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Taylor Swift surprised fans with a social media announcement this morning that she will release new album Evermore tonight at midnight ET, along with a video for new song “Willow.” Swift tweeted that she will log on to YouTube for the midnight premiere to answer questions about the album, which she described as a “sister” album to her recently released folklore.

It’s a Christmas miracle!!

Taylor Swift has been extra busy this year.

Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorIn a surprise announcement, Taylor Swift revealed that she will be releasing a new album tonight (Thursday, December 11) called “Evermore,” which she described as a “sister” album to her latest release, “Folklore.”More to come… I’m elated to tell you that my 9th studio album, and folklore’s sister record, will be out tonight at midnight eastern. It’s called evermore.

Paloma Faith has opened up about how the pandemic changed the sound of her latest album Infinite Things. 

Barbarossa – aka musician James Mathé – has announced that he will release his latest album, ‘Love Here Listen’, next spring. Accompanying this announcement is new single, ‘Iris2Iris’.“I was thinking about how I have moments of clarity more and more as I get older of what is really meaningful in my life and how I can best use my time in this life”, says Mathé of the new song.

Lali is staying true to her star sign.“It was a learning process for me, to find that balance between my pop music and the influences and sounds that, while I’ve been working on this record, have really taken hold -- urban pop, urban music, all that fusion that makes up the urban sound,” she tells ET. “ is an album where I found that balance I’m always seeking, like the good Libra I am.

If you were to give your album a title that perfectly captures what 2020 has been like, you couldn't have hit the nail on the head much better than Yungblud, who named his new album Weird!. Exclamation mark very much intended.

Taylor Swift, 30, proved she knows how to make her downtime inspirational when she revealed she turned her quarantine movie nights with boyfriend Joe Alwyn, 29, into critically acclaimed songs. The singer opened up about how she thought to produce what is now her latest storytelling album, Folklore, at a time she least expected it, in a new interview with Entertainment Weekly, and it involved some romantic moments with her actor beau.

Bad Bunny is no stranger to pulling off the seemingly impossible: he’s released three extremely high-quality albums this year alone, and in the process became the most streamed artist on Spotify in the entire world this year, beating out Drake, J Balvin, and Juice WRLD. Now, he’s broken another record: as Billboard reports and Pitchfork notes, his latest album, last week’s EL ÚLTIMO TOUR DEL MUNDO, has hit No.

Yungblud has opened up on how he channeled the uncompromising spirit of Amy Winehouse while making his second album.The Doncaster singer, real name Dom Harrison, revealed that Winehouse was a “huge influence” on his creative process while recording ‘Weird!’ – which debuted to a five-star review today (December 4).Speaking to NME for this week’s Big Read, Harrison explained how the late singer’s influence helped him navigate tricky meetings with music industry executives throughout the creation

The Network, the not-so-secret side project of Green Day, have made their new album ‘Money Money 2020 Part II: Told Ya So!’ available to stream.It follows the band’s recent EP ‘Trans Am’ which was released last month and is a follow up to their 2003 debut album ‘Money Money 2020’.The new record sees the trio pick up where they left off by poking fun at dystopic futures, technology, and the mind-melting abilities of culture in general over the span of 25 new songs.

The Avalanches have announced a plans to play a livestream DJ show to celebrate the release of their forthcoming album ‘We Will Always Love You’.Filmed on the rooftop of Melbourne institution Curtin House, the duo will be spinning tunes from their own back catalogue, along with tracks from their eclectic record collections on Saturday, December 19.The performance will be streamed three times across three time zones, including a performance at 8pm GMT in the UK.

Greta Van Fleet have announced that they’ll return next year with their second album, The Battle At Garden’s Gate’, as well as sharing the first track from the record.The U.S.

Shawn Mendes is kicking off a new era with his latest album,, and he says it «feels like freedom.»The 22-year-old Canadian crooner dropped his fourth studio album on Friday, which features 14 tracks of what Mendes says is «my favorite art that I've ever made in my life.»«I know I really feel like I created an album that feels like freedom,» he told ET's Katie Krause of creating . «I felt very free just making it.

Shawn Mendes has grown up in front of the world’s very eyes. After finding fame on YouTube and Vine in the early 2010s, the Ontario native got bigger and bigger with each song he released.

The Hold Steady have announced their eighth album ‘Open Door Policy’ – listen to lead single ‘Family Farm’ below.Following on from last year’s ‘Thrashing Thru The Passion’, the 11-track record is due for release in February on the band’s Positive Jams label (via Thirty Tigers).It was recorded at The Clubhouse in Rhinebeck, New York alongside producer Josh Kaufman and engineer D. James Goodwin.

Miley Cyrus‘ fans are PISSED they can’t get their hands on her new album, Plastic Hearts!

AC/DC‘s Angus Young has explained the idea behind the title of the band’s new album ‘Power Up’.‘Power Up’ came out earlier this month, and became the fastest-selling album of 2020.“I went through everything — like titles in songs,” Young told Australian radio station Triple M of the selection process for the album title.“In the song ‘Realize’, there’s the line, ‘I’ve got the power to mesmerise.’ The word ‘power,’ it goes back to the name AC/DC.