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Drake named Shazam’s most-searched artist of all time

August 19, 2022 by WDNY Radio

Drake‘s music is in high demand, as he’s been named the most-searched artist on Shazam. According to Variety, songs from the rapper’s discography have been Shazamed over 350 million times, with his most popular track being 2016’s “One Dance.” The single hit 17 million Shazams.

Drake’s feat was mentioned as Shazam released a list of its most searched artists and songs to celebrate its 20th birthday. The platform — which identifies songs based on a short sample played through a device’s microphone — also highlighted other notable artists and tracks that made Shazam history in the last two decades.

“Can’t Hold Us” by Macklemore and Ryan Lewis featuring Ray Dalton, for example, is the most searched song in the hip-hop/rap category. The top R&B/Soul song is “All of Me” by John Legend.

Lil Wayne and Eminem have also cemented their names in Shazam history. The former was the first artist to hit both 1 million and 10 million Shazams, while Em’s “Cleanin’ Out My Closet” was the first song to reach 1,000 Shazams.

Panic! at the Disco celebrates ‘Viva Las Vengeance’ release with “Sad Clown” video

August 19, 2022 by WDNY Radio

Panic! at the Disco‘s new album, Viva Las Vengeance, has arrived, and Brendon Urie is celebrating with a new video for the track “Sad Clown.”

The clip stars Urie as a character named The Duke, who finds himself in an 18th century-styled dance party. It also features the return of the character Maggie, played by Leah Adler, who previously showed up in the videos for the Viva Las Vengeance cuts “Middle of a Breakup” and “Don’t Let The Light Go Out.”

You can watch the “Sad Clown” video streaming now on YouTube.

Panic! will launch a U.S. tour in support of Viva Las Vengeance September 8 in Austin, Texas. You can also catch Urie and company perform on the 2022 MTV Video Music Awards, airing next Sunday, August 28.

Madonna complains that today’s dance music is too “confusing” and “chaotic”

August 19, 2022 by WDNY Radio

Madonna released Finally Enough Love: 50 Number Ones, a massive compilation of all 50 of her #1 hits on Billboard’s Dance Club Songs chart, today. But the Queen of Pop says she finds today’s dance hits “confusing.”

In the new issue of Paper magazine, Madonna is asked to compare today’s dance music to her pioneering work in the genre in the ’80s. “I think what’s changed the most is just the songs. Songs have changed. The concept of songwriting,” she replies.

“I’m just, ‘Give me a song. I need a beginning, a middle and an end.’ You know what I mean? I get confused by people’s music,” she adds. “And also, there are just too many artists on songs. I feel chaotic when I listen to them.”

Madonna also points out that with her songs — from “Like a Virgin” and “Material Girl” to “Express Yourself” and “Papa Don’t Preach” — she was “very much invested in empowering women too and that was a very big part of the storytelling.”

“While women were making great dance records, I feel like in the early days, while the songs and melodies are really strong and the singers are really good, they weren’t really invested in making women think, ‘Wow, I don’t have to live in a man’s world … I can have my own voice and my own vision,'” she continues. “So that was an important element.”

And while Madonna admits she hates “repeating herself,” she tells Paper she wouldn’t mind reteaming with Nile Rodgers, who produced her breakthrough album, Like a Virgin.

“It would be fun,” she says. “I would love to work with Nile again.” She adds she’d like for them to team up to create “a pop hit with a twist … a new sound.”

Red Hot Chili Peppers to receive 2022 Global Icon Award VMA, release new single “Tippa My Tongue”

August 19, 2022 by WDNY Radio

Red Hot Chili Peppers will receive the Global Icon Award at the 2022 MTV Video Music Awards.

The honor, which was given to Foo Fighters in 2021, “celebrates an artist or band whose unparalleled career and continued impact and influence has maintained a unique level of global success in music and beyond, leaving an indelible mark on the music landscape.”

In addition to being named Global Icons, RHCP will perform at the VMA ceremony, joining a lineup that already includes Måneskin and Panic! at the Disco. The last time the “Californication” outfit performed on the VMAs was all the way back in 2000, when they won the Video Vanguard Award.

The Chili Peppers are also VMA nominees this year. They’re up for the Best Rock prize with their video for “Black Summer.”

The 2022 MTV VMAs take place next Sunday, August 28.

In other Peps news, the band has released a new song called “Tippa My Tongue.” The track is the first single off RHCP’s upcoming album Return of the Dream Canteen, due out October 14.

You can listen to “Tippa My Tongue” now via digital outlets and watch its accompanying video streaming now on YouTube.

Return of the Dream Canteen is the second Red Hot Chili Peppers album of 2022, following April’s Unlimited Love.

RHCP’s current U.S. tour continues Friday in Chicago. The headlining outing is scheduled into mid-September.

Here’s the Return of the Dream Canteen track list:

“Tippa My Tongue”
“Peace and Love”
“Reach Out”
“Eddie”
“Fake as Fu@k”
“Bella”
“Roulette”
“My Cigarette”
“Afterlife”
“Shoot Me a Smile”
“Handful”
“The Drummer”
“Bag of Grins”
“La La La La La La La La”
“Copperbelly”
“Carry Me Home”
“In the Snow”

Demi Lovato turns 30 Saturday, looks forward to “whole new chapter” — including parenthood

August 19, 2022 by WDNY Radio

Demi Lovato hits the big 3-0 on Saturday, which is a huge accomplishment: after all, on their new album they literally sing, “I can’t believe I’m not dead.” But after years of struggling with addiction, substance abuse, mental health issues, relationship troubles and more, Demi’s finally in a good place. As they told Apple Music 1‘s Zane Lowe, for them, turning 30 is all about opportunity.

“Turning 30 has been such an eye-opener to me, because it feels like a door that’s opening to a whole new chapter of my life,” Demi told Zane. “And I, through that door, can see things like purpose and what makes me happy.”

So what are those things that will make them happy? Demi explains, “Through that door I see things like taking time off for myself, to work on my spirituality, to travel to places that I want to go to that I’ve never been to.”

And then, the singer says, they’re ready for the biggest step of all.

“Once I do that, [I want to] take time off to start a family, to raise children and [do] things that bring me joy outside of this industry,” they continue. “Because this industry is all that I’ve known since I was a child.”

“It’ll be scary, but … it can be done and it’s rewarding,” they say of balancing music and motherhood. “I’ve seen so many people do it.”

First, though, Demi has a huge tour planned in support of their new album, HOLY F**K. They gave fans a taste of what to expect Friday morning with a performance on ABC’s Good Morning America Summer Concert Series.

Travis Barker reveals he has COVID-19 two months after hospitalization

August 19, 2022 by WDNY Radio

Travis Barker can’t seem to catch a break.

Taking to Instagram Thursday, August 18, the drummer revealed that he’s tested positive for COVID-19.

“Covid sucks I’d rather be playing drums,” he wrote next to a photo of him playing with drumsticks.

The news comes just two months after Barker, 46, suffered from a “severe life-threatening” case of pancreatitis. Days after the musician was spotted in a stretcher with wife, Kourtney Kardashian, by his side, he took to Twitter then to explain what happened.

“I went in for an endoscopy Monday feeling great. But After dinner, I developed excruciating pain and have been hospitalized ever since,” Barker said in a July 2 tweet.

“During the endoscopy, I had a very small polyp removed right in a very sensitive area, usually handled by specialists, which unfortunately damaged a critical pancreatic drainage tube,” he continued. “This resulted in severe life-threatening pancreatitis.”

“I am so very very grateful that with intensive treatment I am currently much better,” Barker wrote.

Maren Morris & Zedd return with “Make You Say”

August 19, 2022 by WDNY Radio

Maren Morris and Zedd are hoping for “The Middle” magic to strike twice on their new collaboration, “Make You Say.”

The song was co-written by Zedd, Maren, Charlie Puth, songwriter/producer Jkash and BEAUZ: that’s brothers Bernie and Johan Yang. Zedd had been working on the song with BEAUZ for three or four years, Billboard reports, and then Charlie got involved. Maren recorded a demo of the track and then the two met in Nashville to record the final version.

Speaking about “Make You Say” to Apple Music 1’s Zane Lowe, Maren says, “I think when you just feel it in your gut, you’d be stupid not to say yes…a great song is a great song. So I’m very flattered and honored to be a part of it.”

Zedd notes, “I think Maren‘s voice just has everything that a good voice needs. It’s got character. You immediately can tell who it is. She has this amazing rasp, which to me is always a bit of emotion that I look for.”

The video for “Make You Say” debuts later this morning.

Back in 2018, “The Middle,” by Zedd, Maren and the electronic duo known as Grey, reached number five on the Billboard Hot 100. It’s been certified six-times Platinum, and scored two Grammy nominations.

Demi Lovato rocks out with new album, ’Holy F***’

August 19, 2022 by WDNY Radio

Demi Lovato is going back to their rock roots with their latest album, Holy F***.

The project, which is Demi’s eighth studio album, dropped at midnight Friday and is “stacked with ascendent pop-punk, grunge-y anthemic rock, biblical references, and diaristic revelations about inappropriate sexual relationships,” as described by Apple Music.

Although the 16-track album contains mostly solo songs, three collaborations did make the cut. Yungblud is featured on the opening track, “Freak,” while Royal and Dead Sara guest on songs titled “Eat Me” and “Help Me,” respectively.

Shortly after the release of Holy F***, the “Skin of my Teeth” singer took to social media to share what the album means to them.

“HOLY F*** gave me the freedom to express myself in ways I didn’t know were possible and find joy I’d been missing when making music,” Demi wrote. “It’s cathartic and grounded, yet exhilarating and a hell of a good time.”

“I don’t know where I’ll be in life in a year, or in five or 10 years — but what I do know is that this record is exactly where I am now, and I am damn proud of it. I hope everyone who listens is too,” they concluded.

As part of the promotion for Demi’s latest work, they took over The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon for three days, closing out her reign on Thursday night with a live performance of “29.”

Fans can stream Holy F*** now. They can also catch Demi on the Holy F*** tour, which kicked off earlier this month.

Toto’s David Paich on releasing his debut solo EP, ‘Forgotten Toys’: “I’m giddy and have butterflies”

August 19, 2022 by WDNY Radio

Almost 50 years after beginning his professional music career, founding Toto keyboardist/singer/songwriter David Paich has released his debut solo EP, Forgotten Toys.

Paich co-produced the seven-track collection with longtime Toto frontman Joseph Williams, who also co-wrote and sang on three tunes, while founding Toto guitarist Steve Lukather contributed to multiple songs as well. David also enlisted a variety of other well-known musicians for the project, including Michael McDonald, ex-Eagles guitarist Don Felder, Brian Eno, Elton John guitarist Davey Johnstone, Ray Parker Jr. and Rolling Stones touring drummer Steve Jordan.

Paich tells ABC Audio that he’s “excited” about releasing Forgotten Toys, which he describes as a “collection of little gems.”

“I’m giddy and have butterflies, like I did…when we released the first Toto album,” David says. “I think it’s fresh. It’s new for me…I have my fingers crossed that people will enjoy it out there as much as I enjoyed making it.”

He adds, “[T]he reward…was the actual making of the record, with the players that I made it with. And it was so much fun and so inspiring.”

Paich notes that doing the EP outside of Toto gave him the chance to collaborate with “other musicians who have been family and friends for such a long time…[but] that I normally wouldn’t work with.”

For example, the track “Queen Charade” features Felder on slide guitar and Jordan on drums, with additional guitar from Lukather.

David says the tune, which he calls “my rock ‘n’ roll song,” was influenced by The Stones, noting, “It’s a little more reckless than Toto gets sometimes.”

Coinciding with the EP’s arrival, Paich is releasing the melodic tune “willibelongtoyou” as a single today, along with a companion video.

Who-themed VW camper van inspired by “Magic Bus” to be auctioned next week

August 18, 2022 by WDNY Radio

Here’s exciting news for Who fans with some disposable cash available: A 1965 Volkswagen camper van that was customized and restored in 2008 with a design inspired by the band’s 1968 hit “Magic Bus” is going up for bid at U.K.-based Silverstone Auctions on Saturday, August 27.

The vehicle, which was designed by the band’s longtime art director, Richard Evans, was originally raffled off in 2008 to raise money for the Teenage Cancer Trust, for which Who singer Roger Daltrey has long been a patron. The Magic Bus currently is estimated to fetch between 60,000 and 80,000 pounds, or between about $72,000 and $95,000. A large donation from the money raised by the sale will go toward the Teenage Cancer Trust.

The van’s exterior paint job features The Who’s bull’s-eye logo on both sides, as well as images of the band’s four original members, while a large Union Jack flag appears on the roof. The inside boasts red, white and blue upholstery, with an embroidered Who logo appearing on the backrest of some seats. Daltrey and guitarist Pete Townshend have signed the cab’s two sun visors, while Evans autographed an interior wall of the van.

As an added bonus, the winning bidder will receive a limited-edition model of the Magic Bus, as well as some special merch.

Visit SilverstoneAuctions.com for more details about the sale.

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