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• Apple Music Is Now a Bigger App Than Spotify, Nielsen Finds

  23-12-2015 22:09
  
   
  Apple Music is now the ninth largest smartphone app in America, according to a ranking just released by Nielsen.  That lags significantly behind YouTube and Google Play, but solidly beats Spotify, which didn’t even make the top 10.  According to the finding, Apple Music had an ‘average unique audience’ of 54.55 million after just four months on the market.
  Given the tight timeframe, those users could easily be called ‘active,’ though a substantial
  
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• The Beatles: Now Available on Spotify, Apple Music, Tidal, Google Play, Amazon Prime…

  23-12-2015 19:58
  
  The Beatles may have been a pioneering rock group in the 1960s, but they’re technological laggards in the 2010s.   Accordingly, surviving members of the group have just announced that the Beatles catalog will be available across a long list of streaming platforms.One thing this band hasn’t lost over the decades is timing.  In a perfectly-timed splash, the streaming Beatles catalog will go live across a number of services on Christmas Eve.  Here’s the l
  
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• Let it stream: The Beatles comes to online music services

  23-12-2015 19:01
  Starting Christmas eve, all of The Beatles' 13 albums, including "Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band," "Revolver" and "Abbey Road", will finally be available on some of the most popular streaming services. "Happy Crimble, with love from us to you," The Beatles said on its website, referring to a term popularized by John Lennon to describe Christmas.
  
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• Justin Bieber tells fans to buy NHS Choir song and make it Christmas No 1

  23-12-2015 18:44
  
  Pop star tweets that charity single is what festive season is all about and that he is happy to be No 2 for one week so more money goes to hospitalsOne is a pop star adored by millions and the other is a south London hospital’s amateur choir, but in the final hours of the race to be Christmas No 1, Justin Bieber has called on fans to put his unlikely rivals at the top spot.The Canadian singer said he had heard the race was close between him and Lewisham and Greenwich NHS choir’s char
  
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• Rita Ora’s Decision To Sue Roc Nation Was Apparently Sparked By Feud With Rihanna

  23-12-2015 18:38
  
  She hasn’t released a record since 2012…
  
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• Nego True releases World Tour Documentary

  23-12-2015 18:20
  
  Nego True releases World Tour Documentary
  
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• The Beatles let it stream – showing that the format is the future

  23-12-2015 17:21
  
  It was never a question of whether the Beatles would stream their songs, only when – and at what price. Their presence is a boost for streaming servicesIn the late 1990s, a senior executive from EMI lugged a laptop to Friar Park, George Harrison’s sprawling neo-Gothic mansion in Henley-on-Thames, to guide him through mockups of his first official website. After showing him what the different pages of georgeharrison.com would offer the fan – news, photos, charity work, music &nd
  
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• The Defining Hashtags Of 2015

  23-12-2015 16:26
  
  The year's most powerful moments, summed up in #.
  
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• The Most Devastating Celebrity Break Ups Of 2015

  23-12-2015 16:23
  
  OH GAAAAHD.
  
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• Louis Tomlinson Is At The Peak Of His Hotness And Here’s The Proof

  23-12-2015 16:05
  
  THIS IS IMPORTANT.
  
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• Beatles say 'let it be': Fans can soon stream their music

  23-12-2015 15:50
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — They love us, yeah! yeah! yeah!
  
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• Rapper Banner donating music studio to Boys and Girls Club

  23-12-2015 15:36
  JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Rapper David Banner wants to make sure the younger generation has access to the technology that wasn't available to him when he started his career.
  
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• 17 Times Louis Tomlinson Was Clearly Living His Best Life

  23-12-2015 15:29
  
  The One Direction star doesn’t mess about, does he?
  
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• Louis Rei From WSTRN Shares Remix of 'Feel My Pain'

  23-12-2015 15:27
  
  Louis Rei From WSTRN Shares Remix of 'Feel My Pain'
  
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• Geordie Shore's Marnie Simpson Reveals That Her Ex-Fiancé Ricky Rayment Hates Her

  23-12-2015 15:06
  
  It was the most romantic ending to a series EVER, but Marnie's love story recently came to an end...
  
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• Zambian singer, pardoned for sexual assault, charged again

  23-12-2015 14:57
  LUSAKA, Zambia (AP) — Released from prison after a presidential pardon for a sexual assault conviction, a popular Zambian singer has been charged with assaulting another woman, despite his new role as ambassador against gender violence.
  
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• Austrian radio station punishes DJ who played Last Christmas 24 times in a row

  23-12-2015 14:57
  
  Presenter who barricaded studio shut and only changed tune when his daughter called to complain is forced to work Christmas and new year shiftsAn Austrian radio station has punished one of its DJs after he barricaded himself in the studio and played Wham!’s Last Christmas 24 times in a row.It was only when the DJ’s daughter called to beg him to stop because the song was making everyone “mad” that he finished his one-song marathon. Continue reading...
  
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• Fans of The Beatles will be able to stream the Fab Four's music from Christmas Eve

  23-12-2015 13:54
  
  The band’s tracks will be available on nine different streaming services just in time for Christmas.
  
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• Justin Bieber vs NHS Choir - The Christmas No.1 Race Is Too Close To Call!

  23-12-2015 13:30
  
  Literally no nails left...
  
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• 10 of the best: Christmas soul and funk

  23-12-2015 13:00
  
  Just because it’s Christmas doesn’t mean you have to roll out the Slade. Try these yuletide floorfillers for sizeAt first glance, the inherent cheesiness of a Christmas record ought not to sit well with funk musicians, typically obsessed (as they tend to be perceived) with making music that is fuelled by passion, intensity and emotion. How are you going to get your audience to believe the sweat and tears if you’re singing about chestnuts roasting on an open fire? Yet soul and f
  
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• Geordie Shore's Charlotte Crosby Admits The Guy She's Seeing Is 'Good At Sex' But Who Is He?

  23-12-2015 12:58
  
  Could it be Gary and his parsnip?
  
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• Kesha 'could be the new Adele' with huge comeback, Sony Music claims in Dr Luke lawsuit response

  23-12-2015 12:55
  
  Pop star Kesha could make a massive comeback on the scale of singers like Adele and Justin Timberlake, Sony Music Entertainment has claimed. In their response to the Tik Tok singer's lawsuit, the record label states it does not want to release her from the contract as it is confident she could continue to have a successful career. The 28-year-old, full name Kesha Rose Sebert, is keen to release new music but only on the condition that she is able to part ways with music producer Dr Luke, whom sh
  
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• YouTuber Marcus Butler Announces He And Girlfriend Niomi Smart Have Broken Up

  23-12-2015 12:44
  
  Literally what is life?
  
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• Beatles fans have ticket to stream Fab Four's music from Christmas Eve

  23-12-2015 12:28
  
  The Beatles' back catalogue of music will launch on a range of streaming services on Christmas Eve.
  
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• Here, there and everywhere: Beatles songs to be streamed for first time

  23-12-2015 12:04
  
  Fab Four’s full catalogue will make Christmas Eve debut on Spotify, Apple Music, Google Play and Amazon Prime, ending long streaming site holdoutComment: the Beatles let it stream – showing that the format is the futureAs a band, the Beatles were famed for their adoption of new recording technology, everything from tape-looped studio effects to double-tracked vocals. But in more recent years their songs have been absent from that most modern of ways to consume music: streamin
  
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• The playlist: the best pop of 2015 – Carly Rae Jepsen, the Weeknd and more

  23-12-2015 12:00
  
  Next up in our series rounding up the best of tracks of the year is pop – from melodic melancholia to a Michael Jackson-esque gemSweden’s Erik Hassle has always been a heart-on-the-sleeve kind of guy. One of his first singles, Hurtful (2009), centred around the lyric “What I did to you was hurtful”, a frank admission at odds with the more passive-aggressive apologising recently favoured by the likes of Justin Bieber and Ed Sheeran. After writing for others (including Shak
  
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• Pretty Little Liars Will End After Season 7 (AKA The Worst News Of All Time)

  23-12-2015 12:00
  
  WHY IS THIS HAPPENING TO US?
  
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• Miss Colombia Breaks Her Silence On That Epic Miss Universe Mistake

  23-12-2015 11:30
  
  What a lady.
  
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• Bergen Philharmonic/Gardner: Gurrelieder review – huge musical hybrid vividly captured

  23-12-2015 11:00
  
  Grieghallen, Bergen
  Gardner set out his artistic stall in charge of a new orchestra and Schoenberg’s monumental cantata certainly showed off his, and their, top-drawer skillsHad things turned out a bit differently, there’s a good chance that after stepping down as English National Opera’s music director last summer, Edward Gardner might now be comfortably installed as the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra’s chief conductor, in succession to Andris Nelsons. Currently t
  
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• Confession Cam Exclusive: Charlotte Admits Marnie's Engagement Has Shaken The House

  23-12-2015 10:14
  
  It was the most romantic ending to a series EVER, but not all the Geordies celebrated Marnie's surprise engagement...
  
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• The best albums of 2015 – readers' picks

  23-12-2015 10:00
  
  We’ve had our say – but what did you think were the best albums of 2015? Here’s what you voted forMore on the best culture of 2015
  We are in accord! For the first time any of us can recall, Guardian readers and Guardian writers had the same two favourite albums of the year, in the same order. This year, in a rare moment of rigour, we decided to exclude obvious attempts to game the system – so, Tinker’s Mitten (“like a beefier Flying Pickets”, one reader
  
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• Henry Rollins on Trump: 'He would be a disastrous president'

  23-12-2015 09:55
  
  The former DC punk and actor spoke about the US presidential election, calling Trump a ‘bored rich guy being crass’ and vouching for Bernie Sanders’s policiesHenry Rollins may no longer sing with Black Flag, but he can still let one rip. The actor and musician spoke on Tuesday about the ongoing US presidential campaign in a Daily Beast interview, voicing his support for Democratic candidate Bernie Sanders and explaining his stance on Republican candidate Donald Trump.“I&r
  
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• Tenacious D launch online charity auction in aid of Paris attack victims

  23-12-2015 09:13
  
  The comedy-rock duo are auctioning band memorabilia, with proceeds going towards victims of the November Paris attacks via a charitable foundationTenacious D are using their comedy-rock fame for good. The duo, made up of comedian and actor Jack Black and actor/singer-songwriter Kyle Gass, are auctioning their band memorabilia and props in aid of the survivors and victims’ families affected by November’s terrorist attacks in Paris.The band are running an online auction until 5 January
  
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• Denmark's Graceland replica to change name after a trademark infringement lawsuit

  23-12-2015 08:38
  
  The Danish museum is to be renamed as Memphis Mansions in January 2016 following a lawsuit brought by the corporate arm of the Elvis Presley TrustDenmark’s Elvis museum, a replica of Presley’s Graceland Mansion home in Memphis, is changing its name after a lawsuit for infringement of the “Graceland” trademark.Henrik Knudsen, who opened Graceland Randers in 2011, says the Memphis, Tennessee-based Elvis Presley Enterprises Inc has demanded a name change and 1.5m kroner ($22
  
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• The Beatles to stream across music services from Christmas Eve: Re/code

  23-12-2015 06:41
  (Reuters) - Popular music band 'The Beatles' will see its songs feature across streaming music services starting this Thursday, Christmas Eve, Re/code reported, citing sources familiar with the plans. Streaming music services including Spotify, Apple Music, Google Play and Amazon Prime Music, are among the many others set to stream the band's songs, the tech website reported. According to Re/code, Pandora Media Inc has the music band's songs on its online radio service, but with various restrict
  
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• Exclusive: ‘No Suicide’ Ruled In Grooveshark Founder’s Death

  23-12-2015 06:01
  
  Despite incredibly suspicious circumstances, the death of Grooveshark co-founder Josh Greenberg has been ruled a ‘no suicide’ by coroners.  In an autopsy report leaked Tuesday afternoon to Digital Music News, Greenberg’s abrupt death was mysteriously identified as ‘Undetermined,’ with no abnormal concentrations of toxins or other unusual post-mortem conditions found.
  According to official autopsy statistics, less than 5% of deaths carry this mysterious non-des
  
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• Little Simz Teams Up With BadBadNotGood On ‘Our Conversations’

  23-12-2015 04:59
  
  Little Simz Teams Up With BadBadNotGood On ‘Our Conversations’
  
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• Big Zuu Unleashes Bar After Bar On New Track ‘Ayo Techno’

  23-12-2015 04:45
  
  Big Zuu Unleashes Bar After Bar On New Track ‘Ayo Techno’
  
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• Figure Flows Reminisces On Latest Track ‘Tinie Tempah’

  23-12-2015 04:34
  
  Figure Flows Reminisces On Latest Track ‘Tinie Tempah’
  
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• Breaking: Kim Dotcom Now Faces Trial In the United States…

  23-12-2015 04:27
  
  It’s the kind of Christmas present only the FBI could give.  According to a court ruling issued in New Zealand early Wednesday, dismantled internet millionaire Kim Dotcom can be extradited to the United States in his ongoing Megaupload defense trial.
  Dotcom, whose ultra-flashy lifestyle at Megaupload was abruptly terminated by a massive FBI-led raid four years ago, has been locked in a high-stakes legal defense ever since.  Now, the Hollywood-driven case against Dotcom will shif
  
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• Dapz Otm Shares An Early Christmas Present In The Shape Of New Track ‘Oh My Days’

  23-12-2015 04:21
  
  Dapz Otm Shares An Early Christmas Present In The Shape Of New Track ‘Oh My Days’
  
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• Be Right There

  23-12-2015 04:07 via mtv.co.uk
  
  Be Right There
  
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• Snoop Dogg Releases New Anthem About His Hometown

  23-12-2015 04:00
  
  Snoop Dogg Releases New Anthem About His Hometown
  
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