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Drake Assists Yung Bleu on ‘You’re Mines Still’ Remix: Stream It Now
Drake has more assists than Rajon Rondo. He’s just notched another, this time lending his talents to the remix of Yung Bleu’s “You’re Mines Still”. The original cut appeared as the opening track on Bleu’s album Love Scars: The 5 Stages of Emotions, which arrived in October. The rapper from Mobile, Alabama, has been on fire. He LP Bleu Vandross 3, a nod to his R&B idol Luther Vandross, dropped earlier this year, and two full-length albums came in 2019. 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 re...
Meet the Voices of Latin Protest Music
One of Brazil’s best-known singers and political activists, Veloso purposely wrote this upbeat tune about freedom in a rock’n’roll style, hoping to provoke Brazilian youth as a military dictatorship engulfed the country. Though Veloso’s use of electric guitars drew boos from a festival crowd, the song still became one of the most revered of the tropicália movement, and Veloso’s most popular in his five-decade career, with its urgent refrain about wanting “to keep living”: “Why not? Why not?” Víctor Jara, “Manifiesto” (1974) The Chilean singer-songwriter and Communist activist wrote this hauntingly wistful folk song — a testament to his reason for becoming a revolutionary artist — just weeks before he was tortured and shot to death by soldiers of Augusto Pinochet in the dictator’s September...
BTS Label Big Hit Entertainment Doubles Shares in Smash Stock Market Debut
A strong debut was expected by industry analysts given BTS’ enormous fanbase, officially termed the BTS ARMY, who are quick to pounce on virtual and physical concert tickets, album collectibles and other extensive merchandise lines. BTS accounted for more than 80% of the company’s revenue during the first half of 2020, according to a report by investment management company Samsung Securities. The group — consisting of members J-Hope, RM, Suga, Jungkook, V, Jin and Jiminwhich — launched in 2013 and has since performed sold-out shows across the world, breaking numerous Billboard chart records in the process. BTS became the first K-pop act to top the Billboard Hot 100 last month with “Dynamite,” their first all-English song, and this week occupies the top two slo...
‘The Boys’ Take Entire Top Five of September 2020’s Top TV Songs Chart
It’s followed by a pair of Billy Joel songs (“We Didn’t Start the Fire”; No. 2, 7.3 million streams, 3,000 downloads, and “Pressure”; No. 4, 844,000 streams, 2,000 downloads), The Rolling Stones’ “Sympathy for the Devil” (No. 3, 5.2 million streams, 2,000 downloads) and Talking Heads’ “Psycho Killer” (No. 5, 2.9 million streams, 2,000 downloads). Billie Eilish’s “Listen Before I Go” is the first song on the chart not from The Boys (and recorded in the last few decades), coming in at No. 6 (7.6 million streams) after being heard in the third episode of the third season of Netflix’s Baby (Sept. 16). See the full top 10, which also features entries from The 100, P-Valley and Power Book II, below. Rank, Song, Artist, Show (Network)1. “Dream On,” Aerosmith, The Boys (Amazon)2. ...
Post Malone, Billie Eilish & More Artists Who Made History at the 2020 Billboard Music Awards
Here are 14 artists not named Post who made history at the show. Billie Eilish: The teen phenom’s When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go? won top Billboard 200 album, nearly nine months after it won the Grammy for album of the year. It’s the fourth album in the past 10 years to receive both of these awards, following Adele’s 21 and 25 and Taylor Swift’s 1989. Eilish also won top female artist, beating last year’s winner, Ariana Grande, and three-time category champ Swift. Eilish also took top new artist. She’s the first female artist to win in this category since Lorde in 2014. Luke Combs: The 30-year old country star won top country artist for the second year in a row, becoming the first artist to win back-to-back awards in this category since the show’s relaunch in 2011. Swif...
Sam Smith, Maluma, Doja Cat & More to Perform at 2020 MTV EMA
This year’s show will be shot in multiple locations around the world. Sam Smith, Maluma, Doja Cat, Yungblud and Zara Larsson are the first performers announced to appear on the 2020 MTV EMA (Europe Music Awards), which are set to air globally on MTV on Nov. 8. The timing works out especially well for Smith and Yungblud, who are set to release new studio albums near the show date. Smith’s third studio album, Love Goes, is due Oct. 30. Yungblud’s second studio album, Weird!, is due Nov. 13. Maluma and Doja Cat will be performing on the EMA stage for the first time. Maluma is nominated for three awards, including two categories that are newly added this year: best Latin and best virtual live. The latter category was created in response to the COVID-19 pandemic and is expected to be short-live...
The ‘Masked Singer’ Season 4 Eliminates Baby Alien: Here’s Who It Was
“I cannot believe the reveal during tonight’s show… he had us all stumped!,” tweeted judge Nicole Scherzinger. “I was convinced it was a comedian behind the mask.” Wrong! Sanchez rightly earned the nickname Musical Mark when, in 2010, he was invited to attend the Tony Awards as a presenter. Now retired, Sanchez these days calls the shots as an analyst for ESPN, contributing to College Football Live, Get Up and SportsCenter. The former pro baller was sent home after performing Imagine Dragons “It’s Time”. He joins previously unmasked contestants Brian Austin Green (Giraffe), Mickey Rourke (Gremlin) and Busta Rhymes (Dragon). Watch the unmasking on Fox 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 ...
The 12 Can’t Miss Moments From the 2020 Billboard Music Awards
While discussing all the ways we’ve reacted to the music of the past year in her opening monologue, The BBMAs’ third-timer host included this line — along with a little voice crack and self-effacing chuckle. It showed that even if she may have been reading the all-too-relatable line off a teleprompter, she still felt it a little more deeply than she was likely comfortable with. Billie Eilish in the camo pajamas If you wondered if Eilish would be making a body-image statement following a day or two of far too much discussion of her post-pandemic figure, you got your answer from the baggy camouflage-style PJs (“Duck Hunt chic,” as offered by our Stephen Daw in the Billboard Slack) she wore as she accepted her multiple BBMA awards. She had weightier concerns on her mind anyway: “P...
Demi Lovato Shares Emotional Music Video for ‘Commander In Chief’: Watch
Just moments after performing her powerful new song “Commander In Chief” at the 2020 Billboard Music Awards, Demi Lovato has shared its official music video. Co-penned with Julia Michaels, FINNEAS, Justin Tranter and Eren Cannata, the new number is a bold political statement, and it’s intended to mobilize fans to get out and vote just weeks out from the federal election. As part of her call to action, Lovato is posting information on the voting process across her social channels. 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 ...
Megan Thee Stallion’s ‘Don’t Stop’ Debuts at No. 1 on Billboard Triller Charts
The song’s No. 1 debut is concurrent with its No. 30 start on the Billboard Hot 100. After three weeks at No. 1, Dixie D’Amelio’s “Be Happy” relents the top spot on Billboard’s Top Triller U.S. and Top Triller Global charts to Megan Thee Stallion’s “Don’t Stop,” featuring Young Thug, which debuts atop both lists dated Oct. 17. The Top Triller U.S. and Top Triller Global charts highlight the biggest songs on Triller based on a formula blending the amount of views of videos containing a respective song, the level of engagement with those videos and the raw total of videos uploaded featuring each song, according to Triller. Data for the charts is represented on a Friday-Thursday tracking week, with the latest period running Oct. 2-8. “Don’t Stop” was released Oct. 2 and a day later rece...
20 Questions with Matt Stell: Why the ‘Prayed For You’ Singer Says He’s About More Than Just Love Songs
Stell revealed to Billboard how “Prayed For You” changed his life, why he’s usually nerding out on some science book during his downtime and what album is spinning on his turntable right now. 1. How did “Prayed For You” open doors for your career? “Prayed For You” was really what changed everything for me. It turned into a record deal, a song on the radio, a bunch of tour dates, a platinum record and the opportunity to cut and release more music. It’s cliché but it’s true — one song can change everything, and “Prayed for You” is the one that did for me. 2. What do you want fans to learn about you from listening to Better Than That if they’ve only heard “Prayed For You?” “Prayed For You” is big part of what I do, but it’s a bit of an outlier in some ways. The bulk of my music is...
Hipgnosis Buys L.A. Reid’s Music Catalog
“It’s a great pleasure to welcome L.A. Reid and his incredible set of songs to the Hipgnosis family.” Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. “I can’t imagine a better home for my lifetime of music and songs than Hipgnosis,” notes Reid. “Merck and his dream team truly value artists and their creative vision, and I couldn’t be more thrilled to partner with them for this exciting new chapter.” A giant of the U.S. record industry, Reid’s songwriting and production successes include Boyz II Men’s two-time Grammy winning smash “End of the Road,” plus hits with Whitney Houston, Bobby Brown and many more. Reid’s songwriting and producing credits include The Whispers’ “Rock Steady,” Sheena Easton’s “The Lover In Me,” Karyn W...
