And Finally

Each week we carefully curate some of the stand-out stories that come across the CMU news desk, picking out the most funny, whacky or down right weird ones to include in the 'And Finally!" column.

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And Finally! Cotton Eye Joe is the world’s most popular song - this is not the future I asked for

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And Finally! Cotton Eye Joe is the world’s most popular song - this is not the future I asked for

Rednex this week proclaimed themselves to be record breakers, having racked up more than three billion listens of their song ‘Cotton Eye Joe’ in under a month. Sure, people were actually listening to a few seconds of a cover version in various viral videos, but maybe this is what success is in 2024…

Andy Malt • 26 Apr 2024

And Finally! Lemmy continues busy post-death schedule, as Metallica’s James Hetfield embeds ashes in new tattoo

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And Finally! Lemmy continues busy post-death schedule, as Metallica’s James Hetfield embeds ashes in new tattoo

Metallica’s James Hetfield this week unveiled a new tattoo on his middle finger, created using ink mixed with some of late Motorhead frontman Lemmy’s ashes. It will mean that Lemmy “is still able to fly the bird at the world”. Check out this and more of this week’s funniest music news stories…

Andy Malt • 19 Apr 2024

And Finally! The bath that Jim Morrison died in is now inside The Libertines’ Margate hotel (but they won’t say where)

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And Finally! The bath that Jim Morrison died in is now inside The Libertines’ Margate hotel (but they won’t say where)

The Libertines have acquired the bath in which Doors frontman Jim Morrison died for their Margate hotel. Apparently they didn’t want to see it falling into the hands of someone who might do something “maudlin” with it. Find out more and check out this week’s funniest music news stories…

Andy Malt • 12 Apr 2024

Expert needed to lead Harry Styles walking tours around his hometown

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Expert needed to lead Harry Styles walking tours around his hometown

The Cheshire village of Holmes Chapel is looking for a Harry Styles expert to lead walking tours around the pop star’s hometown, in response to the thousands of fans who now visit the village to see where Styles grew up…

Chris Cooke • 05 Apr 2024

And Finally! Not even robots like James Blunt

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And Finally! Not even robots like James Blunt

James Blunt asked AI to write lyrics in his style and it “totally humiliated” him. Turns out, AI doesn’t think James Blunt is very good at writing lyrics. Check out this and a round up of this week’s other funniest music news stories here…

Andy Malt • 22 Mar 2024

And Finally! Sugababes’ Mutya Buena apologises for popularising sugar

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And Finally! Sugababes’ Mutya Buena apologises for popularising sugar

Sugababes’ Mutya Buena says she now accepts that the group caused a spike in sugar consumption and negatively impacted world health. OK, it’s actually an ad for a sugar-free drink. But which politician was taken in by it? Find out here, along with more of this week’s funniest music news stories…

Andy Malt • 15 Mar 2024

And Finally! Calvin Harris chugs raw eggs to beat jet lag. Horrifying? Yes. Smart? Possibly

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And Finally! Calvin Harris chugs raw eggs to beat jet lag. Horrifying? Yes. Smart? Possibly

Next time you’re sat on a Ryanair flight next to Calvin Harris, be warned that he’ll probably start cracking eggs and swallowing down the raw yolks at some point. It’s the best way to avoid jet lag, he reckons. Find out if he’s right and check out more of this week’s funniest music news stories…

Andy Malt • 08 Mar 2024

And Finally! Apple brushed off Bing for its lack of Annie Lennox knowledge

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And Finally! Apple brushed off Bing for its lack of Annie Lennox knowledge

Six years ago, Microsoft made a play to convince Apple to ditch Google and make Bing the default search engine on its Safari browser. Why is this not the case? Because Bing didn’t know enough about Annie Lennox. Check out this and more of this week’s funniest music news stories…

Andy Malt • 01 Mar 2024

And Finally! Ed Sheeran has let British music down, and now everyone only likes K-pop

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And Finally! Ed Sheeran has let British music down, and now everyone only likes K-pop

You know who’s popular? Taylor Swift. The IFPI confirmed it this week with its annual Global Recording Artist Of The Year list. Ed Sheeran’s dropped out of the top ten though, as have BTS, although only one of them has a decent excuse. This and a selection of this week’s funniest music news awaits……

Andy Malt • 23 Feb 2024

And Finally! Matty Healy’s mum says 1975 fans “touch me and burst into tears”

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And Finally! Matty Healy’s mum says 1975 fans “touch me and burst into tears”

Matty Healy of The 1975’s mother Denise Welch says that his fans call her The Virgin Mary and consider her “the woman who gave birth to the Messiah”. Find out what that’s actually like, and check out more of this week’s funniest music news stories…

Andy Malt • 16 Feb 2024

And Finally! Irving Azoff and Eddy Cue’s new golf course is open for business. And no, you can’t join.

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And Finally! Irving Azoff and Eddy Cue’s new golf course is open for business. And no, you can’t join.

Artist manager Irving Azoff and Apple exec Eddy Cue have opened a golf course on a 300 acre former lemon grove in California, which already boasts Harry Styles as a member. We look at this and more of this week’s most amusing music new stories…

Andy Malt • 09 Feb 2024

And finally: Swift Swiftie breaks record for shouting out song titles really fast, and more of this week’s funniest music news stories

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And finally: Swift Swiftie breaks record for shouting out song titles really fast, and more of this week’s funniest music news stories

A Taylor Swift fan has broken the record for identifying her songs only by excerpts of their lyrics. In a minute, Bilal Ilyas Jhandi named more than 30 Swift tracks just by having lines from them read out to him, earning him the title of Swiftest Swiftie…

Andy Malt • 02 Feb 2024