Barack Obama made the Billboard charts this week thanks to Hamilton creatorLin-Manuel Miranda. The former president appears on“One Last Time (44 Remix),” a gospel-inspired remix of the Hamilton hit, which landed at Number 22 on Billboard’s Hot R&B Songs chart. The track, which also features Broadway star Christopher Jackson and …
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Ashley McBryde discussed her breakout year and her Grammy-nominated album Girl Going Nowhere during an interview Saturday with CBS This Morning. The Arkansas native also performed three tracks from her latest LP as part of the episode’s “Saturday Sessions.” Talking about her unexpected nomination for Best Country Album at the …
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Kodak Black captured his first Number One on the Billboard 200 as the Florida rapper’s second LP Dying to Live opened atop the album chart. Dying to Live only sold 5,000 traditional copies in its first week of release, but streaming equivalent albums (SEAs) help boost that number up to …
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Vic Mensa skateboards, rides his motorcycle, and avoids wearing a shirt as much as possible in the new video for “In Some Trouble.” The clip also features Ty Dolla $ign, who dances on a balcony, plays with a cute puppy and sings full-throated come-ons: “He ain’t gonna love you like …
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Lil Wayne unleashed a potent rendition of his Carter V cut “Don’t Cry” on The Late Show With Stephen Colbert Wednesday. The performance found Wayne tearing through the track’s brutally honest bars about life, death, success and failure: “It was dark, now the sun back/ Hit me hard, but I …
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Imogen Heap announced the North American leg of her 2019 Mycelia World Tour. The nine-date run launches April 28th in Miami, Florida and wraps June 8th in San Francisco, California. It will encompass both solo slots and her first dates since 2003 as part of Frou Frou, her electro-pop collaboration …
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Jamaican dancehall singer Buju Banton, one of reggae‘s most popular artists before his career was curtailed by a 10-year prison sentence, was released from a federal prison Friday after serving seven years behind bars. The federal Bureau of Prisons confirmed that Banton had been released from Georgia’s McRae Correctional Facility, …
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It’s hard to pinpoint the exact moment that Pink Floyd peaked as a live act, but most fans would point to the group’s 1975 Wish You Were Here tour and their 1977 In the Flesh tour. These were wildly ambitious, boundary-pushing stadium shows where they flew airplanes directly over the …
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Rufus Wainwright performed his Poses cut “Shadows” and discussed his forays into opera during an appearance on Late Night With Seth Meyers Monday. The performance found Wainwright deftly leading his band through “Shadows” with his always compelling vocals. “I could be a great star/ Still I’m far from happy,” Wainwright …
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Nigerian singer Mr. Eazi is one of afrobeats‘ most visible ambassadors: He’s been featured on a pair of Top Twenty hits in the U.K., worked multiple times with Major Lazer and opened tour dates for J Balvin. But despite his gift for international collaboration,one of the most affecting tracks on …
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