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Rebecca Davis editorEven in a pandemic year like no other, the K-pop group BTS — and their fandom like no other — has managed to make record-breaking strides, pushing the boundaries of what a band singing primarily in a non-English language can accomplish in the U.S. music industry, while lifting the spirits of millions of fans with hopeful lyrics at a dark time.
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Hipgnosis Songs Fund has moved onshore from Guernsey to the UK. It means Hipgnosis will cease to be a Guernsey tax exempt vehicle and instead be 'treated as being resident in the UK for tax purposes'.
This time last year, Ben Frow didn’t know how to use a laptop, had never worked from home for a single day of his career, and was terrified that his local supermarket was going to run out of food. “I was more worried about the shelves being empty than the Channel 5 shelf being empty,” says the mischievous and sometimes off-message ViacomCBS UK chief content officer.
Mr Brightside by The Killers continues to prove the chart hit that can’t be kept down. This week the track logs a record-breaking 260th non-consecutive week – or a full five years - on the Official UK Singles Chart Top 100.
Tina Turner is the subject of a new two-part HBO documentary that examines her life and stardom.
Not even a nationwide lockdown could slow down the vinyl revival, with vinyl record sales climbing for the 13th consecutive year in the UK in 2020, and UK vinyl spending is set to overtake CD in 2021 for the first time since 1987.
The UK's best-selling single of 1984 was Do They Know It's Christmas? by Band Aid, with chart sales in excess of 2.4 million, according to Official Charts Company data.
The British Academy Games Awards crowned Supergiant’s Greek mythology title Hades the best game of the year during the 2021 BAFTA Game Awards Ceremony on Thursday. Hades won a total of five awards, including best artistic achievement and game design at the awards show hosted by journalist Elle Osili-Wood.
Glamour staffers at varying stages of their lives and careers to share one of the that has served them well. When my family and I moved to New York from the UK in 2019, I wasn’t able to sign up for an annual cell phone contract. (When you move internationally, you don’t have a credit history in your new country.
supper by the sea from a local restaurant is always one of the best parts about any seaside trip.Now, the team of writers at top travel mag Conde Nast have just released their list of the top beach shack eateries in the UK and no less than four different places in Scotland have made on to the list.Serving up grilled lobster with garlicky butter and hot crab claws, to the freshest oysters and the biggest scallops we can't wait to get back out and enjoy some of Scotland's best seafood again, as
CBD has been growing in popularity over the last few years, exploding onto shelves in the UK with a notable impact. This UK legal cannabis extract has found a popular niche in wellness circles. Today CBD products can be found in stores nationwide, whilst the online market for CBD has swelled in size and variety over lockdown.
Lana Del Rey is heading for her fifth UK number one album, currently outselling the rest of the top 10 combined.The singer released her seventh album ‘Chemtrails Over The Country Club’ last week (March 19).Per the Official Charts’ midweek update, Lana’s new album is running away with the race for the top spot this week, racking up both the most physical and digital sales so far.At the half-way stage, ‘Chemtrails Over The Country Club’ has hit 34,000 chart sales, which is higher than the entire
Justin Bieber’s new single Peaches makes a Number 1 debut on the Official Trending Chart.
Dogs have soared up to 450% in value during the Covid pandemic – with the French bulldog being the most popular breed of pooch.Since the UK was forced into lockdown last March, dog thefts have erupted as prices for them rocket.Sally Jaques, pet expert at GoCompare, said: "Many people who dreamed of owning a dog took the plunge while spending so much time at home during lockdown, which is why the price has risen so sharply."Owning a dog is a big investment.1. French bulldog2.