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Paul Weller scores sixth UK Number 1 album

Paul Weller scores sixth UK Number 1 album

Officialcharts.com — Congratulations to Paul Weller, who lands straight in at Number 1 on this week's Official Albums Chart with Fat Pop . The Modfather's new record racks up 26,005 chart sales - 91% of which were physical sales - to become his sixth chart-topping record.
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Jesy Nelson signs solo deal with Polydor

Jesy Nelson signs solo deal with Polydor

Officialcharts.com — Jesy Nelson has announced she's signed her first solo record deal since leaving Little Mix. Jesy, who departed the four-piece girlband at the end of last year, has inked a deal with Universal label Polydor to release music as a solo act.
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UK's richest musicians revealed in Sunday Times Rich List 2021

UK's richest musicians revealed in Sunday Times Rich List 2021

Officialcharts.com — Sir Paul McCartney has been named as the UK's richest musician. The legendary Beatle tops The Sunday Times' annual Music Rich List, with a staggering total fortune of £820 million. Macca wins first place thanks to an increase in fortune to the tune of £20 million, helped in part by the release of new music.
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We give thanks for the TikTok resurrection of Charli XCX's 'Unlock It'

We give thanks for the TikTok resurrection of Charli XCX's 'Unlock It'

Dazed Magazine — There are watershed moments in queer popular culture, and then there is Charli XCX's "Unlock It" somewhat bizarrely getting its second life and going viral on TikTok. The shape-shifting, propulsive banger served as the unadorned centrepiece for Charli's Pop 2 mixtape. It features former K-pop rapper Jay Park and popstar Kim Petras.
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Tina Turner's Official Top 20 most-streamed UK hits revealed

Tina Turner's Official Top 20 most-streamed UK hits revealed

Officialcharts.com — Tina Turner is the subject of a new two-part HBO documentary that examines her life and stardom. Broadcast tonight (March 27), Tina takes viewers through her transformation from Anna Mae Bullock into Tina Turner, her abusive marriage to former husband Ike Turner and her metamorphosis into a solo superstar in the 1980s, buoyed by a collection of undeniable, timeless rock hits.
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Lana Del Rey lands fifth UK Number 1 album and sets vinyl record

Lana Del Rey lands fifth UK Number 1 album and sets vinyl record

Officialcharts.com — Lana Del Rey has earned her fifth UK Number 1 album with Chemtrails Over The Country Club . Debuting at the top spot with 40,000 chart sales this week, Lana's seventh studio album joins Born To Die (2012), Ultraviolence (2014), Lust For Life (2017) and Norman F**king Rockwell (2019) as Number 1s on the Official Albums Chart.
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A1 & J1 on breakout banger Latest Trends: "We're just ourselves"

A1 & J1 on breakout banger Latest Trends: "We're just ourselves"

Officialcharts.com — A1 & J1's Latest Trends is one of the biggest breakout hits of the year, currently sitting at Number 2 on the Official Singles Chart thanks to a remix featuring rapper Aitch. A fast, kinetic track that first went viral only as a snippet on TikTok, the boys swiftly signed to a major label (under EMI Records) and released the full track.
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Official Charts Flashback 2011: Nicole Scherzinger - Don't Hold Your Breath

Official Charts Flashback 2011: Nicole Scherzinger - Don't Hold Your Breath

Officialcharts.com — No-one has perhaps had a more laborious road to solo stardom than Nicole Scherzinger, but she got there in the end and then some. Nicole's original efforts to launch as an artist in her own right stalled in 2007 with the scrapped project Her Name Is Nicole, although songs written for it would end up back with the Pussycat Dolls, most notably When I Grow Up, a Number 3 hit for the group in 2008.
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Lana Del Rey's biggest albums on the UK's Official Chart revealed

Lana Del Rey's biggest albums on the UK's Official Chart revealed

Officialcharts.com — From the moment she first arrived as a mainstream pop force, Lana Del Rey has mesmerised fans and critics alike. One of the most enigmatic and enduring figures in modern pop, Lana's output is one of a true albums' artist, one whose identity is ever-shifting and evolving. Her new release is no different.
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The legacy of Taylor Swift's Fearless

The legacy of Taylor Swift's Fearless

i-D — Taylor Swift's "Love Story" - the lead single from her sophomore album Fearless and one of the best selling records of all time - opens with the lines: "We were both young when I first saw you / I close my eyes and the flashback starts".
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Tate McRae: "I look at things I wrote last year and it feels like six years ago"

Tate McRae: "I look at things I wrote last year and it feels like six years ago"

New Musical Express (NME) — Tate McRae's 'You Broke Me First,' a tender break-up ballad inspired by the styles of Billie Eilish and Lana Del Rey, was one of the rare few breakout hits of 2020. Racking up over 400 million streams on Spotify alone it saw her go viral on TikTok, and became Tate's first top 5 single in the UK.
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Becky Hill: "I fought doing dance music as a solo artist for a long time"

Becky Hill: "I fought doing dance music as a solo artist for a long time"

New Musical Express (NME) — You'd be forgiven for recognising a Becky Hill song, but not necessarily Becky Hill herself. But don't worry, this is a self-confessed problem for the 26 year-old singer, who is looking to step out into the spotlight with her new single 'Space,' the first taste of her long-awaited debut studio album, set to be released in 2021.
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The Singapore Grip review: An ambitious, subversive drama that lacks bite

The Singapore Grip review: An ambitious, subversive drama that lacks bite

Metro (UK) — The Singapore Grip starts as you would imagine a standard British period drama would, but then goes in a direction you probably wouldn't expect. Given the advertisements for the ambitious projects, you would be forgiven for thinking that this is a drama in the Downton Abbey mode, following a stiff-upper lip family in the British aristocracy as they fumble their way through a defining moment of the 20th Century.
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Britain's Got Talent receives 1,121 Ofcom complaints over Diversity's BLM dance

Britain's Got Talent receives 1,121 Ofcom complaints over Diversity's BLM dance

Metro (UK) — Britain's Got Talent has received over 1,000 Ofcom complaints due to Diversity's Black Lives Matter-inspired routine on Britain's Got Talent on Saturday Night. The dance troupe took to the stage on Saturday for the first of the show's semi-finals, which saw them take the knee in a poignant moment to reflect the Black Lives Matter movement, where protests erupted over the summer due to the deaths of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor in the US.
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The Singapore Grip wants to change the British period drama forever

The Singapore Grip wants to change the British period drama forever

Metro (UK) — If the Singapore Grip - an ambitious World War II period drama that starts this week on ITV - has a natural predecessor, you would assume it would be Downton Abbey. For comparison, both shows follow families in the British aristocracy as they witness events that changed the western world.
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I Hate Suzie's Leila Farzad on working with Billie Piper for dark comedy-drama

I Hate Suzie's Leila Farzad on working with Billie Piper for dark comedy-drama

Metro (UK) — Leila Farzad stalls as the bold and brutally honest manager Naomi in Sky's newest comedy-drama I Hate Suzie, created by and starring Billie Piper. As Suzie Pickles, a well-known actress whose world is thrown into chaos when her phone is hacked, Piper becomes the bruised heart of the drama's messy interior world.
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I Hate Suzie tackles what it means to be a famous woman in Britain

I Hate Suzie tackles what it means to be a famous woman in Britain

Metro (UK) — A 15-year old teenage girl gets thrust into the national spotlight thanks to her singing voice, before catapulting to even wider fame as the star of a cult British sci-fi series and, in the process, becomes one of the most recognisable faces in the country; a cultural touchstone for an entire generation of girls, gays and everything in between.
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Billie Piper is a force of nature in the brilliant but strange I Hate Suzie

Billie Piper is a force of nature in the brilliant but strange I Hate Suzie

Metro (UK) — I Hate Suzie is a strange and malformed show about fame, starring one of the most recognisable faces in Britain. Billie Piper got her start, of course, as a teen pop-star in the mould of Britney Spears, releasing two albums and three chart-topping hits (Day and Night still slaps) before pivoting to acting and becoming a national obsession as Rose Tyler in Doctor Who.
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I'm A Celebrity 'could be investigated by RSPCA' over Bushtucker Trials

I'm A Celebrity 'could be investigated by RSPCA' over Bushtucker Trials

Metro (UK) — The RSPCA has warned that the UK-based production of I'm A Celebrity could be in trouble if this year's Bushtucker Trials violate any animal welfare laws. For 2020, ITV's flagship reality show is moving from the Australian jungle to an abandoned British castle due to travel restrictions imposed by the coronavirus pandemic.
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Elizabeth Debicki will play Princess Diana in The Crown seasons 5 and 6

Elizabeth Debicki will play Princess Diana in The Crown seasons 5 and 6

Metro (UK) — It's been announced that Elizabeth Debicki will take on the role of Diana, Princess of Wales in the fifth and sixth seasons of The Crown. The Australian actress has logged previous roles in Macbeth with Michael Fassbender, TV series The Night Manager alongside Tom Hiddleston, and will next be seen in Christopher Nolan's Tenet with Robert Pattinson.
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I'm A Celebrity moves to UK for 2020 series

I'm A Celebrity moves to UK for 2020 series

Metro (UK) — I'm A Celebrity ...Get Me Out Of Here! will move to the UK to film this year. ITV announced today that the 2020 series will not be shot in Australia, but production will instead be based in a ruined castle in the British countryside. Ant and Dec will return to front the series.
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Drag Race's Trixie and Katya on UNHhhh season 5: 'Everything sucks'

Drag Race's Trixie and Katya on UNHhhh season 5: 'Everything sucks'

Metro (UK) — RuPaul's Drag Race alumni Trixie Mattell and Katya Zamolodchikova (or as your dad just calls her, Katya) are preparing to launch another series of their irreverent internet chat show UNHhhh, now in its fifth season.
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Emmys 2020: Biggest snubs from Reese Witherspoon and Daisy Edgar-Jones

Emmys 2020: Biggest snubs from Reese Witherspoon and Daisy Edgar-Jones

Metro (UK) — The biggest snubs from today's Emmy Award nominations include Reese Witherspoon and Normal People's Daisy Edgar-Jones. There were some big, deserving surprises from the list of nominees - Paul Mescal rightfully got a nod, as did Zendaya for her performance in teen drama Euphoria and pretty much everything involving Schitt's Creek.
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Taylor Swift: All 8 albums ranked, including Folklore

Taylor Swift: All 8 albums ranked, including Folklore

Metro (UK) — Taylor Swift has a new album out, maybe you heard? Announced with hours to go until its release on Thursday, Folklore is a surprise of the highest degree, from its lo-fi sonics to collaborations with indie-band The National, alongside pop producer du jour Jack Antonoff.
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