Music

Published: 21 November 2025 Friday. The English Chronicle Desk. The English Chronicle Online The world’s biggest music labels—Sony Music Entertainment, Warner Music Group, and Universal Music Group—have taken a significant step into the rapidly evolving world of artificial intelligence by signing licensing agreements with a relatively unknown startup, Klay Vision. The deals, announced this week, underscore the music industry’s growing embrace of AI-driven tools, as labels and publishers look to...

Published: 17 November 2025 Monday. The English Chronicle Desk. The English Chronicle Online British rock star Yungblud has announced a temporary break from touring following medical advice, a decision that has disappointed fans but underscores the importance of health and wellbeing in a demanding music career. The 28-year-old singer, born Dominic Harrison in Doncaster, revealed that he would be pausing his current US tour and taking time off until the...

Published: 13 November 2025 | The English Chronicle Desk | The English Chronicle Online Pop stars including Dua Lipa, Coldplay, Sam Fender, Radiohead and The Cure have joined forces to urge UK Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer to fulfil his election pledge to protect fans from online ticket touts. More than 40 musicians have signed a letter calling on the government to “stop touts from fleecing fans” and implement a...

Published: 10 November 2025 | The English Chronicle Desk | The English Chronicle Online Amber Davies has proven herself to be one of the brightest stars on this year’s Strictly Come Dancing, yet from the very beginning, she’s found herself at the centre of a tiresome debate. Despite dazzling performances and strong judges’ scores, much of the public conversation surrounding her has focused not on her dancing, but on her...

Published: 26 October 2025. The English Chronicle Desk. The English Chronicle Online. British Airways has suspended its sponsorship of Louis Theroux’s widely-followed podcast after a controversial interview with Bobby Vylan, the frontman of the UK rap duo Bob Vylan. The decision came after Vylan openly admitted during the conversation that he had no regrets about leading chants of “death, death to the IDF ” during a performance at this year’s...

Published: 24 October 2025. The English Chronicle Desk / Reporter Name. The English Chronicle Online. Soft Cell’s first appearance on Top of the Pops on 13 August 1981 remains one of the most unforgettable moments in British pop television. Their performance of Tainted Love propelled the single into the Top Ten and ultimately to number one, making it the second best-selling single of the year. Marc Almond, the band’s flamboyant...

Published: 15 October 2025. The English Chronicle Desk. The English Chronicle Online. In the mid-1990s, Questlove, the Roots’ drummer, was approached to work on the first album by a promising new soul singer. At the time, he turned the offer down flat: “I was like, ehhh, soul singers in the 90s – whatever,” he later recalled. “I’m not doing this. Nothing about soul singing had moved me, from any 90s...

Published: 12 October 2025. The English Chronicle Desk. The English Chronicle Online. Cynthia Erivo, the Oscar-nominated actress and singer, brought a touch of Wicked magic to Strictly Come Dancing on Saturday night, leaving both the audience and the celebrities themselves starstruck. Best known for her role as Elphaba in the hit film adaptation of Wicked, Erivo stepped into an entirely new role on the dance floor, making history as the...

Published: 12 October 2025. The English Chronicle Desk. The English Chronicle Online. Disgraced Lostprophets singer Ian Watkins has died following a violent attack in prison, prison authorities confirmed. West Yorkshire Police said two men, aged 25 and 43, have been arrested on suspicion of murder in connection with the incident. Watkins, 48, had been serving a 29-year sentence at HMP Wakefield for a series of child sex offences, including the...

Published: 28 September '2025. the English Chronicle Desk Labi Siffre, the acclaimed singer-songwriter whose song "(Something Inside) So Strong" became a global anthem against apartheid, has formally demanded that far-right activist Tommy Robinson cease using his music in political contexts. The legendary track, inspired by the struggles of apartheid-era South Africa and widely reported as Nelson Mandela’s favourite song, has now been deployed in social media posts and public rallies...