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David Becker/Getty Images for Paramount Pictures Almost exactly a year ago, Rihanna surprised attendees at CinemaCon in Las Vegas to announce that she’d signed on to a new animated film, The Smurfs Movie, to provide the voice of Smurfette, contribute original music and co-produce. More details on the project have now been revealed. The all-star […]
Live Nation Las Vegas Mariah Carey‘s Las Vegas residency The Celebration of Mimi launches April 12 at Dolby Live at Park MGM, but she’s already extended her run. Originally scheduled to run for eight shows throughout April, the residency has now added eight new performances: three in July and five in August. Tickets go on […]
Photo by Stephane Cardinale – Corbis/Corbis via Getty Images It’s a rare occasion when Rihanna shares an update about her music, especially after years of making headlines for her babies and businesses. Fortunately for fans, she gave some tidbits on her process of creating her long-awaited album R9 during her cover story for Interview magazine. “I have a […]
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Blair Caldwell Thanks to her new album Cowboy Carter, Beyoncé has landed another Billboard chart milestone. Twenty three songs from the album have charted on the Billboard Hot 100. In addition to three of them making the top 10, as previously reported, she’s got four more in the top 30 and the rest scattered all the […]
Frederic REGLAIN/Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images Whitney Houston‘s legacy will be celebrated this summer during Chicago’s Ravinia Festival. On August 30, the festival will play host to the world premiere of The Voice Of Whitney: A Symphonic Celebration. The production will feature the original master recordings of Whitney’s vocals, set to new orchestrations of her biggest hits […]
Blair Caldwell Did anyone think that Beyoncé‘s Cowboy Carter wouldn’t lasso a huge #1 debut on the Billboard chart? Bey’s acclaimed new album debuts with sales of 407,000 units, giving her the biggest first-week sales of 2024 and the biggest first-week sales since Taylor Swift‘s 1989 (Taylor’s Version) sold 1.65 million units in November. Cowboy Carter […]
Blair Caldwell We’ll have to wait a couple days to see how she fares on the Billboard 200, but Beyoncé‘s album Cowboy Carter has already topped the U.K. charts, breaking several records in the process. Bey is now the first Black artist to top the U.K. charts with a country album and the first to simultaneously top […]
Kemosabe Records/ RCA Records After teasing it for several days, Doja Cat has officially dropped Scarlet 2 CLAUDE, the deluxe version of her 2023 album, Scarlet. In addition, she’s released a music video for one of the new songs: “MASC” featuring Teezo Touchdown. Doja co-directed the clip with Jamal Peters. The other feature on the album comes from A$AP […]
Blair Caldwell Anyone who thinks Paul McCartney isn’t happy that Beyoncé has covered The Beatles classic “Blackbird” on her album Cowboy Carter would be very wrong. “I am so happy with @beyonce’s version of my song ‘Blackbird,’” McCartney shares on Instagram. “I think she does a magnificent version of it and it reinforces the civil rights message that inspired me […]
Blair Caldwell Beyoncé‘s put a new lasso twirl on her #1 hit “Texas Hold ‘Em,” releasing a “Pony Up” remix with different lyrics and vocals. The song includes a new breakdown, during which Beyonce commands, “Now I’ma need all my cowboys to the dancefloor/Get to the dancefloor.” There’s also a whole new, lengthy second verse […]