411 Mania — More popular than David Bowie... more info

MTV.co.uk News — Adele may be top of the charts, but it seems the songstress is also No.1 when it comes to karaoke.According to The Sun, one in four wannabe crooners chose to sing the 23-year old's hit single... more info

411 Mania — Adele tired of not being able to smoke.... more info

Guardian Music — Hearing Jimi Hendrix convinced singer-songwriter Michael Kiwanuka that it was cool for a black kid to play guitar. Now the young Londoner with the mature voice has been picked for the BBC's 'Sound of 2012' awardThese might come to seem precious hours... more info

The Good, The Bad and The Unknown — As we move into a new year, one of the strangest pieces of news has been revealed.  Album sales in 2011 actually went up for the first time in almost a decade.  Granted it was mostly due to Adele's incredibly popular album...that still proves that ... more info

411 Mania — Another Billboard #1 for the singer... more info

Guardian Music — New music tips are diverse to the point of perversity. Besides, in January 2011 who'd heard of Lana Del Rey?Ah January. Time to dust off the hype machine, set all dials to "overly judgmental" and call in the mysterious tastemakers to gaze into their ... more info

411 Mania — Pretty good odds by bookmakers... more info

The Newsroom — Ed Sheeran, Adele and Jessie J lead BRITs nominations. more info

Guardian Music — A new study shows how difficult it is for European artists to gain pan-European success, even if their lyrics are in EnglishIf you want to cross borders as a European artist, you had better sing in English. This may not come as a huge surprise, but t... more info