Podcasts
Eva Marcille, Lore’l & Dominique Da Diva Host New “The Undressing Room” Podcast
Source: Reach Media / Urban One Radio personalities Eva Marcille, Lore’l and Dominique Da Diva are the hosts of a new podcast called “The Undressing Room.” Marcille is down with the Rickey Smiley Morning Show, Lore’l holds down The Morning Hustle and Dominique hails from the Quicksilva Show, while their podcast is “female-focused.“ “The Undressing Room” launched on Thursday, February 4 and is the first national personality-driven podcast from Urban One, the largest Black-owned and operated media company in the country [full disclosure: and HipHopWired’s parent company] and its nationally syndicated radio division, Reach Media. Presented by Macy’s, the pod features the radio vets deftly conversing about entertainment, pop culture, celebrity gossip, fashion, and beauty. “We are excited ...
The Weeknd’s ‘The Highlights’ Proves That Greatest-Hits Albums Can Still Work in 2021
On the Pop Shop Podcast, we discuss the status of greatest-hits albums — including our favorite hits collections of all time. If you loved The Weeknd‘s Super Bowl halftime show and want to listen to all the songs he performed (and then some!) in one place, you’re in luck: On Friday, ahead of his big Super Bowl Sunday set, the Canadian superstar dropped The Highlights, an 18-track collection that ties all his biggest hits up in a bow. Of course, in the age of streaming and digital music, greatest-hits packages are not as prevalent as they once were. Why buy a curated album when you could stream a curated playlist — or even compile a playlist of your personal favorites by an artist? Well, a lot of people just discovered The Weeknd on Sunday (as hard as that is to beli...
Kevin Hart Launches New Podcast ‘Inside Jokes,’ Andrew Schulz Blasts Him For Stealing His Show’s Name
Source: NBC / Getty Kevin Hart is the latest celebrity joining the podcast wave, in his case, partnering with SiriusXM to debut a new show with Jerry Seinfeld as his first guest. The satellite radio company announced that “Inside Jokes with Kevin Hart” launched its inaugural episode under his very own channel, Laugh Out Loud Radio, on Wednesday (Jan. 27), per The Grio. Don’t get too attached to the name, though. It’s currently undergoing change– more on that later. SiriusXM and @LOLNetwork are teaming up to launch three new original programs, including the debut podcast from @KevinHart4real. 🎤 Details: https://t.co/swCjXupRvK pic.twitter.com/KdszRMD54J — SiriusXM (@SIRIUSXM) January 27, 2021 On the new series, Hart will interview top comedians and rising st...
Spotify Stock Downgraded by Citi, as Podcast Competition Heats Up
Spotify’s share price was already in retreat, dropping 12.5% from an all-time high of $370.95 reached on Wednesday (Jan. 13), however. Some experts would argue it’s still too high. The 25 analysts covering Spotify have a median price target of $298.53 with a high of $425.90 and a low of $141.30, according to Refinitiv. Key Takeaways: 1) The three leading audio streaming companies — Spotify, Apple and Amazon — are pushing hard into podcasts. If turning a music service into an all-around audio service attracts subscribers and reduces churn, record labels and publishers will benefit.2) Regardless of how its podcasts perform in the next year or two, Spotify has the resources to see its strategy through. It had €1.18 billion ($1.43 billion) on its balance sheet on Sept. 30, 2020, en...
Anitta to Host Her Own ‘Anitta and Friends’ Podcast: Exclusive
Brazilian star Anitta, who has proven to be as amusing in conversation as she is performing, will now have her own podcast. Titled Anitta and Friends, the podcast will launch this quarter and will feature a wide array of guests in discussions that will be rooted in music. The show is part of an exclusive podcast deal Anitta inked with podcast platform PodcastOne, which will also produce the show. The platform, a subsidiary of LiveXLive Media, is also home to Pitbull’s From Negative to Positive podcast and The Adam Carolla Show, among many others. Anitta’s debut season will include 12 episodes featuring “intimate, insightful” conversations with celebrities from around the world. You Deserve to Make Money Even When you are looking for Dates Online. So we reimagined what a dating should be. I...
Remixers and Bootleggers are Using a Spotify Loophole to Upload Unofficial Works to the Platform
Underground artists and producers have found somewhat of a loophole that allows them to post their unofficial works to Spotify. Rather than following the normal uploading process—which has many measures in place to detect copyright infringement and derivative works—users are now taking their bootlegs to Spotify’s Podcasts feature. While YouTube and SoundCloud are rife with bootleg remixes and mashups by bedroom producers, Spotify has always been strict about uploading unofficial content to the platform. Unofficial mashups, remixes and bootlegs have now started to slide under the radar via Spotify’s Podcast feature. With the Podcasts loophole—and some clever keyword nomenclature for the unofficial works, such as “chopped and screwed” or “slowed and r...
Which Female Artists Have the Most No. 1 Albums — and Where Does Taylor Swift Rank After ‘Evermore’?
Which woman has the most No. 1 albums on the Billboard 200 chart? What about the all-female group with the most chart-toppers? And where does Taylor Swift fit into the list, now that she has an eighth No. 1 with Evermore? Those questions, and more, are answered on a special edition of the Billboard Pop Shop Podcast (listen below), where hosts Katie and Keith join forces with Ask Billboard columnist Gary Trust to answer queries posed by chart fans. On the final Pop Shop Podcast of 2020, the team also answer questions relating to José Feliciano’s “Feliz Navidad,” The Weeknd’s longevity on the Billboard Hot 100 with “Blinding Lights,” the chart successes of Mariah Carey’s two different versions of “Oh Santa!” and more. You Deserve to Make Money Even When you are looking for Dates Online. So w...
Josh Groban on Finding ‘New Meaning’ in Classic Songs for His Quarantine-Recorded ‘Harmony’ Album
“I’m watching strings play at AIR Studios in London, while my producer’s in Nashville, I’m in Los Angeles,” he tells the Billboard Pop Shop Podcast (listen to his interview, below). “We’ve got band members in different cities around the world. And it became a really powerful thing to watch everybody doing what they could from where they were… it’s one of the reasons why we thought ‘Harmony’ was a good word for (the album), because it wasn’t just the music of it, it was just that everything had to come together.” The 12-song Harmony album was released on Nov. 20 and features 10 covers of classic tunes that range from vintage songs from the 1960s like “The Impossible Dream” and “It’s Now or Never” to more relatively recent selections like Robbi...
Miley Cyrus & Stevie Nicks Mash-Up Has Us Dreaming Up More Cross-Generational Diva Duos
So this pairing really worked — but what other cross-generational divas would we like to see team up? On the latest Billboard Pop Shop Podcast (listen below), Katie & Keith riff on some possibilities, including Beyoncé and Tina Turner, Demi Lovato and Pat Benatar, and a redo of the almost-collaboration between Lady Gaga and Cher (please try again, ladies!). Listen to the full show above to hear more of our diva-duo ideas. Also on the show, we’ve got chart news about why Ariana Grande’s debut at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 albums chart with “Positions” is such an amazing feat, how Gabby Barrett’s “I Hope” completes a record-breaking climb to the top five on the Billboard Hot 100, and how Bad Bunny and Jhay Cortez’s “Dakiti” debuts straight into the top 10 on the Hot 100. The&n...
Joel Corry & MNEK on Why the Timing Was Just Right for Their ‘Uplifting’ Dance Smash ‘Head & Heart’
“I was fascinated anyways just to get a DM from MNEK, ’cause I’ve been a fan of his for so many years,” Corry tells Billboard‘s Pop Shop Podcast (listen to the full episode below). “…We couldn’t get into the studio because all of the studios were being closed. But he recorded his vocals at home, and he’d written the new parts to the song that needed writing and sent it back to me. And I was just like, ‘Bang!’ I was like, ‘That’s it! You’ve absolutely smashed it.’ He kind of put all these missing pieces of the ‘Head & Heart’ puzzle together that I needed.” Now, the unstoppable song has spent six weeks at No. 1 in the pair’s native U.K., and it breaks through to the Bill...
Billy McFarland Has Launched a Tell-All Podcast Called “Dumpster Fyre” from Prison
The infamous face of Fyre Festival, Billy McFarland, is ready to tell his side of the story about how “the greatest party that never happened” all went down. You may be surprised to hear that McFarland seems to have had a coming to terms with the role of his involvement in the disastrous event. “When I think about the mistakes that were made and what happened, there’s no way that I can describe it but just, ‘What the fuck was I thinking?” McFarland told The Daily Mail. Of course, the marketing “guru” has a top-notch name for his forthcoming tell-all podcast: “Dumpster Fyre.” McFarland recorded the podcast in a series of 15-minute phone interviews from the Elkton Federal Correctional Institution, where he is se...
The Side Track Joins the Consequence Podcast Network
Films don’t just entertain us, they alter our lives, they inspire us, they show us the way to tell our own stories. That’s the conceit of The Side Track, the latest series to join the Consequence Podcast Network. Hosted by film industry executive Paul Davidson, the weekly series interviews filmmakers,… Please click the link below to read the full article. The Side Track Joins the Consequence Podcast Network CoS Staff 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 photos, blogging and help give users back their fair share of Internet revenue.