We sincerely hope that your boss has not given you a dog's life today, either way though, it's all good as you're at the tail end of things now and just a whisker away from relaxing at home this evening.

Scroll down to read about Drizzy's latest chart landmark (Beatles fans might not enjoy that one very much), Ed Sheeran's royal mishap, news of incoming new music from Ariana Grande, plus new tunes from the likes of Chrvches, Janelle Monáe and Our Girl.

We're off to cuddle our pets like Little Mix (above) and maybe even play some sweet sweet reggae music to bring this pur-fect day to a close, as research suggests that's exactly what your fluffy little friends would like to hear.

See you back here tomorrow, bright eyed and bushy tailed.

See ya!

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Beats 1

Who are we to argue with Sir Elt?

He's been speaking on his Rocket Hour show on Beats 1 about the many various stars who have covered his tracks on new album Revamp.

Miley took on the classic Don't Let the Sun Go Down on Me and it's fair to say that the man who sang the original is a fan.

He said: "In my opinion, she’s the sexiest lady in the whole wide world.

He went on to describe Lady Gaga - who sang Your Song - as "one of the loyalist, most wonderful people and most talented people I’ve ever met".

As for Ed Sheeran, who did his own version of Candle in the Wind;

"I didn’t think anyone would tackle it, but Ed Sheeran had the balls to do it."

And we thought Ed had enough on his *plate.

*Scroll down if you don't get that joke.

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Yvonne Staples of the seminal family gospel group The Staples Singers has died at the age of 80 in Chicago.

Yvonne performed with her sisters Mavis and Cleotha and their father Pops on hits such as Respect Yourself and I'll Take You There, their first number one.

The singer/band business woman was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame with her family in 1999 and the group also received a lifetime achievement award from the Grammys in 2005.

Tribute have been pouring in from the likes of the classic soul record label Stax and more.

Mariah Carey can be found on the cover of this week's PEOPLE, external speaking out about her personal struggles with mental health.

The singer was first diagnosed in 2001, when she was admitted to hospital for a physical and mental breakdown.

Mariah said “Until recently I lived in denial and isolation and in constant fear someone would expose me.

Mariah is in a much better place now and is happy to speak out to hopefully lift the stigma around mental health issues.

London-based guitar trio Our Girl have released another new single today.

It's produced by former Coral guitarist Bill Ryder-Jones and it's the second taste of their forthcoming debut album.

Frontwoman Soph Nathan, who, as you know, moonlights as lead guitarist in Mercury-nominated band The Big Moon said: "I’d never written about love in this way before. It has the inevitable moments of craziness and longing that can come with falling in love, but mainly it’s just a really happy song."

You can catch the band, who recently performed at SXSW in Austin, in a field near you this summer.

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Bruce Rowley was arrested last week in Connecticut, after confessing to committing a bank robbery.

As TMZ, external reports, he then threw some of the money over the fence of Taylor's Rhode Island home as she wasn't in, before a police car chase ensured.

Rowley claimed to have been trying to contact the singer as he had a crush on her.

Now this picture has caused quite a stir online.

It shows Paris and mum Debbie Rowe embracing, with her father - the King of Pop - skilfully edited into the group hug in the background.

People's main issue seems to be the fact that Michael and Debbie were embroiled in a custody battle over Paris and her brother Prince Michael after their $10m divorce in 1999.

The singer died in 2009 before he was able to complete any of his newly-announced 50 live dates at London's O2 Arena.

Steven McIntosh
Entertainment Reporter

Ten years ago, Lady Leshurr would've been considered a rapper, pure and simple.

But today, the 29-year-old's hugely successful online videos make her difficult to categorise.

"I never thought I'd be classed as a YouTuber, but I guess I am technically," she tells BBC News.

"YouTube has done everything for my career."

Leshurr (whose stage name is a play on her real name, Malesha O'Garro, and nothing to do with being a lady of leisure) is gearing up to release her debut album this year after releasing a string of hugely popular online videos.

Just a few years ago, the Birmingham-born star was an underground rapper - you'd have been more likely to catch her playing small gigs or releasing mixtapes than uploading YouTube clips.

But then, she launched her Queen's Speech series - a string of videos, inspired by battle rap, each filmed in one continuous take.

"I never expected Queen's Speech to do what it did," Leshurr says.

"So I was watching a lot of people that came out in 2015, and I just realised what's missing from the music industry is fun. A sense of humour, like old-school Eminem."

Read more.

BBC Radio 2

Boy George chatted to our Fearne Cotton this morning and excitingly revealed that the band are in the studio with songwriting duo Future Cut at the moment working on a new LP, plus he announced an 11 date UK arena tour.

GB, told the Radio 2 host:

The Life Tour starring Boy George & Culture Club will also feature 80’s pop sweetheart Belinda Carlisle and new wave synth artist Tom Bailey of Thompson Twins fame.

Get your glam face on and we'll see you down the front.

Listen above.

This next one might make some of you (including us) blush a little but it's a good tune, so here we go...

The US singer is back with her new track Pynk, featuring Canadian artist Grimes, and it's a celebration of the erm, female anatomy.

Pynk is the third single from her forthcoming album Dirty Computer, which is out on 27 April.

As Rolling Stone, external reports, Janelle describes the track as a "celebration of creation, self love, sexuality and [girl] power."

That's certainly one way of describing it.

Watch the thinly-veiled metaphor unfold above.

Apparently the first cut from Ariana's forthcoming new album will be with us on 27 April.

That's according to US publication Variety, external, who also report that the new record will feature collaborations with Max Martin, Savan Kotecha and Pharrell Williams.

It will be her first new music since 2016’s Dangerous Woman.

In May 2017, Manchester Arena was hit with a bomb attack that tragically killed 22 people, following an Ariana concert. The singer's rapid response was to arrange a benefit gig for the families, two weeks later, in the form of the One Love Manchester gig (above) which was watched my millions around the world.

The 24-year-old was later made an official honoury Manc, for her efforts, and will no doubt be most welcome on these shores again when the new record drops.

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That's not our view.

That's the view of the US public who have given Drizzy his 24th top 10 hit, for his work on Migos's Walk It Talk It.

Sadly we can't bring that video to you here due to the language but you can find it online.

The Toronto singer/rapper moves ahead of The Beatles legend into fifth on the list of solo males with the most top 10 hits stateside.

So - as you can see below - Drake now has Elvis and another Sir; Elton John, in his sights.

Sir Macca's old pals Stevie Wonder and Michael Jackson have nothing to worry about just yet and quite frankly Jay-Z needs to raise his game.

Strong list though.

*We should point out that McCartney did make the top 10 on 34 other occasions with the Fab Four, second only to Madonna's 38 overall.

But those Beatles bangers count for nothing in this list, which seems unfair given that Drake's latest appearance is a cameo.

Check out the full list below.

Most Hot 100 Top 10s Among Solo Males

29 - Michael Jackson

28 - Stevie Wonder

27 - Elton John

25 - Elvis Presley

24 - Drake

23 - Paul McCartney

21 - JAY-Z

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As Billboard reports , externala festival in Oregon is suing the mammoth Californian music festival Coachella over their five state, 1,300 mile radius clause in the contracts they issue to artists.

The founders and organisers of Soul'd Out Music Festival; Nicholas Harris & Haytham Adbdulhadi, claim they approached several acts to play their event this year and many declined due to the Coachella radius clause, which runs from December until May - a month after the festival - and prevents them from playing at nearby events.

They argue it creates "an illegal monopoly in the market for live music festival performances."

Lawyer Nicholas F. Aldrich also points out that the radius clause agreements could damage smaller cities and festival programmers and doesn't provide many benefits to Coachella since the event always sells out months in advance anyway.

Coachella is notoriously one of the biggest festivals in the world and it would seem they provide the fees to match...

We all know Cardi B makes money moves, and there she is (above) revealing to American radio station Sirius XM that a tidy $70,000 will be dropped into her bank account for each of her performances at the festival.

The event stretches over two separate weekends so sounds like CB will be getting a cool $140,000 - which she'll need for when the baby arrives.

Artists don't normally reveal how much they're making from the festival but this is Cardi B... she makes her own rules.

She's also being telling US radio station Hot 97, external that her fiance Offset from Migos is "not a deadbeat", whatever people might say.

Cardi said: "You know, I'm getting married. Everybody wants to joke around; 'Oh you're the fourth baby mama,' this, this and that, but I'm getting married.

"And even though so, let's say God forbid we don't, my man is a great father to his kids, so I will never lose. I'm not having a baby with a deadbeat."

Headlining Coachella this year are The Weeknd, Beyoncé and Eminem, with the former two streaming their sets live on Youtube.

Sadly that's as close as either of us will get to California this weekend.

Aaah those where the days, when chart battles made the actual news., external

If you've been splashing out on new music lately (streaming counts too, don't forget) then rest assured that you've helped the nation's music industry revenue grow back to Britpop levels.

Revenue for UK record companies in 2017 notched up levels of growth not seen since the mid 90's Oasis/Blur/Pulp/Elastica boom, according to industry association the BPI.

Combined takings from streaming, downloads, physical sales and licensing for use in films, TV and computer games rose 10.6% to £839m.

The main contributor to growth was streaming, which increased by 41.1% thanks to the likes of Ed Sheeran, Stormzy and Little Mix.

Revenues from streaming reached £388.8m, overtaking those from physical formats (£310.4m) for the first time. However, revenue from the sale of vinyl records rose 24%, meaning that the market for vinyl is now one-fifth of the size of the CD market.

This current rate of growth in the music industry's income is the fastest since 1995, when revenues increased by 10.7% off the back of bangers like the one below, which celebrates its 24th birthday today too.

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Indie champs James have announced a shiny new EP called Better Than That.

It's their first new music since the release of their album Girl at the End of the World last year, which was their highest chart entry in nearly twenty - yes twenty- years!

It swooped it at No. 2, second only to the one and only Adele, or so rumour has it...

The date for your diary ladies and gentlemen is 18 May, that's when you can get your little mits on the new material, which has been produced by Mercury and Brit Award winner Charlie Andrews, well known for his work with Alt-J & Wolf Alice.

Turn the volume up and blast out the title track from the new EP below:

Whoops.

So Ed was coy with our reporters on The Brits red carpet recently as to whether or not he'd be invited to the forthcoming Royal wedding.

Basically he said he'd be playing a gig in Ireland anyway that weekend and also hadn't been invited... yet.

We weren't convinced.

Now a right royal mix-up has seen the singer confused with the groom-to-be and fellow red head Prince Harry, on a rather funny 'alternative commemorative royal wedding plate'.

Prince Harry (or Henry - as the keen-eyed among you will have spotted above) and Meghan Markle get hitched on 19 May and the above souvenir plate was being sold on the Etsy, external website for £25, until it sold out just a few minutes ago.

As you can see former royal chef Darren McGrady (above) saw the funny side.

“Loving all the #PrinceHarry and #MeghanMarkle memorabilia,” he tweeted.

“Just think some companies should do a little more research first.”

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As the Daily Mail, external reports, the seller has since explained that the picture was "entirely deliberate" and references a previous merchandise muck-up.

"I bought a Kate/Wills mug when they got married and when it arrived, it was a pic of Harry instead of William.

"It inspired me to do something similar... and when I was thinking of a random redhead, I thought Ed would be perfect. It's been pretty popular!'".

Earlier in the week Ipswich Hospital reviewed its policy of care given to "high profile" patients after singer Ed Sheeran was treated there for a broken arm.

BBC Radio 1

Yesterday, we reported that they'd helped to save a female rock school and today, the Scots synth warriors are back with some brand new music!

Lauren and the lads popped in for a chat with Radio 1 DJ Annie Mac who selected the song as her Hottest Record in the world last night.

"It feels like the most quintessentially 'us' song we've made so far" said the Glaswegian electro-pop trio's singer.

Check it out above.

Annie was also joined by Jorja Smith who performed live as part of a Biggest Weekend Warm Up gig and you can listen back the show in full now.

Morning all and welcome back aboard the good ship music news.

We've reserved you your usual table with a sea view.

On today's menu we have Drake becoming officially bigger than Sir Paul McCartney, Ed Sheeran being mistaken for Prince Harry on a Royal Wedding plate (whoops) and Cardi B insisting that she's not having a baby with "a Deadbeat".

The New York rapper also reveals what Californian festival Coachella are paying her to perform this weekend and a man says he robbed a bank to impress Taylor Swift.

That don't impress us much.

Plus on the specials board today is new music from the likes of Chvrches and Janelle Monae and the fastest growth in UK record label income since Britpop for desert.

So get yourselves sat down and enjoy your starter of Kylie Minogue (above) performing her new track on The One Show earlier this week and we shall be back with a buffet of music news shortly.