There has been so much news in the last 2 weeks we didn't have any more time than to chat about the new albums from Nas, Teyana Taylor, Drake & Beyoncé & Jay-Z aka The Carters. June has also had some high profile news, the Charts have Dua Lipa style new rules, the BET awards took place and in shocking news xxxtentacion has been murdered. We round the episode off with our Top Ten Tracks of the Last Two Weeks.

Another fortnight and another release from GOOD Music, we discuss Kanye & Kid Cudi's "Kids See Ghosts", ahead of the finale of RuPaul's Drag Race season 10 we delve into the world of Drag Queen Music with our first special guest Lindsay, Drag Race super fan. As always we talk you through our top 10 tracks of the last two weeks.

This week we discuss the elephant in the hip-hop room which is the beef between Drake & Pusha T! Nick Grimshaw is leaving the BBC Radio breakfast show and there is a new Kanye album! Our feature piece this week is the effect that streaming has been having on charts and the music industry in general including fake streams, fake artists and fake plays. As always we have our top ten tracks of the last two week

May is almost over and we are amping up to summer, to get hyped we decided to chat about our favourites summer sounds from then and now and have compiled them as a playlist on our Spotify page (link below). On top of that, Cian gives his low down on being at Eurovision, Rita Ora is in trouble for her new song "Girls" and Spotify are now talking ethics. As always we discuss our top 10 tracks of the last 2 weeks.

Those ten tracks were:

Disclosure "Ultimatum" //

Amber Mark "Love Me Right" //

Lil Baby & Drake "Yes Indeed" //

Charlie Puth "The Way I Am" //

SOHN "Tremors" //

Post Malone & Swae Lee "Spoil My Night" //

Nas & Genuwine "You Owe Me" //

Yuno "No Going Back" //

Childish Gambino "This Is America" //

Au/Ra & Camelphat "Panic Room"

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It's Eurovision week and Cian has cajoled Sarah into having a Eurovision special. However, not until all usual business is done. We discuss Kanye and his recent tweeting and as always we have our Top Ten Tracks of the last two weeks.

Those ten tracks were:

Hayden James "Just Friends" //

Janelle Monáe "I Like That" //

MELVV "Not Me" (feat. Two Feet) //

J. Cole "Motiv8" //

Swell "I'm Sorry" (feat. Shiloh) //

Cardi B "I Like It" (feat. Bad Bunny & J Balvin) //

Disciples "48 Hrs" //

Folly Rae "Sniper" //

Tom Misch "Movie" //

Russ "Basement" (feat. Jessie Reyez)

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Inspired by Drake & Cardi B using the same Lauryn Hill sample recently, we go through some popular songs which sample other popular songs and discuss who did it better, we discuss the passing of Avicii, Beyoncé's Coachella success and, as always, the Top Ten Tracks of the last two week.

Those ten tracks were:

Ariana Grande "No Tears Left To Cry" // Nilüfer Yanya "Keep On Calling" // Kyle "Playinwitme" feat. Kehlani Khalid 6LACK & Ty Dolla $ign "OTW" // Sigrid "High Five" // Guilty Beatz "Akwaaba" feat. Mr. Eazi // ZAYN "Let Me" // Roosevelt "Close" // Henry Green "Loose" // Tom Misch "Water Baby" feat. Loyle Carner

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This week is a Drake special, from "Best I Ever Had" to "God's Plan" and everything in between, from Drake's meme-ability to his emotional moments and how he may have reinvented a genre. Also, Cian was over in London to see Jessie Ware, is Lil Dicky gonna be the new Luis Fonsi? and, as always, the top ten tracks of the last two weeks which includes a track from, you guessed it, Drake! This really is a Drake extravaganza.

This week on Selected is the festival overview, there are so many festivals in Ireland over the summer so check out the festival guide for an overview of lineups, genres and age group attending each and more importantly how many brallets will be there. The ten tracks of the last two week, boy and girl band which dissolve when the lead singer departs, hem - Fifth Harmony - hem and what did Cian and Sarah did for St. Patrick's Day.

The songs we played this week are:

Duke Dumont feat. Ebenezer - "Inhaler"// La'say Hommes - "Send For You" // Ebenezer - "South of France" // Migos feat. Drake - "Walk It Talk It" // Jay Prince - "In The Morning" // dvsn - "Hallucinations" // St. Vincent - "Los Ageless" // 50 Cent - "Disco Inferno" // MNEK - "Tongue" // A$AP Mob - "London Town"

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This week we have all the news from the Choice Music Prize which took place in Vicar Street on the 8th March, we have our top ten tracks of the last two weeks and we discuss Sarah's trip to Chicago, Barbra Streisand's cloned dogs and Katy Perry's current lawsuit.

The songs we played this week are:

Lily Allen - "Three" // Erykah Badu - "Phone Down" // 5 Seconds Of Summer - "Want You Back" // Baby Bash - "Suga Suga" (feat. Frankie J) // Lavengro - "Think" // Khalid - "Love Lies" (feat, Normani) // Zedd - "The Middle" (feat. Maren Morris & Grey) // Young Bull - "Egyptian Joint" // Wyvern Lingo - "Subside" // Mr. Eazi - "Sample You (Remix)" (feat. Lil Kesh)

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This week, we discuss Sarah's most recent travels, the Brit Awards and the nominees for Song & Album of the year of the upcoming Choice Music Prize on the 7th March.

The songs we played this week are:

Fangclub - "Bad Words" // Ships - "I Can Never" // New Jackson - "On Solid Air" // James Vincent McMorrow - "True Care" // Fionn Regan - "Up Into The Rafters" // Talos - "Tethered Bones" // Chasing Abbey - "That Good Thing" // Aine Cahill - "Plastic" // Soulé - "Good Life"

This week we have all the news from the Choice Music Prize which took place in Vicar Street on the 8th March, we have our top ten tracks of the last two weeks and we discuss Sarah's trip to Chicago, Barbra Streisand's cloned dogs and Katy Perry's current lawsuit.

The songs we played this week are:

Lily Allen - "Three" // Erykah Badu - "Phone Down" // 5 Seconds Of Summer - "Want You Back" // Baby Bash - "Suga Suga" (feat. Frankie J) // Lavengro - "Think" // Khalid - "Love Lies" (feat, Normani) // Zedd - "The Middle" (feat. Maren Morris & Grey) // Young Bull - "Egyptian Joint" // Wyvern Lingo - "Subside" // Mr. Eazi - "Sample You (Remix)" (feat. Lil Kesh)

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