Leona Lewis, Misha B and Rebecca Ferguson announce/tease new singles! Listen to Aiden Grimshaw’s album! Read an interview with Steve Mac, songwriter for Simon Cowell’s acts!
Leona Lewis‘ new single “Trouble” will premiere on the radio on Tuesday. It features American rapper Childish Gambino. Popjustice says the song is “moody, amazing and not a ballad”. What’s more, it will be available on iTunes UK on October 7 and Leona’s 3rd album Glassheart drops just a week later (October 15th). Sony have classed the new release as a “global priority”. Who wrote “Trouble”? Emeli Sande, singer/songwriter who was heavily showcased at the Olympics opening and closing ceremonies (“Read All About It”).
Misha B announced on Twitter the title of her next single. Studio recording of “Do You Think Of Me?” isn’t available yet, but you can hear Misha’s live performance HERE.
Finally, Rebecca Ferguson mentioned on Twitter that “new single goes to UK radio soon”. I did a little research on my own and it looks like Rebecca’s debut album “Heaven” will be re-released on October 15 according to HMV, with some new material.
New tracklist:
1. Nothing’s Real But Love
2. Glitter & Gold
3. Shoulder To Shoulder
4. Fairytale (Let Me Live My Life This Way)
5. Mr Bright Eyes
6. Fighting Suspicions
7. Teach Me How To Be Loved
8. Run Free
9. Diamond To A Stone
10. Too Good To Lose
11. Backtrack
12. Good Days, Bad DaysLive At Liverpool Echo Arena
13. Strange & Beautiful
14. Take Care
“Backtrack” is also featured on the US release of “Heaven”. You can hear it HERE. I think this the new single.
Aiden Grimshaw‘s debut album drops tomorrow. You can listen to the whole thing HERE.
Cher Lloyd walks off stage at V Festival after reveller throws bottle of urine at singer
Cher Lloyd walked off stage during her set at the V Festival today when she someone threw a bottle of urine at her.
The teen singer was performing the second song at the Chelmsford, Essex, festival when the incident occurred.
Clearly upset, the 19-year-old fled the stage to compose herself, but decided to return and resume her performance.
Read more: The Daily Mail
‘I can’t wait to be a dad again’: Former X Factor contestant Wagner, 56, reveals he’s having a baby with his 20-year-old girlfriend
One thing that the X Factor is sure to do when it returns this weekend is shock viewers.
But beating the ITV show it, former contestant Wagner has revealed he is to become a father again.
Speaking to love it! magazine, the Brazilian performer told of his joy, as he readies the birth of his second son with his girlfriend Lydia Longville, who is 36 years his junior.
Read more: The Daily Mail
Before I appeared on X Factor I worked at Pizza Hut for £6.50 in tips…on a good night
— Says AIDEN GRIMSHAW
AIDEN GRIMSHAW finished seventh on the X Factor in 2010.
That year the series gave the world ONE DIRECTION, REBECCA FERGUSON and MATT CARDLE.
Blackpool lad Aiden, who was 18 at the time, gained attention for his audition covering KANYE WEST’s Gold Digger and later performing Mad World wearing a straitjacket.
But his debut album Misty Eye (out next Monday) isn’t what you’d expect from an ex-X Factor star.
It features nods to drum and bass and impressed indie journalists when samples were sent out earlier this year.
Read more: The Daily Mail
Matt Cardle finishes work on new album: Can’t wait for you to hear it
Matt Cardle has revealed that he has nearly finished work on his new album.
The X Factor champion has been working on his second solo album throughout 2012. It will serve as the follow-up to 2011’s Letters.
“We are rolling people!! Album 2 is complete!! little tweak here, little nudge there and it’s a wrap!! : ) cannot wait for you guys to hear,” Cardle tweeted.
Read more: Digital Spy
EXCLUSIVE Rebecca Ferguson interview
We met up with Rebecca Ferguson to chat about her role in the Olympics, to find out what she thinks of ex-boyfriend Zayn Malik’s success and to get the lowdown on that big bust-up with her management team.
Read more: Marie Claire
‘It was perfect!’ One Direction fans congratulate Zayn Malik on his new blonde quiff at the London 2012 Olympic closing ceremony
It was their biggest ever gig and the world was waiting with anticipation to see just how they would perform on the grandiose stage.
However, fans of One Direction were completely occupied with Zayn Malik’s new hair colour and seemed to forget about the actual performance.
As the boys entered the stadium on the back of a lorry all eyes were focused on 19-year-old Zayn’s fashionable blonde highlights in his quiff.
Read more: The Daily Mail
Harry Styles looks so vein! One Direction’s heartthrob shows his stripped down side as he wears a muscle suit
Harry Styles has found a very novel way of flexing his muscles for all of his fans.
The teen heartthrob was seen messing around with his best celebrity friend Nick Grimshaw, at Primrose Hill, north London.
The 18-year-old brought many smiles to the faces of his friends as he put on a Muscle Morphsuit to gruesome effect.
Read more: The Daily Mail
Hopelessly devoted to you: One Direction star Zayn Malik shuns V Festival to support girlfriend Perrie and Little Mix at G.A.Y
While his bandmates have been seen enjoying the VIP spoils at V Festival this weekend, loyal boyfriend Zayn Malik, 19, had more important things on his mind.
The devoted boyfriend snubbed the event to support his girlfriend Perrie Edwards, 19, as she took to the stage with band Little Mix at club night G.A.Y.
Read more: The Daily Mail
‘I loved it’: Little Mix’s Perrie Edwards gushes over One Direction boyfriend Zayn Malik’s Olympic closing ceremony show
Little Mix recently admitted that they would rather count sheep than snuggle up with their boyfriends.
But Perrie Edwards couldn’t help praise her boyfriend Zayn Malik for him and his band One Direction’s amazing showing when they performed to a crowd of 80,000 people on Sunday at the closing ceremony for the 2012 Olympic Games.
Describing their set as ‘amazing’, the 19-year-old was all smiles as relived the night with her group members this morning when they sat down for a chat on Daybreak.
Read more: The Daily Mail
‘The other girls have amazing flat bellies, but my boyfriend Jordan likes curvy girls’: Little Mix star Jesy Nelson explains why she won’t diet as Perrie gushes about Zayn
She suffered appalling abuse over her weight from cyber bullies last year.
But Little Mix singer Jesy Nelson is comfortable in her shape and won’t be losing her curves anytime soon – particularly if her boyfriend has anything to do with it.
The 21-year-old singer has explained how her dancer beau Jordan Banjo loves her figure in a new interview with Look magazine.
Read more: The Daily Mail
‘Labrinth and Fresh Prince are our style icons!’ Little Mix Leigh-Ann and Jade reveals their surprising fashion inspirations
They’ve won over many fans with their refusual to go girlie and opted for their own unique, quirky style.
But it appears Little Mix tomboys Leigh-Anne Pinnock and Jade Thirlwall have some rather unusual style inspirations – rapper Labrinth and the Fresh Prince Of Bel-Air.
Geordie Jade, 19, is a fan of the Earthquake rapper, while Bucks-native Leigh-Anne, 19, love Will Smith’s iconic TV character.
Read more: The Daily Mail
Louis Walsh hints at X Factor exit
Louis Walsh has suggested that he will bow out of The X Factor after 10 years because he does not want to turn into Sir Bruce Forsyth.
Louis, 60, returns to the ninth series of the ITV1 show on Saturday with fellow judges Tulisa Contostavlos, Gary Barlow and Nicole Scherzinger and admitted that the UK X Factor had suffered without Simon Cowell.
He told the Radio Times: “This is my ninth year and every year I get nervous that Simon will bring someone new in, but I know the show and what works.
“My ambition is to get to 10 years on the show – after that we’ll see. I don’t want to be like Brucie on Strictly. I will know when it’s time to give it up.”
Read more: The Press Association
Grieving Gary Barlow pulls out of X Factor press launch ‘due to personal circumstances’
After his tragic loss, last week, Gary Barlow has revealed he is not yet ready to return to work and will miss tomorrow’s X Factor press launch.
The promotional event was set to feature the new line-up of judges as a screening of the first episode was shown to members of the press.
But, judges Louis Walsh, Tulisa Contostavlos and new recruit Nicole Scherzinger will now attend without Barlow, ‘due to personal circumstances’.
Read more: The Daily Mail
Grieving Gary Barlow cancels plans to film X Factor ‘Judge’s House’ segment abroad as he mourns loss of his daughter
Gary Barlow has ditched plans to film the X Factor’s traditional Judge’s House segment abroad, as he continues to grieve the loss of his baby daughter.
Following his announcement that he would not attend the show’s press conference tomorrow, Mail Online has learned that Barlow, 41, plans to film his segment in the UK which will enable him to stay close to his family at this difficult time.
Read more: The Daily Mail
‘She knows what she’s doing… I’m still finding myself’: Tulisa admits new X Factor judge Nicole Scherzinger is a winner in the style stakes
Skyscraper heels, tight dresses and big hair .?.?. it can only mean one thing. The X Factor is back and aiming to impress.
And while judges Tulisa Contostavlos and Nicole Scherzinger both arrived at the launch of this year’s series in figure- hugging dresses, they insisted there was no competition in the glamour stakes.
Fellow judge Louis Walsh recently branded N-Dubz singer Tulisa a ‘chav in a tracksuit’ while praising Miss Scherzinger as ‘gorgeous’.
Read more: The Daily Mail
We’re their mentors, not their mothers! X Factor judges rule out curfew on contestants – so are they secretly praying for MORE scandalous behaviour like Frankie Cocozza’s?
The last series generated a string of negative headlines about contestants partying late into the night, bed-hopping and – in one case – boasting about drug-taking.
So as The X Factor returned to our screens last night, many expected ITV bosses to adopt a stricter approach.
But far from enforcing rigid curfews and sex bans to avoid further scandals, new judge Nicole Scherzinger said last night she was relaxed about the behaviour of hopefuls on the show.
The former Pussycat Dolls star, 34, said: ‘We are not their mums – we are their mentors.’
Read more: The Daily Mail
‘I will absolutely be watching’: Cheryl Cole reveals she’s still a fan of X Factor, despite her firing from the US show
After her unceremonious firing from X Factor USA last year, you couldn’t blame Cheryl Cole for wanting to distance herself from the franchise.
But the singer admits she is still a fan of the TV talent show and plans to watch the new series.
During an interview to promote her new single Under The Sun, Cheryl admitted she still enjoyed watching the UK version, which featured her as a judge for three years.
Read more: The Daily Mail
Steve Mac: He writes the songs that make the whole world sing
His name is Steve Mac, and he is the most successful songwriter in modern British music. You wouldn’t think it to look at him – there is nothing flash or brash about him – but the statistics speak for themselves: 23 No 1 singles, 77 No 2 singles, 104 Top 5s. In a writing career spanning barely 15 years, his songs have racked up more than 140 million sales worldwide. His dominance is unparalleled: turn on the radio, and you are rarely a few songs away from another Steve Mac composition. And yet few people outside the industry have heard of him.
“And that’s just how I like it,” he says. “It’s the music that’s important, not me.” But there is another reason, too. “The kind of music I make, I always feel people will be a touch cynical about.” He shrugs. “It’s not exactly for the taste makers, is it?”
He’s right about that. He was Susan Boyle’s producer, the architect of Westlife’s endless ballads, and is one of the masterminds steering One Direction towards global boy-band dominance.
“Simon [Cowell] once said the only credibility that matters comes from having No 1 singles,” he says, nodding. “And I’m very competitive in that way. If my songs don’t reach No 1, then I can’t help but feel I’ve failed.”
Read more: The Independent
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Irish Charts
Singles
1 Of Monsters And Men – Little Talks
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6 Owl City & Carly Rae Jepsen – Good Time
24 Carly Rae Jepsen – Call Me Maybe
27 Cheryl Cole – Under The Sun
31 Loreen – Euphoria
33 Cheryl Cole – Call My Name
45 One Direction – What Makes You Beautiful
90 Olly Murs – Dance With Me Tonight
Albums
1 Ryan O’Shaughnessy – Ryan O’Shaughnessy
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4 One Direction – Up All Night
11 Jedward – Young Love
45 Olly Murs – In Case You Didn’t Know
49 Kelly Clarkson – Stronger
51 Cheryl Cole – A Million Lights
67 Jedward – Victory
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The Official Charts
Singles
1 Rita Ora – How We Do (Party)
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20 Carly Rae Jepsen – Call Me Maybe
26 Cheryl Cole – Under The Sun
32 One Direction – What Makes You Beautiful
49 Aiden Grimshaw – Curtain Call
64 Cheryl Cole – Call My Name
72 Misha B – Home Run
77 Loreen – Euphoria
84 Gary Barlow & The Commonwealth Band – Sing
Albums
1 Emeli Sande – Our Version Of Events
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10 One Direction – Up All Night
39 Olly Murs – In Case You Didn’t Know
43 Kelly Clarkson – Stronger
45 Cheryl Cole – A Million Lights
