Okay, that's your lot people, it's been fun.

Scroll back down for new album details from Cardi B, a new look for Xtina, reaction to the David Bowie statue being vandalised (already), a new video from James Bay and maybe you can get to the bottom of #whobitBeyoncegate.

There are happy birthday messages to Steve Tyler on his 70th and we'll leave you with another b'day- it's Jessie J's 30th today and her pal Anne Marie has messaged her with this vintage picture (above).

Aww.

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Country superstars and husband and wife for 21 years, Tim McGraw and Faith Hill are choosing the Tracks of My Years this week with Ken Bruce on BBC Radio 2.

With massive individual careers the couple have just recorded their first ever album together and told Ken Bruce why it's taken so long.

"It's just a matter of timing," insists Tim (below).

You can hear the full interview on Friday 30 March at around 11.40 am.

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Details of Sir Simon Rattle's People's concert with the London Symphony Orchestra have been announced.

The free concert will take place on Sunday 1 July 2018 and will be streamed for the first time on YouTube, so you can watch online if you're not one of the 10,000 people in London's Trafalgar Square.

Sir Simon will conduct 100 musicians from the London Symphony Orchestra, alongside 50 young musicians from the LSO On Track programme in East London and musicians from the Guildhall School of Music & Drama.

The programme will feature music on a theme of dance and ballet by Dvorak, Massenet, Tchaikovsky and Stravinsky and includes a world premiere by 29 year-old composer and pianist Kate Whitley, founder of Peckham Car Park’s Multi-Story Orchestra.

Judging by his statement, Sir Simon can't wait:

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She's been playing the guitar since she was 12 years old and the piano even before then but the London singer-songwriter's worst gig memories linger fresh in her memory.

"I dropped a guitar once, I also remember in France, it was a really beautiful festival and the sound was bouncing off the inside of the tent and I started singing the song in a completely different key.

"I don't think anyone really noticed but about halfway through the song I realised and thought, 'Oh my God, I'm singing in the wrong key. It was terrible."

That little wrinkle aside, the 22-year-old's sparse lo-fi confessional songwriting has been picking up a growing fanbase since she was included in the BBC's Sound of 2018 list.

She first uploaded music to BBC Introducing London four years ago.

"People always ask me about it [the Sound of... list]," she laughs. "I think a lot more people have heard my music now than might have which is great."

Born into an artist family in west London, Nilufer began playing music at the age of seven but it wasn't until she picked up a guitar a few years later, inspired by songwriters like Nina Simone and Jeff Buckley, that she began to write her own songs.

"I always knew that I intended to write songs with a guitar, so it became a tool to help me write.

"I used to perform at school, like the end of term performances, but I think my first solo show was when I was about 18, which was scary but the adrenaline was pumping.

"I got up the next morning for work and I was still buzzing."

She attended the Pimlico School in south London, whose alumni include La Roux singer Ellie Jackson and rapper and actor Adhley Walters.

"The school was failing but it had a really amazing musical department and because it was failing they turned it into an Academy," she says.

"They lost funding from the government for the arts and it all went into other subjects so all the music teachers left," she says.

With continued fears over the future of funding of music in schools, she adds: "I think I had a good music education and I'm really grateful but it's sad to think other people won't get that because even a small amount really benefits you."

With a wisdom and bluntless that belie her years, Nilufer's tracks deal with the pain and loss and occasional indifference that love can bring.

Her latest single Thanks 4 Nothing is "about the transience of life" and how "you can be really good friends and then the next year see them and not even want to say hello".

She adds: "I think it's really interesting and sad but also just the way life is and the way the world is".

With festival season around the corner, Nilufer is playing The Great Escape in Brighton and The End of the Road this summer and welcomes the growing moves to make line-ups more gender balanced.

"I think it's across the board in all industries but especially in music you notice it, the sad thing is that as you're growing up, you take it as part of the job and don't think to question it too much.

"The action has to come from the inside, the bigger festivals will be the last to do it, the smaller ones will do it first if they haven't already started it.

"As a female artist, it's puzzling, there's no real reason other than people being stuck in their ways and being stubborn."

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The girlband have set a UK chart record as their album Glory Days is now the longest-reigning Top 40 girl group album ever.

They've overtaken legends like the Spice Girls and the Supremes for this achievement.

Their fourth album which was their first chart topping album was released in November 2016, and has so far been in the album Top 40 for 69 weeks.

Good work.

And in other Little Mix news Gabrielle Aplin has a conspiracy theory about the girls and their current Japanese tour.

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We're a day late with our birthday greetings but Aerosmith's Steven Tyler wasn't short of a famous name or two wishing him a happy 70th birthday yesterday - so we hope he didn't notice.

Yes you heard that right the man is 70.

Look at him.

He retweeted greetings from Ellen Degeneres, Britney, Janis Joplin, Joe Perry, Jerry Bruckheimer, Tim McGraw and Carrie Underwood - whose message we're sure he was very happy with.

And to top it all he got a lovely message from Sir Ringo Starr.

He's announced a solo tour of England and Wales starting in May.

Tickets go on sale on Thursday.

Bad luck if you live in Scotland and Northern Ireland.

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A preview of a promo now - and Beck has signed up Edgar Wright he of Shaun of the Dead and now big Hollywood films like Baby Driver to direct his new music video.

Wright tweeted a sneak peek at the video, which he says was a blast to make.

We get to see the full video on Thursday.

It's not Wright's first music video - he created one for Mint Royale's Blue Song in 2002 featuring The Mighty Boosh's Noel Fielding and Julian Barratt, Nick Frost from Spaced, Shaun Of The Dead and Hot Fuzz, and Michael Smiley from Spaced.

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Some people choose Vegas for a residency but not Rudimental.

They're going to be setting up residence in Ibiza for a nine-week pool party this summer.

Sounds like a tough gig.

They'll be joined by special guests that will be announced on Thursday.

And us, if we can find out beach towels and sun block.

He's lost the hat and long hair and has found himself a sparkly cast off from Ziggy era David Bowie in the new promo for Pink Lemonade.

He even dons Major Tom's spacesuit as he attempts a homemade space mission from his mum and dad's garage.

Watch above.

James called the shoot "probably the most fun I've ever had making a music video.

"From that diamond encrusted top to building my own spaceship, I'm not sure making a video will ever get any better."

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Less than 48 hours - that's what it took for a statue of David Bowie to be hit by vandals.

The bronze sculpture in Aylesbury, entitled Earthly Messenger, was unveiled at the weekend.

It marks the place where he debuted his Ziggy Stardust persona.

"Feed the homeless first," was written in front of it, "RIP DB" on a wall beside it and a section of the statue was painted on.

Money to create the work was raised through grants and a £100,000 crowdfunding appeal.

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Now there's a hashtag that you never expected to hear.

But according to Girls Trip actress and comedian Tiffany Haddish, when she met Beyonce at a recent party (NB why weren't we invited?), there was an actress there who "bit Beyoncé in the face".

Tiffany was all for going after the actress but Beyonce told her not to bother.

"She's not like that all the time. Just chill," said the hugely forgiving star..

Tiffany told the story in GQ magazine, external, who approached Beyonce's people but they said they knew nothing about it.

But that didn't stop the Beyhive becoming amateur sleuths and turning to Twitter to work out who they think it was.

Chrissy Teigan reckons she knows.

Two actresses have already denied biting Beyonce on the face following speculation from the Beyhive.

Sara Foster posted on Instagram, external "Flattering that anyone thinks I could get this close to Beyoncé."

You can read more detective work here.

We'll bring you updates on this mystery as it unfolds.

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The Canadian singer swapped places with his drummer Joe McMurray to sing Radiohead's 1995 classic High and Dry at the Chilean leg of the Lollapalooza festival.

Joe is no singer.

Luckily the enthusiastic crowd managed to carry it along.

Everyone after us: "Don't leave me hiiiiiiiiiiigh..."

Double Canadian Country Music Association winner Lindi Ortega says her latest album In the Mirror, a Fractured Reflection - inspired by Ennio Morricone's spaghetti western soundtracks - has helped deal with her own demons.

The music follows a character on the journey from a bleak place where "daylight never comes", to one of hope and liberation.

While the story is fictional, it mirrors Ortega's own personal struggle with body dysmorphic disorder.

"My self-image grew so distorted that I actually convinced myself I was deformed.

"People often ask me where my dark, lonely songs come from. This is that place."

Ortega's condition even led to her wearing veils and wide-brimmed hats on stage to hide her face.

She's been speaking to our music reporter Mark Savage.

Invasion of Privacy will be released on 6 April, as per the rapper's tweet above.

The socialsphere being what it is, got people a little excited.

Last month,Cardi B set a new US chart record with five top ten hits in the Billboard R&B/Hip-Hop chart within the same week, beating Beyonce's four.

The singer has done a photoshoot for Paper magazine which has shocked fans. In the pics she is almost make up free and is barely recognisable.

She tweeted the front cover to her mom with the hashtag "Transformation".

She told Paper it's not likely to be a permanent change in image.

It helps that at the age of 37 you still apparently have the fresh skin of a teenager, we guess.

Mike Shinoda has announced plans to play a free show in Los Angeles as part of the Asian Pacific Heritage Month.

It's the first solo gig which the musician, whose father is Japanese, will play since his friend and bandmate Chester Bennington took his own life last year.

He released a three-track EP in January as a response to the loss of Chester and said at the time.

"The past six months have been a rollercoaster...at its core, grief is a personal, intimate experience.

"Art has always been the place I go when I need to sort through the complexity and confusion of the road ahead. I don't know where this path goes, but I'm grateful I get to share it with you."

The Hertfordshire singer-songwriter is looking set to dethrone The Greatest Showman soundtrack from the top of the UK album chart on Friday.

His album Staying At Tamara's is ahead of the film compilation album in midweek sales figures.

The Greatest Showman, featuring the vocal talents of Hugh Jackman, Zac Efron and Zendaya, has been at the top for 11 weeks, matching a record set by Adele.

George's 2014 debut, Wanted On Voyage, also topped the chart.

Meanwhile, Drake's ninth week at Number 1 with God's Plan means he is now the only artist in official charts history to have two songs in the UK's longest-reigning list, following the success of One Dance.

Remember that one? It was number one for 15 weeks in 2016.

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It was revealed six weeks after his death in 2016 that Prince had died from an accidental overdose of the painkiller fentanyl.

But now a toxicology report from Prince’s autopsy, obtained by The Associated Press, external, shows exactly how much of the drug he had in his body.

According to experts, it it was "extremely high".

The concentration of the powerful opiod in his blood was 67.8 micrograms per litre - where fatalities occur in people with blood levels ranging from three to 58 micrograms per litre.

The level in his liver was 450 micrograms per kilogram, where liver concentrations greater than 69 micrograms per kilogram causes fatality.

Prince was found dead at his Minneapolis home on 21 April 2016.

Welcome again to your daily dose of Music News LIVE.

Today, a toxicology report has revealed Prince had an "exceedingly high" concentration of the painkiller fentanyl in his body when he died,

Singer-songwriter George Ezra is looking set to dethrone The Greatest Showman in the UK album chart on Friday, while Drake sets another new record.

Plus Linkin Park's Mike Shinoda announces a solo show, there's a new video from James Bay and Christina Aguilera does a cover shoot sans make-up.

We'll start also with Ed Sheeran like you've never seen him, courtesy of Charli XCX.

He's got some practising to do ahead of his UK tour if he's going to move like this...