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Rihanna to be awarded MTV Video Music Award lifetime achievement prize

Rihanna will receive MTV's lifetime achievement award at the Video Music Awards later this month. It's MTV's highest honour and is known as the Michael Jackson video vanguard award. Last year Kanye West won the trophy, with Beyoncé, Justin Timberlake and Britney Spears previously getting it. "[The award] reflects an artist's impact not just on music but on pop culture, fashion, film and philanthropy," says MTV. She will also perform at the ceremony in New York, as well as being […]

today14th August 2016

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How Beyoncé became an ‘albums artist’ – and what radio is doing about it

For years, Beyoncé was a hit-machine, defiantly, almost psychotically, churning out chart topping singles. So how, and why, did she become focussed exclusively on the album format? And what does that mean in the age of streaming? "I might get your song played on the radio station," boasts Beyoncé on Formation, the agenda-setting single she premiered at this year's SuperBowl - but her own songs are increasingly failing to make it on radio. In the last month, the Texan superstar […]

today1st May 2016

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Viola Beach single enters top 20 with Swings & Waterslides

Viola Beach have entered the singles chart at number 11, a week after the Warrington band died in a car crash. Tomas Lowe, Kris Leonard, River Reeves and Jack Dakin died along with manager Craig Tarry on Saturday while on tour in Stockholm. They were killed when their car plunged more than 25m (82ft) from a highway bridge into a canal. Fans have since been campaigning to get their song, Swings and Waterslides, to number one. The band's single reached […]

today21st February 2016

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Taylor Swift wins album of the year at the Grammys

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 Grammys for song of the year and best pop solo […]

today21st February 2016

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Katy Perry named top-earning female musician by Forbes

With estimated earnings of $135m (£88m) in the last year alone, Katy Perry has been named the best-paid female musician by Forbes. She beats US rival Taylor Swift, whose earnings of $80m (£52m) put her in second place. Completing the top three is Fleetwood Mac. The return of Christine McVie and their On With The Show tour helped the band make $59.5m (£38.7m). Admittedly, this is a band that has three men - and two women. Forbes makes the estimates […]

today8th November 2015

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Ben Haenow interview: ‘It’s good to distance yourself from X Factor’

Former van driver Ben Haenow won last year's X Factor with 57% of the public vote. Statistics later revealed Croydon-born singer had topped the phone vote for the last seven weeks of the contest - thanks to the unusual tactic of spurning saccharine ballads for full-throated rock songs (in an X Factor first, he performed AC/DC's Highway To Hell). Haenow went on to bag last year's Christmas number one with a cover of OneRepublic's Something I Need; but now he […]

today25th October 2015

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Rihanna, Miley Cyrus and Rita Ora ‘copied me’ says Grace Jones

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 am that rich. "But I did things for the excitement, […]

today16th September 2015

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Beyoncé releases surprise song on Tidal

Beyoncé has surprised fans with a new single and video, released on Saturday to the Tidal streaming service, in which she is a co-owner. Die With You is a simple ballad, which the superstar performs alone, seated behind a black baby grand piano. "I wake up just to sleep with you," she sings to the cameraman who, at the end of the video, is revealed to be her husband, Jay Z. The couple celebrate their seventh anniversary this weekend. Both […]

today7th April 2015

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Musicians unite behind Jay Z streaming service

Musicians including Kanye West, Jack White, Rihanna, Madonna and Coldplay are uniting behind Jay Z's "artist-friendly" streaming site, Tidal. They all turned their Twitter profiles teal blue, to reflect Tidal's branding, on Sunday night. The site launches on Monday, promising CD-quality streaming and thousands of music videos, for a subscription fee. Taylor Swift, who pulled her catalogue off Spotify last November, is among those to feature on the service. Her back catalogue - with the exception of her current album, […]

today7th April 2015

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