&B artist and also took home the award for video of the year for Happy at Sunday night's ceremony. Nicki Minaj claimed the title of the best female hip-hop artist for the fifth year in a row with Jay Z and Beyoncé's Drunk In Love winning the award for the best […]
Songs played on streaming services like Spotify and Deezer will count towards the UK's singles chart from July, the Official Charts Company has announced. Music streaming doubled in popularity in the UK between 2013 and 2014, from 100 million to 200 million streams a week, currently averaging 260 million. Bastille's track Pompeii is the UK's most streamed track ever, but only made number two in the singles countdown. Charts boss […]
Mel B has been named as the fourth X Factor judge in the 11th series of the ITV talent show. The former Spice Girl said she was "so excited" to be coming back and is reported to have signed a deal worth £1 million. The 39-year-old appeared as a guest judge on the show in 2012. "I've always thought honesty is the best policy when being a judge and that's […]
Justin Bieber won't face any charges over a row about a mobile phone, officials in LA have confirmed. The singer had been accused of fighting over a mobile phone with woman who claimed she had a row with him. The woman said Bieber pulled her phone out of her bag to see if she was filming him, while he was hitting balls in a batting cage at a family entertainment […]
Es Devlin, who has created spectacular tours for Kanye West and Take That, is to design the stage for next year's Brit Awards, organisers have announced. The British artist also designed the closing ceremony of the 2012 London Olympics, and recently won an Olivier Award for her work on Chimerica. The play, inspired by events in China's Tiannenmen Square in 1989, had a rotating set described as a "theatrical Rubik's […]
James Arthur has said on Twitter that he is no longer with Simon Cowell's record label. He said he wanted to thank the staff there for helping make his self-titled debut album, which came out in November last year. In April the 26-year-old denied rumours that he had been dropped by Syco. The singer, whose album reached number two in the Official Album Chart, won The X Factor in 2012 […]
Former X-Factor judge Tulisa Contostavlos hit a man in the eye during last year's V Festival, a court has heard. Celebrity blogger Savvas Morgan said his eye swelled after the alleged altercation at 00:30 BST on 18 August. The 28-year-old former N-Dubz singer denied assault by beating at Chelmsford Magistrates' Court in Essex. Her assistant Gareth Varey, 28, is also accused of threatening behaviour, which he denied. The court heard […]
