UK music revenues rise to highest level in two decades through streaming

Kings Of Leon have teased fans by revealing that new music is imminent – telling them to “Get ready for ‘The Mustang’”.The moment took place at their recent live show in Mexico last week (January 25), which also marked their first performance of the new year.Taking to the stage at the Velaria De La Feria in León, it was at the very end of their set that frontman Caleb Followill told the crowd that there was some new music on the way and fans should prepare themselves for a new release called ‘The Mustang’.“[Let me] tell you we have some new music coming,” he is seen telling the crowd in footage shared by a fan online.“It’s coming real soon, so get ready for ‘The Mustang’. It’s coming for you…” he added, also saying: “This is not that song” just before launching into their hit 2008 track ‘Sex On Fire’.

Apple Music has announced it will pay artists higher royalties for music made available in spatial audio.Starting in January, artists can receive a 10% higher royalty rate for spatial audio music. ‘Spatial audio’ is essentially defined as virtual surround sound, and was made available in June 2021 at no additional cost.It follows a Bloomberg Report in December that the company were planning to “give added weighting to streams of songs” mixed in Dolby Atmos (spatial audio is created through technology from Dolby Atmos).

Actress Vicky McClure returns to our screens as bomb disposal officer Lana Washington in the second season of ITV's Trigger Point tonight (Sunday January 28). The Nottingham actress has graced our screens in a number of iconic roles - including Detective Inspector Kate Fleming in the BBC series Line of Duty.

Mr Bungle appear to be teasing their live return to the UK.The Mike Patton-fronted band has not played in the UK since 2000, having performed their last show in Nottingham before splitting up. The band then reunited almost two decades on, but have not played in the UK since.Now, it appears that might be changing.

The BBC enjoyed fresh success with its second season of The Traitors, which drew its highest ever audience with its second season finale airing on Friday evening in the UK.

Prepare to be razzle dazzled as a huge night of musical theatre entertainment returns to the BBC on Saturday night. The National Lottery's Big Night of Musicals is becoming something of an annual fixture, and will allow viewers to see some of the very finest performers in some of the biggest shows currently booking in UK theatres.

Ed Sheeran and JK Rowling.As shared by The Sunday Times, the list includes the Top 100 people to have paid the most in taxes over 2023 – adding a reported £5.35billion to public finances in the last 12 months.Among those listed were Harry Potter author JK Rowling, who was placed at Number 31 in the rankings. According to the report, the author made the list having paid £40million in UK taxes last year.

Holly Willoughby was left as surprised as everyone else when her famous pals took to social media with a rather unexpected - but equally brilliant - video. The former This Morning presenter's fellow ITV stars Ant McPartlin and Dec Donnelly floored fans as they revisited their music career in a hilarious new video.

PJ and Duncan are back! Ant McPartlin and Declan Donnelly have revisited their music career in a hilarious new video, leaving fans in hysterics. Ant, 48, and Dec, also 48, rose to fame on CBBC's drama Byker Grove, where they played characters PJ and Duncan.The duo then went on to launch a music career under the same names, releasing a total of sixteen singles and three studio albums.

Masterpiece has dropped the first trailer for Alice & Jack, the UK TV series starring Andrea Riseborough (To Leslie) and Domhnall Gleeson (The Patient) on March 17. 

deliver their first annual report at the Houses Of Parliament – warning grassroots gig spaces in the UK were “going over a cliff” without without urgent government action and investment from new large arenas. After the stark warning that the UK was set to lose 10 per cent of its grassroots music venues in 2023, the MVT and others from the sector ended the year by telling NME how 2023 was the “worst year for venue closures” while “no one in music industry seems to care”.Now, the MVT have shared their full report into the state of the sector for 2023.

CIX have released their first ever single album ‘0 or 1’, featuring title track ‘Lovers or Enemies’.The single album, alongside the video treatment for ‘Lovers to Enemies’, dropped today (January 24) at 6pm KST, portraying the five members of CIX in some sort of cybernetic universe as they struggle to figure out where they stand with the girl of their dreams.“Now, either embrace me / Or become my enemy / It has to be one of the two / It can’t get simpler, right?” CIX belt on the chorus. Apart from ‘Lovers to Enemies’, ‘0 or 1’ only includes one other track, titled ‘My Name Is Shadow’.‘0 or 1’ marks CIX’s first music of 2024.

(G)I-DLE have released a music video for their new song, ‘Wife’.‘Wife’ is a pre-release track from (G)I-DLE’s upcoming second full-length album, ‘[2]’, which will be released this Friday (January 25). The record will be led by the title track, ‘Super Lady’.The eccentric music video for ‘Wife’ features the K-pop girl group in matching neon-coloured short bob wigs, as well as T-shirts that feature the world ‘Wife’ in bold.‘[2]’ will be (G)I-DLE’s first release of 2024, arriving about four months after their first English EP ‘Heat’.

All these years later, there still ain’t no party like an S Club party!

Inflation in the UK has gone back up to 4 percent after an 'unexpected' rise in December. It is the first time that the rate has risen since February last year and has been fueled by rises in tobacco and alcohol prices, according to official figures.

The Smile, Young Fathers and Gossip will headline this year’s BBC 6 Music Festival – check out the full line up below.The event will take place from March 7-10 in Greater Manchester at the City’s Victoria Warehouse.Young Fathers will perform on March 7 with Hulme and Moss Side based NIA community choir. They will be supported by Hal Baker and SHERELLE, who will perform a DJ set.March 8 will see Gossip headline at their first UK show in over four years.

Refresh for latest…: Warner Bros/Village Roadshow/Heyday Films’ Wonka continues its sweet run, crossing the $500M mark globally this weekend. The worldwide cume through Sunday is $505.3M including $329.1M from the international box office and with Korea, which has a fondness for Hollywood musicals, still to release at the end of the month.

Harry Judd leads an idyllic life with his stunning musician wife Izzy and their three adorable children - and now, his net worth is said to have increased, too.The most recent estimates of the McFly drummer's net worth are set at $4 million, which is around £3.13 million, a leap on previous recent estimates of $2 million (£1.5 million). But how does the star spend his time away from his life as a huge boyband star? Harry, 38, first found fame in the early noughties with bandmates Tom Fletcher, Danny Jones and Dougie Poynter, who he has stayed close friends with, but even away from McFly he is often in the spotlight thanks to his appearances on hit TV shows Strictly Come Dancing and Celebrity Race Across The World.

Sofia Vergara may have showed off her famous curves as Gloria in “Modern Family” for 10 years, but for her role as drug lord Griselda Blanco it was the complete opposite.The Colombian actress, 51, revealed what it took to transformation into her character for the upcoming Netflix series, “Griselda,” in a new interview.“The hardest thing was that I had to wear a wig, fake teeth, fake nose, and have a plastic forehead. I also had to wear uncomfortable bras that pushed me down to make me look less Latin,” she said during an appearance on “The Graham Norton Show,” which airs Friday.“It was a complicated character for me, but it was my first film in Spanish which was so liberating,” she added.Vergara revealed that she first had the idea for the show nearly 15 years ago.“It is a true story of a woman that no one ever suspected of being one of the biggest drug dealers that ever existed,” she said on the British program.“She created an insane cartel, and I went crazy for the story.

Mean Girls movie has been described as a “lively musical update” by critics, although reviews have generally been mixed.Directed by Arturo Perez Jr. and Samantha Jayne, and written by Tina Fey, the revamped musical version of Mean Girls was released in UK cinemas today (January 12).The new film is an adaptation of the 2018 Broadway musical, which itself is based on the original 2004 movie, also written by Fey.