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Vinyl outsells CDs for first time in three decades

Vinyl sales continue to rise and CD sales continue to decline. For the first time since 1987, vinyl sales have surpassed CD sales in the US, according to a new report from the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). Vinyl sales reached $1.2 billion in 2022, up 17.2%, while CD sales saw another decline, falling 17.6% to $482 million. Despite the impressive numbers for vinyl sales in the US, however, actual sales only increased by 3%, which means that vinyl prices are still rising. In 2021, the average price of a vinyl record hovered at $26.12, while in 2022, the average price rose to $29.65, due to a wide range of factors, including increased production costs and......

Shakira breaks 14 Guinness World Records with 'BZRP Music Sessions Vol. 53"

Shakira addresses her ex-partner Gerard Piqué with the caustic electropop song. Guinness World Records announced that Shakira broke 14 records on the Spotify and Billboard charts thanks to her collaboration with Argentinian DJ Bizarrap on 'BZRP Music Sessions Vol. 53". Among the records he broke, 'BZRP Music Sessions Vol. 53” – the scathing electropop banger directed at her ex-partner Gerard Piqué – became the most streamed Latin song on Spotify in both 24 hours and one week. The song garnered 14.4 million streams in a single day and 80.6 million streams in a week of its release. The 'BZRP Music Sessions Vol. 53” also broke the......

Jason Derulo: The incredibly generous tip he left at a restaurant

Jason Derulo made a restaurant waiter in Nebraska happy. Jason Derulo left an extremely generous tip at a restaurant that was enough to cover a restaurant employee's college tuition. A waiter at a restaurant in Omaha, Nebraska, USA, posted a video on TikTok revealing that the singer left him a $5,000 tip on a bill totaling $799.95 during a March 5 outing at Charleston's Restaurant. Jordan Schaffer, the waiter who posted the video, also noted that the generous tip was enough to cover the cost of his college tuition for an entire semester. "Wow, my heart is beating really fast," the waiter says in the video, while looking at Jason Derulo and company. The singer replied: "You guys are......

Eurovision 2023: Loreen returns to the competition with 'Tattoo'

Loreen is already considered the big favorite for this year's Eurovision, a decade after winning the contest with 'Euphoria'. Loreen won this year's Melodifestivalen with her song 'Tattoo' and will represent Sweden at the 67th Eurovision Song Contest in May in Liverpool. Late last year it was announced by Swedish broadcaster SVT that 28 songs were to compete in Melodifestivalen 2023. After six weeks, the singing competition came to an end on Saturday 11 March with the final taking place, with 12 songs taking part and Loreen's 'Tattoo' winning. Advertising Loreen's 'Tattoo' triumphed in both the international jury and public vote. Loreen won by a comfortable margin in the final......

Harry Styles: 'As It Was' Was 2022's Biggest Single Worldwide

Harry Styles' 'As It Was' is officially the biggest hit on the planet for 2022. IFPI, the organization that represents the recorded music industry worldwide, has announced that Harry Styles' 'As It Was' is the best-selling song worldwide for 2022. The IFPI Global Single Award is presented to the artist with the year's highest-selling single worldwide across all digital formats – including subscription streaming, streaming through ad-supported platforms and individual song downloads. 'As It Was' is Harry Styles' first song to win the IFPI Global Single Award. However, this year marks ten years since his other triumphs with the band One Direction, which topped the first IFPI......

Rihanna to sing at the 2023 Academy Awards

Rihanna is expected to sing her Oscar-nominated song "Lift Me Up" for the film "Black Panther: Wakanda Forever" at the awards. Rihanna didn't include "Lift Me Up" in her triumphant Super Bowl 2023 halftime performance on Feb. 12, and there was a reason. Turns out she was saving the song for the Oscars. Rihanna will perform the ballad released for the movie "Black Panther: Wakanda Forever" on stage at the 2023 Academy Awards, which will take place at the Dolby Theater in Hollywood on Sunday, March 12. "Lift Me Up," with music by Tems, Rihanna, Ryan Coogler and Ludwig Goransson and lyrics by Tems and Ryan Coogler, is nominated for this year's Academy Award for Best Original......

The Weeknd & Ariana Grande Release 'Die For You' Remix

The Weeknd and Ariana Grande continue their nearly decade-long collaboration with a remix of 'Die For You' that's gone viral again. The Weeknd and Ariana Grande are teaming up once again. The two pop giants release a new remix of the hit 'Die For You' from The Weeknd's 2016 album 'Starboy', which has been given new life of late. "Die For You" has recently enjoyed an impressive rise up the charts, with the song remaining in the Top 10 of the Billboard Hot 100 for the past seven weeks, peaking at No. 6, its highest position in seven years. In 2016, "Die For You" initially peaked at No. 43 on the Billboard Hot 100. Seven years later, during the week ending January 14, 2023, the song......

Depeche Mode's Dave Gahan recalls 'absolute horror' of two-minute 'death' after drug overdose

"You could feel the darkness around you," recalls Dave Gahan. Depeche Mode's Dave Gahan spoke about the two minutes he was technically dead when his heart stopped beating after an overdose of heroin and cocaine in 1996. Speaking to Alexis Petridis of the British newspaper The Guardian, Dave Gahan recalled the "absolute terror" that gripped him after he collapsed at the Sunset Marquis Hotel in Los Angeles on May 28, 1996. “There was complete blackness and this feeling I had never felt before, complete terror. No sound in the room, nothing, but you could feel the darkness close to you,” he described. "I had what people call an out-of-body experience, and then the next......

Niall Horan 'talks all the time' to One Direction

Niall Horan is grateful for the relationship he continues to have with the rest of One Direction. One characteristic of Niall Horan is that he never shies away from an opportunity to reminisce about his favorite days with One Direction. And he did it again during his appearance on 'The Kelly Clarkson Show', where he explained that the band's start on 'X Factor' is fresh in his mind as he wraps up his first season as a coach on America's 'The Voice' and stressed how grateful he is that their bonds are still intact, at least as far as he's concerned. "We talk all the time, so that's a nice little thing we have," Niall Horan told fellow "The Voice" coach Kelly Clarkson about the support he......

BTS's J-Hope is Louis Vuitton's new ambassador

The K-pop idol had already collaborated with the fashion house as a member of BTS in 2021. BTS's J-Hope is the new ambassador for Louis Vuitton. "The house is delighted to welcome the South Korean artist, who brings his unique charm and style to this exciting new chapter," Louis Vuitton said in a statement sharing the news of the collaboration with J- Hope. "He is loved by audiences around the world for his upbeat energy, precise choreography and creative art direction," the fashion house said. "With a positive presence on and off stage, J-Hope continues to push artistic boundaries and inspire international audiences," added Louis Vuitton. Along with the other members of the BTS......