25 h. ago Coldplay set to smash Taylor Swift's tour record as they're on course for music history

Coldplay are set to make music history next week as they wrap up their epic Music of the Spheres World Tour - and the numbers are truly staggering

Culture

4 d. ago Taylor Swift and Charli XCX tours help drive record year for UK live music

Total consumer spending on the sector reached £6.7 billion in 2024, industry body Live said.

Society

4 d. ago Taylor Swift’s Eras tour helps fuel UK consumer spending on live music to record £6.7bn high

Report from Live shows spending £2bn higher than before Covid-19 shutdowns, although grassroots venues are still closing at an increasing rateUK consumer spending on live music events reached a record-breaking total of £6.68bn in 2024, up 9.5% on the previous year, fuelled in part by Taylor Swift’s blockbuster Eras tour.The report from Live (Live music Industry Venues and Entertainment), the recently formed body advocating for the British music industry’s interests before government, signals a full-bodied return from the effects of Covid-19. The figures are 28.2% higher than in 2022, when live music more or less resumed after the pandemic, and more than £2bn more than in 2019, the last fully functioning year for live music prior to the shutdown. Continue reading...

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4 d. ago Back to school season ushers in hunger for broadening musical horizons with 82 per cent of Scottish children interested in learning a musical instrument

New research from the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra (RPO) reveals that the public’s appetite to discover orchestral music has hit a record high - and, among school children in Scotland, the new academic year starts with a record number of children wanting to learn a musical instrument.

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9 d. ago Pop singer Maisie Peters 'cried for two hours' after Ed Sheeran's Cardiff show

Maisie has also opened for several major artists including Taylor Swift on her Eras Tour in the UK, Coldplay and American folk-pop singer Noah Kahan

Politics

9 d. ago People with this Taylor Swift album could be sitting on a small fortune

Music lovers are being urged to check their record collections for albums currently selling for up to £500.

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9 d. ago Sabrina Carpenter strips to tiny lace lingerie as she debuts very raunchy new song

Sabrina Carpenter has released her new album Man's Best Friend as well as the second single from the record, Tears, which is accompanied by a very naughty music video

Politics

9 d. ago Meet Dancing with the Stars’ new pro Jan Ravnik, Taylor Swift’s back

Ravnik was a backup dancer on Swift’s Eras Tour

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2 w. ago Coldplay at Wembley: What time will they perform and what is the setlist?

With Coldplay set to play a massive 10 nights across 17 days at London’s Wembley stadium, here’s what you can expect in terms of timings and songs.

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2 w. ago Coldplay tickets for Wembley Stadium gigs are still available – this is how to get them

Coldplay are set to take to the Wembley Stadium stage for the first show of their 10-night residency on Friday, August 22, having already ticked off Hull's Craven Park Stadium

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2 w. ago Coldplay review, Hull – Chris Martin delivers shameless crowd

Band’s record-breaking Music of the Spheres tour seems to raise the bar for stadium shows with each new performance

Politics

3 w. ago ‘I’m the one to beat’: is Taylor Swift’s Showgirl era set to take h to even greater heights?

Just-announced album already looks like it will make singer and partner Travis Kelce hysterically famous at a new level – and that may be precisely their planTaylor Swift’s podcast interview with her American football player boyfriend, Travis Kelce, this week yielded plenty of tidbits for fans. Across two hours of loose chat on New Heights, the show Kelce helms with his brother Jason – also a football player – Swift revealed she was obsessed with sourdough and lurked on baking blogs. The couple spent the summer with her family, caring for her 73-year-old father, Scott, after he had a quintuple heart bypass. She gave Kelce a lesson on Hamlet and taught him how to avoid internalising speculation about their two-year relationship. You could call them the tentpoles of the 35-year-old pop star’s brand: literary passions and professional self-awareness.One surprising revelation came near the end. Until the record-breaking 149-date Eras tour that Swift mounted from 2023-24, she said she ha...

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3 w. ago ‘I’m the one to beat’: is Taylor Swift’s Showgirl era set to take her to even greater heights?

Just-announced album already looks like it will make singer and partner Travis Kelce hysterically famous at a new level – and that may be precisely their planTaylor Swift’s podcast interview with her American football player boyfriend, Travis Kelce, this week yielded plenty of tidbits for fans. Across two hours of loose chat on New Heights, the show Kelce helms with his brother Jason – also a football player – Swift revealed she was obsessed with sourdough and lurked on baking blogs. The couple spent the summer with her family, caring for her 73-year-old father, Scott, after he had a quintuple heart bypass. She gave Kelce a lesson on Hamlet and taught him how to avoid internalising speculation about their two-year relationship. You could call them the tentpoles of the 35-year-old pop star’s brand: literary passions and professional self-awareness.One surprising revelation came near the end. Until the record-breaking 149-date Eras tour that Swift mounted from 2023-24, she said she ha...

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3 w. ago Kylie Minogue says ‘showgirl life is multidimensional’ in response to Taylor Swift comparisons

Fans have been drawing comparisons between Minogue’s 2006 Showgirl tour and Swift’s forthcoming album, titled ‘The Life of a Showgirl’

Politics

3 w. ago Drake lawyers allege Universal head Lucian Grainge ‘personally involved’ in Kendrick Lamar diss track

Lawyers for Universal Music Group deny that British chief exec had any ‘meaningful involvement’ in the promotion of allegedly defamatory track Not Like UsAs Drake’s lawsuit continues against his record label’s parent company, Universal Music Group (UMG), his lawyers have claimed that UMG’s British chair and chief executive Lucian Grainge had a “role in and knowledge of the scheme to defame and harass” Drake, and have requested that UMG produce texts and emails by Grainge.UMG has previously denied access to those communications, stating that Grainge has “no meaningful involvement in the matters and decisions at issue in this litigation”. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago Travis Kelce says girlfriend Taylor Swift reminds him of his mum

American footballer also revealed ‘mind-blowing’ physical toll of Swift’s Eras Tour

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