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• Despacito becomes most-viewed video in YouTube history

  04-08-2017 21:30
  With nearly 3bn views in seven months, the recording has surpassed Wiz Khalifa and Charlie Puth’s See You Again record after breaking the most-streamed scoreThe music video for smash hit single Despacito, from Luis Fonsi and Daddy Yankee, has become the most-watched YouTube video ever, surpassing the record for Wiz Khalifa and Charlie Puth’s See You Again. Related: Costa del pop: how Despacito is breaking down music's language barrierContinue reading...
  
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• Charli XCX’s Boys: the sound of beautiful men on the brain

  04-08-2017 15:00
  Also this week: Demi Lovato delivers the summer break-up banger we were all waiting for, while Shania Twain’s Poor Me is unfortunately accurateTRACK OF THE WEEKContinue reading...
  
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• This Exercise Bike Only Lets You Watch Netflix If You Keep Pedalling

  04-08-2017 14:41
  Probably the only thing that could ever inspire movement.
  
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• The story of a sample: how a bank teller's work inspired Kanye and Jay-Z

  04-08-2017 14:30
  How retired reggae artist Sister Nancy reclaimed her song Bam Bam, hip-hop’s latest go-to tune Related: Stylo G feat Sister Nancy – Badd: New music The Interview, that schlocky Seth Rogen film about Kim Jong-un, already had one unintended consequence: it led to a hacking attack on the film’s studio Sony by a group with alleged ties to the North Korean government. But the film had another, equally surprising ramification, one that has arguably influenced some of the world’
  
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• Celebrity Big Brother 2017: Sarah Harding Talks About Cheryl And Admits Girls Aloud Wasn't 'Plain Sailing'

  04-08-2017 14:22
  It's day 3 and Cheryl's name has officially been dropped.
  
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• Fekky Takes Us on a Journey with New Album ‘El Clasico’

  04-08-2017 14:13
  On the day his debut album drops Fekky tells us how Skepta and Giggs would have been pi**ed if they weren’t on it...
  
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• Sophie Kasaei Thinks The Jemma Lucy 'We All Know' Will Surface On Celebrity Big Brother

  04-08-2017 13:52
  Jem's been unusually quiet so far.
  
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• Celebrity Big Brother 2017: Jordan Davies Keeps A book Containing A List Of All 1,500 Women He's Slept With

  04-08-2017 13:39
  He's even ticked a threesome with a mother and daughter off his naughty list.
  
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• Dimitri from Paris: ‘Many Brits think Relight My Fire is a cover of Take That’

  04-08-2017 13:30
  The French electronica producer and DJ empties the contents of his psychic record bag, from the Blue Velvets to Swing Out Sister Continue reading...
  
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• Bebe Rexha Drops ‘That’s It’ With 2 Chainz and Gucci Mane

  04-08-2017 13:06
  The ‘Back To You’ singer made this one for the clubs…
  
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• Simon Rattle: 'I would have been wary about taking the job had I known about Brexit'

  04-08-2017 13:00
  The conductor is returning to the UK to become Music Director of the London Symphony Orchestra. What does he see as the responsibilities of such a role today, what’s happening with the new concert hall, and how do you restrain freedom-loving tortoises?“I don’t think that musicians can change the world … ” Hang on – this is not what Simon Rattle is supposed to say. Of all today’s British conductors, Rattle is the one you would bet on not only contemplati
  
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• Sophie Kasaei Reckons Chantelle Connelly Should Enter The Celebrity Big Brother House

  04-08-2017 12:51
  Let's hear her out.
  
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• Celebrity Big Brother 2017: Jemma Lucy Makes Shocking Botox Confession During Revealing Game

  04-08-2017 12:35
  The EOTB babe was happy to tell her fellow housemates about what she's had done.
  
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• New Music Round-Up: Camila Cabello, Kesha, AJ Tracey and More

  04-08-2017 12:15
  Listen to this week's best new music from Kelela, Cassie, Bebe Rexha and more...
  
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• Bella Thorne Just Gave The Greatest Response To A Twitter Troll Questioning Her Image

  04-08-2017 11:46
  The actress knows how to deal with trolls.
  
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• Selena Gomez Covers ‘InStyle’ And Gets Honest About Her Music and Mental Health

  04-08-2017 11:44
  The 'Fetish' singer is more honest, in control and gorgeous than ever before...
  
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• Vicky Pattison Gets Honest About How Being Engaged Has Affected Her Sex Drive

  04-08-2017 11:40
  Is it true that commitment kills the vibe?
  
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• Garma festival: Gumatj clan lead emotional tribute to Dr G Yunupingu

  04-08-2017 11:37
  As his brothers sang a Dr G song about fire, family members mourned, and prime minister Malcolm Turnbull’s wife Lucy cried with themThere were many tears shed at the opening of the 19th Garma festival, as the Gumatj clan – on whose land the event is held – paid tribute to singer and cultural ambassador, Dr G Yunupingu, who died last week at the age of 46.As his brothers sang a reworked Dr G song about fire, sending the words into the sky with the smoke and dust, family members
  
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• Lorde Creates Her Own Paradise In ‘Perfect Places’ Video

  04-08-2017 11:26
  The ‘Green Light’ singer finds serenity on an isolated island…
  
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• Fans Mock Love Island's Jess Shears For Filming Embarrassing Workout Video In A Massive Puddle

  04-08-2017 11:26
  What an unfortunate location.
  
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• An Unprecedented Amount Of People Have Applied For Love Island 2018

  04-08-2017 11:09
  Are you one of the genetically-blessed hopefuls?
  
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• Marmalade (Ft. Lil Yachty) [Explicit]

  04-08-2017 10:39 via mtv.co.uk
  Marmalade (feat. Lil Yachty)
  
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• Celebrity Big Brother 2017: The Crazy Celeb Connections Between The Housemates That They May Not Even Realise

  04-08-2017 10:35
  A lot of it involves Calum Best tbh...
  
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• 'It's all about feeling': Chicago dance great Larry Heard takes house to the heavens

  04-08-2017 10:00
  A prog rock kid who created existential club tracks with two tape decks, the producer known as Mr Fingers is a true pioneer. He talks about loneliness, day jobs and why Instagram is killing the dancefloorWhen you listen to a Larry Heard track, the first thing that hits you is the bassline: elastic, erotic, condemned to endlessly repeat itself. It may dart distractedly from place to place, climb upwards only to fall back to where it started, and always sound sad and fraught, but it presses dogged
  
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• Björk announces new album: 'This is like my Tinder record'

  04-08-2017 09:52
  Icelandic singer marks a change in mood from her breakup album Vulnicura, saying her new songs are about being in loveBjörk has announced an as yet untitled new album, saying it is “about being in love”.The Icelandic singer’s previous record, Vulnicura, was a dark and fraught album that reflected on the breakdown of her marriage to artist Matthew Barney. Conversely, the new LP is “my dating album,” she told Dazed magazine. “This is like my Tinder record.&
  
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• Isabella Manfredi on the Preatures' new song: ‘I want Indigenous language on the radio again’

  04-08-2017 00:05
  The Sydney band’s singer reveals the ‘unexpected, life-changing journey’ of collaborating with Indigenous song woman Jacinta Tobin on their new singleThere was a moment in the making of the Preatures’ new single Yanada when Darug song woman Jacinta Tobin, co-writing with the band’s lead singer Isabella Manfredi, almost had to call it off.“I said to Izzi, ‘If I don’t see eagle in three days, we have to can the song,’” she says.Continue r
  
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