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A severe case of laryngitis has forced Lorde to put her U.S. tour on pause. The Grammy-winning singer announced the news Friday, shortly before she was scheduled to take the stage at the Mohegan Sun Arena in Connecticut.  “Connecticut — these past couple days I’ve been pushing through some horrendous laryngitis, and I regret to inform you that my […]

Over 60 entertainers and activists have showed their support for an initiative led by Camila Cabello and the Natural Resources Defense Council Action Fund calling on entertainment industry executives to push for Congress to address the climate crisis and pass Joe Biden’s $3.5 trillion spending bill.  “What started as an idea by Camila Cabello has exploded into a clarion call from […]

Olivia Rodrigo’s debut album Sour has earned a fifth nonconsecutive week at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 following its vinyl LP release last week.  Of the 133,000 equivalent album units amassed by Sour, 84,000 consisted of album sales, a 1,201 percent increase from the previous week. That figure was almost entirely driven by the 76,000 made off vinyl purchases. […]

Lorde’s Solar Power is headed for a respectable debut. According to first week projections shared by Hits Daily Double, the long-awaited project is expected to move between 55,000 to 60,000 album equivalent units by the end of the charting week. About 30,000 to 35,000 of those units will come from pure album sales. Olivia Rodrigo’s Sour is projected to return […]

There’s a lot of new music to get into this week. Rod Wave and Lil Durk teamed up for their latest collaboration, “Already Won.” Dvsn and Ty Dolla Sign released their joint album Cheers to the Best Memories, featuring the standout single “Memories.” And Young Thug is gunning for another TikTok challenge with his new […]

Lorde’s Solar Power is officially here.  Four years in the making, the New Zealand singer-songwriter’s third offering dropped on Friday after three pre-album singles and plenty of buzz surrounding her new sound.  The record was written and produced by Lorde and super-producer Jack Antonoff, the Bleachers frontman who is also responsible for teaming with Taylor Swift on […]

Lorde’s long-awaited album Solar Power arrives next week, and she’s hitting back at people saying she’s part of Jack Antonoff’s “stable”—her word, delivered “with some edge and more humor”—of collaborators. Antonoff (Bleachers, fun.) is, of course, a super-producer/songwriter who has worked extensively with the likes of Lana Del Rey, Taylor Swift, Clairo, Pink, Carly Rae Jepsen, St. Vincent, Troye […]

Less than two weeks ago, Lorde gave the world a new song, “Solar Power.” Now she’s announced the release date for a new album bearing the same name, plus unveiled the tracklist for said album.  Solar Power, her third album and first since 2017’s Melodrama, will come out on August 20. Not far. The New Zealand-based singer-songwriter also said she’ll […]

It finally happened. We got a new Lorde song. After rampant social media speculation, followed by a new era-signaling website update, the world has been rewarded with the official release of “Solar Power.”  The track features background vocals from Clairo and Phoebe Bridgers, with previous Lorde collaborator Jack Antonoff—the prolific producer and songwriter who has […]

On Tuesday, Lorde sent out a pretty long newsletter to her fans informing them about the status of her new music. This newsletter contained descriptions that the upcoming work “is so fucking good,” and that she is “truly jazzed” for people to listen to it in the future.  First though, she updated people on how […]