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.

Madonna has donated $1 million to Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to help fund research into creating a coronavirus vaccine. Pink, who recovered from coronavirus just recently, has pledged $500,000 to Philadelphia’s Temple University Hospital Fund, and $500,000 to the City of Los Angeles Mayor’s Emergency COVID-19 Crisis Fund. Metallica's charitable foundation, All Within My Hands, has announced four grants totaling $350,000 to Feeding America, Direct Relief, Crew Nation and the USBG National Charity Foundation. R'n'b singer H.E.R. has provided her team with money to support them over the coming months.

Six of ten top-grossing tours of 2019 were reunion tours or legacy acts, whose most prolific and successful musical output are years or even decades behind them. The top three earners were Ed Sheeran, Pink, and BTS, but then it travels back to the 20th century - Elton John, The Rolling Stones, Metallica, Paul McCartney, […]

Keith Urban and wife Nicole Kidman, who both have roots in Australia, are giving $500,000 to support firefighters in their battle against Australia's devastating wildfires, Billboard reports. P!nk also said she is donating $500,000 to help fight the deadly wildfires in Australia, Spin reports (P!nk has no Australian roots, describes herself as "Irish-German-Lithuanian-Jew"). Why did […]

'The Greatest Showman: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack' was the best-selling album globally in 2018 with 3,5 million copies sold. South Korean boyband BTS take both the second and third chart positions with the albums 'Love Yourself 結 'Answer' released in August 2018, sold in 2,7 million copies, and 'Love Yourself 轉 'Tear', released in May […]