Sunday Times (Sri Lanka)

Mariah to launch new album

- Ariah Carey on Lord adonna Leona Lewis One Direction, lorence & The Machine

M F Mhas announced the title of first song from her next album will be called ‘Triumphant (Get Em)’. The song will feature both Rick Ross and Meek Mill and will be out next month. winner is making a new album. She is said to be working with Fraser T.Smith who has worked with Adele on the hit song “Set Fire To The Rain”. Leona’s next album “Glassheart” is due for release in October. current MDNA tour which coincides with the promotion of the album of the same name is set to be one of the biggest earners. Reports say the 53 year old has so far earned over US$ 50 million in the first 3 weeks of the tour. Her Abu Dhabi performanc­e has been her biggest grossing show taking US$ 8 million. Though the MDNA album has not been great in terms of sales and in song hit generation her shows have been a success The queen of pop has also been courting controvers­y the MDNA tour with the swastika incident involving French politician Marie Le Pen, the boob flashes, a dig a Lady Gaga, and very recently irritating residents of London over her noisy house party. een heartthrob­s helped raise 50,000 for charity on July 21 when they were joined by 8 of their fans on a one hour special British Airways flight from Manchester which flew over to London. The five group members acted as flight attendants. The flight had its own number called BA1D.

who was a founding member of the rock band Deep Purple has died aged 71 in London after he lost his battle with cancer. He wrote one of Deep Purples’ iconic songs “Smoke On The Water”.

TJ Fretained the top spot on the UK singles chart for a second consecutiv­e week with ‘Spectrum (Say My Name)’. The songs sold 63,960 copies this week, thanks to the Calvin Harris remix to fend off a challenge from the persistent “Payphone” by Maroon 5. At the time tabulation was done ‘Payphone’ had sold 57,034 copies to remain unmoved at the

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Wide Awake – Katy Perry No:2 position. Despite both songs and retaining their previous week’s positions the actual sales of both songs and many other songs on the top 10 were down. Many analysts cite a lack of high profile releases in the last 2 weeks. he UK singles chart recently celebrated its 60th birthday. To mark the occasion the Official Chart Company who owns various charts in the UK conducted a nationwide poll to find out the Britain’s favourite No:1 song. Coming right at the top was Queen’s ‘Bohemian Rhapsody’ which topped the charts on two occasions. The top 10 favourite No:1 songs are 1. Bohemian Rhapsody - Queen, 2. Billie Jean - Michael Jackson,

3. Someone Like You - Adele, 4.Don’t Look Back In Anger - Oasis, 5. Hey Jude - The Beatles, 6. Imagine - John Lennon, 7. Baby One More Time – Britney Spears, 8. Dancing Queen – Abba, 9. I Will Always Love You – Whitney Houston, 10. Can’t Get You Out My Head’ – Kylie Minogue.

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