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Dave was the big winner at the 2022 GRM Rated Awards, which focuses on the U.K. rap and grime scene. The rapper won four awards, including track of the year and video of the year for “Clash” (featuring Stormzy).
The Rated Awards were held on Saturday Oct. 22 at Magazine London and will be broadcast on E4 on Tuesday Oct. 25 at 10 p.m. BST. Big Zuu and Julie Adenuga hosted the show.
Dave’s second studio album, We’re All Alone in This Together, was named album of the year. It topped the Official U.K. Albums Chart for two weeks in August 2021. Dave also took home the award for male artist of the year.
While accepting the award for track of the year, Dave discussed the long journey that the song took to become a hit. The song reached No. 2 on the Official U.K. Singles Chart.
Joined by Stormzy on stage, Dave explained: “Back in 2019, I’d just finished my tour. My friend [Kyle Evans] who produced this song had just brought Jordan 1s and Jordan 4s so I freestyled ‘Clash.’ I played Stormzy the song in 2020 and then a year after that I got his verse! Four years of a journey to bring you guys this song.”
Breakthrough went to teenage British hip hop duo, A1 x J1. Little Simz added the female artist of the year award to her recent Mercury Prize win. Central Cee continued his global rise by taking home mixtape of the year.
Jamal Edwards, a British music entrepreneur, DJ and founder of the online R&B/hip-hop platform SB.TV, was posthumously presented this year’s legacy award. Edward died on Feb. 20 at age 31 of a cardiac arrhythmia caused by recreational drugs. The award was presented by Post, founder & CEO of GRM Daily, and Rashid Kasirye, founder of Link Up TV. The award was accepted by Edwards’ mother Brenda and sister Tanisha. The presentation included a special video created by Jamal’s team at SBTV to celebrate his life and legacy.
The Rated Awards were founded by GRM Daily, which has chronicled the U.K. rap and grime scene for more than a decade. With 5 million subscribers and an online reach of more than 9 million, GRM claims to be the most viewed British music platform in the U.K.
The nominations recognize achievements between June 1, 2021, and June 1, 2022.
Here’s the full list of nominations, with winners marked.
Album of the year
Cleo Sol – MotherWINNER: Dave – We’re All Alone in This TogetherFredo – Independence DayKnucks – ALPHA PLACEKojey Radical – Reason to SmileLittle Simz – Sometimes I Might Be IntrovertM Huncho – Chasing EuphoriaTion Wayne – Green With Envy
Track of the year
Aitch – “Baby” (feat. Ashanti)ArrDee – “Flowers (Say My Name)”Benzz – “Je M’appelle”Central Cee – “Obsessed With You”D-Block Europe – “Overseas” (feat. Central Cee)Dave – “Starlight”WINNER: Dave – “Clash” (feat. Stormzy)Potter Payper – “Gangsteritus”Russ Millions – “Reggae & Calypso” (feat. Buni & YV)SwitchOTR – “Coming for You” (feat. A1 x J1)
Video of the year
Aitch – “1989”Aitch – “Learning Curve”CASisDEAD – “Boys Will Be Boys”Dave – “Verdansk”WINNER: Dave – “Clash” (feat. Stormzy)Knucks – “Alpha House” / “Hide & Seek”Little Simz – “Point and Kill” (feat. Obongjayar)M Huncho – “Warzone” (feat. Headie One)Pa Salieu – “Glidin’” (feat. slowthai)Stefflon Don & Ms Banks – “Dip”
Female artist of the year
Cleo SolDarkooDreya MacFLOIvorian DollWINNER: Little SimzMahaliaMiraa MayMs BanksStefflon Don
Male artist of the year
ArrDeeCentral CeeD-Block EuropeWINNER: DaveDigga DK-TrapM HunchoPotter PayperRuss MillionsTion Wayne
Breakthrough of the year
WINNER: A1 x J1ArzBru-CClavishDreya MacKnucksNemzzzRimzeeSaintéSwitchOTR
Mixtape of the year
ArrDee – Pier PressureWINNER: Central Cee – 23D-Block Europe – Home Alone 2Digga D – Noughty by NatureK-Trap – TrapoK-Trap & Blade Brown – JointsM1llionz – Provisional LicensePotter Payper – Thanks for WaitingUnknown T – AdolescenceYoungs Teflon – All Eyes on Me Against the World
Personality of the year
Big ZuuChunkzHarry PineroWINNER: KSIMo GilliganMunya ChawawaNella RoseSpecs GonzalezYung FillyZeze Millz
Producer of the year
ChucksInfloWINNER: JAE5LiTek & WhyJayLUCIDP2JQuincy TellemVennaNathaniel LondonYoung Chencs
Radio DJ of the year
Charlie SlothDJ TargetHenrie KwushueWINNER: Kenny AllstarManny NorteRob BruceSir SpyroSnoochie ShyTiffany CalverYinka & Shayna Marie
The 1975 lands at No. 1 on the U.K. albums chart with Being Funny In A Foreign Language, the British alternative rock outfit’s fifth consecutive leader.
Led by Matt Healy, the Cheshire, England band previously led the Official U.K. Chart their self-titled 2013 set, 2016’s I like it when you sleep, for you are so beautiful yet so unaware of it, 2018’s A Brief Enquiry Into Online Relationships, and 2020’s Notes On A Conditional Form.
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With their fast start, the 1975 enter the premium class of artists to have taken top spot with all five of their studio albums, drawing level with Ed Sheeran. The leader of that particular tally is Noel Gallagher, whose unbroken streak across Oasis and Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds LPs stands at 10.
Being Funny In A Foreign Language also starts at No. 1 on Australia’s all-genres ARIA Chart.
Coming in at No. 2 on the latest U.K. chart, published Oct. 21, is Red Hot Chili Peppers’ Return To The Dream Canteen (Warner Records). It’s the veteran U.S. rock act’s 10th U.K. top 10, and the followup to Unlimited Love, which dropped in April of this year and went to No. 1.
One spot down the chart, Atlanta hip-hop artist Lil Baby bounces to his first solo top 5 appearance with It’s Only Me (Motown/Quality Control), new at No. 3. That effort beats the No. 5 best for his 2021 collaborative project with Lil Durk, The Voice Of The Heroes. It’s Only Me blasts to No. 1 on the latest Billboard 200.
U.S. rock veterans Alter Bridge bag a fifth U.K. top 10 record with Pawns & Kings (Napalm), starting at No. 6, while Big Moon enjoys a first top 10 appearance with Is Everything (Fiction), arriving at No. 9. The English indie-rock four-piece previously impacted the chart with 2020’s Walking Like We Do, peaking at No. 19.
Also debuting on the latest frame is London rapper Rimzee, with his third mixtape Cold Feet (Rimzee), new at No. 11; Britpop-era band the Lightning Seeds with their comeback effort, See You In The Stars (BMG), at No. 16; English folk group the Unthanks with Sorrows Away (Rabblerouser), at No. 26; the Vamps, with their career retrospective 10 Years Of The Vamps (UMR/Virgin), at No. 30; and production wizard Brian Eno with FOREVERANDEVERNOMORE (Universal Music Recording), new at No. 32.
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Motionless in White tops Billboard‘s Mainstream Rock Airplay chart for the first time, as “Masterpiece” crowns the Oct. 22-dated list.
The band formed in Pennsylvania in 2004 and first appeared on the ranking with “America” in 2013.
“Masterpiece” previously became the band’s first top 10 on the tally. Previously, the group hit a No. 14 best with “Another Life” in 2020.
The track completes a 26-week ascent to No. 1, the fourth-steadiest accumulation of format support on the way to the summit in the Mainstream Rock Airplay chart’s 41-year history.
Most Weeks to No. 1, Mainstream Rock Airplay40, “Headstrong,” Trapt (2003)31, “Bones,” Young Guns (2013)28, “Paralyzer,” Finger Eleven (2007)26, “Masterpiece,” Motionless in White (2022)25, “S.O.S. (Sawed Off Shotgun), The Glorious Sons (2019)25, “Tired,” Stone Sour (2014)
Concurrently, “Masterpiece” rises 15-13 on the all-rock-format, audience-based Rock & Alternative Airplay chart, up 18% to 2.4 million audience impressions, according to Luminate.
“Masterpiece” also lifts 10-7 on the multi-metric Hot Hard Rock Songs chart. In addition to its radio airplay, the song earned 753,000 official U.S. streams in the tracking week ending Oct. 13. It originally debuted at No. 5 on the April 30-dated survey, marking the band’s top-charting song to date.
The track is the lead single from Scoring the End of the World, Motionless in White’s sixth studio album. The set debuted at No. 1 on the Top Hard Rock Albums chart dated June 25 and has earned 90,000 equivalent album units since release.
The 1975 score a third leader in Australia as Being Funny In A Foreign Language (via Dirty Hit/RKT) blasts to the top.
Being Funny debuts at No. 1 on the ARIA Chart, following the British band’s best-sellers Notes On A Conditional Form (from 2020) and I Like It When You Sleep, for You Are So Beautiful Yet So Unaware of It (2016).
Produced by Jack Antonoff, Being Funny should hang around the national chart for a little while yet. Matt Healy and Co. will head Down Under for their At Their Very Best tour next April, with shows booked for Perth, Adelaide, Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane.
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With their latest chart crown, The 1975 hold off The Red Hot Chili Peppers’ Return of the Dream Canteen (Warner), the U.S. rock legends’ second release of 2020 The first, Unlimited Love, bowed at No. 1 on the ARIA Chart following its release in April.
Also new to the top tier is Ocean Alley with their fourth studio effort Low Altitude Living (UNFD/Orchard), new at No. 3. That’s an equal career high for Ocean Alley, whose previous album, Lonely Diamond from 2020, also hit No. 3. The psychedelic rock band from Sydney’s northern beaches enjoyed a breakthrough with their sophomore album from 2018, Chiaroscuro (peaking at No. 11 on the ARIA Chart), which yielded “Confidence,” the winner of triple j’s Hottest 100 countdown.
Meanwhile, Lil Baby blasts to No. 7 on the ARIA Albums Chart with his third studio effort It’s Only Me (Capitol/Universal), for his first appearance in the top 10, while U.S. rock band Alter Bridge bag a top 10 entry with Pawns & Kings (Orchard), their seventh studio album. It’s new No. 9.
Over on the ARIA Singles Chart, published Friday (Oct. 21), Sam Smith and Kim Petras’ “Unholy” (Capitol/Universal) remains glued to the top spot, while Oliver Tree and Robin Schulz’s “Miss You” flies 52-4 for its first stint in the top 10.
Further down the tally, singles from Imagine Dragons (“Bones” at No. 45 via Interscope/Universal) and Lil Yachty (“Poland” at No. 49 via Universal) make their first appearances.
Finally, Blink-182 returns to the weekly survey with “Edging” (Columbia/Sony), the skate-rock band’s first recording with Tom DeLonge in a decade. It’s new at No. 50. The reunited band will tour Australia as part of a global tour in support of “Edging” and a forthcoming album.
Taylor Swift promised a “special very chaotic surprise” in the wee hours and she didn’t disappoint, by dropping a trove of extra Midnights tracks, seven in total.
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As the clock struck 3am ET, or midnight on the west coast, Swift dropped what she’s calling her “3am tracks.”
“Surprise!,” she writes on social media. “I think of Midnights as a complete concept album, with those 13 songs forming a full picture of the intensities of that mystifying, mad hour. However! There were other songs we wrote on our journey to find that magic 13.”
The fuller, 20-track version of Midnights is titled Midnights (3am Edition), and includes the previously-unannounced numbers “The Great War,” “Bigger Than The Whole Sky,” “Paris,” High Infidelity,” “Glitch,” “Would’ve, “Could’ve, Should’ve.’
“Lately,” she continues, “I’ve been loving the feeling of sharing more of our creative process with you, like we do with From The Vault tracks. So it’s 3am and I’m giving them to you now.”
Surprise! I think of Midnights as a complete concept album, with those 13 songs forming a full picture of the intensities of that mystifying, mad hour. However! There were other songs we wrote on our journey to find that magic 13.https://t.co/jjqUNkpPke pic.twitter.com/LKI3GmpPRF— Taylor Swift (@taylorswift13) October 21, 2022
Earlier in the evening, Swift shared her recollections of the writing and recording process with Jack Antonoff. “This is our first album we’ve done with just the two of us as main collaborators,” she explained.
Swift had teased an early morning “chaotic surprise” when she revealed her busy diary for the Midnights release, including promotions and several TV appearances.
The action doesn’t end there. This morning at 8 a.m. ET sees premiere of the “Anti-Hero” music video, based on her diary entries, and a #TSAntiHeroChallenge on YouTube Shorts. Midnights lyric videos will roll out at 8 p.m.
After a weekend of soaking up those 20 new tunes, Swifties can tune into NBC on Monday, for Swift’s previously confirmed appearance on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon. Then on Tuesday, Oct. 25, a second, unnamed Midnights music video will drop. And next Friday, Oct. 28, Swift will stop by the BBC for The Graham Norton Show in the U.K.
Stream Midnights (3am Edition) below.
After months of teases and ballgames, the journey to Taylor Swift’s Midnights has reached its conclusion.
Now, another trip begins, as Swifties everywhere drop everything, absorb the new record and share their thoughts online. TayTay herself has entered the discussion.
In the small hours, as the album trended on social media, the pop superstar reflected on her latest LP, her 10th studio effort, and first since her Billboard 200 chart-leader Evermore from 2020.
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“Midnights is a wild ride of an album and I couldn’t be happier that my co pilot on this adventure was Jack Antonoff,” she writes, thanking her buddy, years-long collaborator and producer.
“He’s my friend for life (presumptuous I know but I stand by it) and we’ve been making music together for nearly a decade.”
However, she adds, “this is our first album we’ve done with just the two of us as main collaborators.”
Swift’s post captures good times along the way. Friends, laughter, candid moments, empty bottles of wine.
The new release, she continues in the social post, “really coalesced and flowed out of us when our partners (both actors) did a film together in Panama. Jack and I found ourselves back in New York, alone, recording every night, staying up late and exploring old memories and midnights past.”
Paying tribute to those who inspired the latest set, including Zoe Kravitz and Australian producer Keanu beats, the result “is a collage of intensity, highs and lows and ebbs and flows. Life can be dark, starry, cloudy, terrifying, electrifying, hot, cold, romantic or lonely,” Swift concludes. “Just like Midnights. Which is out now.”
History beckons for Taylor. If Midnights goes to No. 1 on the Billboard 200 chart, she would tie Barbra Streisand for the most No. 1 albums by a female artist. Midnights would be Swift’s 11th album to top the survey, which would put her in a tie for third place all-time with Streisand, Bruce Springsteen and Drake for the most No. 1s since the chart originated in 1956. Only the Beatles (19 No. 1 albums) and Jay-Z (14) have amassed more than 11 leaders.
Swifties will want to play a part in that history.
Arctic Monkeys have new wheels.
With The Car (via Domino Recordings), the British indie-rockers’ seventh studio album, which left the garage at the stroke of midnight, the band will hope to keep a hot streak intact.
Every studio album from Arctic Monkeys has gone to No. 1 in the U.K., from their record-setting debut Whatever People Say I Am, That’s What I’m Not (2006), to Favourite Worst Nightmare (2007), Humbug (2009), Suck It and See (2011), AM (2013) and Tranquility Base Hotel + Casino (2018), a best-seller on vinyl. Also, frontman Alex Turner has led the national tally with his side project The Last Shadow Puppets.
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Only Taylor Swift’s Midnights could spoil the chart party.
Produced by James Ford, The Car features ten new songs written by Turner, and includes the previously-released numbers “There’d Better Be A Mirrorball,” “I Ain’t Quite Where I Think I Am” and “Body Paint.”
“The way the project was put together this time was not unlike, what in my mind I imagine, making a movie might be like,” Turner tells Alternative Press. “Obviously, I have no idea what that’s actually like, but there was a longer post-production period in this, trying to take a lot more care of how everything fits together, the space and the dynamics within it… making it a thing that works from start to finish,” he added. “It isn’t like I haven’t been trying to do all along.”
Fully assembled it’s a lush, complex affair, and mature as a nightcap with a cigar.
South American tour dates in support of The Car run from Nov. 4 at Jeunesse Arena, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, through to Nov. 19 at Corona Capital Festival in Mexico City. Live shows follow for Australia, then the U.K. and Europe, and another lap of North America is booked from next August.
Stream The Car below.