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Don't fret Robbie Williams - we're handing you over to the official live feed for this year's BBC Music Awards, which will be live from around 17:00 GMT.

Tune in tonight on BBC One from 20:30. In other words straight after 'Enders. 

We'll be back again tomorrow morning to find out if Adele dominates this year's event, will the 1975 get wild backstage or will Robbie and his dad-dancing make him the belle of the ball?

Until then, scroll down for the Golden Globe music nominations, Fatboy Slim's thoughts on the future of clubbing, Madonna on sexism in the music industry and the legendary Patti Smith...on...erm...sorry, it's on the tip of our tongues.

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As the countdown clock continues to this year's awards at ExCel in London, with just over five hours top go here is a quick reminder of the nominees for artist of the year, album of the year, song of the year and Radio 1 Live Lounge Performance of the Year.

Can Adele do the double?

Plus a reminder of the five, yes five ways that you can watch the awards.

Our man Mark Savage was down at the ExCel Centre in London nice and early ahead of tonight's BBC Music Awards and he caught up with Radio 1 presenter Gemma Cairney to answer some of your questions Facebook Live stylee., external

On the bill tonight are the 1975 and Matty Healy and the gang seem pretty pumped. They made a special poster for the occasion. Look...

Queen singer (not Freddie, the new one) Adam Lambert will be presenting an award on the night too and he's similarly buzzed.

And you can get in the mood for the event now with BBC Music's specially made playlist.

You're welcome.

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Radio 1's first ever DJ Tony Blackburn will return to the BBC airwaves for the first time in almost a year with a special soul party on New Year's Eve.

Tony, 73, who will take over Radio 2's Friday night 7pm slot vacated by Desmond Carrington, will be helping you warm up for midnight with tunes from the likes of Michael Jackson, The Temptations, Dionne Warwick, Jackie Wilson on the same station from 20:00 GMT on 31 December.

Tony left the BBC in February after Director General Tony Hall said at the time Blackburn had failed to fully co-operate with the Jimmy Savile inquiry.

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Here's a bit of scientific controversy now - a new bit of research has suggested women are better than men at concentrating when music is playing.

And rock music is particularly distracting for us lads apparently.

The new study, examining whether music impairs or enhances the ability to focus on a task, has been carried out by a team from Imperial College and the Royal College of Music.

Test subjects were played music into headphones while trying to play the Operation board game.

The studies also suggest that...hang on is that a bit of Tame Impala I can hear? Big Tune. Love that guitar riff. Erm, yeah. Where were we again? Oh the study...

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Fabric in London may have won a reprieve but the fact remains that the clubbing scene, in so far as venues are concerned, is diminishing.

In August last year, figures showed nearly half the UK's nightclubs shut their doors in 10 years.

It's raised concerns about more illegal warehouse raves. 

But DJ and musician Fatboy Slim has told 6 Music that clubbers are a "hardy tenacious bunch" who will "find somewhere to party".

Speaking ahead of his massive show at the O2 in London on Saturday, he insisted that although safety comes first - ravers will find a way to keep the scene going.

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So we've had the nominees for best original score (scroll down) and now we have the shortlist for best original song.

And they are...

• Can't Stop the Feeling - Justin Timberlake, Max Martin and Shellback, from the movie Trolls
• City of Stars - Justin Hurwitz, Pasek and Paul from the movie La La Land
• Faith - Ryan Tedder and Blanco from the movie Sing
• Gold - Iggy Pop, Stephen Gagha, Brian Burton (aka Danger Mouse) from the movie Gold
• How Far I'll Go - Lin-Manuel Miranda, from the movie Moana

The winner will be announced in Los Angeles on 8 January. 

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Its very early in the morning in Hollywood but the business of show is already off and running with the nominations for the Golden Globes being announced.

Its mainly nominations for actors and actresses and directors and producers but this is a Music page remember so instead, here are the nominees for best original score.

And they are...

• Moonlight
• La La Land
• Arrival
• Lion
• Hidden Figures

 And the best song nominations are still to come...

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One of the first recorded vocalists to sing in the Romany language, has died aged 73.

Esma Redzepova died in Skopje following a short illness, according to hospital and family sources.

Redzepova represented Macedonia in Eurovision 2013 and sang the opening credits for the 2006 film Borat.

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Madonna delivered a rousing speech at the Billboard Women in Music event in which she likened her self to a "doormat".

"Oh, I mean, as a female entertainer," she corrected. "Thank you for acknowledging my ability to continue my career for 34 years in the face of blatant sexism and misogyny and constant bullying and relentless abuse."

The singer was accepting the Woman of the Year award for her four-decade spanning career and pulled no punches as she attacked misogyny in the music industry. 

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Axl, Slash and co can afford an extra special bottle of plonk this Christmas, safe in the knowledge that they've secured a shed load of cash for next year already.

American rockers Guns N' Roses sold more than one million tickets for their 2017 Not In This Lifetime Tour in single day on Friday, Live Nation announced.

And that was before the US dates had even been released.

Not a bad day's work then.

The band will be welcomed to the jungle of London for a double header at the Olympic Stadium in London on 16 & 17 June.

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Former JLS member Oritse Williams has denied allegations he raped a fan in a hotel room after a concert.

The 30-year-old singer was arrested on 2 December, the morning after performing a gig at the Gorgeous club in Wolverhampton.

West Midlands Police said it was called to a hotel in the city at 07:45 GMT after a 20-year-old woman claimed she had been raped and sexually assaulted.

Another man, aged 29, was also arrested on suspicion of sexual assault.

Both men have been bailed until February, pending further inquiries, police said.

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What did Robbie have for lunch today? Did Zara Larsson make sound check? And has John Legend got any socks on?

Now is your chance to send better questions than that about tonight's main event to presenter Gemma Cairney and reporter Mark Savage.

They'll be in position at the ExCel Arena in London at 14:30 GMT today, for a Facebook Live chat.

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You already know whose No.1 on these shores (because we just told you) but now the all-star compilation album The Hamilton Mixtape has topped the US chart.

The album was inspired by the hit Broadway stage show Hamilton: An American Musical and features covers of songs from the show.

The list of artists on there reads like a who's who of modern music featuring The Roots, Busta Rhymes, Alicia Keyes, Sia, John Legend, Kelly Clarkson, Andra Day and Wiz Khalifa, to name just a few.

The show's writer and star Lin-Manuel Miranda told us earlier this month: "One of the great things to come out of Hamilton is we met our heroes: Busta Rhymes, Common, John Legend, Alicia Keys, Queen Latifah.

"To have them come to the show afforded us an opportunity to say, 'What does this in turn inspire you to make?'".

We know the answer now - a chart-topping album...

There was some pretty good listening on 6 Music over the weekend, but in case you missed it here's a couple of our highlights.

Noel Gallagher was in the building on Friday for his now annual pre-festive drop in with Steve Lamacq.

The Chief spoke to Lamo about the new Oasis rock-umentary Supersonic among other things and brought along a bag of weird and wonderful records too, as well as his razor-sharp wit as standard.

Now we know that Noel is a big Bob Dylan fan. He might well know all the words to A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall (sorry Patti, we love you really).

So this one is for you Noel; a chance to listen again to one of Bob's Theme Town Radio Hour series, after he was given the Nobel Prize for Literature.

Let's all campaign for a Noel & Bob Christmas special next year, shall we? Working title: *Live Forever Young.

*Quite pleased with that one.

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Mick Jagger had a BIG week last week didn't he?

The 73-year-old rocker might need a lie down today, as after becoming a dad again for the eighth time on Thursday, him and his band of merry men went straight back to the top of the album charts after we left you on Friday.

Blue and Lonesome, their new covers record, gave them their first 12th number No.1 album and first in over two decades, after notching up 106,000 combined sales across all platforms.

Last week's number one - Glory Days by Little Mix - has dropped to number three this week.

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The Official Charts Company said 95,000 of the Stones' album sales were physical, so chances are it could be coming your way in Christmas wrapping soon! If you've been good this year that is.

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In the singles chart, Rockabye by Clean Bandit - which features Anne-Marie and Sean Paul - has held on to the top spot for the fifth week, giving the band their longest ever run at number one.

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So now you can consider yourself well up-to-date.

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Right well we know that millions of you tuned in on Saturday night, but this will still be news to the rest of you - Matt Terry is this year's X Factor champion.

Previous winners of recent years have included Little Mix, Leona Lewis and James Arthur, so we'd suggest that you remember the name.

Matt beat Saara Aalto in the final of the singing competition and was then joined onstage by his former competitors as he performed his first single, When Christmas Comes Around.

Last night, the Official Chart Company tweeted that,, external unusually, Matt's single will not have a physical release on CD - could this harm his chance of making a Christmas number one?

“You don’t see many CD singles in the supermarket – but X Factor winners have often found a home amongst the sprouts and Ferrero Rocher. Impulse purchases from the show’s viewers, many of whom don’t buy a lot of music, have often given the winner’s single huge lead in the charts," says music reporter Mark Savage.

 “That changed last year when Lousia Johnson scored the lowest-selling debut of any X Factor winner, selling just 39,196 copies of Forever Young (3,545 of those came from streams)."

Louis Tomlinson from One Direction appeared on Saturday's Final show alongside DJ Steve Aoki to perform their new single Just Hold On, only days after losing his mum, Johannah Deakin, to leukaemia at the age of 43.

The show's head judge Simon Cowell paid a glowing tribute to an emotional Louis for his "bravery", telling him that "you've done her proud."

First up today, punk, poet and singer-songwriter Patti Smith looked genuinely mortified when she stumbled over the lyrics to Bob Dylan's A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall at the Nobel Prize ceremony at the weekend.

The singer-songwriter was there to pay tribute to Dylan who was absent due to a prior gig. 

"I'm sorry," she told the audience in Stockholm, Sweden, "I'm really nervous."

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For his part, in a pre-prepared speech read out by the US ambassador in Sweden, Dylan said it was "truly beyond words" to receive the Nobel Prize for Literature.

"If someone had ever told me that I had the slightest chance of winning the Nobel prize, I would have to think that I'd have about the same odds as standing on the moon," he said.

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Morning all.

The weekend is over, but fear not as the BBC Music Awards is upon us this evening.

Only eight hours at work stands between us and exclusive live performances from Robbie Williams, John Legend, The 1975, Kaiser Chiefs, Emeli Sandé, Craig David, Izzy Bizu, Lukas Graham and last but certainly not least Zara Larsson (above).

We'll try and help through today though with a big slab of Music News LIVE before handing over to our friends who will be covering the awards live too.

Get in touch if you have any marvellous music-related tales or pictures from the weekend and check out last Friday' MNL for 50 shades of Taylor Swift and Zayn, new blonde Kanye West's first public appearance since leaving hospital and it's a busy week for Mick Jagger who has a new baby...and a number one album?