Month: April 2022

The Chainsmokers shared that their upcoming album So Far So Good will released on May 13 via DISRUPTOR/Columbia Records, writing on social media along with the caption: “What a ride it’s been with you all to get to this point. We always tell ourselves… so far so good. Hopefully it’s all you will be saying soon too.”

The 13-track album features their recent hit single, “iPad,” and is currently available to pre-save/pre-add and pre-order now.

In addition, the official trailer for the new album is available to watch at the link – here.

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Pitbull has announced a new North American tour with special guests Iggy Azalea and Sean Paul, dubbed the Can’t Stop Us Now tour. Azalea and Paul will be performing on select dates. To see the full list of stops, click here.

The tour is set to kick-off July 28 at the Coastal Credit Union Music Park in Raleigh, N.C., before it wraps up on Oct. 19 at Hard Rock Live in Hollywood, Fla. Fans can get access to the presale from 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. on Thursday, April 14 with the code “FIREBALL”. Tickets go on sale for the general public starting at 10 a.m. Friday, April 15 at AT&TCenter.com and Ticketmaster.com.

Pitbull announces 2022 North American tour

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Britney Spears announced via Instagram on April 11 that she’s expecting her third child, her first with fiancé Sam Asghari. In her caption, Spears also hinted she and Asghari may have gotten secretly married, referring to him as her “husband.”  The 40-year-old Spears said in her post: “I lost so much weight to go on my Maui trip only to gain it back  … I thought “Geez … what happened to my stomach ???” My husband said “No you’re food pregnant silly  !!!” So I got a pregnancy test … and uhhhhh well … I am having a baby  … 4 days later I got a little more food pregnant. It’s growing !!! If 2 are in there … I might just loose it  … I obviously won’t be going out as much due to the paps getting their money shot of me like they unfortunately already have … it’s hard because when I was pregnant I had perinatal depression … I have to say it is absolutely horrible  … women didn’t talk about it back then … some people considered it dangerous if a woman complained like that with a baby inside her … but now women talk about it everyday … thank Jesus we don’t have to keep that pain a reserved proper secret … This time I will be doing yoga every day !!! Spreading lots of joy and love !!!”

Spears has been vocal about her desire to have another child, claiming the rules of her past conservatorship made it unlikely. In a Los Angeles court in June 2021, she said that her father, Jamie Spears, and his team would not allow her to “get married and have a baby” under the conservatorship. After 13 years under the legal guardianship, Spears was officially freed from the conservatorship on November 12, 2021 by Judge Brenda Penny.

Spears first started dating Asghari in 2016, after they met on the set of her “Slumber Party” music video. The couple announced their engagement in September 2021, showed off the singer’s new diamond ring on social media.

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Selena Gomez is using her years of mental health advocacy to launch Wondermind, a mental health company she’s heading up with her mom, Mandy Teefey, and media entrepreneur, Daniella Pierson. Wondermind was described in a press release as a platform that “destigmatizes and democratizes mental health.” Teefey said, “We hope to be the one stop shop for all mental fitness and conversation.”

The Wondermind website will serve as the main hub with daily content, interviews with experts, and other tools and resources — free of charge. There will also be a weekly podcast featuring a variety of guests, including therapists and celebrities who are known for their mental health advocacy. Gomez said, “We want to be that place where people feel comfortable to talk about the things under the hood. I really want people to be understood and seen and heard. It’s OK to not be OK.”  When Gomez revealed she had bipolar disorder in 2020, she said, “it was really freeing to know that information. It made me really happy because I started to have a relationship with myself, and that’s the best part.”

The eventual goal is to expand Wondermind into a production company that also releases books, exercise journals, and streaming content. Said Gomez in a press release: “Every person has their own mental health journey. If we ignore them, pretty them up or hide them from the world, it doesn’t change that they are very, very real.”

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Billboard has announced the nominees for the 2022 Billboard Music Awards, with The Weeknd leading the list of nominations with 17, including Top Artist, Top Male Artist and Top R&B Male Artist.

Doja Cat has 13 nominations, including Top Artist, Top Female Artist, Top Streaming Songs Artist and Top R&B Female Artist. Justin Bieber, Kanye West and Olivia Rodrigo also have 13 nominations each, while Drake has 11. Dua Lipa and Ed Sheeran both have nine nominations.

The 29th annual Billboard Music Awards will take place May 15 at MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas and air on NBC. The event will also stream live on Peacock.

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Glass Animals’ hit song “Heat Waves” first claimed the top spot on the Billboard Hot 100 chart a few weeks ago, and has remained at No. 1 since then. As of the new chart dated April 9, “Heat Waves” remains at No. 1 for the fifth week.

The song continues to make history for British groups tying for the sixth-most weeks spent at No. 1 on the Hot 100. It’s currently behind only The Beatles’ “Hey Jude,” The Police’s “Every Breath You Take,” Bee Gees’ “Night Fever,” UB40’s “Can’t Help Falling In Love,” and The Beatles’ “I Want To Hold Your Hand.”

“Heat Waves” also has set a new record for the most weeks at No. 1 for a song by a group on the Billboard 200 Global Chart, now leading for six weeks in a row. In addition, the song holds No. 1 on Billboard’s Radio Songs Chart for the fourth week in a row.

Elsewhere on the chart, Latto had a major week as “Big Energy” became her first top-10 hit, rising from No. 11 all the way up to No. 3. JID landed his first-ever top-5 song thanks to his Imagine Dragons collaboration “Enemy,” which rose from No. 7 to No. 5 this week.

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