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Usher Shares Uplifting ‘This Day’ from Netflix’s ‘Jingle Jangle: A Christmas Journey’
Usher is celebrating the holidays early this year with a brand new song. The 41-year-old R&B singer debuted his uplifting new track “This Day,” featuring Kiana Ledé, on music streaming services Saturday (Oct. 3). The track will appear in the upcoming Netflix original holiday movie Jingle Jangle: A Christmas Journey, arriving Nov. 13. In addition to appearing during the end credits of the upcoming musical film, “This Day” will also be included on the Jingle Jangle‘s accompanying soundtrack, which features original music by John Legend. The soundtrack will be released Nov. 13 through Atlantic Records. 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 ...
Here Are All the Livestreams & Virtual Concerts to Watch During the Coronavirus Crisis: Week of Oct. 5
Oct. 6: BTS joins Radio.com for a live performance, beginning at 6 p.m. ET. The event streams on Radio.com, Facebook and Twitter. Oct. 7: Linda Perry joins “SohoMuse Presents Voices” in honor of LGBTQ history month. The former 4 Non Blondes lead singer will be joining the virtual event’s co-founder for a one-on-one discussion that begins at 8 p.m. ET. Visit SohoMuse’s website for an invite. Oct. 8: Gloria Estefan and the cast of Hamilton will be performing during The Buoniconti Fund to Cure Paralysis’ 35th annual Great Sports Legends Dinner, which is going virtual this year. The event will be livestreamed, beginning at 7 p.m. ET. Tickets are available through the Buoniconti website; all proceeds will benefit&nb...
Machine Gun Kelly Earns First No. 1 Album on Billboard 200 Chart With ‘Tickets to My Downfall’
Machine Gun Kelly previously reached the Billboard 200’s top 10 with Hotel Diablo (No. 5, 2019), Bloom (No. 8, 2017), General Admission (No. 4, 2015) and Lace Up (No. 4, 2012). The Billboard 200 chart ranks the most popular albums of the week in the U.S. based on multi-metric consumption as measured in equivalent album units. Units comprise album sales, track equivalent albums (TEA) and streaming equivalent albums (SEA). Each unit equals one album sale, or 10 individual tracks sold from an album, or 3,750 ad-supported or 1,250 paid/subscription on-demand official audio and video streams generated by songs from an album. The new Oct. 10-dated chart (where Tickets to My Downfall starts to No. 1) will be posted in full on Billboard‘s website on Oct. 6. For all chart news, foll...
Mick Fleetwood Recreates Viral ‘Dreams’ TikTok, Cran-Raspberry Juice in Hand
Mick Fleetwood is taking on the “Dreams” TikTok challenge with a smile and a swig of juice. The Fleetwood Mac drummer gave a good-natured nod to Nathan Apodaca — the TikTok star whose video skateboarding down the road, while drinking cran-raspberry juice straight out of the bottle to the soundtrack of the band’s 1977 hit, made the rounds over the past week — in his own TikTok Sunday afternoon (Oct. 4). “@420doggface208 had it right. Dreams and Cranberry just hits different,” he captioned his take. 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 the process. Earn rewards by chatting, sharing ...
Mick Fleetwood Recreates Viral ‘Dreams’ TikTok
Nathan Apodaca single-handedly tripled the sales of Fleetwood Mac’s 1977 hit “Dreams” when his TikTok went viral a couple weeks ago. For those unaware, the clip shows Apodaca skateboarding down the street and lip-syncing the song between swigs of Ocean Spray Cran-Raspberry juice straight from the container. The band gave his performance a thumbs up by retweeting with the caption “We love this,” and now Mick Fleetwood is giving the viral sensation a nod by recreating the video, cran-raspberry juice and all. “@420doggface208 had it right. Dreams and Cranberry just hits different,” the Fleetwood Mac founder captioned his first ever TikTok video, which you can watch below. @mickfleetwood@420doggface208 had it right. Dreams and Cranberry just hits different. ##Dreams ##Cranberry...
Tommy Lee Says He Was Drinking Two Gallons of Vodka a Day Before Latest Rehab Stint
Tommy Lee refers to his experience with addiction as “on and off” substance dependance “for a long time.” After a four-year period of sobriety, he most recently went through a phase of drinking two gallons of vodka a day. “I go through these phases where I just want to live a different life and fuck all the dumb shit,” he recently explained to Yahoo Entertainment. “And then I decide, ‘You know what? I don’t want to live like that anymore.’” Things went downhill during his last tour with Mötley Crüe, where the drummer says he “literally did nothing” and would “just fucking drink.” “I didn’t notice it until towards the end of it, when I was like, ‘Oh dude, I’ve got to stop. This is fucking insane.’ Like, I was drinking just out of boredom,” he admitted. “I would...
Megan Thee Stallion Gives Politically Charged Performance of ‘Savage’ During SNL Debut
Last night, Megan Thee Stallion made her Saturday Night Live debut a memorable one. For her first song, the rapper performed her hit single “Savage” while dancing in front of a backdrop that said “PROTECT BLACK WOMEN.” After running through the track, bullet holes pierced the backdrop and audio from Malcolm X’s 1962 “Who Taught You to Hate Yourself?” speech pierced through the sound system. “The most disrespected, unprotected, neglected person in America is the black woman. Who taught you to hate the texture of your hair? The color of your skin? The shape of your nose? Who taught you to hate yourself from the top of your head to the soles of your feet?” he questioned. Next came a clip from activist Tamika Mallory’s condemnation of Kentucky Daniel Cameron’s handling of the Br...
Hispanic Heritage Month 2020: 5 Times Los Tigres Del Norte Spoke Out Against Social Injustice
Celebrating its 30th anniversary as the longest-running and biggest Latin music industry event, Latin Music Week 2020 was originally scheduled to take place April 20-23 in Las Vegas and was postponed due to COVID-19. The Billboard Latin Music Awards 2020 will broadcast live on Oct. 21 via Telemundo, with awards to be given out in 59 categories honoring the top artists, songs, albums, labels, publishers, songwriters, and producers of the year. Ahead of the highly-anticipated Q&A and in celebration of Hispanic Heritage Month, here are five times Los Tigres del Norte has taken a stand against social injustice. Immigration: “Tres Veces Mojado” Many Los Tigres del Norte songs, including “Tres Veces Mojado,” “La Jaula de Oro,” “De Paisano a Pai...
Megan Thee Stallion Slams Kentucky AG for Breonna Taylor Decision With ‘SNL’ Performance
It was immediately followed by audio of activist Tamika Mallory’s criticism of Kentucky Attorney General Daniel Cameron, after his decision to charge one of the three officers in the death of Breonna Taylor with wanton endangerment for firing into her home: “Daniel Cameron is no different than the sellout negroes that sold our people into slavery.” Taylor died while asleep in her bed March 13 after the Louisville police officers raided her home with a no-knock warrant. There were no other charges against law enforcement for their roles in her death. After the audio clips played, Megan Thee Stallion had a few words of her own to share. “We need to protect our black woman and love our black women, because at the end of the day, we need our women,” she said. R...
LL Cool J Has Something Else for Kanye West to Disrespect Instead of a Grammy
Add LL Cool J to the list of people who weren’t too happy about one of Kanye West‘s recent tweets. In an interview with Desus & Mero, the artist opened up about how he felt after seeing West’s Sept. 16 Twitter video in which the “Wash Us in the Blood” rapper appeared to urinate on a Grammy that had been placed in a toilet. When Desus asked LL what it was like to host the Grammys, the artist kicked off his opinion of the Yeezy designer’s actions. “I think, like — with all due respect — I think Kanye should maybe piss on a Yeezy or something,” he said. “I felt some kind of way about that s–t. I didn’t love that s–t because I hosted the Grammys for five years.” “Yeah, the Grammys didn’t g...
Scrap the Small-Block V-8 Swap and Sub in This Literal Tesla Crate Motor
The term “crate engine” has long been used to describe engines you could buy (typically hotted-up or modified) and install in the car or project of your choosing. Why the name, though? Because the engines ship in crates. Often, the word “engine” is used interchangeably with the word “motor,” a casual oversight of the distinction between an internal-combustion engine and a motor, which we typically use to describe an electric power source. Until now. Go ahead and call EV West’s Revolt Systems Tesla electric powertrain swap what it is: A crate motor. Literally, that’s what this wonderful creation is. A crated electric motor. Even better, it’s a bolt-in setup gunning to replace one of the most common crate engine choices out there, GM...
Ford Patents EV Pickup Truck Range Extender Disguised as Toolbox
Ford is working on an electric F-150 pickup truck. We know this, and you’re expecting it. But the electric pickup world is a new one, and Ford is probably aware that it’ll take some tricks to win over F-Series buyers used to powerful gas or diesel engines—and the plentiful, easy-to-find fuel that powers them—and get them overcome the range anxiety and charging challenges of the EV world. Which is what makes a Ford patent that recently came to light so interesting. The patent is for a range-extender unit that can be fitted to an electric pickup truck’s cargo bed—where it’d resemble a toolbox or some other innocuous component but provide for extra driving range per charge. Automakers keen on lending their electric vehicles additional driving range without investing in...
