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Anne-Marie & Doja Cat Romanticize What It’s Like ‘To Be Young’ in New Single
Anne-Marie and Doja Cat know that your formative years have their ups and downs, but that’s just what what it’s like “To Be Young.” In the new collaboration, the female duo paint a glittery daydream of youth straight out of a coming-of-age movie. “Fall in love, broken heart / Break the rules, drink too much / We’re all a mess, but I guess / This is what it feels like to be young,” they belt in the anthemic chorus. In the accompanying quarantine-style video, Anne-Marie and Doja sing the tune around their respective homes with colorful effects. “To Be Young” follows Anne-Marie’s recent single, “Love Me Land,” which dropped earlier this month. Stream it below. [embedded content] You Deserve to Make Money Even When you are...
DJ Khaled and Drake Team up for ‘Popstar’ and ‘Greece’: Listen
DJ Khaled doesn’t do b-list collaborations. The Miami emcee and music man tapped none other than Drake for his latest work, which spills out over two tracks, “Popstar” and “Greece.” It’s all part of a big plan for the We the Best chief, who this week revealed the title of his forthcoming 12th studio album, Khaled Khaled, due out later this year. Drizzy and Khaled go way back. The hip-hop megastars worked on the track “I’m on One,” which peaked at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 2011. And they joined forces on the tracks “For Free” and “Fed Up.” New tracks “Popstar” and “Greece” dropped at midnight. They’re the first tunes from the new album, and both can be streamed in full below. [embedded co...
The Prince Estate Drops Unreleased Track ‘I Could Never Take the Place of Your Man (1979 Version)’
The Prince Estate partnered with Warner Records to drop the previously unreleased song “I Could Never Take The Place Of Your Man (1979 Version)” today (July 16). The track will be featured on the upcoming expanded reissue of the late pop star’s iconic ninth album Sign o’ the Times this fall. Prince originally recorded the song, which layers his voice nine times, in Studio A at Hollywood Sound Recorders on May 23, 1979 during sessions for his 1979 self-titled sophomore album. He retrieved it from the vault and re-recorded it in 1986 with a guitar solo and updated sound that made its way onto the 1987 album, which peaked at No. 6 on the Billboard 200. Fans can head to Prince’s Instagram and Twitter to read the full handwritten lyrics sheet. &...
Watch Kygo Discuss His Favorite Summer Activities & Preview His Upcoming Performance With Ryan Tedder
Tedder and the producer will perform tomorrow (July 17) as part of iHeartRadio’s ongoing ‘Summer Camp With the Stars’ series If you went to summer camp as a kid, you know how meaningful it was to spend those glorious golden days running around the woods and making new friends around the campfire. But with COVID-19 closing and dramatically reducing the capacity of summer camps around the world, iHeartRadio is offering an alternative with their Summer Camp with the Stars series. This week’s installation will feature a performance from Kygo and OneRepublic frontman Ryan Tedder, who teamed up like camp buddies in a three-legged race for “Lose Somebody,” from Kygo’s latest LP Golden Hour. The album is currently in the No. 2 position on Billboa...
Still Mixing It Up While Clubs Are Closed: Kaskade, Diplo, Katy Perry & More Stay-at-Home DJ Picks
Each week, Billboard is polling club DJs, with venues shuttered due to the coronavirus. With clubs closed across the country and Billboard’s Dance Club Songs chart on hiatus, we’re asking reporting club DJs what they’ve been listening to lately, while at home, of course. This week, we spoke with Detroit DJ Captn20; Los Angeles’ SRO; and Las Vegas’ Marc Stout. Captn20Captn20 (real name: Nick Haddad) has been enjoying Tony Arzadon and Kendall Huggins’ “Right Now,” from the former’s new album of original music, From Within. “This track has great energy and the synthesized vocal is perfect,” Captn20 tells Billboard. “It’s great for any club setting or just to get hyped to at the gym. Tony is a super-talented DJ, prod...
Will Smith Serves Up New Quarantine Mix: Hear ‘Lo-Fi Summertime Beats to Social Distance To’
Summer, summer, summertime, time to sit back and unwind! On Friday (July 10), Will Smith dropped his second quarantine mix on YouTube. Titled “Lo-Fi Summertime Beats to Social Distance To,” the mix contains tracks by rising producers and artists including Yungmaple (“Two Door Coupe”), Rinse Cycle (“Solitude”), Bloopr (“Cold History”) and more. The 90-minute mix kicks off with a popular quote by Smith from 2007 interview with CBS News, in which he admits, “I’ve never really viewed myself as particularly talented. Where I excel is ridiculous, sickening work ethic.” As Smith’s voice echoes, the mix launches into Don_Solo’s “Sentimental Feelings” and the camera pans out to reveal an illustration of the ra...
Anita ‘Lady A’ White Makes Her Case as a Black Female Independent Artist: ‘Sometimes All We Have Is Our Name’
Anita “Lady A” White spelled out her stage name squabble with country trio Lady A, formerly known as Lady Antebellum, in an interview with ABC News Live Prime yesterday (July 14). “I have built this name for decades before they were born, and I’ve been building it,” the 61-year-old singer argued as part of her case during the TV segment. She later compared the “grind” of independent musicians to BIPOC, or Black, Indigenous people of color, saying “Sometimes all we have is our name. We don’t want to have that taken from us. Our culture gets taken, our music gets taken. This is more important for those that come behind me.” In June, the country trio (Hillary Scott, Charles Kelley and David Haywood) announced on&n...
Ruido Fest 2020 Is Officially Canceled, But Already Has 2021 Dates and a Headliner
Café Tacvba announced as headliner for next year’s edition. Ruido Fest 2020 has officially canceled this year’s edition due to the COVID-19 pandemic. “We’re very disappointed that we won’t be celebrating with you this summer, but the progress of the COVID-19 pandemic means that our primary focus is everyone’s health and safety,” organizers of the Chicago independent festival said in a statement. As coronavirus cases continue to surge across the country, Ruido Fest is moving to Aug. 20-22, 2021, with Café Tacvba announced as a headliner for next year’s festival. The Latinx-focused event’s cancellation joins other fests such as Los Dells, Coachella and Lollapalooza, who all officially canceled their 2020 editions. Launched in 2015, Ruido Fest has feat...
DMX Will Challenge Snoop Dogg for Verzuz ‘Battle of the Dogs’
There’s a dogfight coming to #Verzuz. In what’s billed as “The battle of the dogs,” DMX will square off with Snoop Dogg for the next round of the Verzuz series, due to take place July 22. There are no puppies in this stoush. DMX’s decades-long career includes 15 visits to the Billboard Hot 100. Snoop, of course, is a mainstream superstar with a long list of movie credits, TV series and no less than 43 Hot 100 hits, including three No. 1s: “Drop It Like It’s Hot” (featuring Pharrell), and assists on Akon’s “I Wanna Love You” and Katy Perry’s “California Gurls”. Verzuz was launched in March by hip-hop producers Timbaland and Swizz Beatz. Starting life as a 20-song showdown between evenly matched producers, the series has also come to enlist writers and performers. Some of the hottest b...
Maroon 5’s Mickey Madden Takes Leave of Absence After Arrest: Reports
Mickey Madden of Maroon 5 has taken a leave of absence from the band, according to several published reports. The bass player steps away from the Los Angeles pop-rock outfit just weeks after his arrest for alleged domestic violence. “I have some things that I need to deal with and address right now and so I have decided to leave Maroon 5,” Madden said in a statement to Rolling Stone. “During this time,” the statement continues, “I do not want to be a distraction to my bandmates. I wish them the absolute best.” As previously reported, Madden was arrested on June 27. The LAPD provided the charge as “273.5(a),” which, according to the California penal code, is “”any person who willfully inflicts corporal injury resulting in a traumatic condition upon a vict...
Mason Ramsey Yodels About Reducing Cow-Based Methane Emissions in New Burger King Commercial
Mason Ramsey sings till the cows come home after enjoying their eco-friendly lemongrass diet in the latest Burger King commercial that came out today (July 14). “When cows fart and burp and splatter/ well it ain’t no laughing matter/ They’re releasing methane every time they do/ And then methane from their rear goes up through the atmosphere/ And pollutes our planet, warming me and you,” Ramsey sings while exiting out of a cow’s rear in a rhinestoned white suit and ascending into outer space. But no one’s laughing in their matching rhinestoned gas masks to exemplify the dangers of cow-based greenhouse gas emissions. The 13-year-old twanging star yodels about the fast-food franchise’s latest experiment to find a diet for “reducing meth-aa-aa-aane, m...
Britney Spears Busts a Move to Billie Eilish’s ‘Bury a Friend’ in New Dance Video
The pop queen crossover we needed. Britney Spears took to Instagram on Tuesday (July 14) to share one of her classic dance video posts. She often dances to a Michael Jackson song, but this time, Brit opted for a Billie Eilish smash hit. Spears busted a move to Eilish’s eerie “bury a friend,” hitting every note as she danced around her house. “Need I say more …..Billie !!!!!” she wrote in the caption with nerd face and star emojis. “I know ….. I should makeup on and brush my hair but I just wanna dance,” she continued. Here’s to hoping we’ll get an Eilish/Spears collaboration soon. Watch the dance video below. You Deserve to Make Money Even When you are looking for Dates Online. So we reimagined what a dating should be. It be...
