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Foo Fighters Announce 26th Anniversary Tour
After having their grand plans to celebrate their 25th anniversary as a band shelved due to COVID, Foo Fighters are finally ready to hit the road. The group had been teasing activity throughout the holiday weekend, and now we know why. In honor of what’s now their 26th anniversary, the Foos announced a handful of tour dates that begin in July and will span a few weeks in the middle of the country. “Having confirmed their appearances atop the 2021 lineups of Lollapalooza, Bonnaroo and Bottlerock, Foo Fighters are answering the burning question of “Are they doing any of their own shows?” with a resounding FUCK YES,” a statement says a bit more succinctly. Radkey will support the band on this run, with more dates promised to be announced in the near future. If you’re a Citi cardholder, you ca...
Guns N’ Roses Announce Rescheduled 2021 Tour Dates
Guns N’ Roses have announced the rescheduled dates for their U.S. tour, which was pushed back due to the pandemic, and now begins July 31, 2021, in Hershey, Pennsylvania. The tour concludes on Oct. 3 in Hollywood, Florida, with a two-night stint at the Hard Rock Live Arena. There are currently a total of 25 shows scheduled. The support act will be Wolfgang Van Halen’s new band, Mammoth WVH, in their touring debut. The band will be performing songs from their upcoming self-titled debut album, out June 11, including their hit rock single “Distance.” The only show Mammoth WVH won’t be on is GN’R’s appearance at the Bottle Rock Festival in Napa Valley on Sept. 4 Tickets for the new dates will be on sale beginning June 4 at 12 p.m. local time. Guns N’ Roses 2021 tour dates July 31 – Hersh...
Taylor Swift’s ‘Evermore’ Breaks Modern-Era Record for Biggest Vinyl Album Sales Week
Evermore’s record-breaking vinyl sales add to the great music-on-vinyl comeback story for the once-dormant format. 2020 marked the single-largest year for U.S. vinyl album sales in MRC Data history (27.54 million copies) and the 15th consecutive year of growth for vinyl (up 46.2%). Further, vinyl LPs accounted for 27% of all albums sold in 2020. Vinyl albums were once the dominant format for album purchases in the U.S., up until the early 1980s. After that, cassettes took hold until the early 1990s, when the CD format flourished and became the leading format for album sales. Evermore, again, was initially issued to streaming services and as a commercial digital album on Dec. 11, 2020, and debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 chart. The album’s CD, cassette and vinyl editions followe...
Moodagent Arrives In Australia as Global Rollout Ramps-Up
He’s joined at the Sydney office by director of music and editorial Toni Pipicelli and regional marketing director Bushra Abel. The mood-based listening platform will come online in NZ “shortly,” reads a statement. Moodagent confidently claims a personal and interactive user experience, based on its back-end blend of machine learning, audio analysis and “tens of thousands of hours” of human musicology. The service’s interactive playlists, or “moodagents,” are activated by mood sliders for Sensual, Tender, Happy, Angry and Tempo. Feel angry? The listener can let that out, and the playlists stay in your lane. The app can be downloaded from the Apple App Store and Google Play, with its premium tier priced at A$11.99 ($9.30) per month. Headquartered in Copenhagen, Denmark, Moodagent was ...
Patrick Sky, Folk Artist Who Recorded Controversial ‘Songs That Made America Famous,’ Dies at 80
Sky settled in New York City in the 1960s and cut his self-titled debut album in 1965. Patrick Sky opened with what would become a folk staple, “Many a Mile.” As his satirical edge took shape, Sky recorded his fifth album LP Songs That Made America Famous in March 1971, a set said to be so confrontational, it was rejected by multiple record labels. The album didn’t see the light of day for another two years. Adelphi Records president Gene Rosenthal wasn’t scared off. He spotted its “redeeming social content” and agreed to issue the record, complete with its controversial title, cover art and label design, a bare-butt parody of the Apple Corps logo. Indeed, a link to the record on the Adelphi Records website warns readers of its lyrical contents, which “are an aggressive breach ...
Eurovision 2021 Reports 183 Million Viewers, Solid Gains Online
Importantly, the popular song competition was a hit with young audiences. The 15–24-year-old demographic was up 7 percentage points against the corresponding data from 2019. More than half that age group (52.8%) tuned in on TV. Eurovision also spread the cheer online. In the week leading up to the final, some 50.6 million unique viewers logged onto the official YouTube channel, up 28% on 2019, with fans connected from 234 countries. Not surprisingly, the 18–34-year-olds accounted for most of the live views (71%), and Eurovision was a buzz topic on social media, with nearly 5 million Eurovision-related tweets sent on the night of the Grand Final. During Eurovision week, the official Eurovision social accounts — across Instagram, Facebook, Twitter and TikTok — generated 14 millio...
Lil Baby and Lil Durk to Release Collaborative Album The Voice of the Heroes
<span class="localtime" data-ltformat="F j, Y | g:ia" data-lttime="2021-06-01T02:10:53+00:00“>May 31, 2021 | 10:10pm ET Lil Baby and Lil Durk are teaming up for a new collaborative album. Entitled The Voice of the Heroes, it’s set to arrive this Friday, June 4th via Quality Control Music / Wolfpack Global Music / Motown Records / Alamo Records. As a preview, Lil Baby and Lil Durk have shared the album’s introspective title track alongside a music video directed by Daps. Watch it below. Last month, Lil Baby and Lil Durk linked up on “Every Chance I Get” for DJ Khaled’ latest album, Khaled Khaled. It’s unclear if the track will also appear on The Voice of the Heroes. Related Video The Atlanta-born Lil Baby released his blockbuster sophomore album, My Turn...
Travis Barker Shows Off His Hair Braiding Skills on Girlfriend Kourtney Kardashian
This isn’t the first time the superstar drummer has styled his girlfriend’s lovely dark hair. In April, Kardashian shared another sultry picture of her silky plait, writing “and he braids” on her Instagram Stories. The couple, who made their relationship Instagram official in February, have been making headlines regularly with their PDA-filled social media posts. In recent weeks, the pair made some magical memories during a trip to Disneyland with their respective kids. They’ve also been on other family outings together, including a ski trip to Utah in April. Kardashian recently made it permanently clear how she feels about the musician. On May 12, she showed off the “I love you” tattoo she inked in her handwriting on Barker. The musician commented...
Billie Eilish’s Stunning New Selfies Have Fans Wondering If ‘Lost Cause’ Is Coming
Billie Eilish is releasing a new song this week, and her latest Instagram post has fans murmuring about which Happier Than Ever track it will be. Eilish announced on Friday (May 28) that a new tune was on its way some time this week. On Monday, she posted new photos of herself — a full-face selfie, a closeup of her gaze and a snapshot of a car tire — with the caption “nothing but a lost cause.” One of the top comments left on her post was a fan’s prediction that “LOST CAUSE IS COMING,” and various comments below seemed to express the same thought. 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 t...
What’s Your Favorite Latin Collaboration of May 2021? Vote!
May officially comes to an end after a long holiday weekend. What doesn’t come to an end is new music — and this month was charged with new Latin collabs. In true Billboard fashion, we ask readers to vote for their favorite Latin collaboration released in the past 31 days. The poll features tracks that were featured on our First Stream Latin as well as some Latin Remixes of the Week picks. Included are J Balvin and Maria Becerra’s infectious reggaeton “Que Mas Pues?,” Rio Roma and Calibre 50’s romantic fusion in “Tu Eres Mi Amor,” and Bad Bunny‘s surprise track “100 Millones” with newcomer Luar La L, to name a few. 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 y...
Lil Loaded, Dallas Rapper Behind ‘6locc 6a6y,’ Dies at 20
“dopest fanbase on earth,” he’d written on his last post on Instagram on May 27, when he proudly shared the news about “6locc 6a6y” being certified gold. In 2020, Robertson had been arrested on a murder charge in connection to the shooting of 18-year-old Khalil Walker. According to the Dallas Morning News, in February he was indicted on a lesser charge of manslaughter. At the time, his attorney told the local news outlet that the two were friends and the incident involved “no malice.” Robertson was born in San Bernardino, California, before moving to Dallas when he was a kid. He grew up listening to Michael Jackson — “to me he started the whole rapping/singing thing. That’s where it originally came from for me,” he...
Taylor Swift’s evermore Breaks Best Vinyl Sales Week Record in Just Three Days
<span class="localtime" data-ltformat="F j, Y | g:ia" data-lttime="2021-05-31T20:43:25+00:00“>May 31, 2021 | 4:43pm ET Taylor Swift is your new Queen of Vinyl. The vinyl edition of the pop star’s latest (all original) full-length, evermore, just broke the record for best sales week — and it only took three days to do it. As Billboard reports, initial data from sales tracking company MRC Data shows that evermore moved 40,000 vinyl units between its May 28th release and May 30th. Considering that number is obviously expected to grow ahead of the week’s official close on June 3rd, that means Swift will easily snap the record previously held by Jack White’s Lazaretto. It took White’s LP the full week of June 7th-13th, 2014 to reach the same 4...
