How many people does it take to perform Gotye's "Somebody I Used To Know" on acoustic guitar? Would you believe, five? Canadian rock band Walk Off The...
Tweet After flexing his wordplay muscles last week on "Something About You," STS has decided to showcase another facet of his skill set in this week's...
The Big Pink recently took to BBC 1 Live Lounge to perform some stripped-down cuts from Future This as well as cover Gotye's virally-popular "Somebody...
new album One of My Kind May 15, a collection of outtakes (including Bob Dylan's "Corrina, Corrina" and Paul Simon's "Kodachrome") recorded with The M...
Tweet An Australian multi-instrumentalist who does delicate, twee-ish pop isn't the most likely booking on a late night TV show, but here's Gotye maki...
Wally De Backer is a Belgian-born Australian better known as Gotye ("go-tea-yay," for those of you who still aren't sure) who has been around for a fe...
Aussie singer-songwriter Gotye's "Somebody That I Used To Know" has become a bona fide global hit, thanks in part to the striking video and an inspire...
You might not know who Gotye is, but you've definitely heard his song. It's a tidy little ball of emotional wreckage called "Somebody That I Used to K...
Gotye is looking to duplicate the success of last year's music video for "Somebody That I Used To Know" with a new artistic video for "Easy Way Out." ...
Scottish breakthrough artist Emeli Sandé returned to the top of the U.K. album chart Sunday (March 4) with her debut album "Our Version of Events." Go...
Gotye has already made huge strides in the U.S. thanks to the crossover success of his hit "Somebody That I Used to Know," but now he's looking to tru...
As Gotye's "Somebody That I Used To Know," featuring Kimbra, started a fifth aggregate week atop the U.K. singles chart, the Military Wives moved to t...
Breakout singer/songwriter Gotye has announced his "Saturday Night Live" debut. The Australian multi-instrumentalist will visit SNL on April 14 to per...
10 for any Passion-related album. Whitney Houston's "The Greatest Hits" holds at No. 6 (45,000; down 35%) as does Drake's "Take Care" at No. 7 (36,000...
It's the hit that almost wasn't, a simple song that's become a -worldwide smash but nearly disappeared before it was even finished. Gotye's "Somebody ...
Tweet If you never really felt like you could dance to Gotye's enormously popular "Somebody That I Used to Know," there's a Dutch DJ ready to change t...
Fueled by a "Glee" remake and his appearance on "Saturday Night Live," Gotye scores his first No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 with his first entry on t...
Tweet Photo gallery of Gotye, Missy Higgens at Nokia Theatre, Los Angeles, CA (April 19, 2012).Previous · Next Gotye, Missy Higgins @ Nokia Theatre, L...
"Glee" covered Gotye's hit single "Somebody That I Used to Know" on a recent episode, but there's one person who isn't a fan of how they did it: the s...
It may sound like something you might dig up on an early-'00s retro cocktail-lounge trip-hop compilation, but Gotye's "Somebody That I Used To Know" i...
Australian newcomer Gotye has gotten a lot of attention in recent weeks thanks to his chart-topping hit, "Somebody That I Used To Know," but not all o...
Gotye's "Somebody That I Used to Know," featuring Kimbra, spends a third week at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 songs chart. As it maintains its reign...
The multi-genre assault of Gotye's "Somebody That I Used to Know," featuring Kimbra, rolls on, as the song spends a fourth week at No. 1 on the Billbo...
Recently, Gotye's "Somebody That I Used To Know" hit #1 on the Dance Club Songs chart, meaning that it's the first song ever to top these three catego...
Carly Rae Jepsen's "Call Me Maybe" dials up the top spot on the Digital Songs chart in its 13th week while inching to No. 2 on the Billboard Hot 100 w...
Newly-crowned "American Idol" champion Phillip Phillips is the first artist to send a coronation single into the Billboard Hot 100's top 10 in four ye...
How do you celebrate the news that your xylophone-laden smash single is the year's longest-running No. 1 on the Hot 100 chart? By releasing an album f...
Gotye denied reports of his own suicide today after a report of his death was posted to CNN's iReport social network for news. A member of the social ...
At the mid-way point in 2012, Adele's "21" and Gotye's "Somebody That I Used to Know" (featuring Kimbra), rule as the year's biggest selling album and...
Jon Furniss/WireImage ; Taylor Hill/Getty Images With 2012 halfway done, Adele's 21 and Gotye's "Somebody That I Used to Know" (featuring Kimbra) are ...
If you've been anywhere near a radio this summer you have no doubt heard Gotye's "Somebody That I Used to Know" and Carly Rae Jepsen's "Call Me Maybe....
Jepsen's "Call Me Maybe" logs an eighth week at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100, tying it for the year's longest-leading No. 1. Her follow-up single, "...
This morning the internet provided a full stream of Yeasayer's forthcoming Fragrant World, and now that very same internet caps it off with a little b...
When we asked Gotye back in February why he thought "Somebody That I Used To Know" has become so popular (it's the top-selling digital single of 2012,...
It would seem that mutli-chart-topping pop star Gotye is not content with mere multi-chart-topping pop-star status, or at least will not be until you ...
Gotye has a pretty good strategy for making sure people realize he's got songs other than "Somebody That I Used To Know": Commissioning much-liked ind...
Indie rockers Band of Horses and electro-pop outfit Gotye will perform as part of the ongoing Live on Letterman concert webcast series later this mont...
Not all of the action was inside the MTV Video Music Awards last night (September 6), Billboard's video team camped out on the double-decker red carpe...
Gotye has yet to start working on a follow-up to 2011's "Making Mirrors," the album that spawned his massive hit "Somebody That I Used to Know," but t...
Gotye says that he has received some pressure to release the title track to "Making Mirrors" as the album's next U.S. single, but Wally De Backer tell...
Gotye at the Ryman Auditorium Nashville, TN October 3, 2012 To everyone who left the Ryman as soon as Gotye played "Somebody That I Used To Know": wha...
RELATED CONTENTView Photo Gotye, Mumford & Sons Lead Spotify Streams in 2012 Gotye and Mumford & Sons were among the most played artists on Spotify in...
Gotye, Kimbra and The Temper Trap took the glory Thursday night at the ARIA Awards, between them collecting most of the big honors. The Australian rec...
of 2011. Last year, the biggest vinyl album was "Abbey Road" with 41,000. DIGITAL DOMINATION: Moving on to digital song sales, 2012 was a banner year ...
RELATED CONTENTView Photo Gotye poses backstage with the awards for best pop duo/group performance for "Somebody ...View Photo Gotye, left, and Kimbra...
As shrewd a business man as T.I. is, he's an artist first, so when he heard the original beat for his newest single "Memories Back Then," he was so ex...
Wally De Backer returns to his old band for Australian tour dates -- and new recordings haven't been ruled out Wally De Backer -- better known as Goty...
Before his star went supernova, Gotye was simply Wally De Backer -- drummer with the Basics. The Australian artist behind the 2012 smash "Somebody Tha...
Wally's Back! Before Gotye conquered charts around the globe with "Somebody That I Used To Know", he toured small pubs around Australia with a side pr...
audiences and genres are vanishing faster than the Polar ice caps. Our rundown of the ten best covers from each year of the last decade runs from an i...
