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Arctic Monkeys Announce 2023 North American Tour Dates
Arctic Monkeys is planning an extensive tour in support of their upcoming album The Car, announcing a series of 2023 dates in North America. The four-piece will fly across the pond in late August to kick off the engagement in The Armory in Minneapolis, followed by appearances in areas like Chicago, Boston, Forest Hills, Austin, Portland and San Francisco before closing it out a month later in Inglewood, California. They will be joined by Fontaines D.C. for the North American leg, which takes place a few months after their Australian leg in January and European/U.K. leg from May to June. Arctic Monkeys is scheduled to drop The Car, the followup to 2018’s Tranquility Base Hotel & Casino, on October 21. Check out the full list of tour dates below. Arctic Monkeys 2023 North American T...
Jack White Honors Loretta Lynn: “The Greatest Female Singer-Songwriter of the 20th Century”
Jack White has shared a tribute to his past collaborator Loretta Lynn, who passed away October 4th at the age of 90. In a video posted to Instagram, White — who worked with Lynn on the 2004 album Van Lear Rose — called the artist “the greatest female singer-songwriter of the 20th century.” “I learned so much from her working on this album Van Lear Rose together, and there were times where I just had to sort of step outside and take a pause because she was so brilliant I couldn’t believe what I was witnessing and hearing and I almost felt like she didn’t even realize it,” he said. “What she did for feminism, women’s rights, in a time period and a genre of music that was the hardest to do it in, was just outstanding and will live on for a long time, and she broke down a lot of barriers for p...
First Week Projections For Kid Cudi’s ‘ENTERGALACTIC’ and Freddie Gibbs’ ‘$oul $old $eparately’
The first week album projections for Kid Cudi‘s ENTERGALACTIC and Freddie Gibbs‘ $oul $old $eparately are in. According to HITS Daily Double, Cudder’s record — which accompanies his Netflix project of the same name — is set to debut at No. 13 with a total of 22,000 equivalent album units including 1,800 in album sales, while Gibbs’ $$$ will open at No. 14 with 400 equivalent album units including 6,800 in album sales. Hip Hop By The Numbers shared on Twitter that if the projections are accurate, ENTERGALACTIC will mark Cudi’s second-lowest debut behind 2015’s Speedin’ Bullet 2 Heaven while $$$ will be Gibbs’ second-highest behind Alfredo. ENTERGALACTIC features guest appearances from Ty Dolla $ign, 2 Chainz and Don Toliver and production work from the likes of...
Kendrick Lamar Unveils ‘good kid, m.A.A.d city’ 10th Anniversary Edition Reissue, Special Vinyl Release
Kendrick Lamar is celebrating 10 years of good kid, m.A.A.d city a special 10th anniversary edition. The upcoming release will feature a new cover art that sees the minivan in the original cover now set against a pure black background, however the specifics of the tracklist — including any previously unreleased or brand new tracks — were not revealed. The record will also be released as a double LP pressed on black vinyl with the alternate album art. good kid, m.A.A.d city served as K-Dot’s sophomore studio album and featured guest appearances and production from Drake, Dr. Dre, JAY-Z, Jay Rock, Anna Wise, MC Eiht, Just Blaze, Pharrell Williams, Hit-Boy, Scoop DeVille, Jack Splash and more. The concept album went on to peak and debut at No. 2 on the Billboard 200 and gave the rapper his fi...
BTS Try Aerial Silks in Adorable New ‘Run BTS’ Episode
BTS take flight in an upcoming episode of their popular variety series, Run BTS. In a short teaser for the episode posted to the group’s YouTube channel on Tuesday (Oct. 4), the septet is seen brainstorming what they’d like to film for the show. While the BTS boys navigated through ideas like farming, going on a food tour, pole dancing and fencing — Jung Kook’s “flying yoga” idea ended up winning. The scene then cuts to the Jin, Suga, J-Hope, RM, Jimin, V and Jung Kook struggling through an aerial silk class, hanging from the ceiling while holding on to purple silks, all while joking around and being their goofy selves. BTS first announced the return of RUN BTS — the first episode in 10 months — on Aug. 1. “We did some recharging and brought more fun back with us,” Jin said in&nb...
Garth Brooks Remembers Loretta Lynn: ‘I Just Loved Her and She Had Me Convinced That She Loved Me Right Back’ (Exclusive)
Loretta Lynn, who died Tuesday (Oct. 4) at age 90, struck up a friendship with Garth Brooks that lasted more than two decades. He helped induct the legend when she received her Kennedy Center Honor in 2003 and he was her date when she received a Lifetime Achievement Award at the Grammy Salute to Country Music in 2010. Here, Brooks talks to Billboard about what she meant to him both personally and professionally. Explore Explore See latest videos, charts and news See latest videos, charts and news She was the first female [artist] for me. I know her contemporaries and I know there were women that came before Loretta, but Loretta was the first Reba. She was the first Dolly. She was the first of the female stalwarts that you built a foundation on and she never gave that throne up. For me, Lor...
Esthero To Donate Part of Publishing Royalties From Ye’s ‘808s & Heartbreak’ To Black Lives Matter Los Angeles
Esthero has announced that she will be donating a part of her publishing royalties from Kanye West‘s 808s & Heartbreak to Black Lives Matter Los Angeles. The artist announced the news on Twitter just shortly after Ye sported a shirt with the words “White Live Matters” at his YZY SZN 9 Paris show and called the BLM movement a “scam” on his Instagram Story. “I would like to donate my portion of the publishing from the 808s and Heartbreak album to @BLMLA. Please get at me so we can start the process. #blacklivesmatter,” she tweeted, adding, “Let me be crystal clear where I stand on this. I invite the other co-writers to do the same.” BLM LA responded to her on the platform and discussions are assumed to be underway. Esthero contributed vocals and co-wrote three tracks from 808s & Hear...
How to Get Tickets to Depeche Mode’s “Memento Mori Tour”
Depeche Mode have announced their globe-spanning 2023 “Memento Mori Tour,” and fans are sure to flock to claim their tickets to see the group after a five-year live break and the June passing of founding member Andy Fletcher. The world tour gets its namesake from the surviving duo’s upcoming LP that is set to arrive in March 2023. Get tickets here, and read on for more details including pre-sale dates. What Is Depeche Mode’s Next Tour? The “Memento Mori Tour” kicks off in Sacramento on March 23rd, followed by two more California shows in San Jose and Los Angeles. They close out March in Las Vegas and open April in San Antonio, then travel to Chicago and Canada for three nights between Toronto, Quebec City, and Montréal. The North American leg wraps at New York City’s Madison Square Garden ...
Drake To Give Special Performance at Harlem’s Apollo Theater
Drake will perform a special concert at the iconic Apollo Theater in New York’s Harlem neighborhood on November 11. The show, which will be broadcast on SiriusXM, marks Drizzy’s inaugural performance at the legendary venue. The Toronto artist made the announcement on Instagram with a black and white concert poster, revealing that fans can enter to win tickets to the show by scanning the QR code on SiriusXM’s website. There, interested fans will have until 11 p.m. ET on October 26 to tune into SiriusXM’s Sound 42 to score tickets. SiriusXM has previously hosted a bevy of special concerts at the intimate 1,500-capacity venue, though Drake’s appearance will mark the first from a rapper. SiriusXM’s past concerts have spotlighted U2, Lady Gaga, Paul McCartney, Bruce Springsteen, Pitbull, Pearl ...
Depeche Mode To Release First Album in 5 Years ‘Memento Mori,’ Announce Global Tour
Depeche Mode has announced the long-awaited follow-up to 2017’s Spirit. The new record, Memento Mori, will be released through Columbia Records sometime next spring. Memento Mori will mark the English electronic band’s first release since the death of founding member and keyboard player, Andy “Fletch” Fletcher, who passed away in May at the age of 60. “We started work on this project early in the pandemic, and its themes were directly inspired by that time,” Martin Gore said. “After Fletch’s passing, we decided to continue as we’re sure this is what he would have wanted, and that has really given the project an extra level of meaning.” Fletch would have loved this album. We’re really looking forward to sharing it with you soon, and we can’t wait to present it to you live at the shows next ...
Loretta Lynn’s 20 Biggest Billboard Hits
Country music legend Loretta Lynn passed away today, Oct. 4 at age 90. The beloved artist died in her sleep from natural causes at her home in Hurricane Mills, Tenn. Lynn, who was inducted into the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1983, followed by her induction into the Country Music Hall of Fame in 1988 and the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 2008, was born April 14, 1932, in Butcher Holler, Ky., and blazed a trail for myriad successful female artists on Billboard‘s country charts and beyond. Her audience widened to the masses following the film that chronicled her story: 1980’s Coal Miner’s Daughter, starring Sissy Spacek, as Lynn, Tommy Lee Jones as her husband of 48 years, Doolittle, and Levon Helm as her father. Lynn rolled up 16 No. 1s on Billboar...
JUN & XIUMIN Debut on Hot Trending Songs Chart
Thai rapper-singer Lisa of BLACKPINK returns to No. 1 on Billboard’s Hot Trending Songs chart (dated Oct. 8), powered by Twitter, as “Lalisa” logs a fourth week at the summit. Explore See latest videos, charts and news See latest videos, charts and news “Lalisa,” released in September 2021, is the fourth-longest-leading No. 1 in the chart’s brief history, breaking out of a tie with BLACKPINK’s “Pink Venom” and BTS’ “Yet to Come.” BTS’ “Butter” has spent the most time at No. 1 (20 weeks), followed by Ha Sung Woon and Jimin’s “With You” and SB19’s “Bazinga” (seven weeks each). When “Lalisa” first led the Hot Trending Songs chart (dated Aug. 6), Lisa became the first woman to top the tally. The song is also the only title to appear on every Hot Trending Songs chart dating to the survey’s ince...
