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Pharrell Williams has taken home two gongs at the BET Awards in Los Angeles. The rapper was named best R&B artist and also took home the award for video of the year for Happy at Sunday night's ceremony. Nicki Minaj claimed the title of the best female hip-hop artist for the fifth year in a row with Jay Z and Beyoncé's Drunk In Love winning the award for the best […]
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 […]
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 […]
George Michael's Symphonica has beaten Kylie Minogue's Kiss Me Once to the top of the UK album chart. It is the former Wham! star's seventh solo number one. "Thank you so much... it's so nice to be able to savour this wonderful moment. I am a lucky man," Michael told OfficialCharts.com. His album sold 20,000 copies more than Minogue's. Meanwhile, Duke Dumont scored his second number one single with I […]
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 […]
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 […]
