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Former child prodigy JoJo is all grown up
American singer-songwriter JoJo is back with a new album, ‘Mad Love’. Born Joanna Levesque, she became the youngest solo artist ever to reach Number One on the Billboard Mainstream Top 40 with her breakout debut single ‘Leave’ in 2004. ....
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Justin Bieber tops MTV Europe Music Awards
Bruno Mars had the Rotterdam audience on its feet and dancing when he opened this year’s MTV Europe Music Awards in Rotterdam with his single ’24k Magic’, the follow-up to his 2014 hit ‘Uptown Funk’. Notable absences Canadian heartthrob...
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Mamma Mia it’s virtual Abba
Abba are back with an all new virtual reality adventure, the ‘original entertainment experience’ is a collaboration between the Swedish hit machine, Universal Music and Simon Fuller. pic.twitter.com/sdf9GaBC5O Abbaabbatalk AbbaFabFour—...
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Shawn Mendes ready to rock the world with ‘Illuminate’
Canadian singer-songwriter Shawn Mendes has released his highly anticipated second album ‘Illuminate’. It’s the follow up to ‘Handwritten’ his successful debut from last year and already looks set to eclipse its performance. ‘Illuminate’...
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Lady Gaga puts final touches on new album
Lady Gaga is putting the final touches to her new album ‘Joanne’, out later this month. The singer-songwriter says she was inspired by very personal issues for this album named after her aunt who died at the age of 19. Joanne is also...
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‘Supersonic’: doc chronicles Oasis’ rise to fame
The team behind last year’s Oscar-winning documentary on Amy Winehouse has turned its lens on one of the most iconic Britpop bands of all time. Named after Oasis’ debut single, ‘Supersonic’, the film kicks off with the band’s birth in...
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Robbie Williams “parties like a Russian”
Robbie Williams is back. And his latest, provocative single and music video have drawn anger from Russia. ‘Party Like a Russian’, the first single from his upcoming album, features a sample from Prokofiev’s ‘Dance Of The Knights’ with...
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Bob Dylan wins Nobel Prize in Literature
Bob Dylan has been awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature for 2016 “for having created new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition”. The announcement had the effect of a bombshell. Bob Dylan is the first musician to...
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Ron Howard plunges us into Beatlemania
Film director Ron Howard brings the Beatles back to life in a new documentary. The film features exclusive footage of the band during its touring years and the rise of Beatlemania. “I became really interested in the story of that...
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After ‘Breakfast’ comes ‘Brilliant Sanity’ as Teleman hit the road
British four-piece Teleman have a new album out; ‘Brilliant Sanity’ is the follow up to ‘Breakfast.’ The band have toured extensively since the release of the their first album and are now looking forward to taking ‘Brilliant Sanity’ out...
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Classic House and new Passenger album
Pete Tong’s love affair with house music has taken a new turn. The influential British DJ’s latest undertaking – a show with the Heritage Orchestra performing electronic dance music anthems arranged by conductor Jules Buckley – was so...
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Hearthrob Rick Astley back with a new album ‘50’
‘Never Gonna Give You Up’ or stop performing 80’s pop sensation Rick Astley is back with his first album in a decade. The single from the album is ‘Keep Singing’ a soulful track with a gospel feel, which Astley says, is representative of...
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Justin Timberlake goes for the summer sound with Can’t Stop the Feeling
Justin Timberlake will be first non-contestant to take the stage of the Eurovision Song Contest when he sings his first released single in three years Can’t Stop the Feeling is part of the soundtrack of Dreamworks Animation’s upcoming...
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Corinne Baily-Rae tours new album “The heart speaks in whispers”
British singer-songwriter Corinne Bailey-Rae has seen the heights of love and sorrow in her 37 years, widowed young and remarried, she has taken the hard knocks with the high points and come out the other side with her third album of...
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Beyoncé sings about Jay Z’s alleged infidelity in ‘Lemonade’
While the world was still mourning the death of Prince, Beyoncé dropped her long-anticipated new album ‘Lemonade’ on Saturday. The pop star’s sixth studio album arrived with an hour-long film aired on cable network HBO. A conceptual and...
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Tanita Tikaram is back with new album
If you were around in the Eighties, you will doubtless remember Tanita Tikaram’s husky voice, which graced her best-selling album ‘Ancient Heart’ and its hit single ‘Twist in my Sobriety’. After spending time on the road with her band,...
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Prince: Fans pay tribute to His Royal Purpleness
They turned in their hundreds to an impromptu street do and partied like it was 1999 after the news filtered out about the death of His Royal Purpleness, or the artists known as Prince. I Miss My Brother. Prince Was A Funny Cat. Great...
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The Voice talents Joe & Jake to take on Eurovision
It’s been a whirlwind twelve months for Joe and Jake. After competing against each other on UK TV talent show ‘The Voice’, the pop duo is about to take on the rest of Europe at the Eurovision Song Contest. The pair also recently signed a...
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America’s latest pop-soul sensation is…Danish
Denmark’s Lukas Graham has already enjoyed chart success in Europe and Australia, but he had yet to crack America. Now the pop-soul singer-songwriter seems to have a hit on his hands, a number two on the Billboard Hot 100, “7 years”....
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Trainor hopes “No” will prove it’s not all about that bass
She’s back and bubblier than ever. Meghan Trainor has a follow-up album to 2015’s smash “Title”. It’s called “Thank you”, and Trainor hopes it will cement her Grammy-winning success as Best New Artist. “No” is the album’s first single....
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Phil Collins on fatherhood and a musical comeback
After exiting the world of music in 2011, Phil Collins revealed last year that he was ‘no longer officially retired’. Collins, aged 65, is reissuing a remastered version of all eight of his solo albums, from the 1980s and 1990s, and is...
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Swedish pop sensation Zara Larsson eyes US market, dismisses Rihanna comparisons
She may only be 18, but Swedish pop sensation Zara Larsson has come a long way since her first taste of fame. After winning a Swedish TV talent show at the age of 10, Larsson has moved on to creating her own brand of edgy electro-pop,...
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DNCE gets funky with a bit of Cake By The Ocean
Joe Jonas, formerly of the Jonas Brothers is back with new band DNCE and Cake by the Ocean, their debut single. The Jonas Brothers, Kevin, Joe and Nick, formed in 2005 and quickly rose to fame with their upbeat pop rock songs. The group...
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Tiggs Da Author: the next Pharrell
London-based poet, rapper and singer-songwriter Tiggs Da Author is following up his bouncy debut single ‘Georgia’ with the infectious ‘Run’ and a sunny video clip shot in Cape Town. For this latest offering, Tiggs enlisted the talents of...