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Lil Baby’s ‘My Turn’ Is MRC Data’s Top Album of 2020, Roddy Ricch’s ‘The Box’ Most-Streamed Song
MRC Data’s 2020 tracking year ran from Jan. 3, 2020, through Dec. 31, 2020. Equivalent album units — for album titles and chart rankings cited below — comprise traditional 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 on-demand official audio and video streams generated by songs from an album, or 1,250 paid/subscription on-demand official audio and video streams generated by songs from an album. 2020 was the first year on-demand video streams factored into album title totals and chart rankings. For the sake of clarity, equivalent album units do not include listening to music on broadcast radio or digital radio broadcasts. All numbers cited in this sto...
Zayn Shares Cryptic Tease of New Music: Listen
Zayn is coming. On Thursday (Jan. 7), the singer took to social media to share a mysterious teaser of a big announcement. The brief 12-second clip features an empty theater with the word “TOMORROW” emblazoned across the closed red curtain in all caps. Haunting music plays as the curtain slowly begins to rise, with twinkling flourishes of piano in the background revealing the very bottom of what could be a theater set. However, before anyone can get too close a glimpse, the scene cuts to black. Whatever Zayn has up his tattooed sleeve, it will serve as a follow-up to his 2020 single “Better,” which he released back in September. The former One Direction-er’s last album — the 27-track double LP Icarus Falls — dropped in Dec. 2018, but the singer has ...
‘Hold On,’ Because Kelly Clarkson Just Crushed This Drake Cover
Oops, Kelly Clarkson did it again. The singer put her signature smooth spin on Drake‘s “Hold On, We’re Going Home” in the latest edition of her Kellyoke series. Thursday’s (Jan. 7) take found Kelly and her band tackling the laid back 2103 track from Drizzy’s Nothing Was the Same album and somehow making it feel like even more sublimely sensual. In Clarkson’s hands, the song was transformed into an R&B power jam, with Clarkson revving up her virtual crowd into a frenzy with another stirring reworking of a modern classic. 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...
Selena Gomez Says Social Media CEOs ‘Failed the American People’ After U.S. Capitol Breach
In a note shared to Twitter following the chaos in Washington D.C., Gomez specifically called out Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, Google as entities, plus YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki, Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey, and CEO of Alphabet Inc. and Google Sundar Pichai. “Today is the result of allowing people with hate in their hearts to use platforms that should be used to bring people together and allow people to build community,” she wrote, before naming the aforementioned list of tech leaders. “You have all failed the American people today, and I hope you’re going to fix things moving forward.” Gomez has openly shared her condemnation of Facebook’s misinformation before. In December, she called out inaccu...
Demi Lovato Weighs In on Washington Siege: ‘I’m Angry, Embarrassed and Ashamed’
Like millions of Americans watching on at home, Demi Lovato was horrified by images of the siege on the Capitol. And like many others who vented their frustrations on social media, the pop star wants the nightmare to end, now. Turning to Twitter, Lovato joined the chorus of calls for president Trump’s impeachment, and vowed to convert her misery into new music. “My heart is broken,” she writes on Twitter. “It makes me to sad to believe how naive I was to think this couldn’t possibly happen, and yet it did. Here we are. For everyone in my comments saying “where’s d7” or wanting me to sing instead of speaking up about what needs to change in this country…” You Deserve to Make Money Even When you are looking for Dates Online. So we reimagined what a dating should be. It begins wit...
Miley Cyrus’ Metallica Tribute Album Features Elton John, Chad Smith, and Yo-Yo Ma
Miley Cyrus, Elton John (photo by Lior Phillips), Chad Smith (photo via Wikipedia), and Yo-Yo Ma (photo via Wikipedia) Miley Cyrus isn’t slouching on the Metallica tribute album that she first announced back in October. In a new interview, the Plastic Hearts artist confirmed that the project is well underway and that it will feature an eclectic range of collaborators, from Elton John and Red Hot Chili Peppers’ Chad Smith to famed cellist Yo-Yo Ma. The 28-year-old first revealed her affinity for the metal titans when she busted out a roaring cover of “Nothing Else Matters” at Glastonbury 2019. Last year, she doubled-down on her admiration by saying that Plastic Hearts was heavily inspired by the thrashers. However, much like Cyrus’ latest full-length was a modern pop take on ’80s rock ...
Dogs Dance Competitively to Evanescence’s “Bring Me to Life” and Michael Jackson’s “Thriller”: Watch
People can go their whole lives without discovering some of the world’s true marvels. Thankfully, a viral Tweet has drawn attention to one of the most amazing competitions no one knew about: dogs dancing competitively to such songs as Evanescence’s “Bring Me to Life”, Michael Jackson’s “Thriller”, and Ylvis’ “The Fox (What Does the Fox Say?)”. Technically, the contest is called “International Freestyle Heelwork to Music”, and it takes place during the UK’s annual Crufts dog show and competition. While video of the 2020 event was posted back in April, a recent Twitter share of a dog and trainer dancing to Evanescence’s “Bring Me to Life” has shown a new spotlight on the amazing competition everyone’s been missing. It’s hard to pick who’s more entertaining, the dogs or the trainers (some in ...
Lauren Jauregui Responds to Twitter User’s ‘Sexist’ Rant: ‘Y’all Be Mad Pathetic’
On Tuesday night (Jan. 5), Lauren Jauregui responded to a tweet from a user named YogiOabs, who wrote a lengthy, derogatory tweet about women. “Call a wh–e for what she is. A WH–E. Men will sleep with these dirty prostitutes but not marry them. Don’t walk in their footsteps if you want a kind husband one day! The chase woman is more lovable. If you’re offended by this, YOU’RE A WH–E,” the self-proclaimed writer and relationship coach tweeted. The “Expectations” singer then quoted his tweet, immediately calling him out for his sexist comments. “Omg I’m a whore….?! Lmao y’all be mad pathetic and can’t even make a woman c-m,” she wrote. “Let us orgasm and enjoy sex in peace yogi. PS SW [sex work] is valid...
The Magic of David Bowie in 10 Collaborations
Editor’s Note: We continue our celebration of the life and art of David Bowie with a look at 10 magical collaborations. Keep checking back all week for more new and reshared content reflecting on our favorite Starman. And, if you’ve missed anything, you can experience it all again here. David Bowie was a singular force, blurring gender and genre lines in a career that spanned over half a century. Along the way, he gifted listeners with a slew of memorable, solitary personas: Ziggy Stardust, the Thin White Duke, the Man Who Fell to Earth, the Goblin King, and, in his stunning final act, the Blind Prophet. While Bowie will rightly be remembered as a brilliant solo artist who consistently pursued new inspiration, he would be the first to tell you that his musical odyssey was never conducted a...
The Weeknd Shows Off Horrifying Plastic Surgery in New Video for “Save Your Tears”: Watch
The saga of self-violence continues. After promoting “Blinding Lights” with a theatrically bloody face and literally losing his head in the video for “Too Late”, The Weeknd has unveiled new visuals for “Save Your Tears” that showcases the after-effects of some horrifying plastic surgery. The singer performs the After Hours track with lips as big as a fist and a jawline grotesquely stretched until his chin is even wider than his forehead. He also wears a turtleneck, perhaps to hide the decapitation scars earned in “Too Late”. His appearance is wild, but the rest of the video is just as deranged. He performs at a glamorous, masked ceremony that might be a parody of the Grammys, since they recently shut him out of all categories. Most of the patrons wear masks, but one young lady makes a...
Michael Jackson’s Neverland Ranch Sells for $22 Million
In literal, not-at-all metaphorical news, an exuberant ode to childhood imagination has been stripped down and sold to a billionaire collector. According to Wall Street Journal, Michael Jackson’s famed 2,700 acre Neverland Ranch has been bought by grocery store tycoon Ron Burkle for $22 million. The sprawling estate is located in Los Olivos, California, on the edge of Los Padres National Forest. Jackson was introduced to the property in 1983 by Paul McCartney, who stayed there during a music video shoot. Jackson made it his own in 1988, after which he transformed it into a carnivalesque fantasy land with amusement park rides, electric trains, and even a private zoo. Jackson wanted Neverland to be a time machine, allowing him to enjoy the childhood he felt he’d been denied. It also ho...
Missy Elliott Reveals That Tweet’s ‘Oops (Oh My)’ Is Not About What You Think It’s About
Not interested in ruining a good story, Missy said, “we just let the consumers mind create what they wanted.” That strategy seemed to work, as the song reached No. 7 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 2002, thanks in part to such provocative lyrics as “Mmm, I was looking so good, I couldn’t reject myself/ I was feeling so good, I had to touch myself,” which live on the track alongside other languid lines such as “I was eyeing my thighs, butter pecan brown.” In a fan-resurfaced clip, Tweet backs up Missy, explaining that the track was not sexual but about “self love and appreciation… You know I was real insecure with myself for a while.” Having learned the lesson that sex sells, however, Tweet says in the clip that she was also happy to l...
