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Lady Gaga‘s new musical era is seemingly on the way. The superstar took to her Instagram Stories on Thursday (March 21) to share a photo of audio waves on a screen, implying that she’s recording new music. However, Gaga has yet to confirm any more information about an album or release date. Fans have been hoping […]
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The Queen of Pop’s monumental masterpiece is still the standard for confessional pop.
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Tenacious D’s version of Britney Spears’ “…Baby One More Time” is No. 1 on a Billboard chart.
The rendition, recorded for Tenacious D member Jack Black’s new movie Kung Fu Panda 4, starts at No. 1 on the Rock Digital Song Sales survey dated March 23.
The act’s “…Baby One More Time” reigns with 4,000 downloads sold in the U.S. March 8-14, its first week of release, according to Luminate.
Tenacious D notches its first No. 1 on Rock Digital Song Sales, which began in 2010. In fact, it becomes the duo of Jack Black and Kyle Gass’ first No. 1 on any Billboard songs chart, with the pair’s previous commands logged on album surveys – including two leaders on Top Rock & Alternative Albums in 2006’s The Pick of Destiny and 2012’s Rize of the Fenix.
“…Baby One More Time” is also the tandem’s first top 10 on the all-format Digital Song Sales chart, debuting at No. 9, exceeding the No. 36-peaking “The Pick of Destiny” in 2006.
On the multimetric Hot Rock & Alternative Songs chart, “…Baby One More Time” enters at No. 26. In addition to its sales, it earned 2.5 million official U.S. streams and 84,000 radio audience impressions.
Tenacious D charts its second entry on the ranking, after another cover, of Lana Del Rey’s “Video Games,” hit No. 27 last year.
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Spears’ original earned its own bump in consumption from the cover, rising 11% to 1.7 million streams March 8-14. The classic became Spears’ breakout hit (and Max Martin’s, as a writer and producer), ruling the Billboard Hot 100 for two weeks beginning in January 1999.
Tenacious D’s version is heard in the credits of Kung Fu Panda 4, which premiered March 8 and stars Black as main character panda Po.
Very few stars have risen as fast or burned as bright as Britney Spears in the late ’90s, becoming an icon almost as soon as she dropped her debut single “…Baby One More Time.” But hey, that’s Britney, b–ch. The Mississippi-born, Louisiana-bred artist’s first-ever track skyrocketed to No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 just […]
One of summer’s biggest blowouts, Milwaukee’s annual multi-weekend Summerfest festival, announced the full lineup for the 2024 edition on Thursday (March 21). As always, it is packed with some of the best, biggest and brightest pop, rock, country, hip-hop and EDM acts, including headliners Kane Brown (with Kameron Marlowe and Nightly) and Mötley Crüe (with Seether and Buckcherry) on the first weekend (June 20-22).
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That inaugural weekend will also feature performances from: Goo Goo Dolls, Toosi, Black Pumas, Chelsea Cutler, Taking Back Sunday, David Kushner, Brittany Howard, O.A.R., Umphreys McGee, En Vogue, Gin Blossoms,Dawes, The War & Treaty, Allen Stone and many more.
The second weekend (July 27-29) will be topped by Illenium, Tyler Childers (with S.G. Goodman and Adeem the Artist) and Keith Urban (with NEEDTOBREATHE and Alana Springsteen), with additional sets from Muna, Jessie Murph, Allison Wonderland, Key Glock, Hippo Campus, Fletcher, REO Speedwagon, Sleater-Kinney, the Hold Steady, Mario, Metric, Briston Maroney, The Church, Ethel Cain, Brent Cobb, the Dandy Warhols and more.
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The final weekend (July 4-6) will feature AJR (with Carly Rae Jepsen and mxmton) as headliner, along with Maroon 5 and Lil Uzi Vert (with Lil Yachty, JID, Rico Nasty and LIHTZ), as well as Ivan Cornejo, Bryson Tiller, Mt. Joy, Lil Tecca, Chase Rice, Local Natives, Cold War Kids, Mariah the Scientist, JXDN, Coin, Extreme, Del Water Gap, Nikki Lane and Cimafunk, among others.
“Our 2024 lineup embodies the essence of what makes Summerfest so special. With a curated selection of artists spanning genres and styles, the festival reflects the vibrancy of today’s music scene,” said Milwaukee World Festival Inc. president/CEO Sarah Pancheri in a statement. “With 600 artists at a 75-acre permanent festival park, Summerfest creates a one-of-a-kind environment that our fans look forward to every summer.”
Tickets for Summerfest are on sale now here, with single-day GA starting at $28; a UScellular Power Pass is available for $65 for a limited time (now through March 28 at 11:59 p.m. ET), which includes admission to all 9 days of the festival.
See the full 2024 Milwaukee Summerfest lineup poster below.
The Tiny Desk set was transformed temporarily into the Pink Pony Club for Chappell Roan‘s debut performance on the web concert series posted Thursday (March 21).
The 26-year-old rising pop star was joined behind NPR’s literal tiny desk by an all-female band, each musician outfitted in a pink collared shirt and matching blue eye shadow, red lipstick combos. In a pink dress, drag-inspired, Marie Antoinette-ish makeup and a tiara, Chappell was clearly the star of the show.
Between her performances of “Casual,” “Pink Pony Club,” “Picture You,” “California” and “Red Wine Supernova” — all five of which appear on the singer’s debut album The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess — the Missouri native even divulged one of her beauty secrets to the crowd.
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“Though it looks like it’s all my hair, it’s a wig,” she said of her highly teased red ‘do, which she adorned with butterfly clips. “It’s so hot. Is there a trash bag in [the wig]? That’s how we got it so big.”
Toward the end of her set, Roan confessed that performing on Tiny Desk has long been a dream of hers. “I love NPR, guys, I’m serious — I donate!” she added, earning ecstatic applause from her audience of NPR staffers.
The musician is currently touring with Olivia Rodrigo as an opener for the “Drivers License” singer’s Guts World Tour. Later this year, Roan will hit the road on her own headlining trek dubbed The Midwest Princess Tour.
Roan was first linked to Rodrigo through their shared producer, Dan Nigro. Last year, the engineer launched his own label imprint, Amusement Records, with the “Hot to Go” artist as his signee.
“My world opened up, and so did my music,” Roan told Billboard in June of writing songs with Nigro after getting dropped from her first label, Atlantic Records, in 2020. “My music reflected the feelings of my first time in a gay club, my first time falling in love with a woman, my first time feeling homesick — I had to go through all those experiences, that pain and suffering, to rebirth myself into where I am now.”
Watch Chappell Roan’s Tiny Desk performance above.
The members of boys-to-men boy band New Kids on the Block have seen a lot crazy things over the past four decades. But in a visit to SiriusXM’s TikTok Radio this week, member Donnie Wahlberg was asked by host Lamar Dawson to name the craziest thing a fan has ever told him. “Not make it […]
Ariana Grande is shedding some light on the process of making her new album Eternal Sunshine. In an Instagram post Wednesday (March 20), the pop star shared a couple moments from her studio sessions with producer/pop mastermind Max Martin, as well as one of the original demo recordings of her No. 1 single “We Can’t […]
Mike Inez, James Hetfield, Robert Trujillo, Billy Porter, David Furnish, Charlie Puth, Jacob Lusk, Joni Mitchell, Monique Ross, Carmen Carter, Brandi Carlile, Kenneth Ehrlich, Honorees Elton John and Bernie Taupin, Chauntee Ross, Adam Chester, Davey Johnstone, Georgey Taupin, Heather Taupin, Annie Lennox, Maren Morris, Nigel Olsson, Kirk Hammett, and Ken Stacey pose onstage during the Library Of Congress 2024 Gershwin Prize For Popular Song at DAR Constitution Hall on March 20, 2024 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Taylor Hill/WireImage)
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You may not have known it — because he never winds up in any of her squad pics — but comic/actor Jerrod Carmichael is besties with Taylor Swift. The star of the new HBO series the Jerrod Michael Reality Show told Jimmy Kimmel on Wednesday night (March 20) that Swift is basically his “best friend.”
The admission came after Kimmel put up a picture of Carmichael hanging with Swift in a box in Buffalo, New York during a Jan. 21 Kansas City Chiefs victory over the Buffalo Bills to advance to the AFC Championship on their way to winning Super Bowl LVIII. In the snap, Swift is, of course, fully decked out in red and white KC gear, while Carmichael is rocking a fuzzy coat over a red jersey.
“Taylor Swift’s my best friend,” Carmichael doubled-down, lamenting that he should have asked the singer to be part of his sometimes intense new HBO series, which he described as a mixture of traditional reality mixed with very frank discussions with his family about his personal life. “Like I’m not her best friend, but she’s my best friend,” Carmichael quadrupled down.
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“Can you think of a better friend to have than Taylor Swift?” Carmichael wondered. “I called my former best friend and I was like, ‘You’re out! You never invited me on a jet to your game.’ Taylor’s my best… no, she’s very smart and interesting.” Carmichael said Swift called and asked him to the game, and, not for nothing, the comedian said the singer also definitely “knows more about football” than he does.
When Kimmel wondered, given her deep knowledge of the Xs and Os, if Carmichael asked Swift questions about football, Jerrod said, “yeah, yeah, I’m the girlfriend in that situation.” Anticipating the raft of headlines (such as the one above) screaming “Jerrod Carmichael Says Taylor Swift Is His Best Friend,” Carmichael lamented that he would probably not even get first mention in most stories given the singer’s status.
“Actually, I won’t even get top-billing! It’ll say: ‘Taylor Swift: Jerrod Carmichael’s Best Friend?’ Don’t do that to me, it’s gotta be something else,” he joked. “I do love her though.” The Jerrod Carmichael Reality Show debuts on March 29.
Check out Carmichael describing his best friendship with Swift below (starts around the 9:10 mark).
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