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Miley Cyrus releases new album 'Endless Summer Vacation'

Miley Cyrus returns home with 'Endless Summer Vacation'. Miley Cyrus releases her highly anticipated new album 'Endless Summer Vacation'. When Cyrus introduced her seventh album, 'Plastic Hearts' (2020), to the world, she established herself as one of the most commanding female artists of our time. A whole army of new fans were captivated by her new rock sound and she won the respect of audiences around the world. Two years, Miley Cyrus releases another album that will be heard for a long time. When Miley Cyrus made her record-breaking comeback in January with 'Flowers', she opened a new chapter in her career leading to her eighth album, 'Endless Summer Vacation'. Immediately......

Taylor Swift: 'All Too Well (10 Minute Version)' Lesson at Stanford University

The course promises an "in-depth analysis" of the emotional lyrics of "All Too Well (10 Minute Version)". Students at California's historic Stanford University will be able to take a new class next quarter themed around Taylor Swift's "All Too Well (10 Minute Version)." The course, cleverly titled "All Too Well (10 Week Version)," will be offered during the top university's upcoming winter semester as part of courses taught under the umbrella of Stanford's Introductory Studies. The course promises an "in-depth analysis" of the emotional lyrics of "All Too Well (10 Minute Version)", taught by university graduate Nona Hungate. According to the Stanford University website, each of the......

Vinyl outsells CDs for first time in three decades

Vinyl sales continue to rise and CD sales continue to decline. For the first time since 1987, vinyl sales have surpassed CD sales in the US, according to a new report from the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). Vinyl sales reached $1.2 billion in 2022, up 17.2%, while CD sales saw another decline, falling 17.6% to $482 million. Despite the impressive numbers for vinyl sales in the US, however, actual sales only increased by 3%, which means that vinyl prices are still rising. In 2021, the average price of a vinyl record hovered at $26.12, while in 2022, the average price rose to $29.65, due to a wide range of factors, including increased production costs and......

Shakira breaks 14 Guinness World Records with 'BZRP Music Sessions Vol. 53"

Shakira addresses her ex-partner Gerard Piqué with the caustic electropop song. Guinness World Records announced that Shakira broke 14 records on the Spotify and Billboard charts thanks to her collaboration with Argentinian DJ Bizarrap on 'BZRP Music Sessions Vol. 53". Among the records he broke, 'BZRP Music Sessions Vol. 53” – the scathing electropop banger directed at her ex-partner Gerard Piqué – became the most streamed Latin song on Spotify in both 24 hours and one week. The song garnered 14.4 million streams in a single day and 80.6 million streams in a week of its release. The 'BZRP Music Sessions Vol. 53” also broke the......

Jason Derulo: The incredibly generous tip he left at a restaurant

Jason Derulo made a restaurant waiter in Nebraska happy. Jason Derulo left an extremely generous tip at a restaurant that was enough to cover a restaurant employee's college tuition. A waiter at a restaurant in Omaha, Nebraska, USA, posted a video on TikTok revealing that the singer left him a $5,000 tip on a bill totaling $799.95 during a March 5 outing at Charleston's Restaurant. Jordan Schaffer, the waiter who posted the video, also noted that the generous tip was enough to cover the cost of his college tuition for an entire semester. "Wow, my heart is beating really fast," the waiter says in the video, while looking at Jason Derulo and company. The singer replied: "You guys are......

Eurovision 2023: Loreen returns to the competition with 'Tattoo'

Loreen is already considered the big favorite for this year's Eurovision, a decade after winning the contest with 'Euphoria'. Loreen won this year's Melodifestivalen with her song 'Tattoo' and will represent Sweden at the 67th Eurovision Song Contest in May in Liverpool. Late last year it was announced by Swedish broadcaster SVT that 28 songs were to compete in Melodifestivalen 2023. After six weeks, the singing competition came to an end on Saturday 11 March with the final taking place, with 12 songs taking part and Loreen's 'Tattoo' winning. Advertising Loreen's 'Tattoo' triumphed in both the international jury and public vote. Loreen won by a comfortable margin in the final......

Harry Styles: 'As It Was' Was 2022's Biggest Single Worldwide

Harry Styles' 'As It Was' is officially the biggest hit on the planet for 2022. IFPI, the organization that represents the recorded music industry worldwide, has announced that Harry Styles' 'As It Was' is the best-selling song worldwide for 2022. The IFPI Global Single Award is presented to the artist with the year's highest-selling single worldwide across all digital formats – including subscription streaming, streaming through ad-supported platforms and individual song downloads. 'As It Was' is Harry Styles' first song to win the IFPI Global Single Award. However, this year marks ten years since his other triumphs with the band One Direction, which topped the first IFPI......

Rihanna to sing at the 2023 Academy Awards

Rihanna is expected to sing her Oscar-nominated song "Lift Me Up" for the film "Black Panther: Wakanda Forever" at the awards. Rihanna didn't include "Lift Me Up" in her triumphant Super Bowl 2023 halftime performance on Feb. 12, and there was a reason. Turns out she was saving the song for the Oscars. Rihanna will perform the ballad released for the movie "Black Panther: Wakanda Forever" on stage at the 2023 Academy Awards, which will take place at the Dolby Theater in Hollywood on Sunday, March 12. "Lift Me Up," with music by Tems, Rihanna, Ryan Coogler and Ludwig Goransson and lyrics by Tems and Ryan Coogler, is nominated for this year's Academy Award for Best Original......

Depeche Mode's Dave Gahan recalls 'absolute horror' of two-minute 'death' after drug overdose

"You could feel the darkness around you," recalls Dave Gahan. Depeche Mode's Dave Gahan spoke about the two minutes he was technically dead when his heart stopped beating after an overdose of heroin and cocaine in 1996. Speaking to Alexis Petridis of the British newspaper The Guardian, Dave Gahan recalled the "absolute terror" that gripped him after he collapsed at the Sunset Marquis Hotel in Los Angeles on May 28, 1996. “There was complete blackness and this feeling I had never felt before, complete terror. No sound in the room, nothing, but you could feel the darkness close to you,” he described. "I had what people call an out-of-body experience, and then the next......

Niall Horan 'talks all the time' to One Direction

Niall Horan is grateful for the relationship he continues to have with the rest of One Direction. One characteristic of Niall Horan is that he never shies away from an opportunity to reminisce about his favorite days with One Direction. And he did it again during his appearance on 'The Kelly Clarkson Show', where he explained that the band's start on 'X Factor' is fresh in his mind as he wraps up his first season as a coach on America's 'The Voice' and stressed how grateful he is that their bonds are still intact, at least as far as he's concerned. "We talk all the time, so that's a nice little thing we have," Niall Horan told fellow "The Voice" coach Kelly Clarkson about the support he......