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1. Spotify Unwrapped campaign calls for boycott over ICE ads and AI music

   Lily Allen’s new album ‘West End Girl’ set for release on butt plug-shaped USB Drives

   Ozzy Osbourne posthumously receives Birmingham’s Lord Mayor’s Award on what would have been his 77th birthday

   Steve Cropper, guitarist for Booker T & the MG’s and Otis Redding, dies aged 84

   Rüfüs Du Sol score highest-selling electronic tour of all time

   Iron Maiden continue 50th anniversary celebrations with new signature Fender guitar collection

   BBC acquires new The Beatles biopic series, ‘Hamburg Days’

   BRIT Awards Critics’ Choice 2026 shortlist revealed with Jacob Alon, Rose Gray and SIENNA SPIRO

   Spotify Wrapped: Kneecap score more listeners than The Beatles in Ireland, as Irish music continues to thrive

   Øya festival 2026 adds Geese, Blood Orange, Mogwai, Wilco, Clipse and Dagny