JoJo has had a comeback for the pop-ages with her new album, Mad Love, and it’s centered around ignoring haters and doing your own thing. When you’re in her position, it’s kind of the only choice. All odds were against the singer after ten years since her last record, but Mad Love is excellent journey down the road of redemption. One of the album’s strongest tracks, “FAB.,” now has a music video, and it’s got that sassy flair that JoJo’s basically patented.
Ever since Machine Gun Kelly and Fifth Harmony’s Camila Cabello dropped their collaborative single, “Bad Things,” a few weeks back, the duo’s been everywhere in attempt to move it up the charts. From lyric videos to performances on The Tonight Show, it seems to be working: the track is currently number 19 on the pop radio charts and 28 on the Hot 100 (jumping from 46 the week before). What’s going to come next? The music video.
Jessie J is getting back into action in terms of new music. After releasing her third full-length, Sweet Talker, back in 2014, she’s been a bit quiet aside from her Pitch Perfect 2 song, “Flashlight” and Ice Age contribution, “My Superstar.” While there isn’t a new album just yet, she’s still going to be releasing something new in the coming days in the form of a cover.
In what may be the weirdest news you will hear all year, Childish Gambino is planning to release a virtual reality version of his upcoming album, Awaken, My Love! In pre-orders that recently went live on his website, a couple of packages became available: you can snag the album with an exclusive poster, just the album itself, or the super mysterious “virtual reality limited edition vinyl.” If you opt for that one, it’ll set you back $59.99 (price, apparently, is subject to change), and you won’t be getting it until 2017.
The slow burning ballad has been a staple of Simple Plan’s catalog ever since their inception. Once they put out “Perfect” as a single over thirteen years ago, it became a hit all over television, but also in the hearts of misunderstood youth everywhere. Four albums later, the band’s made what could be the little sister of “Perfect” in what is aptly titled, “Perfectly Perfect,” and they’ve just unveiled the music video for it.
Steve Aoki is bringing back an emo classic with a fun electronic twist. The DJ was sought after by former rock band My Chemical Romance to remix one of their signature tracks, “Welcome to the Black Parade,” and the result is something much better than you’d expect.
Imagine Dragons are currently in the studio working on their third full-length - the follow-up to last year’s Smoke + Mirrors. While not as praised as their debut, it was still good enough to warrant excitement for what was going to follow. And though the next installment of their career wo
We might not be seeing Frank Ocean win a Grammy this coming February, but we will get to see him hit the stage live once again - and that’s a pretty good consolation prize. It's been a long couple of years since Ocean actually played a show, and now with this past summer’s release of his record, Blonde, he’s finally making up for lost time with a string of concert announcements.
It seems like every other day, The Weeknd is breaking some kind of new record. This past August, the singer set two Guinness World Records: he had the most streamed album on Spotify in one year with Beauty Behind The Madness, and he also spent the most consecutive weeks in the top ten of Billboard’s Hot 100 for a male solo artist. He’s keeping up his Spotify success again now with the help of his new album, Starboy, and it’s given him the honor of becoming the most streamed artist in a single day.
Maroon 5 has been quietly killing it with their new single, “Don’t Wanna Know.” Released this past October, the breezy summer pop song was a departure from the norm for the group, but it hasn’t stopped their success - currently, the track sits at number ten on both the Mainstream Top 40 and Billboard’s Hot 100. It’s also their 12th top ten single in their career, and to celebrate that, the band recently performed the song on frontman Adam Levine’s show that he's a judge on, The Voice.
