HER VERSION OF EVENTS: Emeli Sandé followed up her Brit Awards double-play for Best Female Artist and Best British Album by returning to #1 on the U.K. charts with her Virgin/Universal album Our Version of Events. One Direction, recipients of the special Global Success title, scored their third U.K. #1 with “One Way or Another (Teenage Kicks),” a remake of the Blondie song, which has proven the fastest-selling single of 2013 in Britain. Mumford & Sons, who won British Group, moved #5-2 with Babel, while U.K. labelmate Ben Howard, who took both the British Male and British Breakthrough categories, raced #48-4 with Every Kingdom. There were also notable sales boosts for Adele’s “Skyfall,” back up #39-25 after winning the British Single title; International Male Solo Artist Frank Ocean’s Channel Orange, up #47-19, and International Female Solo Artist Lana Del Rey, up #42-31 with Born to Die. Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds’ Push the Sky Away debuted at #3, beating the # 4 peak of their previous highest-charting U.K. album, 2008’s Dig!!! Lazarus Dig!!! (2/25p)
NEAR TRUTHS: EXPECT THE UNEXPECTED
One name keeps popping up amid the Roan-related speculation. (11/26a)
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NOW WHAT?
We have no fucking idea.
COUNTRY'S NEWEST DISRUPTOR
Three chords and some truth you may not be ready for.
AI IS ALREADY EATING YOUR LUNCH
The kids can tell the difference... for now.
WHO'S BUYING THE DRINKS?
That's what we'd like to know.
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