Adele has been named as the UK’s best-selling female album artist of the century by The British Phonographic Industry, according to Music Week. She holds the top spot above the stars such as P!nk, Madonna, Rihanna, Dido, Amy Winehouse, Kylie Minogue, Beyonce, Britney Spears, and Lady Gaga. Her second album, ‘21‘, also holds the title for the UK’s number one album by a female artist since 2000, after shifting just shy of 6 million copies in the UK alone. The new statistics have been unveiled to coincide with the confirmed return of National Album Day on October 21, which will adopt ‘Celebrating Women In Music’ as its 2021 theme.

It was not written that three, or any other number of kings visited them, or that stars flew over their heads when they were born, but they did indeed become stars later on. It's their music, not being born on December 25, that made them famous - Shane MacGowan, singer-songwriter of The Pogues, Annie Lennox […]

Adele's '21' is the UK's best-selling album of the 21st Century, selling more than five million copies since being released in 2011. The record, which features the hits 'Rolling In The Deep' and 'Someone Like You', is more than a million copies ahead of the second biggest-seller, Amy Winehouse's 'Back To Black'. Adele also takes […]

The 1975 won songwriters of the year for their album, 'A Brief Inquiry Into Online Relationships' and best contemporary song for 'Love It If We Made It', at the 2019 Ivor Novello songwriting awards, Independent reports. The organizers praised The 1975's efforts as "a bold, inspirational and original statement, bringing together an awareness of contemporary […]

An excellent mixture of pop, hip-hop, folk, and electronic elements, it's a continuously cherishable sequence that once again cements Dido as a singular artist... 'Still on My Mind' is another rich outing for Dido in every way. At its peak, it provides awe-inspiring combinations of singer/songwriter radiance and novel sonic manipulations and juxtapositions - PopMatters […]