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Dawn Richard on Being a Black Woman in Electronic Music and Her New Album
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Olivia Rodrigo Sent Gwen Stefani, Kim Kardashian & More Celebs This ‘Sour’ Swag Box
If you’re seeing multiple celebrities unboxing some Sour swag from Olivia Rodrigo, don’t worry: You’re not experiencing “Deja Vu.” The singer/songwriter just wanted to spread the word far and wide about her debut album, so she sent some very special gift boxes to a few famous friends. The latest recipient is Gwen Stefani, who took to Instagram on Friday (June 4) to unbox her gift and share a personal letter from the “Drivers License” singer. “I just got this amazing, sweetest, kindest note,” Stefani says on her Stories, adding, “I don’t know if I’m supposed to post it, but I’m going to.” In the note, Rodrigo tells the No Doubt frontwoman: “I absolutely adore you. I’ve looked up to you since...
Rina Sawayama, Lil Dicky, Olivia Rodrigo, BTS & More of the Week’s Biggest Winners (June 4)
Take a look at Billboard‘s new weekly roundup and the “awards” we gave to this week’s headlines. Funniest Music News: Lil Dicky unveils Dave season 2 trailer Lil Dicky teased what’s to come in season 2 of his FXX comedy series Dave with a star-studded trailer on Thursday (June 3). From hanging poolside with Hailey Bieber and Kendall Jenner to matching with Doja Cat on a dating site and showing her not-PG-rated pictures to his parents for their approval, Dicky’s character Dave is in for a crazier adventure all while trying to put out his debut album. Watch the trailer here. Tastiest Music News: BTS’ “Butter” hits No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 & comes with more remixes BTS was in for a real treat t...
Dua Lipa Drops ‘Can They Hear Us’ From ‘Gully’ Soundtrack: Stream It Now
At the 2021 Grammy Awards, she bagged best pop vocal album — for her third Grammy — after beating out Justin Bieber, Lady Gaga, and Taylor Swift. Lipa takes her winning form into “Can They Hear Us,” a new track which appears on the forthcoming soundtrack for Nabil Elderkin’s debut feature film, Gully. With “Can They Hear Us,” Lipa takes us to a darker corner. On it, she sings: “Can they hear us?/ Blame it on my mind, blame it on delirious/ We all die, but right now I feel like livin’/ Can they hear us?” The all-star album includes cuts from Ty Dolla $ign, Schoolboy Q, Miguel and Gary Clark, Jr., and is due to arrive June 4, the same day the film opens at theaters. Stream “Can They Hear Us” below. You Deserve to Make Money Even When you ...
Dua Lipa, 21 Savage, ScHoolboy Q Contribute New Songs to Gully Soundtrack: Stream
<span class="localtime" data-ltformat="F j, Y | g:ia" data-lttime="2021-06-04T04:05:41+00:00“>June 4, 2021 | 12:05am ET As of today, Gully, the film featuring Travis Scott, is officially out in theaters, and that means its stacked soundtrack is available to stream, too. It boasts brand new music from Dua Lipa, 21 Savage, and ScHoolboy Q, among others. Stream it below via Spotify. The OST opens up with “Betrayed”, 21 Savage’s single that also arrives with a visual by Nabil, the film’s director. Pop fans will be pleased to hear the brand new Dua Lipa song “Can They Hear Us” which continues her reign as one of the most exciting acts in the field right now. But arguably biggest of all is “Blacks n Mexicans”, a wild collaborative track by Ty Dolla $ign,...
Pink Lands Ninth Consecutive Top 10 on Billboard’s Top Album Sales Chart With ‘All I Know So Far: Setlist’
Billboard’s Top Album Sales chart ranks the top-selling albums of the week based only on traditional album sales. The chart’s history dates back to May 25, 1991, the first week Billboard began tabulating charts with electronically monitored piece count information from SoundScan, now MRC Data. Pure album sales were the measurement solely utilized by the Billboard 200 albums chart through the list dated Dec. 6, 2014, after which that chart switched to a methodology that blends album sales with track equivalent album units and streaming equivalent album units. For all chart news, follow @billboard and @billboardcharts on both Twitter and Instagram. At No. 1 on Top Album Sales, Rodrigo’s Sour clocks the third-largest sales week for an album released this year. Only the debut frames of Taylor ...
Billie Eilish, H.E.R. & Kid Cudi to Perform at Amazon’s Prime Day Show
If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, we may receive an affiliate commission. Amazon is gearing up for Prime Day this month, and to celebrate, the company announced on Thursday (June 3) its upcoming Prime Day Show, a three-part musical special airing on Prime Video. Billie Eilish, H.E.R. and Kid Cudi will all be performing at the event, which will be available for all Amazon members to stream on June 17. The show will also be available on IMDb TV, Twitch, and Amazon Devices. 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...
20 Questions With Japanese Breakfast: ‘Jubilee,’ Mitski’s Support & Rediscovering Her Love of Chess
Ahead of her new album’s release, Zauner chatted with Billboard about letting in new light on her latest album, writing a book versus writing a song, the importance of Mitski’s support and her past as a chess prodigy. 1. What’s the first piece of music that you bought for yourself, and what was the medium? I want to say it was the Vitamin C CD. The album that had the song “Graduation.” That sticks with me as one of the early things that I bought in fourth or fifth grade. 2. What was the first concert you saw? Raffi. (laughs) I was like five or something, and I brought my little Baby Beluga bath toy. When he sings “Baby Beluga in the deep blue sea,” I was like, waving my little plastic whale around. 3. What did your parents do for a living when you were a kid? My dad was truck broker, so he...
Zedd and JoJo Are Collaborating on New Music
If you somehow had a song by Zedd and JoJo on your 2021 bingo card, congratulations are in order after the two teased a collaborative track in the works. After JoJo reached out to Zedd to let him know she wants to sing on one of his tracks, the Grammy-winning electronic producer responded no less than a half-hour later with a succinct yet emphatic confirmation. “Let’s make it happen,” he tweeted. Perhaps best known for her debut single, the generational pop anthem “Leave (Get Out),” JoJo is responsible for some of the most popular mainstream records of the aughts. After that track entrenched her as the youngest solo artist in history to top the US Billboard Pop chart, she became one of the best-selling artists in the world, releasing two st...
Rihanna is Sheer Perfection on Self-Styled Cover of Italian ‘Vogue’
“On set Rihanna played simultaneously the artist and the muse, the observer and the observed, the director and the character, experimenting on the fine line that exists between the two sides of an artist,” the magazine explained of the issue out on Friday (June 4). ““In recent years we have tried to use our cover in many different ways: with photography or illustrations, or with no images at all,” addd the magazine’s editor-in-chief, Emanuele Farneti. “But we’ve never invited the featured person to do everything by themselves: to pose, take the photographs and choose the clothes to wear. If there was a right occasion for this new experiment, it could only have been the DIY issue. Neither could there have been a better protagonist than Rihanna – who...
Lady Gaga and Versace Celebrate Pride, ‘Born This Way’ Anniversary With Colorful Capsule Collection
Lady Gaga has teamed up with Versace for a colorful capsule collection celebrating Pride Month as well as the 10th anniversary of her landmark Born This Way album. A portion of the sales from the collection will benefit’s Gaga’s Born This Way Foundation. “Versace has always been a leader. Since Gianni, Donatella, Allegra, and still now they have celebrated the beautiful colors of love we have within us to offer each other,” Gaga said in a post in which she’s rocking a t-shirt from the collaboration, which features the album title in cursive over a rainbow-colored Versace logo. “We were all more different, and different is beautiful. Thank you Donatella for supporting LGBTQ+ mental health and the Born This Way tenth anniversary.” Her old friend...
Justin Bieber Merch on Amazon You Need to Check Out
If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, we may receive an affiliate commission. Justin Bieber took to Instagram on Tuesday (May 18) to tease fans, letting them know that “when tour comes, it will be [bananas emoji]” — and we believe him, given that he was forced to push his highly anticipated 2020 world tour to 2022 due to the global pandemic. To prep for the star’s return to the stage, Beliebers can grab some fun, trendy merch items, from pop sockets to t-shirts — all available on Amazon. See the latest seats and tickets for JB’s Justice World Tour at VividSeats.com or on his website. You Deserve to Make Money Even When you are looking for Dates Online. So we reimagined what a datin...
