Yungblud has secured his first Number One album with his second record ‘Weird!’ READ MORE: Yungblud – “I wanted to write my ‘Urban Hymns’ or ‘Back To Black’ ‘Weird!’ topped the Official Albums Chart with 39,000 chart sales (91 per cent of its total made up of pure sales) and beating Michael Ball & Alfie Boe’s ‘Together At Christmas’. The Doncaster rocker’s previous chart peak was with his 2019 EP ‘The Underrated Youth‘, which landed at number six. Advertisement Yungblud, whose real name is Dominic Harrison, said he will melt down his award and turn it into safety pins,...
Mariah Carey‘s ‘All I Want For Christmas Is You’ has reached Number One in the UK for the very first time, 26 years after it was first released. READ MORE: Seasonably Rich: How much are musicians making from our favourite Christmas songs? The track reached number two when it was first released in 1994 – kept off the Christmas number one spot by East 17‘s ‘Stay Another Day’. No other song has spent more weeks in the top 40 before eventually reaching Number One in UK chart history. It’s returned to the chart every year since 2007. Advertisement The...
Millions of people are expected to attend illegal raves over the new year period, it has been warned. New research from the Night Time Industries Association (NTIA) says they expect more than 5,000 unlawful parties to take place over between December 31 and January 3, despite continued coronavirus lockdown restrictions. The NTIA says there is a high risk of “millions of people converging across the UK” over the traditional party season, saying that the problem is worsened by the closure of nightclubs that “would normally manage huge crowds of people through the new year’s celebrations”. Advertisement NTIA CEO Michael...
Taylor Hawkins of Foo Fighters and Matt Cameron of Pearl Jam and Soundgarden have formed a new band. Read More: Foo Fighters: every single album ranked and rated in order of greatness The two drummers have been working together under the moniker Nighttime Boogie Association since they both participated in a tribute concert to late Soundgarden frontman Chris Cornell in 2019. The band have shared their first two tracks, the driving ‘Long in the Tooth’ and ‘The Path We’re On’. You can hear both below. Advertisement After initially jamming at Hawkins’ house after the Cornell benefit, the project was...
By Carson Mlnarik Surprise — again! After dropping her record-breaking eighth album, Folklore, on a whim back in July, Taylor Swift repeated her antics today (December 11) with the release of her Evermore. Folklore’s sister record further mines Swift’s whimsical storytelling perspective alongside producers Jack Antonoff and The National’s Aaron Dessner, two great minds who helped hone her folksy alt-pop sound the last go-around. Evermore is an equally experimental sequel, as the pop singer weaves scenes of heartbreak and outlaws on the run. “Champagne Problems” depicts the aftermath of turning down a proposal over sparse piano keys, while the...
Bernie Sanders presented Dua Lipa with an award last night (December 10), joking that “it’s time for new rules” in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic. The US Senator gave Lipa the Powerhouse Award at the Billboard Women In Music awards, held virtually last night. It comes after the pair discussed universal healthcare over Zoom earlier this year. READ MORE: Dua Lipa: “If somebody told me not to discuss issues I’m passionate about? I wouldn’t listen” Advertisement “What this year has made clear, more than anything else, is that none of us can go back to business as usual,”...
Dolly Parton has said that she’s considering selling the rights to her entire back catalogue of songs, in what would be a hugely lucrative deal. Read More: ‘Dolly Parton’s Christmas on the Square’ review: a festive throwback to classic Hollywood Earlier this week, Bob Dylan struck a historic deal with Universal Music, selling his back catalogue for an eye-watering $300 million (£225 million), giving Universal the ownership of over 600 songs spanning a period of almost six decades. Parton has over 3,000 song credits, including ‘9 To 5’, ‘Jolene’ and ‘I Will Always Love You’, the latter of which...
James Blake has released his new EP ‘Covers’, which sees the producer debuting his take on tracks by Billie Eilish and Frank Ocean. As well as Blake’s acclaimed version of Frank Ocean’s ‘Godspeed’, the new offering sees Blake delivering a stirring piano-driven take on Eilish’s ‘When The Party’s Over’ – which you can listen to in full below. Other tracks include Blake’s take on Joy Division’s ‘Atmosphere’, Stevie Wonder’s ‘Never Dreamed You’d Leave In Summer’, an impressive interpolation of Beyoncé‘s ‘OTHERSIDE’ and a previously released take on Roberta Flack’s ‘The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face.’ Advertisement The ‘Covers’...
By D’Shonda Brown To say Mulatto had a good year would be one of the biggest understatements in the music industry. Despite a pandemic, unprecedented political unease, and racial unrest for the Black community at the height of the Black Lives Matter movement, the Georgia-bred rapper used quarantine and stay-at-home orders to grind and make 2020 her bitch. She appeared in Megan Thee Stallion and Cardi B’s internet-breaking “WAP” music video and collaborated with fellow Georgian 2 Chainz for the song on everyone’s lockdown playlist, “Quarantine Thick.” When she finally released her debut studio album, Queen of Da Souf,...
Liam Gallagher and Mystery Jets singer Blaine Harrison have led the music world’s tributes to Dame Barbara Windsor, who has died aged 83. The iconic EastEnders actress died on Thursday evening (December 10) at a London care home, after a battle with dementia. Tributes have flooded in from a wide array of artists, with Harrison sharing a picture of the moment he met her. Advertisement “The only Queen I’d ever bow down to,” he captioned a photo of their meeting. RIP Babs and carry on camping LG x — Liam Gallagher (@liamgallagher) December 11, 2020 the only Queen I’d...
