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Shawn Mendes Talks ‘Wonder’, Camila Cabello and Performs Medley on ‘Fallon’: Watch
Mendes is on a roll, with his first three studio albums all hitting No. 1 on the Billboard 200 chart, an achievement he managed by the age of 20. Now he’s a seasoned industry professional at just 22, and he’ll hope to continue that chart streak with his fourth studio album, Wonder, due out Dec. 4. On Wednesday, the singer dished up two new works from it, “Intro,” which he performed at the piano, and the title track, “Wonder,” an epic number with touches of gospel which he performed with a full band. “I wonder what it’s like to be loved by you,” he sings, bouncing around the stage with boundless energy. The kid hasn’t lost a step during the lockdown. The pop artist also sat for a chat with host Jimmy Fallon on life, love and his new album. He’s been quarantining with his girlfri...
Taylor Swift Reflects on ‘RED’: ‘My True Breakup Album’
“I look back on this as my true breakup album, every other album has flickers of different things,” she says in a snippet. “But this was an album that I wrote specifically about pure, absolute, to the core, heartbreak.” It might have been a painful time for Taylor, but boy Swifties love the album. Swift’s 2012 first foray into pop debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 chart (with 1.21 million first week sales) and finished the year as the second best-selling album. It was also Swift’s first chart leader in the U.K., and it ruled surveys in Canada, Australia and elsewhere. Listen to the snippet below. You Deserve to Make Money Even When you are looking for Dates Online. So we reimagined what a dating should be. It begins with giving you back power. Get to meet Beautiful people, chat and mak...
Mulatto Performs Magic City Medley of Recent Hits With Gucci Mane at 2020 BET Hip Hop Awards
In her first appearance at the BET Hip Hop Awards on Tuesday night (Oct. 27), Atlanta rapper Mulatto performed a medley of singles from her breakout year, with a special appearance from local legend Gucci Mane. Appearing from the stage (and then the parking lot) at the world-famous ATL strip club Magic City, Mulatto ran through her Billboard Hot 100 hit “B–ch From Da Souf” and current radio staple “Muwop.” Mane appeared for his guest verse on “Muwop,” which was both titled after the veteran MC’s “Guwop” nickname, and heavily interpolates his 2007 single “Freaky Gurl.” You Deserve to Make Money Even When you are looking for Dates Online. So we reimagined what a dating should be. It begins with giving you back power. Get...
American Music Awards Adds Three Latin Categories, Matching It With Soul/R&B and Rap/Hip-Hop
The expansion of coverage for Latin music in the AMAs is a clear signal of the genre’s increasing popularity and crossover appeal. The AMAs are a ratings-driven show. If they do something, it’s because they think it’s what the audience wants and demands. A quick history lesson: Dick Clark created the AMAs in 1973 as a more viewer-friendly, populist answer to the Grammy Awards. Clark, a canny showman, seemed to be saying, “Let the Grammys honor classical and jazz and all the other specialized music forms. We’ll zero in on the genres that most people care about.” For the first five years of the show, 1974-78, there were just 15 awards — five each in the three genres with the broadest appeal at the time — pop/rock, soul/R&B and country. In 1979, disco was red-hot. The show res...
Five Burning Questions: Gabby Barrett Climbs to No. 6 on the Hot 100 With Charlie Puth-Assisted ‘I Hope’
1. “I Hope” hits a new peak of No. 6 on the Hot 100 this week in its 43rd week on the chart — dating back to early January. On a scale from 1-10, how surprised are you that it’s still climbing this deep into its chart run? Katie Atkinson: I think I’m a 2. This song hit me like a ton of bricks when it came out — thanks to that seemingly sweet first verse leading into a spiteful wrecking ball of chorus — so I knew it had a strong chance to make a big impact both in the world of country and beyond. The only reason I’m a 2 instead of a 1 is that I might not have predicted that it would climb all the way to the Hot 100 top 10. That’s massive — especially for an American Idol alum in the year 2020. Jason Lipshutz:&n...
Faithless Explore the ‘Human Spirit’ With ‘All Blessed,’ First Album In 10 Years
The track, recounts founding member Sister Bliss, had a life of its own. “’Insomnia’ took a year-and-a-half to become a hit,” she tells Billboard over the phone from her home in the England. Early on, the record lived underused in DJs’ vinyl cases. Then, broadcaster and DJ Pete Tong championed the track, the evergreen monster took on a life in clubland across Europe. A radio edit was cut at a more conventional 3-and-a-half minutes, and the single went to No. 3 on the Official U.K. Singles Chart. With a core of Sister Bliss, frontman Maxi Jazz, and producer Rollo (whose sister Dido has recorded with the act), Faithless would become mainstage festival crowd-pleasers, and one of the biggest acts of their kind. Now signed to BMG, the outfit has sold more than 15 million albums worl...
Bruce Springsteen’s ‘Letter To You’ Opens Big Lead In U.K. Chart Race
At the midweek point, it’s outselling the rest of the Top 5 combined, and is the most-purchased album (physical and download) and most-streamed new release so far this week. Damon Albarn’s virtual group Gorillaz have the No. 2 album on the chart blast with Song Machine, Season One: Strange Timez (Parlophone). Should it stay on course, Song Machine will be Gorillaz’ 6th Top 5 album. Next up, at No. 3, is English rock band Nothing But Thieves with Moral Panic (RCA), which should become their third successive U.K. Top 10 album, while Blossoms’ lockdown covers collection In Isolation (EMI), recorded at the Plaza Theatre, starts at No. 4. Completing an all-new Top 5 is Faithless’ All Blessed (BMG). It’s the veteran British electronic act’s first album of new material in 10 years, and first rele...
24kGoldn and Iann Dior Bring the Energy for ‘Mood’ Performance on ‘Kimmel’: Watch
24kGoldn has mined some precious metal in “Mood.” The San Francisco rapper’s breakout track is a global hit, hitting top spot on sales charts in the U.S., U.K., Australia and elsewhere. All this by the age of just 19. On Monday (Oct. 26), Golden Landis Von Jones stopped by Jimmy Kimmel Live for an energetic performance of his smash, with his collaborator Iann Dior and a full band in support. You Deserve to Make Money Even When you are looking for Dates Online. So we reimagined what a dating should be. It begins with giving you back power. Get to meet Beautiful people, chat and make money in the process. Earn rewards by chatting, sharing photos, blogging and help give users back their fair share of Internet revenue.
Rina Sawayama Brings Drama and Dance to ‘XS’ Performance on ‘Fallon’: Watch
Rina Sawayama is hot right now. The Japan-born, Britain-based artist’s debut LP Sawayama has critics salivating, she opened for Charli XCX on her 2019 Charli Live Tour and has been championed by Elton John. On Monday night (Oct. 26), the singer and songwriter made her U.S. TV debut on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, performing the Sawayama track “XS”. You Deserve to Make Money Even When you are looking for Dates Online. So we reimagined what a dating should be. It begins with giving you back power. Get to meet Beautiful people, chat and make money in the process. Earn rewards by chatting, sharing photos, blogging and help give users back their fair share of Internet revenue.
A No. 1 Song Written by a Solitary Songwriter Is Becoming a Thing of the Past
Billboard’s Gary Trust wrote about this phenomenon five years ago (see above). Trust’s conclusion: “Pop hits penned by just one writer are now almost completely anachronistic.” When Trust made that blunt assessment in October 2015, no song written by just one songwriter had reached No. 1 since Pharrell Williams’ “Happy” (which he wrote) 19 months prior. In the five years since Trust’s article, “Perfect” is the only song written by just one writer to reach the top spot. You don’t have to go back to the days of Irving Berlin and Cole Porter to find a time when it was utterly normal for big hits to be written by just one person. Sixteen songs reached No. 1 on the Hot 100 in 1980. Twelve of them were written by individual songwriters working alone. Even more recently, 10 of the 12 singles that...
Texan Singer Desz Gets 4-Chair Turn With ‘Unbreak My Heart’ Cover on ‘The Voice’: Watch
“Let me tell you why we were so enthralled by your performance. That is not an easy song to sing,” John Legend explained to the rest of the world. “You did a lot of things that personalized the song for you.” “The fact that you chose that song means that you just set the bar, and it’s pretty high, because you’re insane,” enthused fellow Texan Kelly Clarkson. And which team did she pick? NBC left it on a cliffhanger. Watch the performance below. You Deserve to Make Money Even When you are looking for Dates Online. So we reimagined what a dating should be. It begins with giving you back power. Get to meet Beautiful people, chat and make money in the process. Earn rewards by chatting, sharing photos, blogging and help give users back their fair share of Internet revenue.
Seven Stages, Daily Tests, Color-Coding: How COVID-19 Shaped the 2020 Billboard Latin Music Awards
We spoke with Black about how she conceived and executed the most challenging show of her career. The pay-off? The 2020 Billboard Latin Music Awards reached 3.5 million total viewers on linear television, ranking as the No. 1 Spanish-language special in primetime since the onset of the pandemic, according to Nielsen NPM. It also generated 45.9 million engagements across Telemundo-owned platforms plus 38 million engagements across other platforms. You also produce the Latin AMAs, where you have two stages. Here, you had seven. Can you break that down for us? COVID was a determining factor in how the show was produced. We had seven stages, but we had to design them so they didn’t feel separate. We had two where the nominations were presented; we had one for the show host; and then we had fou...
