Singer who scored a big summer hit with New Rules singer caps breakthrough year with the most nominations

Synth pop group with Daft Punk’s seal of approval become ‘Overnight’ success

Kendrick Lamar, St Vincent, Lorde, and SZA reigned supreme this year, while the Irish music scene has never been so vibrant

She’s a former Mrs World, an opera singer, a film star, her husband is a billionaire

Rapper Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs tops Forbes list with $130m, while Beyoncé is in second place

Which popstars are Liam Payne, Harry Styles, Niall Horan and Zayn Malik channelling?

It looks like Glasto is heading for a hiatus in 2019 and this week it announced its Variety Bazaar. But fans aren’t happy, and organiser Michael Eavis is openly worried “this might be one risk too far”

One Direction the highest paid European celebrities, taking in $110m despite hiatus

Music fans want one track to sum up the season and they go to great lengths to crown one song to rule them all

Beyonce earns 11 nominations for ‘visual album’ Lemonade while Adele bags eight – with seven for Hello

The image of Taylor Swift and Tom Hiddleston entwined on a photogenic rock had all the earthy veracity of an Andre Rieu album cover

Neil Young, Roger Waters and The Who complete Desert Trip line-up of old rockers

Jessie J, Calvin Harris and pyrotechnics

The progressive, feminist, nice singer is one of the good guys – and not just because she stood up to Apple on behalf of her fellow artists

Bray singer up against Beck, Jack White, John Legend and Pharrell Williams

The superstar DJ says the genre is over, he’s having a musical crisis of confidence, and it’s time for him to ground the jet-set lifestyle

Lavish box-sets, spurious compilations and reissued masterpieces – welcome to the music industry fourth quarter

There’s more to Wake Me Up than the sound of banjos and cash tills

Kildare band Fresh Ré are barely out of school but they are already mega online and they are determined to push on to even bigger things

No need to wait until your favourite acts do the festival circuit in Ireland. Get our continental drift? Lauren Murphy’s top 10 European festivals

Studio tuned by Calvin Harris, virtually indestructible - these headphones make bold promises

SOL Republic is already ranked as the third most popular headphone brand in Ireland

What does it sound like when the two highest paid DJs in the world go on tour? It’s the sound of cash registers being hooked up to the biggest sound systems imaginable

The recession made us realise that staying at home was no bad thing. And we got a taste for paying supermarket prices for our drinks. So Ireland’s biggest nightclub has been working out how to keep drawing the crowds

From rock legends Pearl Jam and Queens of the Stone Age to young guns Haim and Kodaline, the music calander is brimful of exciting happenings over the next few months. Here are 20 of the best upcoming shows and releases

The Ronettes’ classic teenage anthem, produced by Phil Spector, is 50 years young. It’s still a thrill

Numbers in Punchestown increase dramatically as David Guetta headlines main stage

Sun teases and crowds gather for a very different Oxegen festival

Estimated 285,000 passengers expected to travel through Dublin Airport over the weekend

It was once the festival that ruled them all but ticket sales have declined and the line-up has shifted to pop and dance. Will the likes of David Guetta, Calvin Harris and Rita Ora herald a new dawn?

Should Ivor Novello winner Calvin Harris be burned at the stake by “real” musicians? Strap in, folks, things could get bumpy

Ayah Marar promises to bring a proper club experience to Sea Sessions this year. With her debut album ‘The Real’ behind her and the single ‘Thinking About You’ on the way, she is about to join bass music royalty

It’s the summer and the time is right for raving, gigging and having the crack in fields, parks and the open air. Here are the 20 music festivals and events you have to see this summer

Thanks to the likes of Daft Punk, Justin Timberlake and Frank Ocean, the six-minute pop song is making its mark

As this summer’s festival line-ups are announced, it’s clear the promoters are tailoring to their audiences

French DJ David Guetta is headlining this year’s Oxegen festival along with Calvin Harris, Example and Snoop Dogg

Electric Picnic and Oxegen festivals announce ticket prices

Man (22) accused of assaulting officer at Phoenix Park event