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 […]
Country music as a community will be observing a “Moment of Silence” on the one-year anniversary of the Route 91 tragedy that occurred Oct. 1, 2017 in Las Vegas, Nevada. An act of terrorism took the lives of 58 people, injured attendees and their families, leaving thousands of people’s lives changed indefinitely. On Monday, October 1, at […]
Standup comedian Lil Duval makes his first appearance on the Billboard Hot 100 chart (dated Sept. 8), as “Smile (Living My Best Life),” featuring Snoop Dogg and Ball Greezy, debuts at No. 83 but has made it’s way to the number one spot over the past few weeks. Lil Duval (full name: Roland Powell) is signed to EMPIRE Recordings, was a finalist on BET’s comedy series Coming to […]
Five Finger Death Punch and Breaking Benjamin took part in the summer portion of the biggest North American outdoor amphitheater rock tour of 2018 and provided a generous donation to two charity organizations. As a result they chose to donate a portion of their ticket sales.A donation of $95,000 to Concerns of Police Survivors was […]
Led Zeppelin’s classic 1971 song “Stairway to Heaven” is climbing the stairway back to court yet again. A new trial has been ordered by the United States appeals court regarding copyright issues with the record. Likely to have stemmed back from a 2016 case in which Led Zeppelin was accused of stealing the iconic acoustic […]
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 […]
1962 –The Beach Boys album “Surfin’ Safari” was released. It was their first album release. 1964 – Vee Jay Records released the album “The Beatles Vs. The Four Seasons.” 1969 – “Abbey Road” by the Beatles was released in the U.S. It was released a week earlier in England. 1970 – Jimi Hendrix was buried in Seattle, WA. 1970 – Curtis […]
Ella Mai’s “Boo’d Up” ties for the longest-running No. 1 among songs by women on the Billboard R&B/Hip-Hop Airplay chart since the list’s inception in 1992. The single logs its 15th week in charge on the chart dated Sept. 29, matching the run of Mary J. Blige’s “Be Without You” from January – April 2006. “Boo’d” holds on […]
“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, […]
Andrew Hozier-Byrne (a.k.a. Hozier), the Irish songwriter, has recently stopped by the Corus studio to chat with Tom Schenck about what’s going on with him, and what’s to come in 2019. Hozier is celebrating the release of his third studio EP, Nina Cried Power, along with the commencement of a North American tour featuring several Canadian gigs. […]