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Miranda Lambert cozies up to husband Brendan Mcloughlin at the 2022 Academy Of Country Music Honors at Ryman Auditorium on Wednesday night (August 24) in Nashville, Tenn.

Arctic Monkeys have announced the release date for their forthcoming seventh album, The Car. 

Brits are waiting in anticipation to discover who will become the next Love Island host. Irish model Laura Whitmore, 37, announced she would be stepping down as presenter of ITV2's hit reality show this week.

Maren Morris and Zedd have collaborated for a second time on a new song, ‘Make You Say’.Released today (August 20), ‘Make You Say’ was co-written by Zedd (aka Anton Zaslavski), Morris, DJ duo Beauz (aka sibling DJ Bernie and Johan Yang), as well as Charlie Puth and Jacob Kasher Hindlin.The track dropped alongside an official music video. Blending cartoon animation with live action, the clip centres on Morris and her fictional love interest.Watch it below:In a press release, Zedd spoke about the origins of the track and working with the other artists to produce it.

It’s official – dance music is well and truly back dominating the UK’s Official Chart! 

It’s Friday, Friday, gotta get down on Friday — especially when it’s New Music Friday! We’re breaking down this week’s best new tracks to keep on your radar.

Back in February 2017, Frank Ocean stopped thinking ahead. There was no point. Donald Trump had been inaugurated a month prior, any sense of normalcy had crumbled away, and no one knew what to expect next.

Beyoncé reigns atop the Official Albums Chart for a second week with RENAISSANCE.

LF SYSTEM prove they’re not going anywhere as they secure a sixth consecutive week at Number 1 in the UK with breakthrough smash Afraid To Feel.  

Chris Willman Senior Music Writer and Chief Music CriticThe New York component of this fall’s consciousness-raising Global Citizen Festival will bring together artists as stylistically diverse as Mariah Carey, Metallica, Maneskin, Rosalia, Mickey Guyton, Charlie Puth and the Jonas Brothers — with a “bonus Jonas,” as it were, in the form of Priyanka Chopra Jonas, the activist who’ll host for the live audience in Central Park Sept. 24 as well as an ABC broadcast special the following night.The stars will shine as brightly far away from Manhattan, as well, in Accra, Ghana, where the other half of the event will go down — also on Sept.

The line-up for this year's Global Citizen Festival has been revealed with two line-ups split across two cities: New York and Ghana's capaital Accra. 2022 marks 10 years of Global Citizen, which this year is urging world leaders at the United Nations General Assembly ahead of the G20 and COP27 to “invest $600 million into the future of women and girls, close the annual $10 billion climate financing shortfall, deliver $500 million to help African farmers respond to the global food crisis, and provide urgent relief from crushing debts to end extreme poverty now.” Read Next: SZA joins Doechii on “Persuasive” remix The Accra line-up for Global Citizen features Usher, SZA, Tems, Stormzy, H.E.R., Gyakie, Sarkodie, and Stonebwoy.

The star-studded lineup for the 10th Global Citizen Festival has been revealed.

Metallica, Mariah Carey, Rosalía, Måneskin, Jonas Brothers and Charlie Puth.The second festival, meanwhile, is being staged at Black Star Square in Accra, Ghana. Performers for that event include Usher, Stormzy, H.E.R.

Biffy Clyro frontman Simon Neil has guested on a new version of Goldfinger‘s classic song ‘Superman’ – you can listen to the track below.The song, which originally featured on Goldfinger’s 1997 album ‘Hang-Ups’, is part of a new deluxe edition of the band’s 2020 LP ‘Never Look Back’, which was their eighth studio album.This extended version of ‘Never Look Back’ also features a collaboration with Avril Lavigne in the form of a reworking of ‘Here In Your Bedroom’, the lead single from Goldfinger’s 1996 self-titled debut studio album.Blink-182 drummer Travis Barker – who has co-written four new songs for the deluxe edition – plays drums on both of the tracks, as well as on an updated version of Goldfinger’s popular cover of Nena’s ’99 Red Balloons’.You can listen to Goldfinger and Neil collaborating on ‘Superman’ above.IT’S OUT! Never Look Back (Deluxe) is available everywhere featuring 4 new songs and a few older ones with a twist! Huge thanks to @AvrilLavigne, Simon from @BiffyClyro and everyone else who helped make this possible

Avril Lavigne met up with a lot of fellow Canadians over the weekend.

DJ Khaled feat. Drake & Lil Baby’s “STAYING ALIVE” comes with a cinematic like music video directed by R.T. Thorne.

Carly Rae Jepsen has a new song out!

Willow Smith has announced she will release a new album titled ‘COPINGMECHANISM’ next month.The musician took to Instagram yesterday (August 3) to announce that the new record – the follow-up to last year’s ‘Lately I Feel Everything’ – will be arriving on September 23. A new single called ‘Hover Like a Goddess’ is also set to drop later tonight.