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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 prize - that time, when he was up against Cliff […]
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 prize. The winner will be decided on the night by […]
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 week's number one by X Factor star Sam Bailey. Skyscraper […]
One Direction star Harry Styles has won a court order stopping the paparazzi from harassing him. The 19-year-old applied to the High Court as a last resort, after asking photographers to stop following him voluntarily, his lawyer said. "This is not a privacy order," David Sherborne told the court. "Mr Styles is not trying to prevent fans approaching him in the street and taking photos. "He remains happy to do that, as he always has." "Rather, it is the method […]
Lily Allen has held on to the number one spot in the UK singles chart for a second week 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, Swings Both Ways by Robbie Williams knocked One Direction's Midnight Memories from the top. Beyoncé's self-titled digital album release - issued without any prior notice on Friday […]
Sam Bailey has beaten fellow finalist Nicholas McDonald in the final of this year's X Factor show on ITV. The prison officer, 36, received more than one million votes and thanked everyone for choosing her before performing her single Skyscraper. Her mentor Sharon Osborne was tearful throughout much of Sunday's show. Bailey and McDonald battled it out after teenager Luke Friend was voted out on Saturday after they performed at London's Wembley Arena. When Bailey was shown her new CD […]
The US rapper’s duet with Rihanna tops the Official Streaming Chart today for a fourth consecutive week. The Monster made its Official Streaming Chart debut back in November, entering at Number 82. It climbed a massive 80 places the following week, before claiming the top spot four weeks ago. It is Eminem’s first Number 1 on the Official Streaming Chart (which launched in May of last year) and Rihanna’s second (Diamonds peaked at Number 1 last October). Bastille climb from […]
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 top 25 with her cover album Christmas With Love. She […]
