After successfully challenging Ticketmaster over the price of resold tickets on the platform, Olivia Dean has inspired Annie and Nick to ask: should more artists stand up for their fans? Also in Olivia Dean news, she and Lola Young are the only UK artists to make it into Spotify’s Top 10 UK Song or Artist lists for 2025. Yes, Wrapped is out but does anyone care about other people’s listening habits?
Plus, Jorja Smith’s team are seeking royalties from an AI track which many people believed to be hers, Björk is using proceeds from a song she made with Rosalía and Sega Bodega to take the Icelandic state to court, and the Reading/Leeds line up is one of its best ever.
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SONGS
Alex Warren - Ordinary
Gracie Abrams - That’s So True
Lola Young - Messy
Chappell Roan – Pink Pony Club
Billie Eilish - BIRDS OF A FEATHER
Ravyn Lenae – Love Me Not
sombr - back to friends
Gigi Perez – Sailor Song
Lady Gaga & Bruno Mars - Die With A Smile
Chappell Roan - Good Luck, Babe!
Björk, Sega Bodega, Rosalía - Oral
HAVEN – I Run
ALBUMS
Cameron Winter – Heavy Metal
F.S.Blumm & Nils Frahm – Handling
Sabrina Carpenter – Short n’Sweet
Alex Warren - You'll Be Alright, Kid (Chapter 1)
KPop Demon Hunters Cast - KPop Demon Hunters (Soundtrack from the Netflix Film)
Olivia Dean – The Art of Loving
Charli XCX – brat
Fontaines D.C. - Romance
Sega Bodega – I Created The Universe So That Life Could Create a Language So Complex, Just To Say How Much I Love You
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Dove Ellis
Dermot Kennedy
Sorcha Richardson
Chalk
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