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We were gifted two mega-selling, mind - blowing pop albums in 2016: Adele's 25 and Beyoncé's Lemonade.

What does it mean to be a newly out queer black woman of Monáe's stature making a pop album in 2018 when there is no precedent?

Not exact matches

The former enfant terrible of pop music is selling out stadiums to crazed superfans and riding a high of critical and commercial success on his latest album, so it's no wonder he decided to follow in Queen Bey's footsteps and get away from the fray in the five - bedroom hilltop escape, situated on 11 private acres.

The pop star is preparing to embark on a world tour in support of the new album, starting in May 2018.

And her legacy as one of the most influential pop stars and business women of our generation was cemented in April with Lemonade's visual album release on HBO and Tidal, the second of its kind to come from Mrs. Knowles - Carter.

The delay follows Swift's very public doubts about the ethics of streaming services, which meant the pop star's first five albums were only added to Spotify in June.

In just seven days on sale, «25», the first album in four years by the Grammy - winning singer, easily outsold the entire year's figures for country - pop superstar Taylor Swift's hit album «1989», according to official figures released by Nielsen on SaturdaIn just seven days on sale, «25», the first album in four years by the Grammy - winning singer, easily outsold the entire year's figures for country - pop superstar Taylor Swift's hit album «1989», according to official figures released by Nielsen on Saturdain four years by the Grammy - winning singer, easily outsold the entire year's figures for country - pop superstar Taylor Swift's hit album «1989», according to official figures released by Nielsen on Saturday.

Sure, its numbers were goosed by Amazon's 99 cents promotion, but the fact remains that the pop star's Born This Way became just the 17th album to move more than a million units in its first week in the U.S. since SoundScan started tracking sales in 1991.

Eminem is having a pop - up event in Detroit to celebrate the release of his next album, Revival.

The band members reportedly have tastes for West African pop albums, and you can hear the influence in their breezy sound.

The Cool Kids broke all these rules and more with their absurdly fun debut The Bake Sale, an album made with sparse beats (the opening track is just a looped vocal and a bell) and soaked in»90s pop culture.

Her second album as half of the duo, Frou Frou, was more techno based in a European pop style.

In a summer of uber - cool indie releases, it's refreshing to hear a mainstream album with power - pop stylings that's not afraid to express some soul.

With their return to Tooth & Nail Records, the latest album from legendary pop - punk outfit MXPX marks one of the most important alliances in faith - influenced music.

Although country legend Johnny Cash's most famous album was recorded for a captive crowd at Folsom Prison in 1968, simultaneously signaling his pop culture comeback after years lost in addiction and the rise of the live album as a serious piece of art, Live from San Quentin is a stronger album.

This was from Walden's fourth album that pushed him into the pop charts in 1979, with «I shoulda loved ya» and «Tonight I'm alright» played over and over that summer.

For example, back in February they released a list of the top ten rock and pop albums of all time.

On the surface, the album is bright, catchy indie - pop, but on a deeper level, Sunlit Youth is doing some untraditional: It's building songs from fresh, new sounds, pushing creative boundaries in an album that sounds like nothing else in 2016.

«Now we'll spend that much on the whole recording and marketing of a record,» he says, reflecting on the massive changes that have taken place in the streaming era of pop music, where artists releasing music online can top the charts and traditionally powerhouse artist release albums unannounced, sometimes with little marketing.

Cissy Houston got her musical start in her family's gospel troupe and went on to record her own albums and to provide backup vocals to well - known soul and pop acts.

Solomon is Rihanna's personal chef — yes, that Rihanna: RiRi, island queen, Puma designer, and multiplatinum - selling artist whose most recent album, Anti, had her hailed as one of three black women who radicalized pop in 2016.

Popping in to say one last goodnight to the boys lately, I've been finding a common scene: record spinning, and boy nodding off with an album in his hands.

Icelandic pop singer Bjrk gave a series of shows at the New York Hall of Science this February in support of her latest album, called Biophilia.

Phone apps such as Shazam and SoundHound can recognize pop songs playing in the background — and display their titles, performers and album names.

The famous Motown Records was launched here in the late 1950's and went on to produce some of the most celebrated soul and pop albums of all time.

Hyland is focusing more and more on music these days, with a possible album in the works and a catchy new pop single, «Know U Anymore,» out now.

But did you know there are a bunch of songs in the rock genre that are every bit as whiny and annoying as the most emo - y Brit pop, but for some reason U2 have unveiled full details of their fourteenth studio album «Songs of Experience».

You will find reviews on new singles, albums and concerts and interviews with a broad range of artists in contemporary pop music.

This past weekend at the 2012 All - Star Game, Kobe Bryant was on fire breaking and coming in close range with breaking several records held by other NBA Instead of a follow - up solo album, Lil Wayne reached his audience through a plethora of mixtapes and guest appearances on a variety of pop and hip - hop

Others include Blixa Bargeld, a former guitarist with his band the Bad Seeds, and the Australian pop star Kylie Minogue, with whom he had his only major hit, «Where the Wild Roses Grow,» from his «Murder Ballads» album in the mid -»90s.

Performing with her new band, Jones burst upon the pop music scene with her auspicious debut album, Come Away With Me, released by Blue Note Records in 2002.

In the end, I am glad that the album is not forgettable or terrible, it's merely a lot more pop orientated.

A fiery pop album that's unfortunately coated in the icky residue of unearned defiance that has marked Brown's recent output.

If these Top 40 fixtures make the album feel in keeping with current radio pop, they don't crowd Stefani with unnecessary bells and whistles.

In many ways, it is the least forward - looking Daft Punk recording, but also the most ambitious — a concept album that plays like an alternative music history, with an emphasis on styles and sounds that don't usually fit into the Baby Boomer - dictated pop / rock canon.

Monáe has given us a pop record that feels gleefully youthful, perhaps even the album she wishes she could have had as a teen in Kansas City.

Closer than any previous mass - market Sonic Youth album to the avant - garde sound that's always popped up in their extracurricular work.

An album both more mature and more realised than anything Hop Along have realised previously, Bark Your Head Off, Dog is a deft balance of quiet, folky meanderings and rousing slabs of indie rock, the two combining in to an amalgam that on paper, shouldn't really work, but in practice cements Hop Along as far more than another quirky indie pop band, and elevates them in to another realm entirely.

Rarely does a single album capture so much of what's right in a country's current moment in pop music.

An expertly crafted experimental pop album that at various points suggests the work of singer Kate Bush, the effects - drenched work of the Cocteau Twins and British art - rock band Talk Talk — all musicians who mix a certain sonic delicacy with studio heavy production — No Shape exudes confidence and vulnerability in equal measures.

My sentiment of this album is summed up perfectly by the NME quote here: «Allen's old sharp eye feels watery on Sheezus, squinting at the discourse around feminism, race and privilege unfolding online in 2014, and riding them as a bandwagon back to the middle of the very space the Myspace - spawned pop star once owned, but not having the conviction to do much with them once she's arrived.»

Highlights to me are «Era Extrana» and «Future Sick», but the entire album is really top notch space pop in my opinion.

To me it reminded me of the pop group obliged to do one more album under a record deal with a label they no longer like I just felt that the writer / director / creative genius didn't really have his heart in it.

Although many moviegoers may be learning her name for the first time, Larson has been a working performer since she was a child, appearing first in commercials and TV shows and releasing a pop music album at age 16.

Despite the pre-amble that this is Monae's poppiest album to date, and it unquestionably is, that isn't to say she's lost any of her scope or ambition — Dirty Computer still clocks in at just under 50 minutes and shows plenty of the stylistic shifts we've come to expect from Monae — it merely just means she's condensed it into a more cohesive and direct pop record.

There's still not enough of the Jackson that his collaborators saw and loved — he's still a little distant, even in the behind - the - scenes footage — but Bad 25 does make the case for the album as more than a cultural phenomenon but a pop masterpiece, as underrated as any album that sold 30 million copies could ever be.

For Women Seeking Pop Hits in 2017, It's a Climb — Spencer Kornhaber tells how Miley Cyrus, Shania Twain, and Demi Lovato's new albums enter a newly indifferent charts landscape.

In the midst of a late - album cool - down, Mozzy rips another weary, emotional verse out of his torso; Ab - Soul pops up to share his thoughts on the electoral college.

Right from the albums opening track «Capable of Lies» to the closing notes of «All in a Day's Lurk» the album is two parts nostalgia and two parts new as the 4 piece band consisting of Poli van Dam, Jen Razavi, Josh Lewis and Neil Wayne provide listeners with 90's styled pop - punk fueled with modern day angst.

Following musician wannabe Jon (Domhnall Gleeson) as he randomly connects with a bizarre pop group called Soronprfbs (don't worry, no one in the film knows how to pronounce it either) playing one random show with them before they quickly adopt him to be their keyboardist and whisk him away to a remote cabin in Ireland to record their album.