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The Players Behind BTS’ ‘Butter’: See the Full Credits
Artists:Main Artist – BTS Songwriters:Composer Lyricist – Alex BilowitzComposer Lyricist – Jenna AndrewsComposer Lyricist – RMComposer Lyricist – Rob GrimaldiComposer Lyricist – Ron PerryComposer Lyricist – Sebastian GarciaComposer Lyricist – Stephen KirkVocal Arranger – Jenna AndrewsVocal Arranger – Rob GrimaldiVocal Arranger – Stephen Kirk Producers:Producer – Rob GrimaldiProducer – Ron PerryProducer – Stephen Kirk Engineers:Engineer – Juan “Saucy” PenaEngineer – Keith ParryMastering Engineer – Chris GehringerMixer – Serban Ghenea Labels:Distributor – The Orchard EnterprisesLabel – BIGHIT MUSIC/HYBE Explore the full “Butter” credits on Jaxsta her...
Demi Lovato & Olly Alexander Join YouTube Pride 2021 Livestream as Hosts
Demi Lovato announced last month that they are non-binary and their pronouns are they/them. The “very personal” news came as part of Lovato’s new “4D With Demi Lovato” podcast, in which the 28-year-old singer explained, “Over the past year and a half I’ve been doing some healing and self-reflective work. And through this work, I’ve had the revelation that I identify as nonbinary.” Alongside H.E.R. and Brandi Carlile, Lovato paid tribute to Elton John by performing a medley of his biggest hits at last week’s iHeartRadio Awards. Speaking of John, Olly Alexander teamed up with the living legend at the 2021 Brit Awards last month to perform a cover of the Pet Shop Boys’ “It’s a Sin,” a collaboration the pa...
Watt Takes Us Inside Bieber’s ‘Peaches,’ Miley’s Stevie Nicks Remix & More of His Hit Collabs
Watt’s hit list of songs he either co-wrote or co-produced also includes Dua Lipa’s “Break My Heart,” Camila Cabello and Shawn Mendes’ “Señorita” and 5 Seconds of Summer’s “Youngblood” — not to mention the bulk of Miley Cyrus’ latest album Plastic Hearts and the entirety of Ozzy Osbourne’s last album, Ordinary Man. Earlier in 2021, Watt won his first Grammy, for producer of the year, non-classical (“such an honor… it’s not something that really feels real”). Meanwhile, he continues to work toward releasing his own solo album, which is sure to be filled with a starry lineup of collaborators. On the Pop Shop Podcast, Watt not only discusses how the seed for “Peaches” was planted, but also how Cyrus’ “Midnight Sky” (a track he co-wrote and co-produced) found its way to S...
Olivia Rodrigo’s ‘Brutal’ Bows at No. 1 on Hot Rock & Alternative Songs Chart
Concurrently, “Brutal” debuts at No. 1 on Hot Alternative Songs and Alternative Streaming Songs, and at No. 5 on the all-format Streaming Songs chart, behind three other songs from Sour; “Good 4 U” leads at No. 1, followed by “Deja Vu” at No. 2 and “Traitor” at No. 3. On the multi-metric Billboard Hot 100, “Brutal” begins at No. 12. Sour has produced Rodrigo’s first two Hot 100 No. 1s: “Drivers License,” for eight weeks beginning in January, and “Good 4 U,” which opened atop the tally last week. (“Deja Vu” and “Good 4 U” are Rodrigo’s current singles being properly promoted to radio, to pop and adult stations. On Pop Airplay, they climb to Nos. 13 and 25, respectivel...
Taylor Swift’s ‘Evermore’ Breaks Modern-Era Record for Biggest Vinyl Album Sales Week
Evermore’s record-breaking vinyl sales add to the great music-on-vinyl comeback story for the once-dormant format. 2020 marked the single-largest year for U.S. vinyl album sales in MRC Data history (27.54 million copies) and the 15th consecutive year of growth for vinyl (up 46.2%). Further, vinyl LPs accounted for 27% of all albums sold in 2020. Vinyl albums were once the dominant format for album purchases in the U.S., up until the early 1980s. After that, cassettes took hold until the early 1990s, when the CD format flourished and became the leading format for album sales. Evermore, again, was initially issued to streaming services and as a commercial digital album on Dec. 11, 2020, and debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 chart. The album’s CD, cassette and vinyl editions followe...
Billie Eilish’s Stunning New Selfies Have Fans Wondering If ‘Lost Cause’ Is Coming
Billie Eilish is releasing a new song this week, and her latest Instagram post has fans murmuring about which Happier Than Ever track it will be. Eilish announced on Friday (May 28) that a new tune was on its way some time this week. On Monday, she posted new photos of herself — a full-face selfie, a closeup of her gaze and a snapshot of a car tire — with the caption “nothing but a lost cause.” One of the top comments left on her post was a fan’s prediction that “LOST CAUSE IS COMING,” and various comments below seemed to express the same thought. 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 t...
Taylor Swift’s evermore Breaks Best Vinyl Sales Week Record in Just Three Days
<span class="localtime" data-ltformat="F j, Y | g:ia" data-lttime="2021-05-31T20:43:25+00:00“>May 31, 2021 | 4:43pm ET Taylor Swift is your new Queen of Vinyl. The vinyl edition of the pop star’s latest (all original) full-length, evermore, just broke the record for best sales week — and it only took three days to do it. As Billboard reports, initial data from sales tracking company MRC Data shows that evermore moved 40,000 vinyl units between its May 28th release and May 30th. Considering that number is obviously expected to grow ahead of the week’s official close on June 3rd, that means Swift will easily snap the record previously held by Jack White’s Lazaretto. It took White’s LP the full week of June 7th-13th, 2014 to reach the same 4...
Forever No. 1: B.J. Thomas’ ‘Raindrops Keep Fallin’ on My Head’
“When the film was released, I was highly critical — how did the song fit with the film? There was no rain,” Redford told USA Today in 2019, a half-century later. “At the time, it seemed like a dumb idea. How wrong I was.” “Raindrops…” was hardly the most sophisticated song that Burt Bacharach and Hal David — the duo who’d penned many of the most pristine and affecting pop songs of the late ’50s and ’60s, including most of Dionne Warwick’s signature smashes — ever wrote. But it may have been their most universal, a song that everybody who has ever had a bad day or a rough patch could relate to. David’s lyric has a dash of whimsical humor (“So, I just did me some talkin’ to the sun/ And I said I didn’t like the way he got things done...
Olivia Rodrigo’s ‘Sour’ Debuts at No. 1 on Billboard 200 Albums Chart With 2021’s Biggest Week
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 June 5, 2021-dated chart (where Sour debuts at No. 1) will be posted in full on Billboard‘s website on Wednesday, June 2 (one day later than usual due to the May 31 Memorial Day holiday in the U.S.). For all chart news, follow @billboard and @billboardcharts on both Twitter and Instagram. Of Sour’s 295,000 equivalent album ...
Ed Sheeran & Courteney Cox Recreate Ross & Monica’s ‘Friends’ Dance Routine
Ed Sheeran stepped in for David Schwimmer to hilariously reboot a classic Friends moment this weekend. The singer-songwriter teamed up with his friend Courteney Cox for an Instagram video that shows off their best take on Ross and Monica’s dance routine — the one that was shown in season 6, episode 10 of Friends, “The One With the Routine.” He shared the results on Sunday afternoon (May 30). “Had a reunion of our own this weekend @courteneycoxofficial #theroutine #iknow #friends4eva #obviouslybetterthanross,” Sheeran captioned the video, referencing the recent HBO Max Friends reunion special. 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 Be...
Katy Perry Gives Cute Update on Baby Daisy: ‘She’s Crawling’
“She’s crawling,” the pop star and proud mom revealed, “and she has one tooth. It’s barely poked through, though.” “Actually, it’s kind of like one of my teeth,” she said of her little one’s baby tooth. “‘Cause I have pretty good teeth on the top but if you were to actually see my bottom teeth, they’re a little interesting, but I think that’s character.” Listen to the interview clip in the video below. 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.
Olivia Rodrigo Tells the Stories Behind Several ‘Sour’ Songs on ‘Zach Sang Show’
They discussed heart-wrenching ballads like “Enough for You” and “1 Step Forward, 3 Steps Back,” the somewhat surprising album opener, “Brutal,” and more. Below, see a few highlights from the nearly 22-minute heart-to-heart about the songs of Sour. ‘Brutal’ Is the Opening Number, But It Was a Last-Minute Addition “I actually wrote ‘Brutal’ like two weeks before we had to turn the record in, which is very late in the game,” admitted Rodrigo. “It’s one of my favorite songs on the record. I think it sounds really unique, and I love the songwriting of it — I think it really represents my teenage years very well. I really wanted to put it as the opening track. Everyone was like, ‘Olivia, are you sure...
