Music news you may have missed! (4/27/24)
All the relevant news and new music releases from the week you should know about.
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Fun Fact: Taylor Swift’s new album The Tortured Poets Department has become the first album ever on Spotify to hit 1 billion streams in just one week. And guess what? It only took five days. Crazy.
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It would appear that New Found Glory has begun working on new music
Garbage’s Shirley Manson on when their label once chose to invest in No Doubt over them: “It was devastating”
Speaking of Garbage, it looks like they are in the studio.
Spotify gross profits top $1B, revenues jump 20% in quarterly earnings. I bet they still won’t offer more pay to artists though.
Fans react after Oasis, Mariah Carey, Jane’s Addiction and more snubbed for Rock N’ Roll Hall Of Fame 2024
US Congress approves bill to ban TikTok in the United States unless ByteDance sells the platform. This will go over well, won’t it?
Kanye West planning to launch career in porn. Didn’t see that one coming (that’s what she said).
Megan Thee Stallion accused of forcing cameraman to watch her have sex in moving car
Government rejects recommendations of Misogyny In Music report. This is worth a read.
John Lennon’s ‘Help!’ guitar headed to auction after spending the last 50 years in an attic
blink-182, Gwen Stefani & Sublime lead South Star Festival’s inaugural lineup
Speaking of blink-182, they’ve announced the final 2024 leg of the 'One More Time' tour
twenty one pilots push back release of new album Clancy by one week as they try to create music videos for every song.
Linkin Park lands record eighth No. 1 on Top Hard Rock Albums Chart with greatest hits record Papercuts
The Get Up Kids to play Something to Write Home About in full on anniversary tour
Eminem announces new album, The Death of Slim Shady (Coup De Grâce)
The Smashing Pumpkins reveal new guitarist for upcoming tour. Spoiler: It’s Kiki Wong who has performed alongside Taylor Swift and Usher in the past.
The Starting Line sat down with Variety to talk about Taylor Swift shouting them out in her new song “The Black Dog”
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I won't deny it, I am one of the fans that is bummed to see Oasis snubbed.