By Ted Johnson
20.03.2020 - 05:49 / billboard.com
"My favorite color is black," José Álvaro Osorio Balvin, who is artistically known as J Balvin, tells Billboard. And, although the question was rather to know his favorite color on a personal level, as of today (Mar. 19), his fans will have more than one color to choose from after the release of his album Colores, a concept album in which each song is named after a different color selected in an unusual but effective way.
Each title is a unanimous decision of Balvin’s team and the color they
By Ted Johnson
Addicted to Tiger King? You’re not alone. The Netflix docuseries that chronicles the rise and fall of Joseph Allen Maldonado-Passage, also known as “Joe Exotic.” The series began as a look at those who own “big cats” and run public zoos. It quickly took a turn into something else, a dark look at the life of zoo owners and the war that occurs between them.
Limmy has created a show that’s perfect TV for our days in lockdown because of the coronavirus.
This just warms our hearts! The boroughs of New York are banding together to applaud the incredibly hardworking healthcare professionals and essential workers who are risking their lives amidst the COVID-19 outbreak. Residents all over the city step onto their balconies or lean outside their windows to ecstatically cheer and yell at 7 p.m.
Lorde may have some music in the works.
Billboard’s First Stream serves as a handy guide to this Friday’s most essential releases — the key music that everyone will be talking about today, and that will be dominating playlists this weekend and beyond.
Last week, 86-year-old Cameroonian saxophonist Manu Dibango died of COVID-19. Dibango’s music shook the world: His discography spans six decades and at least as many genres, with forays into jazz, funk, and hip-hop.
Joe Diffie, who died Sunday (March 29) from complications from COVID-19, brought an everyman appeal to every song he did. He charted 17 songs on the top 10 of Billboard’s Hot Country Songs chart, making him a mainstay on radio throughout the ‘90s and early 2000s during the country explosion.
Billboard’s First Stream serves as a handy guide to this Friday’s most essential releases — the key music that everyone will be talking about today, and that will be dominating playlists this weekend and beyond.This week, Dua Lipa doesn’t want us to stop dancing, PartyNextDoor has the year’s coolest cameo, and Pearl Jam demonstrate why they’re still a force to be reckoned with.
J Balvin wants to help you relax! The Colombian musician teamed up with Spotify for the Colores Experience. In conjunction with the release of his new album, the 34-year-old Blanco rapper curated a playlist complete with guided meditation. Breathe as the rapper takes a few seconds in between songs to talk about the feeling a particular color brings to each element of his life and how it could help you.
Netflix's is one of the best true crime shows to come out in recent memory, and that's saying something. I mean, think about how many there are out there.
New York Governor Andrew Cuomo has issued a stay-at-home orderto more aggressively combat the spread of the coronavirus (COVID-19). The "New York state on pause" directive — outlined as "Policies Assure Uniform Safety for Everyone" — requires 100 percent of the state's non-essential workforce to stay home.
New York Governor Andrew Cuomo is taking action.
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo has expanded coronavirus-related restrictions in the Empire state, ordering non-essential businesses to keep all workers home in an effort to slow the spread of the contagion.
By Erik Pedersen
Billboard’s First Stream serves as a handy guide to this Friday’s most essential releases — the key music that everyone will be talking about today, and that will be dominating playlists this weekend and beyond.
"A way to remain connected while apart"
I did something strange the moment I realized how serious the pandemic was: I Googled "best virus movies" and proceeded to watch almost all of them. , 28 Days Later, Cabin Fever.