James Leon has done it again on the title track of his forthcoming Zen EP. The London electropop tour de force had us in fit of pop hysteria last year with teh i sanely catchy I Love The Music (The First Night )
On new track Zen ( To The Power ) , Leons's distinctive Andy Bell sounding vocals take us to church once again.
A euphoric and uplifting pop song that soars with a call and response chorus. Its thrilling stuff which blows the cobwebs off and lights up any dark winters night.
The best pop music can take you from a damp Monday night in November to a boiling hot summers night brimming with possibility and mischief, Rousing and resilient.
The forthcoming Zen EP contains 4 tracks , one of which is a Club Clique remix of the ever brilliant I Love The Music ( The First Night )
The Mancunian collective have elevated the track even higher keeping the carefree nature of the track,
The tracklisting for Zen Zen ( To The Power ) I Love The Music ( The First Night ) -Club Clique Remix Purple Heart 2015 Pollark Remix Zen ( To The Power ) -SRJ ElectroFunk Remix
Adele has announced details of UK , Irish and continental European tour for Spring of 2016. Then news comes as 25 became teh fastest selling album in UK and US music history,
In the UK , the singer has so far sold 737,000 copies to beat Oasis ' eighteen year record with Be Here Now.
Over in the US , she has overtaken NSync , having already sold near 3million copies stateside.
The singer will now embark on an eagerly awaited tour , with tickets likely to be snapped up in a matter of minutes next week.
The 36 date tour will be the first time Adele has done an arena tour and will take in 14 UK dates. The singer is the latest name to be tipped to headline Glastonbury next June. The star has previously said she would be too nervous to ever headline a festival date. However , sources claim discussions have been had , and that Adele may well grace the Pyramid Stage alongside other rumoured headliners Coldplay and Rihanna.
Adele's UK shows kick off in Belfast on February 29 and includes stops at Dublin, Manchester, Birmingham and Glasgow. See the full list below:
February 29 - Belfast, SSE Arena March 1 - Belfast, SSE Arena March 4 - Dublin, 3Arena March 5 - Dublin, 3 Arena March 7 - Manchester, Arena March 8 - Manchester, Arena March 15 - London, The O2 March 16 - London, The O2 March 18 - London, The O2 March 19 - London, The O2 March 25 - Glasgow, The SSE Hydro March 26 - Glasgow, The SSE Hydro March 29 - Birmingham, Genting Arena March 30 - Birmingham, Genting Arena
Tickets go on sale on Friday December 4th , with strict instructions that they afe not allowed to be resold.
As expected Adele is on course to annihilate records as 25 sweeps to global dominance. The album has already topped the iTunes charts in an incredible 110 countries,
Now the singer is set to obliterate long held record by Britney Spears and NSync in the USA and Oasis in the UK,
In the UK , the album has already become the second fastest selling album in UK chart history with 538,000 copies shifted so far. The record for fastest selling album is currently held by Oasis who sold 696,000 copies of Be Here Now in August 1997. Adele is well within reach of breaking the record by Friday.
In the US , the album had already shifted half a million copies in just under 12 hours. Adele looks set to break Britney Spears 15 year record as the fastest selling album by a female artist which curretly belongs to her second album Oops,,,I Did It Again.
A number of the albums tracks have also raced up the charts on both sides of the Atlantic , in particular forthcoming single When We Were Young.
The album is guaranteed to be welded to the Number 1 spot til 2016.
Watch the live performance of When We Were Young below
Rihanna has announced a massive world tour for 2016 in support of forthcoming album ANTI. The release of her long delayed eighth studio album appears to be imminent. With many tipping it to be released as early as this Friday ( November 27th ) with suggestions it will first only be available to subscribers of her TIDAL streaming service.
The ANTI WORLD TOUR will take in over 60 dates acroos North America and Europe , beginning on February 26th in San Diego , California. The Bajan star will be supported by The Weeknd , Big Sean and Travis Scott.
With the tour now announced , it looks like ANTI will finally surface before the end of 2015. Its been well over three years since her last album Apologetic in 2012. Rihanna has released three songs this year , FourFiveSeconds being the biggest hit of the three. The other two were American Oxygen and Bitch Better Have My Money. The latter caused contriversy for its gory and violent video.
However all three tracks were met with a somewhat lukewarm response and theres no indications that any of the three tracks will actually appear on ANTI. The ANTI World Tour 2016 tour dates are
February 26 - San Diego, CA @ Viejas Arena February 28 - San Jose, CA @ SAP Center March 1 - Phoenix, AZ @ Talking Stick Resort Arena March 4 - Austin, TX @ Frank Erwin Center March 5 - Houston, TX @ Toyota Center March 6 - Dallas, TX @ American Airlines Center March 8 - New Orleans, LA @ Smoothie King Center March 9 - Atlanta, GA @ Philips Arena March 12 - Jacksonville @ Jacksonville Arena March 13 - Tampa, FL @ Amalie Arena March 15 - Miami, FL @ American Airlines Arena March 18 - Nashville, TN @ Bridgestone Arena March 19 - Cincinnati, OH @ U.S. Bank Arena March 20 - Charlotte, NC @ The Time Warner Cable Arena March 22 - Washington, DC @ Verizon Center March 23 - Buffalo, NY @ First Niagara Center March 24 - Auburn Hills, MI @ Palace of Auburn Hills March 26 - Hartford, CT @ XL Center March 27 - Brooklyn, NY @ Barclays Center April 2 - Newark, NJ @ Prudential Center April 3 - Philadelphia, PA @ Wells Fargo April 5 - Quebec City, QC @ Centre Videotron April 6 - Montreal, QC @ Bell Centre April 9 - Baltimore, MD @ Royal Farms Arena April 10 - Boston, MA @ TD Garden April 13 - Toronto, ON @ Air Canada Center April 15 - Chicago, IL @ United Center April 18 - Winnipeg, MS @ MTS Centre April 20 - Edmonton, AB @ Rexall Place April 21 - Calgary, AB @ Scotiabank Saddledome April 23 - Vancouver, BC @ Rogers Arena April 24 - Seattle, WA @ KeyArena April 27 - Salt Lake City, UT @ Vivint Smart Home Arena April 29 - Las Vegas, NV @ Mandalay Bay May 3 - Los Angeles, CA @ Forum May 7 - Oakland, CA @ Oracle Arena Rihanna Anti World Tour – European Dates
June 11 - Amsterdam, Holland @ Amsterdam Arena June 14 - Coventry, United Kingdom @ Ricoh Arena June 16 - Cardiff, United Kingdom @ Cardiff Stadium June 18 - Sunderland, United Kingdom @ Stadium Of Light June 21 - Dublin, Ireland @ Aviva Stadium June 24 - London, United Kingdom @ Wembley Stadium June 27 - Glasgow, United Kingdom @ Hampden Park June 29 - Manchester, United Kingdom @ Emirates Old Park July 4 - Stockholm, Sweden @ Tele2 Arena July 7 - Copenhagen, Denmark @ Refshale Island July 9 - Hamburg, Germany @ Volkspark Stadion July 13 - Milan, Italy @ San Siro July 15 - Nice, France @ Allianz Stadium July 17 - Frankfurt, Germany @ Commerzbank Arena July 19 - Lyon, France @ Grande Stade July 23 - Lille, France @ Stade Lille July 26 - Prague, Czech Republic @ Synotip Arena July 28 - Cologne, Germany @ Rhein Energie Stadion July 30 - Paris, France @ Stade de France August 2 - Berlin, Germany @ Olympiastadion August 5 - Warsaw, Poland @ PGE Narodowy August 7 - Munich, Germany @ Olympiastadion August 10 - Vienna, Austria @ Ernst Happel Stadium August 12 - Zurich, Switzerland @ Letzigrund Stadion
Watch the video for Bitch Better Have My Money below
Missy Elliott has stormed back onto the scene after an extended hiatus with WTF ( Where They From ) Featuring Pharrell Williams , the eye popping video is another stunning addition to her iconic videography.
The track is Missy's first new material in over a decade. The hip hop icon first hit the charts in 1997 with The Rain ( Supa Dupa Fly )
Missy became a ubiquitous chart presence with tracks such as Work It , All In My Grill and Get Ur Freak On
James Morrison has unveiled the video for brand new single Stay Like This. Its the second to be taken from current fourth album Higher Than Here. The album entered the UK Top 10 last weekend. Stay Like This , follows Demons , which bowed in September. The track is a gorgeous soulful track the British singer-songwriter is best known for.
Morrison recently opened up about his four year hiatus from the music industry saying he needed to do normal everyday things and that he once felt embarrassed by his success due to comparisons to James Blunt. The singer also praised fellow Brit singer-songwriters like Paolo Nutini and James Bay.
Coldplay have confirmed that their new album A Head Full Of Dreams will be released on December 4th.
It's the British bands seventh studio album and is trailed by new single Adventure Of A Lifetime. A Head Full Of Dreams follows last years Number 1 album Ghost Stories which spawned the hit singles Magic and A Sky Full Of Stars.
The Playlist has been running for three years now and next month , for the first time ever , I'm handing control over to you.
The first annual Readers Poll will see you vote on 11 categories , all with a choice of ten nominees to pick your favourites of 2015.
Some of the artists pictured above , will definitely be in the running for the following categories
ARTIST OF THE YEAR ALBUM OF THE YEAR ULTIMATE SONG OF THE YEAR BEST BAND VIDEO OF THE YEAR BEST BREAKTHROUGH ACT TOP SONGWRITER BEST LIVE ACT BEST MALE ARTIST BEST FEMALE ARTIST MOST ANTICIPATED ALBUM OF NEXT YEAR
Voting will commence the first week in December and close Christmas week.The results will be published around the post -Christmas pre-New Year period. So watch this space from December to cast your vote on the essential artists of 2015
Adele features on the cover of Rolling Stone as her global domination continues. The star is celebrating her 4th US Number 1 , as Hello became just the 25th track in Billboards history to debut atop the chart.
In doing so , she trounced Flo Rida's six year record , as the most downloaded track in a week , with an impressive 1.11million downloads.
She's also set for another eek atop the UK charts after it became the fastest selling song of the year.
The singer is on the promotional trail ahead of the release of 25 on November 20th. The star has recorded a special for the BBC and will record another in New York next week for NBC.
It's also been confirmed that When We Were Young will be the next single from the album, presumably pencilled in for a January release
Carly Rae Jepsen has produced one of the quintessential pop albums of the year with the criminally ignored E-MO-TION.
Now the Canadian star has released the video for the albums third single Your Type.
The track which was inspired by Jepsen falling for a gay guy , follows the brilliance of Run Away With Me and I Really Like You.
Sia will release her seventh studio album This Is Acting on January 29th , 2016. It follows the massive success of the Aussie singer-songwriters last album 10,000 Forms Of Fear. That album spawned the modern pop classic that is Chandelier.
Sia has already given a staste of the album in the form of the soaring Alive. The new album is so called because the songs were written for other artists. Alive was turned down by Adele.
Jess Glynne has debuted the video for stunning ballad Take Me Home. The UK singer will release the emotive track in aid of UK charity Children In Need on November 13th.
She'll be hoping for a record breaking sixth consecutive UK Number 1 , having already completed a remarkable hat trick this year with Hold My Hand , Don't Be So Hard On Yourself and Tinie Tempah collaboration Not Letting Go.
Take Me Home serves as the fifth single lifted from chart topping debut album I Cry When I Laugh.
A spate of postering around Manchester has sparked speculation that The Stone Roses may be about to resurface after 2012's triumphant comeback.
The Madchester legends have been trending on Twitter all day , as posters emblazoned with the bands iconic lemon have been plastered all over Manchester.
Speculation is rife that a third studio album may finally appear , some 22 years after The Second Coming.
During their 2012 live dates , there was no new material aired or hinted at. The other rumour is that The Stone Roses will take to the Pyramid Stage next June to headline Glastonbury.
Whatever the reason for the sudden appearance of lemon posters , fans are now firmly perched for an announcement of some sort from the band.
