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Calvin Harris has defended his decision to prevent ex-girlfriend Rita Ora from performing number one single I Will Never Let You Down at this year's Teen Choice Awards. In a tweet posted on Wednesday, the DJ said he had a "damn good reason". The Scot has to approve TV performances for the track which he wrote and produced. Asked by US radio host Ryan Seacrest for the reason why she […]
The late pop legend Michael Jackson has topped the album charts, nearly five years since his death, with Xscape. The second posthumous album of his previously unreleased tracks features eight songs recorded between 1983 and 1999. It was reworked by producers including Timbaland, Rodney Jerkins and Stargate. Lily Allen's Sheezus fell to number six, while in the singles chart Rita Ora's I Will Never Let You Down debuted at number […]
Rock music overtook pop in UK album sales last year, winning a bigger share of the market for the first time in five years. Rod Stewart's Time was the best-selling album to be classified as rock by the Official Charts Company, followed by Arctic Monkeys and Bastille. In total rock accounted for 33.8% of album sales, compared with 31% for pop, said industry body the BPI. However, pop records still […]
Ellie Goulding features in two of the five nominees for the newly resurrected Brit award for best British video. The 27-year-old is shortlisted for the promos for UK number one Burn and I Need Your Love, her collaboration with Scottish DJ Calvin Harris. John Newman's Love Me Again, La La La by Naughty Boy featuring Sam Smith and One Direction's global smash Best Song Ever are also up for the […]
Rita Ora has revealed she will release a new single which will feature her boyfriend, DJ Calvin Harris. "I can't wait. I've been working on my new album for about a year. The song I'm going to release features an incredible talent in Calvin Harris. It's called I Will Never Let You Down." Asked what it was like working with her boyfriend on the song, she insisted: "Honestly, it was […]
Lily Allen has returned to the top of the UK singles chart with her cover version of Keane's Somewhere Only We Know. The song, used in a festive television advert for department store John Lewis, is tipped to be Christmas number one. In the album chart, One Direction have hung on to the top for a second week with Midnight Memories. Former X Factor winner Leona Lewis scraped into the […]
Rapper Jay Z has dominated this year's Grammy nominations, being shortlisted for nine awards. He is in the running in categories including best rap song and best rap album but has missed out on the prestigious album and record of the year for Magna Carta Holy Grail . Justin Timberlake, up for seven awards, also saw his best-selling album of 2013, The 20/20 Experience, snubbed. Mercury prize-winner James Blake has […]
