Songs: Last News

Beyonce has ramped up excitement for her upcoming album Renaissance by unveiling the glitzy tracklist. The Single Ladies hitmaker is due to drop her long-awaited seventhstudio album on July 29. She announced the news last month and released the lead single Break My Soul, which saw a departure from her usual R&B sound into house and dance music. With just over a week to go until Renaissance falls into our streaming libraries, Queen Bey has revealed the tracklist featuring an impressive slate of 16 songs. Of course, we’ll be in the dark about the content until next Friday but fans have been able to glean clues from the song titles alone. Virgo’s Groove is the longest track on Renaissance at a hefty six minutes and eight seconds, and is a clear reference to our girl’s star sign with Beyonce, a proud virgo, born on September 4. It’s likely the track America’s Got A Problem will tackle social injustice issues as Beyonce, 40, has been particularly vocal in recent years about police brutality and African-Americans dying from Covid at a disproportionate rate.

The sun is shining right now on what's proving to the hottest summer in the UK's history books, so we at Official Charts thought it was time to take things back to a slightly cooler time, and revisit the biggest songs in the UK over the summer of 2002.

The sun is shining right now on what's proving to the hottest summer in the history books, so we at Official Charts thought it was time to take things back to a...slightly cooler time, and revisit the biggest songs of the summer of 2002. 

Glamour's “Dalla Dalla” kicked off ITZY’s career as part of their first album, It’z Different. Chaeryeong indicates it took four months to prepare for the debut; little did they know at the time that this single would land them a Digital Bonsang (Grand Prize) at the Golden Disk Awards.This content can also be viewed on the site it from.“We were not sure if it was gonna be a hit,” says Lia. “That was also our first song performed when we went on TV in New York [in 2020].”“The song was a little bit weird,” leader Yeji says of her first impression about the track.

Ne-Yo has said that he still listens to R Kelly’s music despite being unsurprised that his fellow musician was convicted for abusing numerous woman and teenagers during his decades long career. That’s because, Ne-Yo adds, he’s “a person that can separate the artist from the art”.Whenever creators are accused of committing particularly heinous crimes – and especially if they are convicted of said crimes – there is usually a big debate as to whether that means people should subsequently boycott that person’s creative output.

Everyone has their special fuzzy memories of their favorite smashes over the years – but now and then, the artists themselves don’t exactly feel the same way about their own music.

Eden Espinosa is currently leading the Broadway-bound production of Lempicka: A New Musical at the La Jolla Playhouse and you can listen to some of the songs here!

We don't envy Lady Gaga, you know?

Mike Wass What’s old is new again. Take Kate Bush’s “Running Up That Hill.” Resurrected by “Stranger Things” and overnight virality on social media, the synth-pop anthem is a chart phenomenon (No. 6 on Billboard’s Hot 100 for the week ending June 30) 37 years after it was first released in 1985.While revivals of that magnitude are rare, release dates have been obsolete on TikTok for years.

Last year saw the release of times, the debut album from the London-based electronic artist SG Lewis. The project enlisted legends like Nile Rogers and Robyn as well as hotly-tipped newcomers like Lucky Daye and Channel Tres to showcase Lewis' meticulous study of dancefloor euphoria. Today, he's released two new singles: “Missing You” and “Something About Your Love.” "Missing You" is '80s synth-rave carried on the back of a snappy Linn drum-sprinkled beat that would make Starboy-era The Weeknd salivate, while "Something About Your Love" will find a home in the heart of anyone missing the glory days of French touch.

Harry Styles and Ed Sheeran have stormed the charts as the biggest songs and albums of the year so far have been revealed. According to data from OfficialCharts.com, Harry’s single As It Was overtook strong competition from Disney’s Encanto film, which previously held the biggest single of the year with We Don’t Talk About Bruno. As It Was is the lead single from Harry’s third album, Harry’s House, and logged a huge 10 weeks at the top of the Official Singles chart, making it the longest-running number one of the year so far. The single also racked up 95million streams and was also the most physically purchased (11,000 units) and digitally downloaded (33,000 units) song of the year so far in the UK.The second place slot was taken by Afrobeats legend Fireboy DML and Ed Sheeran with Peru, which peaked at number two on the Official Singles Chart, having been beaten by We Don’t Talk About Bruno, which comes in at the third biggest song of 2022 so far. Driven by the success of the movie Encanto, the song is by far the most-streamed track of the year to date in the UK with 110 million streams overall, including 36 million video streams, the most for any song so far in 2022.Ed also proved his chart power by racking up three entries in the top 10 singles, with Bad Habits at number four and Shivers at number six as well. His reign also stretched to the albums chart too, with his record = (Equals) taking the top spot for biggest album of the year to date. Check out the full list here.Check out the full list here.Harry came in at number two with Harry’s House, which raked in 244,000 UK chart sales since its release in May.

Breaking up is hard to do. It’s even harder when there are millions of fans following your every move.

Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorThree songs from the posthumous 2010 Michael Jackson album “Michael,” which some fans have long insisted were not sung by the late artist, have been removed from streaming services.A statement from Jackson’s estate and Sony Music, which acquired the rights to unreleased material from the singer’s vaults in a blockbuster $250 million deal in 2010, says the songs were removed in an effort to “move beyond” the controversy but effectively maintains that the vocals were not faked: “Nothing should be read into this action concerning the authenticity of the tracks,” it emphasizes.“The Estate of Michael Jackson and Sony Music decided to remove the tracks ‘Breaking News,’ ‘Monster’ and ‘Keep Your Head Up,’ from the 2010 album ‘Michael’ as the simplest and best way to move beyond the conversation associated with these tracks once and for all,” the statement, issued Tuesday, reads. “The album’s remaining tracks remain available.

You'd think we'd be used to it by now, but somehow, every year, the passing of time baffles us. How are we halfway through 2022 already? Haven't we basically just had Christmas?

Three Michael Jackson songs that appeared on his 2010 posthumous album ‘Michael’ have been removed from streaming services, amid continued claims that they were actually sung by an impersonator.Although, it’s important to note, their removal has “nothing to do with their authenticity”. It’s just that the singer’s fans have become so focussed on the fake vocal claims linked to these tracks that they’ve all – all of them – forgotten that he ever made any other music. Or something like that.“The removal of these three songs has nothing to do with their authenticity”, says a spokesperson.

Chung Ha has released a “highlight medley” for her upcoming sophomore full-length record, ‘Bare & Rare’.Yesterday (July 5), the K-pop idol released a video that features snippets of all eight songs from her forthcoming record, including title track ‘Sparkling’ and ‘Crazy Like You’, her collaboration with 88rising singer-songwriter BIBI.According to the tracklist, ‘Crazy Like You’ will feature lyrics co-written by both Chung Ha and BIBI. Notably, former Big Hit Music producer and singer ADORA, known for her work with BTS, Tomorrow X Together and GFRIEND, is listed as a producer on ’Good Night My Princess’.Meanwhile, Australian producer Tushar Apte appears as a producer and songwriter on the track ‘Louder’.

The estate of Michael Jackson has removed three of the artist's songs from streaming platforms, American Songwriter reports. The songs, “Monster” featuring 50 Cent, “Keep Your Head Up,” and “Breaking News,” all appeared on the 2010 project Michael—some fans and members of Jackson's family believe that Jackson did not sing on the tracks, though a representative denied this in a statement to the fan website Behind The Mask.

Michael Jackson‘s posthumous 2010 album ‘Michael’ have reportedly been removed from streaming services amid accusations that the late star didn’t sing on the recordings.At the time of writing, only seven songs from the 10-track record are listed on Spotify, Apple Music and YouTube Music. The following cuts have been deleted from those platforms: ‘Monster’ (featuring 50 Cent), ‘Keep Your Head Up’ and ‘Breaking News’.The three tracks in question have been part of an ongoing lawsuit between Jackson’s estate and Sony Music, which claims that they didn’t feature the singer’s vocals.In a statement, a spokesperson for Jackson’s official website confirmed that the songs were no longer available online, but claimed the move “had nothing to do with their authenticity” (via American Songwriter).“The Estate and Sony Music believe the continuing conversation about the tracks is distracting the fan community and casual Michael Jackson listeners from focusing their attention where it should be, on Michael’s legendary and deep music catalogue.”Filed in 2014 by Jackson fan Vera Serova, the suit came to public attention again in 2018 after the estate and Sony were forced to issue a statement denying that the latter had conceded that Jackson didn’t sing on the trio of recordings.Three appeals court judges ruled in August 2018 in favour of Jackson’s estate and Sony Music, essentially removing them from Serova’s class-action suit (via Variety).

Thania Garcia Ms. Lauryn Hill reunited with Wyclef Jean at the Essence Festival in New Orleans Friday evening for a surprise performance of four Fugees songs.

Lauryn Hill made a surprise guest appearance during Wyclef Jean‘s set at Essence festival on Friday night (July 1), joining him to perform four Fugees songs.Hill appeared about half an hour into Jean’s set at the New Orleans event, with the two launching into their famous cover of Lori Lieberman’s ‘Killing Me Softly With His Song’, ‘How Many Mics’, ‘Fu-Gee-La’ and ‘Ready Or Not’. Check out some fan-shot footage of the performance below.Fugees is the outfit that Hill, Jean and Pras Michel formed in the early ’90s.

Dr. Dre has spent the last two years working on at least a dozen albums’ worth of material, the modern hip-hop legend said in a new video.In the clip, shared to Instagram on Thursday (June 30), Dre can be seen sitting behind a mixing desk in a studio, while Busta Rhymes looks at him inquisitively.