Songs: Last News

With the UK on lockdown, a three-part tale appears to be emerging from the nation’s speakers right now as music lovers split between listening to uplifting classics, “apocalyptic” isolation songs and kids’ favourites, according to new Official Charts Company data.

As if it weren't enough that he's already given us one of the best rap albums of 2020 with Big Conspiracy, London's J Hus dropped off what seems to be the first installment of a new video series earlier this week.

Ace’s “How Long,” a No. 3 hit in 1975 for the British rock band, was the first single to introduce music audiences to the voice of Paul Carrack, who went on to become a vocalist for other influential groups like Squeeze and Mike & The Mechanics. And thanks to a buzzy new TV campaign from Amazon’s Prime and Echo Show tablet, Carrack’s first hit is finding a whole new audience.

How do you embrace music in the midst of a crisis, when you can’t go to live concerts or dance out on the town with friends? One idea: crank up the volume and listen.

Justin Bieber is releasing twice-weekly EPs to showcase some of his less-famous songs.

Diana Ross adds her eighth No. 1 on Billboard's Dance Club Songs chart, as "Love Hangover 2020" rises 2-1 on the survey dated March 28. The track, remixed by Eric Kupper and Ra

Russ and Bia each claim a career first No. 1 on Billboard’s Rhythmic Songs airplay chart as “Best on Earth” jumps 3-1 on the list dated March 28.The collaboration rises through a 7% boost in plays in the week ending March 22 compared with the week prior, according to Nielsen Music/MRC Data.For Russ, “Earth” achieves the rapper’s maiden leader on his 10th Rhythmic Songs entry.

For the second time since his July 2017 death, Chester Bennington is back in the top 10 of Billboard's Mainstream Rock Songs airplay chart.Grey Daze, the band Bennington fronted before his breakthrough with Linkin Park, rises 11-10 on the Mainstream Rock Songs list dated March 28 with "Sickness," the lead single from a new album from the Phoenix group featuring songs recorded while Bennington was still a member before his 1998 departure.With the song, Grey Daze earns its first top 10 on a Billboard chart; the band did not chart during its original run.Bennington also reached Mainstream Rock Songs' top 10 after his passing via a featured appearance on Mark Morton's "Cross Off," which hit No. 7 in April 2019.

Billie Eilish took to social media on Wednesday (March 25) to share all the different music that provided inspiration for each song on her debut album, When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go?

"I'd rather they just have the memory of a version where we really meant it."

Cory Asbury's "The Father's House" climbs 12-10 on Billboard's Hot Christian Songs chart dated March 28. The track pushes 10-7 on Christian Airplay, up by 6%

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Each week, The FADER staff rounds up the songs we can't get enough of. Here they are, in no particular order.

It's their first record in three years

Over the last few years, Charli XCX has made a reputation for herself as pop futurism’s arbiter of taste and style. Since the release of her Vroom Vroom EP in 2016, Charli’s records have proven themselves strangely prescient, platforming stars like SOPHIE and Kim Petras from their earliest days and pulling underground icons like Mykki Blanco and Yaeji into the mainstream.

It wasn’t written as a love song for the end of the world, but Margaret Glaspy’s “Killing What Keeps Us Alive” is exactly that: a romantic, alarming and urgent reminder that our presence may be fleeting, but love doesn’t have to be. The chorus, which she sings with a robotic modification at first, speaks to that: "We keep living like we'll never die / And we keep killing what keeps us alive."

Prior to Billboard’s Streaming Songs chart dated March 28, just two artists -- Drake and Future -- had landed at least 50 entries on the tally in its seven-year history. Now, make that three, courtesy of Lil Uzi Vert. The rapper lands 12 debuts on the Streaming Songs survey dated March 28 f

Deerhoof have announced their new album Future Teenage Cave Artists with two new songs: the title track and “The Loved One.” The album is due out May 29 via Joyful Noise. Check out both songs below.

It would be the band's first material since they reunited last year

With the coronavirus going around, it's not the best idea to stay at the Y.M.C.A., but that didn't prevent the Library of Congress from inducting the signature tune from Village People into the National Recording Registry. Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden has named "Y.M.C.A." and 24 other aural treasures as worthy of preservation this year, picked because of their cultural, historical and aesthetic importance to the USA's recorded sound heritage, it was announced Wednesday.

With the coronavirus going around, it's not the best idea to stay at the Y.M.C.A., but that didn't prevent the Library of Congress from inducting the signature tune from Village People into the National Recording Registry. Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden has named "Y.M.C.A." and 24 other aural treasures as worthy of preservation this year, picked because of their cultural, historical and aesthetic importance to the USA's recorded sound heritage, it was announced Wednesday (March 25). Also making the playlist are such albums as Cheap Trick at Budokan, a classic live import; Tina Turner's liberat