17 Mar 2021 - 15:53
Anadolu
ISTANBUL – British singer-songwriter Adele has been named the UK’s best-selling artist of the 21st century, a British music industry association said.
The 32-year-old pop idol was “named the best-selling women album artist of the century,” the British Phonographic Industry (BPI) announced on its website.
Their top ten women album artists since the start of 2000, based on Official Charts Company data, also feature music icons such as Amy Winehouse, Kylie, Madonna, and P!nk.
“Between them the Top Ten artists have sold in excess of 72 million albums (including streamed album equivalents), with three of the artists British – Adele, Dido and Amy Winehouse,” the association added.
Thunder could score first number one 28 years after being pipped by Kylie
Alex Green, PA Entertainment Reporter
17 March 2021, 6:00 pm
Veteran rockers Thunder could score their first number one album – nearly 30 years after being beaten to the prize by Kylie Minogue.
The London band’s 13th album All The Right Noises this week lags just behind Evering Road by 25-year-old singer-songwriter Tom Grennan, according to the Official Charts Company.
Guitarist and chief songwriter Luke Morley said it would be “funny” if Thunder hit number one, but added: “If chart positions were massively important to us, we would have given up years ago.”
Arab Strap lead UK Record Store Chart with As Days Get Dark
Arab Strap lead UK Record Store Chart with As Days Get Dark
Arab Strap have climbed from #39 to top the UK Record Store Chart.
Arab Strap are leading the latest UK Record Store Chart with As Days Get Dark, immediately ahead of new entries from Jane Weaver and Zara Larsson.
Kings Of Leon debut at #8 with When You See Yourself, while Maximo Park remain in the Top 10 courtesy of their cracking Nature Always Wins record.
It’s now nine years since The Official Charts Company launched this chart as vinyl sales surged during the last decade, a trend which continued in 2020 as the format grew for the 13th consecutive year. It is compiled from the best selling albums at 100 of Britain’s leading independent music shops.
Lou Ottens, the inventor of the audio cassette, dies at 94 Updated
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The Dutch engineer who changed the way the world listened
to music has died.
When cassette tapes
were introduced to the world in the 1960s, the invention changed the way the
world consumed music. The product was much smaller and more compact than vinyls
and allowed listeners to take their music with them. An estimated 100-billion cassette
tapes have been sold around the world since and in a statement, inventor Lou
Ottens’ family confirmed that the pioneer passed away at 94.
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