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Demi Lovato Sets New Album ‘Dancing with the Devil’
Lovato’s latest album will be supported by a four-part documentary series, Demi Lovato: Dancing with the Devil, which will stream on YouTube from Tuesday, March 23, and wrapping Tuesday, April 6. The album and the series are interconnected. Both will explore Lovato’s near fatal overdose in 2018, and her journey back. Dancing with the Devil…The Art of Starting Over will feature the song “Anyone,” which Lovato performed at the 2020 Grammy Awards. It’s the followup to Tell Me You Love Me from 2017, which hit No. 3 on the Billboard 200 chart. News of Lovato’s forthcoming seventh album comes soon after she came out, telling Glamour,: “When I started getting older, I started realizing how queer I really am.” In a clip from the upcoming online series, Lovato admits sh...
BTS, Harry Styles, Mickey Guyton & More Sales Surge After 2021 Grammy Awards
Here are the top 10 selling songs performed on the show, on March 14, according to initial reports: BTS, “Dynamite” (10,500 sold on March 14; up 2,748%) Silk Sonic, “Leave the Door Open” (5,100; up 144%)Harry Styles, “Watermelon Sugar” (2,600; up 945%)Dua Lipa, “Levitating” (2,600; up 121%)Black Pumas, “Colors” (2,600; up 1,850%)Dua Lipa, “Don’t Start Now” (2,600; up 98%)Mickey Guyton, “Black Like Me” (1,600; up 13,225%)Cardi B, “Up” (1,600; up 5%)Billie Eilish, “Everything I Wanted” (1,300; up 812%)Maren Morris, “The Bones” (1,000; up 641%) Beyoncé was the biggest winner of the evening, taking home four Grammy Awards. Her total trophy count now stands at 28, making her the female artist with the most wins ever (a point noted during the television broadcast). Her 28th win was for best R&am...
Livestreams & Virtual Concerts to Watch: Week of March 15
For more virtual shows and livestreams to tune into this week, check out the roundup below. We’ll update this list as more events are announced. March 16-20: SXSW is taking place virtually this year, and will feature its film festival and music showcases online. Demi Lovato’s documentary Dancing With the Devil — a harrowing look at the singer’s near-fatal overdose — is among the films opening the event. An online pass is $399. March 17: U2 is marking St. Patrick’s Day by streaming their 2001 September concert at Ireland’s Slane Castle for the first time. The show is the first of the band’s four-show streaming series titled “U2: The Virtual Road.” Dermot Kennedy opens the livestream with a new set filmed outside of Los Angeles...
Kelly Clarkson Puts Some Extra Pep in Her Step for Cover of Faith Hill’s ‘Keep Walkin’ On’
For anyone who’s exhausted on this Monday (March 15) — between losing an hour of sleep to daylight saving time, the 2021 Grammy Awards running late on Sunday night, and the 2021 Oscar nominations being announced first thing in the morning — Kelly Clarkson knew just the thing to get people going to start their week off right. She got The Kelly Clarkson Show viewers to “Keep Walkin’ On” with her take on Faith Hill and Shelby Lynne‘s 1995 song. The talk show host and her backup singers sped up the song and traded singing duties on the fourth verse when they sang, “What you gonna do, can’t pay the rent/ Yeah, what you gonna do when the money’s spent?/ What you gonna do when you just can’t cope/ Hey, what...
Taylor Swift’s ‘Floral Folklore’ Grammys Dress: Watch It Come Together
It was another big Grammy night for Swift, who made history with her third album of the year award for her surprise pandemic record Folklore, which she accepted with her musical collaborators, The National‘s Aaron Dessner and Jack Antonoff. “I want to thank all of my collaborators who are on the stage,” Swift said in her acceptance speech. “But mostly, we just want to thank the fans. You guys met us in this imaginary world that we created, and we can’t tell you how honored we are forever by this. Thank you so much, and thank you to the Recording Academy. We will never forget that you did this for us. Thank you so much.” Taylor also thanked the fans again in a tweet, writing, “The fans are the reason we’re floating to...
Here Are All of the 2021 Grammy Awards Performances
The 63rd annual Grammy Awards on Sunday (March 14) were a star-studded event despite the pandemic making the night a bit different from those in years past. The show, hosted by Trevor Noah, was socially distanced and held at the Los Angeles Convention Center and its surrounding areas. Among the many performers of the evening were K-pop superstars BTS, Taylor Swift, DaBaby, Dua Lipa, Mickey Guyton, and others. Harry Styles, who won best pop solo performance for his hit “Watermelon Sugar,” kicked off the show with a jazzy rendition of the Hot 100 chart topper. The singer showed off his moves while in a flashy head-to-toe leather look — sans shirt — and a green boa. You Deserve to Make Money Even When you are looking for Dates Online. So we reimagined what a dating sho...
Fans Choose Selena Gomez’s ‘Revelación’ EP as This Week’s Favorite New Music
The project, Gomez’s first-even Spanish EP, brought in 43.7% of the vote, beating out new music by Blackpink‘s Rosé (R), Nick Jonas (Spaceman), Imagine Dragons (“Follow You”/“Cutthroat”), and others. In recent weeks, Gomez also topped Billboard‘s new music poll with “Baila Conmigo,” her sultry reggaeton collab with Alejandro, and “Selfish Love,” her low-key bilingual dance track with DJ Snake. Revelación is Gomez’s first major release since her 2020 album, Rare, which earned the singer her third No. 1 album on the Billboard 200. Placing a very close second on the past week’s tally with 43.6% of the vote was Rosé’s solo debut project, R, which features new songs “On the Ground” and “Gone.” She became the second me...
Nick Jonas Announces Deluxe Version of ‘Spaceman’ With New Jonas Brothers Song
Joe Jonas and Kevin Jonas join Nick on “Selfish,” one of the bonus songs featured on the deluxe version of Nick’s latest solo album. “Can’t wait for you guys to hear #Selfish,” Joe wrote on his own Twitter account. Also landing on the deluxe Spaceman set is a song titled “Dangerous,” as well as “chill” versions of album tracks “Don’t Give Up on Us,” “2Drunk” and “This Is Heaven.” Spaceman first arrived on Friday (March 12). 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 ...
Taylor Swift’s Grammys Performance Concept Is ‘Brilliant and Beautiful,’ Says Executive Producer
Previously, Swift — who is nominated for six awards at this year’s ceremony, including album of the year — confirmed that her performance for the Grammys includes collaborators Aaron Dessner and Jack Antonoff, but she didn’t spill any of the other “highly confidential” details. She said the trio have been quarantining in the same house for the past week and have been tested each day. “You know, we’ve only gotten to be together in the same room once,” she pointed out of their experience creating new music together during a pandemic. “And so, this is really awesome to get to be together with them again.” See the interview clip with Winston on ET, and watch the 2021 Grammy Awards on Sunday (March 14) at 8 p.m. ET/5 p.m. PT on C...
Jennifer Lopez and Alex Rodriguez Announce They’re Not Breaking Up
The couple got engaged in March 2019 after about two years of dating. News of their breakup was first reported by Page Six on Friday (March 12) and later posted by the Associated Press. Neither star had publicly commented on social media at press time. The 51-year-old singer and actress is currently filming the movie Shotgun Wedding in the Dominican Republic, where she posted a photo of herself cozying up to Rodriguez, 45, in late February. The former Yankees star recently posted a solo shot in Miami. A-Rod accompanied Lopez to Washington, D.C., for her performance at President Joe Biden’s inauguration on Jan. 20, describing it as an “iconic moment” that he’ll “never forget.” Lopez took to social media last March to show off...
Latina Power on Spotify: Cardi B, Kali Uchis & Karol G Among Top Female Acts This Week
This may be the first time in recent memory that so many Latin female artists place so high simultaneously on the chart. The placement is particularly notable for Shakira, Kali Uchis and Karol G, who sing predominantly in Spanish. Shakira, a mainstay in the upper echelons of all charts, saw her positioning boosted by the continuous success of “Girl Like Me,” her collab with The Black Eyed Peas, which placed at No. 38 on this week’s Spotify 200 chart. On her end, Karol G has three songs on the Spotify 200 — “Bichota,” “Location” and “Tusa.”And Kali Uchi’s success comes on the heels of her surprising hit single “Telepatía,” which placed at a stunning No. 3 on this week’s Spotify 200 chart. You Deserve to Make Money Even When you are looking for Dates Online. So we reimagined what...
Song of the Week: Lucy Dacus Delivers a Wrenching Ballad with “Thumbs”
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, Lucy Dacus delivered a wrenching ballad that left all of us speechless. Some songs end and sit in the pit of your stomach for the rest of the day, so visceral and affecting that they can’t be shaken. Lucy Dacus’ raw, devastating new release, “Thumbs”, is such a song, offering a gothic revenge fantasy that lingers long after the four and a half minutes have passed. Extremely minimal in production, “Thumbs” is also nearly formless, unfolding more like a whispered secret, twilight confession, or piece of local mythos than traditional...
