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]]>This week has been pretty slow in terms of new releases because most of our favorite stars took a break to celebrate Thanksgiving with their loved ones. That didn’t stop our favorite artists outside of the United States from dropping new music and giving us some amazing new songs in the process.
This has been an amazing week for female collaborations, and two of the best songs from our list fall under that category. Kali Uchis and Karol G knocked it out of the park with their new collaboration “Labios Mordidos”, while Björk and Rosalía seamlessly blended their unique artistic styles on their new duet “Oral”.
Speaking of great collaborations to make it to our list, Jacob Collier’s new song “Witness Me” is also worth listening to and features contributions from Shawn Mendes, Stormzy, and Kirk Franklin.
It’s also been a great week for alternative artists, with Winona Oak, The Japanese House, and Sam Fischer managing to beat tough competition and make it to our list of the best new songs of the week.
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]]>The post Best New Songs of the Week appeared first on Hot Pop Today.
]]>This week marked the arrival of two of the most anticipated albums to hit the shelves this month: Janelle Monáe’s The Age of Pleasure and Niall Horan’s The Show. Both albums gave us a bunch of amazing new songs and ended up making it to our list.
This week has been pretty amazing for Latin music, and we’ve seen several of our favorite artists surprise us with new songs. Maluma is ready to welcome summer with the catchy new track “Coco Loco”, while Rosalía is making waves with the new single “Tuya”, which perfectly blends together reggaeton, Japanese instruments, and flamenco.
Our list for this week also features two songs that we’ve been waiting for a while. BTS celebrated their tenth anniversary with the new single “Take Two”, while Sam Smith and Madonna finally unveiled their highly-anticipated collaboration “Vulgar”.
Our list also features the likes of Shawn Mendes, Thirty Seconds To Mars, and PinkPantheress, so stick around and pick your favorite new song.
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]]>The post Shawn Mendes Drops Video for “It’ll Be Okay” appeared first on Hot Pop Today.
]]>This touching visual reteams Mendes with Jay Martin, who previously directed music videos for some of his biggest hits, such as “Stitches” and “In My Blood”. The young singer can be seen wandering Toronto on his own on a snowy day, with nothing but the city’s skyline to keep him company.
Mendes shared a few behind-the-scenes anecdotes with his fans before officially dropping the video. He described it as “beautiful”, but admitted it wasn’t so easy to film because the weather was freezing that night and fake snow was going in his mouth the whole time.
The freezing video perfectly captures the song’s chilling emotional state since Mendes wrote it in the aftermath of a big breakup. The song was originally released in early December, shortly after he announced his split from Camila Cabello.
“It’ll Be Okay” is Mendes’ first song since “Summer of Love” featuring Tainy, but he’s yet to announce if they’ll be a part of his next studio album.
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]]>The post Shawn Mendes Scores His Fourth No. 1 Album with “Wonder” appeared first on Hot Pop Today.
]]>Mendes teased the release of his new album back in late September in a series of social media posts. He said he tried to be “as real and as honest” as ever and added this album “feels like a piece of [him] has been written down on paper and recorded into song.”
Wonder hit the shelves on December 4th, and it was preceded by singles “Wonder”, “Monster” featuring Justin Bieber, and “Call My Friends”, which coincided album’s release. It hit no. 1 on the Billboard 200 chart with 89,000 equivalent units sold in the U.S. during its first week on the chart.
The rest of the chart for this week didn’t feature many newcomers, as Bad Bunny’s El Ultimo Tour del Mundo and Ariana Grande’s Positions took the second and third spot. Christmas albums, including Michael Bublé’s Christmas, Carrie Underwood’s My Gift, Nat King Cole’s The Christmas Song, Pentatonix’s The Best of Pentatonix Christmas, and Mariah Carey’s Merry Christmas were ruling the rest of the top 10.
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]]>The post The Most Epic Award Show Performances of 2019 appeared first on Hot Pop Today.
]]>The Oscars isn’t exactly a music award show, but this list would be incomplete if we failed to mention this moving rendition of “Shallow” that immediately went viral.
This year’s Grammy Awards featured a series of pretty amazing moments, but none of them compares to seeing host Alicia Keys play on two pianos at once.
This list could easily consist of Lizzo’s live performances and nothing else, and no one would complain, but her amazing set at the MTV Video Music Awards made the biggest impact.
Taylor Swift received the Artist of the Decade award at this year’s AMAs and delivered an epic medley of her greatest hits that lasted over 10 minutes, and it really doesn’t get better than that.
The first live rendition of the chart-topping song “Señorita” wasn’t the most theatrical performance at MTV Video Music Awards, but it won us over with the pure emotion that the duo brought to the stage.
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]]>The post BLACKPINK Wins Big at the 2019 People’s Choice Awards appeared first on Hot Pop Today.
]]>BLACKPINK came out victorious in several major categories – best group, best concert tour, and best video of the year for their record-breaking visual for “Kill This Love”. Winners at this ceremony are voted by the public, and they owe this big triumph to their strong fan base.
Shawn Mendes also had a great night at this year’s PCAs and picked up the best male artist award. He also shared the best song award with Camila Cabello, who recorded the chart-topping hit “Señorita” by his side.
The list of winners in the music field also included Billie Eilish (best female artist), Taylor Swift (best album), Blake Shelton (best country artist), and Becky G (best Latin artist). Alessia Cara and Kelsea Ballerini performed during the ceremony, which was held November 10th in Santa Monica.
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]]>The post 2019 MTV EMAs Nominations: Ariana Grande Leads the Way appeared first on Hot Pop Today.
]]>The list of major nominees at this year’s ceremony also includes Billie Eilish, Lil Nas X, and Shawn Mendes, who received a total of six nods each. They’ll all be competing against Grande in the best song category, and the race will be pretty interesting since it includes some of the biggest hits of the summer.
We’ll have to wait until November 3rd to see who’ll take the crown. the MTV EMAs will be held in Seville, Spain. Last year’s event was hosted by Hailee Steinfeld, but we’re yet to find out who’s going to take on the hosting duties this time around.
Best Song
Ariana Grande — “7 Rings”
Billie Eilish — “bad guy”
Lil Nas X (featuring Billy Ray Cyrus) — “Old Town Road (Remix)”
Post Malone and Swae Lee – “Sunflower”
Shawn Mendes and Camila Cabello — “Señorita”
Best Video
Ariana Grande — “thank u, next”
Billie Eilish — “bad guy”
Lil Nas X (featuring Billy Ray Cyrus) — “Old Town Road (Remix)”
Rosalía and J Balvin (featuring El Guincho) – “Con altura”
Taylor Swift (featuring Brendon Urie of Panic! at the Disco) — “ME!”
Best Artist
Ariana Grande
J Balvin
Miley Cyrus
Shawn Mendes
Taylor Swift
Best New
Ava Max
Billie Eilish
Lewis Capaldi
Lil Nas X
Lizzo
Mabel
Best Collaboration
BTS and Halsey — “Boy with Luv”
Lil Nas X featuring Billy Ray Cyrus — “Old Town Road (Remix)”
Mark Ronson featuring Miley Cyrus — “Nothing Breaks Like a Heart”
Rosalía and J Balvin featuring El Guincho – “Con altura”
The Chainsmokers and Bebe Rexha — “Call You Mine”
Best Pop
Ariana Grande
Becky G
Camila Cabello
Halsey
Jonas Brothers
Shawn Mendes
Best Hip-Hop
21 Savage
Cardi B
J. Cole
Nicki Minaj
Travis Scott
Best Rock
Green Day
Imagine Dragons
Liam Gallagher
Panic! at the Disco
The 1975
Best Alternative
FKA Twigs
Lana Del Rey
Solange
twenty øne piløts
Vampire Weekend
Best Electronic
Calvin Harris
DJ Snake
Marshmello
Martin Garrix
The Chainsmokers
Best Live
Ariana Grande
BTS
Ed Sheeran
P!nk
Travis Scott
Best Push
Ava Max
Billie Eilish
CNCO
H.E.R.
Jade Bird
Juice Wrld
Kiana Ledé
Lauv
Lewis Capaldi
Lizzo
Mabel
Rosalía
Best World Stage
Bebe Rexha
Hailee Steinfeld
Muse
The 1975
twenty øne piløts
Best Look
Halsey
J Balvin
Lil Nas X
Lizzo
Rosalía
Biggest Fans
Ariana Grande
Billie Eilish
BTS
Shawn Mendes
Taylor Swift
Global Icon
Best UK & Ireland Act
Lewis Capaldi
Dave
Mabel
Ed Sheeran
Little Mix
Best US Act
Billie Eilish
Lil Nas X
Ariana Grande
Taylor Swift
Lizzo
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]]>The post Shawn Mendes and Camila Cabello Top Billboard Hot 100 with “Señorita” appeared first on Hot Pop Today.
]]>The Hot 100 triumph of this song was a long time coming, but we seriously doubted if it’s ever going to happen. “Old Town Road” by Lil Nas X and Billy Ray Cyrus has been ruling the chart for 19 consecutive weeks, before finally being stopped by Billie Eilish’s “Bad Guy” last week.
It didn’t take long for that to change as the no. 1 spot now belongs to Shawn Mendes and Camila Cabello – and they couldn’t be happier about it!
“I’m so excited about the success of ‘Señorita’ and thank you so much to our incredible fans who made this all a reality. We really put everything into this song and couldn’t have wished for more,” said Mendes in a statement.
Cabello echoed his words by thanking fans and said she’s happy to share this moment with Mendes. The duo previously collaborated on 2016 single “I Know What You Did Last Summer”.
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]]>The post Shawn Mendes & Camila Cabello to Perform at 2019 VMAs appeared first on Hot Pop Today.
]]>The performance that will mark the first time the duo will perform live together was announced by MTV on Wednesday.
“Señorita” has proven to be a HUGE success — according to Variety, since its release, it debuted at number one on iTunes worldwide and broke Spotify’s record for the biggest debut from a male and female duet in its history.
“The reception to ‘Señorita,’ it’s been so cool to see. Especially because this song was eight months in the making,” Cabello told Variety. “Shawn texted me the idea for the song, and he was like, ‘Oh my god, this is amazing that you want to do it.’”
Both Mendes and Cabello nabbed an impressive number of VMA nominations, coming in at six and five respectively.
The VMAs take place August 26.
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]]>The post Get Ready For Shawn Mendes’ Interactive Fan Experience appeared first on Hot Pop Today.
]]>The interactive experience called This Is Shawn is described as “a multi-room interactive experience that allows fans to dive into Shawn’s creative process as he brings his music to life — from writing lyrics to performing live.”
It’ll be running on August 23 and 24 at Union West in Chelsea all day long.
“My fans are the reason I make music and perform,” Mendes said in a press release earlier this year. “This is why I’m so excited to partner with Verizon on some amazing experiences that will get fans even closer to me than ever before. I can’t wait to share the energy of my shows in a truly unique way.”
The event is open to the public so if you’re a Mendes fan and you happen to be in the New York City area — you’re in luck!
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]]>The post Best News Songs of the Week appeared first on Hot Pop Today.
]]>This week has been pretty slow in terms of new releases because most of our favorite stars took a break to celebrate Thanksgiving with their loved ones. That didn’t stop our favorite artists outside of the United States from dropping new music and giving us some amazing new songs in the process.
This has been an amazing week for female collaborations, and two of the best songs from our list fall under that category. Kali Uchis and Karol G knocked it out of the park with their new collaboration “Labios Mordidos”, while Björk and Rosalía seamlessly blended their unique artistic styles on their new duet “Oral”.
Speaking of great collaborations to make it to our list, Jacob Collier’s new song “Witness Me” is also worth listening to and features contributions from Shawn Mendes, Stormzy, and Kirk Franklin.
It’s also been a great week for alternative artists, with Winona Oak, The Japanese House, and Sam Fischer managing to beat tough competition and make it to our list of the best new songs of the week.
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]]>The post Best New Songs of the Week appeared first on Hot Pop Today.
]]>This week marked the arrival of two of the most anticipated albums to hit the shelves this month: Janelle Monáe’s The Age of Pleasure and Niall Horan’s The Show. Both albums gave us a bunch of amazing new songs and ended up making it to our list.
This week has been pretty amazing for Latin music, and we’ve seen several of our favorite artists surprise us with new songs. Maluma is ready to welcome summer with the catchy new track “Coco Loco”, while Rosalía is making waves with the new single “Tuya”, which perfectly blends together reggaeton, Japanese instruments, and flamenco.
Our list for this week also features two songs that we’ve been waiting for a while. BTS celebrated their tenth anniversary with the new single “Take Two”, while Sam Smith and Madonna finally unveiled their highly-anticipated collaboration “Vulgar”.
Our list also features the likes of Shawn Mendes, Thirty Seconds To Mars, and PinkPantheress, so stick around and pick your favorite new song.
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]]>The post Shawn Mendes Drops Video for “It’ll Be Okay” appeared first on Hot Pop Today.
]]>This touching visual reteams Mendes with Jay Martin, who previously directed music videos for some of his biggest hits, such as “Stitches” and “In My Blood”. The young singer can be seen wandering Toronto on his own on a snowy day, with nothing but the city’s skyline to keep him company.
Mendes shared a few behind-the-scenes anecdotes with his fans before officially dropping the video. He described it as “beautiful”, but admitted it wasn’t so easy to film because the weather was freezing that night and fake snow was going in his mouth the whole time.
The freezing video perfectly captures the song’s chilling emotional state since Mendes wrote it in the aftermath of a big breakup. The song was originally released in early December, shortly after he announced his split from Camila Cabello.
“It’ll Be Okay” is Mendes’ first song since “Summer of Love” featuring Tainy, but he’s yet to announce if they’ll be a part of his next studio album.
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]]>The post Shawn Mendes Scores His Fourth No. 1 Album with “Wonder” appeared first on Hot Pop Today.
]]>Mendes teased the release of his new album back in late September in a series of social media posts. He said he tried to be “as real and as honest” as ever and added this album “feels like a piece of [him] has been written down on paper and recorded into song.”
Wonder hit the shelves on December 4th, and it was preceded by singles “Wonder”, “Monster” featuring Justin Bieber, and “Call My Friends”, which coincided album’s release. It hit no. 1 on the Billboard 200 chart with 89,000 equivalent units sold in the U.S. during its first week on the chart.
The rest of the chart for this week didn’t feature many newcomers, as Bad Bunny’s El Ultimo Tour del Mundo and Ariana Grande’s Positions took the second and third spot. Christmas albums, including Michael Bublé’s Christmas, Carrie Underwood’s My Gift, Nat King Cole’s The Christmas Song, Pentatonix’s The Best of Pentatonix Christmas, and Mariah Carey’s Merry Christmas were ruling the rest of the top 10.
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]]>The post The Most Epic Award Show Performances of 2019 appeared first on Hot Pop Today.
]]>The Oscars isn’t exactly a music award show, but this list would be incomplete if we failed to mention this moving rendition of “Shallow” that immediately went viral.
This year’s Grammy Awards featured a series of pretty amazing moments, but none of them compares to seeing host Alicia Keys play on two pianos at once.
This list could easily consist of Lizzo’s live performances and nothing else, and no one would complain, but her amazing set at the MTV Video Music Awards made the biggest impact.
Taylor Swift received the Artist of the Decade award at this year’s AMAs and delivered an epic medley of her greatest hits that lasted over 10 minutes, and it really doesn’t get better than that.
The first live rendition of the chart-topping song “Señorita” wasn’t the most theatrical performance at MTV Video Music Awards, but it won us over with the pure emotion that the duo brought to the stage.
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]]>The post BLACKPINK Wins Big at the 2019 People’s Choice Awards appeared first on Hot Pop Today.
]]>BLACKPINK came out victorious in several major categories – best group, best concert tour, and best video of the year for their record-breaking visual for “Kill This Love”. Winners at this ceremony are voted by the public, and they owe this big triumph to their strong fan base.
Shawn Mendes also had a great night at this year’s PCAs and picked up the best male artist award. He also shared the best song award with Camila Cabello, who recorded the chart-topping hit “Señorita” by his side.
The list of winners in the music field also included Billie Eilish (best female artist), Taylor Swift (best album), Blake Shelton (best country artist), and Becky G (best Latin artist). Alessia Cara and Kelsea Ballerini performed during the ceremony, which was held November 10th in Santa Monica.
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]]>The post 2019 MTV EMAs Nominations: Ariana Grande Leads the Way appeared first on Hot Pop Today.
]]>The list of major nominees at this year’s ceremony also includes Billie Eilish, Lil Nas X, and Shawn Mendes, who received a total of six nods each. They’ll all be competing against Grande in the best song category, and the race will be pretty interesting since it includes some of the biggest hits of the summer.
We’ll have to wait until November 3rd to see who’ll take the crown. the MTV EMAs will be held in Seville, Spain. Last year’s event was hosted by Hailee Steinfeld, but we’re yet to find out who’s going to take on the hosting duties this time around.
Best Song
Ariana Grande — “7 Rings”
Billie Eilish — “bad guy”
Lil Nas X (featuring Billy Ray Cyrus) — “Old Town Road (Remix)”
Post Malone and Swae Lee – “Sunflower”
Shawn Mendes and Camila Cabello — “Señorita”
Best Video
Ariana Grande — “thank u, next”
Billie Eilish — “bad guy”
Lil Nas X (featuring Billy Ray Cyrus) — “Old Town Road (Remix)”
Rosalía and J Balvin (featuring El Guincho) – “Con altura”
Taylor Swift (featuring Brendon Urie of Panic! at the Disco) — “ME!”
Best Artist
Ariana Grande
J Balvin
Miley Cyrus
Shawn Mendes
Taylor Swift
Best New
Ava Max
Billie Eilish
Lewis Capaldi
Lil Nas X
Lizzo
Mabel
Best Collaboration
BTS and Halsey — “Boy with Luv”
Lil Nas X featuring Billy Ray Cyrus — “Old Town Road (Remix)”
Mark Ronson featuring Miley Cyrus — “Nothing Breaks Like a Heart”
Rosalía and J Balvin featuring El Guincho – “Con altura”
The Chainsmokers and Bebe Rexha — “Call You Mine”
Best Pop
Ariana Grande
Becky G
Camila Cabello
Halsey
Jonas Brothers
Shawn Mendes
Best Hip-Hop
21 Savage
Cardi B
J. Cole
Nicki Minaj
Travis Scott
Best Rock
Green Day
Imagine Dragons
Liam Gallagher
Panic! at the Disco
The 1975
Best Alternative
FKA Twigs
Lana Del Rey
Solange
twenty øne piløts
Vampire Weekend
Best Electronic
Calvin Harris
DJ Snake
Marshmello
Martin Garrix
The Chainsmokers
Best Live
Ariana Grande
BTS
Ed Sheeran
P!nk
Travis Scott
Best Push
Ava Max
Billie Eilish
CNCO
H.E.R.
Jade Bird
Juice Wrld
Kiana Ledé
Lauv
Lewis Capaldi
Lizzo
Mabel
Rosalía
Best World Stage
Bebe Rexha
Hailee Steinfeld
Muse
The 1975
twenty øne piløts
Best Look
Halsey
J Balvin
Lil Nas X
Lizzo
Rosalía
Biggest Fans
Ariana Grande
Billie Eilish
BTS
Shawn Mendes
Taylor Swift
Global Icon
Best UK & Ireland Act
Lewis Capaldi
Dave
Mabel
Ed Sheeran
Little Mix
Best US Act
Billie Eilish
Lil Nas X
Ariana Grande
Taylor Swift
Lizzo
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]]>The post Shawn Mendes and Camila Cabello Top Billboard Hot 100 with “Señorita” appeared first on Hot Pop Today.
]]>The Hot 100 triumph of this song was a long time coming, but we seriously doubted if it’s ever going to happen. “Old Town Road” by Lil Nas X and Billy Ray Cyrus has been ruling the chart for 19 consecutive weeks, before finally being stopped by Billie Eilish’s “Bad Guy” last week.
It didn’t take long for that to change as the no. 1 spot now belongs to Shawn Mendes and Camila Cabello – and they couldn’t be happier about it!
“I’m so excited about the success of ‘Señorita’ and thank you so much to our incredible fans who made this all a reality. We really put everything into this song and couldn’t have wished for more,” said Mendes in a statement.
Cabello echoed his words by thanking fans and said she’s happy to share this moment with Mendes. The duo previously collaborated on 2016 single “I Know What You Did Last Summer”.
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]]>The post Shawn Mendes & Camila Cabello to Perform at 2019 VMAs appeared first on Hot Pop Today.
]]>The performance that will mark the first time the duo will perform live together was announced by MTV on Wednesday.
“Señorita” has proven to be a HUGE success — according to Variety, since its release, it debuted at number one on iTunes worldwide and broke Spotify’s record for the biggest debut from a male and female duet in its history.
“The reception to ‘Señorita,’ it’s been so cool to see. Especially because this song was eight months in the making,” Cabello told Variety. “Shawn texted me the idea for the song, and he was like, ‘Oh my god, this is amazing that you want to do it.’”
Both Mendes and Cabello nabbed an impressive number of VMA nominations, coming in at six and five respectively.
The VMAs take place August 26.
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]]>The post Get Ready For Shawn Mendes’ Interactive Fan Experience appeared first on Hot Pop Today.
]]>The interactive experience called This Is Shawn is described as “a multi-room interactive experience that allows fans to dive into Shawn’s creative process as he brings his music to life — from writing lyrics to performing live.”
It’ll be running on August 23 and 24 at Union West in Chelsea all day long.
“My fans are the reason I make music and perform,” Mendes said in a press release earlier this year. “This is why I’m so excited to partner with Verizon on some amazing experiences that will get fans even closer to me than ever before. I can’t wait to share the energy of my shows in a truly unique way.”
The event is open to the public so if you’re a Mendes fan and you happen to be in the New York City area — you’re in luck!
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