The Grammy Award for Album of the Year is an award presented by the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences of the United States to...
The official figure for the number of music videos with more than 1 billion YouTube views is now more than 300. Record Labels and artists’ marketing...
Paul McCartney has written over 1,000 songs and is undoubtedly one of the most gifted songwriters pop music has ever known. After The Beatles disbanded, he...
Glastonbury Festival is the largest greenfield music and performing arts festival in the world. When you arrive you enter a huge tented city, a mini-state under...
The Kinks: Ray and Dave Davies The Davies brothers, Ray and Dave, were born in suburban North London on Huntingdon Road, East Finchley, the youngest and...
1. Buddy Holly was the first artist to have a posthumous number one when ‘It Doesn’t Matter Anymore’ topped the charts in April 1959. 2. ‘Little...
Brian Jones, Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, and Jim Morrison all died at the age of 27 between 1969 and 1971. At the time, the coincidence gave...
2 January, German guitarist and composer Christoph Karrer died after a COVID-19 infection age 76. He was a pioneer of krautrock, playing and recording with his...
The superstars of the Official UK Chart streaming era, these are the biggest hits from 2014 to 2024 that music has had to offer according to...
The records that took the longest to reach the number one position on the UK charts after their first appearance on the chart are: 29 years...
From the late 50s until the end of the 80s, it was quite a spectacular occurrence for a single to go straight in at Number One...
As of July 2024, “Blinding Lights” (2019) by Canadian singer the Weeknd is the most-streamed song to date. Four artists tie for having the most songs...
They say Frank Sinatra was the first ‘teen idol’ (although history tells us Franz Liszt, the 19th-century piano composer drove women to hysterics). Elvis had the...
1. Benny Andersson became (at age 18) a member of a popular Swedish pop-rock group, the Hep Stars, that performed covers, amongst other things, of international...
1. Graduating from the BRIT School for Performing Arts and Technology in 2006, (where she was a classmate of Leona Lewis and Jessie J), Adele was...