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Yungblud Reveals Release Date for Sophomore Album ‘Weird!’: ‘Embrace the Strange’
The set from the rising U.K. star is slated to arrive Nov. 13 via Interscope Records. Yungblud announced his forthcoming sophomore album, Weird!, on Thursday morning (Sept. 17) via social media. “WEIRD! the album will be released on friday 13th of november,” the rising star wrote on Instagram. “I cannot wait for you to fall into this world with me. together let’s re define what it means to be ‘different’. embrace the strange. never settle for being anything less than 100% who you are, even if that’s 15 different people all at the same time.” The slideshow posted by the U.K. singer-songwriter reveals the album cover art, which features Yungblud inhabiting seven distinct, gender-bending characters leaning against a bright blue wall of corrugated metal, as ...
Gabby Barrett Belts ‘I Hope’ at 2020 ACM Awards
Rising country star Gabby Barrett hit the stage at the 2020 ACM Awards on Wednesday (Sept. 16) evening to perform her country smash “I Hope.” Wearing a sparkly white top and cape, the American Idol veteran belted out her Hot Country Songs No. 1 with gusto as her guitarist strummed along. Barrett is nominated for best new female artist of the year at the 2020 ACM Awards. 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.
Who Should Play Madonna in Her Biopic? Vote!
Madonna is underway co-writing (and soon directing) her biopic that Universal Pictures confirmed Tuesday (Sept. 15), but she’s still searching for a star to portray her. Fans began suspecting she has her eye on Primetime Emmy-winning Ozark actress Julia Garner after they noticed the singer and her manager Guy Oseary had followed the 26-year-old star on Instagram. Miley Cyrus is a fan-favorite option, especially for their striking resemblance in photo shoots and jaw-dropping musical career moments. But casting Lady Gaga would rebirth the star on the silver screen and potentially snag her more Oscars. Paris Jackson, daughter of the King of Pop Michael Jackson, was always rumored to play the Queen of Pop for an earlier biopic about her Blonde Ambition ...
All Time Low Earns First Radio Chart No. 1 With ‘Monsters’
The band crowns Alternative Airplay with its Blackbear-assisted hit. In its first appearance on Billboard‘s Alternative Airplay chart, All Time Low is a winner, as “Monsters,” featuring Blackbear, rises to No. 1 on the Sept. 19-dated ranking. While All Time Low’s discography dates to its 2005 debut album The Party Scene, “Monsters” became the first song from the pop-punkers to reach Alternative Airplay when it debuted in late May. Now the song marks All Time Low’s first radio chart No. 1. The act previously hit a No. 13 best on the Adult Pop Songs airplay chart with “Good Times” in 2017. Blackbear also scores his first airplay No. 1 after reaching a No. 2 high on Pop Songs with “Hot Girl Bummer” in March. All Time Low i...
My Morning Jacket Nabs First Adult Alternative Songs No. 1 With ‘Feel You’
The rockers rule after first charting in 2008. My Morning Jacket reaches No. 1 on a Billboard songs chart for the first time, with “Feel You” crowning the Adult Alternative Songs airplay list dated Sept. 19. The song surpasses the Kentucky band’s previous best peak, as “I’m Amazed” hit No. 5 on Adult Alternative Songs in 2008. That also marked the act’s first appearance on a Billboard radio chart. The act is the fifth to land a first Adult Alternative Songs No. 1 in 2020. Two bands completed a similarly lengthy career trajectory: The Strokes (“Bad Decisions”) and Tame Impala (“Lost in Yesterday”) also landed multiple successful albums prior to reigning for the first time. Concurrently, “Feel You” jumps into the t...
Janelle Monae Shares Powerful ‘Turntables’ Video for ‘All In: The Fight for Democracy’ Film
Janelle Monae knows “the table ’bout to turn.” That’s the message in her empowering new music video for “Turntables,” in tandem with Amazon Studios’ #AllInForVoting bipartisan campaign to inspire viewership for their Stacey Abrams-backed film, All In: The Fight for Democracy. The video shows the devastating footage of racial oppression and police brutality in protests for justice, before it transforms into an emotional display of Black strength, excellence and achievement. “We kicking out the old regime / Liberation, elevation, education / I said ‘America, yousa lie’ / But the whole world ’bout to testify,” Janelle proclaims in the heartfelt lyrics. [embedded content] The song, featured in the film, is part o...
Ava Max Had Doubts About Her Pop Career: ‘I Never Thought I Would Make It Through’
A little over a year after Ava Max’s breakthrough single “Sweet But Psycho” peaked at No. 10 on the Billboard Hot 100 in June of 2019 — she’s coasting up the chart again with her new hit, “Kings & Queens.” The track’s success comes at the perfect time, as the pop singer/songwriter’s debut album, Heaven & Hell, will be released on Sept. 18. What’s it been like for Max to see “Kings & Queens” climb up the charts? (The track also rises 24-22 on the Pop Songs airplay chart dated Sept. 19.) “I feel so grateful to even be releasing music and people are listening! Especially during a pandemic!” Max tells the Billboard Pop Shop Podcast (listen below). “I know that a lot of people are struggling right now. Music, for me, is medicine. And I just couldn’t hold it back anymore and I&...
Just How Global Are the New Global Billboard Charts?
The two new surveys feature artists from more than 30 international territories. MRC yesterday announced the launch of the two new global Billboard surveys, which are powered by MRC Data/Nielsen Music: the Billboard Global 200 and the Billboard Global Excl. U.S. charts. The two lists, one inclusive of worldwide songs (Billboard Global 200) and the other including all territories but excluding the U.S. (Billboard Global Excl. U.S.), rank songs based on streaming and sales activity culled from more than 200 territories around the world. Chart rankings are based on a weighted formula incorporating official-only streams on both subscription and ad-supported tiers of audio and video music services, as well as download sales from full-service digital music retailers from around the world. Cardi ...
Lil Nas X Has a Children’s Book on the Way
L is for Lil Nas X, and C Is for Country! The “Old Town Road” star took to Instagram on Tuesday (Sept. 15) to announce that his new children’s book, C Is for Country, will be arriving early next year. “I’m dropping the best kids book of all time soon!” he wrote. “C IS FOR COUNTRY, out January 5, 2021 from @randomhousekids. I can’t wait to share it with you all.” The book, written by Lil Nas X and illustrated by Theodore Taylor III, features a cover featuring the singer in his characteristically colorful outfit, holding a guitar and riding his horse. The story follows Lil Nas X and Panini the pony “on a joyous journey through the alphabet from sunup to sundown,” according to Random House’s website. “...
David Guetta’s Guide to His Nine (!!) Collaborations With Sia
Together, David Guetta and Sia have been two of the key architects of the bridge between dance music and pop music. The French producer and the Australian singer first struck sonic gold nearly a decade ago, with their monumental and era-defining smash “Titanium,” which fused Guetta’s electronic production with Sia’s indestructible pop vocals. Although Guetta originally offered the song to Katy Perry, this past July Perry revealed that she turned it down because the vocalist on the demo, Sia, was so damn good. The world agreed, with the track becoming Sia’s highest charting song at the time and “Titanium” spending 13 weeks on the Hot 100, where it peaked at No. 7. The success of the song also opened the floodgates for a barrage of Guetta/Sia collabs...
Which Artist Should Write & Direct Their Own Biopic Next? Vote!
Madonna is bringing her superstar life to the silver screen once more as she co-writes and directs her own biopic, Universal Pictures confirmed today (Sept. 15). But which artist’s auto-biopic would you love to watch next? Back in 2016, Harry Styles was rumored to play Mick Jagger in The Rolling Stones‘ biopic Exile On Main Street: A Season in Hell With the Rolling Stones. But the Stylers would still love to see the former One Directioner steal the main spotlight in a Jagger auto-biopic. It’s still actress Taraji P. Henson‘s dream to one day portray (and produce) a project about her icon Diana Ross, according to a press junket interview she did in support of her 2019 movie What Men Want. “I don’t know if she’s rea...
Don’t Freak Out, But Ariana Grande Posted a New Song Snippet and Lyric
It’s been more than a year since Ariana Grande dropped her No. 1 album Thank U, Next and it sounds like the singer is gearing up for her follow-up. On Monday (Sept. 14) Grande posted a snippet of a new song along with what appeared to be a lyric, sending Arianators into overdrive with the prospect of fresh tracks. “Know my love infinite nothing that i won’t do,” read the lyric, which she posted a few hours before she dropped a five-second clip of a melodic, wordless vocal harmony with the message “brb.” And while no information was available at press time about what Grande is cooking up, in an interview earlier this year with Apple Music’s Zane Lowe, she mentioned that she was working on a song with Doja Cat. “I’m obsessed with her. I l...
