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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 […]
Jay Z is selling a stake in his Tidal music streaming business to the telecoms company, Sprint. Jay Z bought Tidal three years ago and his wife Beyoncé and other artists own equity in the company. Aiming to challenge larger rivals such as Spotify, Tidal offers artists on its platform more control over their music. Sprint, which is owned by Japan's Softbank, will pay an estimated $200m (£162m) for a […]
Beyoncé has surprised fans with a new single and video, released on Saturday to the Tidal streaming service, in which she is a co-owner. Die With You is a simple ballad, which the superstar performs alone, seated behind a black baby grand piano. "I wake up just to sleep with you," she sings to the cameraman who, at the end of the video, is revealed to be her husband, Jay […]
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 […]
Robin Thicke's controversial hit single Blurred Lines has been named the UK's most downloaded song of all time. The song has sold 1.54 million copies since it was released last May, despite criticisms of its explicit lyrics. About 20 university student unions banned the track, saying it promoted "date rape culture", an accusation Thicke consistently denied. Compiled by the Official Charts Company (OCC), the chart marked 10 years of legal […]
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 […]
Pharrell Williams saw out 2013 with his third UK number one single of the year, Happy, knocking X Factor winner Sam Bailey into second place. The 40-year-old previously topped the charts on Daft Punk's Get Lucky and Robin Thicke's Blurred Lines, with writing credits on both. Happy, a feel-good pop song featured in the hit animation film Despicable Me 2, and comes with a 24 hour-long video. It unseated last […]
Mariah Carey's All I Want For Christmas Is You has sold its millionth copy in the UK, 19 years after it was first released. According to the Official Charts Company the track crossed the milestone after selling 68,000 copies in 2013. The American singer said: "Thank you to all of my British fans! Love, Mariah." The Motown-inspired track peaked at number two when it was first released in 1994 but […]
