Music

Ireland’s Longitude Festival has announced its 2021 line-up, headlined by Kendrick Lamar, Tyler, The Creator and A$AP Rocky. The trio were set to headline the festival’s 2020 edition, before it was cancelled back in April due to coronavirus concerns. Joining the headliners at Longitude 2021, and returning after 2020 billings, include AJ Tracey, while Megan Thee Stallion, Doja Cat and more are also set to play the festival, which returns to Dublin’s Marlay Park on the weekend of July […]

The Recording Academy has responded to Justin Bieber‘s recent claim that his album ‘Changes’ has been listed in the wrong category for the 2021 Grammy Awards. On Tuesday (November 24), Bieber picked up four nominations for Best Pop Vocal Album for ‘Changes’, Best Pop Solo Performance, Best Pop/Duo Group Performance, and Best Country Duo/Group Performance. However, the ‘Yummy singer was unhappy with the pop classification of his latest offering. “I am very […]

During today’s 2021 Grammy nominations, there were two artists who were surprisingly missing from contention: Bob Dylan nor the Weeknd. The Weeknd’s smash hit “Blinding Lights” was eligible for nomination, as was his chart-topping album After Hours. Bob Dylan’s remarkable Rough and Rowdy Ways was also released during the eligibility period (September 1, 2019—August 31, 2020), with its first single “Murder Most Foul” reaching No. 1 on Billboard’s Rock Digital Song Sales chart. Since the Grammy nominations require that an artist submit their […]

Much to his embarrassment, Bruce Springsteen’s first visit to Europe was hyped to the heavens by Columbia Records. The label were keen to capitalise on the mounting excitement surrounding Springsteen’s third album, Born To Run, which, by mid-October ’75, had reached number 3 on the Billboard 200. On October 27, 1975, both Time and Newsweek put the New Jersey-born singer-songwriter on the cover, buying into the idea of Springsteen as ‘The New Dylan’. When […]

The song earns the biggest week in terms of streams for a Latin song in 2020. Bad Bunny and Jhay Cortez’s “Dakiti” debuts at No. 1 on the Hot Latin Songs chart (dated Nov. 17). Their new collaboration is just the third song to debut atop the chart in 2020 and the seventh No. 1 of 2020 in total. It concurrently earns the biggest week in terms of streaming for a Latin song in […]

Cliff Richard was, some years ago, labeled Britain's Elvis Presley. Perhaps it wasn’t wide of the mark. He’s just notched the king of all chart records in the U.K., where he becomes the first artist to score a Top 5 album in eight consecutive decades. The 80-year-old singer's latest album Music… The Air That I Breathe bowed at No. 3 on latest Official U.K. Albums Chart, for a unique record. Richard’s first appearance […]