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The total sales of digital music in the UK has surpassed the £1 billion mark for the first time according to new figures released.

Sales of digital music have rocketed in recent years and have now passed the £1 billion bench mark since first being launched in 2004.

Michelle Obama has caused controversy with her inviting of a rapper who has previously rapped about threatening to shoot police and to burn George W Bush.

Lonnie Rashid Lynn Jnr, who goes by his rap name of Common had been invited to take part in an Evening of Poetry at the White House.

Teen singing sensation Justin Bieber has been accused of being rude to fans who had been waiting to catch a glimpse of their idol at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport in Manila, Philippines.

The world of Britney Spears is often stranger than fiction so it should come as no surprise that she is being transformed into a comic book star in a biographic tale of her rise to stardom.

One of the most popular names in pop; Lady Gaga has teamed up with one of the biggest sensations on the internet; Farmville.

The singer and the game have joined forces to create a new neighboring in game farm which is due to go live on May 17 and will run until May 26 as part of promotion by Lady Gaga for her upcoming new album Born This Way.

It has been revealed that Take That lead song writer Gary Barlow has written a song for the upcoming X-Men: First Class film.

The song is to be officially available for download on May 11 from the Take That website however there is already a taster of the song available on the website, giving fans the chance to catch a glimpse of the track via the 30 second clip.

British sweetheart Cheryl Cole has kicked off her career as a judge on the American version of the hit television talent show, the X Factor however it has not gone as smoothly as she may have initially liked.

According to newspaper The Mirror, Cheryl Cole is reported to have been very nervous as she sat with Paula Abdul on one side and LA Reid on the other while those auditioning would continue to ask her to repeat herself because they couldn't understand her.

Lady Gaga has released another single from her new album Born This Way, via iTunes although her record company is saying that it is no an official single.

The new track, The Edge of Glory, is a another glimpse into the Born This Way album to be released to the public on May 23.

Lady Gaga let her fans know about what was going on with the track in her usual way, through Twitter.

She Tweeted on Sunday evening: “My song THE EDGE OF GLORY will be released on iTunes tomorrow to begin the countdown to another album release!”
She later added: “Our tomorrow 1pm PDT. Another shot before we kiss on the side. I am on the edge of something final we call life.”

Record company EMI will be reissuing all of the studio albums ever made by Pink Floyd along with unheard recordings from the archives after a legal dispute between the band and the label.

The Warner Music Group has been bought for $3.3 billion after the Russian born billionaire Len Blavatnik won a bidding war to secure the company for his Access Industries company.

The music company has been sold by chief executive Edgar Bronfman Jr and the private equity firms Thomas H Lee Partners and Bain Capital Partners after they purchased the company for $2.6 billion back in 2004 from Time Warner.

Nashville,—There's no doubt that Spencer Strand knows the groove. A well-respected drummer, publisher of instructional materials and product specialist, Strand really has an understanding of how to teach and live deep pocket playing. So, it's no surprise that his current release, The Test Of Time Volume 10 of Turn It Up & Lay It Down, demonstrates his further commitment to providing drummers with a great learning experience, which is fun and challenging.

It has been revealed that this year the UK X Factor final will be taking place at Wembley Arena in London.

By holding the final of the show at Wembley it will mean that 12,500 fans will be able to come along and support their favouites while also enjoying the show which in the past has welcomed stars such as Rihanna.

The cast of the hit US television series Glee are said to be performing a version of the Cheryl Cole hit Parachute on the show.

According to The Sun newspaper the creator of the series, Ryan Murphy, is keen to feature the star in the series during an episode in the third series of Glee.

French DJ David Guetta has spoken about having to hire a former Pentagon investigator to look into his online security after a version of his new single was stolen by hackers before it was released.

Spotify, the online music service, has announced that it will be extending its services for users which would see it taking iTunes on directly for a market share in the online music industry.

From this week Spotify has expanded to include an iPhone and iPod app that s now available to non paying members of the service while Spotify is also trying to urge their users to import their music collections to them rather than to the Apple alternative.

It is already being hailed as the most powerful smartphone to come onto the market and now it has been revealed that the Motorola ATRIX is to use fingerprint recognition to allow only authorised users to use the phone.

According to reports the phone will require the user to touch the touch screen several times when they first purchase the phone to allow the phone to then read the finger print.

The third film in the Twilight franchise, The Twilight Saga: Eclipse, has received a massive eight nominations for the 20^th annual MTV Movie Awards with Inception following closely behind with seven nominations.

Music mogul and X Factor star Simon Cowell has been placed at number six in the Music Millionaires rich list with a fortune of £200 million.

It is being reported that Ashley Cole, more usually known for his performances on the pitch with Chelsea FC, is looking to make his way in to the music industry and is to be helped on his journey by none other than US rapper Jay-Z.

Singer Ellie Goulding was handed the very difficult honour of being asked to be the entertainment for the royal wedding party this weekend and has described the concert at Buckingham Palace as being a “very surreal experience”.

Flame haired singer Florence Welch, the lead singer with Florence and the Machine, has spoken out about her lack of Tweeting stating that she would rather be “enjoying the moment” than Tweeting about what is going on in her life.