Elton John was in the middle of his Farewell Yellow Brick Road tour in March 2020, when the pandemic sent the world into quarantine. Soon, like the rest of us, he was back home. “I filled my days like everyone else seemed to be filling their days,” he writes in …
Read More »Elton John, Dua Lipa Drop Blessed Madonna Remix of 'Cold Heart'
Elton John and Dua Lipa have shared the Blessed Madonna’s remix for their recent single “Cold Heart,” a track off John’s upcoming all-star album The Lockdown Sessions. “Like just about everyone on the planet, I stand in awe of Elton John and Dua Lipa,” the Blessed Madonna said in a …
Read More »Kylie Minogue Taps Dua Lipa for 'Real Groove' Remix
“I feel like you, Joe Biden and Dua Lipa are the only people that had a good 2020,” Jimmy Kimmel joked to John Mulaney last month. Kylie Minogue agreed, tapping her dance-pop peer for a “Studio 2054” remix of “Real Groove,” the third single off her recently release albumDisco. The …
Read More »Pay-for-Play Was Banned From Radio — But Texts Reveal It May Still Be Thriving
I n June 2019, Mitch Mills, a senior vice president of radio promotion at Elektra Records, sent an urgent text to Steve Zap, an independent radio promoter who works with a number of stations in the adult contemporary format. The pair are both longtime players in the music industry, and …
Read More »Dua Lipa Was Worried No One Would Come to Her Glastonbury Set
Dua Lipa joined host Zane Lowe on Apple Music’s Beats 1 this week to talk her upcoming album,Future Nostalgia, and her sudden rise to fame with her hit single from 2017, “New Rules.” “Maybe the first time I was like, ‘Oh, something’s happening,’ was when I played Glastonbury,” the British …
Read More »Grammy Preview 2020: Mark Ronson Talks Awkward 'Rehab' Win, Why He's Gone Emo
First-round Grammy voting is currently underway, and running through October 10th. For our2020 Grammy preview, we asked a series of likely contenders to reflect on their past experiences at the ceremony, look ahead to the future, and break down the albums and singles that could earn them a statue come …
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