• Ditto Music Competition: Are You The Next Big Urban Music Star?

    Ditto Music, the global music distributor and label, have launched a competition looking for the UK’s next big urban artist. Working in conjunction with Link Up TV and GRM Daily, the competition is open to all upcoming artists until 31st May 2020. Ditto Music will shortlist 20 acts on a Spotify playlist before one winner…

  • Latin Heartthrobs Enrique Iglesias and Ricky Martin Team Up to Tour America

    Two of the most caliente men in pop, Enrique Iglesias and Ricky Martin are to join forces touring the USA and Canada! Yes, you heard me correctly, the 90’s ‘Bailamos’ and ‘La Vida Loca’ singers made their announcement much to the delight of USA fans. “We’re figuring out the stage…” Iglesias explained “…it’s gonna be…

  • Horniman Museum Seeking Resident Artist

    South London Museum, Horniman, is seeking a resident artist to join their 696 music project. The 696 developed to platform the best contemporary music ranging from Afrobeat and Jazz to R&B and Grime will take on and support the new artist. The year-long residency will see artists gain access to a host of benefits such…

  • SXSW Cancelled Over Covid-19 Fears – A Sign of Things To Come?

    News broke on Friday that Austin’s biggest Music Festival and Conference SXSW will not go ahead this year due to Covid-19 fears. The Festival which has ran for the last 34 years and attracted attendance figures of over 232,000 in 2019 released a statement of their regret. “…We are devastated to share this news with…

  • Robbie Williams Pens Emotional Tribute to Stephen Gately for Ronan Keating’s Twenty Twenty Album

    Ronan Keating’s long term pal Robbie Williams, has penned an emotional tribute song to the late Stephen Gately for Ronan’s new album Twenty Twenty. The Boyzone singer who’s untimely death occurred in 2009 left the band shattered. Watching a raw interview with Ronan on the 10th Anniversary of Stephen’s death, Williams contacted Keating to offer…

  • Nashville Star Clare Bowen to Appear on Ronan Keating’s New Album Twenty Twenty

    Lovers of the award-winning US Show Nashville will be pleased to hear that Clare Bowen aka Scarlett O’Connor will be teaming up with heart-throb Ronan Keating on his new album Twenty. The song ‘Love Will Remain’ sees Clare join Ronan for the duet. Speaking of the song he say; “My wife, Storm, and I are…

  • Pongo – Uwa

    When genres frenetically collide, a mephistophelian tryst ensues – and that’s what we have with Pongo’s latest release ‘Uwa’. Taken from the Angolan-Portuguese artist’s EP of the same name, the title track, meaning ‘step’ in Angola’s Kimbundo, sees Pongo interlacing the language with English lyrics to great effect. Filmed on location in Dakar by French…

  • IFPI Declares Taylor Swift Worlds Best-Selling Recording Artist 2019

    The international recording industry trade body has named Taylor Swift as the world’s best-selling recording artist of 2019, beating Ed Sheeran and Post Malone in album sales. This being the second time Tay-Tay has won the award, the first being in 2014. Her 2019 album ‘Lover’ debuted at No.1 in more than 10 countries achieving…

  • Wave of Tours Cancelled In Light of Coronavirus Risk

    With no current end in sight to the spreading of the Coronavirus, artists are now cancelling Tours in major hot spots such as Asia and Italy. The latest artists to do so are BTS, who join the likes of Greenday, Stormzy, Mabel, Sam Fender and Avril Lavigne in issuing statements. With several reported outbreaks in…

  • Is K-POP Here To Stay as BTS Land UK No. 1 Album

    News in this week that World-dominating Korean Boy-band BTS, are set to take the UK No. 1 album spot with Map Of The Soul: 7. Selling over 34K records this week, BTS‘ second album has already eclipsed their 2019 debut Map Of The Soul: Persona, which sold over 26K copies. Being the first K-pop band…