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22 hrs ago | Billboard.com

Susan Boyle Passes 1 Million U.K. Sales

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Related Topix: Folk, The Black Eyed Peas, Black Entertainment, Hip-Hop, Michael Buble, Media, Music, New York Metro

Mon Dec 14, 2009

BBC

Lady Gaga claims UK chart-topper

Lady Gaga has climbed up to number one with her single Bad Romance, displacing Peter Kay's Children In Need song.

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Related Topix: Folk, Black Entertainment, Pop/Rock, Mariah Carey

Sun Dec 13, 2009

Reverb

Seattle's Jonesing For James Blunt, Babs, The Pogues, and Music From The Last of the Mohicans

Billboard just named James Blunt one of the top one-hit-wonders of the decade. For Seattle listeners, he's a timeless treasure.

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Related Topix: Folk, The Now, Pop/Rock

Sat Dec 12, 2009

Irish Examiner

Poguesa Fairytale voted all-time favourite

THE POGUES song Fairytale of New York which has repeatedly missed out on the number one spot is the all-time Christmas favourite, a survey has shown.

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Related Topix: Folk, Pop/Rock, John Lennon

Fri Dec 11, 2009

Guardian Unlimited

Singer's mother ends bid to bring to justice her daughter's alleged killer

On anniversary of singer's death, her mother abandons bid to bring to justice the man she believes killed her daughter Kirsty Maccoll, who was killed by a speedboat in December 2000.

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Related Topix: Folk

Thu Dec 10, 2009

Digital Spy

Band Aid 20 'biggest Xmas hit of decade'

Band Aid 20's 'Do They Know It's Christmas' is the most successful festive song of the decade, according to the Official Charts Company.

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Related Topix: Life, Holidays, Christmas, 9, Folk, Black Entertainment, Pop/Rock, Mariah Carey

Yorkshire Evening Post

Music interview: The Pogues

"Rehersals?" chuckles Spider Stacey. "We've not done any yet." With the opening night of a UK tour just days away most bands would be sweating over the finer points of set lists, encores and stage sets.

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Related Topix: Folk, Essex County, England, World News, United Kingdom, Greater London County, England

Sheffield Telegraph

It must be lav that keeps The Pogues playing live

IT ALL started in the toilets at a punk gig. Here, in the not-so glamorous setting, and while the Ramones blasted a set of New York punk, a young Shane MacGowan met Peter Stacy and Jem Finer.

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Related Topix: Folk, The Ramones, Punk, Essex County, England, World News, United Kingdom, Greater London County, England

Wed Dec 09, 2009

BBC

MacColl campaign to disband

The campaign seeking justice for the death of singer Kirsty MacColl is to cease its work, it has been announced.

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Related Topix: Pop/Rock, Kirsty Maccoll, North America, World News, Mexico, Folk

Telegraph.co.uk

The 10 best alternative Christmas songs: Fairytale of New York to The Pet Shop Boys

Sick of twee Christmas music? Don't think it's necessarily the most wonderful time of the year? Here are a few entertainingly bleak, cynical or downright odd alternatives.

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Related Topix: Life, Holidays, Christmas, Folk, Illinois

BBC

Band Aid tops Christmas hit list

Band Aid's 2004 version of Do They Know It's Christmas? is the decade's best-selling seasonal song in the UK, according to new figures.

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Related Topix: Pop/Rock, The Darkness, Folk, Black Entertainment, Mariah Carey

Tue Dec 08, 2009

Towleroad

Music News: Ten essential Christmas songs, including Wham!, Band Aid, ...

MUSIC NEWS: Ten essential Christmas songs, including Wham!, Band Aid, The Waitresses, Destiny's Child and more; Win tickets to see Mariah Carey on New Year's Eve MODERN TONIC The editors of Modern Tonic present a weekly music update here on Towleroad.

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Related Topix: Life, Holidays, Christmas, Wham!, Pop/Rock, R-N-B, Destiny's Child, Black Entertainment, Mariah Carey, Hanukkah, Folk

SpoonFed

New Releases - 7th Dec by Music Team

As the folksy opening of trumpets, tambourines and banjos dies down to let Mumford's soulful vocals rasp , the listener is immediately transported to days of yore; when Rolf Harris and The X Factor were still unimaginable horrors of the future.

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Related Topix: Life, Holidays, Christmas, Folk

Mon Dec 07, 2009

Daily Star

Depp gives...

JOHNNY DEPP has given British hitmaker BABYBIRD a big boost by insisting the singer/songwriter's 2010 album EX-MANIAC will be the album of the year.

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Related Topix: Drama Movies, Biography Movies, Comedy Movies, Ed Wood, Johnny Depp, Folk

Sun Dec 06, 2009

Telegraph.co.uk

Susan Boyle's album holds number one spot

There was also no change at the top of the singles chart with The Official BBC Children in Need Medley by Peter Kay's Animated All Stars sticking at number one.

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The Signal

.com's Daybreak: Dec. 4, 2009

Hello, Santa Clarita Valley! Welcome to The-Signal.com's Daybreak, your point of entry for the day, and a quick journey through the past, present and future.

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Related Topix: Bristol County, England, Somerset County, England, World News, United Kingdom, Gloucestershire County, England, Life, Thanksgiving, Holidays, Boston, NY, Shirley, NY, Folk

Sat Dec 05, 2009

The Spectator

Rum, Sodomy and a Radish

Proof that even well-intentioned and useful fads can go too far: the Grow Your Own Vegetables movement has reached a tragi-comic end with the news that Shane MacGowan, the hardest-living poet ever to emerge from the mean streets of Tunbridge Wells, is, well, this ... Shane MacGowan is set to appear in a reality TV programme about growing ...

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Related Topix: Life, Food, Vegetables, Folk

Fri Dec 04, 2009

ContactMusic.com

Shane Macgowan - Macgowan Becomes TV Gardener

Caption: Shane MacGowan of The Pogues Madstock Festival 2009 held at Victoria Park London, England .... MACGOWAN BECOMES TV GARDENER Irish folk-rocker SHANE MACGOWAN is embarking on a bizarre new career change - he's hosting his own TV gardening show.

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Related Topix: Folk, Essex County, England, World News, United Kingdom, Greater London County, England, Home Gardening, Home

Thu Dec 03, 2009

Poor Mojo Newswire

Shane MacGowan to star in organic gardening reality show

Shane MacGowan is set to appear in a reality TV programme about growing vegetables.

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Related Topix: Home Gardening, Home, Folk

Wed Dec 02, 2009

Telegraph.co.uk

The race for Christmas Number One

Once again Simon Cowell's talent show behemoth is set to dominate British pop at Christmas.

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Related Topix: Life, Holidays, Christmas, Chorus, Folk, Hannah Montana: The Movie, Miley Cyrus

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