Music

Remember that contest where someone would be paid $1,100 to listen to 24-hours of heartbreak anthems?  Well, the results are in, and they show if you want to get over a breakup, you better listen to Destiny’s Child and Post Malone.

FinanceBuzz hired Cristin Sauter, a musician and psychotherapist, as their DJ of Heartache.  She was tasked with listening to the biggest breakup songs of all time and organizing them into playlists coinciding with the five stages of grief: denial, anger, relapse, depression and acceptance. 

Taylor Swift snags the title of having the most breakup anthems out of any other artist.

The DJ of Heartache was also tasked to rate each song’s ability to help a listener get over a heartbreak.  The songs were scored between one and 10, with 10 being the highest, in their ability to offer “emotional relief through the different stages of a breakup,” per the company’s description.

Although Taylor has the lion’s share of heartbreak anthems, her music only achieved a 5.7 out of 10 on the emotional relief rating scale, or E.R.R.  Fleetwood Mac scored the highest, with an E.R.R of 9.5, while second place went to Post Malone and The Beatles, who both earned a nine.  Destiny‘s Child took third with an overall E.R.R. of 8.5.

Also making it into the top 10 were Shawn Mendes, James Bay, James Arthur, Lewis Capaldi and Adele, who all achieved an E.R.R of eight.

As for the artists with the least effective songs, Daughtry and Backstreet Boys both achieved a score of three, while Miley Cyrus earned a 2.2.  Fifth Harmony also made it into the bottom 10, earning a mediocre score of two.

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If you’re a BTS fan who can’t travel to Seoul, South Korea, to watch the group make their grand return to the stage, worry not!  A worldwide live streaming event is scheduled to stream in theaters, giving fans an immersive experience while chowing down on big buckets of popcorn.

According to the official press release, BTS Permission to Dance on Stage – Seoul: Live Viewing is set for March 12 and will be streamed to local cinemas across the globe.  Tickets for the event will go on sale starting Tuesday, February 22, at 10 a.m. EST on the concert’s official website. 

TS Permission to Dance on Stage – Seoul: Live Viewing will simultaneously premiere in theaters in over 60 countries beginning March 12 at 4:30 p.m. EST.  You can check the website for showtimes.

The performance not only marks their first concert since BTS went on an “extended period of rest” late last year, it also will be the first time the Grammy winners held a concert in South Korea since 2019.

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Biffy Clyro has announced a new documentary called Cultural Sons of Scotland.

The film, which will premiere on Amazon Prime Video next Friday, February 25, tells the story of the Scottish trio’s latest album, 2021’s The Myth of the Happily Ever After, which they recorded in their home country amid the COVID-19 pandemic.

“We’ve been pretty much everywhere in the world,” frontman Simon Neil says in the doc’s trailer. “That’s helped contextualize why [Scotland] is really important to our band.”

Cultural Sons of Scotland will also screen in select U.K. theaters on February 24. For more info, visit BiffyClyro.com.

Biffy Clyro will launch a U.S. tour in support of The Myth of the Happily Ever After in April.

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Garth Brooks’ ongoing Stadium Tour just got a new date, and it’s a venue the singer knows very well.

He announced on Wednesday that he’ll play South Bend, Indiana’s Notre Dame Stadium on May 7, making good on a promise he made over three years ago. In late 2018, Garth played to a crowd of more than 80,000 fans, also filming a concert television special called Garth: Live at Notre Dame.

At the time, Garth promised his Hoosier State fans that he’d be back, and he originally hoped to return to Notre Dame for the conclusion of the Stadium Tour, but the COVID-19 pandemic had other plans. Now, three-and-a-half years later, Garth will make his triumphant return.

It’s the only 2022 Stadium Tour stop in Indiana, Michigan or Illinois. Tickets go on sale February 25 at 10 a.m. ET, and as always for a Garth Stadium Tour show, it’ll be in-the-round seating.

After pausing the Stadium Tour rollout due to the rise of the omicron COVID-19 variant last year, Garth has resumed setting dates for the trek, and he’s been breaking ticket sales records and selling out massive stadium venues.

This spring, he’s got sold-out shows booked in San Diego, Fayetteville, Arkansas and Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Tickets are still available for his March 26 Orlando date.

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Ariana Grande showed fans what she looks like without  her signature makeup.  Taking to Instagram, the singer quietly shared the makeup-free selfie to possibly tease something new from her r.e.m. beauty brand.  The sweetest comment came from Ari’s mom, who wrote, “My beautiful daughter…. Inside and out!!!”  

Ed Sheeran shared a behind-the-scenes look of his “The Joker and the Queen” music video on Tuesday, which features the children — now all grown up — who starred in Taylor Swift‘s 2013 “Everything Has Changed” music video.  The sneak peek shows director Emil Nava welcoming Ava Ames and Jack Lewis on set and coaching them through the shoot until they wrap in the school gymnasium, as the cast applauds and cheers.

Eminem helped bring the house down at the Super Bowl halftime show, and Britney Spears is demanding more.  “He should have had way more time … he was everything to me when I was younger,” she said on Instagram, adding that watching him perform made her feel “like I was 17 again.”  She adds, “It’s honestly kinda scary how certain artists and music can do that.”  Gwen Stefani agreed with Britney, commenting, “Feel u.” 

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Performers don’t get paid for appearing in the Super Bowl halftime show, but they usually benefit from increased sales and streaming in the days afterward.  Billboard reports that all the stars of Sunday’s show — Dr. Dre, Eminem, Snoop Dogg, Kendrick Lamar, Mary J. Blige, special guest 50 Cent and even the late 2Pac, who obviously wasn’t there — experienced big sales bumps after the game.

Billboard reports that according to MRC Data, sales of the songs heard during the performance increased by an overall factor of 775% compared to the two days prior to the show.  The top-selling song performed was Dr. Dre and Snoop’s “The Next Episode,” which opened the show.  Sales of that song alone increased 994%.

The next best-selling songs were Eminem’s “Lose Yourself,” Dr. Dre and Snoop’s “Still D.R.E.,” Mary J. Blige’s “Family Affair” and 2Pac’s “California Love,” which was performed by Dre and Snoop during the show.

Even songs that were only heard in snippets during the show, like 2Pac’s “I Ain’t Mad at Cha,” Kendrick’s “M.A.A.D. City” and Dre’s “Forgot About Dre,” posted sales-percentage increases in the thousands, due to the fact that they had barely any sales at all before the game.  And sales of 50 Cent’s “In Da Club” increased by more than 2,100%.

Those were just sales numbers; Billboard hasn’t reported on the streaming increases yet.

Among the 103 million viewers who tuned in to the halftime show was Britney Spears, who took to Instagram to rave, “Wow !!!@Eminem last night at the Super Bowl…he should have had way more time…he was everything to me when I was younger and it was so weird in the first two seconds I saw him on stage last night I felt like I was 17 again !!!”

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