We may have had Brat summer, but for Charli XCX, it was a Brat year.The British singer had a breakout ride with the release of her sixth studio album, Brat, one that catapulted her from niche hitmaker to full-blown pop music superstar. Here’s a look at Charli XCX’s 2024:-After a month of anticipation, on the…… Read More…
Rowan PapierAva Max has a new Christmas song this year called “1 Wish,” and every year, her mom fulfills her Christmas culinary wish by making her — and everyone else — a special treat.Like Dua Lipa, Ava is Albanian, and she says every Christmas her mom makes a traditional treat: baklava.”We give it out to…… Read More…
Rick Kern/Getty ImagesIn September, Chappell Roan told one of her audiences that she had finally gotten around to watching Glee and had made it to season two. Well, apparently, she had some thoughts on season three — one particular episode, to be specific — and has now apologized for those thoughts … sort of.On the…… Read More…
Axelle/Bauer-Griffin/FilmMagicMiley Cyrus had a pretty great year. She won the first two Grammys of her career for her hit “Flowers,” was named the youngest-ever Disney Legend and received multiple award nominations — including a Golden Globe nod — for “Beautiful That Way,” a song she co-wrote for the movie The Last Showgirl. But Miley is…… Read More…
RepublicAriana Grande got a nice Christmas present this week: 10 years after its release, her 2014 song “Santa Tell Me” finally reached the top 10 on the Billboard Hot 100. It now has the distinction of being the most recently-released Christmas song to chart that high, making it an official modern classic.Ari posted a video…… Read More…
CapitolTired of all those year-end “best-of” lists? Well here’s the antidote: Variety has put together a “Worst Songs of 2024″ list, and some well-known names are on it.”Been Like This,” Meghan Trainor’s collab with one of her musical heroes, T-Pain, is on the list. Variety says that it isn’t “offensively awful,” but that it “lacks…… Read More…
Charles Sykes/Bravo via Getty ImagesIs 2025 the year Charlie Puth becomes a bigger artist?In a TikTok video, a fan asked Charlie when his next album was coming out. “The top of next year,” he replied. And then, referring to the fact that he takes a long time between projects, he added, ” So, not five years,…… Read More…
Kevin Mazur/One Love Manchester/Getty Images for One Love ManchesterAriana Grande has once again proven that she’s worthy of her status as a honorary citizen of Manchester, England.The singer has donated gifts to the Manchester Foundation Trust Charity, for distribution across its hospital system.”We are so grateful to Ariana for thinking of our young patients this…… Read More…
Legacy/ColumbiaTalk about a down-to-the-wire Christmas present: Mariah Carey has unwrapped a brand-new Billboard Hot 100 record.Her song “All I Want for Christmas Is You” is spending another week at #1 on the Hot 100, bringing its collective run on top of that tally to 17 weeks. That’s longer than Mariah’s previous longest-running #1 hit, “One…… Read More…
Disne/Frank MicelottaLike everybody else, Barack Obama was at the bar getting tipsy with Shaboozey in 2024.The former president has released his annual year-end playlist of his favorite music of 2024, and included is the chart-topping singer’s track “A Bar Song (Tipsy).””Here are my favorite songs from this year!” Obama captioned the post. “Check them out…… Read More…