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Es Devlin, who has created spectacular tours for Kanye West and Take That, is to design the stage for next year's Brit Awards, organisers have announced. The British artist also designed the closing ceremony of the 2012 London Olympics, and recently won an Olivier Award for her work on Chimerica. The play, inspired by events in China's Tiannenmen Square in 1989, had a rotating set described as a "theatrical Rubik's […]
Pharrell Williams could be about to enjoy his third stint at the top spot in just two months this weekend. It looks like there’s going to be no stopping Pharrell Williams in 2014. Not satisfied with scoring two massive chart toppers in 2013 with Get Lucky and Blurred Lines, Pharrell now looks on course to take feel-good anthem Happy to the Number 1 spot for the third time this year. […]
It was a night of tears, beers, hopes and fears (and balloons). More importantly, the 2014 Brit Awards put some of the sparkle back into the show after a rather lacklustre 2013. Arctic Monkeys won two awards, as did One Direction, who described themselves as "a bit drunk". But an absent David Bowie stole the show, being named best British male a brief 30 years after he last won the […]
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 […]
Bombay Bicycle Club have landed their first number one album with So Long, See You Tomorrow. Their fourth album went straight in at number one, while Avicii's True climbed from number four to number two. Ellie Goulding's former number one album, Halcyon, slipped one place to number three. London Grammar climbed three places to number four with their debut album, If You Wait. Beyoncé's self-titled fifth album dropped two places. […]
British Rock band You Me At Six have the topped the UK album chart for the first time in their career. The group's fourth album, Cavalier Youth, knocked Ellie Goulding's Halcyon off the number one spot, outselling it by nearly two copies to one according to the Official Charts Company. Band member Josh Franceschi said it was "an incredible feeling" to score their first chart topper. Beyoncé remained at number […]
This year's Brit Awards will be streamed live on YouTube for the first time for viewers outside the UK. However, the stream will not be seen within the UK where fans will have to watch live coverage on ITV1. Music fans from around the world will also be able to vote for best British video during the show using Twitter. Acts including Arctic Monkeys, Pharrell Williams and Disclosure are on […]
Quartet Clean Bandit have gone straight to the top of the UK singles chart with Rather Be, featuring Jess Glynne. The group knocked Pharrell Williams's Happy off the top spot while Pitbull's Timber, featuring Kesha, fell from two to five. The rest of the top five was made up of new entries, with the Vamps' Wild Heart at number three and Neon Jungle's Braveheart at four. On the album chart, […]
