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• Pandora Will Have to Pay HOW MUCH to Relaunch Rdio?

  22-12-2015 20:24
  
   
  As of Tuesday, Rdio is officially going dark while it sifts through court-supervised bankruptcy.  It’s the end of an unspectacular run that witnessed huge gains for Spotify, Apple Music, Soundcloud, and others, and little traction for smaller contenders for Rdio.  Whether Rdio survives the sometimes messy bankruptcy process is anyone’s guess, though Pandora has already committed $75 million to resuscitate things on the other end.
  The obvious question is whether this
  
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• Zayn Malik: his year in photographs

  22-12-2015 19:52
  
  People campaigning for Britain to return the Koh-i-Noor diamond to India should take comfort in the fact that at least one looted jewel was returned this year: Zayn Malik. Yep, 2015 was the year Zayn learned his self-worth and freed himself from One Direction. Being in a boyband usually involves a lot of self-censorship, followed by going all-out rebel once you leave. Has it gone that way for Zayn? We break down his post-1D year in pictures Continue reading...
  
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• Music needs a home, not a vanity project | Letters

  22-12-2015 19:27
  
  A new and additional music venue is planned for London (Report, 17 December), possibly at the awkwardly sited London Museum. At the same time the ENO struggles to fill seats and, as Ian Jack reports (5 December), classical lieder are only heard at one or two centres, such as the Wigmore Hall. Classical music simply does not attract large audiences, apart from those for the Proms, which dominates the summer months. Even so, the Barbican and South Bank are not good enough for Simon Rattle, despite
  
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• Coldplay are taking song requests – should other bands follow suit?

  22-12-2015 19:08
  
  The band’s forthcoming tour will include a section where audience members can request personal favorites – a smart idea in an increasingly interactive worldPerpetual people-pleasers Coldplay have come up with the ultimate Coldplay move for their forthcoming stadium world tour in support of their current album, A Head Full of Dreams. Alongside a rigid setlist of uplifting yet melancholic bluster they’ll also have a requests section, highlighting their sonic shift from indie bedw
  
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• Ferne McCann And George Shelley’s Pretend Jungle Radio Show Has Now Become A Real Life Thing

  22-12-2015 17:32
  
  G & F Style is coming the airwaves, people!
  
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• Rita Ora's Sexiest Music Video Moments

  22-12-2015 16:52
  
  Rita Phwoar-a...
  
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• 25 Of Zayn Malik's Best Selfies Yet

  22-12-2015 16:33
  
  In celebration of the Malik pout.
  
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• These Are Officially The 10 Most Watched YouTube Videos Of 2015

  22-12-2015 16:19
  
  There's a few surprises in there too.
  
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• Jessie J Inadvertently Dancing To The Ketchup Song Is The Only Meme That Will Get You Through The Day

  22-12-2015 16:08
  
  MESMERISING.
  
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• Correction: Music-Aretha Franklin story

  22-12-2015 15:56
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — In a story Dec. 18 about Aretha Franklin and the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra, The Associated Press reported erroneously that Atlantic Records founder Ahmet Ertegun signed her in 1967. Franklin was signed by Ertegun's partner Jerry Wexler in 1966.
  
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• Perrie Edwards Looks Amazing In Monochrome On London Night Out

  22-12-2015 15:11
  
  She’s our style queen of 2015.
  
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• Hottest Celebrity Beach Babes Of 2015

  22-12-2015 14:09
  
  These guys loved nothing more than topping up their tan this year.
  
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• Why The Guy In Selena Gomez's Hands To Myself Video Is About To Be Your Favourite Model Of 2016

  22-12-2015 13:44
  
  Selena can't keep her hands to herself and neither can we.
  
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• Channing Tatum Takes On Lip Sync Battle While Dressed As Elsa From Frozen, As You Do

  22-12-2015 13:41
  
  The Tatums define #RelationshipGoals...
  
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• Simon Cowell 'Embarrassed Over Louisa Johnson Song Choice' Following Poor Chart Performance

  22-12-2015 13:37
  
  It's the worst performing X Factor winner's single ever.
  
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• Pop stars in pantomime: the 90s tween music afterlife

  22-12-2015 13:30
  
  We’re in the season where the biggest pop music stars of the 90s fill theatres all over again – as the stars of pantos up and down the UKThere was a time, somewhere between 1996 and 1999, when I thought Smash Hits ruled the world. I’d shunned my parents’ jazz and blues CDs, picking bubblegum pop over Hugh Masekela, Ella Fitzgerald and Al Jarreau. I was a big girl now – a full eight years old – and preferred Spice Girls, B*Witched, N’Sync and Boyzone, tha
  
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• Ferne McCann: I Wanted To Jump Into George Shelley's Hammock And Make Babies

  22-12-2015 13:16
  
  She wants to have his Union Jaby!
  
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• From the Guardian archive: the Pablo Casals festival in Prades, 1960

  22-12-2015 13:00
  
  28 July 1960: The Guardian revisits the music festival started by cellist Pablo Casals in his adopted home of Prades, FranceAny concert at which Pablo Casals appears is an important musical event. Since leaving Spain in 1936, he has rarely performed on the public platform. He has passed the years of exile at Prades, a dusty, undistinguished little French town at the foot of Mont Canigou in the eastern Pyrenees, not far from the Spanish frontier. As a protest against fascism, he has turned his ba
  
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• Selena Gomez Just Can't Keep Her Clothes On In 'Hands To Myself' Video

  22-12-2015 12:37
  
  No really, we think she can't use buttons or something.
  
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• Troye Sivan Mashes Up Selena Gomez 'Hands To Myself' And Justin Bieber's 'Sorry', Proves They Belong Together

  22-12-2015 12:36
  
  It's giving us all the feels…
  
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• These Kim Kardashian Lookalikes Are So Ridiculously Spooky That We’re Convinced They’re Triplets

  22-12-2015 12:18
  
  WHAT IS THIS BLACK MAGIC?
  
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• Kids Being Forced To Choose Between Christmas Presents For Themselves Or Their Families WIll Give You All The Feels

  22-12-2015 12:14
  
  Prepare to cry all of the tears.
  
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• Taylor Swift and Calvin Harris 'starting to question if they can make it to next year'

  22-12-2015 12:06
  American singer/songwriter Taylor Swift and Scottish singer/DJ Calvin Harris' relationship is apparently going through a rough patch. The Bad Blood hitmaker and the 31-year-old music producer spent a lot of time apart due to her 1989 tour this year. "Calvin and Taylor barely see each other face-to-face at the moment, and they're starting to question if they can make it to the next year," an alleged source told Grazia magazine, according to Belfast Telegraph.
  
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• Ed Sheeran Is Basically The Best Son Ever After Buying His Parents A House For Christmas

  22-12-2015 12:05
  
  Oh and a car too, because why not?
  
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• The playlist: the best indie of 2015 – Mac Demarco, This Is the Kit and more

  22-12-2015 12:00
  
  We continue our roundup of the year’s top tracks with the pick of the best indie songs of 2015This might be a good opportunity for me to apologise to my neighbours. I have played this song – because of its honey-drenched heartache and its deliciously short running time – every day, repeatedly since April. Every second is perfection: the moment in which it clicks from lo-fi to hi-fi, with Kevin Parker as the sassy, sour-faced spurned lover, the pace of its cocksure strut. At 1m
  
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• Rita Ora Increases Security On Home After Scary Break-In

  22-12-2015 11:52
  
  The thieves broke into her North London home last month…
  
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• Introducing The Denim Streetwear Collaboration That Every Noughties Kid Will Be Obsessed With

  22-12-2015 11:39
  
  You need to check out the new collection from BabyFace and Evisu
  
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• Teen Mom Star Farrah Abraham Reveals She’s Adopting A Child

  22-12-2015 11:33
  
  The 24-year-old has confirmed the exciting news.
  
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• Jennifer Lawrence Says She's Kissed Liam Hemsworth IRL And We Totally Don't Blame Her

  22-12-2015 11:32
  
  The truth is finally out, everyone!
  
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• R Kelly storms out of interview: Reporter receives death threats over underage sex allegation questions

  22-12-2015 11:26
  
  The reporter who questioned r'n'b singer R Kelly over historical sexual abuse allegations claims she has received death threats following the incredibly awkward interview. The Grammy-winning singer walked off set during the live chat with Huffington Post reporter Caroline Modarressy-Tehrani when she brought up the allegations brought against him more than a decade ago. During the uncomfortable 20-minute interview, which was broadcast live online on 21 December 2015, Modarressy-Tehrani asked R Ke
  
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• Adele: My son Angelo kept me 'cool and calm' about my musical comeback

  22-12-2015 10:52
  
  The singer is very proud of herself for making her three-year-old son in her belly – but wants to shield him from the limelight.
  
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• The best albums of 2015: how our writers voted

  22-12-2015 10:00
  
  You’ve seen our end of year list – now it’s time to look behind the scenes and discover the favourite albums and tracks of the Guardian’s music criticsAlbums
  Floating Points – Elaenia
  Miguel – Wildheart
  Father John Misty – I Love You Honeybear
  Natalie Prass – Natalie Prass
  Donnie Trumpet and the Social Experiment – Surf
  Kendrick Lamar – To Pimp a Butterfly
  Unknown Mortal Orchestra – Multi-Love
  Tame Impala – Currents
  Dr Dre
  
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• Adele: Motherhood 'made me calmer about return to music'

  22-12-2015 09:55
  Adele says motherhood has made her "cool and calm" about her musical comeback.
  
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• Junta leader writes new song, leaving Thais to face the music

  22-12-2015 09:45
  Thailand's junta leader released the lyrics to a new patriotic ballad on Tuesday, the second song he has written since seizing power in 2014. Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha, who as army chief led the May 2014 coup, first wrote the song "Return Happiness to Thailand", which is played constantly on television and radio stations as part of a public relations campaign by the junta to win over Thais. The tune has racked up more than one million views on YouTube but has been mocked by critics of the
  
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• Bahamian authorities shut down Lenny Kravitz's dental practice

  22-12-2015 09:18
  
  Rocker had helped establish free clinic on the island of Eleuthera, but no one had thought to get the necessary paperworkYou’re a pop star with a 1,000-watt smile, and all you want is for others, less fortunate than you, to have the chance to flash similarly sparkling gnashers. And so, naturally, you open a charity dental practice. From there on in, it should all be plain sailing and good dental health, right? Sadly, that wasn’t Lenny Kravitz’s experience at the dentist’s
  
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• Ukraine to Limp Bizkit's Fred Durst: Keep rollin' on – you're banned

  22-12-2015 08:31
  
  Ukrainian security services have reportedly imposed a five-year ban on the nu-metal singerFred Durst, the singer in the nu-metal band Limp Bizkit, has been banned from entering Ukraine for five years by the country’s security service, according to reports. The Ukrainian publication Astropof reported that the ban had been imposed in November, “in the interests of guaranteeing the security of our state”, according to Billboard. The Interfax news agency has apparently said th
  
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• Get Ready for Apple Music Hi-Res Audio Streaming

  22-12-2015 01:30
  
  If details leaking from the Portable Audio Festival in Japan are true, Apple Music’s fidelity is about to dramatically improve.  According to information from multiple industry sources at the show, Apple may be launching a new, higher-quality audio streaming upgrade to Apple Music.
  Of course, the Festival is reigniting historical rumors, but if this batch is true, Apple will launch its new, HD-level improvement in 2016.“There’s talk that Apple plans to ditch its stan
  
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• Adele spends fourth week atop Billboard chart, earlier album sees boost

  22-12-2015 00:59
  By Piya Sinha-Roy LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - British singer Adele extended her reign atop the weekly U.S. Billboard 200 album chart for a fourth consecutive week on Monday, and saw a resurgence in sales for her previous album as well. Adele's record-setting "25" album sold another 728,000 copies, 297,000 songs and was streamed 8.4 million times in the past week, totaling 825,000 units according to figures from Nielsen SoundScan. Adele's 2011 album "21," with which the singer swept six Grammy awards
  
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