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An Adele "doppelganger" who posed on stage for a selfie with the singer says she has been inundated with messages from fan groups around the globe. Emily Bamforth, 27, from Northampton, said her "Instagram had gone insane" after her moment of fame on Tuesday. Adele, also 27, got her up on stage after Ms Bamforth's fiancé said people claimed she looked like the singer. She returned to see Adele perform […]
Viola Beach have entered the singles chart at number 11, a week after the Warrington band died in a car crash. Tomas Lowe, Kris Leonard, River Reeves and Jack Dakin died along with manager Craig Tarry on Saturday while on tour in Stockholm. They were killed when their car plunged more than 25m (82ft) from a highway bridge into a canal. Fans have since been campaigning to get their song, […]
Taylor Swift's 1989 has won the coveted album of the year award at this year's Grammys in Los Angeles. The singer - who is the first woman to win the award twice - also won best pop vocal album and best music video for her track Bad Blood. Rapper Kendrick Lamar won the most prizes on the night with five awards. British singer Ed Sheeran also won his first two […]
Adele has been named the world's best selling and most popular music artist of 2015. The International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI) awarded the singer its global artist of the year prize in recognition of her "simply phenomenal" success. Adele's achievement is particularly notable as her third album 25 was not released until late November. It went on to become the fastest selling album in British history. It sold […]
Adele looks set to take the limelight at this year's Brit Awards after being nominated for four trophies. Her multi-million-selling album 25 is up for best British album, while she has also been shortlisted for best British female, single and video. Pop trio Years & Years and singer-songwriter James Bay have also been nominated for four awards each. Elsewhere, Eagles of Death Metal are up for best international group two […]
Mark Ronson's Uptown Funk has been named the biggest-selling song of 2015 in the UK - despite having been released at the end of 2014. The track notched up a combined sales and streaming total of 1.76 million, the Official Charts Company said. As well as spending seven weeks at number one from December 2014, it remained in the UK top 40 for 39 weeks. The second spot in the […]
Adele's comeback single Hello has achieved platinum sales status three weeks after it was released. The song has sold more than 600,000 copies, earning it a commendation from the British Phonographic Industry. Hello sold 34,000 more copies than this week's number two, Justin Bieber's Sorry, and was the most-streamed track with 4.7 million listens. Elvis Presley's If I Can Dream was the number one album for a second week. Presley's […]
Sam Smith has recorded the theme song for upcoming James Bond movie Spectre. The track is called Writing's on the Wall and will be released on 25 September. Smith said: "This is one of the highlights of my career." "I am so excited to be a part of this iconic British legacy and join an incredible line up of some of my biggest musical inspirations." But, revealing his involvement on […]
Sam Smith has had successful surgery on his vocal cords at a hospital in America. Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston said in a statement that he is expected to make a full recovery. The surgery was performed by Dr Steven Zeitels, who has carried out the same procedure on Adele, Aerosmith's Steven Tyler and Lionel Richie. According to the hospital, Smith's condition was the result of unstable blood vessels in […]
