Pop music icon Janet Jackson has announced plans to release a new album and go on a world concert tour to support it. The Grammy winner -- who turned 49 Saturday -- did not reveal the album's title, but the announcement video on her official website was accompanied by "#ConversationsInACafe," suggesting that might be what the CD and/or its lead single will be called. She also did not specify a […]
Train will be bestowing holiday wishes on its fans this year. Frontman Pat Monahan tells Billboard that the group is in the midst of recording a seasonal set, tentatively titled Christmas in Tahoe -- "because, being a Bay Area band, that's where everybody goes to ski and have fun" -- and out most likely in November. The album will feature three originals amidst covers that Monahan will be different from the […]
Britney Spears and Iggy Azalea released their "Pretty Girls" music video Wednesday. The video sees the 33-year-old singer and 24-year-old rapper sport 80s outfits and roll around town. Azalea portrays an alien version of herself with the power to transform the pop star's Zack Morris phone into a sleek new smartphone. Spears and Azalea released the single last week after the song leaked online over the previous weekend. The rapper […]
10 years ago, on April 23, 2005 the first YouTube video, titled Me at the zoo, showing co-founder Jawed Karim at the San Diego Zoo, was uploaded. Youtube has become the most popular video-sharing website worldwide. These are the three most watched videos on youtube: 1. Psy – 'Gangnam Style' - 2,307,000,000+ views Featuring Psy’s iconic horse-riding moves, “Gangnam Style” went viral overnight to become the most-watched video on YouTube […]
Historical, musical, and quantitative evidence shows that the rise of rap is the most important thing that has ever happened to the genre. On June 22, 1991, Billboard announced a new album had surpassed Out of Time, by R.E.M., to become the most popular in the country. It was Niggaz4life, by N.W.A., which had debuted the previous week at number 2 and sold nearly a million copies in its first […]
... but it's trying to move on! Taylor Swift may have gotten her start in country music, but she made it pretty darn clear in the lead-up to the release of her blockbuster album 1989 that she considers herself a pop artist these days. “I don’t really think people were surprised I made a pop album,” she admitted to HITS. “I think they were surprised I was honest about it.” Swift’s […]
Rock band Alabama Shakes earns its first No. 1 on the Billboard 200 chart as its new album,Sound & Color, arrives in the top slot. The set, which was released April 21 on ATO Records, moved 96,000 equivalent album units in the week ending April 26, according to Nielsen Music. The Billboard 200 chart ranks the most popular albums of the week based on multi-metric consumption, which includes traditional album […]
Mariah Carey's greatest hits album, "Mariah Carey #1 To Infinity," will feature only one new track and it debuted Sunday night on iTunes, Spotify and YouTube. Titled "Infinity," it's a (somewhat cheesy) break-up ballad, featuring Carey's signature breathy vocals and super high notes. The album, and this track, is part of a reunion collaboration between Carey and Epic CEO L.A. Reid, who produced her best-selling album "The Emancipation of Mimi," […]
Dance Me This, the last album Frank Zappa recorded before his death in 1993, will be finally released in 2015. Joining his extensive discography – which begins with 1966’s Freak Out and includes approximately 100 releases – the album gets a release date of 1 June. Despite news of the long-anticipated album initially emerging on April Fool’s Day on Zappa’s website, the post still remains online with a pre-order link […]
