Dance Music
Song of the Week: Beyoncé Caps Off Her Renaissance with “MY HOUSE”
Consequence‘s Song of the Week series highlights the best new releases of the week. Find these new favorites and more on our Spotify Top Songs playlist, and for other great songs from emerging artists, check out our Spotify New Sounds playlist. This week, we’re spotlighting Beyoncé’s ongoing renaissance. A renaissance is a reawakening; a time […] Song of the Week: Beyoncé Caps Off Her Renaissance with “MY HOUSE” Mary Siroky and Consequence Staff
Song of the Week: Beyoncé Caps Off Her Renaissance with “MY HOUSE”
Consequence‘s Song of the Week series highlights the best new releases of the week. Find these new favorites and more on our Spotify Top Songs playlist, and for other great songs from emerging artists, check out our Spotify New Sounds playlist. This week, we’re spotlighting Beyoncé’s ongoing renaissance. A renaissance is a reawakening; a time […] Song of the Week: Beyoncé Caps Off Her Renaissance with “MY HOUSE” Mary Siroky and Consequence Staff
Daft Punk release Random Access Memories (Drumless Edition)
The re-release arrives at the 10-year anniversary of their final studio album, and follows the recent release of a deluxe version. Daft Punk Release Random Access Memories (Drumless Edition): Stream Emma Carey
Maxi Jazz, Singer of Faithless, Dead at 65
Maxi Jazz, singer of the influential UK dance group Faithless, has died at the age of 65. “We are heartbroken to say Maxi Jazz died last night (December 23rd),” the group announced in a Facebook post. “He was a man who changed our lives in so many ways. He gave proper meaning and message to our music. ” “He was also a lovely human being with time for everyone and a wisdom that was both profound and accessible. It was an honour and, of course, a true pleasure to work with him,” the statement added. “He was a brilliant lyricist, a DJ, a Buddhist, a magnificent stage presence, car lover, endless talker, beautiful person, moral compass and genius.” Related Video A separate statement posted to Instagram said Maxi Jazz “died peacefully in his sleep,” but a cause of death was not immediately...
Dance Music Represents More Than 25% of U.K. Top 10 Tracks In 2022
The results are in: the U.K. loves electronic dance music. In fact, they love dance music so much that it accounts for over 25% of the country’s Top 10 tracks this year, according to a new report from record industry trade group BPI. The report concluded that the genre is second only to pop music, which can arguably be categorized as dance these days. BPI’s report suggests that 26.1% of all tracks in the U.K. Singles Top 10 this year are considered dance music. This is an 80% increase from 2021. “Britain has always excelled at dance music, so it’s gratifying that the genre’s renaissance is powered in part by homegrown talent, including breakthrough artists LF System and Eliza Rose, who have both spent multiple weeks at number o...
Bjork Bows at No. 2 on Top Dance/Electronic Albums Chart With ‘Fossora’
Björk begins at No. 2 on Billboard‘s Top Dance/Electronic Albums chart (dated Oct. 15) with Fossora. The set starts with 10,000 equivalent album units earned, including 9,000 in album sales, in the Sept. 30-Oct. 6 tracking week, according to Luminate. It’s the Icelandic songstress’ sixth top 10 dating to the chart’s 2001 inception, a run that began with Vespertine (three weeks at No. 1, 2001). Björk’s other top 10s are Greatest Hits (No. 2, 2002), Family Tree (No. 6, 2002), Volta (nine weeks at No. 1, 2007) and Biophilia (No. 1, 2011). Björk landed five earlier titles on the Billboard 200, led by Homogenic (No. 28, 1997). Volta brought Björk her highest rank, and lone top 10 to date, on the chart (No. 9). Concurrently, Fossora arrives on Top Album Sales (No. 7), Vinyl Albums (No. 7; 5...
Madonna Passes the Baton to Beyoncé in “Break My Soul (The Queens Remix)”: Stream
The OG Queen of Pop has officially given her blessing to Queen Bey. Madonna and Beyoncé have teamed up for the aptly titled, “Break My Soul (The Queens Remix).” As the first single from Renaissance, “Break My Soul” introduced us to Beyoncé’s new disco-influenced, club-ready era. It makes total sense, then, that the “Queens Remix” would center on a sample of “Vogue,” Madonna’s 1990 classic that helped introduce Ballroom culture to a greater audience. It doesn’t appear that Madonna offered any new vocals to “Break My Soul (The Queens Remix),” but rather gave Beyoncé permission to use “Vogue”‘s famous piano riff (which is important, given recent discourse surrounding Beyoncé’s failure to secure permission before sampling songs). Of course, Beyoncé wouldn’t just sample “Vogue” withou...
Beyoncé Removes Kelis Interpolation from Renaissance Track “Energy”
After Kelis called her out for using her song “Milkshake” without permission, Beyoncé has removed the interpolation from Renaissance. The Renaissance song “Energy” contains the interpolation of “Milkshake;” notably, Bey sings a spin on the song’s classic “la la, la la la” hook toward the end of the track. While Beyoncé credited Pharrell Williams and Chad Hugo, the official writers and producers of “Milkshake,” Kelis expressed frustration for not being contacted about the interpolation as a common courtesy. Now, Rolling Stone reports that the interpolation has been removed from “Energy” as it appears on streaming services, including Apple Music and Tidal. It’s worth noting that the official credits on Beyoncé’s website still mention the interpolation, referring to “Milkshake” as “...
Aqua Announce 25th Anniversary Reissue of Debut Album Aquarium
Get ready to be happy boys and girls, because Aqua have announced a 25th anniversary reissue of their debut album, Aquarium, out September 9th via Universal Music Denmark. The reissue will be available in digital and vinyl formats. The latter will come in either hot pink or white vinyl along with a new booklet, sticker collection, and more. Pre-orders are ongoing. Check out the packaging and tracklist for the 25th anniversary reissue of Aquarium below. First released back in March 1997, the studio set became a hallmark of the ’90s Eurodance movement thanks to singles like “Roses Are Red,” “My Oh My,” “Lollipop (Candyman),” “Doctor Jones,” and, of course, the ubiquitous “Barbie Girl” — which became an instant dancefloor smash that’s had us all singing “I’m a Barbie Girl in a Barbie wor...
Black Eyed Peas Drop Intergalactic ‘Don’t You Worry’ Single & Video With Shakira, David Guetta: Watch
Were you starting to miss the Black Eyed Peas and Shakira? Don’t you worry, they’ve got a brand new song and music video out now with David Guetta called “Don’t You Worry,” a feel good, space-themed summer anthem. The new music video finds the three rap stars behind BEP — will.i.am, apl.de.ap, and Taboo — playing aliens who come in peace to Shakira’s home planet, where the “Hips Don’t Lie” singer leads the charge in greeting and communicating with the extraterrestrial newcomers. Explore See latest videos, charts and news See latest videos, charts and news “Don’t you worry, don’t you worry about a thing,” the quartet sings, with Shakira later transforming into a silver alien being and beaming herself and the Black Eyed Peas into a pyramid-shaped space ship. “Everything’s gonna be alright.” ...
Innovative Music Performance Allows Audience to See Real-Time Brain Activity of Dancers
There’s a perennial sense of fascination with what goes through the mind of a gifted performer. At professor Anthony Brandt’s innovative dance show “LiveWire,” attendees needed not wonder. That’s because in this particular show, the performers wore EEG caps, which monitored their brain waves throughout the performance and even incorporated their neural activity into the visual elements of the show. Presented by Rice University’s Shepherd School of Music, the show, which the university has called the first of its kind, took place at the 2022 International Workshop on the Neural and Social Bases of the Creative Movement. The performers danced to music written by Brandt as part of the “creative experiment.” Anthony Brandt’s LiveWire answer...
Overwhelming Majority of Fans First Began Their EDM Journey Before Age 20: Poll
Electronic music listeners tend to become enamored with the genre at an early age, according to the results of a recent EDM.com reader poll. The fact that the blissfully care-free lifestyle promoted by electronic dance music culture appeals vastly to youthful demographics isn’t necessarily a surprising discovery, but the weighting by percentage skews more youthful than perhaps one would expect. Precisely half of respondents reported first beginning their EDM journey between the ages of 0-15. This would suggest that listeners at the high end of this segment were born around 2007, a time when dance music was just on the cusp of booming in the U.S. during the late 2000s and early 2010s. Our latest EDM.com poll found 85% of dance music fans began listening before th...
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