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Original ‘Hamilton’ Cast to Team Up With Jimmy Fallon & The Roots For ‘Global Goal’ Performance
Global Citizen and the European Commission’s all-star lineup for their “Global Goal: Unite for Our Future” concert just got even better. Lin-Manuel Miranda and the original Broadway cast of Hamilton will team up with Jimmy Fallon and The Roots to perform together during the June 27 event, which will shine a light on how the global coronavirus pandemic has disproportionately impacted marginalized communities. The announcement follows exciting news that the original Broadway production of Hamilton, filmed live on stage, will be streaming exclusively on Disney+ on Friday July 3. Miranda, the Hamilton cast, Fallon and The Roots join previously announced performers Miley Cyrus, Shakira, J Balvin, Justin Bieber and Quavo,&n...
Stevie Wonder Denounces Racism & President Trump in Black Lives Matter Video: ‘It’s a Bad Day When I Can See Better Than Your 2020 Vision’
Stevie Wonder celebrated Juneteenth last Friday (June 19), but he wasn’t quite jumping for joy. He urged his fans to keep the momentum of the movement going in his YouTube video from today (June 23) titled “The Universe Is Watching Us.” And Wonder certainly let some state officials, as well as President Donald Trump, know he was watching them closely. “It’s a bad day when I can see better than your 2020 vision,” the blind singer-songwriter quipped in the five-minute video message. He called out North Dakota, South Dakota and Hawaii for being the only three states for not officially recognizing Juneteenth, the day slavery ended in America. “How did it feel to celebrate freedom that we’re still fighting for? Hm, it felt and feels too famil...
Paris Jackson & Gabriel Glenn Release Debut EP as The Soundflowers
Paris Jackson and Gabriel Glenn have debuted their new musical group, The Soundflowers, with a self-titled EP that arrived on Tuesday (June 23) via Imperial. The five-track EP features lead single “Your Look (Glorious),” with its simply romantic music video below, plus the highly anticipated “Geronimo,” which Jackson wrote when she was 15, inspired by loss, heartbreak and letting go. [embedded content] “A lot of our music, some of the songs on the EP and some of the songs that have yet to come are about pain,” Jackson said in a statement. “I’m sure to many it will come off as emo and sad, and that’s okay. But my hope is that it brings comfort to those who feel the way I did when I wrote the songs, especially ‘Geronimo.’ I’d like for the listeners wh...
Miami Dolphins Rookie QB Reached Out to His Celebrity Music Crush and She Said ‘Thank You Baby’
Miami Dolphins rookie quarterback Tua Tagovailoa did a Q&A on Twitter recently in which he gave fans a peek into his private life, weighing in on whether pineapple should ever be on pizza (nope), the strangest thing a fan ever said to him (that they named their dog after him) and what peanut butter would be called if it wasn’t called peanut butter (peanut cream). But it was when he was asked who his favorite guilty pleasure singer was that things got interesting. You see, Tagovailoa, 22, said Shania Twain, but then he also said she was his celebrity crush. “Shania if you watch this, from this moment on, please message me back,” he said. Here’s where things got interesting. It seems Shania, 54, caught wind of Tua’s feelings and she tweeted back on Sunday, w...
Scotty McCreery’s ‘In Between’ Tops Country Airplay Chart: ‘It Means More Than I Can Say’
Plus, Kenny Chesney adds his 53rd Hot Country Songs top 10. Scotty McCreery notches his third consecutive and total No. 1 on Billboard‘s Country Airplay chart, as “In Between” blasts from No. 8 to the top of the list dated June 27. In the tracking week ending June 21, the song increased by 25% to 26.7 million audience impressions. It drew its biggest gains on WIVK Knoxville, Tenn. (up 324,000 impressions); WKHK Richmond, Va. (up 260,000); WNSH New York (up 247,000) and KSCS Dallas (up 235,000). The track’s 8-1 flight is the second-greatest to the Country Airplay summit in the chart’s 30-year history. On the Oct. 12, 1991-dated survey, another song with “between” in its title leapt 9-1: Ricky Van Shelton’s “Keep It Between the Lines.R...
Matchbox Twenty Reschedules Summer Tour to 2021: See the New Dates
Matchbox Twenty announced the rescheduled dates for their U.S. summer tour today (June 22), which will run from July to October 2021. The major arena/amphitheater jaunt will now kick off in Uncasville’s Mohegan Sun Arena on July 16 and snake across the country before wrapping in Los Angeles’ Hollywood Bowl on Oct. 7. Ticketholders will be honored for the new dates but can still request a refund if they’re unable to attend. The Palms Casino Resort tour stop in Las Vegas is the only one that’s been canceled. It remains unclear if The Wallflowers will still accompany the Rob Thomas-led rock troupe for the four-month-long North American journey. But Matchbox Twenty will still make these nights to remember even more special with limited-edition “instant&#...
Seal Remembers Joel Schumacher, Says Director Turned ‘Kiss From a Rose’ Into a Hit
Seal on Monday (June 22) told a story he said was not well-known about his classic song “Kiss From a Rose,” which Joel Schumacher helped make a huge hit. The director died Monday. He was 80. In a video that was more than five minutes long, the musician sang a few bars of his song before telling the story of how it was a flop in 1994 before Schumacher fell in love with it and used it on the soundtrack for Batman Forever in 1995. “It was the fourth single from my second album. It went into the charts at No. 60 and dropped to No. 80-something the next week and that was the end of it. It was over,” Seal explained. While he was in the studio working on his next album, he got a call from Schumacher who said he was seeking a song to use during the love scene in his Batman ...
Carly Pearce Files for Divorce From Michael Ray After 8 Months of Marriage
Carly Pearce and Michael Ray have called it a quits after eight months of marriage as Pearce just filed for divorce, a rep confirmed to Billboard. People originally broke the story today (June 22). “This was a hard decision. It wasn’t something she wanted to have to do,” a source close to Pearce told People. “This hasn’t been a quarantine realization — it was a last resort.” The “Her World or Mine” singer told People earlier that the couple split their time during the COVID-19 pandemic between their Nashville home and their families’ homes. He even quarantined with Pearce in her parents’ coastal Alabama house for a month. But Ray also admitted that despite all the rest the two were getting, they...
New COVID-19 Rules Mean That the Party Is Over for Ibiza Super-Clubs This Season
Sweeping new rules designed to curb “alcohol abuse” on the island also outlaw party boats, pub crawls and balcony jumping. The verdict is in, and the party is over for Ibiza super-clubs this summer. On Sunday (June 21), the Balearic government announced new rules pertaining to nightclubs and outdoor venues for the dance mecca of Ibiza in the context of COVID-19. These regulations ensure that the island’s biggest clubs and other mid-sized venues will stay closed for the 2020 season. For indoor spaces, the rules state that only venues with a stated capacity of 300 or less are allowed to open for the season and will only be allowed to open at one-third capacity. This means there can only be up to 100 people at a time inside a club, that they must be seated and that there can...
BTS & Big Hit Entertainment Donate $1 Million to Crew Nation
BTS and management company Big Hit Entertainment have donated $1 million to Crew Nation, Live Nation’s charitable effort to live show staff impacted by the coronavirus pandemic, according to Variety. “This is one of the largest artist donations that has been raised for the Crew Nation fund since its conception,” an announcement to the publication read. “If it weren’t for COVID-19, we would have been happily touring across the world with many of our live concert crews by now,” said the K-pop superstars in a statement. “We are aware that a lot of communities need help due to COVID-19, and we wanted to support the music industry crews by making a donation. We hope to meet again on stage very soon.” The generous notions comes just weeks after BTS and Big Hit Ente...
BTS Takes Over ‘UNO! Mobile’ for Limited In-Game Event
Collectibles, card sleeves, avatars, voice packs, icon borders and game backgrounds featuring the South Korean boy band will be available. South Korean boy band BTS is taking over UNO! Mobile, the electronic version of the classic card game. Mattel163, the publishing and development studio from toy giant Mattel and internet company NetEase, unveiled the collaboration on Tuesday. They describe the BTS appearance as a limited in-game event with themed collectibles such as card sleeves, avatars, voice packs, icon borders and game backgrounds available for players on iOs, Android and the Facebook app. Among the activities, there will be competitive and cooperative in-game challenges with the chance to unlock rewards and collect tokens to use in the BTS-themed claw machine. “We&...
Which ‘Global Goal: Unite for Our Future’ Concert Performer Are You Most Excited For? Vote!
Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson will host the “Global Goal: Unite for Our Future” concert Saturday (June 27) to support the disproportionately affected communities of the COVID-19 pandemic. But which performer are you looking forward to rocking your world? Justin Bieber and Quavo will hit the virtual stage together for “Intentions,” which just reached No. 1 on the Billboard Pop Songs radio airplay chart (dated June 27). Although not performing together, Colombian superstars Shakira and J Balvin might reignite the Latin music power of the Super Bowl LIV halftime show performance with their sets. And if Chloe x Halle‘s performance is anything like the sisters’ recent at-home television stints from their backyard, then it’s b...
