UK Official Chart - Top 50 Singles (3/26/11)
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Nicki Minaj's 'Starships' to Break U.K. Record
The song is currently No. 5 on the U.K. music charts making Minaj the first female rapper in 11 years to chart since Missy Elliott ‘s ’4 My People’ in 2001. If the song continues its pace to the top, the Young Money rapper will set a new record as the highest-charting female rapper on the U.K. charts.
It appears the U.K. fans love Minaj’s pop-tinged single, as oppose to the naysayers here in the States. Since the release of ‘Starships,’ she has been accused of selling out for pop stardom. Fans are even lukewarm on her much-edgier song, ‘ Roman Reloaded .’
As we previously reported , Minaj defended her song choices and insists that she hasn’t turned her back on the hip-hop community. “I think people sometimes get blown away by the magnitude of the pop stuff, because the pop stuff, it reaches everywhere and then I feel like my hip-hop fans or hip-hop culture starts getting a little bit afraid that I’m going to leave,” she says.
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Up is only Direction for new boy band
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'Pass the Dutchie': UK reggae youth band lose 1980s song legal row
By Andrew Hough Musical Youth's Jamaican-style track became the fastest-selling British single of 1982 and the song about a "stewing pot" went on to top the charts in at least six other countries. The Grammy-nominated single, which sold more than
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Boy bands back on music scene
One Direction, the British quintet that placed third on the UK's "X Factor" in 2010, will see its album "Up All Night" debut high on Billboard's Top 200 albums chart this week. The Wanted, another UK-based quintet, is spending its second week at No.
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Paul Weller Gives 'Tame' Scene a Swift Kick
I'm trying to stir something up, I suppose, in my mind, and just get people excited about music again." Those could almost be words spoken by the angry young man who first broke into the British charts just before his 19th birthday, spitting out the
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