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Swarm.fm's Peter Watts accepts the $10,000 prize at the music app weekend which was hosted by Spotify. The winner of the grand prize went to a unreleased music app which was created by the same person who created +Music. The idea behind this new application is take everything from the Internet that is relevant to music and place it inside Spotify and put a play button on it.

The new iAlbums application has been designed to recreate the feeling of listening to, and appreciating vinyl music. It is supposed to give you back that old school feeling, with Spotify and Rdio along with other applications, people have become less appreciative of music. Therefore iAlbums is bringing that appreciation back by allowing the user to listen to full albums on their iPhone instead of through a record player.

A UK couple found themselves in court after playing Rihannas music with excessive volume. Both were hit with a considerable fine after neighbors complained about the excessive volume, which took place over many months.

Double Brit winner Ed Sheeran was showing his soft side when he made a 14 year old's dream to watch the star, come true. Ed was touched by young Abigail Fleming who has cancer, With possibly only weeks left. Abigails mum told a UK newspaper that she was excited when Ed made a special video response to her.

In a surprising revelation on UK radio, Gary Barlow said that the X-Factor show welcomes singers with managers. This means that already established artists can use the show to further their career. Barlow told Chris evens on a radio2 interview.

Justin Bieber's lawyers are not amused with a game which has been developed for the iPhone that is designed to be a Mickey take. The 'Joustin Beaver' game consists of a beaver which is thought to resemble some of Justin's features.

Rihanna has just mentioned the new 'Rihanna-IFY' your Facebook profile timelines. Fans can create a custom cover over at http://myrihannanavy.com/ her official fan page which was launched this month. The link has just been posted today on her official Facebook profile boasting 51+ million likes. The initial response has been good with many positive comments.

Since the UK's biggest music awards Ceremony The Brit Awards, acts who performed and received most recognition have seen a massive influx in sales. Adele, Ed Sheeran and special award winners Blur have seen dramatic increases.

An internet storm has emerged after reports flood the internet that the National Enquirer allegedly published a photo of Whitney Houston in her coffin. Apparently the paper had the headline as: 'Whitney: The Last Photo'. Obviously these disturbing reports have caused controversy on a worldwide scale.

The biggest winner of the night at the Brit Awards Adele gave the middle finger gesture to cameras as she was cut short on accepting one of the biggest awards of the night. The show was running smoothly until the end, where Adele was given the last award which was for best British album.

The Brits tonight showed Rihanna performing 'We Found Love' with an unusual yet effective stage show using paint which was splattered everywhere inside clear like plastic containers. The star went down well at the Brits as she performed alongside backing dancers. She was also looking just as hot as usual!

Its that time of the year again when the UK's best and most popular artists take to the stage at the Brit Awards. This year has an exciting line up of artists all diverse in their music styles and origin. Adele, Ed Sheeran, Coldplay are all favorites to take home Awards. Obviously US Superstar Rihanna is not up for as many, however she is anticipated to put on a usual highly entertaining and possibly raunchy performance.

Turn Up The Music is the latest song from Chris Brown which features Rihanna. The song is a remix. This latest song has emerged after much controversy and speculation over the couple which are rumored to be dating again. You can check the song out below

Music download website RnBXclusive's hosting provider was forced to take down the site by The UK's Serious Organised Crime Agency (SOCA) One arrest has been made and a threat was published on the site that anyone who has used RNBXclusive may have been breaking the law, which could result in 10 years in prison.

Spotify the latest music service which has gathered a lot of interest through social network Facebook is claiming that their new music application gives better quality sound than an iTunes download. This latest application is available for use on iPhone and iPad devices.

Its been announced that Damon Albarn's band Gorillaz will be releasing a new song with Outcast's Andre 3000. The new track is called 'DoYaThing' and its set to be released on the 23rd Feb. Apparently its going to be available on free download. DoYaThing will also feature LCD Soundsytem frontman James Murphy.

It has been reported by Cult of Mac website that Apple's Cloud Music Match service has been removing profanity from songs without the users knowledge. Apparently Apple have been replacing songs with explicit lyrics with cleaner versions of the songs.

Madonna has a busy year in 2012, she is fresh off the stage after performing at the Super Bowl this weekend. She has also just announced that she will be performing at two massive shows this year. The shows form part of her massive 2012 world tour. She will play London's Hyde Park on July 17 and Edinburgh's Murrayfield Stadium on July 21.

The UK rapper M.I.A has caused a stir because of her recent superbowl performance. The young star features on Madonna's “Give me All Your Luvin” and she caused a massive stir when she flipped her middle finger at the crowd during the prime time performance.

Jay-Z has moved on strides since his critically acclaimed début album Reasonable Doubt. The glory and the magnificence still seems to be present more than a decade later. When he performed at Carnegie Hall on Monday February 6.