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Taylor Swift breaks Spotify, Amazon and Apple Music streaming records in less than 24 hours
Taylor Swift‘s new album ‘Midnights‘ broke streaming records on Spotify, Amazon and Apple Music in less than 24 hours. READ MORE: Taylor Swift – ‘Midnights’ review: a shimmering return to pure pop Released last Friday (October 21), the singer-songwriter’s 10th studio effort smashed Spotify’s record for the most-streamed album in a single day – a feat Swift said was “mind blowing”. Additionally, ‘Midnights’ broke the record for the biggest pop album of all time on Apple Music by first-day streams. The song ‘Lavender Haze’, meanwhile, debuted at Number One on Apple Music Top 100: Global. Advertisement On Amazon Music, Swift...
Watch LOONA’s Chuu and Jeremy Zucker duet on a special rendition of ‘comethru’
LOONA vocalist Chuu has collaborated with American singer-songwriter Jeremy Zucker for a performance of the latter’s 2018 single ‘comethru’. READ MORE: LOONA – ‘Flip That’ review: an understated but subtly addictive return On the October 22 episode of South Korean music show Music Universe K-909, Chuu and Zucker appeared as guests for a special live performance of ‘comethru’. The song is the lead single of Zucker’s 2018 EP ‘Summer’ and was later remixed as a duet with singer Bea Miller in 2019. In the new clip, Chuu and Zucker perform the duet version of the track in a set resembling...
IVE’s Liz and Rei team up with LANY for ‘After LIKE’ performance
Members Liz and Rei of rookie K-pop girl group IVE have collaborated with American pop band LANY for a performance of their single ‘After LIKE’. READ MORE: IVE elevate their chic charisma with glorious nu-disco on latest single ‘After LIKE’ On October 23, 1theK Originals uploaded the video of the performance to its official YouTube channel, kicking off its brand-new ‘Kollabo’ project. In the new clip, LANY frontman Paul Jason Klein sings a new English-language verse and chorus for IVE’s ‘After LIKE’, while the K-pop idols perform the song’s original Korean lyrics. “You never know, my mind could change...
Eric André calls out Kanye West: “White supremacy is terrorism”
Eric André has hit back at Kanye West for his anti-Semitic comments. READ MORE: With his “White Lives Matter” stunt, has Kanye West finally hit the point of no return? West has taken to social media over the last few weeks to share a wide number of comments that have been criticised as anti-Semitic, alongside conspiracy theories and other inflammatory remarks made in interviews. “Do you really like Kanye’s music more than your own ethics and morals?” André posted on his Instagram Stories over the weekend (October 23), according to The Independent, responding to recent events. “Is music that fucking special...
Sampa The Great shares ethereal video for ‘Let Me Be Great’ featuring Angélique Kidjo
Sampa The Great has shared a music video for the Angélique Kidjo-featuring ‘Let Me Be Great’, which appeared on her recent album ‘As Above, So Below’. READ MORE: Sampa The Great: “Music is the one thing that is supposed to be the truth” Directed by Pussy Krew, the clip first situates Sampa in an otherworldly desert setting, as trippy animations of golden snakes and her own pixelated flesh flash into view. The Zambian singer later opts for a costume change after linking hands with Kidjo in front of an oscillating snake visual. Elsewhere in the video, Sampa dances aside chromatic...
Listen to Sam Fender’s new song ‘Wild Grey Ocean’
Sam Fender has today (October 25) shared ‘Wild Grey Ocean’, a song lifted from the upcoming deluxe edition of his 2021 album ‘Seventeen Going Under’. READ MORE: Sam Fender – ‘Seventeen Going Under’ review: a portrait of the artist as a young man ‘Wild Grey Ocean’ sees Fender reflect on past love and loss atop sparse piano keys and steady percussive cymbals. “The wild grey ocean, buried in my eyes” Fender sings broodingly on the track’s opening verse, “The coarse town muscles through weekdays and nine to fives.” Listen to the song below. Advertisement Fender first teased the song’s...
Taylor Swift stars as Cinderella in ‘Bejeweled’ video featuring Haim sisters, Laura Dern and more
Taylor Swift has shared the second music video from ‘Midnights’, reinventing the classic Cinderella story for ‘Bejeweled’. READ MORE: Taylor Swift – ‘Midnights’ review: a shimmering return to pure pop The self-directed clip stars Swift as Cinderella – or as she’s introduced in a title card, House Wench Taylor. Jurassic Park actress Laura Dern stars as her evil Stepmommy, while the Haim sisters appear as her similarly bratty daughters: Lady Este (who “wants the title”), Lady Danielle (who “wants the ring”) and Lady Alana (who “wants the d***”). Like the age-old folktale, the video for ‘Bejeweled’ revolves around a...
Florence + The Machine remixed by “one of her favourite bands” IDLES
IDLES have returned with their fourth remix for the year, putting a tense and smoky spin on Florence + The Machine’s ‘Dance Fever’ cut ‘Heaven Is Here’. READ MORE: Florence + The Machine live in London: an electrifying show of unity and dance It was helmed by the Bristol punks’ lead guitarist Mark Bowen, who said of his vision of the club-ready reimagining: “‘Dance Fever’ is quite a cathartic album for me, speaking a lot to the yearning for the release of performing but also introspecting on the need itself. It lives on the line of tension between the...
24-year-old Australian man dies after tragic fall at Barcelona nightclub
An Australian man has died after a tragic accident at Barcelona nightclub Sala Apolo. Liam Hampson, aged 24, was holidaying in the city with friends at the time of the fatal accident. According to Spanish newspaper La Vanguardia, Hampson was in an area of the nightclub not usually accessible to the public at around 4:30am last Tuesday (October 18). Hampson – who was travelling from his home state of Queensland – climbed over a metre-high wall, before falling around 14 metres onto a patio beneath. Shortly after the fall, Hampson’s friends launched a search for the missing Hampson, which lasted...Recent Posts
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