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Troye Sivan Takes Us for a Tour of His Home, Drops Thumping New Track ‘You’: Stream It Now
“You” is Sivan’s first release this year, his first with Regard and McRae, and it’s the followup to his 2020 EP In a Dream. Want more of Sivan? He makes that happen by taking folks on a guided tour of his Melbourne home for Architectural Digest, which describes the Victorian-era digs (a former brick factory, we learn) as “unpretentious yet expertly decorated.” If home is where the heart is, then Sivan is smitten with his pad. At the top, he explains that he was terribly homesick after five or six years living in the U.S, a long way from friends and family. “I’m so unbelievably happy here,” he says of Australia, “I just feel so at home and I wanted to put down roots.” Roots, and branches. Sivan’s dining room table is adorned with a vase filled with apple tree branches. It’s Troye̵...
Christina Aguilera Is Working on a Spanish-Language Album
The New York City-born singer scored her seventh Top 10 album on the Billboard 200 when most recent album, 2018’s Liberation, opened at No. 6. Liberation was her first album since 2012. Aguilera updated her fans last month with two posts from the studio. “I’m a perfectionist and want to give everything my best – especially because of the soul-searching I’ve done over the past year and the new perspective I have,” she tells Health. “I am reinspired and have reconnected with myself. I’ve fallen in love with music all over again, which is a really big thing to say, having spent my entire career in music.” It’s too early for release dates or titles, though Xtina says her new works are all about honesty. “I’ve been approaching all of my writ...
Rina Sawayama Picks Elton John as Her ‘Chosen Family,’ Talks Song’s Crucial Timing
The British artists connected again on John’s Apple Music 1 radio show Rocket Hour to discuss what “Chosen Family” means to them personally and how it’s found universal appeal for the LGBTQ+ community and world at large during volatile times. “It was just really my genuine feelings towards my friends. Some of my friends have been kicked out at 17 for being gay because their parents are very religious and they’ve literally had to fend for themselves. And since then, I have friends who haven’t come out to their parents yet and they’re nearly 30,” the “XS” singer said about her original song. “The concept of ‘Chosen Family’ is such a pure one, such an important one. And I think especially this year, it’s...
Taylor Swift Turns ‘Fearless’ Castoffs Into an EP of Gems With ‘From the Vault’ 6-Pack
On the latest Billboard Pop Shop Podcast, we take a close listen to the six-pack of “new” songs — and you can listen along with us here: Also on the show, we’ve got chart news on how “Leave the Door Open,” the debut song from Silk Sonic — the duo of Bruno Mars and Anderson .Paak — jumps to No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100. Plus, how Justin Bieber’s Justice becomes his first multi-week No. 1 album on the Billboard 200 since 2010 and how Demi Lovato notches her highest-charting album since 2015 on the Billboard 200 with the debut of her latest release, Dancing With the Devil … The Art of Starting Over. The Billboard Pop Shop Podcast is your one-stop shop for all things pop on Billboard‘s weekly charts. You can always count on a livel...
Did Taylor Swift Tease the Rerecorded Release of ‘1989’: Swifties Think So
Taylor is, of course, at the beginning of a journey that will see her rerecord her catalog, starting with the recently-released Fearless (Taylor’s Version). During her spot on late-night TV, Taylor referenced 1989 and “Shake It Off,” one of its hits. There’s no argument, 1989 is in the pipeline. Though amateur sleuths are peeling back the layers, they’ve crunched the numbers, and they’ve convinced it’s all one-big TayTay easter egg… and that 1989 is coming soon. Check out some of the amateur detective work online: 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, blog...
Demi Lovato’s ‘Dancing With the Devil…’ Debuts at No. 1 on Billboard’s Top Album Sales Chart
Of Dancing’s debut sales of 38,000, physical album sales comprise 25,000 of that figure (all in CD sales) while digital album sales comprise 13,000. Sales of Dancing got help from the availability of a Target-exclusive CD edition of the set with two bonus tracks, a signed CD sold via Lovato’s official website, multiple CD cover variants and a deluxe edition with bonus tracks available through digital retailers. Carrie Underwood’s My Savior falls 1-2 in its second week on Top Album Sales, selling 31,000 copies (down 55%). After two weeks on sale, My Savior is the fifth-biggest selling album of 2021, with 99,000 copies sold through April 8. The year’s top-seller is Morgan Wallen’s Dangerous: The Double Album, with 215,000 copies sold. Sturgill Simpson’s Cuttin’ Grass, Vol. 2: The Cowboy Arms...
Demi Lovato’s Eating Disorder Comedy Pilot Gets NBC Order
Lovato has been open about having an eating disorder herself in the past. “I was compulsively overeating when I was 8 years old,” she told ABC News in 2011. “So, I guess, for the past 10 years I’ve had a really unhealthy relationship with food.” Lovato has also said that when she was working on Camp Rock as a teenage Disney Channel star, she was bullied about her weight by her classmates, which in turn led to bulimia. “I was performing concerts on an empty stomach,” she said. “I was losing my voice from purging.” If the project is greenlit to series, it will mark Lovato’s first regular TV role since she starred in Disney Channel’s 2009 series Sonny With a Chance. The news comes on the heels...
Taylor Swift Is Obsessed With Stephen Colbert In Hilarious ‘Late Show’ Segment
With all that work to do, it made sense for Swift to zoom in from the studio where she’s rerecording her complete works. That’s exactly what she did. So, was “Hey Stephen” written about Colbert? Nope. C’mon. Swift recorded it back in the day when she was 18, he was probably 44. “It’s just the power of music,” she explained, dismissing him. “Don’t flatter yourself.” Then, matters took a strange turn when Swift held up something she prepared earlier, a mood board stacked with pictures of Colbert. Swift then flexed her comic-acting chops by walking us through some stalker-ish knowledge of Steph’s little-known table-waiting history and every fine detail down to his social security number. “You Need to Calm Down” also isn’t about Stephen, maybe. “Hey Stephen” is actually, in Swift’s own words, ...
Olivia Rodrigo Announces Debut Album
The 11-track project includes her breakthrough debut single “Drivers License,” which spent eight weeks at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100, as well as its follow-up single “Deja Vu,” which debuted at No. 8 on the Hot 100 this week (chart dated April 17). The 18-year-old singer is the first artist to send her first two proper singles straight onto the top 10 region of the chart. Dan Nigro, who’s credited as the co-writer and producer of both singles, commented on her Instagram post, “Oh man!!!” to which Rodrigo responded, “@dan_nigro look at us making a record!!!!!” Sour will be released on May 21, exactly one week after she reprises her role of Nina in the second season of HSMTMTS, which premieres on Disney+ on May 14. Check out...
Britney Spears Feels ‘Flattered’ That the World Is ‘Concerned With My Life’
The world grew more concerned about the pop star’s life following the release of the New York Times documentary Framing Britney Spears, which touches on her life under the spotlight while shining a light on her conservatorship, in February. Despite feeling “flattered” by the overwhelming response by her worried fanbase after Framing came out, Spears said she felt “embarrassed by the light they put me in” in her first direct response to the doc about her life. “My life has always been very speculated …watched … and judged really my whole life !!!” Spears wrote on Instagram on March 30. “I didn’t watch the documentary but from what I did see of it I was embarrassed by the light they put me in. I cried for t...
Demi Lovato & Drew Barrymore Discuss Their ‘Challenging’ Lives as Child Stars
The two reflected on the “weird” dynamic of being around adults all the time for work while watching them grab a drink afterward and thinking as a teenager growing up in the Hollywood environment, “Well what do I get to do to play?” Lovato later elaborated on her mentality of “if you’re going to work me like an adult, I get to party like one” while the two touched on their struggles with drinking. Barrymore also recalled a portion of the singer’s latest YouTube Originals docuseries Dancing With the Devil where Bachelor host Chris Harrison questioned a 16-year-old Lovato on the red carpet at the 2008 American Music Awards how she could know about heartbreak. The scene follows shortly after Lovato reveals she had been allegedly r...
Issy Wood Shares New Song “Muscle” Co-Produced by Mark Ronson: Stream
<span class="localtime" data-ltformat="F j, Y | g:ia" data-lttime="2021-04-13T17:45:27+00:00“>April 13, 2021 | 1:45pm ET UK indie-pop artist Issy Wood has shared a new song called “Muscle” co-produced by Mark Ronson. It’s from her debut EP If It’s Any Constellation that’s due out in late May via Zelig Records. Presently, Wood is better known for her paintings than she is for her music. She’s been featured in numerous arts-oriented publications who have lauded her unique eye for what she calls a “Medieval millennial” style, and her Instagram features many of her terrific works. As a singer-songwriter, she released an EP last year called Cries Real Tears that felt akin to the humorous yet slightly dark indie-pop of Okay Kaya, and “Muscle” contin...
