NEBeep

OMI has topped the UK Singles Chart with his latest track ‘Cheerleader.’ ‘Cheerleader’ has knocked last weeks number one ‘See You Again’ off the top spot and has over took mid-week leader Carly Rae-Jepsen. The competition for the top spot was extremely close with ‘Cheerleader’ finishing with just over 1,000 combined chart sales ahead of […]

Chelsea took on Crystal Palace at the weekend, needing all three points from the game to secure their first Premier League title since 2010. They pulled off a classic Chelsea performance: efficient, structured and passionate. Eden Hazard found the back of the net to settle the seasons title race after missing his penalty first time […]

Simon Cowell is better known for his harsh remarks on the X-Factor but his latest idea is completely out of the ordinary. Simon has now set his sights on electronic music and has come up with a new show called Ultimate DJ, which was created by Cowell’s production company, SYCO entertainment. The DJ’s will be […]

Chelsea have beat Manchester City in the FA Youth Cup final to secure their fourth FA Youth Cup since 2010. The blue’s led 3-1 in the first leg at the Eithad Campus giving them a two goal advantage over City when it came to the second leg. Manchester pulled a goal back with a early […]

Sam Smith has had to cancel the remaining dates of the Australia leg of his world tour. The reason for this is down to ‘vocal’ exhaustion, which has seen the ‘Lay Me Down’ singer develop a haemorrhage on his vocal chords. Australian fans will be happy to know that Sam plans on rescheduling these dates […]

Facebook messenger now has video calling which is for anyone with smartphones, this includes IOS and Androids. Users in numerous countries including the UK and the US can now chat face to face over the Facebook. 600 million people use Facebook messenger every month meaning that Apples Facetime and Microsoft Skype now has serious competition.  […]

The Paul Walker tribute single ‘See You Again’ has topped the UK singles chart for the second week. The single is Wiz Khalifa’s second number one and has set a new streaming record with a total of 3.72 million viewers in just one week. It is also now the quickest selling single of the year. […]

Chelsea’s midfielder Eden Hazard has been named Professional Footballers Association Player of the Year (PFA). Which is no surprise with the regular outstanding performance he has made this season. The 23 year old has scored 13 goals and made eight assists for his club in the Premier League.     He received the award at […]

JK Rowling has completed her third ‘adult’ novel under the alias of Robert Galbraith. The Scottish authoress is now focusing on books aimed at the older generation and has recently wrote a number of crime novels based around the character Cormoron Strike. This latest crime novel now completes the series, with Rowling finishing the novel […]

Newcastle United suffered their seventh consecutive defeat on the weekend at St James’ Park after Swansea City secured all three points. Even though United opened up the game and took the lead with a goal from Ayoze Perez they still couldn’t manage to hold onto the points. City equalised just before half time with a […]

Avril Lavigne has released the new music video for her new song ‘Fly.’ The new music video shows footage of athletes training for the Special Olympic World Games which will take place later this year. The song will not only support the Games it will also help raise money for The Avril Lavigne Foundation which […]

Fast and Furious 7 has took the top spot on the UK Box office top 10 for the third consecutive week. The action movie, which stars Vin Diesel and the late Paul Walker, only took 17 days to take $1billion (£669.5million) at the box office which is two days faster than Avengers Assemble which took […]

Taylor Swift signed with the independent label Big Machine Records and became the youngest songwriter ever hired, her third single ‘Our Song’ made her the youngest person ever to debut at number one on the Hot Country Songs Chart. We have looked back over the years from when Taylor signed her first record deal at 14 […]

 Here we shed some light on the leaders of some of the most prominent teams in the Premier League and their achievements at the clubs they currently represent. Granted Louis Van Gaal has some tough shoes to fill thanks to possibly one of the greatest managers of all time, Sir Alex Ferguson, but looking at […]

The amount of teacher’s facing abuse online has increased by a huge margin. The amount of comments and remarks made on line about teachers using sexist comments, racism and homophobic remarks has gone from 21% to 60% it was recently announced.     60% of 1,500 teachers questioned in a poll said they had faced […]

Pharrell Williams and Florence and the Machine are just two of the big names at Glastonbury Festival this year. Florence Welch is hoping that her  foot will be healed for the event after she broke her foot whilst performing at Coachella. As we know up to now the Foo Fighters will be headlining on Friday […]

YouTube stars Zoella and Alfie Deyes had their first sitting on Monday for their wax doubles which will be joining the London wax attraction at Madame Tussauds later this year.   Zoella tweeted: “So @PointlessBlog & I have been asked to be made into wax figures for Madame Tussaudes! BEYOND EXCITED. Such a cool opportunity […]

Mika has premiered his new music video for his latest single ‘Last Party.’ He partnered up with his long time friend and fashion photographer Peter Lindbergh where they agreed on a black and white visual to promote the single. “This collaboration was born naturally and out of friendship,” said Mika. “Peter wanted to capture me […]

Footage from the latest Star Wars film ‘The Force Awakens’ has been released in a trailer at an official fan convention in California. The trailer includes a first glimpse of Han Solo who is played by actor Harrison Ford who last appeared in the film more than 30 years ago. This will be the seventh […]

Florence Welch, front lady of Florence and the Machine, is always one to put on a show for the crowd and doesn’t hold back when it comes to energetic performances but has announced on the bands official Facebook page that she will have to calm thing’s down for a while, having broke her foot. The singer […]

The latest instalment in the Fast and the Furious saga, number seven, has held onto the top spot at the UK box office for the second week. After ten days of cinema release Fast and Furious 7 has reached an extraordinary £26.25m and now goes ahead of Fifty Shades of Grey which had, at this point, made £25.24m at the box office. […]

Check out the new music video for Charles Hamilton’s ‘New York Raining’ featuring British singer song-writer Rita Ora below, which they  recently performed on the final episode of The Voice UK which saw Rita join the likes of will.i.am, Tom Jones and Ricky Wilson as a judge. Charles Hamilton took a break from music back in 2010 due […]

The TV show which has swept the US by storm and is due to take on the UK later this spring, Empire, sees one of its leading stars Terrence Howard appear in Madonna’s latest visual  ‘Ghost Town’ taken from her recently released album Rebel Heart. The music video was directed by Swedish filmmaker Jonas Akerlund who has […]

A Capella music has never before had such an expansive audience and fan base until now. The quintet who won popular USA TV show The Sing Off consists of Scott (Baritone), Kirstie (Mezzo-soprano), Mitch (Tenor), Avi (Bass) and Kevin (Vocal percussion). Individually they each have incredible talent, but when singing together they are a force […]

Research shows that the amount of young people suffering from back and neck pain has increased with almost half of 16-24 year olds  suffering from some sort of back or neck issue. Last years figures show that 28% of 18-24 year olds suffered from back pain. Lack of exercise and sitting still for a long […]

As many sixth formers around the country are sending off applications to universities and colleges for the next chapter of their education, recent reports have shown that over half a million young people secured a place last year. The top courses which people applied for were: Nursing: 238,000 applications Psychology: 106,000 Law: 103,000 Design studies: […]

Mumford and Sons have released their new music video for their latest single ‘The Wolf’ which has been lifted from their upcoming album Wilder Mind.  Wilder Mind was produced by James Ford and will be released May 4. ‘The Wolf’ will be the follow up to 2012’s ‘Babel’ which reached number one in the UK […]

The price of an x-box one has been cut to a starting price of £299.99. The x-box one’s price has dropped from £454 in January 2014 to £316 in January 2015, dropping by nearly £140 over the course of the year. According to Microsoft, the promotion is temporary and specific to the UK. “This is […]

Louis Walsh has announced on Irish TV that he may not be returning this year for The X-Factor after being on the show for 11 years. The 62 year old, who has sat beside the likes of Nicole Scherzinger, Sharon Osbourne and Mel B on the cult TV show, has only won the show once since it […]

Jess Glynne has topped the UK Singles Chart for the third week holding off Nick Jonas’ solo single ‘Jealous’ which has moved 111 spaces into second place. Years and Years  moved one place to third with their song ‘King’ which is the most streamed track of the week with over 1.87 million people listening to […]

It’s that time of the week again when we reflect on the football results and what a weekend it was for Manchester United with a 4-2 win over their rivals Manchester City in the Derby yesterday. City were looking for their fifth successive derby and it was certainly looking that way after Sergio Aguero slotted away […]

Singing sensation Sam Smith has picked up nominations for four out of the major five categories at the 2015 Billboard Music Awards. It was announced earlier this week on Good Morning America that the British singer-songwriter has been nominated for the following awards, competing with fellow Brit, Ed Sheeran in two categories and golden girl Taylor […]

Sia has premiered her new music video for ‘Big Girl Cry.’ The video for the song was released on Sia’s Vevo YouTube channel which features Dance Mom’s star Maddie Ziegler and was directed by Sia and Daniel Askill, with choreography by Ryan Heffington. The single was lifted from her sixth studio album 1000 Forms of […]

Fast and Furious 7 has topped the UK Box Office making four times as much as their closest rival on the chart, Kenneth Brannagh’s Cinderella. The American action film made £12.7 m between Friday and Sunday making it the second highest debut of 2015 with only Fifty Shades of Grey topping that total this year. […]

Set to take place next month, on May 10th, the nominees for the House of Fraser BAFTA TV awards were announced today. No surprises to see the likes of James Nesbitt and Sherlock himself, Benedict Cumberbatch up for the Leading Actor award. Rather surprising to see the X-Factor without a nomination, perhaps Mr Cowell has […]

Katy Perry has sold 11 million albums and 81 million singles worldwide, making her one of the best selling artists of all time. On b**p today we are having a look at, what we consider, her top five videos of her career thus far. ‘Dark Horse’ – ‘Dark Horse’ saw Katy team up with southern […]

Jess Glynne has secured the top spot on the UK Singles Chart for the second week with her song ‘Hold My Hand.’ The song earned combined chart sales of just over 80,000 as well as 1.6 million streams. Meanwhile, Ed Sheeran’s collaboration with Rudimental ‘Bloodstream’ climbs 24 places to number 2, finishing just 5,000 copies […]

“They say 5-1, we say five in a row,” pretty much sums up the North-East derby. Jermaine Defoe secured three points for Sunderland on Sunday with a 22-yard top corner volley. This was the 32 year old’s third goal for the club and it will certainly be one to remember. It was only Sunderland’s third […]

This week we kick off our brand spanking new column, Song of the Day. Every writer at b**p will have an opportunity to take over the column for a week and to kick it off, who better than our very own Lauren W. You may be familiar with Lauren and her #Year10Problems column which tackles […]

As we gear up for a day of stuffing our face with chocolate, possibly going to church and maybe even spending some time with family, we thought we would give you a bit of an insight into the chocolate we consume on this once biblical holiday. 1. The world’s most popular egg-shaped chocolate is Cadbury’s Creme […]

Former Girls Aloud singer Sarah Harding will be appearing on our screens later this year when she appears in four episodes on Coronation Street.      The 33 year old will be playing a feisty interesting character mixing things up on Britain’s longest – running soap where she will be making life difficult for trouble maker […]

Gertrude Weaver from Arkanas in America is now the oldest woman in the world, living at an outstanding 116 years old and is now the record holder in the Guinness World Records. Gertrude was born in 1898 and lives in a nursing home in the city of Camden.     The oldest person to ever […]

James Bay has released the new music video for ‘Let It Go,’ lifted from his chart topping debut album Chaos and the Calm. ‘Let It Go,‘ was released on 12 May 2014 and debuted in the Top 10 iTunes album chart with the lead single peaking  at number 62 in the UK charts on 27 September 2014. […]

Ex One Direction member Zayn Malik has released a solo demo of the track that may well be his debut single as a solo artist, the track is called ‘I Won’t Mind.’ Zayn decided he wanted to leave the boy band as it wasn’t for him and that he wanted to be ‘a normal 22-year […]

Lewis Hamilton’s new deal is almost complete and the Formula 1 champ expects to sign new his contract this week which could be worth more than £27m per year. Depending on how many races he wins and depending on whether he becomes the champion again could take his earning’s above £27m. If he earns £27m […]

Twenty-five thousand tickets have been allocated for each day of Radio 1’s Big Weekend. The tickets for the event are distributed on a first come first served basis but they were all gone within the first 40 minutes of becoming available to festival goers. 55% of the tickets were reserved for people living within the area […]

Ed Sheeran and Rudimental have premiered the  video for the track ‘Bloodstream’ taken from Ed’s album X.  The track was produced by Rick Rubin, co founder of Def Jam and responsible for producing tracks for Jay Z, Kanye West, Eminem and the song written by Sheeran and Rudimental, Johnny McDaid and Snow Patrol’s Gary Lightbedy. Emil […]

Jess Glynne has topped the UK Singles Chart with her latest single ‘Hold My Hand.’ Despite reaching number one as a guest vocalist on Clean Bandits ‘Rather Be’ and Route 94’s ‘My Love’ this is the first time Jess has reached number one as a solo artist.  Jess held off James Bay’s ‘Hold Back the […]