Lewis Capaldi and The Weeknd among best-selling artists in the UK as streaming and physical music sales soar in 2020

economics of music streaming today (January 19).It comes after musicians such as Radiohead’s Ed O’Brien, Elbow’s Guy Garvey and Nadine Shah warned MPs that unfair streaming payments were “threatening the future of music” during the first hearing in November.Peter Leathem, the CEO of music copyright collective PPL, said that musicians at the start of their careers have “got the last 50 years of the music industry to compete with” on digital platforms such as Spotify and Apple Music.“Ultimately,

TRNSMT boss Geoff Ellis has vowed to bring the festival back this summer despite continued uncertainty around live events due to COVID-19.The Glasgow three-day event was cancelled in 2020 and is currently set to return in July with the Courteeners, Liam Gallagher and Lewis Capaldi topping the bill.Ellis has now cited the successful rollout of vaccines in the UK and rapid mass testing as the key to ensure TRNSMT’s return, while warning that “it’s crunch time for summer 2021” (via Daily Record).It

Kate Moss always celebrates her birthday in style. The supermodel doesn’t let another trip around the sun simply pass her by, and she’s had some wild parties over the years.

Love it or hate it (and people tend to fall into one of those two camps), “Joker” made a lot of money for Warner Bros. in 2019 and into 2020, grossing more than $1 billion at the worldwide box office, and according to a new report, becoming the most-purchased home entertainment title in the UK in all of last year.

After Hours music video series—one where he has played a character injured and in bandages, serving partly as a message against drunk driving—with his 'Save Your Tears' video. In the new video, The Weeknd's bandages are off—and the results of his character's plastic surgery are visible.

Driven by titles from  and , vinyl albums are enjoying a massive surge in popularity in 2011, according to latest Official Charts Company stats.

huge winter sale continues - and even more products have now been added to the half price offer. With up to 50% off sex toys and lingerie in the mega January sale, those of us planning to spend a lot of time indoors this winter (basically all of us) can indulge in our favourite fantasies for a lot less.

The Weeknd, 30, proved his bandage-covered face at the 2020 American Music Awards was a setup for his “Save Your Tears” music video, when he showed off impressive prosthetic fillers in the new release. The singer looked unrecognizable in the video, which premiered on Jan. 5, as he flaunted a fuller face that was made to look like the result of plastic surgery around his cheeks and lips. The special effects makeup also included surgical scarring around his ears.

Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorSuperstar Scottish singer Lewis Capaldi, certainly the funniest multiplatinum musician to emerge from the British Isles since Adele, has announced that he’ll be taking a break from social media in order to focus on his second album.“[It’s] honestly been the most incredible few years and it means the world to have the support of all of you,” he wrote in a typically self-deprecating, humorous and foul-mouthed social media post.

Lewis Capaldi’s Divinely Uninspired To A Hellish was the UK’s biggest album for a second year in a row, Official Charts Company data confirms.

Lewis Capaldi has announced that he’ll be taking a break from social media in order to focus on writing his second album.The Scottish singer said that fans can expect to hear the first songs from the follow-up to 2019’s ‘Divinely Uninspired To A Heavenly Extent‘ later this year, but remained typically dead-pan about what is in store.“Honestly been the most incredible few years and it means the world to have the support of all of you,” he wrote.“Going to fuck off for a wee bit now to crack on and

Twitter, Instagram and TikTok will be a whole less funnier, with the news Lewis Capaldi is taking some time out. But fans of the Scots megastar should have no fear.

Little Mix star Jade Thirlwall claims she was ignored by Lewis Capaldi when she tried to chat him up online. The stunner said she slid into the Scots singer'sDMs on Twitter to ask if he fancied a bit of karaoke with her, but he rejected her by not replying.

Jade Thirlwall has admitted that she got rejected by singer Lewis Capaldi when she tried to message him. The Little Mix star, 28, revealed that she slid into his DMs on Twitter in order to invite him out to karaoke but he ignored her.