Yesterday the 12 hopefuls nominated for this years Mercury Music Prize were announced. Biffy Clyro, Corrine Bailey Rae and former winner Dizzee Rascal all feature in this years shortlist.
The awards ceremony takes place on September 7th at The Hospital Club in Covent Garden, London where the winner will be announced and will take home the £20,000 prize.
Here’s who made the nominations list:
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Well for all of you who have been waiting weeks for the new revamped Official Chart website to update, you will be pleased to hear that they have finally done it. Good Times.
Now for the Bad Times – unfortunately they have only published the Top 40 songs, so from this week I will no longer be able to give you the weekly Chart Summary 
I know – hold back the tears.
Now for some more Good Times – From this week I shall be adding the official Top 10 albums 
instead, so make sure you keep coming back each week for the up to date Top 20 songs and Top 20 albums each week, here on the Unofficial Chart Blog
It has been announced that at next year’s BRIT awards that Robbie Williams will be honoured with the Outstanding Contribution To Music Award.
Robbie has won more BRIT awards than any other artist so it does seem fitting that he gets the biggest prize at the British Music Awards. The list includes:
British Male – 1999, 2001, 2002, 2003
BRITs 25 – Best Song Award for ‘Angels’ in 2005
British Single for ‘Angels’ in 1999, ‘She’s The One’ in 2000, ‘Rock DJ’ in 2001
British Video for ‘Millenium’ in 1999; ‘She’s the One’ in 2000; ‘’Rock DJ’ in 2001
As member of Take That, Robbie has won BRIT Awards in the following catagories:
British Single ‘Could it be Magic‘ 1993
British Single ‘Pray’ in 1994
British Single ‘Back for Good’ in 1996
British Video for ‘Pray’ in 1994
Greatest number of BRIT Nominations….
32 nominations in total – 22 as a solo artist and has won 11.
He has also had 9 nominations as a member of Take That and won 4
With a career spanning nearly 20 years and several number one singles, not only with Take That but as a solo artist and number one albums, he has become one of Britian’s biggest selling artists.
Tune in to next year’s Awards Ceremony, the 30th in it’s history on Tuesday 16th February 2010.
Well last night the 15th annual MTV European Music Awards went back home to the capital city where the 1st awards were held, Berlin. The show was hosted again this year by Katy Perry who had so many different costume changes than I’ve had hot dinners, and some of the clothes she wore were absolutely outrageous. Nuff Said about that.
There were performances from Leona Lewis, Tokio Hotel, Shakira, U2, Jay Z and there was even a rather peculiar tribute to the late Michael Jackson which was introduced by The Jonas Brothers.
The main winner of the show was Beyonce who took home 3 awards (more on that in a mo) but the evening didn’t go without its controvesy. And there was good news for the British acts with wins from Pixie Lott & Placebo
U2 had performed at the place where the Berlin Wall had come down to do a free concert for the event. The controvesy was that they only allowed 10,000 fans to take part in the event and they even erected up a metal fence so no unauthorised fans to “gate crash” the party. Now what’s so controversial about that you might ask, well this year is the 20th anniversary of the Berlin Wall coming down and some bright spark decided to re-erect a fence up at the same place. Not the best PR decision that’s been made this year, and there were a few Germans who were not happy at the site.
So here is the list of who took home an award this year:
Best Video: Beyonce “Single Ladies”
Best Female: Beyonce
Best Group: Tokio Hotel
Best European Act: maNga
Best Push Artist: Pixie Lott
Best Male: Eminem
Best New Act: Lady Gaga
Best Alternative: Placebo
Best World Stage Performance: Linkin Park
Best Song: Beyonce “Halo”
Best Rock: Green Day
Best Urban: Jay Z
Best Live Act: U2
Best UK & Ireland Act: Pixie Lott
If you want to catch up with what went on then go to the official MTV EMA Site.
Just to let you all know that October’s Music Review page is now live. Go ahead and read at your leisure lol.
The Q Awards took place last night and was presented by comic Al Murray dressed as his Pub Landlord character. He declared 2009 a terrible year for music because of “the sad demise of Oasis”.
The annual ceremony is which is run by the music magazine Q was the 19th in the series since they began in 1990.
They have become one of Britain’s biggest and best publicized music awards, helped in no small part by the often boisterous behavior of the celebrities who attend the event.
And here is the winners list of who took home an award.
Best New Act : White Lies
Breakthrough Artist : Mr Hudson
Best Video : Lady GaGa – Just Dance
Best Track : Lily Allen – The Fear
Best Live Act : Arctic Monkeys
Best Album : Kasabian – West Ryder Pauper Lunatic Asylum
Best Act In The World Today : Muse
The Q Idol – Spandau Ballet
The Q Iinspiration Award – The Specials
Innovation In Sound – Sonic Youth
Q Classic Album – U2 – The Unforgettable Fire
The Q Icon – Marianne Faithfull
Classic Song – Relax, Frankie Goes To Hollywood
Q Legend – Edwyn Collins
Classic Songwriter – Yusuf Islam (formerly Cat Stevens)
Outstanding Contribution To Music – Robert Plant
It has been announced that the 2010 BRIT Awards ceremony will take place on Tuesday 16th February 2010 at London’s Earl’s Court Arena.
ITV Will be screening the ceremony live bringing millions and millions of viewers worldwide to watch the annual and biggest awards show in the UK.
As the BRITs Academy members deliberate and cast their votes, The BRIT Awards Nominations Launch moves to a brand new venue for what will be a bigger and even more exciting event. On Monday 18 January 2010, The BRIT Awards Nominations will take place at IndigO2 at London’s O2, unveiling which candidates will be battling it out in each category for the coveted BRIT trophies. The launch will also include unique live performances from breakthrough acts and will be broadcast on ITV2.
Keep it here for any further news regarding next years BRITs
It has been reported that Al Martino has died aged 82.
Al Martino was the 1st person at Number one on the very 1st UK Singles Chart with “Here In My Heart” which stayed at Number 1 for 9 weeks. He is also famous for appearing in the 1972 film The Godfather, playing Johnny Fonatne, rumoured to be based around Frank Sinatra.
His UK chart career ended in 1973 with the re-release of “Spanish Eyes” reaching Number 5, however he continued to enter the US Adult Comtemporary chart until 1978 with the song “One Last Time”.
September’s music review page has now been added to the web site. Just check it out on the left handed sidebar.
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Last night Reggie Yates and R n B diva Keri Hilson presented the 14th MOBO Awards live in Glasgow. The big winners of the night were N-Dubz, J.L.S. and Beyonce all taking home 2 awards each.
The ceremony also included a tribute to the late Michael Jackson with Britain’s Got Talent winners Diversity dancing to some of his classic songs.
Here is a list of who won what award:
Best UK Act: N-Dubz
Best Newcomer: JLS
Best Song: ‘Beat Again’ – JLS
Best Album: ‘Uncle B’ – N-Dubz
Best DJ: Trevor Nelson
Best Hip Hop: Chipmunk
Best R&B: Keri Hilson
Best International: Beyonce
Best Video: ‘Single Ladies’ – Beyonce
Best Reggae: Sean Paul
Best Jazz: Yolanda Brown
Best Gospel: Victizzle
Best African Act: Nneka
Check out all the news and gossip from back stage of the event at the official MOBO Website.
Well last night the judges deliberated, talked and finally decided that the winner of this year’s Mercury Music Prize is …………………….Speeck Debelle with her album “Speech Therapy”.
She takes home the usual prize money of £20,000 and the hopefulness of scoring a chart entry this week with the album.
Other acts which were up for the prize included La Roux, Kasabian & Bat For Lashes.
She said afterwards that her win proved “if you believe in something and you think you can do it, you can. I feel so good, it feels better than I imagined.”
Go check out July’s music and entertainment news
Earlier today, the 12 hopefuls nominated for this years Mercury Music Prize were announced. La Roux, Kasabian and BRIT Award winners Florence & The Machine feature in the shortlist.
The awards ceremony takes place on September 8th where the winner will be announced and will take home the £20,000 prize.
Here’s who made the nominations list:
Bat For Lashes: Two SunsThis is the new home of the Unofficial Chart Blog. Please bear with me while I transfer all the information from the old site onto the this one.
On the 25th June the world stood still in shock over the death of the biggest music icons of recent time. Michael Jackson suffered a Cardiac Arrest and passed away in Los Angeles. His music, dance moves and videos will definitely stand the test of time and to prove this, he had no less that 26 songs back inside the Top 100 singles chart this week. Here is what song entered the chart and at what position:
Number 11 – Man In The Mirror
Number 23 – Thriller
Number 25 – Billie Jean
Number 28 – Smooth Criminal
Number 30 – Beat It
Number 38 – Earth Song
Number 44 – You Are Not Alone
Number 45 – Black Or White
Number 47 – The Way You Make Me Feel
Number 48 – Don’t Stop Til You Get Enough
Number 50 – Dirty Diana
Number 55 – I Want You Back (credited as The Jackson 5)
Number 57 – Bad
Number 58 – Ben
Number 65 – ABC (credited as The Jackson 5)
Number 67 – They Don’t Care About Us
Number 71 – I’ll Be There (credited as The Jackson 5)
Number 72 – Wanna Be Starting Something
Number 75 – Blame It On The Boogie (credited as The Jacksons)
Number 78 – Heal The World
Number 85 – Off The Wall
Number 86 – Can You Feel It? (credited as The Jacksons)
Number 95 – She’s Out Of My Life
Number 96 – Ain’t No Sunshine
Number 97 – You Rock My World
Number 99 – One Day In Your Life
Also his albums sold in their thousands this week and here is where he entered the Album Top 100:
Number 1 – Number Ones
Number 7 – Thriller
Number 14 – King Of Pop
Number 17 -Off The Wall
Number 20 – The Essential
Number 45 – Thriller – 25th Anniversary Edition
Number 59 – Bad
This information is supplied by The Official Charts Company
So last night on ITV1 the 2009 BRIT Awards ceremony took place. It was the 29th edition of the annual awards ceremony and was held at Earls Court, London and presented by Matthew Horne, James Corden and Kylie Minogue. Backstage, Fearne Cotton was there to speak to the winners after they had accepted their award and also to speak to some of the celebrities who had been asked to present an award.
This year’s lifetime achievement award was presented to The Pet Shop Boys and it fell to Brandon Flowers from the US Band The Killers to present it to them. Brandon also accompanied them on stage as they closed the show with some of their famous hits. They were also joined by Lady Gaga.
The main winner of this year’s BRIT’s was Duffy, who took home 3 awards. Here is a list of who won what
Best British Male – Paul Weller
Best British Female – Duffy
International Male – Kanye West
International Female – Katy Perry
Best British Group – Elbow
International Group – Kings Of Leon
Best British Breakthrough – Duffy
Best British Live Band – Iron Maiden
Best British Single – Girls Aloud “The Promise”
Best International Album – Kings Of Leon “Only By The Night”
Best British Album – Duffy “Rockferry”
Critic’s Choice – Florence & The Machine
Producer’s Award – Bernard Butler for Duffy “Rockferry”
Life Time Achievement – The Pet Shop Boys
So lets look forward to the next 12 months of music and see who get’s nominated for a BRIT for the 2010 Awards Ceremony.
