Month: October 2022

Meghan Trainor has released the music video for “Made You Look,” take from her new album Takin’ It Back.   The video shows the 28-year-old Trainor playing an actress promoting her new movie, and features a cameo by her husband, actor Daryl Sabara.

Takin’ It Back features 15 other songs, including “Sensitive” featuring Scott Hoying, “Bad for Me” featuring Teddy Swims, “Breezy” featuring Theron Theron” and “Mama Wanna Mambo” featuring Natti Natasha and Arturo Sandoval. The LP is Trainor’s first ‘non-holiday’ album since Treat Myself was released in January 2020.

Take a look at the video for “Made You Look” – here.

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Mariah Carey has announced her latest Christmas revue, titled Merry Christmas To All!  The special two-date only run will take place December 11th at Scotiabank Arena in Toronto, Canada and December 13th at Madison Square Garden in New York City.  Carey tweeted: ‘It’s almost time NEW YORK + TORONTO!! Come celebrate Christmas with me this December! lil’ excited lil’ excited to be back on stage and get festive with everybody!! Tickets on sale 10/28 at 10am on http://ticketmaster.com’

Carey’s 1994 smash “All I Want For Christmas Is You” returned to No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 songs chart last holiday season, twenty-five years after its release. The song was first released on Carey’s album Merry Christmas in 1994, and is now the only track to reach No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 in three separate runs: 2019, 2020 and 2021. Since its release, the song has upped its US totals to 4.3 billion in radio audience, 1.4 billion streams and 3.7 million in download sales.

The ‘Merry Christmas To All!’ revue will be the only Christmas concerts from Mariah — aka ‘The Queen of Christmas’ —  this holiday season. Tickets will be available to the general public starting Friday, October 28th at 10 am ET via Ticketmaster. During ticket checkout, fans will also be able to purchase an exclusive t-shirt as well as a copy of Carey’s illustrated holiday fairytale, The Christmas Princess, which is set to release on November 1st.

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Ellie Goulding is revealing details of her highly anticipated fifth studio album, Higher Than Heaven, set for release on February 3, 2023. Goulding also shared the song and video for “Let It Die”, which you can view here.

Higher Than Heaven follows Goulding’s latest solo releases, “Easy Lover” and “All By Myself.” The new album will feature Greg Kurstin (Sia, Maggie Rogers, Elton John), Jessie Shatkin (Charli XCX, Years & Years), Koz (Sam Ryder, Madonna, Dua Lipa) and Andrew Wells (Halsey, Yungblud).

Goulding said the following of the new album: “There was definitely a darkness about [the past two years] that was palpable in the studio, with everyone having gone through it differently. I think for that reason, nobody wanted to sit and agonize over some relationship or some drama. So that’s how this album came together. [Higher Than Heaven is] about being passionately in love. But it’s a hyper form of love, almost like a drug-induced feeling. It feels almost artificial and there’s the potential for a crash.”

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After Marvel Studios seemingly confirmed that new music from Rihanna would appear in the upcoming film Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, the artist herself tweeted Wednesday that she will release the single “Lift Me Up” from the soundtrack on Friday, Oct. 28.   Rihanna’s tweet came with a corresponding video that shows the letter ‘R’ designed like the Black Panther uniform on a black background. A short snippet of humming plays in the background, with Rihanna’s name appearing on the left side and the name of the song on the right  (Marvel’s initial tweet had showed a clip of the movie’s title that also zeroed in on a ‘R’ and the same release date).

According to Variety, “Lift Me Up” was “written as a tribute to the life and legacy of Chadwick Boseman” by Tems, Oscar winner Ludwig Göransson, Rihanna and Ryan Coogler.  Boseman, who famously played T’Challa, died of colon cancer in 2020. The sequel film is set for release on November 11th.

The first Black Panther film was released in 2018 with Kendrick Lamar serving as the executive producer of that film’s soundtrack. The first film also featured music from Schoolboy Q, 2 Chainz, The Weeknd, and Travis Scott.

“Lift Me Up” will mark Rihanna’s first solo material in nearly seven years, aside from a guest spot on PartyNextDoor’s 2020 single ‘Believe It’.  The singer last released the album ‘Anti’ in 2006, and she’ll return to the stage to headline the Super Bowl LVII Halftime Show in February 2023.

Rihanna confirms new single ‘Lift Me Up’ arriving this week

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