The ‘All of Me’ hitmaker is keen to bring some light during the difficult time with his upcoming seventh studio album ‘Bigger Love’ led by an uplifting title track.
Jun 15, 2020
AceShowbiz – John Legend is all about love. At a very difficult and challenging time like these where the world is hurting amid the global health crisis and worldwide protests against racial injustice, the “All of Me” hitmaker is determined to spread joy and kindness.
The first black man who became an EGOT for winning Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, and Tony is gearing up for the release of his seventh studio installment. Called “Bigger Love”, the album is two years in the making following his 2018 holiday set “A Legendary Christmas”.
The title track is an uplifting song that offered fans a break from the doom and gloom of 2020. “I just hope it gives people a moment to feel good,” he explained. “I know things are very difficult and a bit scary right now and music isn’t going to solve everyone’s problems, but hopefully it can give people a bit of a lift and bring some light to these dark times.”
The bouncy track was accompanied by a heartwarming music video that featured his wife Chrissy Teigen and their two adorable young kids Luna and Miles. The family footage was fused with homemade clips of fans around the globe dancing to the upbeat single.
The album is announced to be released June 19. It’s expected to make a notable debut if his chart history is any indication – he appeared on Billboard Hot 100 more than a dozen times with his love anthem “All of Me” dominating the chart in 2013 and all of his previous six albums became the top 20 on the R&B Albums chart.
For an artist who’s preparing for an album launch, it’s only natural for them to hype up the project. But promoting an album seems to take a backseat for John Legend. Instead, he’s actively using his platform to amplify black voices amid the Black Lives Matter movement that swept across the country and overseas.
He condemned the killing of George Floyd and supported campaign to “defund” police departments and give more to healthcare and education. He’s also seeking justice for the death of medical worker Breonna Taylor, calling for the arrest of the cops responsible for her death.

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The Fenty Cosmetics founder catches wind of a fan’s comment on her Instagram post in which the fan suggests that the singer’s resolution in 2021 ‘should be releasing the album.’

Jan 2, 2021
AceShowbiz – Rihanna will release new music when she feels like to. The “Umbrella” hitmaker has made it clear when responding to one of her Instagram followers who weighes in on Rih’s resolution in 2021.
On January 1, the singer and cosmetic mogul treated her fans to pictures of her looking stunning in sparkling two-piece green dress. The pictures saw the Barbados-born musician posing by the pool in what seemed to be her mansion in her native country. “new year’s resolution: apply the pressure,” so she captioned the pics.

One fan, however, thought that Rihanna should have made another thing her resolution for this year. “Resolution should be releasing the album,” the fan wrote in the comment section, referring to the singer’s long-rumored and now-infamous album “R9”. Another fan similarly added, “Speaking of pressure, it’s the album for me.”

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Rihanna caught wind of the comments and decided to respond to the first user. “this comment is sooo 2019,” the Fenty Cosmetics founder wrote back to the fan, before urging her to “grow up.” She doubled down on her response as she replied again, “2021 energy,” alongside laugh-crying and flexed bicep emojis.

Fans initially speculated that the album might be coming soon as Skylar Grey shared a snippet of a song she’d revealed that she worked on with Diplo for the “Diamonds” hitmaker’s album. According to Grey, she and Diplo collaborated on the song “when Rihanna was supposedly doing some kind of reggae album.”
Prior to this, Rihanna sparked chatter after she shared a mysterious video on Instagram, seemingly hinting at the project. “Update: me listening to R9 by myself and refusing to release it,” she wrote back in late December 2019 alongside a clip of a small white dog energetically head-banging to House of Pain’s classic cut “Jump Around”.
That aside, Rihanna is currently enjoying the new year celebration in Barbados with her rumored boyfriend A$AP Rocky. In one picture that circulated online, the lovebirds were snapped enjoying a four-person rider tube called the Sportsstuff Great Big Mable on the water on Monday, December 28. Putting her hands around her man’s waist on a yacht, Rihanna was also seen leaning in to give him a kiss.

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“Map of the Soul: 7” — the K-pop juggernaut BTS’s fourth Korean-language full-length album — just debuted at the top of the Billboard chart, though that’s only one indicator of the group’s still-growing global dominance.In the past few years, BTS has become the worldwide standard-bearer for pure pop, a collection of seven members — J-Hope, RM, Suga, Jungkook, V, Jin and Jimin — who are charismatic, limber and, most crucially, game for the level of work and ambition required to be mega-popular at home, in the United States and almost everywhere in between.BTS is soaring so high, it might not seem on the surface like it’s navigating particularly tricky waters. But the relentlessness of the group’s success obscures the fact that it’s on the cusp of two key transitions: a decreasing reliance on hip-hop and an increasing flirtation with high-profile English-language collaborators. “7” ends up as a kind of referendum on the sort of pop megalith BTS is becoming, and what it might have to leave behind on the way.As a whole, the strong but not particularly unruly “7” is less sure-footed than “Love Yourself: Tear,” the group’s last full-length, from 2018, and the first K-pop album to debut atop the Billboard album chart. “Tear” showed BTS to be ambitious maximalists with an extremely wide comfort zone: pop-EDM, Southern hip-hop, 1990s R&B and the sort of pyrotechnic galactic thumpers that the genre privileges.Having shown just how much it’s capable of, BTS narrows its focus here. On the one hand, the group is chameleonic — on “Boy With Luv,” it partners with Halsey for a saccharine neo-disco adventure; the squelchy “Make It Right” is written partly by Ed Sheeran and does an effective job of containing BTS’s exuberant energy in one of Sheeran’s signature neat packages. “Louder Than Bombs,” a slow, moody, almost gothic number and one of the album’s best songs, is written partly by Troye Sivan, Allie X and Leland.The singing on the patient ballad “00:00 (Zero O’Clock)” — especially by Jungkook and Jimin — is impressive. And as usual, BTS’s rappers shine on “7.” “Interlude: Shadow,” performed by Suga, has strong eau de Drake, and the J-Hope track “Outro: Ego” pulses with chipper aerobic big-band energy. Perhaps the best song on the album is “Ugh!,” a barnstormer that features RM, J-Hope and Suga, and sounds like a collision of Outkast-era up-tempo mayhem with Travis Scott-era syllabic impressionism.That fluency echoes what has become clear when BTS members have broken off for cross-border solo collaborations — say, RM on the “Seoul Town Road” remix of Lil Nas X’s “Old Town Road” or J-Hope’s update, with Becky G, of Webstar and Young B’s proto-viral 2006 hit “Chicken Noodle Soup” (with a remarkably exuberant video).Not every song on “7” is effective, particularly the limpid “Moon” and the chaotic “On.” (Also, some of these songs were previously released on the 2019 EP “Map of the Soul: Persona.”) But in general, “7” captures a group sure of its place in the pop hierarchy and beginning to itch about what to do next — unsurprising, given that BTS is reaching the point of self-awareness that all superstars eventually reach, but can often be hidden in the hyperstylized world of K-pop.To wit: On the group’s recent “Carpool Karaoke” segment, it ably handled hits by Post Malone and Bruno Mars, but there was also playful tension, especially with Jin lightly dragging James Corden, as well as his bandmate RM. We know where BTS came from and what it has become, but we’re only just beginning to see what it might splinter into.BTS“Map of the Soul: 7”(Big Hit) More

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According to Young Money’s social media posts, the ‘Anaconda’ hitmaker is the first female rapper to amass such amount of money after being in the industry for 11 years.
Mar 18, 2020
AceShowbiz – Nicki Minaj is solidifying herself in the world of rappers. Having had the records as the first female rapper to ever win BET Awards’ Best Female Hip-Hop Artist category for seven years in a row and as the first woman to have 100 career appearances on Billboard Hot 100, the “Yikes” hitmaker makes history by becoming the richest female MC of all time.
Breaking the news was the “Barbie Dreams” spitter’s record label, Young Money Entertainment, via its official Instagram account. “@nickiminaj has become the first female rapper in history to amass a $100 million net worth #QueenTingz,” her company boasted in the post dated Monday, March 16.
Minaj’s latest achievement was warmly welcomed by her fans. One commented, “she’s really sitting with the kings of hip hop.” Another gushed, “Damn the most beautiful creature on the planet and big ole bag god keeps blessing her cause real ni**as do real s**t.” A third raved, “Hhhh yeah come on b**ch ,,, show them who’s the Queen bb.”

One person praised Nicki Minaj.

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A third user responded the news of Minaj’s milestone.
Minaj signed a contract with Young Money back in 2009 after being discovered by Lil Wayne. Since her debut with “Your Love”, the “Megatron” rapper has been nominated 462 times at multiple awards shows and won 238 of them. All four of her studio albums have been certified platinum. In 2016, she also made it into TIME’s list of 100 Most Influential People.
News of Minaj becoming the wealthiest female rapper of all time came just weeks after her husband Kenneth Petty was arrested for failing to register as a sex offender in California. He was convicted of first-degree attempted rape in New York back in 1995, and served almost four years behind bars for the assault. Having pleaded guilty for his most recent federal crime, he is awaiting to stand trial in April.

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A survey of the many fools who have been immortalized in song, featuring Aretha Franklin, Bow Wow Wow, the Stone Roses and more.Aretha Franklin, who was not known to suffer fools.Richard Perry/The New York TimesDear listeners,Happy April Fools’ Day, when you can’t believe anything you read on the internet! Trust that this playlist is a prank-free space, though: We’re just gathering up some of the many fools who have been immortalized in song over the years, by soul singers (Aretha Franklin), blues legends (Bobby “Blue” Bland) and new wavers (Bow Wow Wow). Country and classic rock are in the mix, too — there’s a little something for everyone who’s ever fooled around and fell in love. So hit play, give those dubious corporate social media posts a miss and we’ll try to ride this out together.Everybody plays the fool sometime,DaveListen along while you read.1. Aretha Franklin: “April Fools”Dionne Warwick sang this Burt Bacharach-Hal David theme song for a 1969 romantic comedy starring Jack Lemmon and Catherine Deneuve before Aretha Franklin covered it on her “Young, Gifted and Black” LP three years later. The intro to the Queen of Soul’s arrangement is giving “Jingle Bells,” but it quickly settles into a soulful boogie with a soaring chorus where new love is trailed by doubt: “Are we just April fools / who can’t see all the danger around?”▶ Listen on Spotify, Apple Music or YouTube2. The Doobie Brothers: “What a Fool Believes”What a chorus on this one: Michael McDonald’s blue-eyed soul swoops upward into a falsetto that’s almost Bee Gees-level. Does it matter that absolutely no one can tell what they’re singing on the high part? It does not. (For the record, it’s “No wise man has the power to reason away.”)▶ Listen on Spotify, Apple Music or YouTube3. Led Zeppelin: “Fool in the Rain”My interest in Led Zeppelin has waxed and waned; I needed an extended post-high school detox after years of hearing the St. Louis classic rock station “get the Led out” every afternoon at quitting time. But listening with fresh ears — and digging deeper than what you’d find in a Cadillac commercial — it’s undeniable that Led Zep has dozens of slappers, like this cut from “In Through the Out Door” (1979). Maybe I need to catch that “Becoming Led Zeppelin” movie after all.We are having trouble retrieving the article content.Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and log into your Times account, or subscribe for all of The Times.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.Already a subscriber? Log in.Want all of The Times? Subscribe. More