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Star-Studded BBC Charity Single ‘Stop Crying Your Heart Out’ Is Racing to No. 1 In U.K.
One of the most star-stacked pop songs of the year — or any year — is on track for the U.K. No. 1. The likes of Cher, Kylie Minogue, Robbie Williams, Mel C, Bryan Adams, Lenny Kravitz and Nile Rodgers performed on the BBC Children In Need single “Stop Crying Your Heart Out,” an Oasis cover which dropped last Friday (Nov. 13). Based on sales and streams over the weekend, the BBC Radio 2 Allstars number leads the way and is on course to become the eighth Children In Need single to reach No. 1, the Official Charts Company reports. {“nid”:”9483617″,”type”:”post”,”title”:”BBC\u2019s All-Star Charity Single \u2018Stop Crying Your Heart Out\u2019 Is Here: Stream It Now”,”relative_path”:”\/article...
New Order’s Bernard Sumner Is Recovering From COVID-19
Add Bernard Sumner to the list of artists who’ve contracted the novel coronavirus. Speaking with The Current’s Jill Riley, the New Order frontman revealed he caught COVID-19 from a colleague in the past month. “I’m just recovering from coronavirus actually,” he explained. The illness rendered his voice “gruff,” and he can’t smell anything, but Sumner counts himself as “one of the lucky ones. I didn’t get it too bad. I’m ok. Walking the interviewer though the symptoms (“I had a little bit of a temperature, but not much”), Sumner experienced relief for four days, then the issues returned. “When it came back, it was more severe, but still not too bad. I just felt extreme fatigue, like a really bad hangover. And then it went away, and I’m okay.” Sumner is on...
Kylie Minogue’s ‘Disco’ Blasts to No. 1 In U.K.
Kylie Minogue is queen of the U.K.’s album chart, and she sets some impressive records along the way. The Australian pop icon’s 15th studio album Disco (BMG) dances in at No. 1 on the Official U.K. Albums Chart, her eighth leader and third in as many years. {“nid”:”9481149″,”type”:”post”,”title”:”Kylie Minogue's 'Disco' Dances to Lead on Midweek U.K. Chart”,”relative_path”:”\/articles\/news\/9481149\/kylie-minogue-disco-lead-midweek-uk-albums-chart\/”,”media”:{“width”:”1548″,”height”:”1024″,”extension”:”jpg”,”mime_type”:”image\/jpeg”,”type”:”image”,&#...
Delta Goodrem to Host 2020 ARIA Awards
Delta Goodrem will host next week’s 2020 ARIA Awards, organizers announced Monday (Nov. 16). It’s a first for the hitmaking pop star, who has achieved almost every other honor the Australian music industry has to offer. Over her career, Goodrem has snagged 12 ARIAs, nine No. 1 singles and four No. 1 albums, including Innocent Eyes, recognized as the second best-selling LP by an Australian artist of all-time, behind only John Farnham’s Whispering Jack. Innocent Eyes spent a whopping 29 consecutive weeks at No. 1 on the ARIA Albums Chart following its release in 2003. {“nid”:”9481913″,”type”:”post”,”title”:”Sia to Perform at 2020 ARIA Awards”,”relative_path”:”\/articles\/news\/9481913\/sia-perform-2020-...
BBC’s All-Star Charity Single ‘Stop Crying Your Heart Out’ Is Here: Stream It Now
Wipe away those tears, the year’s glitteriest all-star collaboration has arrived. The likes of Cher, Kylie Minogue, Mel C, Lenny Kravitz and Robbie Williams appear on the 2020 charity single for BBC Children in Need, a new cover of Oasis’ “Stop Crying Your Heart Out,” with a backing track featuring the BBC Concert Orchestra and Anoushka Shankar on sitar. {“nid”:”9481923″,”type”:”post”,”title”:”Cher, Kylie Minogue, Mel C, Lenny Kravitz Cover 'Stop Crying Your Heart Out' For BBC Children in Need”,”relative_path”:”\/articles\/columns\/pop\/9481923\/cher-kylie-minogue-bbc-children-in-need-charity-single\/”,”media”:{“width”:1548,”height”:1024...
Rapper Shyne Barrow Is Elected to Belize’s House of Representatives
Belize held its national elections on Wednesday (Nov. 11), and while Prime Minister Dean Barrow will be replaced by John Briceño of the People’s United Party, Barrow’s lineage lives on the country’s government. The prime minister’s son and former rapper, Moses “Shyne” Barrow, won the Mesopotamia seat in Belize City for the House of Representatives. His sister, Denise “Sista B” Barrow, won the Queen’s Square constituency. Shyne served in U.S. prison from 2001 to 2009, for his part in a nightclub shooting involving Diddy and was charged with attempted murder, assault and reckless endangerment. {“nid”:”266804″,”type”:”post”,”title”:”Shyne Makes First Public Appearance In Bel...
Sia to Perform at 2020 ARIA Awards
“It is a wonderful honor to welcome back Sia to the ARIA Awards, a decade after she last graced the ARIA stage,” comments Dan Rosen, CEO of ARIA. “In that time she has gone on to become one of the world’s biggest stars as she has taken her immense creativity and unique voice to fans around the globe. She is one of Australia’s greatest ever musical exports and we cannot wait to see the incredible performance she will deliver for this year’s ARIAs.” Sia has an astonishing number of runs on the board. She made history at the 2015 APRA Music Awards, when she won the event’s top honor, songwriter of the year, for the third successive year. Also, she has nine Grammy Award nominations, a Billboard Hot 100 leader (with “Cheap Thrills”), racked up more than 50 billion global streams, and her ...
Tencent Music Entertainment Grew Subscribers 10% to 4.6M In Third Quarter
Tencent Music’s music apps fared relatively well, with paying users growing 7%, 10.3% and 9.8% in the first, second and third quarters. Revenue didn’t keep the pace as third quarter paying users were just 0.3% over the final 2019 count. Music subscribers grew by 4.6 million to 51.7 million, up 46% year-over-year and up 9.8% from the second quarter. In unit terms, subscriber growth improved on the 2.8 million in the first quarter and 4.4 million in the second quarter. Music monthly active users (MAU) fell 2.3% to 646 million, down from 661 million in the prior-year period Monthly music ARPU (average revenue per user) grew 5.6% to 9.4 yuan ($1.42) Signs of the COVID-19 pandemic are visible on Tencent Music’s metrics. In the first quarter, as much of China was under lockdown orders, Tencent M...
Kylie Minogue’s ‘Disco’ Dances to Lead on Midweek U.K. Chart
Coming in at No. 2 on the midweek chart is Confetti, just 2,200 combined sales behind Disco. It’s the most streamed album so far, and the biggest-selling title on CD, the OCC reports. Little Mix, winners of ITV’s The X Factor back in 2011, have hit the Top 5 with all their first five albums, with Glory Days from 2016 going to No. 1. Completing an all-new top three is Shirley Bassey’s farewell set I Owe It All To You (Decca) at No. 3. It’s shaping up to be the veteran Welsh singer’s highest-charting album in more than 40 years. Another Welsh artist is aiming for a Top 10 debut, Aled Jones. The classical singer’s Blessings (BMG) is new at No. 8, while Birmingham rapper Dutchavelli (real name Stephan Allen) is one place behind with his debut mixtape Dutch From The 5th (Parlophone). Over...
Archie Roach to be Inducted Into ARIA Hall of Fame
It was based on Roach’s own life and experiences. The album received two ARIA Awards in 1991 and “Took The Children Away” received an international Human Rights Achievement Award, the first time that the honor had been bestowed on a songwriter. The song is now preserved in the National Film And Sound Archive Of Australia. “Through the years writing and recording my songs as well as touring, has helped me to heal and connect to audiences around the country,” comments Roach on his induction. “To be inducted into the ARIA Hall of Fame is validation that no matter where you have come from and the struggles that you had to overcome through the years, that you can achieve great things if you set your mind and heart to it. Your achievements are only as good as the people around you and I have bee...
Ariana Grande Bags Chart Double In U.K.
Over on the Official U.K. Singles Chart, “Positions” enters a second week at No. 1, while two more tracks from the LP crack the Top 40. Grande’s “34+35” is new at No. 9 and “Motive” featuring Doja Cat is at No. 16, extending her list of U.K. Top 40 hits to 28. She’s the fourth artist to achieve the chart double in 2020 (Drake, Eminem and Stormzy are the others), and the first female artist to score consecutive chart double wins in almost ten years (Rihanna did it in 2011). Thanks to Grande’s chart domination, Sam Smith misses out on top spot with Love Goes (Capitol), new at No. 2 on the albums survey. It’s the end of a golden streak for Smith, whose previous two albums hit the summit of the national albums survey. Veteran singer Cliff Richard rounds out an all-new Top 3 with Music… The Air...
Ariana Grande, Midnight Oil Burn Bright on Australia’s Charts
The Makarrata Project features the band collaborating with Indigenous artists and First Nations people including Jessica Mauboy, Kev Carmody, Troy Cassar-Daley, Dan Sultan and Frank Yamma, and includes the previously-released numbered, “Gadigal Land.” It’s a bittersweet result for the politically-charged rock band. Bass player Bones Hillman, who joined the band in 1987 and has been with them ever since, died Saturday (Nov. 7) after a battle with cancer. With Peter Garrett and Co. claiming top spot, Ariana Grande has to settle for a No. 2 bow with Positions, though its title track enters a second week at No. 1 on the ARIA Singles Chart and is one of eight tracks from the LP to impact this week’s Top 50. The U.S. pop star previously ruled the albums survey with My Everything (September 2014)...
