11 May 2018

Friday

2018-05-11

Events

 * The European Broadcasting Union (EBU) bans one of China's most popular TV channels from airing the Eurovision Song Contest after it censored LGBT elements of the competition as well as the performance of Ireland's entry Together by Ryan O'Shaughnessy which featured two male dancers enacting a gay love story.
 * New releases: Arctic Monkeys release their sixth studio album Tranquility Base Hotel + Casino, while Joan Armatrading releases her nineteenth Not Too Far Away. All female LA rock band La Luz release their third album Floating Features.
 * New tracks from Bastille with Quarter Past Midnight, Rita Orr with Girls, Meghan Trainor with Can't Dance and Let You Be Right and Christina Aguilera with Twice.
 * GB Special stamp issue: Owls.

Charts

 * Singles: N1 Dua Lipa & Calvin Harris - One Kiss
 * Albums: NN1 The Greatest Showman OST (15th n.c.), NE/N3 Frank Turner - Be More Kind