Category: CHR

Ed Sheeran – an AMA Crowd Favorite

The American Music Awards (AMAs) is an annual American music awards show, created by Dick Clark in 1973 for ABC. Unlike the Grammys, which are awarded on the basis of votes by members of the Recording Academy, the AMAs are determined by a poll of the public and fans, who can vote through the AMAs website. Ed Sheeran has […]

Selena Gomez’s Return to Music

“Taki Taki,” the new song from DJ Snake, Selena Gomez, Cardi B, and Ozuna, is being deemed “the song of the fall season’. The record dropped Friday morning. It’s a reggaeton club track that’ll be stuck in your head from the first listen. In a recent interview with Billboard, DJ Snake explained how the song came into being. “I […]

Shawn Mendes, Zedd & Camila Cabello To Perform at 2018 AMAs

The 2018 American Music Awards keep getting more star-studded every day. Shawn Mendes and Camila Cabello are the latest artists to join the performers roster for this year’s show, which will broadcast live on Oct. 9 on ABC. Though the two pop singers have a song together – 2015’s “I Know What You Did Last Summer” – Cabello and Mendes […]

“Youngblood” Earns 5SOS Their First #1

5 Seconds of Summer score their first No. 1 on Billboard’s Pop Songs radio airplay chart with their latest single “Youngblood”. The honor is the latest for the Australian band with the song, which a week ago became its first top 10 on the all-genre, airplay-, streaming- and sales-based Billboard Hot 100 chart. Before “Youngblood,” which leaps with Greatest Gainer honors, […]

Mumford and Sons announce New Album and Release Single

Mumford & Sons are back and it’s music to our ears. Three years after their third album Wilder Minds topped the UK and US charts, the banjo-wielding group have released the first track from their upcoming fourth record, titled Delta. The new single “Guiding Light” – a slow building folksy track that’s apparently “emblematic” of the new album – has been made available online and will be followed by the album […]

Post Malone set to perform for the 2018 AMAs

Dick Clark productions revealed last week some of the artists who will be performing some of their biggest hits on the AMAs stage during the two hour telecast. One of those artists, the seven time AMA Nominee, is Post Malone. In regards to Post Malone‘s performance, the rumored iconic moment will include a collaboration with his […]

Kelsea Ballerini – a little bit Pop and a little bit Country

Female country singers are currently pop music’s top ambassadors at the moment. One Direction’s Niall Horan was accompanied on his world tour this year by Kacey Musgraves and Maren Morris. Morris also went on to collaborate with Zedd and Grey for the summer smash hit, “The Middle”. And now Kelsea Ballerini has released a duet with the […]

A Few Things to Know About the Billboard Charts This Week

1. “Reaching this milestone again is a dream for this band,” Maroon 5 frontman Adam Levine tells Billboard of the group’s return to No. 1 on the Hot 100 (with its first leader in six years). 4. As “Killshot” bounds in at No. 3, Eminem earns his 20th Hot 100 top 10, a run that began with […]

“Weird Al” Yankovic Stars in Weezer’s Video for “Africa”

“Africa”, legendary song that won’t stop for anyone, newly covered by Weezer has unveiled a new video for their cover of the Toto hit. The visual, directed by Brendan Walter and Jade Ehlers, is a re-creation of the Weezer’s iconic video for their 1994 single “Undone (The Sweater Song)”, but this time around with “Weird Al” Yankovic starring as an accordion-playing Rivers Cuomo, […]

The Very Best in Music Right Now

This week’s Artist 100 is out and musicians from every genre are a part of this one. We see a country act at the top, plenty of hip-hop and R&B artists spread throughout the top 10, and one very big rock act in between. Carrie Underwood is having a great year and she’s hit number […]