UK’s most streamed music as a tube map
With an increasing amount of music now consumed online, British music streaming website we7 has created an interactive Musical Map, using the UK’s most streamed artists of 2011. we7 acts your own personal DJ and creates personalised radio stations based on the music you love. The Music Map reveals who the population of the UK … Read more
Rebecca Black is back with ‘My Moment’ – Video
Internet sensation Rebecca Black has followed up her surprise hit ‘Friday’ with ‘My Moment’, a slower paced ballad that shows off Black’s vocal range (or lack of it) more than the previous viral phenomenon. ‘Friday’ attracted an overload of abuse from the blogosphere when it first was online, but support from a range of artists … Read more
Arctic Monkeys gain 4th successive No. 1 album
Arctic Monkeys achieved their fourth successive No. 1 album on Sunday, knocking Lady Gaga into third spot and becoming only the second band to be this successful with British album debuts. Arctic Monkeys’ success with ‘Suck It And See’ (unfortunately not an ode to Sherbert Dip Daps as I hoped it might be) means they … Read more
Country is the big winner as Scotty McCreery wins season 10 of American Idol
Deep-voiced country singer Scotty McCreery won the tenth season of “American Idol” on Wednesday, defeating rival Lauren Alaina who had been dubbed the front-runner by the show’s judges heading into the night. It shows the strength of country music that both finalists were of that genre, a mile away from the usual pop winners in … Read more
Terrence Malick wins Palme d’Or in Cannes for “The Tree of Life”
U.S. director Terrence Malick won the Palme d’Or for Best Picture at the Cannes Film Festival Sunday for “The Tree of Life,” a meditative, metaphysical epic starring Brad Pitt and Sean Penn. Only his fifth feature, the two-hour 20-minute contemplation on the origins of life and where we go when we die was among the … Read more
Justin TImberlake, Lady Gaga and Andy Samberg in three-way on Saturday Night Live
Saturday Night Live’s season finale was a biggie… Justin Timberlake hosting and Lady Gaga as the special guest. However the best part of the show was undoubtedly the SNL Digital short, “3-Way (The Golden Rule)” in which Timberlake and cast member Andy Samberg reprised their roles as the ultra romantic, rapping dudes from the “Dick … Read more
Lady Gaga ousts Oprah on Forbes celebrity power list
Flamboyant pop singer Lady Gaga ousted U.S. media mogul Oprah Winfrey to top this year’s Forbes celebrity power list released on Wednesday. Gaga, whose real name is Stefani Germanotta, moved up four positions from last year to claim the top spot in Forbes’ annual “The Celebrity 100″ 2011 list that measures power by entertainment-related earnings, … Read more
‘Music Tourism’ adds plenty of notes to British economy
Summer festivals and concerts may mostly be about sex, drugs and rock’n’roll, but they also inject millions of pounds into the economy, employ thousands of people and make the UK a hot destination despite the weather, a report reveals. Around 7.7 million people spent £1.4bn in Britain last year on everything from fairy wings and … Read more
Last Night: Lady Gaga closes BBC Radio 1′s Big Weekend
Never one to just turn up, do a small set and bugger off to her trailer and fly home, Lady Gaga is a performer, one that you feel would perform even in a retirement home when she is 99, even though the hip action might be a little less erratic. Last night the eccentric American … Read more
Bruno Mars takes number one in UK singles chart with ‘The Lazy Song’
Bruno Mars (the stage moniker of Peter Gene Hernandez), the Los Angeles based singer-songwriter from Honolulu, Hawaii, reached number one in the British singles charts, the Official Charts Company announced today. The singer, who was raised in Hawaii and recently announced how proud he is off his Filipino roots, moved up one place on last … Read more
Kate Bush in graphics
I don’t know about you but I am getting just a little bit excited about the return of Kate Bush and the live dates, album and festival appearances that are going to transcend this summer. It is going to be a magical re-emergence of one of Britain’s finest female pop acts. Despite dancing like she … Read more
“Weird” Al Yankovic “Born This Way” parody gets Lady Gaga seal of approval
“Weird” Al Yankovic has announced that his parody of Lady Gaga’s “Born This Way” has been approved by the pop star and will appear on his next album, after he was initially told that Gaga had rejected his riff on her hit single. Yankovic released a lyric video of “Perform This Way” on YouTube yesterday … Read more
