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A global arena tour and a few million more album sales earned Adele £40m last year, according to the Sunday Times Rich List. Her fortune rose from £85m to £125m - meaning she's the richest solo female musician in the paper's annual wealth survey. But she's only joint 19th in the list of the UK and Ireland's richest music acts, which is dominated by older men. Sir Paul McCartney is in […]
Adele has finally confirmed she has married Simon Konecki, after months of media speculation. The singer was on stage in Brisbane, Australia, talking about her track Someone Like You, when she said, "I'm married now". There had been rumours the pair had wed and Adele had also referred to him as her husband at the Grammy awards. Adele and Simon have one child together, a four-year-old son named Angelo. Video […]
Beyoncé will perform at this year's Grammys complete with that twin baby bump, according to her dad Mathew. In an interview with a US TV show, he said the star sounds "tired" because she's been working on the performance. He also said he was "shocked" to hear her pregnancy news and only found out after she made the announcement on Instagram. But he said he'd since had a "wonderful daughter-dad […]
David Bowie, Skepta and Craig David are up for some of the biggest prizes at the 2017 Brit Awards. Bowie received posthumous nominations for best British male and best album, for his haunting swansong Blackstar. After a row over diversity at last year's ceremony, the rest of the best male category comprises artists from BAME backgrounds. Craig David, Kano, Michael Kiwanuka and Skepta, who beat Bowie at the Mercury Prize, […]
Beyoncé tops the nominations for this year's NME Awards. She's up for five prizes including best international female, album, video, music moment of the year and hero of the year. The 1975, Bastille, Christine And The Queens and Skepta all have four nominations while Wolf Alice, Kanye West and Adele have three each. The winners will be announced on Wednesday 15 February at London's Brixton Academy. All the categories are […]
Vinyl sales topped three million last year, the highest UK total in 25 years. More than 3.2 million records were sold in 2016, a rise of 53% on the previous year, according to the BPI, which represents the music industry. David Bowie's Blackstar was the most popular album on vinyl, selling more than double the number of copies of 2015's biggest-seller, Adele's 25. The last time vinyl fared so well […]
Swizz Beatz, who's made hits for Drake, Jay Z and Kanye West, says the best hip-hop is being made in the UK. "Just last night I did a track with Giggs and it's a movie. There's a lot of talent out here," he said. "Musically the UK is stronger than the US right now. As far as the hunger and the unique vibes." He says capturing new sounds is part […]
Rihanna will receive MTV's lifetime achievement award at the Video Music Awards later this month. It's MTV's highest honour and is known as the Michael Jackson video vanguard award. Last year Kanye West won the trophy, with Beyoncé, Justin Timberlake and Britney Spears previously getting it. "[The award] reflects an artist's impact not just on music but on pop culture, fashion, film and philanthropy," says MTV. She will also perform […]
The Weeknd has received 16 nominations for this year's Billboard Music Awards. The 26-year-old is recognised in categories including top artist, top R&B artist and top male artist. Fellow Canadian Justin Bieber has 11 nominations, while Taylor Swift and Adele have eight each. David Bowie is nominated for Blackstar, his last album released before his death in January at the age of 69. The ceremony, which will be hosted by […]
