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Steven J. Horowitz Senior Music Writer After weeks of teasing her upcoming single with guerilla-style billboard marketing around the country, Chappell Roan has officially announced that “The Giver” will be released on March 13 at 8 p.m. ET.

Chappell Roan has today shared her new “full ass country song” called ‘The Giver’ – listen below.Roan has been steadily teasing ‘The Giver’ for some time now, with the former NME Cover star debuting the song during an appearance on Saturday Night Live last November. On the show, she told the audience: “All you country boys saying you know how to treat a woman right.

Chappell Roan has shared a series of snippets of her country-inspired new single ‘The Giver’.Across a series of TikTok posts, she and her creative director Ramisha Sattar can be seen dancing to the country tinged track, which is set for release on Thursday (March 13).In the clips – which fans have already recreated – the pair sing along to its tongue-in-cheek chorus: “Cause you ain’t got to tell me / It’s just in my nature / So take it like a taker, ’cause, baby, I’m a giver/ Ain’t no need to hurry, ’cause, baby, I deliver / Ain’t no country boy quitter / I get the job done.”Goodbye Paris our work here is done ♬ The Giver – Chappell Roan Roan has been steadily teasing ‘The Giver’ for some time now, and the former NME Cover star broke out the upcoming track during an appearance on Saturday Night Live last November.On the show, she told the audience: “All you country boys saying you know how to treat a woman right. Well, only a woman knows how to treat a woman right,” prompting fans to dub the new song a “lesbian anthem”.Before then, Roan’s producer Dan Nigro told The New York Times fans could expect a “fun, up-tempo country song” that featured a fiddle, and said it would show “a new version” of the ‘Good Luck, Babe!’ singer.Roan has delivered on that front, unveiling vinyl pre-orders for two variants of ‘The Giver’, dubbed ‘The Plumber edition’ and ‘The Lawyer edition’ with the styling to match.

Chappell Roan has revealed several key details about her upcoming single ‘The Giver’ – find out more below.The ‘Good Luck Babe!’ singer has been teasing ‘The Giver’ for some time now, first performing the track during an appearance on Saturday Night Live last November. Last month, Roan unveiled vinyl pre-orders for two variants of ‘The Giver’, dubbed ‘The Plumber edition’ and ‘The Lawyer edition’ – those vinyl orders are expected to ship in August.Now, Chappell Roan has announced that ‘The Giver’ is due for release on March 13.

Chappell Roan has unveiled a new variation of her upcoming single ‘The Giver’ – check it out below.Earlier this month, Roan began teasing a new single, ‘The Giver’ by directing her fans to call the number “620-468-8646” (or “620-HOT-TOGO”). For those who dialled the number, a variety of choices is offered that can be selected by pressing a number on the keypad.

Chappell Roan has teased her new song ‘The Giver’ through a hotline number shared with fans.The track is not yet officially released, but has been long-awaited by fans for months now. This came as the former NME Cover star broke out the upcoming track during an appearance on Saturday Night Live last November.Now it seems like fans are one step closer to getting ‘The Giver’ as an official release, as Roan has shared a cryptic phone number on Instagram Stories and used it to drop snippets of the single.Posted over the weekend, the singer posted the number “620-468-8646” (or “620-HOT-TOGO”).

Chappell Roan took home Best New Artist at the 2025 Grammy awards show on Sunday and used her speech to advocate for something important: healthcare and living wages for musicians. Reading from a notebook on stage, the singer called out record labels and "the industry profiting millions of dollars off of artists" and shared her own experience losing healthcare after getting dropped from her label right before the pandemic.

Thania Garcia Since Alissia began uploading bass covers on YouTube 13 years ago, she’s gone from a Berklee College grad to a Grammy-nominated producer for Mary J. Blige, Anderson .Paak and Bootsy Collins, to name just a few. Her goal has remained the same throughout: “There’s always more to learn,” she tells Variety. “It’s that hunger for knowledge that has brought me to some incredible places and people.” Born in Switzerland, and a temporary resident of Italy and America, the 33 year-old is nominated for non-classical producer of the year at the 2025 Grammys.

Cynthia Littleton Business Editor Charli xcx delivered a heartfelt salute to “The Velvet Underground & Nico.” Jack Antonoff cheekily told a roomful of music industry insiders that “some of you care more about Pop Crave than Pitchfork.” Lana Del Rey confessed she didn’t submit her music for Grammy nominations early on because she didn’t know how. Olivia Rodrigo outed producer Dan Nigro as “the man who finally taught me how to parallel park.” And Lainey Wilson spoke from the heart about her journey that began in a tiny Louisiana town “writing about tequila and cigarettes at 10 years old” on Saturday during Variety’s eight annual Hitmakers Brunch saluting the artists and industry insiders behind the year’s 25 top songs.

Thania Garcia Chappell Roan’s first public performance of “Good Luck, Babe!” took place on one of the world’s biggest stages for a musician, the Coachella festival. Donning a pink butterfly costume, the 26-year-old singer-songwriter from Missouri introduced herself, famously, as “your favorite artist’s favorite artist.” As Roan belted her way through the bridge, her glitter-covered wings flapped in the breeze.

Chappell Roan has celebrated the fact that her song ‘Good Luck, Babe!’ has reached one billion streams on Spotify.The single was first released in April this year, written by Roan alongside Justin Tranter and Dan Nigro. It became Roan’s breakout hit, hitting Number Two in the UK and Number Four in the US, and has been nominated for Song of the Year and Record of the Year at the Grammys.Roan has reacted the news that it has crossed the milestone, writing on Instagram: “Good Luck Babe hitting a billion streams on Spotify is cuckoo loco.

Chris Willman Senior Music Writer and Chief Music Critic With the “Midwest Princess” still being on the rise, and no end to that ascent being anywhere in sight, the story behind Chappell Roan’s star-making debut album got a deeper dive in downtown L.A. Thursday night.

Chappell Roan debuted a new country song, ‘The Giver’ on Saturday Night Live.Ahead of her musical guest spot last night (November 2), she took to Instagram to share a Facebook post of hers from 2011, where she shared her hopes of one day being on the show, saying: “I am determined to be on SNL.”She performed ‘The Rise And Fall Of A Midwest Princess’ track ‘Pink Pony Club’, and then surprised fans by debuting the new song.Joined by a fiddler, she sang: “You ain’t got to tell me, it’s just in my nature / So, take it like a taker, ’cause baby, I’m a giver / Ain’t no need to help me, ’cause baby I deliver… ain’t no country boy quitter / I get the job done” on its chorus.Then, during the song’s bridge, she says to the audience: “All you country boys saying you know how to treat a woman right. Well, only a woman knows how to treat a woman right.”Back in July, producer Dan Nigro told The New York Times fans could expect a “fun, up-tempo country song” that featured a fiddle, and said it would show “a new version” of the ‘Good Luck, Babe!’ singer.‘The Giver’ is already being dubbed a “lesbian anthem” for it’s celebratory take on topping.

Chappell Roan has seemingly begun teasing her highly anticipated sophomore album.Roan shared a new post on Instagram, where she apparently hinted at the upcoming project with a reference to Love Island.In the carousel post, she holds up her debut album ‘The Rise And Fall Of A Midwest Princess’. Another slide on the post sees her with a microphone in her hand, seemingly in a recording studio. She wrote on the caption: “Album kinda popped off imo but it is time to welcome a hot new bombshell into the villa.”A post shared by ･ﾟ: *✧ Chappell Roan ✧*:･ﾟ (@chappellroan)This isn’t the first time we’ve heard about the upcoming record.

Meredith Woerner Deputy Editor, Variety.com Chappell Roan joined Olivia Rodrigo on stage for the latter’s “Guts” tour concert at the Intuit Dome in Inglewood, Calif., on Tuesday night. “I think she is one of the most singular, inspiring, powerful artists I’ve ever had the pleasure of meeting, and I’m so excited because she’s gonna sing one of my favorite songs of all time,” Rodrigo told the crowd before welcoming Roan. After walking across the stage and giving Rodrigo a hug, Roan said at the “Guts” L.A.

Chris Willman Senior Music Writer and Chief Music Critic Olivia Rodrigo fans who wanted to own all of her “Guts” bonus tracks until now had to develop an expensive Discogs habit, since copies of the very limited vinyl editions that included them have commanded collectors’ prices, and the songs were not put up for streaming. But those extra tracks will finally be made available in a more widespread way with this Friday’s release of “Guts (Spilled),” a deluxe edition that puts the four previously vinyl-only tracks up for digital consumption — while throwing in a fifth, brand-new bonus track to boot.

Outstanding Original Score for a Studio Film Joe Hisaishi – “The Boy and the Heron”Ludwig Göransson – “Oppenheimer”Laura Karpman – “American Fiction”Robbie Robertson – “Killers of the Flower Moon”Anthony Willis – “Saltburn” Outstanding Original Score for an Independent Film Jon Batiste – “American Symphony”Mica Levi – “The Zone of Interest”Fabrizio Mancinelli, Richard M. Sherman – “Mushka”Daniel Pemberton – “Ferrari”John Powell – “Still: A Michael J. Fox Movie” Outstanding Original Score for a Television Production Nicholas Britell – “Succession”Natalie Holt – “Loki”Martin Phipps – “The Crown”Carlos Rafael Rivera – “Lessons in Chemistry”Gustavo Santaolalla – “The Last of Us” Outstanding Original Title Sequence for a Television Production Chanda Dancy – “Lawmen: Bass Reeves”Nainita Desai – “The Deepest Breath”Kevin Kiner – “Ahsoka”Atli Örvarsson – “Silo”Carlos Rafael Rivera – “Lessons in Chemistry” Outstanding Original Song for a Dramatic or Documentary Visual Media Production Jon Batiste, Dan Wilson- “It Never Went Away” – “American Symphony”Nicholas Britell, Taura Stinson – “Slip Away” – “Carmen”Sharon Farber, Noah Benshea – “Better Times” – “Jacob the Baker”Lenny Kravitz – “Road to Freedom” – “Rustin”Olivia Rodrigo, Dan Nigro – “Can’t Catch Me Now” – “The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes” Outstanding Original Song for a Comedy or Musical Visual Media Production Jack Black, John Spiker, Eric Osmond, Michael Jelenic, Aaron Horvath – “Peaches” – “The Super Mario Bros Movie”Heather McIntosh, Allyson Newman, Taura Stinson – “All About Me” – “The L Word: Generation Q”Billie Eilish O’Connell, Finneas O’Connell – “What Was I Made For?” – “Barbie”Mark Ronson, Andrew Wyatt – “I’m Just Ken” – “Barbie”Diane Warren

Olivia Rodrigo and best friend Conan Gray wrapped their arms around each other while out for dinner on Wednesday night (January 10) in Los Angeles.

Caroline Brew editor Billie Eilish and Finneas along with Lenny Kravitz and Diane Warren are among the nominees at the Hollywood Music in Media Awards. Eilish and Finneas landed a nomination for “What Was I Made For?” from “Barbie.

Chris Willman Senior Music Writer and Chief Music Critic In an intimate performance and conversation in Los Angeles Monday night, Olivia Rodrigo admitted that there were tears shed during the making of her new album, “Guts.” But she and producer/co-writer Dan Nigro clarified that it wasn’t just about the emotion in the lyrics. Some of those were tears of frustration as they obsessed over songs and struggled to get her all-important sophomore release just right over its 10-month creation. “We cried just because we were frustrated.

The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess, which fans have been waiting to hear for a long time.For those who don’t know much about Roan, read on below and then give her album a play.Her Stage NameNo, Chappell Roan isn’t her real name. To pay tribute to her grandfather, Dennis K. Chappell, who passed away from brain cancer a year or so before she signed her first record label deal, the singer adopted the stage name Chappell Roan.