Pharrell Williams and Justin Timberlake are to be featured on a new album of Kings of Leon remixes, alongside Mark Ronson, Linkin Park and Lykke Li. "It's neat to have these people who we would've jumped at the chance to work with ourselves ... coming to us before we even get a chance to ask them," drummer Nathan Followill told Billboard.com.

Elbow say they could take five years to record the follow-up to last year's Mercury Music Prize-winning 'The Seldom Seen Kid'. Bassist Pete Turner told BBC 6 Music: "If it's three, four or five years time, this next album has got to be the absolute 'dog's' so we'll see."

The Arctic Monkeys' new album 'Humbug' is selling at a slower pace than the band's first two records. It sold 40,000 copies on its first day of release on Monday, and looks unlikely to beat the 360,000 first-week sales of debut 'Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not'.

Pop trio N-Dubz and rapper Chipmunk are the leading nominees for this Music of Black Origin (Mobo) awards, picking up four nominations each. The London acts will compete for best UK act and best song.