Here is the news... according to the latest world official chart releases for DAVID BOWIE...

The Record Store Day 2026 release HALLO SPACEBOY 12" neon pink vinyl EP reached the following positions:

Croatia Toplista Prodaje: #7 / - /
Greece Official IFPI Charts Top-100 Albums Sales Chart (Combined): #72 / #69 /
Hungary Album Top 40 Chart (Physical): #20 / - /
UK Official Vinyl Singles Chart: #4 / #6 / #5 / #6 / #15 / (total 5 weeks)
UK Official Physical Singles Chart: #5 / #6 / #6 / #8 / #18 / (total 5 weeks)
UK Official Singles Sales Chart: #5 / #19 / #68 / - / - / (total 3 weeks)

Published at the end of this month is BLACK STARS: DAVID BOWIE et les Légendes de la Musique Afro-Américaine by LAURENT BEZIZ.

Synopsis: Through the story of his connections and adventures with 12 legends of Black American music - Little Richard, Marvin Gaye, Stevie Wonder, Nina Simone, Luther Vandross, Aretha Franklin, James Brown, George Clinton, Nile Rodgers, Michael Jackson, Tina Turner, Prince - and many others.

This book examines how Black American music permeates David Bowie's work and life: the fascination it holds for him; the way it integrates into his creative alchemy; the material it provides him to create a dialogue between distant musical worlds; the steadfastness with which he defends it and remains faithful to it until the end; and, in return, the recognition he receives from the community of Black American artists.

This paperback is illustrated with photographs including previously unpublished ones by Philippe Auliac.

To be published on 31st May.

BLACK STARS: David Bowie et les Légendes de la Musique Afro-Américaine is available to pre-order NOW!

Check out an interview with guitarist DAVID TORN on MUSIC RADAR by Danny Turner.

David talks about working with DAVID BOWIE, highlights include:

MR: You worked with David Bowie on a trio of albums from 2000 onwards. Heathen, Reality and The Next Day, how did that collaboration come about?

DT: "Around 1990, I'd got a call from Peter Gabriel's manager, and while it was hard for me to believe this was happening, it seemed like Peter was thinking about having me work on a new record, but it just never occurred. A similar thing happened with David Bowie in 1987 when I got a call from an office in New York from Richard Hilton, who was co-assistant to Nile Rodgers. He said, 'Hey, we're really interested in getting you into to meet David and do some stuff on a track.' Of course, I said yes, but it disappeared just like the Peter Gabriel thing. Richard was very apologetic, but I eventually met David after adding textural devices to a Brian Helgeland film that was being scored by my friend Carter Burwell.

"They had this big score playing right into a scene with Heath Ledger and Carter called me to help find a way to transition the David Bowie song Golden Years into a very funny spot. Later, David went into the studio and Carter called me to say that that David loves David Torn and liked what I'd done. Two weeks later, the office called and told me that David would like a meeting and would I care to have dinner with him somewhere?"

MR: It must have gone well...

DT: "We went out to dinner and David said that he'd been thinking about doing a new kind of project and asked if I wanted to be involved. I said, 'Are you kidding?'

"Tony Visconti joined us a little later and David and I discovered we had all these weird connections between us. At the end of the conversation he asked where I'd like to work. I thought, 'Where would I like to work?' But I lived in a land of amazing, world-class studios around Bearsville, Woodstock, New York, and there was this unbelievable place on the top of a hill in LA that my friend had designed called Atlantic. David said, 'Well, I hate Woodstock, but maybe it's changed' and ended up coming upstate and loving it."

MR: Do you recollect having any conversations with Bowie about sound and experimentation that have stuck with you?

DT: "Not really. We used to watch The Office and both liked these old but incredible amplifiers from Chicago in the 1940s and he wanted to have an eBay battle. He'd bid for stuff and eventually I'd look at him and say, 'I'm out - I can't do that.' He did give me great business advice though, because I was in the midst of this unfair usage thing for a Madonna song. It turned out her producer stole some shit and tried to get away with it."

You can read the whole interview over at the yahoo.com website.

• On this day, 19 years ago, DAVID BOWIE performed a section of 'Pug Nosed Face' and the audience joined in with an impromptu sing-a-long. He then introduced comedian RICKY GERVAIS onto the stage at Madison Square Garden, New York for the finale of the H&M High Line Festival in 2007.

Ricky said to the audience that because he was introduced by David singing that song - that he could already imagine the puns that would follow. His favourites being: 'The Thin White Duke brings out the Fat White Duck,' 'Piggy Stardust' and 'Chunky Dory'.

After the sold-out Gervais show at Madison Square Garden, David then went on to check out THE SECRET MACHINES at the High Line Ballroom.

It was initially reported that David would be curating and performing at the festival, but on 22nd January 2007 it was announced that: "due to ongoing work on a new project that it will not be possible for him to perform. He will however continue to curate the event alongside producers David Binder and Josh Wood."

The festival ran for 11 days from 9th May to 19th May, with artist performances at various venues around New York including Radio City Music Hall, Madison Square Garden and Irving Plaza.

Invited performers included: Air, Arcade Fire, Bang On A Can, Claude Cahun, Daniel Johnston, Deerhoof, Dirty Projectors, Ken Nordine, Laurie Anderson, Laurie McLeod, Legendary Stardust Cowboy, Meow Meow, Mike Garson, Ricky Gervais, Robert Stillman's Horses, Spanish Film Retrospective, The Polyphonic Spree, The Secret Machines and many more.

Other events included: High Line Neighborhood Walking Tours, High Line Design Preview and 'David Bowie's Ten Favourite Latin American and Spanish Films From The Last 100 Years' - [More details].

To celebrate the fiftieth year anniversary of DAVID BOWIE completing his 1976 On Stage! Tour at the Pavillion de Paris, France on this day, NACHO has put together a fabulous TVC 15 visual piece.

• On this day, 43 years ago, DAVID BOWIE played warm-up show at Vorst - Forest Nationaal in Brussels, Belgium in 1983 as part of his Serious Moonlight Tour '83 Tour...

• On this day, 48 years ago, DAVID BOWIE performed at Grugahalle, in Essen, Germany during his 1978 World Tour...

• On this day, 50 years ago, DAVID BOWIE performed the closing gig of his 'On Stage' tour at the Pavillion in Paris, France in 1976...

• On this day, 52 years ago, DAVID BOWIE performed two shows at the Green's Playhouse in Glasgow, Scotland during his 1973 UK Tour...

• Happy Birthday wishes to RICK WAKEMAN, who played piano on DAVID BOWIE's Hunky Dory album released in 1971...

• On this day, 57 years ago, DAVID BOWIE performed at the newly named Beckenham Arts Lab at The Three Tuns Public House, in Beckenham in 1969...

• On this day, 63 years ago, THE KONRADS performed at the Hillsiders Youth Club, Womens' Institute Hall, in Biggin Hill, Westerham in 1963 at the show, DAVID JONES sang Joe Brown's 'A Picture Of You' and Bruce Chanel's 'Hey Baby'. George Underwood took the vocals on 'It's Only Make Believe' and 'A Night At Daddy Gees'. Mrs Orme, set up The Hillsiders Youth Club which met every Friday in the Womens' Institute Hall at 4 Lebanon Gardens, Biggin Hill in Westerham. It got a lot of support from the local youth and also from those of Westerham.

The DAVID BOWIE compilation album LEGACY has just achieved the honour of reaching PLATINUM x4 status in the UK BRIT Certified Awards Programme announced on Friday 8th May.

This album collects together a selection of David Bowie's most popular tracks and singles, from 1969's 'Space Oddity', through to the final singles 'Lazarus' and 'I Can't Give Everything Away'.

This 4x PLATINUM release, now equals the previous highest-selling compilation 'Best Of Bowie' released in 2008, which achieved 4x PLATINUM on 5th February 2016.

Legacy continues to appear in both the official UK and Irish album charts, this week placed at #58 (492 weeks total) and #66 (460 weeks total) respectively.

You can check out all the Legacy chart placements worldwide over in the Special Features section.

On this day, 56 years ago, DAVID BOWIE was awarded an Ivor Novello Award for 'Space Oddity' as Best Original Song at the Musical Festival '70 show at The Talk of The Town, London in 1970.

He performed 'Space Oddity' accompanied by the Les Reed Orchestra. The event was transmitted live via satellite to over 60 closed-circuit outlets in America, including New York's Carnegie Hall. It was also seen in France, Spain, Australia, Holland and Venezuela, but not Britain, where it was broadcast live on Radio One and Two at 10pm-11.30pm.

You can watch the performance below...

Taking place on Saturday 11th July is THE RISE AND FALL OF ZIGGY STARDUST reimaged starring David McAlmont, Brian Molko, Camille O'Sullivan, Peaches and Nadine Shah at the Royal Festival Hall, London SE1 8XX, England at 7.30pm.

DAVID BOWIE's defiant fifth album is reimagined in incandescent fashion by David McAlmont, Brian Molko, Camille O'Sullivan, Peaches and Nadine Shah.

Fiona Brice arranges and orchestrates Bowie's The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and The Spiders From Mars with a stellar line-up of guest vocalists.

Released in 1972, The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and The Spiders From Mars is Bowie's seminal glam rock concept album. It follows Ziggy Stardust, an androgynous, bisexual, extra-terrestrial rock star sent to Earth as a messiah before an impending apocalypse.

The show features some of the album's greatest songs, performed in spectacular fashion, by a line-up including: remarkable art-pop vocalist, David McAlmont; the lead singer and guitarist of Placebo, Brian Molko; singer and master of musical reinterpretation, Camille O'Sullivan; the fearless musician, producer, director and performance artist, Peaches; and Mercury Prize-nominated songwriter and musician, Nadine Shah.

Fiona Brice is a British solo artist, classically trained composer, arranger and multi-instrumentalist (violin, viola, piano and voice).

Beth Greenacre is the visual director of this event. Greenacre is a curator, advisor and consultant with over 20 years of experience collecting artworks for private and corporate collectors, commercial and non-for-profit organisations. Greenacre worked with David Bowie as curator of his art collection for more than 16 years.

For more details, information and tickets, please visit southbankcentre.co.uk website.

Updated 23/5/26: Here is the news... according to the latest world official chart releases for DAVID BOWIE...

The Record Store Day 2026 release EXCERPTS FROM OUTSIDE clear vinyl LP hit the following positions:

Denmark Vinyl Top-40 #9 / - /
France Top Album Physiques #118 / - / - /
Hungary Album Top 40 Chart (Physical) #9 / - /
Netherlands Vinyl 33 Charts #28 / - / - /
Greece Official IFPI Charts Top-100 Albums Sales Chart (Combined) #27 / #24 / #41 /
Scotland #16 / - / - /
UK Vinyl Albums Chart #15 / - / - /
UK Album Sales Chart #17 / - / - /
UK Physical Album Chart #17 / - / - /
UK Official Record Store Chart #17 / #16 / - /

The Record Store Day 2026 release HALLO SPACEBOY 12" neon pink vinyl EP hit the following positions:

Croatia Toplista Prodaje #7 / - /
Greece Official IFPI Charts Top-100 Albums Sales Chart (Combined) #72 / #69 /
Hungary Album Top 40 Chart (Physical) #20 / - /
UK Official Vinyl Singles Chart #4 / #6 / #5 / #6 / #15 /
UK Official Physical Singles Chart #5 / #6 / #6 / #8 / #18 /
UK Official Singles Sales Chart #5 / #19 / #68 / - / - /

• An event taking place later this month on 15th May is DAVID BOWIE, LINDSAY KEMP AND THE BIRTH OF ZIGGY STARDUST talk with NICHOLAS PEGG at Cranleigh Arts, 1 High Street, Cranleigh GU6 8AS, England at 7.30pm. Join Nicholas, author of The Complete David Bowie, as he takes us on a journey to discover some of the influences and inspirations behind the rock star's most famous creation. Discover in a colourful and fascinating talk illustrated with rare images and archive footage, followed by a Q&A session with the author - [More details/tickets]...

• BOWIE: LIVE ON THE LOCH charity two-day event with David Bowie's band from 2000 at Cameron House, Loch Lomond, West Dunbartonshire, Scotland G83 8QZ on 7th/8th November. In aid of Save The Children. For information and more details...

• DAVID BOWIE: YOU'RE NOT ALONE now open at Lightroom, 12 Lewis Cubitt Square, London, United Kingdom, N1C 4DY. Be transported into the many worlds of David Bowie. Through iconic performances, rarely-seen interviews and never-before-exhibited material, discover the creative mind, spirit and soul of one of the world's greatest, most visionary artists. Featuring Bowie himself as its sole voice, You're Not Alone is both a multimedia spectacle and an intimate and revealing self-portrait. Whether you're reliving the magic or discovering it for the very first time: this is your ticket to the landmark Bowie performances that changed culture forever. Tickets on sale NOW. For more details and information, please visit: lightroom.uk website...

Updated: HOLY HOLY have announced their 2026 Tour - The Final Tour - 'A Celebration of Bowie'.

More gigs have now been announced at the following venues:

SEPTEMBER
3rd: Glasgow O2 Academy
4th: Leeds O2 Academy
5th: Liverpool O2 Academy
8th: Oxford O2 Academy
9th: Southampton 1865
10th: London O2 Shepherd's Bush Empire
11th: Bristol O2 Academy
12th: Manchester O2 Ritz
16th: Birmingham XOY
17th: Newcastle-upon-Tyne O2 City Hall
19th: Hull Connexin Live
20th: Lytham St Annes Lowther Pavilion
21st: Salisbury City Hall
23rd: Netherlands Haarlem, PHIL
24th: Belgium, Lueven Het Depot
27th: Ireland Dublin The Academy
28th: Ireland Dublin The Academy
29th: Belfast The Limelight 1

More details and tickets available via the Ticketmaster.co.uk website.

For those of you who use FACEBOOK - check out the private DAVID BOWIE WONDERWORLD Group.

Feel free to join in with the other 105,500 plus members, add yourself and invite your Bowie fan friends. You never know what might get posted, or who you might meet...

• BOWIE: LIVE ON THE LOCH charity two-day event with David Bowie's band from 2000 at Cameron House, Loch Lomond, West Dunbartonshire, Scotland G83 8QZ on 7th/8th November. In aid of Save The Children - more details

• DAVID BOWIE: YOU'RE NOT ALONE opened on 22nd April tickets available until 10th October at Lightroom, 12 Lewis Cubitt Square, Kings Cross, London - more details

• DAVID BOWIE: MUSIC LOVER: The Inside Story of David Bowie's Record Collection by GEOFF MacCORMACK and JÉRÔME SOLIGNY, hardcover, 224-pages - to be published on 15th September - more details

• HOLY HOLY 2026 Tour - The Final Tour - 'A Celebration of Bowie' gigs in September - tickets on sale now - more details

• THE RISE AND FALL OF ZIGGY STARDUST reimaged starring David McAlmont, Brian Molko, Camille O'Sullivan, Peaches and Nadine Shah at the Royal Festival Hall, London SE1 8XX, England on Saturday 11th July at 7.30pm - more details

• HEROES: DAVID BOWIE AND BERLIN by TOBIAS RÜTHER, paperback, 184-pages - to be published on 1st July - more details

• BOWIE FRANCE CONVENTION 2026 takes place on 14th June at La Java, 105 rue du Faubourg du Temple, 75010 Paris, France from 15h00-20h30 - more details

• BLACK STARS: DAVID BOWIE et les Légendes de la Musique Afro-Américaine by LAURENT BEZIZ, French version, paperback - to be published on 31st May - more details

• DAVID BOWIE: FOREVER AND EVER: An Illustrated Biography by CLAUDIO FABRETTI, hardcover, 208-pages - to be published on 28th May - more details

DAVID BOWIE: FROM BERLIN WITH MODERN LOVE by LIAM COLNER, paperback, 144-pages - published on 15th May - more details

PETER & THE WOLF narrated by DAVID BOWIE, limited edition, yellow vinyl, 180g LP, released on 24th April reissued by Music On Vinyl - more details

Exhibition: BOWIE MIO FRATELLO di David Lawrence, features photographs by Philippe Auliac, Denis O'Regan and more at Spazio Musa, Via della Consolata, 11, 10122 Torino, Italy. Opened 17th April until 12th July, open 11.00-18.00, closed Mondays - more details

Photo Exhibition: BOWIE BY SUKITA in Sweden, Gothenburg, at the former Konsthallen, Gotaplatsen 7 opened 11th April until 30th August - more details

BOWIE ODYSSEY 76 (SPECIAL EDITION) by SIMON GODDARD, hardcover, 200-pages - published on 9th April - more details

BOWIE ODYSSEY 76 by SIMON GODDARD, paperback, 200-pages - published on 9th April - more details

CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY exhibition 'Cosmic Voyager - A Tribute to David Bowie' opened 3rd April until 30th August in the Nathan and Fannye Shafran Planetarium, shows daily at 4pm (except Mondays) - more details

DAVID BOWIE: LEGACY: THE ILLUSTRATED BIOGRAPHY by CAROLYN McHUGH, hardcover, 160-pages - published on 6th April - more details

All numbered copies SOLD OUT! Handful of unnumbered copies remaining. DAVID BOWIE - THE YEAR OF THE SCAVENGER luxury collector's book from MAYAK PUBLISHING covering the 1974 period - available to purchase now - to claim your exclusive £10 discount use WONDER10 at checkout, 710-pages - mayakpublishing.co.uk

Exclusive DAVID BOWIE lino-cut print available to PURCHASE - don't hang around, these are ALL the remaining original left-over stock from 42 years ago, once they've gone, they've gone!