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Have mercy! Chlöe Bailey of the R&B sister duo Chloe x Halle finally released her debut solo single “Have Mercy” on Friday (Sept. 10). This is the first listen from the 23-year-old Grammy-nominated singer’s upcoming debut album, which will be released on Parkwood Entertainment/Columbia. Earlier this year, the two sisters created separate social media accounts and teased “so many exciting things coming.” “I’m creating my own lane, as well as paying homage to the ones who have inspired me. It has been fun finding my voice,” she told Billboard in a recent interview about her solo musical endeavor. You Deserve to Make Money Even When you are looking for Dates Online. So we reimagined what a dating should be. It begins with ...

Ed Sheeran got his fans moving when he dropped his latest single “Shivers” and its accompanying music video on Thursday (Sept. 9). “I wrote this as soon as the Divide tour ended in a rented farm in Suffolk where we had set up a studio for a couple of weeks to see what happened. It was written over the course of 3 days which is very different for me, but I felt it was too special to get wrong,” he wrote in an Instagram post announcing the single. “It was originally meant to be the first single but I just didn’t see a world where ‘Bad Habits’ existed if it didn’t come out in the summer. Shivers always felt more autumnal. I hope you like it, I bloody love it.” To hype up the new record, Sheeran channeled Elton John by donning fe...

But wait, there’s more. Lorde, fresh from releasing her third studio album Solar Power, has dropped a surprise companion EP, cut entirely in the Māori language. Arriving Thursday (Aug. 9) with little fanfare, Te Ao Mārama features five tracks from Solar Power, with assists from veteran New Zealand singers Bic Runga and Marlon Williams. “Many things revealed themselves slowly to me while I was making this album, but the main realisation by far was that much of my value system around caring for and listening to the natural world comes from traditional Māori principles,” she explains in a message to fans. “There’s a word for it in te reo: kaitiakitanga, meaning ‘guardianship or caregiving for the sky, sea and land’. I’m not Māori, but all New Zealanders grow up with elements of this worldview...

Justin Timberlake is cherishing the 15th anniversary of his sophomore solo album FutureSex/LoveSounds on Wednesday (Sept. 8). The “4 Minutes” singer wound back the clock on Instagram by posting a throwback photo of JT dramatically gazing toward the camera from his chair perched by the disco ball from the album cover. He also shared snippets of the music videos that supported the project’s hit singles “Sexy Back,” featuring frequent collaborator and the album’s executive producer Timbaland; “My Love,” featuring T.I.; “What Goes Around… Comes Around;” and “LoveStoned / I Think She Knows” — all of which won Grammy Awards in different categories. Every song besides “LoveStoned” a...

Ed Sheeran is playing dress-up to promote his upcoming single, “Shivers.” The second listen to Sheeran’s upcoming fourth solo album, =, is due out this Friday (Sept. 10) and as the singer noted in  a picture posted on Wednesday morning (Sept. 8), he definitely “glammed up” for the occasion. Channeling his old pal Elton John, Ed rocked things out with a retro-70s Elton get-up featuring a feather headdress, blinged out rose-colored square shades, a silver lame jacket with fringe, a shiny shirt and black and silver skintight leggings to go with his equally sparkly slip-ons. He was a bit more sober in a second pic, in which he sheepishly sits on a yellow couch in a green suit and black tie with a pandemonium of parrots perched behind him. In a worried caption...