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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...
DMX, Taylor Swift Songs Dot LyricFind Charts
“X” is followed by “Party Up (Up in Here)” (No. 3), “Damien” (No. 5), “Ruff Ryders’ Anthem” (No. 6), “Slippin’” (No. 8), “How’s It Goin’ Down” (No. 9) and “Who We Be” (No. 10) in the top 10. According to LyricFind, “X” saw a 5,888% increase in lyric views following the rapper’s death, while the biggest percentage boost belonged to “Where the Hood At (No. 13, LyricFind U.S.), with a 16,800% boost. Meanwhile, Taylor Swift sends seven titles onto LyricFind U.S., coinciding with the April 9 release of Fearless (Taylor’s Version), her rerecording of her 2008 studio album Fearless. “The Way I Loved You (Taylor’s Version)” leads the group at No. 7, followed by “Superstar (Taylor’s Version)” at No. 14. Two of the Swift songs also hit LyricFind Global, led again by “The Way I Loved You” (No. 9...
‘American Idol’ Contestants Will Sing These Oscar-Nominated Songs During Tribute Episode: Exclusive
The very special episode will open with judge Lionel Richie’s performance of his soaring 1985 Billboard Hot 100 No. 1 ballad “Say You, Say Me” from Taylor Hackford’s Russian ballet defection drama White Nights. Monday’s (April 19) episode will mark the first time 10 of last year’s lucky Idol finalists will be performing in the Idol dome at CBS Television City in Los Angeles, since they had to sing from their homes in 2020 because of COVID restrictions; the performers will be vying for a chance to join this season’s top 10. Check out the list below: Alyssa Wray: “This is Me” – Keala Settle & The Greatest Showman Ensemble (from The Greatest Showman) Ava August: “City Of Stars” – Ryan Gosling &...
Taylor Swift Smashes Records In Australia as ‘Fearless (Taylor’s Version)’ Debuts at No. 1
According to ARIA, the 17 weeks that separate evermore first summiting and the debut of Fearless (Taylor’s Version) sets the record for the shortest span between different albums to reach the top, beating Swift’s own mark of 20 weeks between her last two LPs. Three tracks from it impact the singles chart this week, led by “Mr. Perfectly Fine (Taylor’s Version) (From The Vault)”, new at No. 19. Swift’s tally of eight No. 1 albums places her second on the all-time leaderboard for female solo artists, behind only Madonna (with 11). She also sits one release behind Eminem (9) for the most consecutive No. 1s. On the latest ARIA Albums Chart, Justin Bieber’s Justice (Def Jam/Universal) dips 1-2, while veteran Australian artist Richard Clapton starts at No. 3 with Music Is Love (1966-1970) ...
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...
