Beyoncé

It’s summer festival time again. As we retrieve our wellies and thermal sleeping bags, what better moment to rank great Irish highlights of the past?

Album review: As Beyoncé ventures into country and Taylor Swift wallows in another break-up album, Dua Lipa is the star we need right now

Her new album arrived on Friday and is currently being listened to by millions across the world

Co Derry-born Anderson began his career as a visual merchandiser in Brown Thomas

The Grammy winner, who performs at the National Concert Hall this month, only has to sing a note or two for you to realise how exceptional she is

Cork native takes a confident step forward with these vibrant, dynamic songs

On her new album the star shows she still excels at big gestures and still brings the bounce, the groove, the everything

The singer’s pivot into country music, via her hit Texas Hold ‘Em and her new album, Cowboy Carter, is the latest smart move in a glittering career

This Vicar Street show features the Limerick-based singer and composer as a roots rock star, but folk isn’t forgotten

The vehicles for bullying may have evolved - social media, linguistic custom - but people are still who they always were: cruel, forgiving, hierarchical

Singer is also the first woman to top the Hot Country Songs and Hot R&B/Hip-Hip Songs charts since the lists began in 1958

Watching the glitzy Super Bowl after Saturday’s Six Nations match laid bare many cultural differences

Plus: a song from Martin Scorsese’s Killers of the Flower Moon and a rock star as a child

It’s not just about getting gig tickets, it’s about the themed manicure, the outfit, the free advertising you generate

While idiosyncrasies like Van Halen’s ban on brown M&Ms have become familiar lore, artists have a bigger focus on wellness when it comes to food

Spiking prices in Sweden coincided with Beyonce playing in Stockholm - could the same happen when Taylor Swift is in Dublin?

Singer enjoyed some success performing with her abusive husband Ike, but returned solo later in life as a global superstar

By rewiring dance music past in a sensory overload, Beyoncé is writing some history of her own

Casey Cadwallader, creative director of Mugler, and Ann-Sofie Johansson, creative adviser to H&M, on the Swedish company’s latest designer collaboration

Hugh Linehan: How did the word’s richest and most sophisticated media industry get to be so bad at the basics?