Abba, Mariah Carey and Lewis Capaldi among first artists to receive BRIT Billion award

Far from a victim of the second album curse, Lewis Capaldi's brand-new record Broken By Desire To Be Heavenly Sent already claims the title of 2023's fastest-selling LP so far, the Official Charts Company can confirm.

A £30 million project which would see almost half of a West Lothian school demolished and rebuilt has been put forward as the fastest and cheapest option to tackle crumbling concrete in the building.

Lewis Capaldi’s new album ‘Broken By Desire To Be Heavenly Sent’ is already outselling the rest of the Official Albums Chart Top 20 combined, and set to reach the Number One spot.The album arrived last Friday (May 19) and marked the second full-length LP from the Scottish singer-songwriter.

Lewis Capaldi is currently outselling the rest of the Official Albums Chart Top 20 combined as he surges towards Number 1 with Broken By Desire To Be Heavenly Sent. 

Eurovision 2023 winner and pop iconoclast Loreen has announced her UK and EU ‘Tattoo’ tour. Check out the tour dates below.The tour is set to Kick off in Dublin on November 7 and run throughout the UK and Europe.

Lana Del Rey looks to have struck gold by opening the vaults of her unreleased music – with Say Yes To Heaven on track for this week’s highest new entry (6). If it maintains momentum it would be Lana’s first solo Top 10 single in the UK since Born To Die in 2012.

Lewis Capaldi has said that he’d be willing to step away from music to protect his mental health if he had to.The artist admitted that fame has proved a detriment to his mental health, and if necessary, he wouldn’t rule out walking away to look after himself.Speaking to Rebecca Judd on Apple Music, he said: “I think on this album in particular I talk a bit more about my mental health, which has taken a beating over the last little while.“I’m managing it better now but I think in 2020 I was kind of glad when we got put in lockdown because I had done my first arena tour in the UK, and we had just done an Australia and Asia tour before that.“I was in a bad way where I was just having panic attacks every single day on stage and I was just shy,” he continued. “I still haven’t quite got there, but it’s interesting that this thing that you love to do and you’ve always wanted to do becomes something that causes you such distress, but such is the modern world.“”If I did another album and my head was scrambled and I felt horrible, right now I’m at a point where I can balance my mental health and how I feel in general.

Despite some heavy competition throughout the week, Calvin Harris and Ellie Goulding manage to pip Loreen to the post, claiming Number 1 for a sixth non-consecutive week. 

Eurovision 2023 winner Loreen and her banger Tattoo have moved one step closer to Official Chart domination - creeping up today to outpeak Euphoria and even potentially challenge for Number 1, the Official Charts Company can confirm.

NME has visited London’s prestigious Tileyard Studios, and discovered how the star-studded space provides a sense of community and collaboration in its design, as well as an array of top music equipment.Just off the beaten track in London’s King’s Cross, hidden amidst the industrial courtyards, lies one of the most star-studded music hubs in the city: Tileyard. Home to some of the biggest music businesses and the personal studios from the likes of Noel Gallagher and The Prodigy, the space boasts everything an artist could need, all in one location.Formed back in 2011, the location has steadily expanded from a quaint set of studios located next to a sprawling car park, into something of a musician’s utopia – hosting everyone from Dua Lipa to Sigala, Lewis Capaldi to Mark Ronson.

Following an admittedly disappointing result at last night’s Eurovision Song Contest, the UK has got behind our entry, with Mae Muller’s I Wrote A Song heading for the Top 10 for the first time.

K.J. Yossman The BAFTA TV awards are kicking off this evening in London, with attendees including Cillian Murphy, Imelda Staunton, Kate Winslet, Gary Oldman, Will Sharpe and Sharon Horgan. The ceremony, which will include a performance from Lewis Capaldi, will be hosted by comedians Rob Beckett and Romesh Ranganathan with Clara Amfo and Michelle Visage on the red carpet and “Chick Shop Date” star Amelia Dimoldenberg hosting backstage. Among the titles battling it out for an award this evening are “Bad Sisters,” “Sherwood” and “The Responder.” Variety will be updating live as the ceremony takes place.

It’s another Miracle on the Official Singles Chart, as Calvin Harris & Ellie Goulding settle in for a fifth week at Number 1.

As the frontman of The 1975 (not to mention the small matter of his famous mum - Loose Women's Denise Welch), Matt Healy is no stranger to fame. Now, thanks to reports linking the British rocker to superstar Taylor Swift, he's Google's number one search trend - and has found a whole new audience of Swifties. So what's Matt really like? Well, according to Lewis Capaldi, he's refreshingly "normal".

Calvin Harris & Ellie Goulding have taken Miracle to a fourth week at Number 1 on the Official Singles Chart. 

Lewis Capaldi’s intimate ‘Behind The Music’ shows went on sale this morning at 10am but sold out in a matter of seconds.

The BPI - the voice of independent and major record labels across the UK - has revealed the first artists to receive its prestigious BRIT Billion award.

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The BPI - the voice of independent and major record labels across the UK - has revealed the first artists to receive its prestigious BRIT Billion award.

Calvin Harris has confirmed that he’s collaborated with Lewis Capaldi on a new song, but the track is currently “lost”.Speaking in a new interview with The Sunday Mirror, Harris confirmed that the pair “made a tune together two years ago” but “then something happened to it”.“[Capaldi] put it on his laptop and then lost it or something,” he added.It comes after their ongoing chart rivalry that started when Capaldi beat Harris’ ‘Giant’ to the Number One spot in 2019 with ‘Someone You Loved’. Earlier this month, Capaldi knocked the Calvin Harris and Ellie Goulding collab ‘Miracle’ from the Number One spot with ‘Wish You The Best’.However, Harris returned the favour on Friday (April 28) when ‘Miracle’ took the top spot of the UK Singles Chart again.A post shared by Calvin Harris (@calvinharris)“He’s a great lad and even though we’re not best friends or anything like that, it’s always nice to see a Scottish lad doing well,” Harris said of Capaldi.Harris isn’t Capaldi’s only high-profile collaboration.