18 h. ago Ivor Novello Awards 2025 winners: Humble Charli XCX downplays Best Songwriter gong while Robbie Williams admits he still struggles with 'self

The Ivors, Britain's annual awards for songwriters and screen composers, marked its milestone 70th year with a star-studded ceremony at London's Grosvenor House.

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21 h. ago The Ivors 2025: Charli XCX, Brandon Flowers, Robbie Williams and U2 among last night’s winners

U2 make history at the 2025 Ivors overnight, as Charli XCX continues her awards tour

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32 h. ago Charli XCX named songwriter of the year at The Ivors awards ceremony

Lola Young won the rising star award while Berwyn took home the best album gong for Who Am I.

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32 h. ago Charli XCX picks up another huge award at prestigious music event

The Ivors celebrated the best in music and songwriting with a glittering event in London

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32 h. ago Ivor Novello Awards winners in full as Charli XCX picks up another major gong

The Ivors celebrated the best in music and songwriting with a glittering event in London

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46 h. ago Bea and her Business: ‘I would go to record label meetings alone aged 16’

The 21-year-old pop singer Bea Wheeler is up for a Rising Star nomination at this year’s Ivor Novello Awards. Ellie Muir speaks to the musician about sarcastic lyrics, why Lily Allen is her songwriting inspiration and churning out relatable music

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67 h. ago Carey Mulligan joins cast of Greta Gerwig’s Narnia adaptation

Daniel Craig, Charli XCX and Meryl Streep are rumoured to be joining the project

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4 d. ago The one change that worked: I’ve ditched streaming for CDs – and fallen in love with music all over again

The lure of a limitless digital jukebox was great, but as the algorithm increasingly served up music I didn’t enjoy, I’ve taken back control of my listeningWhen most people were comparing how many times they had listened to Sabrina Carpenter, Charli xcx and Fontaines DC on Spotify Wrapped last December, I had to make do with Burger King Unwrapped, delivered to me via their app, which told me how many Burger Kings I’d eaten that year (a solitary Whopper meal in July). You see, I’ve stopped streaming music, which, in this modern day and age, seems frankly weird. But hear me out. I’ve gone back to buying CDs, and it’s made me fall in love with music all over again.I listen to music all day, every day. I can’t work without music in the background, or consider doing the washing up without some tunes to groove to. Traditionally, I’d buy albums on CDs or vinyl, and listen to them over and over until I was bored to death with them, by which time I’d hopefully have bought another album. It’s...

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5 d. ago Richard E. Grant and Charli XCX dazzle at a week of celeb parties

Richard E. Grant and Charli XCX dazzle at a week of celeb parties  London Evening Standard

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5 d. ago Richard E. Grant, Jourdan Dunn and Charli XCX dazzle at a week of celeb parties from London to Cannes

It’s been a star-studded week on both sides of the Channel, with A-listers lighting up London and Cannes

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6 d. ago Married At First Sight's 'hottest bride' Evelyn Ellis risks wardrobe malfunction in daring dress as she parties with Charli XCX at star

Married At First Sight's Evelyn Ellis turned heads as she rubbed shoulders with A-listers at the star-studded Magnum party during the Cannes Film Festival on Thursday.

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1 week ago Baxter Dury enters his brat era: 'I want to escape the trap of mature man music'

Baxter Dury’s new album Allbarone is a dancefloor filler resulting from a love of Charli xcx and a producer who wouldn’t listen to him

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2 w. ago ‘Rethink it all!’ Why is one Danish school producing nearly every cool alt

Copenhagen’s Rhythmic Music Conservatory finds common ground between Ella Fitzgerald and Charli xcx – and its free-thinking alumni are thriving. We go on a tour to see what’s in the water there (aside from shipwrecks)Before she was getting DMs from Dua Lipa and minting K-pop hits, and long before yesterday’s surprise release of her sumptuous fourth album, Erika de Casier was a nervous student in her 20s debating what to wear on her first day.It was 2019, her debut album Essentials had come out that year and received critical acclaim. But at Copenhagen’s Rhythmic Music Conservatory (RMC), that was by the by. “In Denmark, it’s incorporated in our way of being: everybody is so humble,” says the Portuguese musician. “It wasn’t like I went to school and people were like ” She makes an exaggerated starstruck face. “That would be crazy. It was just, ‘Oh, congrats. I heard the new album. Sounds great.’” Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Charli XCX and Sabrina Carpenter headline Primavera Sound's hottest lineup yet

Primavera Sound's 2025 lineup features some of the most recognisable female artists in the world right now, including Brat summer icon Charli XCX, Sabrina Carpenter, Chappell Roan and FKA Twigs

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2 w. ago Having a child has been both the most transformative and mundane experience of my life | Rebecca Varcoe

Parenthood has opened the door to a new kind of love – one not necessarily more sacred or pure than the love for my friends, parents and husbandGet our weekend culture and lifestyle emailTwo years ago I fell pregnant and within five weeks I was diagnosed with hyperemesis gravidarum, a medical condition that causes extreme nausea and vomiting. It lasted my entire pregnancy and that year was (almost) the worst of my life. Now, I keep being told the relief of no longer being sick is the main reason I enjoyed the first year of my child’s life so much.Shortly after my baby was born, I started seeing social media content about Charli xcx’s song “I think about it all the time” and its articulation of the apprehension many women have about becoming mothers. I have recently started back at work and miss my child terribly. It’s the unhappiest I have been since she was born, around the same time Chappell Roan said none of her friends with children were happy.Sign up for the fun stuff with our ...

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2 w. ago Charli xcx fans are only just learning the 'gnarly' story behind her name

Charli xcx has been a staple of British pop for years - but some fans are only just learning the meaning behind the name of the BRAT superstar

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2 w. ago Amazon Prime's Overcompensating release date and celebrity cameos including Charli xcx

The series will land on Prime Video next week

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2 w. ago In her Brat era! Nicole Kidman shows off her cleavage in a singlet as she attends Charli XCX concert after dancing seductively to Lorde's drug

Nicole Kidman embraced her brat summer on Sunday when she headed out to catch Charli XCX at Brooklyn's Barclays Center.

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2 w. ago In her Brat era! Nicole Kidman shows off her cleavage in a singlet as she attends Charli XCX concert after dancing seductively to Lorde song about drug taking

Nicole Kidman embraced her brat summer on Sunday when she headed out to catch Charli XCX at Brooklyn's Barclays Center.

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3 w. ago Overcompensating: what we know about Amazon's college show with Charli XCX and Megan Fox

The two stars have cameos in the trailer for Overcompensating and Prime Video’s college drama could make a star of creator Benito Skinner

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