{"id":3189,"date":"2015-01-07T16:16:21","date_gmt":"2015-01-07T16:16:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/192.168.3.178\/?p=3189"},"modified":"2021-09-17T14:41:47","modified_gmt":"2021-09-17T13:41:47","slug":"this-weeks-music-news-one-direction-are-more-popular-than-the-beatles-and-elvis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.musicmagpie.co.uk\/blog\/2015\/01\/07\/this-weeks-music-news-one-direction-are-more-popular-than-the-beatles-and-elvis\/","title":{"rendered":"This week\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s music news: One Direction are more popular than The Beatles and Elvis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>2015 is finally here! And&#8230;erm, not a lot has changed. No hoverboards. No flying cars. No time-travelling DeLoreans.<\/p>\n<p>There has been a bit of music news though, so we best get to it, eh?<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h4>One Direction more popular than The Beatles and Elvis<\/h4>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/UpsKGvPjAgw\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Yes, it\u2019s true. One Direction are officially more popular than The Beatles and Elvis&#8230;on eBay. Had you panicking there for a second, didn\u2019t we?!<\/p>\n<p>According <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/news\/one-direction\/82072\">to reports<\/a>, the pop tykes sold 142,000 items of memorabilia on the auction site over the past 3 months. Elvis sold 50,000, while The Beatles managed 36,000.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h4>The richest cowman on Earth works at Glastonbury<\/h4>\n<p>Given the popularity of his annual festival, lovely old Michael Eavis \u201d\u201c the original organiser of Glastonbury &#8211; should be the richest farmer in the world.<\/p>\n<p>As it turns out, he isn\u2019t. Eavis recently revealed that he pays himself <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/news\/various-artists\/82059\">just \u00a360,000 for his role in the festival<\/a>, despite it pulling in profits of over \u00a332 million. He then went on to say that he pays his cowman more than that, which seems like an awful lot for a cowman to be earning. Where do we apply?<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h4>A Hard Ye\u2019s Night<\/h4>\n<p>Last year, we posted a list of our favourite weirdest musical collaborations. Had we written it today, we could have added another entry: <a title=\"Kanye West and Paul McCartney\" href=\"https:\/\/www.stereogum.com\/1726996\/kanye-west-only-one-feat-paul-mccartney\/mp3s\/\">Kanye West and Sir Paul McCartney<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Yep, Yeezy and Macca have collaborated on a song and it\u2019s actually pretty good. <em>Only One <\/em>sees the normally outlandish West singing a tribute to his late mother, with Sir Paul providing accompaniment on the organ.<\/p>\n<p>The song was recorded during a session between the two last year, and there should be more to come (including <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/music\/2014\/aug\/19\/kanye-west-and-paul-mccartney-said-to-be-working-together\">a charming little ditty called <em>P*** on My Grave)<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Amazingly, it wasn\u2019t the song that caught the media\u2019s attention but a couple of tweets from alleged Kanye fans claiming that the song would be the making of the apparently-unknown McCartney. As it turned out, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/tvshowbiz\/article-2896408\/This-Paul-McCartney-guy-gonna-huge-Kanye-West-fans-funny-joke-One-collaboration.html?utm_content=buffer9efb0&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_source=twitter.com&amp;utm_campaign=buffer\">these were a hoax<\/a>&#8230;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h4>Lana Del Rey is going on her honeymoon<\/h4>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/rJABBmAMXnY\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>No, she hasn\u2019t got married (as far we know). <em>Honeymoon<\/em> is actually <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mtv.com\/news\/2041133\/lana-del-rey-honeymoon\/\">the name of her new album<\/a>, which makes a nice change after the less-than-cheerily-titled <em>Born to Die <\/em>and <em>Ultraviolence. <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Ultraviolence <\/em>only came out in June last year, but Del Rey claims to have 9 tracks ready for the latest record already. There\u2019s no official release date as of yet, but we\u2019d be surprised if it wasn\u2019t with us by the end of 2015.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h4>A new Slipknot album next year?<\/h4>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/XEEasR7hVhA\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Lana Del Rey isn\u2019t the only one who\u2019s been busy recently. Slipknot, who kick off their UK tour later this month, recently returned with the brilliant <em>.5: The Grey Chapter<\/em> \u201d\u201c their first album in 6 years.<\/p>\n<p>Luckily, we won\u2019t have to wait as long for the next album. According to guitarist Jim Root, the band are hoping to start <a href=\"https:\/\/www.musicradar.com\/news\/guitars\/slipknot-talk-new-album-paul-gray-and-overhauling-their-tones-610064\">recording their new album later this year<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Want to <a title=\"sell some CDs\" href=\"https:\/\/www.musicmagpie.co.uk\/entertainment\/sell-cds\/\">sell some CDs<\/a>? Give musicMagpie a try. Just <a title=\"click here\" href=\"https:\/\/www.musicmagpie.co.uk\/start-selling\/\">click here<\/a> to get started.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2015 is finally here! And&#8230;erm, not a lot has changed. No hoverboards. No flying cars. No time-travelling DeLoreans. There has been a bit of music news though, so we best get to it, eh? One Direction more popular than The Beatles and Elvis Yes, it\u2019s true. One Direction are officially &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":2511,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[159,22],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmagpie.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3189"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmagpie.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmagpie.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmagpie.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmagpie.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3189"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmagpie.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3189\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13084,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmagpie.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3189\/revisions\/13084"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmagpie.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2511"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmagpie.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmagpie.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmagpie.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}