Official Charts in UK unveil their New Year’s Honors List for chart achievements in 2020
An extraordinary year of record breakers sees Captain Tom Moore rubbing shoulders with Kylie, The Rolling Stones, Billie Eilish, Pop Smoke, AC/DC & more
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It’s been a year like no other for everybody, on every level, and 2020 has marked a truly extraordinary year of record breakers and milestones in the UK’s Official Chart.
Incredible chart feat after incredible chart feat, achieved by a fascinating range of faces – from rising rappers to a 100 year-old war veteran, pop icons, rock legends and social media influencers - every one of them rewriting the history books in the process. Nobody can say that the Official Chart (and the world in general) hasn’t kept us on our toes in 2020.
18 December 2020
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Taylor Swift’s surprise new album Evermore debuts at Number 1 on this week’s Official Albums Chart.
Swift claims a rarely seen feat of landing two chart-topping albums within a calendar year, following Folklore, which spent three weeks at the summit in August. Evermore was the most downloaded and streamed album of the week.
The singer-songwriter is the first artist in four years to hold the Number 1 spot with two different albums in a calendar year, since David Bowie scored two Number 1s across January - February 2016 with Blackstar and Best of Bowie following his death.
Released last Friday less than 24 hours after it was announced, Evermore earns Swift her sixth UK Number 1 album. Only three other female artists have six or more chart-topping albums in Official Chart history: Madonna (12), Kylie Minogue (8) and Barbra Streisand (6).
S Club 7 Plotting Reunion
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According to Tina Barrett, she and fellow bandmembers Jon Lee, Rachel Stevens, Jo O Meara, Hannah Spearritt], Bradley McIntosh, and Paul Cattermole are in talks for reunion. Dec 18, 2020
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S Club 7 are in talks to reunite and make new music as a seven-piece after being inspired by
Jon Lee,
Bradley McIntosh, and
Paul Cattermole in the classic line-up - has revealed she has discussed writing new music together with her former bandmates, 17 years after they split.
The reunion talks, she says, were inspired by their 90s rivals, who recently reached No2 in the Official UK Chart with their album, What the Future Holds .
December 17, 2020
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S Club 7 are in talks to reunite and make new music as a seven-piece after being inspired by Steps successful comeback.
Band member Tina Barrett - who was joined by Jon Lee, Rachel Stevens, Jo O Meara, Hannah Spearitt, Bradley McIntosh and Paul Cattermole in the classic lineup - has revealed she has discussed writing new music together with her former bandmates, 17 years after they split.
The reunion talks, she says, were inspired by their 90s rivals, who recently reached No.2 in the Official UK Chart with their album What The Future Holds.
Tina told The Sun newspaper s Bizarre column: We definitely want to do something new together.
These days, with more and more public figures coming forward about their sexuality, it was only a matter of time that we here at TheBacklot.com put together a list of the most influential and intriguing openly gay and bisexual male musicians of the past century. Compiling a list like this was no small feat.
While we’ve limited this to only 50 musicians, the number of openly gay artists far surpasses that number, and we’re sure you will likely spot an artist near and dear to your heart that we left out. Trust us that it was not done in malice. We simply tried to assemble a list of those artists we feel have been both successful in their careers while also raising awareness toward gay rights issues and giving back to the community in which they belong.