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Canadian pop star The Weeknd has reverted to his birth name Abel Tesfaye on his social media accounts. The singer, known for his catchy pop tunes like Blinding Lights, asked his fans on Twitter in April if he should make the change. "ABEL formally known as The Weeknd?" he asked his fans in a tweet that received over one hundred thousand likes. The name change comes after the award-winning artist […]
Britney Spears has welcomed public scrutiny of the legal arrangement that has controlled various aspects of her life and finances for more than a decade. A court-appointed guardian has been in charge of her affairs since her public breakdown in 2008. Her father Jamie has filled the role for most of that time. Now, the star is trying to remove him from power and has argued the public has a […]
Grace Jones has hit out at artists like Rihanna, Beyonce and Rita Ora for "copying her". In her new book, I'll Never Write My Memoirs, she criticises them for being "middle of the stream". The 67-year-old, who became an international star in the 1980s, performed her recent festival gigs in a topless corset. She says: "I have been so copied by those people who have made fortunes, people assume I […]
Click onto YouTube and you can see Beyoncé writhing on a pole, Nicki Minaj shaking her ample derriere, and Miley Cyrus straddling a giant wrecking ball, naked as the day she was born. But one band is boycotting the nudity and sexual choreography. And that band is Little Mix. "There's no need to do that kind of dancing," protests Jade Thirlwall. "Obviously, sometimes we do do a bit of sexy […]
Beyoncé is in the running for eight prizes at the MTV Video Music Awards including video of the year, best female and best choreography. Her song Drunk in Love, performed alongside husband Jay-Z, is up against rivals including Pharrell Williams' Happy for best video. Rappers Eminem and Iggy Azalea scooped seven nods apiece in key categories including best male and female. The awards ceremony takes place in Inglewood, California, on […]
US singer Justin Timberlake accepted seven Billboard Music Awards by video while on tour, leaving it to a Michael Jackson hologram to steal the show at the ceremony in Las Vegas. It mimicked the late King of Pop's famous dance moves while performing Slave to the Rhythm, a song from Jackson's new posthumous album Xscape. Other winners of the evening included Miley Cyrus, Jennifer Lopez and Lorde. (Source: BBC News)
Beyoncé has been selected as the cover star for Time magazine's special 100 most influential people issue. She was profiled by Facebook executive Sheryl Sandberg, who said the 32-year-old "doesn't just sit at the table. She builds a better one." The pair recently collaborated on a campaign to ban the use of the word "bossy" to describe women at work. Others who made the list included Pope Francis - profiled […]
The black see-through fishnet and leather skirt creation left little to the imagination. Rihanna looked like she was having a brilliant time at the Balmain afterparty. The Pour it Up singer was caught on camera mingling with fashion's finest as she let her hair down on Thursday night. The pop beauty must have been getting jealous of all the attention Miley Cyrus has been lapping up lately, because she stepped […]
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. […]
