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Britney Spears is proving that she still has a lot of unheard mementos to share that weren’t mentioned in her bombshell 2023 memoir — including the fact that, according to her, she and Ben Affleck once got frisky many moons ago. On Wednesday (Feb. 7), the 42-year-old pop star posted a throwback photo of her […]
Rosé may be one of the most famous K-pop stars on the planet, but at Taylor Swift‘s Wednesday (Feb. 7) Eras Tour concert in Tokyo, the BLACKPINK band member was just like every other Swiftie in the crowd — passionately singing along, especially when it came time for the 10 minute version of “All Too […]
She may have released two full length albums in 2023, but Kim Petras says she still has plenty more new music to share. In a teaser posted to her social media accounts on Wednesday (Feb. 7), the “Unholy” singer revealed the title of her newest project, Slut Pop Miami. A sequel to her 2022 seven-track […]
Maroon 5 had two huge milestones to celebrate this week as two of the Adam Levine-led band’s music videos crossed major YouTube views milestones. First up, the band’s clip for the wistful single “Memories” from their Jordi album reached the one billion views mark.
The 2019 song about lost friends — inspired by the death of the band’s longtime manager Jordan Feldstein — peaked at No. 2 on the Billboard Hot 100. The spare visual directed by David Dobkin consists of a close-up shot of a mowhawked, bearded Levine in front of a black background singing the wistful refrain, “Here’s to the one’s that we got/ Cheers to the wish you were here but you’re not/ Cuz the dreams bring back all the memories of everything we’ve been through.”
The camera slowly pulls back to reveal Levine’s head and shoulders as the light fluctuates around him, eventually leaving the singer in the dark and ending with the phrase “For Jordi.”
In addition, the video for their 2014 single “Sugar” hit an even higher peak this week when it moved past four billion YouTube views. The song from the pop group’s fifth album, V — written by Levine along with Mike Posner, Dr. Luke, Jacob Hindlin and Henry Walter — also peaked at No. 2 on the Hot 100.
The playful Wedding Crashers-inspired video directed by Dobkin was shot in Los Angeles and found the band seemingly crashing a series of weddings in a single day, tooling around in a vintage convertible and confusing bridges and grooms as they show up with their gear to play impromptu reception concerts to the delight of the gathered friends and families. The five-minute clip ends with Levine saying “this is the coolest thing ever, ever, ever, ever” while high-fiving and hugging a happy couple.
“Sugar” is the band’s first video to put up four billion views, edging ahead of their 2018 single “Girls Like You” (3.5 billion), another billion-view visual for “One More Night” and a handful of clips with 800 million-plus views (“Animals,” “Payphone,” “Moves Like Jagger”).
M5 have been in a lower-power mode since headlining the Super Bowl LIII halftime show in Atlanta in 2019, releasing the one-off singles “Memories,” “Nobody’s Love” (2020), the Megan the Stallion-featuring “Beautiful Mistakes” (2021) and last year’s “Middle Ground” while kicking off a Las Vegas residency at the Park MGM in March 2023. Though they’ve hinted at new music in the years since, M5 have not released a full-length album since 2021’s Jordi.
Their M5LV The Residency at the Dolby Live at Park MGM theater will continue this summer/fall, with 16 scheduled gigs in May, June, September and October.
Watch the “Memories” and “Sugar” clips below.
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Though her new album is still a month away, Ariana Grande is giving fans a small pocketful of sunshine in advance. The 30-year-old pop star shared the titles of three new songs on Eternal Sunshine Wednesday (Feb. 7) via Instagram Reels. After previously announcing that the first song on the tracklist is called “Intro (End […]
Taylor Swift is back on the road for her global Eras Tour, and soon, she’ll be adding a new “era” to the mix: The Tortured Poets Department, her 11th album which she announced during her best pop vocal acceptance speech at the 2024 Grammys.
And at her returning show in Japan on Wednesday (Feb. 7), she revealed exactly how long she’s been crafting her April 19-slated record. “I’ve been working on Tortured Poets since right after I turned in Midnights,” Swift shared at Tokyo Dome, adding, “You turn in albums months in advance.”
“I’ve been working on it for about two years,” she continued. “I kept working on it throughout the U.S. tour and when it was perfect — in my opinion when it’s good enough for you — I finished it and I am so, so excited that soon you’ll get to hear it. Soon we’ll get to experience that together.”
Fans were shocked Sunday (Feb. 4) when the 34-year-old pop star, while accepting the first of two Grammys she would earn that night for her fall 2022 album Midnights, revealed the title and release date of Tortured Poets on the Crypto.com Arena stage before immediately sharing its cover art on Instagram. But according to Swift, the album’s announcement would have come this week no matter what — even if she hadn’t won either best pop vocal or album of the year at the awards show.
In fact, the “Anti-Hero” singer said she’d planned to drop the news at Wednesday’s concert had she not taken home any golden gramophones a few nights prior. “Luckily enough that ended up happening,” she told the crowd, thanking fans for indirectly securing Midnights‘ AOTY win. “My backup plan was I was gonna do it tonight in Tokyo.”
“I’m over the moon about the fact that you guys care about my music, it still blows my mind,” she concluded. “Everyone’s like, ‘Why do you make so many albums?’ I’m like, ‘Man, because I love it. I love it so much.’ I’m having fun, leave me alone.”
Swift has three nights left at Tokyo Dome this week before she’s expected to fly back to the States to support boyfriend Travis Kelce at the Super Bowl in Las Vegas, where the Kansas City Chiefs will face off against the San Francisco 49ers. The next week, she’ll embark on the Australian leg of the Eras Tour before doing a string of Singapore shows early March.
This week of Eras shows also means four nights’ worth of new surprise songs, which, at Wednesday’s show, were “Dear Reader” and “Holy Ground.”
See clips from Swift’s comeback Eras Tour show in Tokyo below.
Celine Dion couldn’t help breaking out into song at Sunday night’s 2024 Grammy Awards. Though the pop superstar has not performed in public since her 2022 reveal of a diagnosis of Stiff Person Syndrome, after a surprise appearance during the broadcast to present the evening’s final award — Taylor Swift’s record-breaking fourth album of the […]
The eighth annual Love Rocks NYC benefit concert for God’s Love We Deliver will take place at the Beacon Theatre on March 7 and feature sets from the Black Keys, Hozier, Nile Rodgers, Rage Against the Machine guitarist and solo star Tom Morello and former Eagles guitarist Don Felder, among many others.
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The fundraiser for the organization that cooks and home-delivers nutritious, medically tailored meals to people who are too sick to cook for themselves will be hosted by comedians Conan O’Brien, Tracy Morgan and Jim Gaffigan and also feature performances from Bettye Lavette, Joss Stone, Allison Russell, Emily King, Marcus King, Lucius, Larkin Poe, Trombone Shorty and Struts singer Luke Spiller.
The show, executive produced by fashion icon John Varvatos, concert producer Greg Williamson and concert/events producer Nicole Rechter, will announce additional acts in the lead-up to this year’s event; the gig’s music director/band leader will be CBS Orchestra leader Will Lee. The house band will feature a killer lineup of all-stars, including Steve Gadd (James Taylor, Paul Simon), Shawn Pelton (Saturday Night Live), Larry Campbell (Levon Helm, Bob Dylan), Eric Krasno (Soulive, Phil Lesh & Friends), Pedrito Martinez (Bruce Springsteen, Camila Cabello), Jeff Babko (Jimmy Kimmel Live!), Michael Bearden (Lady Gaga) and a six-piece horn section.
Since its 2017 launch, Love Rocks NYC has raised more than $30 million and helped fund the delivery of three million meals to New Yorkers living with illness, according to a release announcing this year’s gig. Presale tickets for the show will be available on Thursday (Feb. 8) beginning at 10 a.m. ET, with the public onsale kicking off at 10 a.m. ET on Friday (Feb. 9); click here for more information on tickets.
K-pop boy band ENHYPEN announced the dates for the encore leg of their Fate Plus world tour on Tuesday (Feb. 6). The run of shows are slated to kick off at the KSPO Dome in Seoul, South Korea on Feb. 23 with the first of three shows at that venue.
The outing will jump to the U.S. for five dates in the spring, beginning with an April 24 gig at the Honda Center in Anaheim, CA, before moving on to shows in Oakland (April 26), Tacoma, WA (April 28) and Chicago (May 1) before winding down with a May 3 show at the UBS Arena in Belmont Park, NY.
Tickets for the mini-tour will go on sale here and here at 4 p.m. local time on Feb. 15. Tickets will be available in an ENGENE membership presale for fans who’ve registered in advance beginning today (Feb. 7) at 8 p.m ET through Friday (Feb. 9) at 9 p.m. ET.
According to a release announcing the second leg, the first run of shows played to more than 327,000 ENGENEs (the name of ENHYPEN’s fan group), during 21 shows in 13 cities, with the seven-man band making their U.S. stadium debut at L.A.’s Dignity Health Sports Park.
The band’s fifth mini-album, Orange Blood, dropped in November, debuting at No. 4 on the Billboard 200 albums chart, kicking off a seven-week run on the tally.
Check out the tour dates for ENHYPEN’s 2024 tour below.
Feb. 23, 24, 25 – Seoul, Korea @ KSPO Dome
April 24 – Anaheim, CA @ Honda Center
April 26 – Oakland, CA @ Oakland Arena
April 28 – Tacoma, WA @ Tacoma Dome
May 1 – Chicago, IL @ Allstate Arena
May 3 – Belmont Park, NY @ UBS Arena
Sia will break a lengthy drought this May when she releases Reasonable Woman, her tenth studio album and first pop LP since 2017.
Set to arrive May 3, the new LP is a celebrity affair featuring assists from Chaka Khan, Paris Hilton, Tierra Whack, Labrinth and fellow Australian pop superstar Kylie Minogue, whose week got off to the best possible start with a Grammy Award, taking home best pop dance recording for “Padam Padam.”
Collaborators, producers, co-writers, engineers on the fresh effort include Jesse Shatkin, Greg Kurstin, benny blanco, Jim-E Stack, Rosalía, bülow, Mark “Spike” Stent, and more.
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To celebrate the announcement, Sia shares her new collaboration with Kylie, “Dance Alone,” one of the LP’s 15 tracks.
“Dance Alone” is a favor returned. The Aussie artists previously collaborated on Kylie’s album Kiss Me Once, released back in March 2014.
The Reasonable Woman cover art features an image of a woman in orange suit with a striped grey blob for heads and hands, the type of art fans have come to expect from the singer who has often obscured her face in pictures and public appearances in an effort to maintain her privacy.
For a bit of fun, Kylie dresses as Sia in a photo accompanying the slapping new track, which can be streamed below.
Kylie Minogue as Sia
Photo credit: Erik Melvin
Warner Music Group pitches Reasonable Woman as Sia’s first proper solo album since 2016’s This Is Acting, which was mostly comprised of songs she wrote for other artists that were not released on their albums and featured the singles “Alive,” “Cheap Thrills,” “The Greatest” and “Unstoppable.” This Is Acting hit No. 4 on the Billboard 200 and No. 1 on the ARIA Chart.
The following year, the Adelaide, South Australia-raised singer and songwriter jingled into the holiday period with Everyday Is Christmas, her first with WMG’s Atlantic and first Christmas-themed album, followed by 2021’s companion soundtrack to the feature film Music, for which Sia made her directorial debut.
The “Chandelier” singer has amassed more than 50 billion audio streams, and landed 14 songs on the Billboard Hot 100, including a No. 1 with 2016’s “Cheap Thrills,” which led the tally for four weeks. Six of her LPs have impacted the Billboard 200, including a No. 1 for 2014’s 1000 Forms Of Fear.
Reasonable Woman includes the previously released single “Gimme Love.”
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Reasonable Woman track listing:
Little Wing
Immortal Queen (feat. Chaka Khan)
Dance Alone (Sia and Kylie Minogue)
I Had A Heart
Gimme Love
Nowhere To Be
Towards The Sun
Incredible (feat. Labrinth)
Champion (feat. Tierra Whack, Kaliii, Jimmy Jolliff)
I Forgive You
Wanna Be Known
One Night
Fame Won’t Love You (feat. Paris Hilton)
Go On
Rock and Balloon