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Struggling retailer HMV has made new TV adverts to promote its stores over the festive season.

The company has made a series of eleven animated in the hope to boost flagging sales during the festive retail season which accounts for approximately 60% of the company’s overall annual revenue.

A DJ has decided to take on the monumental task of remixing every song that has ever reached number one in the UK.

The Official UK Singles Chart has recently celebrated its sixtieth year and so the hopefully not too aptly named DJ S**tmat is marking the occasion with the project.

Spotify has announced that a new version will soon be available and will allow users to stream music through any web browser.

The new app will look similar to the desktop software with many of the same features that users are used to such as Spotify Radio and playlist editing.

It has recently been reported that Gary Barlow is unlikely to be returning to the X Factor next year after numerous upsets on the show and disagreements with producers backstage.

Researchers in China have come up with an ingenious way to translate brain waves into music. So, if you’ve ever wanted to hear what your brain waves sound like, now you can.

X Factor hopeful Jahmene Douglas has caused chaos behind the scenes at the show after refusing to sing this Sunday’s chosen group song.

The contestants were billed to sing Katy Perry’s hit song Last Friday Night but the teetotal Jahmene refused to take part because the song glorifies drinking.

It has been revealed that this year’s X Factor winner’s single will not be released so that it is in the running for Christmas number one. Instead, it will be released two weeks prior to the Christmas chart.

It seems that South Korean pop sensation PSY is making some very famous friends.

The man behind YouTube and now chart titan Gangnam Style already lit up the stage at the MTV EMA awards performing his iconic hit with Heidi Klum but has now given the Queen of Pop Madonna a run for her money live on stage.

There was never any question that Dave Grohl was going to be a musician, from the moment when he fired his first guitar teacher and decided to teach himself at the age of 12. His rock and roll persona was firmly established when he became heavily dependent on marijuana while still at high school and spent most of his free time hanging out at local clubs watching punk bands. He somehow found the time to teach himself drums along the way and by the time Kurt Cobain saw him playing in Washington band Scream in 1990 and asked him to join his band Nirvana, his place in rock history was assured. Nevermind with its iconic single release `Smells like Teen Spirit` went on to become the anthem of a generation and is often quoted as being one of the best albums every made.

Since it was first launched in October 2008, Swedish music streaming Spotify has gone from strength to strength and with it reporting to have made $200 million in revenue in the first six months of 2012 alone, it’s unlikely to be going anywhere any time soon.

Christopher Maloney has caused yet more drama behind the scenes on the X Factor.

The Liverpudlian who is a firm favourite with fans of the show has caused show bosses to lose their temper with him after repeatedly turning up late for rehearsals in between the live shows.

The X Factor has found itself in trouble again after many viewers of the show claimed that they felt misled into thinking that One Direction were performing live on Saturday night. In actual fact, the band had recorded the performance last month and it had been cleverly edited to make it look as though they were there live.

Last night’s X Factor saw one of the most shocking results of the series so far with both of Louis Walsh’s remaining groups; District 3 and Union J finding themselves in the bottom two after receiving the fewest votes from the public.

It has been revealed that Whitney Houston will be receiving the ‘Global Icon’ award at this year’s MTV European Music Awards which are to be held in Frankfurt, Germany.

The singer who tragically died earlier this year aged 48 will be awarded the honour posthumously at the ceremony which will be hosted by Heidi Klum.

Madonna has never been shy of causing controversy but this time she may have gone one step too far.

A Russian court has agreed that there is enough evidence to sue Madonna for promoting gay rights which she did frequently during her MDNA tour.

BBC Radio 1 has announced that it will be having a big shake up of its presenters in the new year. Two of its prime slot presenters, Reggie Yates and Vernon Kay will be leaving the station altogether.

The odds are really starting to stack up against X Factor contestant Christopher Maloney. It was revealed earlier in the week that evictee Kye Sones had branded the Liverpudlian as “two faced” despite being way ahead of any of the other acts on the public votes.

Canadian singer Carly Rae Jepsen hasn't had much luck the last couple of weeks. First, it was reported that she was being sued along with Owl City’s Adam Young for copyright infringement over their hit Good Time. Now she is being sued again over claims of plagiarism.

A new web application for use with Chrome has been announced by Emma Turpin from Google Creative Lab. The app named JAM with Chrome allows users to play music but not just that. It essentially gives users the ability to play music with their friends who are also using Chrome to browse the internet, creating virtual bands in real time.

She had to leave the X Factor due to illness but Lucy Spraggan hasn't completely severed ties with the show.

Her mentor Tulisa’s prediction that “[it was] not the end of Lucy” has begun to come true as she has been offered a place on the annual live tour.

Simon Cowell is allegedly a bit concerned over the outcome of his baby the X Factor this year.

As the weeks go on, contestant Christopher Maloney is building popularity with his teary-eyed performances of 80s power ballads and Cowell is now beginning to worry that he might go on to actually win the show.