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Winner of the 2005 series of the X Factor Shayne Ward has admitted that he thinks the reason his pop career has failed is because Simon Cowell didn't give him enough attention, instead focusing on the careers of Leona Lewis and Susan Boyle.

Rihanna has lashed out at a fan after they implied that they thought the singer might end up overdosing like the late Whitney Houston.

Members of the boy band Boyzone have revealed that they may be unable to use the late Stephen Gately's vocals on their new abum.

Robbie Williams has spoken out in praise of One Direction claiming that the boys will be as big as the Spice Girls.

Harry Styles has reportedly been advised by Taylor Swift's father to slow things down in their relationship.

It seems that former X Factor winner Shayne Ward has learned little from the spat that Matt Cardle had with James Arthur over Twitter as he has tried to bestow some of his wisdom on the show's current champ.

The Official Charts Company has revealed an odd statistic for last year through their Twitter account.

Adele's album “21” has been named the biggest selling album of the year in the US, the second year in a row that the album has claimed the title.

Snoop Lion has revealed that he will teach his children how to smoke weed safely if they decide to take it up when they are older.

Singer Pink is allegedly being sued $36,000 (£22,000) for royalties from her debut album “Can't Take Me Home” which was released back in 2000.

Users of Google Music's cloud based storage system have criticized the service because it has been discovered that songs with explicit lyrics are replaced with more family friendly versions.

The service has a scan and match feature which is free to use and allows users can scan their music catalogue and then have online access to it, as long as Google can find a match on its servers.

The year 2012 has been satisfying for Shah Rukh, Salman and Aamir Khans. While Shah Rukh Khan tasted success in both domestic and local markets by returning to his favorite romantic avatar, Aamir Khan proved his versatility by making Talaash, a supernatural movie a blockbuster. But the Khans fail to create mass hysteria like Salman. “Ek tha Tiger”, his first 2012 release, has already broken many box office records. Will his Christmas release Dabangg will be one of the highest grosser of the year?

Statistics released by the BPI have revealed that sales of albums in the UK dropped by 10% in 2012.

The figures also showed that as well as overall sales figures for albums being down, the CD album  has suffered the most with a drop of 19.5 percent from the previous year and only 69.4m albums sold.

Times have moved on since the days where party goers sang “Auld Lang Syne” on New Year's Eve and perhaps not surprisingly, it didn't feature in the top 20 list of songs played on the occasion.

Green Day have announced that they will be heading back on the road after their lead singer/ guitarist Billie Joe Armstrong has finished a stint in rehab for substance abuse.

Hugely successful South Korean rapper Psy has hinted that New Year's Eve could be the last we hear of his hit song "Gangnam Style".

Lostprophets singer Ian Watkins appeared in court today over a number of child sex offense charges which include conspiracy to rape a one year old girl.

YouTube have cancelled billions of music video views claiming that they were faked.

The move means that many high profile artists have seen the number of views on many of their songs dramatically decrease.

Gary Barlow is closing down his record company, Future Records so that he can spend more time with his family.

The Take That and X Factor star has a lot of business commitments and running the record label is one of the biggest so he is selling it in order to see his family more and also to focus his attentions on other projects.

The Official Charts Company has announced that she has just edged ahead of Oasis’s record for their 1995 album “(What’s the Story) Morning Glory” which to date has shifted 4,555,000 copies, whereas sales of “21” have just reached 4,562,000 copies.

James Arthur may have just missed out on the Christmas number one spot but it looks as though he might be having an excellent start to the New Year with his single “Impossible” climbing back up to the top spot in the mid-week charts.