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2020 ACM Awards: Carrie Underwood, Trisha Yearwood and This Dynamic Duo Are Set to Perform
All five of this year’s entertainer of the year nominees will perform on the show. Carrie Underwood, Trisha Yearwood and the team of Blake Shelton and Gwen Stefani will perform at the 55th ACM Awards on Sept. 16, as the Academy of Country Music, dick clark productions and CBS announced on Wednesday (Sept. 9). Underwood will perform from the Grand Ole Opry and will honor trailblazing female Opry members by performing a medley of songs by Patsy Cline, Loretta Lynn, Barbara Mandrell, Martina McBride, Reba McEntire and Dolly Parton. Underwood teamed with McEntire and Parton to co-host last year’s CMA Awards, sponsored by the rival Country Music Association. Underwood is nominated for the ACM award for entertainer of the year, an award she won at the ceremonies in 2009 and 2010. ...
Hometown Heroes: Country Ties Emotional Messages to Physical Roots
When Big Loud singer-songwriter HARDY drove back to Nashville after a visit with his dad in Philadelphia, Miss., sometime in the last two years, his father told him to hit Play on the CD in the dash at a specific point in the journey. His father had queued up Travis Meadows‘ reflective “Mississippi,” and as the track’s storyline unfolded with every-day, familial images about “the home I couldn’t wait to leave behind,” the journey away from his hometown weighed heavily on HARDY. “I just lost it,” he says. “I completely started crying, and I started thinking about how proud I was to be from where I was from. But I don’t know why that is.” Maybe not, but HARDY — like many of his fellow country artists and songwriters...
Craig David Signs Worldwide Publishing Deal With Round Hill Music
British R&B star Craig David has signed a global publishing deal with Round Hill Music. The new arrangement, announced Wednesday (Sept. 9), includes all of David’s catalog, including his U.K. chart-topping debut album Born to Do It, and a futures agreement that will see all his new music administered by the independent music publisher. The 39-year-old singer is one of Britain’s most successful male solo artists of the millennium, with 23 U.K. top 40 singles, including two No. 1s (“Fill Me In” and “7 Days”), and a pair of No. 1 albums. In the U.S., David has twice cracked the Top 40 on the Billboard 200 and he has landed three songs on the Hot 100 chart, including a career-best No. 10 with “7 Days”. His trophy cabinet includes three Ivor Novello Awards and a brace of MTV Europe Mu...
Youngster Roberta Battaglia Belts Out Pink Cover on ‘AGT’: Watch
Tackling a Pink number in front of millions would be overwhelming for most tweens. Roberta Battaglia isn’t your typical kid. The 11-year-old singer stepped into the semifinals of America’s Got Talent on Tuesday night, and stepped onto the stage for a gutsy performance of “What About Us” by Pink. The powerful-voiced Canadian youngster doesn’t seem phased by the big occasion. During the AGT auditions, the-then 10 year old nailed her performance of “Shallow” and scored a golden buzzer. Watch her latest appearance on AGT below. [embedded content] You Deserve to Make Money Even When you are looking for Dates Online. So we reimagined what a dating should be. It begins with giving you back power. Get to meet Beautiful people, chat and make money in t...
‘Wildcard’ Thomas Day Returns to ‘America’s Got Talent’ With Touching Billie Eilish Cover: Watch
Thomas Day got a second life on America’s Got Talent, and he didn’t waste it. On Tuesday night (Aug. 8), the 17-year-old returned to AGT for the semifinals, having been eliminated earlier in season 15. With a “wildcard” in hand, Day took his chance and performed a touching rendition of Billie Eilish’s melancholy song “When the Party’s Over”. Away from the mic, the Nashville native is considered one of the top football prospects in the nation. His true love is music. And with his combination of honest vocals, gimmick-free performances and teen idol charm, Day has a growing fanbase. Watch his AGT performance below. [embedded content] You Deserve to Make Money Even When you are looking for Dates Online. So we reimagined what a dating should...
Fan Army Face-Off 2020: Round 2 Is Live!
Round 2 of Fan Army Face-Off has begun! After a few tight races — Lana Del Rey over BTS and EXO over Seventeen — the next group of battles is set. Each round ends every Tuesday at 12PM ET. Click on the vote now button, register your email, and make your second round picks now to determine whose army is the strongest. See the full list of round 2 matchups below! Lana Del Rey vs EXO Ariana Grande vs. GOT7 Beyonce vs. Becky G Super Junior vs. Billie Eilish Monsta X vs. Twice Miley Cyrus vs. Blackpink Jennifer Lopez vs. Eminem Liam Payne vs. Marshmello Madonna vs. Normani NCT 127 vs. Katy Perry Lady Gaga vs. Taylor Swift Selena Gomez vs. Louis Tomlinson Red Velvet vs. Lauv Dua Lipa vs. SuperM Harry Styles vs. Shawn Mendes Participants and first-round matchups were chosen based on a...
These 22 Acts Have Spent 26 or More Weeks at No. 1 on the Billboard 200
By now you’ve probably read that Taylor Swift ties Whitney Houston as the female solo artist with the most weeks at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 — 46 weeks. That’s pretty impressive since the chart dates back to March 1956, before either artist was born. You may be wondering what other artists are up there on the all-time rankings. Glad you asked. In all, 22 acts have logged 26 or more weeks at No. 1 on Billboard’s flagship album chart. Here’s a complete list. Ties are shown in alphabetical order. In true Casey Kasem style, we’ll count ‘em down to No. 1. 22. Herb Alpert & the Tijuana Brass (26 weeks): The ensemble had more weeks at No. 1 than any other instrumental act. The Brass’ longest running No. 1 was What Now My Now (nine weeks in 1966). That’s one week more than its most fam...
The Rolling Stones Heading For Big Splash on U.K. Chart With ‘Goats Head Soup’ Reissue
A 21-year-old Englishman stands in the way of another Rolling Stones chart triumph. Declan McKenna leads the U.K.’s midweek albums chart with his sophomore effort Zeros (Columbia), ahead of the Stones’ Goats Heads Soup (Polydor) reissue. Based on weekend sales activity reported by the Official Charts Company, Zeros has shifted the most physical units in the week so far to lead the Official Chart Update. McKenna got his break in 2015 when he won Glastonbury Festival’s Emerging Talent Competition. His debut album What Do You Think About The Car? peaked at No. 11 on the Official U.K. Albums Chart following its release in 2017. Meanwhile, the Stones are rolling on to another big chart impact with Goats Heads Soup, an album that ruled the national sales tallies on both sides of ...
Ted Cockle, Amy Thomson Join Hipgnosis Songs
Ted Cockle, the Universal Music Group stalwart who most recently served as Virgin EMI president, has joined Merck Mercuriadis’ Hipgnosis Songs. Three months after announcing his departure from the U.K. label, Cockle is today (Aug. 8) unveiled as president of Hipgnosis Songs. Also joining the company is Amy Thomson, a management and marketing veteran who takes the role as chief catalog officer. The incoming executives will be expected to help “grow and care for songs and their legacy” within the expanding Hipgnosis Songs catalog, reads a statement announcing their arrival. “It’s a testament to the iconic song catalog that we have assembled over the last two plus years, and our songwriters, that we have been able to attract executives with the extraordinary talent, pedigree and success of Te...
Hatebreed Is Cooking up Something Different With ‘Jasta Pasta’
Hatebreed’s Jamey Jasta is rocking out on a new venture. Pasta. The Bridgeport, Connecticut natives and their frontman flip the script with the Jasta Pasta brand, which sounds like everything you never associated with them: “Simple ingredients, the slow process and the wholesome experience.” From 5pm ET today (Sept. 8), 15 oz bags of “Perseverance Penne” are racked on the Martyr Store, alongside death metal and deathcore merch and goodies, from shirts, beer mugs and more. According to the blurb, Jasta Pasta is made from flour “sourced from North Dakota, where some of the highest-quality Durum Semolina wheat is grown.” Each bag will set you back $8. The Grammy-nominated metalcore veterans have also been busy cooking up new music. A new, eighth studio album Weight of the Fal...
Zendaya Owns the Internet With Labor Day Weekend Selfies
Zendaya has single-handedly woken the Internet from a lazy Labor Day weekend… with a trio of breezy snaps. Looking relaxed in a white singlet with her braids hanging free, Daya’s selfies captured glorious weather and blue skies. Twitter went wild for them and no caption was needed. Over several hours, the singer and actor’s tweet enjoyed more than 1.2 million “likes,” 195,000 retweets and upwards of 53,000 comments. The 24-year-old artist recently scored her first Emmy nomination (July 28) for outstanding lead actress in a drama series for her HBO series Euphoria. She’ll also star in Denis Villeneuve’s remake of Frank Herbert’s epic offworld series Dune. See the photos below. You Deserve to Make Money Even When you are looking for Dates Online. So we reimagined what a dat...
Metallica Rock Australia’s Albums Chart With ‘S&M2’
Metallica come out swinging on Australia’s albums chart as S&M2 (Virgin/Universal) bows at No. 1, while Cardi B and Megan Thee Stallion’s “WAP” (Atlantic/Warner) enters a third straight week atop the national singles survey. More than 20 years after Metallica and the San Francisco Symphony led the ARIA Albums Chart with S&M, the unlikely partnership yields another leader. The live compilation, recorded last September at San Francisco’s Chase Center, gives Metallica their seventh No. 1 album Down Under following Metallica (August 1991), Load (June 1996), S&M (November 1999), St. Anger (June 2003), Death Magnetic (September 2008), Hardwired…To Self-Destruct (2016). New mom Katy Perry returns to the top tier of the albums chart with Smile (Capitol/EMI), new at No. 2. It’s th...
