Thread: What are you listening to right now

• Taylor Swift breaks Elvis Presley’s record for most weeks at No 1 on US album chart

Taylor Swift has broken Elvis Presley’s long-held record for most weeks spent No 1 on the Billboard album chart as a solo artist, setting a new record of 68 weeks.

Swift’s album 1989 (Taylor’s Version) reached top spot on the US album chart for a fifth time in the final week of 2023. While the 34-year-old now holds the record as a solo artist and is second overall, she has a while to go to challenge overall record holders the Beatles, whose albums have spent 132 weeks at the top of the Billboard album chart.

Presley’s 67 weeks at No 1, for albums spanning 1956 to 2002, puts him in second place among solo artists and third among all acts. His longest-running No 1 album was the Blue Hawaii soundtrack, which spent 20 weeks in the spot from 1961-62. Four of his 10 No 1 albums were soundtracks: Loving You, GI Blues, Blue Hawaii and Roustabout.

• Green Day changes lyric to hit out at Trump in New Year’s Eve performance

Rock band Green Day altered the lyrics of their well-known song American Idiot to criticize Donald Trump during a televised New Year’s Eve performance.

During a set on Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve, the lead singer, Billie Joe Armstrong, replaced the line “I’m not a part of a redneck agenda” with “I’m not a part of the Maga agenda”. The song was originally released to criticize former president George Bush in 2004.

Green Day fans flocked to social media to share the live performance during the New Year’s event with host Ryan Seacrest.

Trump Supporters Have a Meltdown After Green Day Slam ‘MAGA Agenda’ During New Year’s Show: Green Day Changes 'American Idiot' Lyrics to Slam 'MAGA Agenda'

I might have posted this one previously, but it is certainly worth more than one listen.
I have been listening to them a lot over the year end.
Radie Peat has a great voice.

Their version of The Wild Rover is something.

Nice cover

Love Moloko!

Few of my northern soul mates were extras in this video, not Paddy Consigne before you ask..



She is wonderful..

Teaching about musical instruments of Kenya today.

Kids loved this video today. This guy has got some moves. A good introduction to Black History Month.

Karolina Protsenko

Simply beautiful, whether busking on the streets or in a concert.






One of the few that brings me to tears...

Grammy Nominations 2024

Album of the Year

Boygenius - The Record

Janelle Monáe - The Age of Pleasure

Jon Batiste - World Music Radio

Lana Del Rey - Did You Know That There’s a Tunnel Under Ocean Blvd

Miley Cyrus - Endless Summer Vacation

Olivia Rodrigo – Guts

SZA - SOS

Taylor Swift - Midnights

2024 Grammy Awards: The full list of winners : NPR

15. Best Rock Song

"Angry" – Mick Jagger, Keith Richards & Andrew Watt, songwriters (The Rolling Stones)

"Ballad Of A Homeschooled Girl" – Daniel Nigro & Olivia Rodrigo, songwriters (Olivia Rodrigo)

"Emotion Sickness" – Dean Fertita, Joshua Homme, Michael Shuman, Jon Theodore & Troy Van Leeuwen, songwriters (Queens Of The Stone Age)

"Not Strong Enough" – Julien Baker, Phoebe Bridgers & Lucy Dacus, songwriters (boygenius)

"Rescued" – Dave Grohl, Rami Jaffee, Nate Mendel, Chris Shiflett & Pat Smear, songwriters (Foo Fighters)

Grammy awards 2024: list of winners | Grammy awards 2024 | The Guardian

9. Best Pop Vocal Album

“Midnights” — Taylor Swift | WINNER
“Chemistry” — Kelly Clarkson
Endless Summer Vacation” — Miley Cyrus
“Guts” — Olivia Rodrigo
“- (Subtract)” — Ed Sheeran

Yet no mention of Madness who knocked Taylor Swift off the top spot into second place in the charts back in November.

Many moons ago, when I was in the military, they used to take the piss because the SLR was almost as tall as little old me...

That struck a chord (pun intended) when I watched this talented girl playing Mozart's bassoon concerto.