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Yes, this is a real announcement!  No, it doesn't mean Justin Timberlake will be competing at this year's Eurovision Song Contest.

Instead he'll perform his new track Can't Stop The Feeling during the interval at Saturday's final in Stockholm.

He's making Eurovision history too, as it's the first time a non-contestant and global superstar has ever performed. Organisers have called JT's booking "an honour and inspiration". 

"This is a fantastic opportunity, we are very happy and excited that Justin Timberlake will perform his new song together with his band in our show," says Sven Stojanovic, the show's producer. 

"It makes it extra special that the Swedish songwriters Max Martin and Shellback have co-written and co-produced the song together with Justin Timberlake."

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Singer-turned-philanthropist Rihanna has announced a new education scholarship programme through her charitable foundation.

It will be open to students from Barbados, Brazil, Cuba, Haiti, Guyana, Jamaica, or the US who have been accepted to study in the States.

“To be able to give the gift of an education is actually an honour,” she said. “Higher education will help provide perspective, opportunities and learning to a group of kids who really deserve it. I am thrilled to be able to do this.”

According to the charity's website, it was founded by Rihanna in 2012 to honour her grandparents, Clara and Lionel Braithwaite.

Meanwhile, it's a happy anniversary to the singer, who had her very first US number one single this week with SOS.

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It was Mother's Day at the weekend. Relax, you didn't miss it, it was only in the US (the British one was back in March - maybe you did miss that?).

Kanye West treated Mrs Kanye aka Kim Kardashian to a special performance by a guest orchestra in their very massive, very white and very bare living room.

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This is a little akin to an ageing boxer teaching a young fighter how to punch only to be knocked out cold during a sparring session (or pick something different if you don't like boxing analogies...)

But here is BBC Music's guide to becoming a music journalist..

Read about how Jann Wenner teased the ultimate warts-and-all interview out of John Lennon and about how the trailblazing women in the macho world of rock got started.

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The Stone Roses have had to cancel two shows in Tokyo at the start of next month, after drummer Reni fractured his ribs. 

A statement from promoters Creative Man says: 

Quote Message: The Stone Roses are very sorry to have to cancel their two proposed concerts at the Budokan. Reni has had an accidental fall and fractured two ribs, his doctor has told him to rest for at least a month. Unfortunately this means that the band are unable to fulfill their planned performances in Japan.

The Stone Roses are very sorry to have to cancel their two proposed concerts at the Budokan. Reni has had an accidental fall and fractured two ribs, his doctor has told him to rest for at least a month. Unfortunately this means that the band are unable to fulfill their planned performances in Japan.

The band adds they are "extremely disappointed" and "hope to be able to return to Japan soon".

The forthcoming world tour is scheduled to hit the UK on 15 June, with four dates at Manchester's Etihad Stadium. 

Meanwhile there's excitement from Stone Roses fans online after one claimed on Twitter he was told, in person, by bassist Mani that a new track would be released this week. Read about the speculation on the NME blog. 

He's credited with creating 'the next EDM' (that's 'tropical house' FYI) in this week's NME, but Norweigan DJ and producer Kygo originally had designs on both football and finance. 

The 24-year-old quit an Economics degree at university in Edinburgh to pursue his music dreams, going on to become the fastest act to have his music streamed a billion times on Spotify.

The man behind dance hits like Firestone has been chatting to BBC Breakfast ahead of the release of his new album Cloud Nine on Friday, which features collaborations with Tom Odell and John Legend.

Kygo shared his feelings about streaming services, why it's important to play a real musical instrument and how his music career got started:

Well the reviews are in and, for most, the new Radiohead album A Moon Shaped Pool is a triumph.

Welsh warbler Charlotte Church even got in on the action.

The band's producer Nigel Godrich - who has worked on seven Radiohead albums - also tweeted about it... 

She teased a short clip on the Ellen TV show last week, now Pink has released the full video to the song Just Like Fire taken from the new Alice Through the Looking Glass movie.

We're digging her mad hatter get-up.

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For the first time, a public vote will be used to advance an album through to a shorter shortlist for this year's Mercury Prize.

Only six albums will make it through to the ceremony on 15 September, rather than the 12 albums of previous years - as just announced by Lauren Laverne on BBC 6 Music. 

The 12-strong 'longlist' will be revealed on the station on 4 August, with fans then invited to choose one album to proceed to the final via an online vote.

The judging panel, which this year includes BBC presenters Jarvis Cocker, Jamie Cullum and DJ Annie Mac will select the next five and will still ultimately decide on the winner.

The competition has in the past been criticised for a lack of transparency when it comes to selecting the winner and has failed to make much of an impact on sales for some winners. 

The six shortlisted artists will perform at the final and there will be a one-off collaboration marking the ceremony's 25th anniversary.

Last year's prize was won by Benjamin Clementine (pictured above).

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A trove of forty previously unseen pictures of David Bowie are going on  a UK tour.

The exhibition David & I features pictures taken by rock photographer Denis O'Regan.

O'Regan was official tour photographer when most of the photos were taken between 1978 and 1990.

The exhibition features live shots and many of Bowie out and about in countries he was touring.

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Nearly 40 years after their debut, Blondie have a new album in the pipeline and it's set to feature collaborations with a host of music stars - from Charli XCX to Sia and Johnny Marr. 

According to i-D, guitarist Chris Stein revealed the news on Charli's Beats 1 radio show The Candy Shop, telling the singer - who has herself contributed two songs - that the record is finished except for Debbie Harry's vocals. 

Strokes guitarist Albert Hammond Jr is also involved, while Sia's contribution has "an amazing chorus" and the album could even end up featuring rappers such as Kanye West and Ludacris. 

Quote Message: We had a phone conversation with Kanye, Debbie's met him once or twice, and he's so nice. I went into it not knowing what to expect because of all the stuff you know, but he was great. He was very humble and nice, I like what he does. from Chris Stein

We had a phone conversation with Kanye, Debbie's met him once or twice, and he's so nice. I went into it not knowing what to expect because of all the stuff you know, but he was great. He was very humble and nice, I like what he does.

Pop star Selena Gomez opened her world tour in Las Vegas on Friday (6 May), with crystal-studded bodysuits, masquerade masks, thigh-high gold boots and a setlist boasting 20 songs.

Among them was a new track, Feel Me, a sultry mid-tempo song that opens with the lyrics: “No one loves you like I love you / I never cheated, never lied / I never put no one above you / I gave you space and time / And now you're telling me you miss me..."

Selena previously told us that she'd started working on the follow-up to last year's smash hit album, Revival, and would finish it while she was on the road.

The tour comes to the UK in November.

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US singer Lauryn Hill has promised fans in Atlanta, Georgia that she will make it up to them after she was two-hours late going on stage and ended up performing for just 40 minutes.

In a Facebook post, she blamed the delay on "aligning my energy with the time, taking something that isn't easily classified or contained, and trying to make it available for others".

She added: "For every performance that I've arrived to late, there have been countless others where I've performed in excess of two hours, beyond what I am contracted to do, pouring everything out on the stage."

Quote Message: Because I care so deeply about the artistic process, I scrutinize, have perfectionist tendencies, and want space made for spontaneity, which is not an easy process, with the many moving parts on the road. Some days we are more successful than others re time.

Because I care so deeply about the artistic process, I scrutinize, have perfectionist tendencies, and want space made for spontaneity, which is not an easy process, with the many moving parts on the road. Some days we are more successful than others re time.

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Thousands of fans allegedly requested refunds when it was announced Axl Rose would replace an incapacitated Brian Johnson on AC/DC's world tour... but it turns out they were wrong.

Reviews for Rose's first show with the rock group, which was held in Lisbon on Saturday, have been emphatically positive. Here's a sample.

• "From the opening salvo of Rock or Bust, Shoot to Thrill and Hell Ain't a Bad Place to Be, it was clear that, musically at least, the GN'R man is a great fit for AC/DC." - Mark Sutherland, Rolling Stone
• "The Guns N’ Roses singer might have been confined to a ‘throne’, but he delivered a masterly first appearance fronting AC/DC." - Michael Hann, The Guardian
• "Being out of his element seemed good for the famously egotistic singer." - Kevin Raub, Billboard

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Marcus Mumford, his sons and Little Mix have joined a campaign encouraging fans to "stand up" to ticket touts. 

They're asking people to sign a petition, calling on the government to debate tougher penalties for websites and resellers who inflate the cost of tickets on the secondary market.

More than 12,000 people have already signed the petition - organised by Twickets, a fan-to-fan site that sells unwanted concert tickets at face value or less (with a 10% service fee). 

One Direction made the site their official ticket reseller on last year's On The Road Again Tour. Unsurprisingly, they've also tweeted a link to the petition, using the #ToutsOut. 

If 100,000 people sign the document, it will trigger a parliamentary debate. 

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Its been a big weekend for Drake: After topping the UK singles and album charts, he's broken a US streaming record, with the biggest debut of the year. 

The songs on Views have been streamed 245.1 million times in the US since Thursday, according to tracking service Nielsen Music. 

The previous record-holding album was Purpose by fellow Canadian Justin Bieber, whose songs were streamed around 100 million times in the week after its release in November last year.

Drake's album also sold more than one million copies, making it the best-selling album in the US since Adele's 25.

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The three finalists for BBC Young Musician 2016 have been selected - and will battle it out for the title this Sunday (15 May).

Saxophonist Jess Gillam (17), cellist Sheku Kanneh-Mason (17) and French Horn player Ben Goldscheider (18) have all made the cut after a fiercely-contested semi-final over the weekend. You can see excerpts of their performances below.

The contestants will spend the next week preparing for the final, where they'll play a concerto of their choice, accompanied by the BBC Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Mark Wigglesworth.  

In the meantime, you can watch the whole semi-final on the BBC iPlayer.

R&B star Alicia Keys was the musical guest on US comedy show Saturday Night Live over the weekend, playing her latest single In Common for the first time, and debuting the new track Hallelujah.

She also wore the biggest hoop earrings you've ever seen.