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David Guetta, the producer behind hits like Titanium, I Got A Feeling and Hey Mama, has sold his back catalogue to Warner Music for a nine-figure sum. The French star made about $100m (£72m) in the deal, which also covers his future recordings. It comes amid a spending spree on hit songs, with Bob Dylan and Paul Simon's catalogues also selling for millions. Guetta is one of the biggest figures […]
Pitbull has been praised after sending his private plane to hurricane-hit Puerto Rico to transport cancer patients to the US mainland. His good deed came to light after Jenniffer Gonzalez, Puerto Rico's representative in Washington, thanked him on Twitter. He told the New York Daily News he was "just doing [his] part." "Thank God we're blessed to help," he was quoted as saying. Much of the US island territory has […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Mark Ronson and Bruno Mars have given The Gap Band a writing credit on their huge hit Uptown Funk, due to its similarities with their 1979 track Oops Up Side Your Head. Uptown Funk, which topped the UK chart for seven weeks and the US chart for 14, originally had six songwriters. The five writers of The Gap Band's hit were added earlier this week, according to RCA documents seen […]
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 […]
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 […]
