Back in 1981, Barbara Mandrell proudly professed her country music roots in her hit “I Was Country When Country Wasn’t Cool.” Forty-three years later, Lainey Wilson shares a similar sentiment in her new song “Country’s Cool Again.” Released at midnight on Friday, the funky, slippery back-porch number is the Louisiana …
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Welcome to our weeklyrundownof the best new music — featuring big singles, key tracks from our favorite albums, and more.The takeaway from this week’s new releases can be summed up by Lainey Wilson‘s new one “Country’s Cool Again,” which Queen Bey reaffirmed with her rodeo-ready new single. Beyond the country …
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Nearly 15 years ago, Mariah Carey took aim at an extensively gossipy person spreading her business around. On “Obsessed,” the first single from Memoirs of an Imperfect Angel, opens with the songstress chuckling before asking: “Why are you so obsessed with me?” It’s the same question Ariana Grande tried to …
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Sony Music Entertainment sued the producers of the 2022 Whitney Houston biopic Whitney Houston: I Wanna Dance With Somebody this week, claiming the producers have yet to pay for the use of Houston’s music catalog in the film, over a year after the movie first came out. In the suit, …
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Billy Joel stopped by The Late Show to discuss his new single, “Turn The Lights Back On,” and his Madison Square Garden residency. After coming onstage to chats of “Billy! Billy!” from the late-night show audience, Joel explained the inspiration behind releasing what he calls his first new song in …
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In his first single since his chart-topping fourth studio album A Gift & a Curse, Gunna lays his latest hopes and fears bare. “Bittersweet” is pensive and stripped back, with the Atlanta MC laying stream-of-consciousness raps down over sentimental guitar and subtle percussion from producers Dystinkt Beats and 1SRAEL, the …
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Brittany Howard appeared on The Tonight Show to showcase her recent single, “Prove It to You.” Performing with a live band and two back-up singers, the singer emphasized the psychedelic vibe of the track with smoke and a hazy rainbow backdrop. Howard released “Prove It to You” last month ahead …
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Usher has addressed some of the chatter around Justin Bieber not joining him during his Super Bowl LVIII Halftime Show last week, confirming that he’d reached out to Bieber about an appearance “I think that it might’ve been the fact that he’s just wanting to tell a different story right …
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Taylor Swift has contributed $100,000 to a GoFundMe page set up for the family of Lisa Lopez-Galvan, who was killed in a mass shooting at the Kansas City Chiefs’ victory parade earlier this week. TheElizabeth Lopez-Galvan Memorial pagewas set up Thursday afternoon with a goal of raising $75,000 for the …
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Beyoncé and her latest single “Texas Hold ‘Em” have made their country chart debut on Billboard’s Country Airplay chart, the publication announced on Friday. The track marks Beyoncé’s debut on that chart more than two decades into her career. The Country Airplay chart accounts exclusively for radio play. As soon …
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