Calvin Harris & Ellie Goulding prove today that devotion pays off – making a miraculous return to Number 1 on the Official Singles Chart.
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Florence & The Machine have teased the release of a brand new song, taken from a new expansion of their UK Number 1 album, Dance Fever.
The fifth album from the English alt-pop band entered at the top of the Official Albums Chart in May last year, becoming Florence Welsh et.al's fourth chart-topping LP.
They previously reached the summit with Lungs (2009), Ceremonials (2011) and How Big, How Blue, How Beautiful (2015) and have one UK Number 1 single, thanks to Calvin Harris' buoyant reworking of Spectrum, while Florence herself scored a solo Number 1 single with another Calvin collab, Sweet Nothing.
Florence herself has been hinting over the last few years that the 'next chapter' of Dance Fever is imminent, and her latest post on social media sees her stomping through a gothic church ground (very apt) as a small snippet of the new song plays.
It certainly sounds like a continuation of the orchestral swooning pop of Dance Fever, backed by haunting drums and backing vocals as Florence laments the state of the country.
New lyrics from the song go as follows: "England is only ever grey or green, the girls glitter striding glorious and coatless in the rain.
"I remember falling through these streets somewhere out of place, if not for the drunkenness, it makes my chest hurt to think of it. Not of regret, but of missing that cheerful oblivion."
So far, so ominous!
No release date has been set for the new single yet, but fans are able to pre-save it right now to unlock the artwork which has been shot by director Autumn de Wilde (Emma), who also helmed all the videos for Dance Fever, including King and Free.
This is not the first new material we've had from Florence this year, either. Last month she dropped a very melodramatic
Calvin Harris & Ellie Goulding prove today that devotion pays off – making a miraculous return to Number 1 on the Official Singles Chart.
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K-pop boyband THE BOYZ have shared that their second world tour will take place later this year.On April 25, IST Entertainment unveiled a brand-new poster announcing THE BOYZ’s upcoming second world tour ‘Zeneration’. While the group have yet to share a full list of concert dates and locations, the tour will begin with a three-day concert from May 19 to 21 at the KSPO Dome in Seoul.[#더보이즈 뉴스] 더보이즈, 두 번째 월드투어 '제너레이션' 개최…5월 서울서 시작#THEBOYZ@IST_THEBOYZhttps://t.co/mhqDPSbjwo pic.twitter.com/V3nK9mOFG0— IST ent (@ist_ent) April 25, 2023According to IST Entertainment, per News1, THE BOYZ’s ‘Zeneration’ tour will be hitting all of Japan, as well as several major cities in Asia this year, before heading to the rest of the world.The agency added that it would announce a more detailed tour schedule at a later date, and that it would continuously expand its scale according to the requests of fans of the group around the world.Fanclub ticket pre-sales for the Seoul concerts will begin on April 28 at 8pm KST, while general sales will start on May 2 at 7pm KST.
When “WandaVision” debuted a couple of years ago, the series not only served as the first TV show from Marvel Studios, but it also gave the studio a chance to try something very different, specifically with the style. Most of the episodes were homages to classic TV, down to different theme songs with each new era.
Another track has been removed from the official playlist put together by the UK government to celebrate the upcoming coronation of King Charles III. This time it’s those monarchy-hating Proclaimers who have had their song axed from the tracklisting.The playlist was put live in February supposedly to “celebrate British and Commonwealth artists ahead of the upcoming coronation”.
After being dethroned by Lewis Capaldi’s Wish You The Best last week, Calvin Harris and Ellie Goulding are a plotting a return to Number 1 with Miracle on Friday.
Lewis Capaldi is the Official Singles Chart champion as Wish You The Best debuts at Number 1.
Florence + The Machine have shared the moody new track ‘Mermaids’, which explores the grey English weather and society’s darker side.The new single arrived today (April 21), and sees the band pair dark and dance-inspired instrumentals with the ethereal vocals of frontwoman, Florence Welch. It also captures the same essence as seen with their latest full-length effort, 2022’s Dance Fever.Produced by Dave Bayley, the densely layered song references mermaids with “sharp teeth” who appear late at night to drink, dance and “sacrifice a human heart”.With lines including: “I remember falling through these streets / Somewhat out of place, if not for the drunkenness /It makes my chest hurt to think of it,” and “shining under lights from shitty clubs and doing shitty drugs / And hugging girls that smelt like Britney Spears and coconuts,” it’s possible that the track hints at Welch’s nine years of sobriety, and explores a darker side of society.The single comes after several weeks of the band teasing new music on social media.
Arctic Monkeys, Florence + The Machine and Harry Styles leading the pack.The nominees for this year’s instalment were announced yesterday (April 18) by The Ivors Academy, and features nine categories including Song Writer Of The Year With Amazon Music, Best Album and Best Contemporary Song.72 individual songwriters and composers from Britain and Ireland were announced in the nominations, and songwriting partnerships with Harry Styles and Kid Harpoon, and Cleopatra Nikolic (known artistically as Cleo Sol) and Dean ‘Inflo’ Josiah Cover lead the way, with three nominations each.Alongside Harry Styles and Kid Harpoon, nominees for the Songwriter Of The Year With Amazon Music award include Florence + The Machine frontwoman Florence Welch, The 1975’s George Daniel and Matty Healy, and Wet Leg’s Rhian Teasdale and Hester Chambers.Best Album nominees include Arctic Monkeys’ latest effort, ‘The Car’, as well as Lil Simz’s ‘No Thank You’, Fontaine D.C’s ‘Skinty Fia’ and Sault’s ‘11’.Elsewhere, Harry Styles is also in the running to win the award for the Best Song Musically and Lyrically with 2022’s ‘As It Was’. Other songs put forward include Tom Odell’s ‘Best Day Of My Life’, Florence + The Machine’s ‘King’, Sault’s ‘Stronger’ and Katie Gregson-Macleod’s ‘Complex’.Kate Bush’s ‘Running Up That Hill’ has also been named in the PRS for Music’s Top 5 Most Performed Songs of 2022 category – nearly four decades after the track was nominated for Best Contemporary Song.Launched in 1956, the awards celebrate outstanding achievements in the field of songwriting and composition and are awarded by award-winning artists and composers from The Ivors Academy.
Foo Fighters have taken to social media to share what appears to be another teaser of upcoming music. Check it out below.The snippet of music was shared by the band on Twitter earlier today (April 18) and contains 25 seconds of what seems to be their first new music without Taylor Hawkins.
For those beady eyed chart fans keeping an eye on the Official Chart First Look - which gives an exclusive glance at how the Official Singles Chart is shaping up at midweek mark - there might have been a bit of surprise yesterday.
Calvin Harris & Ellie Goulding’s Miracle leads the race for a third consecutive week at Number 1 on the Official Singles Chart today, but they will have to put up a fight to defend its place.
#theweeknd #fyp #xo #coachella #doublefantasy #metroboomin #newmusic #weeknd Last year, the Weeknd and Swedish House Mafia co-headlined at the last minute when original headlining performer Kanye West dropped out. At the time, it was announced that production on “The Idol” had paused so that The Weeknd could do Coachella, but it was later revealed that the show was going through a complete creative overhaul even though, it was rumored, 80% of the show had already been shot.
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Bloc Party frontman Kele Okereke has shared that the band are working on “exciting” new music.The indie veterans released their sixth album ‘Alpha Games‘ last year, with Okereke previously telling NME that he was “more excited about the energy that the band has right now” than he was concerned with their legacy.Now, after the recent release of his sixth solo album ‘The Flames pt. 2’, he has now told NME that Bloc Party are already back at work. Speaking with NME‘s In Conversation series, Okereke shared: “We, Bloc Party, have been writing in the last week.”He continued: “We have made a lot of music over the years and we’re going to make more.
Foo Fighters have surprised fans by sharing what appears to be a teaser of new music. Check it out below.The band are currently gearing up to play their first full headline shows since the tragic passing of drummer Taylor Hawkins last year.
Calvin Harris and Ellie Goulding are eyeing up a second week at the Official Singles Chart summit with Miracle.
Ellie Goulding is heading for her fourth Official UK Number 1 album this week with Higher Than Heaven.
Ellie Goulding has spoken to NME about new album ‘Higher Than Heaven’, her Calvin Harris-collab ‘Miracle’ riding high in the charts and the possibility of representing the United Kingdom in Eurovision.Goulding’s fifth album ‘Higher Than Heaven’ was released on Friday (April 7) – and was written intentionally as purely escapist pop.“My new thing is acknowledging the things I’m good at, and I’m good at writing pop songs,” Goulding told NME. “I’ve made a classical album, I’ve made electronic music and I regularly give my vocal away to producers like Four Tet.