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5 years ago
The BPI yearbook, All About The Music 2020, reports that Rap and Hip Hop are now at a historic UK high, propelled by British talentIn the singles market. Releases from the genre comprised well over a fifth (21.5%) of all consumption – up from 20.9 per cent in 2018, and a new high since the BPI began analysing the genre’s share in 1998. Also, in the five years from 2015 to 2019, UK artists’ share of Rap's sales and streams increased from 10.0% to 26.9% on albums and from 15.5% to 42.2% on singles.
10 years ago
Bearfoot Beware release a new single, Thick Black War Paint, as a free download.
Nai Harvest play at The Oobleck, Birmingham, England, UK, supported by Best Friends.
The divorce of Coldplay frontman Chris Martin and actress Gwyneth Paltrow is finalised, with the pair agreeing to split their £120m fortune equally between them. Several of the songs on the Coldplay album Ghost Stories are considered to be about their relationship. The 2014 single True Love in particular is said to be about the divorce.
Willie Nelson uses April 20 - National Weed Day - to announce plans to launch Willie's Reserve, his own brand of cannabis. The product will initially be available in Colorado and Washington, the only states in the USA where the drug is legal.
75 years ago
Frank Sinatra is heard performing the songs Lover, It Isn't Fair, All Or Nothing At All and Dearie, backed by the Skitch Henderson Orchestra, on the NBC radio show Light Up Time, sponsored by Lucky Strike cigarettes in the USA.
Vocalist Dana Leslie plays at Birdland, New York City, USA, with Hot Lips Page and Jayne Mickens.
T. Texas Tyler plays at the North West Modern Barn Dance in the Spanaway Lake Park Ballroom, Washington, USA.
During his second recording session for Columbia Records in New York City, USA, Tony Bennett re-records two songs he had recorded three days earlier, Boulevard Of Broken Dreams and I Wanna Be Loved.
R'n'b vocal group The Carols record Please Believe In Me, Drink Gin and other tracks for Columbia Records in New York City, USA.
Johnny Hodges And His Orchestra record That's Grand, Skip It and other tracks in Paris, France, Europe.
Admiral Records vocalist Bobby Colt opens at Chez Ami, Buffalo, New York State, USA.
R'n'b vocal group The Ravens release a new single, Count Every Star, on National Records in the USA.
Eddie Duchin And His Orchestra play the forty-third night of a season at The Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, New York City, USA, that will run until May 10th.
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