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Taylor Swift Celebrates Anita Baker Getting Her Masters Back: ‘What a Beautiful Moment’
A day earlier, the R&B singer had shared with fans that the battle over her catalog was over. “All My Children Are Coming Home,” she tweeted with a photo of her first five albums: The Songstress (1983), The Rapture (1986), Giving You the Best That I Got (1988), Compositions (1990) and Rhythm of Love (1994). “Impossible Things Happen … Every. Single. Day. Gratefully.” Shortly after the announcement, she encouraged fans to “STREAM.ON.” This isn’t the first time Swift has shown support for Baker’s fight to regain control of her own masters. In March, the soul singer tweeted that “miraculously,” she had “out-lived *ALL, of my Artist Contracts.” However, she explained, “By Law… 30yr old, Mstrs are 2B R...
Taylor Swift, Billie Eilish & More Celebrate ’40 Years of Slayage’ in Star-Studded Beyonce Birthday Tribute
In addition to a slew of standard happy birthday messages, some shared their favorite Beyoncé song while others emphasized the impact — both personal and cultural — she’s had over the years. Former Saturday Night Live cast member and actress Maya Rudolph thanked the singer for sharing her grace, humanity and bravery. “The world is a better place with you in it,” Rudolph said. Taylor Swift acknowledged Beyoncé for paving “the road that every female artist is walking down now.” “Then the fact that you’ve done so with such kindness and such grace, I just to say I admire you as like there’s just not a word for it,” Swift continued. “You’ve given me and so many others permission to be free to embrace all that we are,” said Promising Young Woman and Orange Is the New Black star Laverne Cox. “You...
Lana Del Rey Announces ‘Arcadia’ Song Coming Next Week
The 36-year-old alternative-pop artist originally claimed her upcoming LP Blue Banisters would be released on July 4, but BB now has a TBD release date. “Album out later later,” she wrote in a July 3-dated update to fans on social media, where she shared the album artwork and a music video teaser for a new, as-yet-untitled single. Del Rey said the song, in which she can be heard singing “My body is a map of L.A./ I stand straight like an angel, with a halo,” will be “out soonish.” Del Rey’s latest photo teasing “Arcadia” features her wearing the same pale yellow tank top and cardigan ensemble as in the video teaser for the upcoming single she mentioned. While she sings about places in California, including ...
BTS Named to 2022 Guinness World Records Hall of Fame
BTS are adding yet another title to their long, long list of accomplishments. Today, the K-pop idols have officially been named to the 2022 Guinness World Records Hall of Fame. “THE Boys ARE IN THE BOOK,” the organization tweeted to share the news alongside a photo of the band holding their plaques. “After breaking countless records throughout 2021, they have also cemented their place in the Guinness World Records Hall of Fame.” The whopping 23 records set by the Korean boy band now include most streamed group on Spotify (16.3 billion), most Twitter engagements for a music group, most followed music group on Instagram (48.7 million and counting), and most tickets sold for a livestreamed concert (765,000). Advertisement Related Video Additionally, many of the septet’s latest world records r...
Nicole Scherzinger Sued Over Pussycat Dolls Reunion
Scherzinger did promote the tour, it’s acknowledged in the complaint, but then the pandemic halted music touring worldwide. She “now refuses to participate in the tour,” states the complaint, adding she “demanded to renegotiate the terms of the MOU.” According to the complaint, Scherzinger now wants to be a 75% owner with final decision-making authority, and she’s refusing to participate in the reunion tour unless she gets what she wants. And now because tour dates can’t be confirmed, Live Nation is said to be demanding $600,000 that it put up. Because of COVID, tours are only slowly ramping up at this point, and this suit comes with a not extremely common claim of anticipatory breach of contract (along with other contract claims and one for fiduciary duty). Scherzi...
BTS Officially Members of 2022 Guinness World Records Hall of Fame
Most streamed track on Spotify in the first 24 hours (“Butter,” 11.04 million) Most Twitter engagements for a music group Most viewers for the premiere of a music video on YouTube (for “Butter,”3.9 million, which replaced their previous record for “Dynamite”) Most weeks at No. 1 on Billboard’s digital song sales chart (“Dynamite,” 18 weeks) Most streamed track on Spotify in first 24 hours (“Butter”) Most viewed YouTube music video in 24 hours (“Butter”, 108,200,000 times) Most tickets sold for a livestreamed concert (756,000) Most followed music group on Instagram Most Nickelodeon Kids Choice awards won by a music group (5) “Despite their young age, Jin, Suga, J-Hope, RM, Jimin, V and Jungkook have left a m...
BTS to Talk ‘Permission to Dance’ Challenge On YouTube ‘Released’ With Chris Martin
BTS will appear on a special upcoming episode of YouTube Originals’ weekly music series “Released” on Sept. 9 in advance of the premiere of “BTS ‘Permission to Dance’ MV (Shorts Challenge ver.).” The show, which will kick-off at 11:45 p.m. ET, will feature the K-pop supergroup sitting down to chat with Coldplay singer Chris Martin about what inspired the global #PermissiontoDance Challenge on YouTube Shorts. According to a release, the special episode will also highlight a selection of shorts from the dance challenge created by BTS fans around the world, including efforts from the U.S., India, Russia, South Korea, the United Kingdom and more. The three-week #PermissionToDance challenge kicked off on July 23 after BTS asked fans to make 15-seco...
Little Mix Releases ‘Love (Sweet Love)’ Single: Stream It Now
Little Mix gave their fans “Love (Sweet Love)” on Friday (Sept. 3) in the form of a new single. In a teaser photo shared on Monday (Aug. 30), Perrie Edwards, Leigh-Anne Pinnock and Jade Thirlwell look like goddesses, with stunning, elaborate golden headpieces and flowing gray dresses. “Your gonna love this one,” Pinnock teased on her Instagram account. 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.
Lady Gaga Unveils ‘Dawn of Chromatica’ Remix Album: Stream It Now
Chromatica may have come and gone, but now, the Dawn has officially arrived. Lady Gaga dropped her brand new remix album Dawn of Chromatica on Friday (Sept. 3) via Interscope Records. The LP, featuring revamped versions of the songs off her 2020 Billboard 200 No. 1 album, was confirmed by Gaga in mid August when she told her fans on Twitter that the album “is so f—ing fuego,” before she officially unveiled its release date on Monday (Aug. 30). The new project, produced by Gaga’s Chromatica collaborator BloodPop, features a bevy of artists offering their own versions of tracks such as “Rain on Me,” “Stupid Love” and many more. Among the artists included are Charli XCX, Rina Sawayama, Arca, Pabllo Vittar, Ashnikko, Shygirl, ...
Lady Gaga Releases Dawn of Chromatica: The Remix Album: Stream
It’s a new day for Lady Gaga’s Chromatica era because the pop superstar has released a companion LP, Dawn of Chromatica: The Remix Album. Stream it below. The album features re-envisioned versions of each of Chromatica’s tracks — sans the three instrumental interludes — featuring the likes of Rina Sawayama (“Free Woman” with Clarence Clarity), Charli XCX (“911” with A.G. Cook), Ashnikko (“Plastic Doll”), and more. Meanwhile, Coucou Chloe and Arca take the reins on remixes of Chromatica’s big singles, “Stupid Love” and Ariana Grande collab “Rain on Me,” respectively. The 14-track LP closes with an early version of “Babylon” heard in advertisements for the pop star’s cosmetics line, Haus Labs. Advertisement Related Video Stream Dawn of Chromatica: The Remix Album below, and check out its mon...
The Weeknd Shares the High in Alternate Video for “Can’t Feel My Face”: Watch
The Weeknd’s 2015 video for “Can’t Feel My Face” is a solo masterpiece, and so it’s interesting to learn of an unreleased alternative visual that cedes the spotlight to someone else. According to a press release, this latest video for “Can’t Feel My Face” was actually the first that Abel Tesfaye shot, but it was binned due to a “shift in creative direction.” It puts an emphasis on the “She,” of the line, “She told me don’t worry,” offering a steamier, more literal interpretation of the song. His female co-star shines as a party fiend riding the high of her life. She nails a couple of different looks: the bathroom mirror, just after; the dance floor thirstiness, when she should really grab a drink of water but there’s someone else she’d like to slurp; the vacant drift; and the near-bottomle...
The Weeknd Surprises Fans With New ‘Can’t Feel My Face’ Video Six Years After Its Release
Nostalgia is the name of the game — that is, if The Weeknd has anything to say about it. The “Take My Breath” singer decided to take things back to 2015 when “Can’t Feel My Face” ruled the airwaves by treating fans to a brand new, alternate video to accompany the song on Thursday (Sept. 2). The video starts off with The Weeknd and his love interest sharing moments together in a bedroom, with the singer fully clothed, and his girl half dressed in a bra and jeans. The pair then make their way outside for a steamy night out on the town, hitting up a club to go dancing. Though their connection seems electric while they dance, The Weeknd is temporarily abandoned by the girl when she goes to the bathroom to get up close and personal with another gal. After lea...
