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Taylor Swift Releases folklore Live Album and Film: Stream
As promised, Taylor Swift has released her new folklore-focused film, the long pond studio sessions. The pop singer has also revealed a corresponding live album version of those sessions. Due to the ongoing pandemic, the original folklore LP was recorded remotely while in quarantine. Today’s two projects see Swift finally meeting up with her collaborators (IRL!) to perform the album live from start to finish for the first time. She, Jack Antonoff and Aaron Dessner convened at The National’s Long Pond Studio in Hudson, New York. Bon Iver’s Justin Vernon, who duets with Swift on “exile”, beamed in remotely. “It’s an album that allows you to feel your feelings, and it’s a product of isolation,” Swift said in the film’s trailer. At another point, she remarked to Dessner, “This could’...
Andrea Bocelli Earns 10th Top 10 on Album Sales Chart With ‘Believe,’ Bows at No. 1 on Classical Albums
Bocelli got his first top 10 on the Album Sales chart in 1999 with Sogno, which debuted and peaked at No. 4. He landed his first No. 1 with 2018’s Si. Through his career, Bocelli has sold 24.3 million albums in the U.S. Believe also gives Bocelli his 20th No. 1 on the Classical Albums chart and his 14th No. 1 on the Classical Crossover Albums tally. He extends his own record for the most No. 1 albums on both charts. The Classical Albums ranks the most popular classical albums of the week based on multi-metric consumption, combining album sales, track equivalent album units and streaming equivalent album units. The Classical Crossover Albums chart ranks the top-selling classical crossover titles of the week. Back in the top 10 of the new Album Sales list, AC/DC’s Power Up debuts at No....
Rina Sawayama Announces SAWAYAMA Deluxe Edition, Shares New Song “LUCID”: Stream
Rina Sawayama has announced a deluxe edition of SAWAYAMA, one of our favorite albums of 2020. Due out next month, the expanded release comes with an entire second disc of bonus material, including a new single called “LUCID”. The deluxe collection consists of the 13 original SAWAYAMA songs and 11 additional tracks. Three of these have never before seen the light of day: “LUCID”, “We Out Here”, and “Bees & Honey”. There is also a cover of The 1975 song “Love It If We Made It”, in addition to acoustic renditions of “Bad Friend”, “STFU!”, and “Chosen Family” and fresh remixes from Dream Wife and Pabllo Vittar. Sawayama herself executive produced the project with help from Clarence Clarity (who also contributed production). Meanwhile, Nicole Morier (Britney Spears) and Kyle Shearer (Carly ...
11 Things We Learned From Taylor Swift’s ‘Folklore: The Long Pond Studio Sessions’
Here’s everything we learned from the film. William Bowery Is Joe Alwyn When Folklore was released, an unknown writer named William Bowery was credited on both “Exile” and “Betty.” Fans speculated over the identity, but Taylor confirmed in the doc that it is, in fact, her longtime boyfriend Joe Alwyn. The First Song She Wrote Is “My Tears Ricochet” and She Always Knew It Would Be Track No. 5 In Taylor Swift lore, track five on each album always deals in heartbreak and sadness. “My Tears Ricochet” fit that theme. “Chronologically, that’s the first thing. I wrote that one alone,” Swift said to Antonoff. “It’s definitely I think one of the saddest songs on the album.” “I think it’s one of the...
Swifties Are Loving Taylor Swift’s ‘Folklore’ Film and Live Album
Taylor Swift’s Folklore film debuted on Disney+ in the small hours. Judging by the volume traffic on social media, tens of thousands of Swifties stayed up all night and settled in for some action. In the special, TayTay talks about the making of her chart-topping lockdown album Folklore, giving an insights into how it was pieced together, unbottling family grief and, yes, love. The storytelling has captivated thousands of fans, who turned to social media in the early hours of Wednesday morning to soak it all up, have a blub, and share their thoughts in the best way possible: with memes. 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 ...
Josh Groban on Finding ‘New Meaning’ in Classic Songs for His Quarantine-Recorded ‘Harmony’ Album
“I’m watching strings play at AIR Studios in London, while my producer’s in Nashville, I’m in Los Angeles,” he tells the Billboard Pop Shop Podcast (listen to his interview, below). “We’ve got band members in different cities around the world. And it became a really powerful thing to watch everybody doing what they could from where they were… it’s one of the reasons why we thought ‘Harmony’ was a good word for (the album), because it wasn’t just the music of it, it was just that everything had to come together.” The 12-song Harmony album was released on Nov. 20 and features 10 covers of classic tunes that range from vintage songs from the 1960s like “The Impossible Dream” and “It’s Now or Never” to more relatively recent selections like Robbi...
The Weeknd Shut Out of All Grammy Categories
After Hours is the best full-length album of The Weeknd‘s career, and this year “Blinding Lights” has been about as ubiquitous as photons. Many observers expected a slew of Grammy nods for the artist born Abel Tesfaye, so when the nominations were announced earlier today, it came as a shock when he was shut out entirely. As Variety points out, there are a few possible explanations. First, perhaps The Weeknd’s representatives at Republic Records forgot to submit his music for consideration. Granted, they successfully handled Taylor Swift’s paperwork, helping her on the way to five nominations, but it’s conceivable. Another possibility is that the right hand didn’t know what the left hand was doing; that the R&B committee considered him pop, the pop committee figured he counted...
Justin Bieber Says ‘Changes’ Getting Pop Grammy Nod Instead of R&B ‘Feels Weird’
Justin Bieber is setting the record straight on which genre Changes belongs to after his fifth album received a Grammy nomination Tuesday (Nov. 24) for best pop vocal album. He wrote a short letter to the Recording Academy on Instagram the day nominations for the 2021 Grammys were revealed, stating how his mission to make an R&B album was not honored properly by being placed in this category. “To the Grammys I am flattered to be acknowledged and appreciated for my artistry. I am very meticulous and intentional about my music. With that being said I set out to make an R&B album. Changes was and is an R&B album,” he started. “It is not being acknowledged as an R&B album which is very strange to me. I grew up admiring R&B music and wis...
Miley Cyrus Admits to Relapse, Says She Got Sober to Avoid the 27 Club
This past June, Miley Cyrus announced that she was celebrating six months of sobriety. In a raw new interview, Apple Music’s Zane Lowe asked the pop star about that journey, and she admitted that she “fell off” during the pandemic but was now “two weeks sober.” She also delved into the… Please click the link below to read the full article. Miley Cyrus Admits to Relapse, Says She Got Sober to Avoid the 27 Club Wren Graves 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 give users back their fair share of Internet revenue.
Josh Groban Brings a Christmas Vibe to ‘The Tonight Show’ With ‘World We Knew’: Watch
There’s a Christmas feeling in the air. Christmas trees are going up around the country, Mariah Carey is back on the airwaves, and Josh Groban has a new record out. The veteran singer and songwriter just released a new album Harmony, supported by a three-part virtual concert series, including his first-ever holiday concert on Dec.19. {“nid”:”9435271″,”type”:”post”,”title”:”20 Questions With Josh Groban: Inside His Big Fall Release & Newfound Quarantine Habits”,”relative_path”:”\/articles\/columns\/pop\/9435271\/20-questions-with-josh-groban\/”,”media”:{“width”:1548,”height”:1024,”extension”:”jpg”,”mime_type”:”image...
Michael Bublé Is “Absolutely Loving” Deftones’ New Album Ohms
Canadian singer Michael Bublé is best known as a velvet-voiced crooner, but that doesn’t stop him from listening to some metal in his downtime. Apparently, he’s a huge fan of Deftones and their new album, Ohms. The singer posted an Instagram story where he’s literally jumping for joy after receiving a… Please click the link below to read the full article. Michael Bublé Is “Absolutely Loving” Deftones’ New Album Ohms Jon Hadusek 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 give users back their fair share of Internet reve...
King Princess Releases New Song “PAIN”: Stream
Last month, King Princess returned with her first new song of 2020. Now, the she’s back with another one called “PAIN”. The track is an upbeat banger that was co-produced by KP, Mark Ronson, Shawn Everett, and Mike Malchicoff. However, despite its playful musical demeanor, the lyrics are all about… Please click the link below to read the full article. King Princess Releases New Song “PAIN”: Stream Eli Enis 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 give users back their fair share of Internet revenue.
