New Music Friday: Taylor Swift, Blake Shelton, J.Cole & More of the Hottest Songs and Albums of the Week

Animal Talking with Gary Whitta on August 5.Aside from revealing that she's officially working on her next album, also weighed in on the very real possibility of her and Swift recording new music together…soon."I've always dreamed of doing a song with Taylor," Gomez said when she was asked who's on her collaboration wish list.

While we are spending our August locked down, Joe Alwyn and Taylor Swift stepped out to get some fresh air. The couple has been quarantining together in the United States.

Folklore merch in the mail, along with the sweet note from Swift herself. Just ask Whitney Cummings, who was not sent the “cream cable knit cardigan with black matte buttons, dark gray trim, light gray star embroidery” in the mail.

“Folklore” is breaking the Internet.Since dropping last Thursday at midnight, “Folklore” was streamed 80.6 million times on Spotify, breaking the Swedish company’s record for first-day album streams by a female artist, it said.

Little Mix's new single "Holiday" has topped this week's new music poll.Music fans voted in a poll published Friday (July 24) on Billboard, choosing the U.K. quartet's latest pop gem as their favorite new music release from the past week."Holiday," which will appear on the group's upcoming sixth studio album, brought in 63 percent of the vote, beating out new music by Taylor Swift, Logic, Maroon 5, J.

Nicole Kidman is a Swiftie! The Hollywood star spent Friday doing what every Taylor Swift fan in the world was doing – and that's listening to the star's new album Folklore.The 53-year-old shared the most incredible video of herself singing to one of the tracks on the surprise album, which dropped at midnight on Friday, and Taylor was quick to react.MORE: Nicole Kidman and Keith Urban buy incredible £2.75million New York apartment WATCH As Nicole Kidman sings Taylor Swift's new song"On the set

Taylor Swift’s friendships with Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds growing stronger by the year.The Gossip Girl alum first publicly revealed she is a fan of Swift in September 2015 after Lively was accused of throwing shade at the singer-songwriter.“…Sooo, turns out this WASN’T a video shoot for John Legend’s cover of Bad Blood,” the actress wrote alongside a photo from a L’Oreal campaign shoot at the time via Instagram.While social media users thought Lively was poking fun at Swift’s star-studded

Taylor Swift made a surprise announcement on her social media accounts. The Grammy-winning singer reveals she’s dropping a new album at Thursday midnight.

unveiled her newest album “Folklore” early Friday, it wasn’t long before superfans started circulating a theory that the song “Betty” is in fact named after Ryan Reynolds and Blake Lively’s youngest daughter. Swift has long been friends with the acting power couple.Swift’s fans, or “Swifties” as they’re often called, noticed that since Reynolds, 43, and Lively, 32, announced the birth of their daughter on Oct.

Taylor Swift fans believe that a song from her new album “Folklore” may have revealed the name of Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds’ third child. The 30-year-old singer made the surprising announcement on Thursday that she would drop a new album at midnight on Friday amid the COVID-19 pandemic.

LOS ANGELES (Variety.com) — While most of us spent the last four months putting on some variation of “the quarantine 15,” Taylor Swift has been secretly working on the “Folklore” 16. Sprung Thursday night with less than a day’s notice, her eighth album is a fully rounded collection of songs that sounds like it was years in the interactive making, not the product of a quarter-year’s worth of file-sharing from splendid isolation.

Taylor Swift might just have revealed the name of Ryan Reynolds and Blake Lively’s third child through her new song Betty. The song features three names and there’s a very compelling fan theory that suggests they are named after Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds‘ kids! The song is about someone singing about mistreating a girl named Betty and two other names mentioned in the track are Inez and James.

Accompanying the surprise release of her new album Folklore (the visual art for which has some Robert Eggers-esque leanings), Taylor Swift released a new music video for her song “Cardigan” last night. Directed by the singer herself, the video features photography from none other than Rodrigo Prieto, a frequent collaborator with Martin Scorsese, Alejandro González Iñárritu, as well as Ang Lee.

Taylor Swift fans think one of her songs is a shout-out to Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds' youngest daughter, who was born last October. The A-list couple has yet to reveal their third child's name but a few Swifties are speculating as to whether Swift's song, «Betty,» off her new album, , is in honor of the little one.While the song itself is about the mistreatment of a girl named Betty, the only other two names mentioned in the song are Inez and James, which are the names of Lively and

Folklore, is receiving , and the praise is well-deserved. is arguably her strongest in years: a stripped-down, acoustic return to form that feels instinctual, , and nuanced. Naturally, that means there's a trove of new lyrics for .

Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds have yet to announce the name of their third child — but Taylor Swift fans think the singer did in a new song.The Grammy winner, 30, released her surprise eighth studio album, Folklore, on Friday, July 24. One of the 16 songs, “Betty,” mentions the names of Lively and Reynolds’ eldest two children, James, 5, and Inez, 3.“You heard the rumors from Inez,” the Pennsylvania native crooned.