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• Celebrity Big Brother 2016: Megan McKenna Makes Up With Tiffany Pollard But Still Isn’t A Fan Of John Partridge

  15-01-2016 22:58
  
  Megan received a formal warning after her explosive rant.
  
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• 71% of All Music Listening Is Now Free, Study Estimates

  15-01-2016 20:57
  
  Question: Approximately what percentage of your music listening is from each of the following sources?
  (gray = primarily free format; green = primarily paid format)Source: British Phonographic Industry (BPI), Entertainment Retail Association (ERA), n=1,000
  In case you were wondering why artists are constantly touring these days, there’s this.  According to a survey recently conducted by the British Phonographic Industry (BPI) and Entertainment Retail Association (ERA) in the UK, rough
  
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• Ice Cube Responds To Oscars’ ‘Straight Outta Compton’ Snub

  15-01-2016 20:03
  
  ‘Straight Outta Compton’ was a box-office smash, taking in $134.1 million in its first three weeks alone.
  Many were hoping the Universal film would be up for Best Picture, however many fans were left dissapointed when the blockbuster N.W.A film wasn’t nominated for multiple Oscars when nominees were announced Thursday morning (Jan. 14). However, Ice Cube wasn’t one of them. Cube shrugged off news that ‘Straight Outta Compton’, directed by himse
  
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• Are the Oscars Racist? Ice Cube Responds to ‘Straight Outta Compton’ Snub

  15-01-2016 20:03
  
  ‘Straight Outta Compton’ was a box-office smash, taking in $134.1 million in its first three weeks alone.
  Many were hoping the Universal film would be up for Best Picture, though fans were left disappointed when the blockbuster N.W.A film wasn’t nominated for multiple Oscars.  The nominee list, announced Thursday morning (January 14th), provoked continued protest and accusations of racism within the Academy.
  Ice Cube wasn’t among the disgruntled ranks.&nbs
  
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• The Outfits The Kardashians Wore In The 00s That There's No Way They'd Wear Now

  15-01-2016 19:01
  
  Wish they would though.
  
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• Shawn Mendes Is No.1...On The Official UK Download Chart!

  15-01-2016 19:00
  
  Yay Shawn!
  
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• David Bowie's Blackstar storms to top of album chart

  15-01-2016 19:00
  
  A quarter of the albums in this week’s Top 40 belong to the star whose death from cancer was announced on MondayIt has been described as his parting gift, a knowing musical finale before he bowed out of this world. And now Blackstar, David Bowie’s final album which was released just two days before his death from cancer, has stormed to the top of the UK album charts.Bowie’s final album sold 150,000 copies in its first week, knocking Adele’s 25 from her seven-week strongho
  
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• David Bowie albums and 13 singles enter the UK top 100

  15-01-2016 19:00
  
  The late artist’s album Blackstar ends Adele’s seven-week stronghold on the UK album charts, with a further 18 Bowie albums entering the top 40 This week’s UK charts are dominated by the albums and singles of David Bowie. More than half a million of his records were sold after his death on Sunday, with an entire quarter of the top 40 commandeered by the pop pioneer.His new album, Blackstar, debuts at No 1, making it his 10th chart-topping LP. With combined sales across formats
  
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• No grime at the Brits? No change there

  15-01-2016 18:59
  
  The Brit awards’ blindness to black British talent goes on, as incredible years for Skepta, Stormzy and Lady Leshurr are shunned for music Alan Partridge would approve of. Luckily, nobody’s seeking approval from the suitsAs usual, Wiley got it right. “A statement was made,” he said last year, as Kanye West brought half of the UK grime and rap scene on to the Brits stage with him, all clad in black, flamethrowers at the ready: “Kanye knows the Brits ain’t letti
  
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• The week in music: goodbye to Bowie, MIA's Borders video drama and more

  15-01-2016 18:45
  
  The world mourned the loss of David Bowie, Run DMC made Grammy history and Squeeze insulted David Cameron, all in this week’s news roundupIn case you hadn’t heard, the world is in the midst of a refugee crisis. In November 2015, MIA released a music video to highlight the problem, featuring young men scaling walls and crowded into boats and canoes. Those of you with a love for European football may have noticed that she is wearing a doctored Paris Saint-Germain shirt in the video &nd
  
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• Yasiin Bey arrested for 'immigration violation' at South African airport

  15-01-2016 18:37
  
  The rapper and actor formerly known as Mos Def has been given 14 days to leave the country after he was arrested for outstaying his visitors’ permitYasiin Bey, the US rapper and actor previously known as Mos Def, has been given 14 days to leave South Africa after he was arrested for violating local immigration laws while trying to leave the country, a government spokesman said on Friday.The entertainer appeared in a South African court after he was arrested at Cape Town international airpo
  
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• EXCLUSIVE! Pretty Little Liars’ Sasha Pieterse Talks Mrs DiLaurentis Death: We Will Find Out Why She Was Murdered

  15-01-2016 18:23
  
  A very important Mrs D update.
  
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• David Bowie's last days: an 18-month burst of creativity

  15-01-2016 18:10
  
  Over the last months of his life, the singer was able to shake off late career doldrums and, despite his illness, find a final creative surgeFor more than a decade before his death David Bowie seemed to disappear. Beset by ill health after an on-stage heart attack in 2004, he largely withdrew into a life at home in New York, becoming a ghost in the city where he had lived for a quarter of a century.Yet as the world comes to terms with his death this week, admirers are digesting a remarkable late
  
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• Celebrity Big Brother 2016: Stephanie Davis Says 'I Love You' To Jeremy McConnell And We're In Shock

  15-01-2016 17:48
  
  What a turn of events.
  
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• Lip Sync Battle UK: Jason Manford Channels His Inner Channing Tatum As He Takes On ‘Let It Go’

  15-01-2016 17:37
  
  Battle of the Elsas.
  
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• Tony Visconti: David Bowie's death was 'just about the worst day of my life'

  15-01-2016 17:31
  
  Bowie’s producer and the band Holy Holy, featuring original Spider from Mars ‘Woody Woodmansey’, vow to keep playing the rock legend’s songs in tributeKaren Walker had just been listening to his new album on a flight to Geneva. Elaine Wiggins, feeling like she’d been punched, crawled into bed with her son. Esther Schwarzbauer realised her fantasy of performing with the star would never be realised.Everyone at the Birchmere music hall in Alexandria, Virginia, on Thur
  
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• Norway’s Farida sings about love and loss in “Three Weeks”

  15-01-2016 17:30
  
  Norwegian singer Farida debuts with a beautiful track..
  
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• How radio reacted to Bowie: 'People come and join you – that's the way it should be'

  15-01-2016 17:27
  
  BBC 6 Music broke the news of the singer’s death. Its presenters explain how they reacted – and how people came together via the old-fashioned medium of radioMonday morning, 6.50am. A DJ and a news reporter are preparing for their first show of the week, checking the playlists, drinking their coffee. At 6.55, there’s usually handover badinage with the presenter of the previous show, but today, Chris Hawkins just says that Shaun Keaveny’s up next on BBC 6 Music. Keaveny do
  
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• Watch The TEDxTEEN London Livestream Right Here

  15-01-2016 17:26
  
  Meet the people generating movements with their voices and actions
  
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• New band of the week: Transviolet (No 86)

  15-01-2016 17:17
  
  Channelling their inner David Bowie, the US electropop four-piece offer up a rallying cry to the young and the renegade
  Hometown: LA via NYC. The lineup: Sarah McTaggart, Judah McCarthy, Michael Panek and Jon Garcia. Continue reading...
  
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• Scribz Riley Drops Debut Track “Tell Me”

  15-01-2016 16:40
  
  Talented producer Scribz Riley steps out from behind the boards for his vocal debut
  
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• Vicky Pattison Hits Out At Plastic Surgery Rumours Saying "It's Not For Me"

  15-01-2016 15:30
  
  Fair play Vick...
  
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• WSTRN Jump On The Parallel Remix of Sigma x Rita Ora’s ‘Coming Home’

  15-01-2016 15:20
  
  The West London trio were called upon to jump on the remix of the Sigma track with Rita Ora
  
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• New Music Out This Week: Nathan Sykes & Ariana Grande, RAT BOY, Stooshe & More!

  15-01-2016 14:55
  
  New choooooooons...
  
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• Tortoise: The Catastrophist – exclusive album stream

  15-01-2016 14:32
  
  Have a listen to the band’s latest jazz-infused album ahead of its release, and let us know your thoughtsExperimental rockers Tortoise are back with a new album inspired by the jazz scene of their native Chicago. You can hear it below. We were going to tell you all about it, but then we had a better idea: why not let the group’s Doug McCombs do that instead? Here are his thoughts on The Catastrophist ...“About one-third of The Catastrophist originated from a commission for the
  
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• RiskyGM And John Doe Team Up For “Side Effects”

  15-01-2016 14:26
  
  RiskyGM & John Doe collab for this hard track
  
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• ‘You smart, you loyal’: how rap culture embraced the meme

  15-01-2016 14:00
  
  From Rick Ross and his ‘pear’ to DJ Khaled and his, well, everything, rappers are capitalising on the magic of gif-based brand buildingLast month, DJ Khaled took his jetski out for a spin in Miami, got lost, dodged police and Snapchatted the whole misadventure to his 2 million-odd followers, prompting amusingly po-faced news stories in the Daily Mail and USA Today. It was the coronation of the Miami music magnate as the current king of the rap meme, which in recent years has become a
  
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• Field Music’s Disappointed: the best of this week’s new music

  15-01-2016 14:00
  
  Field Music | Kano ft Wiley and Giggs | White Denim | Dai Burger | Prayers ft DJ Klever and Travis BarkerPICK OF THE WEEKContinue reading...
  
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• Danny Howard’s favourite tracks

  15-01-2016 14:00
  
  The DJ and Radio 1’s Dance Anthems presenter empties the contents of his psychic record bag Continue reading...
  
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• BBCSSO/Volkov – rare musical portraits of film's early stars

  15-01-2016 14:00
  
  City Halls, Glasgow
  A persuasive account of Charles Koechlin’s Seven Stars’ Symphony captured its actors in unsentimental detail The Seven Stars’ Symphony hasn’t been performed in the UK since the 1960s and isn’t exactly a pops classic elsewhere, so this BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra concert was a rare outing. It was a persuasive account – clear, attentive, soft-grained, unsentimental – but Seven Stars’ is still a weird piece. It comprises a seri
  
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• These Celebs Totally Have Each Other's Backs

  15-01-2016 13:37
  
  GOALS
  
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• Quatuor Renaud Capuçon review – homage has quality but lacks common purpose

  15-01-2016 13:34
  
  Wigmore Hall, London
  There’s little warmth or expressivity in Renaud Capuçon’s tribute to the Busch Quartet’s historic concert seriesThe Busch Project is the brainchild of violinist Renaud Capuçon, a three-season scheme to replicate six historic concerts given by Adolf Busch and the legendary quartet and ensemble that he created. To realise his plans, Capuçon established a quartet of his own, recruiting three string players still in their 20s who, like him,
  
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• Geordie Shore's Charlotte Crosby: "I Want My Own Reality Show" VIDEO EXCLUSIVE

  15-01-2016 13:34
  
  Her life is even crazier outside of Geordie Shore, appaz...
  
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• Celebrity Big Brother 2016: John Partridge Plots His Revenge On Megan McKenna, As He Labels Her An 'Evil C***'

  15-01-2016 13:29
  
  Feisty.
  
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• A Brand New Cloverfield Movie Is On The Way Very Soon, & The Trailer Is Completely Amazing

  15-01-2016 13:28
  
  Best surprise EVER.
  
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• Not Everyone Is Loving Kendall Jenner's New 'Tribal Spirit' Campaign For Mango

  15-01-2016 13:21
  
  Can people just stop calling 'tribal' a trend already.
  
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• Adele, James Bay, Years and Years lead BRIT nominations

  15-01-2016 13:20
  By Marie-Louise Gumuchian LONDON (Reuters) - British singers Adele and James Bay, together with pop-electronica trio Years and Years, led the running for this year's BRITs on Thursday, earning four nominations each at Britain's top music awards. Adele who has stormed charts worldwide with her album "25", received nods for British female solo artist and MasterCard British album of the year. In the British female solo artist category, she faces Jess Glynne, Laura Marling, Florence Welch of Florenc
  
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• Pretty Little Liars Recap: Epsiode 11, Season 6 'Of Late I Think Of Rosewood'

  15-01-2016 13:01
  
  Everything that went down in the first episode of 6B.
  
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• Nadia Rose Teams Up With Dollar Bin For New Single ‘Retail Therapy’

  15-01-2016 13:00
  
  Nadia Rose just keeps the big tracks coming, listen to her collab with Dollar Bin now..
  
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• These Are The Top 10 Best Selling Video Games Of 2015

  15-01-2016 12:53
  
  FIFA and Call Of Duty lead the way...
  
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• Khloe Kardashian Tells Kris Jenner 'We're All Going To Die' As She Refuses To Take DNA Cancer Test

  15-01-2016 12:41
  
  That's the spirit.
  
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• Bolívar Orchestra/Dudamel review – primal power brings the house down

  15-01-2016 12:40
  
  Royal Festival Hall, London
  This was a Stravinksy recital of two halves, as an unfocused Petrushka missed the frisson while an earthy Rite of Spring heaved with wonderful physicalityGustavo Dudamel and the Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra of Venezuela opened their Southbank Centre residency with Petrushka and The Rite of Spring, two of Stravinsky’s most demanding works. The former youth orchestra remains one of the world’s most popular ensembles, and it’s hard not
  
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• Caitlyn Jenner Reveals She ‘Doesn’t See Herself Dating Women’ In New I Am Cait Trailer

  15-01-2016 12:38
  
  Check out a sneak peek at the new season.
  
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• YouTuber Miranda Sings Just Landed A TV Show On Netflix

  15-01-2016 12:31
  
  Orange is the new Miranda.
  
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• Nimmo Are Literally Bursting To Show You Their New Music

  15-01-2016 11:51
  
  The Brand New For 2016 nominees have loads of new materials to release and we can't wait to hear it!
  
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• Little Mix's Jesy Nelson & Leigh-Anne Pinnock Went On The Cutest Double Date Ever Last Night

  15-01-2016 11:26
  
  Not a third wheel in sight.
  
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• Brit Awards 2016: Why has Amy Winehouse been nominated for British female solo artist five years after death?

  15-01-2016 11:20
  
  It was easy to predict who the top contenders would be on the nominations list for the Brit Awards 2016. Adele would of course get the most nods following what has been a tremendous comeback and Justin Bieber would compete for best international male. Five years after her death, iconic singer Amy Winehouse has been nominated for best British female solo artist – an award she won nine years ago in 2007 and remains her only Brit Award to date.
  
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• Matthew Perry Won’t Be At That Friends Reunion Because The World Isn’t Fair

  15-01-2016 11:08
  
  Is Chanandler Bong available?
  
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• How performing Starman on Top of the Pops sent Bowie into the stratosphere

  15-01-2016 10:32
  
  The moment he pointed down the camera during his appearance on the BBC in July 1972 was also the precise moment that Bowie became a major star
  I went to YouTube just now to see if the memory I’ve kept in my head for more than 43 years is correct. When David Bowie appeared on Top of the Pops on 6 July 1972 performing Starman, did he really point at the camera on the line “I had to phone someone so I picked on you-hoo-oo”? He did.Continue reading...
  
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• Liam Payne's Cut All His Hair Off Again And Is Now Official Twins With Nick Jonas

  15-01-2016 10:30
  
  Merry new year.
  
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