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Dua Lipa has spoken out about sexism in the music industry, saying women struggle to get recognition. "For a female artist, it takes a lot more to be taken seriously if you're not sat down at a piano or with a guitar," she told GQ. "For a male artist, people instantly assume they write their own music, but for women, they assume it's all manufactured." The 22-year-old co-wrote the majority […]
Psy's Gangnam Style is no longer the most-watched video on YouTube. The South Korean megahit had been the site's most-played clip for the last five years. The surreal video became so popular that it "broke" YouTube's play counter, exceeding the maximum possible number of views (2,147,483,647), and forcing the company to rewrite its code. But the song has now been overtaken by another music video - Wiz Khalifa and Charlie […]
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 […]
When Fleur East came second in last year's X Factor, she thought her career was over. The effervescent singer, with her mane of bouncy curls, had been the bookmaker's favourite to win after her explosive cover of Uptown Funk proved so popular Mark Ronson had to rush the original song into shops a month earlier than planned. But, to many people's surprise, she came second to van driver and self-confessed […]
Zayn Malik says he'll reveal the "real me" after announcing he's signed a solo record deal. The former One Direction singer, who quit earlier this year saying he wanted to be a "normal 22-year-old", posted a picture of himself signing a contract with RCA Records. He tweeted: "I guess I never explained why I left, it was for this moment to be given the opportunity to show you who i […]
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 […]
