Beyoncé scores biggest first-week sales since November with ‘Cowboy Carter’

Beyoncé scores biggest first-week sales since November with ‘Cowboy Carter’

Blair CaldwellDid anyone think that Beyoncé’s Cowboy Carter wouldn’t lasso a huge #1 debut on the Billboard chart?Bey’s acclaimed new album debuts with sales of 407,000 units, giving her the biggest first-week sales of 2024 and the biggest first-week sales since Taylor Swift’s 1989 (Taylor’s Version) sold 1.65 million units in November. Cowboy Carter is Bey’s…Read More…

FireHouse vocalist C.J. Snare dead at 64

FireHouse vocalist C.J. Snare dead at 64

Gary Miller/Getty ImagesFireHouse vocalist C.J. Snare died Friday, April 5, at age 64.In a Facebook post on Sunday, April 7, the “Love of a Lifetime” outfit shared, “It is with great sorrow we are letting the world know we have lost our brother: CJ Snare, the rock and roll warrior, lead vocalist, and a founding…Read More…

Music Notes: Billie Eilish, SZA and more

Music Notes: Billie Eilish, SZA and more

Billie Eilish continues to tease what may be the artwork of her new album. After posting a photo of a bluish background with white splotches, she’s now posted a Story of what looks like a picture of a door underwater. The similarities seem to indicate that the first picture was also taken underwater. As before, the…Read More…

New Music Friday: OneRepublic, Sia, Benson Boone and more

New Music Friday: OneRepublic, Sia, Benson Boone and more

This week’s New Music Friday features new singles from some big names, and notable album releases from one up-and-comer and one returning pop star.OneRepublic and David Guetta have joined forces for a new single, “I Don’t Wanna Wait.” OneRepublic singer Ryan Tedder, who’s dubbed the song “our summer anthem,” joined David on March 23 to perform…Read More…

Taylor Swift compiles “5 stages of heartbreak” playlists for Apple Music

Taylor Swift compiles “5 stages of heartbreak” playlists for Apple Music

Beth GarrabrantAfter Taylor Swift announced her new album, The Tortured Poets Department, fans began theorizing that the songs represented the five stages of grief: denial, anger, bargaining, depression and acceptance. Now, Taylor has compiled five custom playlists for Apple Music representing the five stages of heartbreak.Each playlist includes songs from Taylor’s catalog arranged thematically, each…Read More…