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Trending on Billboard Christmas just came early for Jonas Brothers fans, as the trio released their new holiday album on Friday (Nov. 14). Accompanying the band’s new film of the same name, the A Very Jonas Christmas Movie soundtrack features a total of 10 tracks, including “Like It’s Christmas” (Live Version), “Best Night,” “Coming Home […]
“I’m very aware of mysterious forces at play that I will never have any control of,” she says in the trailer.
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Trending on Billboard As Liam Payne pursued a solo music career after his One Direction days, Taylor Swift was there cheering him on behind the scenes. That much is evident in a handwritten note the pop star sent him eight years ago, which is now being auctioned off. As announced by Omega Auctions on Wednesday […]
Trending on Billboard Diamonds are a girl’s best friend, but for Sabrina Carpenter, platinum is her element of choice. The bubbly pop star celebrated her Man’s Best Friend album becoming platinum certified by the RIAA on Thursday (Nov. 13), which comes less than three months after the LP’s arrival. Explore See latest videos, charts and […]
Trending on Billboard Elon Musk is on track to become the world’s first-ever trillionaire — and Billie Eilish, who just a few weeks ago made her feelings about billionaires quite clear, is not happy about it. In response to the news that the Tesla CEO’s net worth is nearing 13 digits, the pop star reposted […]
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Taylor Swift can come back anytime she likes to record at Marcus Mumford’s home studio, with the Mumford & Sons bandleader revealing that the pop superstar was an ideal guest when she recorded parts of Evermore there a few years ago.
In a clip from his recent appearance on the Table Manners podcast, Mumford recalled how his pal and frequent Swift collaborator Aaron Dessner arranged for the Eras Tour headliner to use the personal recording space Mumford has at the home in England he shares with wife actress Carey Mulligan. “Aaron called me and said, ‘I’ve got someone I’m working with that needs a studio in the U.K.,’” Mumford began.
“And I was like, ‘Cool. Well, if it’s one of your homies, then I’m sure it’ll be fine,’” Mumford continued. “‘Like, what is it? Beyoncé or something?’ He was looking for a discreet studio in London. I was like, ‘I don’t think there really are any.’ And he was like, ‘Can they come and use yours?’”
The folk-rock musician was surprised to learn that the artist Dessner was talking about was none other than the biggest pop star on the planet. “She came down right at the end of COVID, and was the most phenomenal houseguest,” Mumford said. “Burned a lot of vegetables for her. And she brought a killer candle. Her candle game was excellent.”
During her time there, Swift would finish the second half of Evermore, according to Mumford. “And then she asked me to sing on one [of the songs] and I said yes,” he added, referring to fan-favorite “Cowboy Like Me.”
The album would go on to debut atop the Billboard 200 in December 2020, remaining in the No. 1 spot for four weeks. Years later, the 14-time Grammy winner would bring Mumford up on stage at one of her Eras Tour shows to perform “Cowboy Like Me” in front of tens of thousands of fans.
Mumford is now gearing up to release his band’s next album, Prizefighter. As announced at the end of October, the project will feature collaborations with Gracie Abrams, Chris Stapleton, Gigi Perez and Hozier.
Watch Mumford reflect on sharing his space with Swift below.
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Lady Gaga‘s Grammy-nominated LP Mayhem has been lauded by critics as a return to form for the pop superstar. But according to Mother Monster, the album wouldn’t have seen the light of day if it weren’t for the very different critical response her third studio album received.
In a new Rolling Stone cover story, Gaga revealed that the criticism she received for Artpop — and her subsequent turn away from pop music that resulted in the albums Cheek to Cheek and Joanne — provided a direct source of inspiration for Mayhem. “Mayhem as a piece of music, I never would’ve made it without the 10 years of experience that I had,” she said. “What would Mayhem sound like if I hadn’t become a jazz singer? What would it have sounded like if I hadn’t made Artpop?”
Reflecting on her experimental 2013 album, which became a fan-favorite in the years since its release, Gaga called the resounding critical panning of the project “very impactful” on the rest of her career. “Like, much more impactful than any other criticism for any artwork. That was the first time that I ever had major criticism about a piece of work that I’d made,” she said.
Gaga described Artpop as her “EDM opus,” and said that the album’s confrontational tone was created because she was being treated as a “business” rather than an artist at the time. “People don’t like it if I say, ‘I won’t dress the way you want me to dress. I won’t have the hair you want me to have, and I’m going to not make pop music the way that you want me to make it. ‘Cause you want everything to sound like ‘Bad Romance,’ and I’m never doing that again.’”
As for the sexist undertones of that criticism, Gaga pointed out that when male artists make new choices in their music, they are heralded as “radical thinkers discovering new territory,” while female artists are mocked. “I was sort of heralded as, like, over,” she said.
After a decade of detours, including multiple film roles in A Star Is Born, House of Gucci and Joker: Folie a Deux, Gaga said she and her co-producers on Mayhem — Andrew Watt and her fiancé Michael Polansky — knew that diving back into pop music meant she had to address that part of her career head on.
“One of the things I’m most grateful for is gaining all my artistic faculties back to make this record,” she said. “I had to dig very, very deep, and I had to change a lot of my life and recenter around what I needed as a human being.”
Trending on Billboard In 2012, popular music was at a point of major transition. Rock was fading from the mainstream, R&B was getting weird, rap was entering its middle age, and EDM was suddenly at the center of everything. All of these trends were reflected at that spring’s Coachella, where some of the defining artists […]
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Got a fussy little one? A relaxing new album of Ariana Grande hits transformed into soothing lullabies will make sure there’s no tears left to cry.
As Billboard can exclusively announce on Thursday (Nov. 13), Rockabye Baby! is gearing up to drop an LP of soft, sleepy-time versions of some of the pop star’s biggest hits, from “One Last Time” to “Dangerous Woman” and “Positions.” And ahead of the full-length’s release on Nov. 21, the company has shared a snippet of its take on eight-week Billboard Hot 100 chart-topper “7 Rings,” complete with an adorable animation.
The full track list features a total of 13 songs spanning Grande’s seven studio albums, as well as her evergreen Christmas smash “Santa Tell Me” and signature Wicked number “Popular.” The project’s album cover shows the Rockabye Baby! bear wearing a fuzzy bunny mask inspired by Grande’s Dangerous Woman era.
Rockabye Baby! Lullaby Renditions of Ariana Grande
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The two-time Grammy winner is the latest musician to have her work transformed into a Rockabye Baby! album. Some of the company’s past compilations include tributes to The Beatles, Bad Bunny, Queen, Taylor Swift, Snoop Dogg, Coldplay, Beyoncé, Journey, BTS and Marvin Gaye.
Though the genre is primarily geared toward little ones as they wind down for bedtime, Rockabye Baby! promises in a statement that its Grande compilation is perfect for “former theatre kids, pop diva parents, Boca Raton grandparents, future dangerous women and everyone in between.”
The tribute comes at an exciting time in Grande’s career, as the R.E.M. Beauty founder is currently gearing up for the worldwide premiere of Wicked: For Good, in which she stars as Glinda opposite Cynthia Erivo’s Elphaba. Grande also recently wrapped filming on another screen project: Focker-in-Law.
Next year, the vocalist will embark on her first tour in six years, supporting 2024 Billboard 200 No. 1 album Eternal Sunshine — one song from which, the Billboard Hot 100 No. 1 single “We Can’t Be Friends (Wait for Your Love),” will appear on the Grande-inspired Rockabye Baby! LP.
Check out the Rockabye Baby! version of “7 Rings” below.
Rockabye Baby! Lullaby Renditions of Ariana Grande track list:
7 ringsthank u, nextOne Last TimeInto YouPopularLove Me HarderSanta Tell Meno tears left to cryGod is a womanbreak up with your girlfriend, i’m boredDangerous WomanPositionswe can’t be friends (wait for your love)
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Taylor Swift is giving fans a peek behind the curtain of her upcoming Eras Tour docuseries, which itself is a peek behind the curtain of the biggest tour of all time.
On Thursday (Nov. 13) — exactly one month before the pop star’s 36th birthday — Swift unveiled the full trailer for The End of an Era, a six-part look at how she executed her global Eras Tour coming to Disney+ next month. In the two-and-a-half minute clip, we see the mechanics of how she pulled off everything from her surprise entrance on stage (by rolling up in a faux custodial cart) to how she traveled underneath her unbelievably long catwalk (on a speedy moving platform that launched her back and forth between numbers).
“I’m very aware of mysterious forces at play that I will never have any control of,” Swift says at the beginning. “This show created a bonding experience for, like, 70,000 people all at once. There’s something very special about that.”
The trailer also shows many of the countless people who also played a big role in the two-year trek, which ran throughout 2023 and 2024 and generated a record-shattering $2,077,618,725 in grosses. One of them, of course, is Swift’s now-fiancé professional football player Travis Kelce, who we see on the road with the 14-time Grammy winner both in person and in spirit. In a couple of scenes, Swift cheers him on while watching Kelce’s Kansas City Chiefs’ games on TV, and in another, her mom, Andrea, says of her future son-in-law, “He brings a lot of happiness.”
In a different scene, Travis crouches beneath the stage and greets Swift with a booming “Tay Tay!” before the pair ride off together on the moving platform. Sharing the trailer on her Instagram, the singer wrote, “Honestly can’t think of a better way to celebrate my (almost) birthday than to relive the Eras Tour with you! This time we’re going backstage.”
The full trailer comes exactly one month after Swift first shared a shorter teaser for the Eras doc, and about one month ahead of the project’s Dec. 12 premiere on Disney+. It is expected to give Swifties the most in-depth look at the trek yet, though the historic run was also documented in an Eras Tour concert film in 2023.
Also in the new trailer, Swift rehearses how she’s going to surprise her crowds with various surprise guests, including Sabrina Carpenter — with whom she maps out how she plans to call her on the phone from on stage — and Ed Sheeran, who practices guitar next to his longtime friend and collaborator on a couch. The pair were just a few of the several guests Swift shared the stage with at different points in the tour, along with Jack Antonoff, Aaron Dessner and Gracie Abrams.
With a glint in her eye, Swift says at one point in the trailer, “I love having a good secret.”
Watch the full Eras Tour docuseries trailer above.
