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One Direction still in disbelief but forever grateful over their massive worldwide success.

After melting the hearts of every young girl in the UK whilst performing week after week on the X Factor UK, Simon Cowell’s Boy band One Direction went on to sign a deal with Simon Cowell’s record company, and promptly became the biggest boy band of the moment, the boys Niall Horan, Zayn Malik, Liam Payne, Harry Styles and Louis Tomlinson, are loved for their good looks, and cheeky personalities. Above all their obvious ability to sing well.  Together  this has proved a winning recipe for success.  Next came the opportunity to visit America, The boys made history today as their debut album UP ALL NIGHT entered the US Billboard 200 chart at #1 with over 176,000 copies sold. This makes chart history as the first British group ever to debut at #1 in the US with their debut album release. UP ALL NIGHT went straight to No.1 on the digital chart within minutes of its official release.

The boys constantly seem grateful and in disbelief about the level of success both here and overseas, in interviews and via twitter.

“We simply cannot believe that we are No.1 in America! It’s beyond a dream come true for us. We want to thank each and every one of our fans in the US who bought our album and we would also like to thank the American public for being so supportive of us.” – Harry x

“We just found out that we are No.1 in America and as you can imagine, we are over the moon! When we got put together as a group, we couldn’t imagine ourselves coming to America, let alone releasing our album here, so for us to be sitting at the top of the US album charts is unbelievable. We are so grateful to everyone who has supported us in the US.” – Niall x

One Direction boys have spent this year headlining a massive tour across North America, with every date and venue sold out.

And now One Direction have announced a massive show in New York to finish off an amazing year!  Due to overwhelming popular demand, having completely sold out their May/June Tour of North America, the band will headline the prestigious Madison Square Garden in New York City on December 3, 2012.

 

 

Beyonce has today launched her new Tumblr page, sharing with the world some her most private moments, with her husband, family and baby bump, and reveals the mystery behind her baby name Blue Ivy Carter.

Beyonce Knowles , has posted a video of herself in a small white Bikini, looking very pregnant, quashing any rumours, that she was faking her pregnancy, and using a surrogate. In the Video she reveals the origin of the name of her first-born child.

This s a very rare insight into the private life of superstar singer Beyonce, the other members of her girl group, Destiny’s child, and  her husband Jay-z, special moments shared with her sister Solange Knowles and her nephew Daniel Juelz Smith Jr.  The pictures are an eclectic selection of times in her life, from staying at luxury locations around the world, with clearly idyllic backdrops, fun moments during photo shoots, and times of reflection, no make up no entourage, just B.

 

 

The Original Sugarbabes line-up have landed themselves a £1million Record Deal

We all know the troubles that have surrounded the Sugarbabes over the years, tiffs and tantrums, girls leaving and being replaced, accusations of bullying and ego struggles to mention a few, resulting in more line up changes than we like to remember. What we recognise as the Sugarbabes now is very different to what it looked like in the beginning,

The original line up of the Sugarbabes Mutya Buena, Siobhan Donaghy and Keisha Buchanan (incase you didn’t remember) have reunited and have just signed a record deal with Polydore records, their unique sound shot them to the top of the charts with their debut single Overload back in  1998. they enjoyed enormous success.  Siobhan Donaghy was the first member of the band to leave she was swiftly replaced by Liverpudlian new comer Heidi  Range.

The Sugarbabes name unfortunately belongs to the record company that have a deal with the current band, which consists of Heidi Range, Amelle Berrabah, and newest member Jade Ewen, so the girls won’t be able to snatch their name back, but something tells me they aren’t going to be upset about leaving that name behind them.

We will wait with bated breath, for word on the new name for the old band, and this is probably a good time  for them to remember the old saying,

 ” if it aint broke then don’t fix it”

The current line up of the Sugarbabes, have shelved plans for their next album, maybe due to fans not clicking with the current line up like they have with previous line ups, and not appreciating the group acting like a football team in transfer season, swapping and changing members, so regularly.  Although lots of bands have changed the odd member, including Oasis, Guns n Roses, Heavy rock band Slip Knot, even SuperGirl group Destiny’s Child lost two of its orginal members, it is unheard of, for a group to change it’s entire line up.

Good Luck Girls, we cant wait to hear the new Tracks.

Official video for Katy Perry’s “Part of Me”

Available on ‘Teenage Dream: The Complete Confection.’ Download the single on iTunes: Pre-order ‘Teenage Dream: The Complete Confection’ on iTunes: http://www.iTunes.com/KatyPerry

Director: Ben Mor

Producer: Tony McGarry & Danny Lockwood

Music video by Katy Perry performing Part Of Me. (P) (C) 2012 Capitol Records, LLC. All rights reserved.

1990’s Brit Pop Superband PULP played their first full live show of 2012 at London’s Royal Albert Hall on Saturday night (March 31).

As part of the Teenage Cancer Trust gigs, throughout 2012. The show opened with a number of questions being projected onto a large screen above the stage. The final one asked the crowd ‘Do You Remember The First Time?’ before Pulp appeared on stage to kick off with the 1994 hit.   The set spanned Pulp’s vast career, including the inclusion of ‘My Lighthouse’ during the encore.

Lead singer and writer of most of the Pulp cataloague of tracks, Jarvis Cocker spoke about how the song, , featured his sister Saskia and her school friend Jill Talbot on backing vocals. The pair joined Jarvis and co  onstage to contribute once again, nearly 30 years later, at which point the crowd went insane with cheering.

“Dunno what you’re clapping for…” quipped Javis, “…nobody bought it.”

 

Jarvis admitted  the fact the band hadn’t played live in six months, aside from performing two songs at the NME Awards in February, when they also picked up this year’s Teenage Cancer Trust Outstanding Contribution To Music award. The show was a massive hit and the overexcited croed sung along to every track they played. It was definately a night for remiscing, and celebrating pure music Talent, that we must never forget.

 

Professor Green and Jessie J have been on tour together,  last night the pair took the roof off in Adelaide, with their exclusive duet version of Jessie J’s number one hit Price Tag.

The crowd went insane when Jessie J introduced UK rapper Professor Green, back on to the stage to duet with her.

Here’s the Video courtesy of Professorgreentv

British-Albanian Singer Rita Ora is making history with her debut music track Hot Right Now featuring DJ Fresh

Rita Ora has exploded on the music scene with so gusto, back in December 2011 when she released her single ‘Hot Right Now’ featuring DJ Fresh, on YouTube,.

The video has had over 10,000,000 views, and was inevitably released for download on iTunes On February 12th 2012

The track went to the top, hitting number 1 chart position here in the UK,  making it the first ever song of the Drum & Base genre to have reached number 1 in the UK.

Rita Ora is recording her album, and is working with huge names, such as WillI.Am, Drake The-Dream and Stargate.

here’s the Video.