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To be released on November 27, the new LP has the Green Day frontman covering classic hits such as The Bangles’ ‘Manic Monday’ as well as Tommy James and the Shondells’ ‘I Think We’re Alone Now’.

Nov 24, 2020
AceShowbiz – Green Day frontman Billie Joe Armstrong’s covers collection “No Fun Mondays” is a reflection on a turbulent 2020.
The star has been sharing weekly cover versions online of classic hits like The Bangles’ Manic Monday and Tommy James and the Shondells’ “I Think We’re Alone Now”, and will release all 14 tracks on his new LP, which is out on[] Friday, November 27.

Speaking to British music website NME, Armstrong reveals the project began as “something to just keep me busy because I knew that the rest of the year was getting cancelled,” amid the pandemic.
“The response was really good,” he says. “Everybody was saying that it was just nice to hear some music and feel a little bit normal. The sentiment was right.”

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Other cover versions on the album include John Lennon’s “Give Me Some Truth” and The Clash’s “Police on My Back” which, according to the hitmaker, relate to the U.S. election and the Black Lives Matter movement.
“‘Give Me Some Truth’ and ‘Police on My Back’ were tied to a lot of the toxic political atmosphere that’s going on right now – especially with ‘Police on My Back’ and what happened with George Floyd and the Black Lives Matter protests,” he muses.
The death of African-American George Floyd in May, at the hands of Minneapolis, Minnesota police officers, sparked a new wave of Black Lives Matter protests globally.
“It’s interesting just how many of these old songs are still relevant, probably more now today than ever,” Armstrong adds.

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The duo’s 2012 breakout hit ‘Cruise’ and their 2017 Bebe Rexha collaboration, ‘Meant to Be’, have set a new record for the Recording Industry Association of America, which was founded in 1952.

Nov 24, 2020
AceShowbiz – Florida Georgia Line have made country music history by becoming the first artists in the genre to land diamond certifications for two separate singles.
Bandmates Brian Kelley and Tyler Hubbard celebrated the double diamond achievement on Friday, November 20 after learning their 2012 breakout hit “Cruise” and their 2017 Bebe Rexha collaboration, “Meant to Be”, had set a new record for the Recording Industry Association of America, which was founded in 1952.
Only 43 songs in RIAA history have been awarded the certification, which recognises releases with 10 million or more sales, while “Meant to Be” is only the sixth song to hit the mega milestone in the past four years.

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Sharing their joy at the news online, Kelley said, “Thank you guys for the recognition and this ride has been a dream come true. It’s pretty crazy hearing the numbers. It’s pretty wild to think about it in that time span…”.
“It is surreal and it is nice to take a second to let that sink in, and honestly we’re so thankful,” Hubbard added, according to The Boot. “It’s awesome to know it’s connecting. When I hear those numbers, that’s what I hear, and I just think that’s something that we can all be proud of…”.
Florida Georgia Line will be hoping to replicate the success of their previous releases as they move into Hollywood – the pair recently signed on to help produce a feature-length country movie musical, for which the artists will also write some original songs.

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The ‘Blinding Lights’ hitmaker, who comes to the awards show in a red suit with his head, jaw and nose being covered in bandages, takes home three trophies including the Favorite Album kudo.

Nov 24, 2020
AceShowbiz – The Weeknd’s bandaged appearance at Sunday’s (November 22) 2020 American Music Awards caused a stir among fans on Twitter.
The “Starboy” hitmaker – who won the Soul/R&B prizes for Favorite Male Artist, Favorite Song for “Heartless” and Favorite Album for “After Hours” – sported a red suit and his head, jaw, and nose completely bandaged during the award ceremony.
It’s a look he’s been developing since hit video for chart-topping hit “Blinding Lights”, but that didn’t stop bemused fans commenting on his unusual appearance on social media.
“damn, when the weeknd said ‘i can’t feel my face when i’m with you’ he wasn’t joking,” one user wrote, referring to the singer’s hit song “Can’t Feel My Face”, while another quipped, “when the weeknd took the ‘I can’t feel my face’ part to the next lvl. (sic)”

Fans poked fun at The Weeknd’s ‘Can’t Feel My Face’ in reaction to his unusual AMAs appearance.

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Others were confused and concerned for the star’s wellbeing, asking, “so were all of those bandages on the weeknd’s face for his performance or????”
“did the weeknd get in a fight or completely reconstruct his face? i cant tell,” posted another, while a further fan asked, “Guys what happened to The Weeknd’s face I’m so confused is he okay.”

Other fans expressed concern over The Weeknd’s bandaged appearance at AMAs 2020.
Despite the confusion, the bloody make-up is to raise awareness about drunk driving, and has been played out in the star’s recent music videos, including recent hit “In Your Eyes”.
In an interview with Esquire, The Weeknd explained his “Blinding Lights” video is about “how you want to see someone at night, and you’re intoxicated, and you’re driving to this person and you’re just blinded by streetlights, but nothing could stop you from trying to go see that person, because you’re so lonely.”
“I don’t want to ever promote drunk driving, but that’s what the dark undertone is.”

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The ‘Woke Up Like This’ rapper gets fans excited after taking his social media accounts to tease new music off his upcoming album ‘Whole Lotta Red’ and debuting a new song on Instagram Live.

Nov 24, 2020
AceShowbiz – Fans of Playboi Carti are beyond excited after the “Woke Up Like This” spitter took to his social media accounts to tease new music off his upcoming album “Whole Lotta Red”. In one of his tweets on Monday, November 23, Carti revealed that he had officially turned his new project to his label.
“album.turned in,” so Carti announced in an Instagram post that also featured some fashion-forward photos. He could be seen donning a suit while showing off some freshly-dyed red hair and new piercings.

Additionally, he appeared to hint that he was talking about his upcoming album “Whole Lotta Red”. Fueling the speculations, the Atlanta rapper later tweeted, “OUt of MY boDY ! WHOLE TAPE.”

Playboi Carti hinted that he finished his ‘Whole Lotta Red’ album.

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Carti then further raised the excitement as he went on Instagram Live to debut a brand new song. “I’m servin’ that base/ I got me some thots/ They thought I was gay,” he rapped over the bass-heavy tune. The particular lyrics immediately sparked conversations online and it didn’t take long for it to trend on Twitter.
“Carti really got ‘they thought i was gay’ trending lmaoo,” a fan reacted. Someone else added excitedly, “This n***a in a mesh beater talkin bout ‘they thought I was gay,’ ” noting that it might be “Album of the year.”
Calling him “the voice of my generation,” another user said, “Carti angsty screaming THEY THOUGHT I WAS GAY into an Instagram live wearing tight jeans and a mesh shirt that matches his dyed red braids.”
Some fans also believed that Carti’s new album would be a huge hit. “Playboi Carti was just on live and in the song the n***a said ‘I got me sum thots they thought I was gay’ he definitely see da gay vampire jokes,” one wrote, while another person added, “carti saying THEY THOUGHT I WAS GAY could mean this is the biggest comeback of this year.”
People also brought Iggy Azalea into the conversations. This seemingly had something to do with his tweet earlier that day that read, “i told da bit shut up! My son crying.” Upon seeing the tweet, a fan wished that Carti would somehow incorporate the Australian raptress and Onyx, the two stars’ first child together. “i wanna hear onyx crying in the background and iggy comforting him,” said the fan.

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The ‘Mia’ hitmaker was initially set to hit the stage at the American Music Awards on November 22 with Jhay Cortez for a world premiere performance of their duet ‘Dakiti’.

Nov 24, 2020
AceShowbiz – Bad Bunny was forced to axe his planned performance at Sunday’s (November 22) 2020 American Music Awards after testing positive for COVID-19.
The hitmaker, 26, was teased to hit the stage with Jhay Cortez for a world premiere performance of their duet “Dakiti”. However, their performance ultimately didn’t come into fruition and, on Monday, it was confirmed the star had tested positive for the coronavirus.
Although no details were provided as to whether Bad Bunny is showing coronavirus symptoms, reported Entertainment Tonight, he was seen virtually presenting from his home during the AMAs.
It was a successful night for the singer, real name Benito Antonio Martinez Ocasio, who accepted the Favorite Album – Latin award from Christian Serratos for “YHLQMDLG”. After the show concluded, AMAs officials announced him as the Favorite Male Artist – Latin artist on Twitter.

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Accepting the album prize, he said, “To all my fans, to all the people who support me and listen to my music, I do it all for you. Latinos are ruling the world. I love you all so much.”
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Taylor Swift won big that night, bagging three awards out of her four nominations, including the coveted prize of Artist of the Year. She was additionally named Favorite Female Artist (pop/rock) and won Favorite Music Video for her “Cardigan” visuals. Tying Swift with three awards apiece were The Weeknd, Justin Bieber and Dan + Shay.
The American Music Awards, voted for by fans, was hosted by Taraji P. Henson from the Microsoft Theater in Los Angeles, where a small, socially-distanced live audience enjoyed other performance highlights from Megan Thee Stallion, Katy Perry and Darius Rucker, Bell Biv DeVoe, and Jennifer Lopez and Maluma, who turned up the heat with steamy renditions of “Pa’ Ti” and “Lonely”.

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This obituary is part of a series about people who have died in the coronavirus pandemic. Read about others here.LONDON — Eric Hall, Britain’s most extravagant soccer agent in the 1980s and ’90s, often confessed that he knew little about the sport.Many said that was his greatest strength, even if it also led to the occasional mishap: He once negotiated a bonus for a player on the condition of scoring 10 goals, only to learn afterward that the player was a goalkeeper.To negotiate more lucrative deals for his players, Mr. Hall would watch British soap operas on Saturdays while games were aired, but would still write down how many goals his players had scored. It was the sort of strategy that propelled his role in the explosion of large-sum transfers in the early years of the Premier League, England’s top-tier competition.Mr. Hall died on Monday in London. Michael Hall McPherson, his nephew, who is also an agent, said the cause was the coronavirus.Known for his catchphrase, “Monster, monster,” his love of cigars and his dazzling outfits, Mr. Hall had honed his negotiating skills in the music industry by promoting the likes of Queen and the Sex Pistols, and later applied similar codes to the rapidly changing world of British soccer.“He took showbiz into football and looked at players as stars, which they weren’t really yet in the mid- and late 1980s,” Mr. Hall McPherson said. “And in the negotiation room, he was a lion.”Mr. Hall was born on Nov. 11, 1947, in East London. He quit school as a teenager and went to work at a store on London’s Denmark Street, known for its recording studios and music shops. There, he befriended and packed parcels with Reg Dwight, who would go on to become Elton John.Mr. Hall later worked as a publicist for the British record label EMI, promoting rock bands like T. Rex and Queen. In 1976, he arranged a television appearance for the Sex Pistols that gained lasting notoriety when the band’s guitarist used an expletive against the show’s host, a rare action at the time.The agent long claimed that Freddie Mercury had written the song “Killer Queen” about him, even though Mr. Mercury himself had said the tune was about a call girl. “The truth is, I’ve been telling that story for so long that I’m not really sure myself, but Freddie would’ve loved it either way,” Mr. Hall McPherson recalled his uncle saying.His uncle had always been attracted to showbiz, Mr. Hall McPherson said. “He became famous from creating celebrities, but he preferred to be the celebrity himself.”In the mid-1980s, Mr. Hall left the music industry and, in a career that spanned over a decade, represented dozens of soccer professionals, including Chelsea midfielder Dennis Wise; Neil Ruddock, who played for Tottenham and Liverpool; and Terry Venables, who managed England’s national team.Mr. Hall also negotiated large salary increases for players and helped pioneer the creation of appearance fees, branding rights and other bonuses.In 1997, he fell into a coma for three months and was given a diagnosis of thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura, a rare blood disease. His list of players dwindled, and a new generation of influential agents like Jorge Mendes and Mino Raiola rose to prominence.Mr. Hall never really recovered in the soccer world. But he remained a fixture of Britain’s entertainment scene and since 2013 had hosted a weekly show on an independent radio station in East London.Mr. Hall is survived by a brother and a sister.“He lived for showbiz,” said Mr. Hall McPherson, his nephew. “And his life was a bit of a show.” More

One truism of the music business in the 21st century: AC/DC will sell a ton of albums, no matter the prevailing digital format.“Power Up,” the Australian hard-rock heroes’ first LP in six years, has proved that correct once again, opening at No. 1 on the Billboard chart ahead of a new streaming hit by the rappers Future and Lil Uzi Vert. “Power Up” had the equivalent of 117,000 sales in the United States, according to Nielsen Music, almost all of that number attributed to copies sold as a complete package — otherwise known as albums, a format that AC/DC has plenty of experience with, selling some 200 million around the world over the last 45 years, according to the band’s label, Columbia.Selling old-fashioned LPs has indeed become more difficult in the digital age. That has been the conventional wisdom for years now, and AC/DC has happily done its own thing, collecting plenty of platinum along the way. The band refused to sell its albums on download stores like iTunes until 2012, and eschewed streaming until three years after that.“Power Up” sold 111,000 full albums in its opening week. According to Billboard, 71,000 of those were CDs, while 23,000 were digital downloads and 16,000 were vinyl. For the $49 deluxe version of the CD, AC/DC took a page from Tool, the prog-metal band that made a surprise return to No. 1 last year: The album comes in a collectible box that displays AC/DC’s classic band logo in flashing neon, and plays the opening riff to its new song “Shot in the Dark” on a built-in speaker.“Power Up” is the band’s 17th studio album, and the first since the death of its founding rhythm guitarist, Malcolm Young, in 2017 — though he and his brother Angus Young, the lead guitarist, are credited with writing all the songs. It is widely available on streaming services, but the album drew just 7.8 million clicks in its opening week, the lowest streaming number for a No. 1 title since Celine Dion’s “Courage,” which opened with 3.8 million a year ago.Still, “Power Up” is only AC/DC’s third No. 1 album, after “For Those About to Rock (We Salute You)” from 1981 and “Black Ice” from 2008. Amazingly, the band’s 1980 megahit “Back in Black” — which has sold 25 million copies in the United States alone, according to the Recording Industry Association of America — peaked at No. 4 in the United States.Also this week, Future and Lil Uzi Vert’s “Pluto x Baby Pluto” started at No. 2 with the equivalent of 105,000 sales, almost all from streaming (136 million clicks), with just 5,500 copies sold as a complete package.The country singer-songwriter Chris Stapleton opened at No. 3 with “Starting Over,” while Ariana Grande’s “Positions,” the top seller for the last two weeks, fell to fourth place. Pop Smoke’s “Shoot for the Stars Aim for the Moon” is No. 5. More

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Securing the Favorite Song in the Rap/Hip Hop kudo with collaborator Megan Thee Stallion, the ‘WAP’ hitmaker becomes the first artist in history to win the honor twice.

Nov 23, 2020
AceShowbiz – Cardi B made history at the American Music Awards on Sunday (November 22) night – but missed the ceremony to go to the dentist.
The 28-year-old rapper became the first artist in history to win Favorite Song in the Rap/Hip Hop category at the awards twice – first in 2018 for “Bodak Yellow” and on Sunday for “WAP” with Megan Thee Stallion.
While stars such as Jennifer Lopez, Bebe Rexha and Dua Lipa attended the socially-distanced awards ceremony, Cardi missed out in favor of getting her teeth looked at.
“Thank you guys soooo much .Me and Meg really appreciate all the love from fans ,celebs everybody that supported the song. Also thanks for voting,” she tweeted.

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“Ugh if I would have known all this was going down today I would of rescheduled my dentist appointment. Im so swollen. (sic)”

Cardi B expressed disappointment for inability to attend 2020 AMAs.
She also attached an audio message to the tweet, in which she said, “I wish I would’ve known that I was going to get an AMAs or something, I wouldn’t have went to the dentist and f**ked with my teeth.”
“Now I’m all f**king talking all crazy. But I just wanted to say thank you everybody. I love you so much.”
Cardi, who was also nominated for Favorite Female Artist (rap/hip-hop) at the event along with her collaborator Megan and her nemesis Nicki Minaj, lost out the title to the “Anaconda” hitmaker.

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