4 h. ago Trump might not be a Taylor Swift fan but the pop star was one of Karoline Leavitt’s most listened to Spotify artists

Trump has launched several unprovoked attacks on the pop star since she announced her endorsement of Kamala Harris during the 2024 election

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30 h. ago Brits turn backs on UK music stars as NONE make Spotify top 10 – but Sabrina Carpenter wins big

SABRINA Carpenter enjoys the sweet smell of success as one of the most streamed artists in the UK this year. But no British stars made the annual Spotify Top Ten as fans turned their backs on homegrown music. US singer Sabrina, 26, was the third most played artist among millions of UK Spotify users —...

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33 h. ago Taylor Swift is UK’s most streamed artist on Spotify for third year in a row

The 35-year-old released her 12th studio album in 2025.

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36 h. ago Spotify Wrapped 2025 is here: here's who nabbed the top spot

Here’s who we’ve all been listening to

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36 h. ago Spotify Wrapped 2025 announces the year’s biggest artists, songs and albums

Bad Bunny, Taylor Swift, Morgan Wallen and Alex Warren dominate music charts, while Joe Rogan and Steven Bartlett lord it over the top podcasts

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59 h. ago Spotify posts cryptic video ahead of Spotify Wrapped featuring seven artist

Spotify has posted a cryptic video ahead of the official launch of Spotify Wrapped, which is tipped to be this week.

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6 d. ago The Vatican has given Rosalía its blessing – are the days of finger

The pop star’s experimental, religious new album has found an unlikely fan in the Vatican, writes Fiona Sturges. Could this signal a new era of papal-pop culture diplomacy?

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8 d. ago From Donald Trump to Taylor Swift: UK's fascination with American culture revealed

A poll of 2,000 adults found 30% know just as much about American pop culture as they do their own.

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2 w. ago From a celebrity engagement to a trip to space: The Beano review of 2025

Beanofy Unwrapped is a special eight-page pull-out in this week’s Beano

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2 w. ago Alan Carr’s Celebrity Traitors win among moments captured in Beano review of 2025

Carr joined by Katy Perry, Taylor Swift in 2025’s Beanofy Unwrapped

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2 w. ago Taylor Swift’s silence on the Trump administration using her music speaks volumes | Alim Kheraj

Official Trump social media accounts have been The Life of a Showgirl snippets to promote his agenda. Why has Swift, who once wanted ‘to be on the right side of history’, said nothing?In the last two weeks, the Trump administration has used music from Taylor Swift’s latest album, The Life of a Showgirl, in three posts on social media. The first, shared by the official White House account on TikTok, was a patriotic slide show of images set to lead single The Fate of Ophelia. As Swift sings “pledge allegiance to your hands, your team, your vibes”, the video cuts to pictures of the US flag, President Trump, the vice-president, JD Vance, and the first and second ladies. The second and third were posted by Team Trump, the official account for the Trump Campaign. One, set to Father Figure, riffs on the lyric “this empire belongs to me” with the caption “this empire belongs to @President Donald J Trump”, while the other, celebrating Melania Trump winning something called the Patriot of the...

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3 w. ago Humans can no longer distinguish AI music from real music, study finds

New survey finds 97 per cent of people failed to distinguish AI-generated tracks

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3 w. ago ‘I can see a world where Spotify doesn’t exist’: will a new generation of music streaming companies succeed?

Nimble, open-minded outfits such as Nina Protocol, Cantilever and Subvert are looking to bring more money to artists, and a richer experience for listenersThe noise around Spotify this year has been louder than ever, from Liz Pelly’s book Mood Machine – a biting indictment of the company and its alleged practices – to a slew of indie artists leaving the platform due to political and ethical reasons. There was even a recent music forum in California called Death to Spotify.So the timing is fortuitous for a growing number of independent streaming and music community platforms, such as Nina Protocol, Coda, Subvert, Lissen, Vocana, and just last week a new one launched in the UK: Cantilever. “More people are definitely looking for alternatives,” says Nina Protocol’s chief executive Mike Pollard. “We strongly believe the future of music is independent.” Continue reading...

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3 w. ago Charli XCX opens up on Wuthering Heights collaboration with Velvet Underground icon: ‘It made me cry’

Pop star says she’s a ‘huge fan’ of John Cale as they collaborate on harsh song for new film adaptation of Emily Brontë’s novel

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3 w. ago Charli XCX opens up Wuthering Heights collaboration with Velvet Underground icon: ‘It made me cry’

Pop star says she’s a ‘huge fan’ of John Cale as they collaborate on harsh song for new film adaptation of Emily Brontë’s novel

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3 w. ago Huge pop star groped live on stage as fan commits 'disgusting' act

Halsey fans were fuming after viral footage showed a concertgoer allegedly groping the singer’s thigh and bottom during her Minneapolis gig, sparking demands for lifetime bans

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