Record Breaker! Dave & Central Cee debut at Number 1 with Sprinter: Duo land biggest streaming week for any rap song in UK chart history

Dave and Central Cee are on track to spend a full month at Number 1 on the Official Singles Chart.

Dave joined fellow rapper Central Cee onstage at Glastonbury Festival 2023 during the rapper’s set yesterday (June 24).During Central Cee’s set at The Other Stage on day four of Glastonbury, he brought out Dave to perform their hit collab ‘Sprinter’ together. The track was the penultimate song on Central Cee’s setlist, parked in between ‘Day In The Life’ and set closer ‘Doja’.Watch the moment below.Elsewhere in his set, Central Cee performed hits like ‘Khabib’, ‘Let Go’, ‘One Up’ and ‘Obsessed With You’ among others.Check out Central Cee’s full Glastonbury 2023 setlist below. ‘Sprinter’, which released earlier this month (June 2), marked the first time the two London rappers have collaborated on a track.

Dave and Central Cee prove it’s a marathon, not a sprint, as they enter a third week at Number 1 on the Official Singles Chart with Sprinter. 

Jem Aswad Executive Editor, Music Highly touted British rapper Central Cee has signed a joint venture agreement with Columbia Records in partnership with Sony Music U.K., Variety has confirmed. Known to fans as “Cench,” the rapper became the first-ever British male rapper to be included in XXL magazine’s influential annual “Freshman Class” list, which was unveiled on Wednesday. Central Cee will also perform at this week’s 2023 Glastonbury festival, the largest festival in the U.K. The deal was led by Columbia executive vice president Bu Thiam with Central Cee’s manager, Bello. The fiercely independent rapper was the object of a heated bidding war in recent weeks; while terms of the Columbia deal were not announced, the joint venture suggests that he is likely to retain ownership of his recordings, as he has to date.

Ike Turner Jr., the 64-year-old son of Tina Turner and Ike Turner, was arrested on charges of crack cocaine possession, as well as tampering with evidence.

Tina Turner and Ike Turner, was arrested on charges of crack cocaine possession, as well as tampering with evidence.Turner Jr. was arrested on May 6 by police in Alvin, Texas, reports. He was sentenced to jail just 18 days before his mother's death, at her home in Küsnacht, Switzerland, at the age of 83.According to police, Turner Jr.

Kylie Minogue would jump at the chance to collaborate with Madonna. The Princess of Pop, 55, and The Queen of Pop, 64, are yet to duet together, but the 'I Should Be So Lucky' hitmaker says she is open to the idea and joked that they would have to give plenty of "warning" about the two icons being in the same building together. Speaking to New York's 1035KTU radio station, Kylie said of collaborating with Madonna: “I would.

Robbie Williams is feeling the longterm effects of COVID.

Calvin Harris and Ellie Goulding could work a Miracle with a ninth non-consecutive week at Number 1. The enduring smash lifts two to return to the summit midweek.

Dave and Central Cee sprint into a second week at Number 1.

Numerous cast members such as Guy Pearce and Annie Jones reprised their roles and returned for one final hurrah, including Kylie who played Charlene, and her on-screen husband, Jason Donovan, who played Scott Robinson. 

With the sun shining and everyone from Harry Styles to Pink playing massive outdoor concerts, summer has well and truly arrived. This can only mean one thing – the Official Song of the Summer 2023 race has begun, and following last year's curveball victory from Kate Bush's Running Up That Hill, it's all to play for.

J Hus and Drake have debuted atop the Official Trending Chart today with their new collaboration, Who Told You.

Amber Dowling Marblemedia has wrapped production on the upcoming half-hour teen comedy series “Davey & Jonesie’s Locker,” Variety confirms. The 10-episode, single-camera series filmed in Toronto and has been co-commissioned by Prime Video in Canada, Australia and New Zealand and Hulu in the U.S. “Davey & Jonesie’s Locker” hails from showrunner Evany Rosen (“New Eden,” “Baroness Von Sketch Show”) and follows two best friends, Davey and Jonesie, who feel “out of step with their peers and the banal backdrops of their high school existence.” When they discover their locker is actually a portal to a multiverse, they set off on new adventures. The joke? Those adventures entail alternate versions of their high school, with offbeat iterations of their classmates.

Kylie Minogue has made a surprise appearance at the Capital Summertime Ball in London. The Australian singer-songwriter performed her new electronic single Padam Padam to the more than 80,000 fans at the radio station’s show in Wembley Stadium. Dressed in a red flowing outfit with matching high heel boots, and surrounded by dancers, she jumped around the stage.

J Hus is on track to debut at Number 1 on the Official Singles Chart with Drake collab Who Told You. It would be the Stratford star’s first-ever Number 1, while it would help Drake land his landmark seventh chart-topper.  

Padam? Padam!

Dave and Central Cee have broken the Spotify UK record for the most-streamed song in a single day this year with their track, ‘Sprinter’.Released on Friday (June 2), the jubilant track saw the two London rappers collaborating for the first time.This week, it was confirmed that ‘Sprinter’ became Spotify UK’s most streamed song in a single day in 2023 so far. Currently, the track has amassed more than 20 million streams in just under five days.

Dave and Central Cee have pulled up in the Sprinter to debut at Number 1 on the UK's Official Trending Chart.

DEALSSuperstruct has bought majority stakes in three more festivals, London-based Mighty Hoopla and Cross The Tracks, and the Austrian festival Snowbombing. IQ says that it believes those acquisitions are the result of a deal between Superstruct and various companies owned by Gareth Cooper, who was the founder and former CEO of Broadwick Live.Beyond Music – one of those music investment firms, based out of Seoul in South Korea – has announced it has completed a new fundraising round totalling $170 million. Says CEO Jangwon Lee: “Home to all-time hits comparable to the Bon Jovis, Led Zeppelins and Whitney Houstons of Asia, Beyond Music has already established itself as the region’s market leader with the deepest pockets, quantitative disciplines and proven value-up records.