“Camden Town is burning down” claimed Amy Winehouse during her Grammy acceptance speech and, unfortunately, parts of it actually were. The fire that ravaged through Camden Market at the weekend received a lot of coverage in the press, and as a result searches for ‘camden’ increased by 250% last week. The top two destinations for searchers were the Camden Lock Market homepage and the Camden local government page, both of which experienced a significant spike in traffic on Sunday.

UK Internet traffic to newspaper websites reached its highest level in over two years last week off the back of a number of big news stories. For the week ending 26 January 2008, 1.48% of all UK Internet visits went to websites in Hitwise’s News and Media – Print category, which includes the websites of national, local and international newspapers, as well as print magazines and trade publications.

Kanye West has grabbed 8 nominations for this year’s Grammy Awards, the most of any nominees. Amy Winehouse is second with 6 nominations. West’s album Graduation is one of the best selling of 2007. It sold nearly 1 million units its first week, an alarming number given today’s music environment. Graduation was nominated for Album of the Year, along with Winehouse’s Back to Black, which was also nominated for song of the year.

Troubled UK singer Amy Winehouse, who began her recent tour to boos, has officially cancelled the remaining shows, The Sun reports. According to the article, Winehouse issued a statement yesterday. The main motivation for the tour’s cancellation appears to be legal troubles of her husband, Blake Fielder-Civil. He has been incarcerated while awaiting trial for the obstruction of justice.

Nu-ravers Klaxons (pictured to the right) were the surprise winners of the Nationwide Mercury Music Prize this week, beating favourite Amy Winehouse. However, it was the ‘troubled’ soul singer that received most of the press attention following her performance at the awards ceremony. Internet searches for 'amy winehouse' have increased by 84% over the last four weeks and have tripled from the 14th January, when her biggest hit "Rehab" went to number one in the UK.