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Miley Cyrus Hides in The Kid Laroi’s Car in Latest Remix Tease
Cyrus captioned the clip “…where are we going @thekidlaroi? BTW I think they want us to drop the remix. The second sneak at Miley’s upcoming remix of LAROI’s 2020 single “Without You” comes after Tuesday’s 20-second clip that blended the original over footage of Miley making faces as headlines about her dating life scrolled in the background. “Miley Cyrus Romance Retrospective: All the Men and Women She’s Dated,” read one, “What Really Ended Miley Cyrus and Nick Jonas’ Relationship,” screamed another. All the while, Miley, looking satisfied and confident, gazes into the camera as the Kid sings, “And I can’t take it back, so in the past is where we’ll leave it, huh,” before Miley ...
Yola Announces New Album, Shares ‘Diamond Studded Shoes’: Listen
“The video is in part inspired by the Truman Show and is about being trapped in a false construct,” Yola said in a release. “It is supposedly perfect, but you’re trapped in a life that wasn’t meant for you. I wanted to convey the feeling that everything you know to be true is not quite working the way it’s supposed to. The island at the end is a paradigm of mental conditioning, we are all trapped on an island of our own thinking, until we change it.” The song taps into the civil unrest many have been feeling over the past year. Yola asks listeners “to unite and turn our focus to those with a stranglehold on humanity” instead of falling prey to “the false divides created to distract us from those few who are in charge of the majority of the world’s wealth and...
Aurora Achieving ‘Runaway’ Success on Billboard Global Charts Thanks to TikTok Trend
The song hits the Global Excl. U.S. chart’s top 40 and leaps 130-49 on the Global 200. In 2015, Norwegian singer-songwriter Aurora released her debut EP, Running With the Wolves. She followed in 2016 with her first full-length, All My Demons Greeting Me as a Friend, which reached No. 28 on Billboard‘s U.S.-based Top Rock Albums chart. Both sets begin with the song “Runaway.” Fast-forward to 2021 and the track is gaining more widespread worldwide recognition on the back of, what else? TikTok virality. On the latest lists, dated April 24, “Runaway” leaps 99-34 on the Billboard Global Excl. U.S. chart and 130-49 on the Billboard Global 200. “Runaway” received its own colorful interactive TikTok filter that dramatically changes the backlighting from da...
Kelly Clarkson Delivers Sassy Cover of Maren Morris’ ‘Rich’: Watch
Kelly Clarkson took on country-pop superstar Maren Morris‘ “Rich” in the latest (April 21) episode of The Kelly Clarkson Show. “If I had a dollar every time that I swore you off/ And a twenty every time that I picked up when you called/ And a crisp new Benjamin for when you’re here then gone again/ And a dollar every time I was right about you after all,” Clarkson sang, backed by her band Y’all and standing out in a white shirtdress against a green-lit stage. “Rich” appears on Morris’ 2016 major label debut album Hero. Clarkson also previously covered Morris’ “My Church” at the 2018 Billboard Music Awards. You Deserve to Make Money Even When you are looking for Dates Online. So we reimagined w...
Ariana Grande’s ‘Positions’ Posts Big Vinyl Sales, Jumps 79-2 on Billboard’s Top Album Sales Chart
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. The new April 24-dated Top Album Sales chart (where Fearless [Taylor’s Version] debuts to No. 1) will be posted in full on Billboard‘s website on April 20. For all chart news, follow @billboard and @billboardcharts on both T...
Dua Lipa Covers Arlo Parks’ “Eugene”: Watch
<span class="localtime" data-ltformat="F j, Y | g:ia" data-lttime="2021-04-20T02:53:12+00:00“>April 19, 2021 | 10:53pm ET During a recent appearance at the BBC Radio 1 Live Lounge, Dua Lipa brought down the lights and turned up the temperature for a cover of “Eugene” by Arlo Parks. Lipa and Parks are both young (25 and 20, respectively) and both ascendent in different ways. Parks is our former Artist of the Month, and “Eugene” appeared on her excellent debut album Collapsed in Sunbeams. Meanwhile, Lipa is fresh off her Grammy win for Best Pop Vocal album for Future Nostalgia. The pop star reveled in the intimate setting of the Live Lounge, also performing a stripped-down version of her own song “Hallucinate”. For “Eugene”, Lipa sang without pe...
Sam Gellaitry Debuts New Pop Sound in “Duo” Music Video: Watch
Sam Gellaitry has come a long way since making trap and house beats in his Stirling bedroom. In his first-ever music video for his newest tune “Duo,” the renowned Scottish electronic artist shows off his own vocals and debuts his new pop sound. Released on the legendary Parlophone imprint, the single arrives ahead of his forthcoming EP due later this year. Funky guitar licks, groovy percussion, and bright synths flawlessly harmonize with Gellaitry’s catchy vocals, which tell a bitter tale of a romantic interest that took him for granted. The music video is glitchy and colorful, perhaps nodding to his synesthesia, a neurological condition that allows him to see music as colors. Gellaitry comes from a family of musicians. His father plays the bagpipe in classic Scottish tradition and his old...
Song of the Week: Montreal Psyche Rockers TEKE::TEKE Unleash Playful Mayhem on the Wild “Barbara”
<span class="localtime" data-ltformat="F j, Y | g:ia" data-lttime="2021-04-18T18:05:24+00:00“>April 18, 2021 | 2:05pm ET Song of the Week breaks down and talks about the song we just can’t get out of our head each week. Find these songs and more on our Spotify Top Songs playlist. For our favorite new songs from emerging artists, check out our Spotify New Sounds playlist. This week, Montreal psych rockers TEKE::TEKE unleash a prankish spirit on an unsuspecting town in the wild, raucous “Barbara”. Let’s not get ahead of ourselves. No matter how low infection rates have dropped in some (not all) states or how many vaccinations have been jabbed into people’s arms, that seems to be the mantra that health officials are sticking to: Let’s not get ahead of ours...
Taylor Swift’s Re-Recorded ‘Fearless’ Album Debuts at No. 1 on Billboard 200 Chart With Year’s Biggest Week
Fearless (Taylor’s Version) is the only No. 1 album of its kind: a re-recording of an artist’s (own or another’s) previously released album. 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 April 24, 2021-dated chart (where Fearless [Taylor’s Version] debuts at No. 1) will be posted in full on Billboard‘s website on April 20. For all chart news, follow @billboard and @bil...
Britney Spears Assures Fans She’s ‘Extremely Happy’ and ‘Totally Fine’
In recent months, fans grew concerned about the singer’s life following the release of the New York Times documentary Framing Britney Spears, which chronicles her turbulent rise to fame and long-running conservatorship. Spears has been in a conservatorship overseen predominantly by her dad since 2008. Many supporters of the #FreeBritney movement have come forward questioning whether a conservatorship over her personal and financial life still needs to be in place. The pop star’s IG video addressed whether she gets dizzy from doing twirls in the many home-recorded dance clips she posts on social media. “Yes, I get extremely dizzy,” Spears says. “But I’m a dancer, so as long as I have a focus for my head as I turn, as long as I keep finding that ...
Joshua Bassett Announces New Single ‘Feel Something’
A new song from Joshua Bassett will be arriving soon. “SURPRISE ! NEW SINGLE ‘FEEL SOMETHING’ MAY 7TH !” the musician and actor revealed on Instagram Friday night (April 16). “Feel Something,” which follows Bassett’s self-titled debut EP that was released in March, will drop just a week ahead of the May 14 season two premiere of High School Musical: The Musical: The Series, the Disney+ show on which Bassett is a series regular. Bassett stars as Ricky opposite Olivia Rodrigo’s Nini. 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 g...
Taylor Swift Reveals the ‘Fearless’ Vault Song That Pointed to Her Pop Future
Of course, Swift’s crossover to the mainstream really kicked into gear with the original 2008 release of Fearless, which spawned two of her biggest Pop Airplay hits to date — chart-topper “Love Story” and No. 2 hit “You Belong With Me” — and garnered her first album of the year win at the Grammys. In addition to the pop vibes of “Mr. Perfectly Fine,” the song is also a pretty good indicator of Swift’s teen sensibility at the time she wrote it. “I think the lyrics are just wonderfully scathing and full of the teen angst that you would hope to hear on an album that I wrote when I was 17 or 18 or on that cusp,” she says. “Mr. Perfectly Fine” was one of the most-talked-about previously unreleased Fearless songs...
