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Yes, It’s Little Mix, Galantis & David Guetta On The Same Track: Behold ‘Heartbreak Anthem’
What we know for sure is that the song’s production is built from brightly plucky strings and synth, with the lyrics — in the grand tradition of Destiny’s Child’s “Survivor” — focused on being better than that: not holding grudges, understanding that while sometimes it works out, sometimes it doesn’t, and that while maybe we’ll fix this, it’s also possible we won’t. Whatever! Who cares! In fact, despite the titular implications, this scrappy crew of musical stars emphasizes the song is actually not a heartbreak anthem at all, because these ladies just “ain’t got no time to dwell on it.” Indeed, bless up. The track then swells into the kind of massive bubblegum-leaning dance/pop that Galantis has made t...
Lana Del Rey Releases New Songs “Blue Banisters”, “Text Book”, and “Wildflower Wildfire”: Stream
<span class="localtime" data-ltformat="F j, Y | g:ia" data-lttime="2021-05-20T19:15:42+00:00“>May 20, 2021 | 3:15pm ET There’s a few weeks to go before Lana Del Rey drops her new album Blue Banisters on July 4th. To help tide fans over until then, the pop star has just released three new “buzz” tracks: “Blue Banisters”, “Text Book”, and “Wildflower Wildfire”. Stream them below. All three of these songs, which a press release is labeling as “buzz tracks in anticipation of her upcoming 8th studio album,” find Del Rey whisper-singing atop relatively scaled-back music. The title track is a gentle ballad with cushioned piano notes and quiet vocal runs, while “Text Book” begins in a similar manner before picking up with drums, backing harmonies, and a few gui...
Nick Jonas on Billboard Music Awards Hosting Gig, Seeing BTS ‘Do Their Thing’ & ‘Feeling Great’ After Injury
That’s a tall order, but Jonas is up to the challenge when he hosts the 2021 Billboard Music Awards for the very first time this weekend. In a new interview with the Pop Shop Podcast (listen below), the musician/actor talks about what the BBMAs mean to him, whose performances he’s looking forward to, what surprises he has in store, and how he’s doing following his on-set injury over the weekend. Why the BBMAs are a big deal: “I think the Billboard Awards are special to an artist because it sort of encapsulates your chart achievement, and it’s always an artist’s dream to be on the Hot 100 or the Billboard 200. These are things that you dream about as a kid and you grow up — I did, at least — reading Billboard magazine and loving seeing th...
Kelly Clarkson Gets Funky & ‘Lucky’ For Her Technicolor Daft Punk Cover
“Get Lucky” was the lead single from Daft Punk’s fourth and final studio album, Random Access Memories in 2013. The song peaked at No. 2 on the Billboard Hot 100 and hit No. 1 on the Hot Dance/Electronic Songs, Dance Club Songs and Dance/Mix Show Airplay charts. “Get Lucky” earned a Grammy Award for record of the year and best pop duo/group performance in 2014, where Daft Punk, Pharrell, Rodgers and Stevie Wonder performed it onstage. Her Daft Punk cover comes nearly three months to the date when the enigmatic French EDM duo announced their split after 28 years. Daft Punk later had major spikes on Billboard‘s dance/electronic charts (dated March 6), with “Get Lucky” jumping to No. 6 on the Hot Dance/Electronic Songs tally....
‘She’s Perfect Right Now for Top 40’: How Ariana Grande Made History at Pop Radio
Grande has spent much of the past decade finding success at top 40 radio: “POV,” which moves up to No. 7 on this week’s chart (while “Positions” drops to No. 8 and “34+35” holds at No. 9), is the superstar’s 19th top 10 hit on the Pop Airplay chart. Since her first top 10 hit came in June 2014 with her Iggy Azalea collaboration “Problem,” Grande has become the most consistent top 40 presence in the Pop Airplay chart’s upper tier, with her 19 top 10 hits the most of any artist in that nearly seven-year time frame (Justin Bieber comes in second, with 15 top 10 hits). Now, with a record three concurrent top 10 hits on the chart, Grande has demonstrated just how dominant her blend of traditional pop, R&B, hip-hop influences and powerhouse vocals have become at the format. “Listeners love h...
Justin Bieber’s ‘Peaches’ Becomes His Eighth No. 1 on Pop Airplay Chart
Here’s a recap of Bieber’s eight Pop Airplay No. 1s: “What Do You Mean?,” two weeks at No. 1, October 2015“Sorry,” three weeks, January 2016“Love Yourself,” five weeks, February-March 2016“Cold Water” (Major Lazer feat. Bieber & MO), one week, October 2016“Despacito” (Luis Fonsi & Daddy Yankee feat. Bieber), five weeks, July-August 2017“I Don’t Care” (with Ed Sheeran), three weeks, July-August 2019“Intentions” (feat. Quavo), one week, June 2020“Peaches” (feat. Daniel Caesar & Giveon), one week to-date, May 2021 Bieber ties Ariana Grande and Justin Timberlake for the seventh-most Pop Airplay No. 1s, dating to the chart’s October 1992 inception, after Maroon 5, ...
Willow Performs ‘Transparent Soul’ With Travis Barker, Talks New Album on ‘Fallon’
Earlier, Willow Zoomed in for a chat with the late-night show’s host. On the artwork and in her performance, Smith appears comfortable wielding the axe. So who and what inspired her to learn the guitar? “I honestly think it was a brewing in me for a while that I knew I needed to play an instrument to really call myself and a musician, and really wanted to do that,” she explained. “It was around the time that I found out that Michael Cera had made music.” No joke. Willow found inspiration in the music of the man who played Scott Pilgrim. “I think that was the breaking point,” she recounted. Willow also talked about reuniting her mom’s metal band for Mother’s Day, insecurities with her own voice, the nervous moment when she sent the new track to Barker and,...
Where Is That Movie About Halsey’s Life? The Answer Could Be Its Own Rom-Com
Halsey revealed in late January that she was pregnant and expecting her first child, and the father of her baby was later revealed as her boyfriend, screenwriter Alev Aydin. The couple were first spotted together in public in October 2020. She set the record straight months later by letting critics know, “My pregnancy was 100% planned, and I tried very hard for this bb.” She wore a rainbow crochet crop top in her pregnancy announcement that served as a subtle reminder of her previous pregnancy loss, with the expected child being a “rainbow baby.” She opened up about suffering a miscarriage onstage before she even had time to fully process she was pregnant in a 2018 interview on The Doctors. Halsey also shared that she was battling endometriosis, ...
Bleachers Announce New Album Take the Sadness out of Saturday Night, 2021 Tour Dates
<span class="localtime" data-ltformat="F j, Y | g:ia" data-lttime="2021-05-18T14:45:33+00:00“>May 18, 2021 | 10:45am ET Having spent quarantine lost in Taylor Swift’s woods and digging through St. Vincent’s past, pop super-producer Jack Antonoff is ready for a little “me” time. He’s announced a new album from his solo project Bleachers project, Take the Sadness out of Saturday Night, out July 30th, and shared the single “Stop Making This Hurt”. Bleachers will also be hitting the road later this year on a 2021 tour. For the follow-up to 2017’s Gone Now, Antonoff handled almost everything in-house. That makes sense; Antonoff is the guy you hire to make your songs sound good, and those hefty paychecks might dry up if he starts outsourcing the wor...
Natalie Imbruglia is ‘Getting Ready for New Music to Drop’
“Sorry I haven’t posted in a while,” she writes on Instagram. “I’ve been busy behind the scenes getting ready for new music to drop. Shooting a video, working on artwork… it’s a beautiful thing!” Imbruglia’s post accompanies a screengrab of her Zoom hangout with her BMG U.K. team. Imbruglia has released five studio albums, most recently Male, from 2015. Like many of her compatriots, Imbruglia got her break in showbiz with a starring role in the iconic soapie Neighbors. She made a break for the music business and landed a global hit in 1997 with her cover of Ednaswap’s “Torn.” Imbruglia’s debut album Left of The Middle hit No. 1 on the ARIA chart and No. 5 on the Official U.K. Albums Chart, and sold seven million copies worldwide. The awards came hard and fast. She received ...
H.E.R. Was Almost in a Band With Kehlani & Zendaya
“Dylan Wiggins, who is D’wayne Wiggins‘ son from Tony! Toni! Toné! We used to be in a band together,” H.E.R. said in an interview on The Carlos Watson Show. “We used to perform together when we were really young and Kehlani was actually in our band. We all used to sing together. Zendaya was going to be in it at one point. But yeah, they all grew up together. I came into the picture in Oakland, and we used to perform together.” Wiggins and H.E.R. were two out of the six members of the teen band PopLyfe, which went on to compete on season 6 of America’s Got Talent and finish in fourth place. Judge Piers Morgan encouraged Kehlani to pursue a solo career, telling her in the semifinals, “You’ve got real talent, but I don&...
Kim Kardashian Buys Janet Jackson’s ‘If’ Music Video Outfit for $25K at Auction
Jackson echoed Kardashian’s excitement in an Instagram Story on her own account, writing back to her: “Thank u so much @kimkardashian! I hope ‘IF’ gives u as much pleasure as it did me.” The “Iconic Treasures From the Legendary Career and Life of Janet Jackson” auction was held through Sunday (May 16), Jackson’s 55th birthday. The star partnered with Julien’s Auctions to sell more than 1,000 items — gems from her career as well as personal treasures. The auction took place in Beverly Hills, California, and was shown on Julien’s website. Proceeds were set to go to Compassion International, an organization that helps children escape poverty. See Kardashian’s post announcing her purchase of the coveted Janet Jackson memorabilia on Ins...
