Vince Power’s Hop Farm Festival 2013 has been scrapped due to low ticket sales. The event was due to take place in Kent on Friday, July 5 and Saturday July 6, headlined by My Bloody Valentine and Rodriguez
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Hop Farm Festival 2013 cancelled due to poor ticket sales
Emeli Sande has told Music Week of her delight to beat The Beatles and achieve the longest Top 10 run with a debut album of all time. The Virgin Records artist last Sunday (April 28) claimed a record set by the Fab Four 49 years ago when Our Version Of Events spent its 63rd consecutive week inside the Official UK Top 10. That is one more week than The Beatles’ Please Please Me managed, giving it the longest uninterrupted Top 10 run for a debut album in history.
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Interview: Sande’s thrill at beating The Beatles
I am sat two feet from my hero, watching him decay.
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Loudon Wainwright III: Dying to impress
The new 13,000-seat arena in Leeds has agreed its major sponsor and will be known as the First Direct Arena. This marks the bank’s first major sponsorship deal.
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New Leeds Arena sponsored by First Direct
Today’s Official Chart Midweek Sales Flash is in. Rudimental remain at the top of the albums chart with Home, followed by Michael Buble with To Be Loved. Meanwhile, Daft Punk continue to sit at the peak of the singles chart, ahead of Rudimental’s own Waiting All Night
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Official Charts Midweek Top 40s: Friday, May 3
The Nettwerk label is heading for its first ever UK Top 10 album and biggest single since 2000 thanks to Brighton singer-songwriter Passenger. The alias of Mike Rosenburg, the act has climbed 11-4 in the midweek singles chart with Let Her Go, while All the Lights has risen 25-10 on artist albums, according to the Official Charts Company. The first and only time previously Nettwerk made the Top 10 of the singles chart was back in 2000 with the Delerium featuring Sarah McLachlan hit Silence, which reached No 3.
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Midweek Charts update: Nettwerk heading for first ever Top 10 album
As digital media continues to grow, WorldPay has surveyed 3,000 UK and US consumers that have purchased said materials online in the past 12 months, which comes as part of a new Digital Generation Report.
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WorldPay: Half of Brits want the power to resell their digital content
One, two and three-day festival tickets for the Great Escape festival 2013 have sold out. Organisers revealed that the tickets have been promptly snapped up for the event that will see over 16,000 attendees flock to Brighton across May 16-18 to attend the convention packed with industry speakers and see a range of live music performances from new and established artists. Performers include Klaxons, Everything Everything, King Krule, Chvurches, and David Rodigan MBE and Tribes
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All Great Escape day tickets sold out
Deeper in Disguise is the new single from up-and-coming UK band Empress. The track, mastered in the US, serves as a taster of the band’s forthcoming yet-to-be-named debut album and is available now via iTunes, and all other digital stores. It preceded the band’s tour support slots with Bring Me The Horizon tha began on April 29.
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Music Week Presents: Empress
The producers behind T4 on the Beach will launch a new music event in August called Summer Sets On The Beach in Weston-super-Mare, which will be screened on ITV1. Acts will perform across three stages, with the first artists set to be announced soon. Tickets will go on sale in May from www.summersets.com ITV will be screening the event live on ITV2, followed by a one hour special on ITV1.
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T4 On The Beach team launch new ITV-screened summer music event
Olly Murs and Emeli Sande have hit new Billboard Hot 100 peaks after a series of US promotion, including high profile TVs. Murs’ Troublemaker featuring Flo Rida reverses its decline to progress 31-25 in its 15th week on the survey, while 10 weeks in Sande’s Next To Me breaks into the Top 40 for the first time by climbing 46-36
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US charts: Murs and Sande hit new Hot 100 peaks
Daft Punk are one of the most tech-savvy artists out there – just one reason why their hotly-anticipated new album release isn’t only of interest to the music press. Here the deputy editor of award-winning tech magazine T3, Matt Hill, gives his perspective following his first listen to the dance duo’s comback album, Random Access Memories.
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Daft Punk’s Random Access Memories – first listen
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