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Olivia Rodrigo has become the youngest person ever to receive the BRIT Billion Award.Rodrigo – who is currently only 20 years old – scored the landmark achievement in mid-July, but was presented with the award last weekend (August 17) while the singer was in the UK to promote her latest single ‘Bad Idea Right?’.A post shared by The BRIT Awards (@brits)The BRIT Billion Award, which was introduced earlier this year, recognises artists who achieve an astounding one billion digital streams in the United Kingdom. Other artists who have received the award so far since its inception in May include ABBA, Coldplay, Mariah Carey, Whitney Houston, Lana Del Rey, Queen, Becky Hill, James Arthur, Rita Ora, Lewis Capaldi and Ellie Goulding.Olivia Rodrigo’s highly anticipated sophomore album ‘Guts’ is set to release on September 8 via Geffen (pre-order/pre-save here).
So far, two songs have been released from the 12-track album; June’s lead single ‘Vampire’ and ‘Bad Idea Right?’ earlier this month.Rodrigo recently revealed the full tracklist for the record which is the follow-up to the artist’s Grammy-winning debut ‘Sour’. It will feature the cuts ‘All American Bitch’, ‘Ballad Of A Homeschooled Girl’, ‘Love Is Embarrassing’, ‘Pretty Isn’t Pretty’ and more.Earlier this summer, the singer explained that she had already come up with the title for her forthcoming second album before ‘Sour’ had even seen the light of day.
“I had it in my head. I’m like, ‘Four letters, all caps, just like ‘Sour’,” she recalled.
“I love it. I just think it’s an interesting word.”Rodrigo’s 2021 debut album ‘Sour’ scored a four-star review from NME upon its release, with Rhian Daly writing: “When your first release is a track as ubiquitous as ‘drivers license’,
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Düsseldorf, Germany during this year’s Invictus Games. According to The Mirror, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex have chosen one of the nicest suites at the city’s Hyatt Regency.
Olivia Rodrigo has suggested she may eventually release some songs that didn’t make the final cut for her new album ‘Guts‘.The singer was speaking to Zane Lowe about her second record, which was released yesterday (September 8), on his Apple Music 1 show, when he asked how many songs she’d worked on for the album.“Probably like 25, not anything too crazy,” Rodrigo answered. “I think some of them will definitely see the light of day. I don’t know.
Fall Out Boy and Metro Boomin have been added to the list of performers for next week’s 2023 MTV Video Music Awards.The ceremony will take place at the Prudential Centre in Newark, New Jersey on September 12, and will also feature the recently-announced Olivia Rodrigo.Others to perform at the 2023 VMAs will be Måneskin, Doja Cat and more, alongside the newly announced Peso Pluma. It will be Fall Out Boy’s first performance on the show since 2007.Taylor Swift, Doja Cat and SZA lead the list of nominations, which was revealed last month.Swift is leading the way with eight nominations, SZA earned six and Doja Cat, Kim Petras, Miley Cyrus, Nicki Minaj and Sam Smith have all earned five each.
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Mitski is bringing a string of intimate acoustic shows across North America this September.The shows, dubbed ‘Amateur Mistake’, will see Mitski put on a small, intimate and acoustic performance during which she will preview her upcoming album ‘The Land Is Inhospitable And So Are We’.On September 11, Mitski will perform at the Teatro De La Ciudad in Mexico City before performing at Theatre at Ace Hotel in Los Angeles on September 20. On November 26, she will perform at New York’s Town Hall before ending the North American ‘Amateur Mistake’ show series at the Trinity Church in Toronto, Canada.A post shared by @mitskileaksTickets to the Mexico City show are already sold out.
Olivia Rodrigo has revealed that she had to “walk out of the theater” while watching the Joaquin Phoenix-led A24 horror film Beau Is Afraid.Speaking to Phoebe Bridgers for an Interview Magazine feature published September 5, Rodrigo. When asked if she’s a fan of horror movies, Rodrigo revealed: “I’m a big thriller girl, but I watch a few scary movies here and there”.Rodrigo went on to add: “I convince myself that I see shit after I come home from watching Insidious or something. Also, I watched that new Ari Aster movie Beau Is Afraid and I got so scared.”Explaining how badly the movie affected her, Rodrigo said: “I literally had to walk out of the theater.
Olivia Rodrigo is getting candid about her thoughts as a pop star as the release date for her upcoming album nears.
For Dolly Parton, hearing Miley Cyrus’ “Wrecking Ball” for the first time was like getting hit by a wrecking ball.
Dolly Parton is opening up about how she reacted to hearing Miley Cyrus‘ “Wrecking Ball.”
Thania Garcia After enjoying a historic opening week on Billboard’s Hot 100 songs chart, Oliver Anthony’s “Rich Men North of Richmond” now spends a second week topping a list that also includes fresh releases from Doja Cat, Olivia Rodrigo and Gunna. The single first launched to No. 1 in the tracking week ending Aug.
Jem Aswad Executive Editor, Music Grammy-winning singer Shakira will become the first South American artist to receive MTV’s Michael Jackson Video Vanguard Award at the channel’s Video Music Awards on Sept. 12.
All eyes have been on UK chart-topper Ellie Goulding since she was rumoured to be in the midst of marriage woes earlier this year.The singer, 36, and her art dealer husband Caspar Jopling, 31, are said to be taking a break from their four year marriage. On Sunday, Ellie posted an arguably cryptic message about their split on social media. Ellie took to Instagram to share a carousel of snaps from her ongoing summer holiday with son Arthur, two, and used the post to advise her followers to "keep going".
Reading Festival, teasing a forthcoming UK and European tour announcement from The 1975.The band are headlining Reading & Leeds this weekend, stepping in for Lewis Capaldi, who announced that he would be taking a break from all live performances for the time being following his Glastonbury showcase to focus on his mental and physical health.At the shows, the band will be performing their self-titled debut album in full, which is also being reissued with rarities and unheard material next month. They previously played it in full at a Manchester gig in February.Now, posters have been spotted at Reading signalling the imminent announcement of more tour dates as part of the band’s continuing ‘At Their Very Best’ tour.
TikTok have revealed their songs of the summer for 2023, including tracks from Central Cee and Dave, Mae Stephens and FIFTY FIFTY.The social media app has shared the most played songs from across their platform, globally as well as in the UK. The lists are ranked by how many total video creations each song got over the summer.Mae Stephens topped the global Songs of the Summer playlist with her woozy revenge track ‘If We Ever Broke Up’. Speaking on this feat, the Kettering singer said, “I am truly honoured to have the global number one spot for TikTok’s Song of the Summer!”“I’m speechless, I never imagined it to climb that far.
Olivia Rodrigo‘s highly anticipated sophomore album ‘Guts’ was written for the live stage, the singer has revealed.Speaking to Capital FM recently, the ‘Vampire’ singer shared that her upcoming second album was written “with a tour in mind”. While Rodrigo said a tour of the UK is “in the works” and that she couldn’t share more at the moment, she did share that most of her new songs were written for live performances.Going on to answer a fan question regarding what future listeners can expect from the album, Olivia Rodrigo said: “I think there’s a lot of fun songs.
Billie Eilish has scored her second UK Number One single in a record-breaking week for female solo artists.The singer’s new single ‘What Was I Made For?’, from the Barbie soundtrack, becomes her second UK chart-topper after her 2020 James Bond single ‘No Time To Die’.It also tops a record-breaking week on the charts for female artists, with all of the top six positions on the singles chart occupied by female solo artists for the first time ever.At Number Two this week is Dua Lipa with another Barbie track, ‘Dance The Night’, while Olivia Rodrigo is both at Number Three with ‘Vampire’ and Six with ‘Bad Idea Right?’, while Taylor Swift is at Four with the resurgent ‘Cruel Summer’ and Peggy Gou at Five with ‘(It Goes Like) Nanana’.The Top Eight is also rounded out by songs led by female artists, with ‘Barbie World’ by Nicki Minaj, Ice Spice and Aqua at Number Seven, and ‘Disconnect’ by Becky Hill and Chase & Status at Eight.This week's Official Singles Chart is a record-breaker! https://t.co/zuNbMrJIs8— Official Charts (@officialcharts) August 18, 2023Elsewhere, Eilish recently opened up about what’s changed in the creative process as she works on her third album.The singer was speaking on the new episode of Dua Lipa‘s At Your Service podcast when she explained the “big jump” between the ages of 18 and 21, and how she had to convince herself she hadn’t “lost it”.Eilish’s debut album ‘When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go?‘ came out in 2019, followed up by ‘Happier Than Ever‘ in 2021.
Selena Gomez and acclaimed producer Fred Again appear to be cooking up a new bop.
astro relevant banger “Total Eclipse of the Heart” and Roxette’s dedication to the ache of hindsight, “It Must Have Been Love.” The rise of MTV brought a deluge of earnest hair metal ballads and music videos in varying degrees of cringe, including but not limited to “Love Bites,” “Heaven,” “Don’t Know What You Got (‘Til It’s Gone),” “Home Sweet Home,” “More Than Words,”and “Ballad of Jayne.” The 1990’s saw wrenching classics from the likes of Toni Braxton, Mariah Carey, Celine Dion, Meatloaf and Metallica. Just as there’s a fairy tale, cookie, dog breed, movie villain, power color, sex toy, and flower varietal for each zodiac sign, so too is there a power ballad.
Follow OK! on Threads here: https://www.threads.net/@ok_mag Abbey Clancy and Peter Crouch reportedly kept their neighbours awake all night after enjoying a boozy karaoke party with pals as they holidayed at Quinta do Lago on the Algarve in Portugal.The pair are said to have hosted their friends for a raucous pool party, which saw them belting out their favourite tunes, including some of the hits from the Norwegian band A-ha, who are legendary for their cult hit, Take On Me. A source told the Mirror: “The music was so loud everyone in the street could hear it – and several came out to see what was going on.” Former footballer Peter, 42, is said to have given it his all as he took his turn on the karaoke, with the source adding: “You could hear him screaming his lungs out.They were playing all the classics, like A-ha’s Take on Me.