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Kelly Clarkson Wraps You With ‘These Arms of Mine’ for Her Otis Redding Cover
Kelly Clarkson embraced an old-school classic by covering Otis Redding‘s “These Arms of Mine” for Friday’s (March 5) Kellyoke segment on The Kelly Clarkson Show. A single spotlight illuminated Clarkson’s silhouette as she walked up to the mic on the blacked-out stage before yellow and purple lights lit up the talk show host. “These arms of mine/ They are burning/ Burning from wanting you/ These arms of mine/ They are wanting/ Wanting to hold you,” she crooned the chorus with her own soulful spin. 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 p...
Listen to ‘The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge On The Run’ Soundtrack With Tainy, J Balvin, Monsta X, Weezer & More
Kicking off the soundtrack is Tainy and J Balvin’s “Agua” dropping Thursday, July 9. “I know that this song has good vibes and a lot of happiness, which we need during these moments,” Balvin expressed on Instagram. The uptempo track fuses the iconic SpongeBob intro with a party-starting reggaeton and bass melody. “This is an underwater party/baby, bring your umbrella / we’re dancing like fish in the sea, like fish in the sea,” the infectious chorus notes. SpongeBob Movie: Sponge on the Run will debut digitally in the U.S via premium video on demand in early 2021 and then move exclusively to CBS All Access, ViacomCBS’ subscription video on demand and live-streaming service, following the premium video-on-demand window. You Deserve to Make Money Even When y...
Justin Bieber Releases ‘Hold On’ Single: Stream It Now
Justin Bieber gears up for a dangerous mission in his “Hold On” music video, which the pop star premiered on Friday (March 5). The clip opens with Bieber racing through the streets on a motorbike, with police on his tail. Our man even takes a bullet. The cinematic clip us back to before “mistakes are made.” Those mistakes include taking bundles of cash, that don’t belong to him. Actress Christine Ko, who plays Emma in Lil Dicky‘s FX series Dave, stars as his leading lady. Bieber guest starred as himself in an episode of Dave with his “Lonely” collaborator Benny Blanco back in April 2020. Earlier that year in February, Dicky hopped on “Running Over” on Bieber’s Billboard 200 No. 1 ...
BTS’ Groundbreaking Saturday Night Live Performances Return to YouTube
ARMY, rejoice with us: after a long and painful absence, BTS’ 2019 performances on Saturday Night Live were rightfully restored earlier this week. Last June, after racking up a collective 39 million views, the performances of “Boy with Luv” and “Mic Drop” vanished from SNL’s YouTube account. This is, unfortunately, a pretty common occurrence, and often happens when labels run into copyright renewal with outlets like NBC. The resurfaced performances have arrived on the heels of similar copyright friction between Spotify and Kakao M, a South Korean music distributor, which resulted in hundreds of Korean artists and songs being removed from the platform earlier this week. In April of 2019, the world of Korean music in Western markets looked quite different. This was long before BTS had secure...
Zara Larsson Talks Putting a Modern Twist on Classic Swedish Pop With ‘Poster Girl’ Album
“It knows exactly what the f–k I’m thinking,” she says, her Swedish accent popping as she swears. “The algorithm knows you so well. Sometimes it’s scary.” If this all sounds like Larsson started to lose it a bit during this past year of downtime — well, she would not disagree with you there. “I felt like a little person floating around the universe without anything to anchor me down to reality,” she says. “I identify myself so much by my job: I’m an artist. That’s who I am. And when I didn’t have that, it was very confusing.” It’s one of the many reasons she is eager to get back to work and release her second international album, Poster Girl, out Friday (Mar. 5). A glossy, disco-tinged twist on classic Swedish pop, the LP is something of an identity statement following 2017’s S...
10 Artists Worth Bringing Back VH1 Storytellers For
Kendrick Lamar photo by Amy Price; St. Vincent photo by David Brendan Hall; Janelle Monáe photo by Philip Cosores VH1 Storytellers was such a cool show. It borrowed the idea of MTV Unplugged — a hugely popular act performing a stripped-down set in front of an intimate audience — and took it one step further. Audiences could see and hear artists in a more relaxed setting, dishing on their careers and telling stories about creating the songs we know and love. Storytellers first aired 25 years ago in late February 1996; Kinks mastermind Ray Davies was the first performer. It ran for 97 more episodes, the last starring Ed Sheeran in 2015. In between, there was a veritable Who’s Who of talent, from classic rock gods like David Bowie and Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young to ‘90s stars like Pearl ...
Maroon 5 & Megan Thee Stallion Reminisce on ‘Beautiful Mistakes’ For New Collab
“I was like the little break where you go to the melodic thing, to be honest, it actually shows this new kind of branch of what she does, and this new versatility that she’s going to show everybody right now,” the 41-year-old star elaborated. “That’s a side of her I had never really heard yet. Well it’s just, it’s one of those great songs that I think kind of continues to build. And the way she built her part was just, it couldn’t have been a more epic kind of climax for the song. I mean, it really is absolutely perfect. So, I mean, what she did was just miraculous, and it brought the song to a whole new level.” Levine also reminisced on the all-star rappers Maroon 5 has had the pleasure of collaborating with in the past, including Wiz ...
Chartbreaker: LOONA Cracked the Code to a K-Pop U.S. Radio Crossover
Only a handful of Korean acts have experienced that singular thrill. Despite K-pop’s strong physical sales, booming streaming numbers and titanic influence on social media (LOONA alone has 1.6 million Instagram followers), it has long struggled to gain traction on American radio, an institution that doesn’t play a lot of non-English pop songs. So Korean artists looking to break through on U.S. airwaves typically adapt to the market with strategic label partnerships, Western collaborations, and English-language singles — and LOONA has adopted the lattermost option with “Star.” Before LOONA ever attempted to cross over, though, the group — whose members range in age from 18 to 24 — promoted each member individually before debuting as a 12-member unit under its Korean management company...
Charli XCX Teases Banging Debut Single From Supergroup With The 1975 and No Rome: Listen
Charli XCX posted a 17-second snippet of “Spinning,” the debut single from her supergroup with No Rome and The 1975 on Wednesday (March 3). The track, a dancefloor-ready banger due out on Thursday (March 4), has been teased out for months, years really. Way back in 2019, The 1975 singer Matty Healy let is slip that he was working with Charli, telling fans he produced a track with No Rome and 1975 drummer George Daniel. Earlier this week, Charli posted an Instagram pic of a carton version of herself on a psychedelic background, writing, “formed a supergroup with @no_rome @trumanblack & @bedforddanes75 our song spinning drops march 4th ✨ pre save at the link in my bio ☁️ get ready for the cutest video of all time ☺️...
Jessie J Reflects on ‘Who You Are’ Album 10 Years Later & Says New Music Can ‘Hang’ With Her Biggest Hits
For the 10-year anniversary, Jessie J got on a video call with the Billboard Pop Shop Podcast to talk all about the making of the album, scoring her first (and second) No. 1 hits in her native U.K., and a familiar face that popped up in her early music videos. Listen to the podcast below: She also has some great stories about writing “Do It Like a Dude” with Rihanna in mind but keeping the aggressive anthem for her first U.K. single instead (“I just remember seeing the complete split of ‘I love her’/’I hate her’ [when it debuted] … I loved the extremity”) and writing what would become one of Miley Cyrus’ biggest hits. “‘Party in the USA’ put my foot in the door as a credible artist that can write songs, and that ...
Olivia Rodrigo Can’t Believe Her ‘Idols’ Taylor Swift & Lorde Have ‘Become My Peers So Quickly’
But the line Davidson draws between Rodrigo and Swift is pretty solid. Following Swift’s co-sign of “Drivers License,” Rodrigo said the pop superstar penned her a letter based on the teen singer’s favorite lyrics from “long story short” on Swift’s most recent Billboard 200 No. 1 album evermore: “Past me/ I wanna tell you not to get lost in these petty things/ Your nemeses/ Will defeat themselves before you get the chance to swing.” “So she wrote about that a little bit in her letter,” Rodrigo elaborated about the heartfelt note. “She was like, ‘I think we make our own luck and I think when you’re kind to people and do what’s right, it always comes back to you in the best ways.'” The High Scho...
Jamie Spears Says He Would “Love Nothing More Than to See Britney Not Need a Conservatorship”
In the wake of the New York Times documentary Framing Britney Spears, the pop star’s father Jamie Spears has faced renewed scrutiny over his conservatorship of her estate. Through his attorney, Jamie has now responded to calls that he step aside, telling CNN that he would “love nothing more than to see Britney not need a conservatorship.” Spears’ lawyer Vivian Lee Thoreen also offered her client’s perspective on the recent court tussles over the $60 million estate. Last month, a judge ruled that Bessemer Trust would serve as a co-conservator alongside Jamie. At the time, reporting suggested that this happened despite the elder Spears’ objections. “Jamie never contested or objected to Bessemer being appointed as his co-conservator,” Thoreen contended. “And at the last hearing...
