Lzzy Hale is embarking on a Journey with Daughtry.
The Halestorm frontwoman has teamed up with the American Idol rocker for an upcoming cover of “Separate Ways (Worlds Apart),” which the “Don’t Stop Believin'” outfit originally released in 1983.
The joint recording is set to drop on Thursday, and you can listen to a brief preview now via Daughtry’s Instagram.
Hale and Daughtry’s version of “Separate Ways” follows a remix of the song included on the Stranger Things season 4 soundtrack alongside Metallica‘s “Master of Puppets” and Kate Bush‘s “Running Up That Hill.”
Halestorm, meanwhile, released a new album called Back from the Dead last May.
After teasing a possible solo project, Of Monsters and Men vocalist Nanna Bryndís Hilmarsdóttir has confirmed the release of new music.
The material will arrive next Friday, January 13, and is available to presave now.
In December, Nanna shared a mysterious video alongside the caption, “New things are coming in the new year…stay tuned!” Of Monsters and Men retweeted the clip, adding that Nanna “has something verrrrry exciting coming soon.”
Prior to Of Monsters and Men’s formation, Nanna performed solo under the moniker Songbird.
Of Monsters and Men’s most recent album is 2019’s Fever Dream. They released a new single called “This Happiness” last April.
Shazam is one of the go-to sources for those who want to find out the names of the artists behind songs they’ve just discovered. With all those analytics in its database, the platform created a playlist featuring 50 artists it predicts may have a breakthrough year in 2023.
According to Shazam, Ice Spice and charlieonafriday are two of five hip-hop/rap stars with the potential to break out globally this year. Ice’s “Munch (Feeling You)” peaked at #11 on the Hip-Hop/Rap chart, where it’s been a mainstay, while charlieonnafriday’s song “Enough” landed on Shazam charts in 40 countries.
On the list of five artists who may break out regionally was Afro-Beat star Carterefe,whose first single topped the Shazam charts in Nigeria, Cameroon and Ghana while charting on other national lists. He credited the platform for the success of his single thus far.
“Shazam basically aided in boosting my music career to this point,” Carterefe told Apple Music. “Having the sound was one step, but Shazam made it easier to connect me as an artist to new listeners who may not have known me prior to hearing the sound somewhere and got to Shazam it. … It’s really been impactful and I really want to say I’m personally appreciative of it.”
Munic HB, a hip-hop/rap and trap star whose song “Pico y Pala” charted on Shazam in nine countries across Spain and Latin America in 2022, also made the list of five artists gaining popularity regionally.
Taylor Swift can’t stop making new Billboardrecords — this time, she’s officially the first and only act to appear on the Artist 100 chart for eight individual years.
She first topped the chart in 2014 and then returned to claim the crown in 2015, 2017 and every year since 2019. This chart tracks artists based on sales, airplay and streaming to determine their weekly popularity.
Taylor started off 2023 atop the Artist 100 because of her album Midnights’ continued success. The album currently rests at #2 on the Billboard 200 chart after selling 106,000 equivalent units over the past week.
On the song front, Taylor’s “Anti-Hero” and “Lavender Haze” are still charting on the Billboard Hot 100 weeks after they were released. They are respectively number 8 and number 64 on this week’s ranking.
If you didn’t check out Shania Twain‘s career-spanning documentary, Not Just a Girl, when it premiered last July on Netflix, you’ll have another chance next week.
The comprehensive look back airs Wednesday, January 11, at 9 p.m. ET on AXS TV. It includes appearances by Kelsea Ballerini and Lionel Richie, among many others, and extensive recollections and reflections from Shania.
Of course, it’s just part of the Canadian superstar’s extensive lead-up to her new album, Queen of Me, which arrives February 3. It’s only the sixth album of her career so far and her first since 2017.
Shania’s set to stop by The Late Show with Stephen Colbert Wednesday. You can watch starting at 11:35 ET on CBS.
Life is filled with lessons, many of which can be taught at any moment. Just ask DJ Khaled. The producer was enjoying a golf day in the Bahamas on Tuesday when his cart got stuck in the sand.
As seen in a clip shared online, someone pushed the cart away from the curb, causing the vehicle to move back and into another pile of sand. Despite nearly crashing again, Khaled used the moment to share some motivational words to his followers.
“Life. Roadblocks. Don’t let nothing stop you,” he said. “Don’t let nothing stop you. ’Cause we ain’t stopping. We gon’ keep going.”
Other clips from Khaled’s Instagram show him from the smoother part of his day, which included driving on the golf course and hitting the ball into the hole.
Vic Mensa is bringing clean water to three villages in his father’s native Ghana, TMZ reports. The Chicago rapper teamed up with his dad to launch the initiative after seeing the contaminated water and other desolate living conditions in the country.
“We’re building three boreholes in different communities in Ghana to provide clean drinking water; the first being the Asokore Zongo in Koforidua, where my family lives, which is already built,” Vic said. “The other locations are a nearby community called Effiduase and then our ancestral village in the Volta Region, Amedzofe. Most people in communities like this in Ghana experience constant waterborne diseases.”
Drilling for the boreholes, which includes pipework, cable installations and testing of water in a laboratory, costs $45,000 and will reportedly take three to four weeks to complete. Roughly 226,000 people live in the aforementioned villages.
While residents wait for their clean water, Vic Mensa and Chance the Rapper will be entertaining music lovers at the Black Star Line Festival in Ghana. Erykah Badu, T-Pain, Jeremih, Tobe Nwigwe, Asakaa Boys and M.anifest will also perform at the free event, set to take place on January 6.
Music producer Steve Lillywhite, known for working with such artists as U2 and The Rolling Stones, has sold his royalty income stream to Round Hill Music Royalty Partners, according to Billboard.
According to the announcement, over the course of Lillywhite’s more than 40-year career, he has put his touch on more than 500 records, including classic albums like U2’s October and War, The Rolling Stones’ Dirty Work, and Dave Matthews Band’s Under the Table and Dreaming and Crash, all of which are part of the royalty deal.
“Steve’s catalog includes royalties to some of the most sought-after songs and albums of all time,” Round Hill CEO Josh Gruss says in a statement. “We are thrilled to have reached this milestone transaction.” Lillywhite adds that Gruss and Round Hill are “the ideal partner for me and my family as I look to my next steps.”
Aharon Zebulon Israel Brown, the man accused of obsessively stalking Ariana Grande, is due in court for a preliminary hearing on Thursday.
TheSanta Barbara News-Press reports Brown, 24, was arrested in June for breaking into Ariana’s Montecito, California, house while she wasn’t home. He was charged with three felonies for damaging power lines, burglary and stalking, as well as two misdemeanors.
One felony charge, first-degree residential burglary, was described as serious and violent by prosecutors via a special allegation. Authorities believe Brown intended to commit great violence, injury and bodily harm to Ariana, adding they suspect him of “other acts disclosing a high degree of cruelty, viciousness, or callousness.”
Prosecutors also claim Brown “threatened witnesses, unlawfully prevented or dissuaded witnesses from testifying, suborned perjury, or in any other way illegally interfered with the judicial process.”
Brown broke into Ariana’s home while he was under a temporary restraining order for stalking her.
Ariana filed for the protective order after Brown allegedly showed up at her home repeatedly in 2021, sometimes brandishing a weapon while making threats. He was pepper-sprayed by Ariana’s security on one occasion and was arrested in September 2021 after brandishing a hunting knife.
The order he was under at the time of the break-in said Brown did “willfully, maliciously, and repeatedly follow or harass this victim and made a credible threat with the intent that the victim be placed in reasonable fear of death or great bodily injury to himself or herself and his or her immediate family.”
Brown is being held without bail and has entered not-guilty pleas to the Santa Barbara Superior Court. Thursday’s preliminary hearing will most likely determine if this will require a trial.
One of the biggest hits of 2022, Black Panther: Wakanda Forever is coming to Disney+ on February 1.
The film made more than $436 million here and topped $821 million worldwide, landing it in the #2 slot for the highest-grossing films of the year on our shores and #6 globally.
Director and co-writer Ryan Coogler‘s sequel has Wakanda facing a new threat from below the sea, the advanced underwater nation of Talokan, as Queen Ramonda (Angela Bassett) and Princess Shuri (Letitia Wright) and the other Wakandans mourn the loss of King T’Challa/the Black Panther, following the real-life 2020 cancer death of lead Chadwick Boseman.
Additionally, Disney announced a collaboration with Proximity Media, Marvel Studios and Marvel Entertainment for the new Wakanda Forever: The Official Black Panther Podcast. The six-episode ‘cast, hosted by author, journalist and Black Panther comics writer Ta-Nehisi Coates,takes fans on “the exciting and emotional journey to make the film.” The podcast features interviews with the cast, and those who brought the comics and the Black Panther film to life, and also celebrates “the legacy of the late, great Chadwick Boseman.”
