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Jason Isbell is leaving the 400 Unit at home next year for what is being billed as an “Intimate Evening” with the six-time Grammy winner.
The tour begins on Feb. 15 in Chicago and runs through the end of March, with select stops in smaller markets, including Portsmouth, NH, and large cities like New York City, Los Angeles and Nashville.
Isbell recently wrapped an eight-show residency at Music City’s Ryman Auditorium to mark the release of Live From The Ryman Vol. 2, a collection of recordings from four of the last six years of sold-out shows at legendary venue.
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Earlier this year, Isbell won his fifth and sixth Grammy when 2023’s Weathervanes (recorded with the 400 Unit) earned best Americana album and the track “Cast Iron Skillet” scored best American roots song. The Alabama native and former Drive-By Trucker first broke out in solo form in 2013 with his Dave Cobb-produced fourth LP Southeastern. His next two albums, Something More Than Free (2015) and The Nashville Sound (2017), were Grammy magnets and each won awards for best Americana album and roots song (for “24 Frames” and “If We Were Vampires,” respectively).
Tickets go on sale Friday, Oct. 25 via Isbell’s website.
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JASON ISBELL SOLO DATES
February 15 – Chicago, IL – Auditorium Theatre
February 16 – Ithaca, NY – State Theatre
February 17 – Portsmouth, NH – The Music Hall
February 18 – Providence, RI – Providence Performing Arts Center
February 21 – New York, NY – Beacon Theatre
February 22 – New York, NY – Beacon Theatre
February 28 – Washington, DC – Warner Theatre
March 1 – Washington, DC – Warner Theatre
March 14 – Los Angeles, CA – Walt Disney Hall
March 15 – Santa Barbara, CA – Arlington Theatre
March 20 – Nashville, TN – The Pinnacle
March 21 – Nashville, TN – The Pinnacle
March 22 – Nashville, TN – The Pinnacle
March 28 – Nashville, TN – The Pinnacle
March 29 – Atlanta, GA – Fox Theater
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Britney Spears has walked down the aisle three times with partners. But in a video posted on Sunday (Oct. 20), the singer celebrated going it alone the fourth time. In a brief clip that appeared to be a partial repost of a similar one from 2022, Spears wrote, “The day I married myself … Bringing it back because it might seem embarrassing or stupid, but I think it’s the most brilliant thing I’ve ever done !!!”
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The video cued to Sting’s 1993 solo single “Fields of Gold” features Spears, 42, staring into the camera while wearing a slip-like off-white dress and matching veil with lacy edges. Back in Dec. 2022, Spears — who was then still married to third ex-husband Sam Asghari — wrote, “Yeah … I married myself 👰🏼♀️ !!! I got bored, liked my veil and said IS THIS CRAZY ??? OR IS THERE SOMETHING TO IT 🤔🤔🤔 ??? Psss yes but I’m still married to hubby too 💍💍💍 😂😂😂 !!!” in a nearly identical video accompanied by Otis Redding’s “Try a Little Tenderness.”
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Spears briefly married childhood friend Jason Alexander in 2004 before tying the knot with dancer Kevin Federline that same year; she and Federline welcomed two sons, Sean Preston, 19 and Jayden James, 18 before breaking up in 2007. In 2022, the singer married actor/personal trainer Asghari, with whom she split two years later.
Though Spears has said will “never return” to the music business, she continues to inspire her fellow artists, including Halsey, who tipped their hat to Brit this week as part of the roll out of the upcoming album The Great Impersonator (Oct. 25).
“It’s Britney, b–ch!!!,” Halsey wrote of the eleventh preview of her fifth studio album, which so far has had them channeling the look and vibes of Bruce Springsteen, Stevie Nicks, late Cranberries singer Dolores O’Riordan, Evanescence’s Amy Lee, David Bowie, Cher and other iconic stars. “The first superstar who ever inspired me,” they wrote of Spears, whose work is sampled on their Great Impersonator single “Lucky.” Halsey also copped Spears’ In the Zone look for the acompanying promo pic. “There were infinite Britney looks to choose from, but I had to do this iconic album!,” they added of Spears’ 2003 fourth studio album, which featured the Madonna collab “Me Against the Music,” as well as the Billboard Hot 100 No. 9 hit “Toxic.”
Shakira earns a new career milestone with her latest single “Soltera,” as the song rallies 25-4 on Billboard’s Latin Airplay chart (dated Oct. 26), for her 41st top 10 on the overall ranking. As Shakira adds a new top 10 to her log, she extends her record for the most top 10 among women, plus enters a tie with Enrique Iglesias for the most top 10s among Latin pop acts.
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Shakira’s record-extending 41st top 10s among female acts on Latin Airplay lands a week after the Colombian superstar also achieved a dual landmark on Latin Pop Airplay, where she tied Iglesias for the most No. 1s on and opened a wider gap from her female peers, with 25 career champs.
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“Soltera” lands at the penthouse on Latin Airplay after registering 6.3 million audience impressions for the tracking week ending Oct. 17, according to Luminate. That sum equates to a 63% improvement in radio airplay from the previous period, which yields a Greatest Gainer award for the week.
“Soltera” also repeats at its No. 1 best on Latin Pop Airplay for a second week, after the song debuted at No. 12 on Sony Music Latin on chart dated Oct. 12.
Plus, as the female empowerment anthem flies to No. 4 on Latin Airplay, Shakira enters a tie with Iglesias for the most top 10s among Latin pop acts since the overall tally began in 1994. Here’s the recap of the acts with the most top 10s, where Shakira continues to strike as the only female presence:
49, Daddy Yankee42, J Balvin41, Enrique Iglesias41, Shakira39, Ozuna
“Soltera” also makes additional confident rounds across Billboard charts. It enters the top 10 on the multi-metric Hot Latin Songs, rising 13-9, with gains in sales and streams. The song generated 4.3 million official U.S. streams, according to Luminate, enough to yield a No. 15 high on Latin Streaming Songs. Sales, meanwhile, account for nearly 1,000 U.S. downloads, which translates to a 3-2 climb after it topped Latin Digital Song Sales for one week (Oct. 12).
Globally, “Soltera” rises 71-28 on Billboard Global 200 with 37.1 millions streams worldwide, and 48-16 on the Global Excl. U.S. tally with 33.2 million streams outside the U.S., her best ranking on the latter since the No. 8-peaking “Acróstico” in June 2023.
Shakira’s career milestones follows the Las Mujeres Ya No Lloran North American leg tour announcement which will be rescheduled to spring 2025, with several markets now upgraded to stadiums.
President Biden handed out the prestigious National Medals of Arts and National Humanities honors to 39 recipients at the White House on Monday (Oct. 21), including hip-hip legends Queen Latifah and Missy Elliott.
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“I am HUMBLY GRATEFUL! Crying Tears of JOY!,” wrote Elliott on X after the ceremony in which she was given the highest honor bestowed on artists by the U.S. government. “Thinking of the days I wasn’t so strong but through FAITH & PRAYER I kept going..I’m SO THANKFUL @POTUS & CONGRATULATIONS to the other amazing ppl who was blessed with this honor.”
Elliott also shouted out Latifah, saying, “And a BIG CONGRATS to my sis @IAMQUEENLATIFAH who deserve all the bouquets she also was honored today! Thank you for kicking down doors QUEEN for me & those after you.”
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“Above all, you are the masters of your craft that have made us a better America with all of you have done,” Biden said at the ceremony according to the Associated Press. Among the other National Medals of Arts recipients were directors Steven Spielberg and Spike Lee and Ken Burns, as well playwright/screenwriter Aaron Sorkin and historian Jon Meacham, who received National Humanities Medals.
See the full list of honorees here.
Beloved singer Selena Quintanilla was awarded a posthumous humanities honor, along with late chef/author Anthony Bourdain. During his remarks, Biden also mentioned Vice President Kamala Harris with just two weeks left in the presidential election. “I know the power of the women in this room to get things done,” he said, adding that the day’s female winners were “proving a woman can do anything a man can do, and then some, that includes being president of the United States of America.”
After getting a standing ovation for the former, Biden also told the winners that their special moment came at a “very consequential time in the arts and humanities in America [because] extreme forces are banning books, trying to erase history, spreading misinformation”; the event celebrated both the 2022 and 2023 National Medal of Arts recipients.
Others who received the arts medals — managed by the National Endowment for the Arts — were actors Idina Menzel and Eva Longoria, as well as musician Leonardo “Flaco” Jimenez and ukulele master Herbert I. Ohta, as well as the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum. The arts medals are awarded “to individuals or groups who are deserving of special recognition by reason of their outstanding contributions to the excellence, growth, support and availability of the arts in the United States.”
Last year’s event for the 2021 Medal of Arts recipients included honors for Bruce Springsteen, Gladys Knight, José Feliciano, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Mindy Kaling and more.
Check out Elliott and the White House’s posts below.
🙏🏾I am HUMBLY GRATEFUL! Crying Tears of JOY! Thinking of the days I wasn’t so strong but through FAITH & PRAYER I kept going..I’m SO THANKFUL🙏🏾@POTUS 🙏🏾& CONGRATULATIONS to the other amazing ppl who was blessed with this honor🙌🏾☺️ https://t.co/F86ksfZZsM— Missy Elliott (@MissyElliott) October 22, 2024
The Biden-Harris Administration believes in the power of the arts and humanities. Today, we are proud to celebrate the extraordinary recipients of the National Medals of Arts and Humanities. pic.twitter.com/AduzqWV7pk— The White House (@WhiteHouse) October 21, 2024
Today, President Biden presented the 2022 and 2023 National Medals of Arts and the 2022 and 2023 National Humanities Medals – awarding 39 extraordinary individuals and organizations with two of our nation’s highest honors. pic.twitter.com/S2d9Z3oa28— The White House (@WhiteHouse) October 22, 2024
Shawn Mendes, Benson Boone, RAYE, Teddy Swims and the Mexican-born sister trio The Warning are set to perform at the 2024 MTV EMAs. The show is set to be broadcast live on Nov. 10 from Co-op Live in Manchester, U.K.
Four of those artists – Boone, RAYE, Swims and The Warning – are also vying for Grammy nominations for best new artist. RAYE swept the Brit Awards on March 2. Boone won best alternative at the MTV VMAs on Sept. 11.
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In addition, Bush frontman Gavin Rossdale and screen stars Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Jodie Turner-Smith and Lucien Laviscount will take the stage as presenters. Ten of the 11 artists with the most nominations for the 2024 MTV EMAs are women. The only man who cracked the leaderboard is Kendrick Lamar, with four nods.
Taylor Swift leads with seven nods, including best artist, best video, best pop and biggest fans. Ariana Grande, Billie Eilish, Charli XCX and Sabrina Carpenter each scored five nominations. Closely following with four nods each are Ayra Starr, Beyoncé, Lamar, LISA, plus first-time nominees Chappell Roan and Tyla.
Fans can vote for their favorites on the EMAs website from now until 00:00 CET on Nov. 6.
The 2024 MTV EMAs will broadcast at 9 p.m. GMT Sunday, Nov. 10, on MTV UK, Channel 5 and Pluto TV, and will be available on demand on Paramount+ from Nov. 12. Tickets will be on sale at a later date.
Bruce Gillmer and Richard Godfrey are executive producers for the 2024 MTV EMAs. Debbie Phillips and Chloe Mason are producers.
This will be the eighth time the EMAs have been held in the U.K. Last year’s ceremony was set for Nov. 5 in Paris, but was canceled two weeks before the show due to the Israel–Hamas war, becoming the first EMAs to be canceled in its 30-year history.
The Brat summer is back.
Charli XCX bags her first No. 1 on Australia’s albums chart with Brat (via Atlantic/Warner), which powers home 16-1 following the release of the Brat And It’s Completely Different But Also Still Brat, the British producer and artist’s long-awaited remix album.
The new collection includes tracks reworked with the likes of The 1975, Jon Hopkins, Tinashe and Australasian stars Troye Sivan and Lorde.
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Previously, Brat peaked at No. 3 on the ARIA Chart earlier this year. Several tracks from it bounce up the singles chart, for the week starting Oct. 21, including former No. 1 “Guess” (with Billie Eilish), up from 22-16, “360” reenters at No. 43, and “Talk Talk” rebounds at No. 49. Also, Charli scores the highest new entry of the week with “Sympathy Is A Knife” debuting at No. 21; the version on the new album features Ariana Grande.
Charli XCX, who is the headliner for the 2025 Laneway Festival tour of Australia, tickets for which went on sale this week, knocks Sabrina Carpenter’s Short N’ Sweet (Island/Universal) off the chart summit after six non-consecutive weeks, down 1-2, while Rufus du Sol lands at No. 3 with Inhale / Exhale (Warner), the homegrown electronic music act’s fifth studio album.
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The trio has snagged a Grammy Award and four ARIAs; they’re nominated for four more at this year’s ceremony, set for Nov. 20 at Sydney’s Hordern Pavilion. To date, all of RDS’s albums have hit the top 3 in Australia: Atlas (2013), Bloom (2016) and Surrender (2021) went to No. 1, and Solace (2018) peaked at No. 2.
Close behind is American rockers The Offspring with Supercharged (Concord/Universal), new at No. 4. It’s The Offspring’s ninth Australian top 10 album, a tally that includes No. 1s with Smash (1994) and Americana (1998).
Though she’s finally shunted from the top of the ARIA Albums Chart, Sabrina Carpenter collects an eighth straight week at No. 1 on the singles survey with “Taste”.
There’s no stopping Kylie Minogue, with her latest album, Tension II (via BMG), on track to become her landmark 10th U.K. No. 1 album on the Offical Albums Chart, according to their latest midweek blast.
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After just 48 hours of sales, the album has moved over 28,800 chart units, placing it far ahead of its nearest competitor by more than 2:1. If she secures the top spot, this will mark yet another major milestone for the Australian pop star, whose previous album, Tension (also via BMG), also topped the U.K Chart in 2023.
It comes after the singing legend announced the North American leg of her tour in support of the new album, which is slated to kick off on March 29 with a gig at Scotiabank Arena in Toronto and take the “Lights Camera Action” singer to Montreal, Chicago, New York, Washington, D.C., Boston, Atlanta, Orlando, Miami, Austin, Phoenix, San Francisco, Seattle, Vancouver and Denver before winding down with a May 2 show at Crypto.com Arena in Los Angeles.
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The midweek blast also sees British singer-songwriter Rag’n’Bone Man’s soulful third album What Do You Believe In? (Columbia) aiming for a No. 2 debut, which would follow on from the success of Human and Life By Misadventure (Columbia).
Another exciting new entry comes from Australian dance group Confidence Man, whose third record 3AM (LA LA LA) (via HAOS/Polydor Records/I OH YOU Records) is eyeing a Top 5 debut. The band’s infectious sound is already a festival favorite, and their climb to No. 4 on the midweek charts suggests they could make their Official Albums Chart debut in a major way.
National Album Day has sparked a resurgence for some of Britain’s biggest musical legends. Oasis’s 1994 classic Definitely Maybe (via Creation Records) is making a triumphant return, set to break back into the Top 10. Suede’s Dog Man Star (Nude Records), The Beatles’ A Hard Day’s Night (Parlophone), and Take That’s Everything Changes (RCA) are all experiencing a midweek surge in the wake of the celebration.
In a nostalgic twist, Bronski Beat’s groundbreaking album The Age of Consent (via London Records) could return to the Top 10 for the first time in nearly 40 years, following its 40th anniversary reissue. Originally peaking at No. 4 in 1984, this synth-pop classic is making waves once again.
Finally, Gracie Abrams’ The Secret of Us (via Interscope) has soared back into the Top 10 after the release of its deluxe edition, climbing an impressive 26 spots to land at No. 10 in the midweek update.
One Direction fans are also making their voices heard in the charts as they continue to mourn the passing of Liam Payne. All five of the band’s studio albums are set to re-enter the Top 40, a poignant tribute to their lasting impact on pop music.
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JoJo Siwa was successfully Punk’d. Rebranded as Punk You, producer Sophie Watts and entrepreneur Joe White have brought back the beloved MTV prank show with the help of Punk’d co-creator Jason Goldberg, and the “Karma” singer is the latest celebrity victim. In a 11-minute clip shared over the weekend, the 21-year-old entertainer is sitting in the back […]
The second round of 2024 MAMA Awards performers have been announced, including a major return from a powerhouse K-pop star.
Entertainment company CJ ENM announced on Monday (Oct. 21) that G-DRAGON is set to take the stage at the Japan ceremony on Nov. 23, marking nine years since his last performance in 2015 alongside his fellow BIGBANG members.
Additionally, BOYNEXTDOOR and PLAVE will perform on Nov. 22, while G)I-DLE and BIBI will hit the stage on Nov. 23.
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The three-day event, which celebrates the brightest stars in K-pop, will kick off on Nov. 21 at the Hollywood Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles for the first time, where KATSEYE, ILLIT, RIIZE, J.Y. Park and TWS were previously announced to perform. The awards ceremony will then take place at the Kyocera Dome in Osaka, Japan on November 22 and 23, with previously revealed performers ENHYPEN, TOMORROW X TOGETHER, IVE, ME:I and TREASURE performing on the first day and Aespa, INI, ZEROBASEONE, LEE Young Ji and MEOVV taking the stage on the second day.
This year’s MAMA Awards, presented by Visa, will feature the concept of “Big Blur: What Is Real?,” reflecting the growing trend of blurred boundaries between industries, culture, music genres and technology. In correspondence with the theme, the ceremony will “present surreal but real experiences and showcase visually captivating performances through the convergence of art and technology,” per a press release.
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See the full list of 2024 MAMA Awards nominees here. The eligibility period ranged from October 1, 2023 to September 30, 2024, and the nominees were decided on based on an evaluation of global music data as well as a panel of specialists.
The next ticket sales for the Japan event will be available from October 22 to October 26 via Qoo10.jp, while tickets for the U.S. event will also be available starting at 4 p.m. PST on October 22 via Ticketmaster.