Rihanna Teases She’s Ready To Drop A New Album: “I Want It To Be This Year”

Sparks have shared the title track for their new album ‘The Girl Is Crying In Her Latte’.The Los Angeles duo – comprising brothers Ron and Russell Mael – also announced that the song, which you can listen to below, will come with a video featuring actress Cate Blanchett at 5pm GMT tomorrow (March 3) here.They said via press release: “We met Cate Blanchett in Paris at the César Awards last year, little knowing that a year later, one of the great actors of our time (and a splendid person!) would graciously consent to lending her bootie-shaking skills to the first video from our new album, ‘The Girl Is Crying In Her Latte’. Dreams really do come true.

Che Lingo has released new single ‘Out The Blue’ and shared details of his sophomore album ‘Coming Up For Air’.The album follows his critically acclaimed debut ‘The Worst Generation’, and will see the AIM Award-nominated south Londoner talk about mental health and anguish to the full extent“CUFA is an intimate and personal look at myself and the people like me who find it hard to see themselves sometimes,” said Che Lingo. “The CUFA album in my own way is to let people know that they aren’t alone in these trials”.In anticipation of his follow-up record, Lingo has released ‘Out The Blue’; a sombre track to help “break out of the cycle of pressures, inherited and personal, that he and so many suffer from”.Speaking of what inspired the song, Lingo talked of “Times where I felt like I was drowning, fighting things, emotionally and mentally I couldn’t even see and repeating that cycle…This is a story about times like that and how I sung and rapped my way through it.

While it's nothing new, and we're certainly not complaining, Harry Styles' name is inescapable right now.

Ed Sheeran has new music on the way, and the English singer is revealing how emotional pain in his personal life informed and influenced his new album.Sheeran dropped a press release on Wednesday, revealing that his long-awaited new album,, will be hitting shelves May 5, and explained the creative journey that the album took over the past few years.«I had been working on for a decade, trying to sculpt the perfect acoustic album, writing and recording hundreds of songs with a clear vision of what I thought it should be,» Sheeran shared in his statement. «Then at the start of 2022, a series of events changed my life, my mental health, and ultimately the way I viewed music and art.»According to the «Bad Habits» singer, a series of misfortune and tragedy struck — from his wife, Cherry Seaborn, finding out she had a tumor to the death of a close friend, and the stress of fighting a copyright infringement lawsuit.«Within the space of a month, my pregnant wife got told she had a tumour, with no route to treatment until after the birth.

Ellie Goulding has announced that the release of her upcoming album Higher Than Heaven has once again been delayed.

Ed Sheeran has new music on the way, and the English singer is revealing how emotional pain in his personal life informed and influenced his new album.Sheeran dropped a press release on Wednesday, revealing that his long-awaited new album,, will be hitting shelves May 5, and explained the creative journey that the album took over the past few years.«I had been working on for a decade, trying to sculpt the perfect acoustic album, writing and recording hundreds of songs with a clear vision of what I thought it should be,» Sheeran shared in his statement. «Then at the start of 2022, a series of events changed my life, my mental health, and ultimately the way I viewed music and art.»According to the «Bad Habits» singer, a series of misfortune and tragedy struck — from his wife, Cherry Seaborn, finding out she had a tumor to the death of a close friend, and the stress of fighting a  copyright infringement lawsuit.«Within the space of a month, my pregnant wife got told she had a tumour, with no route to treatment until after the birth.

Neighbours fans can officially get excited as some more soap favourites will officially be returning to the revived show, set to premiere later this year. Fans of the long-running Aussie soap were left devastated when it was announced in February 2022 that Neighbours was coming to an end after a 37-year run, with a tear-jerking final episode aired on Channel 5 later that year.

King Charles is showing his support for Ukraine once again.

An urgent 'do not swim' warning has been issued at a UK beach for an entire year after dangerous levels of bacteria were found in the water. Faecal matter has been uncovered at St Mary's Bay on Romney Marsh in Kent by the Environment Agency and swimmers are now being told to stay away throughout 2023.

Charli XCX has revealed that she has signed a new record contract.The pop artist said in 2020 that her latest record, 2022’s ‘Crash’, would be her “5th and final album under my current record deal” with Atlantic Records, which she signed when she was 16.During an appearance on British Vogue‘s ‘In The Bag’ series, Charli showed the camera her “brand new recording contract” for “two albums”. She added: “We’re in business!”Further information regarding the singer’s new contract has not yet been disclosed.

TWICE have announced the ‘Ready To Be’ world tour with stops in South Korea, Australia, Japan and North America.The K-pop girl group will support their upcoming mini-album ‘Ready To Be’ by taking over arenas on the first part of their fifth world tour. It will kick off with two nights in Seoul in April before moving onto Sydney and Melbourne in Australia the following month.

The View have announced their new album ‘Exorcism Of Youth’ along with plans for a pair of UK shows this May.The new record is out June 9 via Cooking Vinyl and will be the first from the indie rockers’ in eight years, having spent five years apart before reconvening in 2022 – you can pre-order/pre-save it here.The first taste of ‘Exorcism Of Youth’ arrives in the shape of lead single ‘Feels Like’, which frontman Kyle Falconer described as “anthemic from the get go”.“Even though under the surface it’s about somewhere everyone’s been in their life before: regret of losing someone amazing due to your inner demons and seeing them moving on with their life, when you’re stuck in a ‘nightmare not a dream,’” he explained in a statement.“When I first sat down to write it I had Holden Caulfield from ‘Catcher in the Rye’ in mind. It’s playing out in his mind and it’s his own paranoia destroying him from the inside out when in reality she’s the perfect woman.”Listen to ‘Feels Like’ below.Alongside the album announcement, The View have shared details of two shows this May at Manchester’s Deaf Institute (10) and London’s Oslo (11), their first shows in both cities since 2017.

Rihanna fans have been eagerly waiting for the release of her next album, which has been many years in the making. Now, following her show-stopping performance at the Super Bowl, the singer has finally given them an update on the much-anticipated project.“I want it to be this year,” Rihanna said during a cover story interview with British Vogue.

The View will release their first new album in eight years this summer.

The Met Office has issued a yellow weather warning for wind as Storm Otto hits the UK.

Clapping back. Rihanna did not hold back when social media users criticized her for referring to her son as “fine.”

Ben Folds has announced that he will release new album ‘What Matters Most’ this summer, and will also be in the UK and Ireland for live shows in the autumn.“There’s a lifetime of craft and experience all focused into this one record”, he says. “Sonically, lyrically, emotionally, I don’t think it’s an album I could have made at any other point in my career”.“I come from the vinyl era, and this perhaps more than any record I’ve made is a true album”, he adds.

Rihanna isn't shying away from the cameras anymore, and her comeback is officially in full swing.Days after her long-awaited Super Bowl Halftime Show – where she announced she is pregnant with her second child with A$AP Rocky – the star is opening up even more about all the questions fans have been asking for the past few years.For a new cover story with British Vogue, in which her relationship with her rapper boyfriend, plus their son, are front and center, she finally spoke about life as a first-time mom, and of course, when that ninth album is coming.WATCH: A$AP Rocky reacts to Rihanna's Super Bowl baby revealMORE: Was Rihanna's son at Super Bowl 2023? Her family life revealed"I just couldn't be a sellout," she first said of why she put off doing the Super Bowl Halftime for so many years. "There's things within that organization that I do not agree with at all, and I was not about to go and be of service to them in any way," she explained.

Rihanna has spoken about her long-awaited ninth album, saying it will be “ridiculous” if it doesn’t get released this year.The pop icon last released an album in 2016 with ‘Anti’, but has continuously promised fans since that new music is on the way.Speaking to British Vogue in a new interview, Rihanna discussed the possibility of a new album arriving soon once again. “I want it to be this year,” she said. “Like, honestly, it’d be ridiculous if it’s not this year.

youngest self-made billionaire, fashion mogul and mom, just to name a few.But she hasn’t forgotten about the one that made her famous: popstar.In a new interview for British Vogue’s March cover story, Rihanna, 34, opened up about motherhood, her Super Bowl gig and the ever-present question of new music on the horizon.The Barbadian singer hasn’t released an album since “ANTI” in 2016, and confessed in the new interview that there’s a lot of “pressure” to put out a follow-up record, saying “that if it’s not better than that then it is not even worth it.”“I realized that if I keep waiting until this feels right and perfect and better, maybe it’s going to keep taking forever and maybe it’ll never come out and no, I’m not down to that. So I want to play.