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K-pop band
@bts_bighit
are appearing in London by video link to announce an ambitious series of contemporary art installations in five cities across four continents.
BTS fans are celebrating Festa - an annual two-week event to mark the anniversary of the group's first album
The band have kicked things off by recreating some of their classic photos for fans
@BTS_twt
#BTSFesta2021
#2021BTSFESTA
Old Town Road rapper
@LilNasX
has seen a backlash since he came out earlier this week - but he tells
@BBCBreakfast
he's taking it with a sense of humour.
@niallhoran
@RoyalAlbertHall
APOLOGIES: This post should have been tagged
@NiallOfficial
. We hereby surrender our One Direction Fan Club membership card and will live to suffer the consequences.
Singer-songwriter
@Raye
spent seven years on a record label that refused to release her albums.
Now free and independent, the star’s just scored her first ever number one single.
“I’ve been crying all day,” she tells
@BBCNews
.
"They're stripping, but each woman's spirit is captured in a way that's revering her strength and her sensuality." -
@LaurenJauregui
spills the beans on her new video.
.
@LittleMix
star Perrie Edwards says the band’s new single
#BreakUpSong
was one of “six or seven” tracks they wrote in a single day.
(And she’s taken up knitting while self-isolating.)
Pink Floyd have released their first new song in 28 years to protest the war in Ukraine.
David Gilmour spoke exclusively to
@matteveritt
about his "anger" over the Russian invasion.
It’s
@littlemix
(and two little little mixes) on th
#BRITs
red carpet. If they win best British group tonight they’ll “make history,” says Perrie, as “no other female band had ever won it”.
Pop star
@SamRyderMusic
is first down the red carpet for the Jubilee Concert.
He says getting to perform at Buckingham Palace is the “regal icing on the cake” after his Eurovision experience.
Dave Prowse, the Bristol born actor who played Darth Vader in the original Star Wars trilogy has died at the 85 after a short illness, his family has said
Best female artist at the
#Brits2020
goes to the night's opening act, Mabel.
She was congratulated by her mum, Neneh Cherry, who won two Brits exactly 30 years ago.
.
@phoebe_bridgers
says it can take as long as six months to finish a song.
"You have to trick your brain into finding the rhymes... The fifteenth version is always the best."
From a TV musical described as "Wandavision with show tunes" to the new PowerPuff Girls series, and a burgeoning pop career - we're going to be seeing a lot of
@DoveCameron
in 2021.
"I may not have been the obvious choice [to play Freddie Mercury] but I guess it worked out"
Rami Malek wins the Best Actor Oscar
#Oscars2019
full coverage and
#Oscars
winners list
Queen and Adam Lambert will open the Jubilee Concert in a little under an hour.
“We’re singing songs tonight that really should inspire the crowd,” says
@adamlambert
. “It’s unifying, it’s celebratory and it’s all in honour of the Queen.”
The debut album by
@TheCourteeners
has gone to number one, 15 years after it was released.
Frontman Liam Fray calls it "a vindication" for a band who initially "went under the radar".
.
@breerunway
has arrived at the
#BRITs
red carpet!! 🚨
She said her dress is from the archives of Jean Paul Gaultier.
How did she get access to it? “When you’re that girl, you’re that girl.” 🔥
French star
@QueensChristine
is up for best international female against Cardi B and Ariana Grande, so she’s been practicing her “graceful loser” face.
#brits2019
Sir Antony Gormley hadn't heard of
@BTS_twt
until he was asked to take part in their global art project.
"I had to do a very rapid, self-taught course on K-Pop," he tells
@BBCNews
.
#BTSConnect