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• The 17 Most Expensive Concert Tickets of 2015

  12-01-2016 23:57
  
  More than half of all the money people spend on music is now going to live concerts, according to data released last week.  Now, we have an idea as to why that is.
  According to Pollstar, these were the most expensive concert tickets of 2015, worldwide.  Each features the average ticket price, as well as the number of cities and shows performed during 2015.
   #17. Taylor Swift‘The 1989 World Tour’53 cites, 83 shows in 2015
  Average Ticket Price: $110.15
   
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• Celebrity Big Brother 2016: Tiffany Pollard Breaks Down After Misunderstanding Angie Bowie And Thinking David Gest Had Died

  12-01-2016 23:01
  
  CARNAGE.
  
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• M.O. Join Forces With Heavytrackerz & Yungen On Latest Track ‘Love The Most’

  12-01-2016 22:04
  
  It seems like Heavytrackerz are behind every big track these days, check out there production on 'Love The Most' With M.O & Yungen
  
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• Japanese fans get emotional about Bowie's death at Tokyo store

  12-01-2016 21:48
  Staff at a music store in downtown Tokyo paid tribute to David Bowie on Tuesday, setting up stands dedicated to the veteran singer, who died on Sunday. Japanese fans bought copies of Bowie's last album "Blackstar", which was released on Friday, also his 69th birthday. His death, following an 18-month battle with cancer, was announced on Monday Staff at the Tower Records Shibuya store put out handwritten messages such as "David Bowie R.I.P." alongside pictures of the singer, magazines and albums.
  
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• UK Rap Rundown: feat Kano, Ghetts, Rude Kid and A2

  12-01-2016 19:31
  
  Every week, we do our best to cover some of the main highlights in the Rap Rundown, whether it be new music, interviews or live shows.
  
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• 19 Times The Pretty Little Liars Cared More About Style Than Staying Alive

  12-01-2016 19:17
  
  Why worry about murder when you could focus on accessorising.
  
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• Why South Korea’s Biggest Streaming Service Sold for $1.6 Billion

  12-01-2016 18:52
  
  On the surface, streaming music is a hopeless money pit, with high licensing costs, bad margins, and far too many competitors plaguing profitability.  Just shake a stick, and there’s a troubled tale: Spotify has incinerated hundreds of millions without a clear exit; Pandora has yet to turn a profit; Deezer canceled its IPO; Rdio went out of business.But over in South Korea, there’s a success story.  Just this week, messaging giant Kakao agreed to purchase a majority positi
  
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• EXCLUSIVE: The Cast Of Pretty Little Liars Reveal The Moments From Season 6B That Will Blow Fans’ Minds

  12-01-2016 18:52
  
  THIS IS ACTUAL NEW INFORMATION.
  
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• "A Perfect Handful!": Geordie Shore's Charlotte Crosby Posts Her Raciest Snap Yet As She Poses For Cheeky Belfie

  12-01-2016 18:37
  
  Looking peachy is our Char!
  
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• Teen Wolf's Charlie Carver Has The Most Inspiring Reason For Publicly Coming Out

  12-01-2016 18:08
  
  You might also know him as one of the twins from Desperate Housewives
  
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• Everything You Need To Know About Zayn Malik’s Debut Album

  12-01-2016 17:58
  
  Sadly, it’s not called InZayn In The Membrane (we think).
  
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• Here's Lots Of Reasons Why We Need The New Pierce The Veil Album Now

  12-01-2016 17:38
  
  It's coming...but WHEN?!
  
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• This New Super Mario Bros. Video Gives Mario Disabled Access

  12-01-2016 17:26
  
  Enable. Access. For. EVERYONE.
  
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• Ex On The Beach 4: Watch An Extended Preview From Episode 1 Here!

  12-01-2016 17:21
  
  The cast arrive and Scotty T is already getting frisky on his first date...
  
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• Anne-Marie Unveils New Music Video For 'Doing It Right' & It's Made Us Even More Obsessed With Her

  12-01-2016 17:10
  
  *plays it on repeat*
  
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• Male Makeup Is The Beauty Trend For 2016 That All Guys Need To Know About

  12-01-2016 16:27
  
  Finally the guys are getting a go with bold beauty
  
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• Perrie Edwards Soaks Up The Sun & Shows Off Her Fancy Bikini With A Selfie

  12-01-2016 15:40
  
  Pout ahoy!
  
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• Has Jenna McDougall Stolen Corey Taylor’s Hair?

  12-01-2016 15:22
  
  We've seen that do somewhere before...
  
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• DJ Mustard Releases New Video For ‘Whole Lotta Lovin’’ Featuring Travis Scott

  12-01-2016 14:50
  
  DJ Mustard surprised us all last week when he premiered his EDM infused track ‘Whole Lotta Lovin’’ featuring the energetic Travis Scott, watch the video for this big track now
  
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• Guess Which YouTuber Made GQ's Worst Dressed Men In Britain List

  12-01-2016 14:34
  
  "The YouTuber's attempts to dress boy-next-door-wacky would test the patience of a saint"
  
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• Craig David & Big Narstie Release Official Video For ‘When The Bassline Drops’

  12-01-2016 14:34
  
  This tune has been heating up the airwaves for a while and now we get the official vide for Craig David x Big Narstie Collab ‘When The Bassline Drops’
  
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• Celebrity Big Brother 2016: Scotty T And Megan McKenna Have Had A Full Blown Late Night Tashing On Session

  12-01-2016 14:13
  
  Well this escalated...
  
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• Kelhani Adds A Verse To WSTRN’s IN2

  12-01-2016 13:31
  
  Could WSTRN's now classic 'IN2' get any better? Yes it can in the form of this remix featuring R&B songstress 'Kehlani'
  
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• Adele Carpool Karaoke: James Corden joins 25 diva for Hello duet in new teaser

  12-01-2016 13:16
  
  James Corden has scored one of his most high-profile guests to date, with Adele the latest musician to appear on his popular Carpool Karaoke segment. In a teaser clip, the British superstar joins Corden for a ride around London while belting out her hit singles. Filmed for The Late Late Show With James Corden, the preview features the pair singing along to Adele's chart-topping single Hello before launching into 2012's Rolling In The Deep, lifted off her second album 21.
  
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• 808INK Drop Heat With Their Latest Track “Peach”

  12-01-2016 13:11
  
  Fusing Hip Hop with trap sounds duo 808INK release their latest track 'Peach'
  
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• Zayn Malik 23rd birthday: Biggest moments from quitting One Direction to Gigi Hadid romance

  12-01-2016 12:58
  
  After quite a dramatic year, Zayn Malik marks a new chapter in his life and career as the singer celebrates his 23rd birthday today (12 January 2016). It may be hard to believe but it is almost one year since the pop star sensationally quit One Direction.
  
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• Here's A Teaser Clip Of Adele Absolutely Nailing Carpool Karaoke

  12-01-2016 12:45
  
  This. Is. Going. To. Be. Incredible.
  
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• From Shags To Riches: How The Geordies Built Their Off-Screen Empires

  12-01-2016 12:41
  
  This lot do so much more than just get mortal
  
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• Celebrity Big Brother 2016: Angie Bowie Breaks Down In The Diary Room After Hearing The News Of Her Ex-Husband's Death

  12-01-2016 12:32
  
  She star was first told the news off air…
  
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• Dermot O'Leary Has A Pretty Drastic Idea On How To Save The X Factor

  12-01-2016 12:24
  
  How about no?
  
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• David Bowie dead: Ex-wife Angie Bowie breaks down in tears on Celebrity Big Brother

  12-01-2016 12:10
  
  Celebrity Big Brother contestant Angie Bowie has broken down in tears after being told of the death of her ex-husband David Bowie. In the episode, set to air on 12 January, Angie is overcome with emotion as she shares her thoughts on the musician's death. Bowie died on 10 January after a secret 18-month battle with cancer and producers of the Channel 5 reality series opted to inform Angie of his death off-camera.
  
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• Brooklyn Beckham, Jim Chapman, Lucky Blue Smith And More Guys Rule The LCM AW16 Frow

  12-01-2016 12:04
  
  The best male style from London Collections Men
  
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• Blossoms To Release Album In 'A Year's Time'...Probably

  12-01-2016 12:00
  The Stockport band have had a massive 2015 but their foot is staying firmly on the gas...
  
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• Celebrity Big Brother 2016: Stephanie Davis' Boyfriend Has Dumped Her After She Kissed Jeremy McConnell

  12-01-2016 11:52
  
  Well, we can't say we blame him…
  
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• Zayn Malik Is Trying To Seduce Us On His L'Uomo Vogue Cover, Right?

  12-01-2016 11:46
  
  Yep, that's exactly what's happening.
  
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• Demi Lovato And Wilmer Valderrama Celebrate Their Six Year Anniversary With Ridiculously Cute Pictures

  12-01-2016 11:27
  
  SIX YEARS.
  
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• Frankie Boyle: 'I loved the idea of David Bowie as an artist'

  12-01-2016 10:43
  
  The comedian Frankie Boyle was working at a mental health hospital when he first connected with one of Bowie’s songs. From then on, part of the pleasure of listening was to work out their storiesIn my early 20s, there was a period when all I owned was about a dozen CDs and a crappy Discman. I’d listen to The Man Who Sold The World Album endlessly as I sat on off-peak trains jerking around the Sussex countryside to and from the asylum I worked in.I loved the idea of Bowie as an artist
  
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• Pierre Boulez: 'He was one of the naughtiest of great artists'

  12-01-2016 10:26
  
  Gerard McBurney, creator of multimedia performance A Pierre Dream, remembers his impish friend – the conductor, composer and provocateurIn November 2014, Chicago Symphony’s Orchestra’s Beyond the Score celebrated the life and work of Pierre Boulez. The project’s creative director Gerard McBurney made a multimedia show that premiered in Chicago and then travelled to the Ojai music festival, the Aldeburgh festival and the Holland festival. This video captures the Symphony C
  
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• How Labyrinth led me to David Bowie

  12-01-2016 10:00
  
  Many girls in the 80s discovered Bowie not through music, but as Labyrinth’s beguiling baddie Jareth, playing with gender roles opposite Jennifer Connelly“It’s only forever … not long at all,” sang Jareth, David Bowie’s silver-tongued villain, in the title song of 1986’s beloved puppet-filled adventure, Labyrinth. Like St Vincent, and so many other 80s children, my introduction to Bowie arrived via the screen rather than the family turntable, in the for
  
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• Chairlift: ‘You have to be honest with where your inspiration’s coming from’

  12-01-2016 10:00
  
  They were a striving indie band until their song Bruises appeared, first on an Apple ad and then everywhere. How do you escape the shadow of a hit?Inspiration lurks in the strangest places. Just ask New York duo Chairlift, who owe much of their new record to the sight of a gorilla-chested Sean Connery leaping around an Irish hillside in a red mankini. This was the scene that played out night after night in the duo’s South Williamsburg studio as they made their third album Moth while watchi
  
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• Singer Natalie Cole laid to rest with music and laughter

  12-01-2016 09:34
  
  The singer was laid to rest in Los Angeles.
  
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• 'He was like a god': how David Bowie left his mark on some of Australia's finest musicians

  12-01-2016 08:45
  
  Australian acts speak to the Guardian of the Starman’s profound influence on their work and livesHow David Bowie’s Let’s Dance shone a light on Australia’s Indigenous struggleDavid Bowie in Australia: an alien from another planet, singing for this one
  As the Australian music community absorbs the news of the death of David Bowie at the age of 69 yesterday, musicians and songwriters who came of age in the 70s and early 80s – when Bowie was arguably at his peak &ndash
  
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• David Bowie provided online music much before Napster

  12-01-2016 08:34
  
  David Bowie, the legendary singer who passed away on 10 January, was also a pioneer of online music. According to Mashable, in 1996 Bowie was one of the first major artistes to come out with a song as an online-only release. Bowie was honoured for being the first musician-created internet service provider.
  
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• David Bowie dead: British rock legend beat Napster to online music with BowieNet

  12-01-2016 08:34
  
  David Bowie, the legendary singer who passed away on 10 January, was also a pioneer of online music. According to Mashable, in 1996 Bowie was one of the first major artistes to come out with a song as an online-only release. Bowie was honoured for being the first musician-created internet service provider.
  
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• My favourite Bowie song – by Florence, Marianne Faithfull, Julien Temple, Noel Fielding and more

  12-01-2016 08:00
  
  We asked musicians, artists, film-makers and more to tell us about the Bowie song that means the most to them … Continue reading...
  
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• William Boyd: how David Bowie and I hoaxed the art world

  12-01-2016 07:30
  
  David Bowie didn’t just publish my fake biography of an invented artist, he also wrote the jacket blurb and launched it – on April Fool’s day – at Jeff Koons’ studioThe awful news of David Bowie’s shocking and untimely death made me take out my journal and search for the first time I met him. It turned out to be on 22 February 1994 at an editorial-board dinner for the art magazine Modern Painters. Here’s what I wrote: “Modern Painters dinner tonigh
  
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• How the newspapers reacted to David Bowie's death – in pictures

  12-01-2016 07:30
  
  The musician’s death dominated the front pages on Tuesday. Here is how it was reported Continue reading...
  
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• Brixton Street Party Tribute To Starman Bowie

  12-01-2016 06:46
  
  From the International Space Station to the Vatican, the death of singer and style icon David Bowie has drawn tributes from a wide spectrum of high-profile figures. Bowie's son Duncan Jones confirmed his loss on Twitter and wrote: "Very sorry and sad to say it's true. Fans left flowers at a mural to Bowie in Brixton, London, where he grew up, and there were similar scenes in the US where candles were placed on his star at the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
  
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• In 2002 interview, Bowie opened up about his legacy

  12-01-2016 06:20
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — In June, 2002, David Bowie and his band were rehearsing in a Manhattan warehouse for an appearance on the show A&E's "Live By Request." An Associated Press reporter stopped by to speak to the affable, then-55-year-old musician. Here's what he revealed:
  
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• How Does it Feel?

  12-01-2016 05:04 via mtv.co.uk
  
  How Does it Feel?
  
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