Justin Timberlake already delivered an incredible Album with part 1 of The 20/20 Experience, which, since being released in March, has become the bestselling album of 2013.
The sequel, recorded during the same sessions, stands as a stellar Album in its own right. JT's album sequel, officially out, 'creates a visceral listening experience,' one music critic writes. We had to wait seven years for new music from Justin Timberlake. But in less than seven months, Timberlake has doubled his solo album output, giving fans over 140 minutes of new material.
The 74-minute collection, already out in stores, is the companion piece to March's surprise 20/20 Experience, which already sold over 2 million copies!
Working again with Timbaland, as well as producer Jerome "J-Roc" Harmon, 2 of 2 is a further exploration into Timberlake's long-listen suite of sensual soul throwback disco and languid ballads, led by the dance-ready "Take Back The Night" and hard-hitting "TKO" singles. And, in keeping with his career-long tendency to feature carefully curated hip-hop cameos, it has verses from Jay Z and Drake.
Timberlake trades in the elegance of the first album for something more sanguine, more hedonistic. He sings of animalistic desire and lurid fantasies, exploring metaphors of boxing, blood and murder over tracks packed with spiky horns, jagged guitar riffs and unspooling synthesizers. The album's bottom-heavy production — as is also the case with his 15-piece touring band — creates a visceral listening experience.
The first half of Timberlake's Experience felt contented in its relationships, often celebratory; Part 2 is no less committed, but it addresses the darker, more warped impulses. Musically, the endeavor is as ambitious as anything attempted by the soul greats Timberlake clearly admires: Marvin Gaye, Stevie Wonder and Curtis Mayfield.
While Miley Cyrus‘ album Bangerz isn’t available in stores until Oct. 4, snippets of songs from "Bangerz" album were dropping all weekend, and now the whole album is streaming on iTunes — four days early!
Although the public has expressed extremely different reactions to Cyrus' music and performances, she is a huge commercial success and her two singles are at the top of the global charts. Her new Album will be competing with the most anticipated Albums of the year including Britney Spears', Lady Gaga's, Katy Perry's and Justin Timberlake's to name just a few, but everyone is eager to listen to "Bangerz", because Miley is on the tip of everyone's tongues and everyone wants to see what she'll do next!
"Bangerz" is Miley's Cyrus' fourth studio album and her first on RCA Records.
"Every time I do something, I want to remember, 'This is what separates me from everyone else,'" Cyrus says in the upcoming MTV documentary "Miley Cyrus: The Movement."
Her new Album certainly proves this!
Not only does it display a different side of her that we’ve never heard, it also takes a deeper look into the emotions Miley’s feeling. She previously revealed that “Drive,” no. 9 on the album was written during an emotional, “hard time.”
“I wrote it while I was working on Valentine’s Day,” she told FASHION magazine. “Emotionally it was such a hard time. It is about needing to leave someone but not really wanting to completely cut yourself off from the relationship. It’s a time when you want to leave but you can’t. It’s also about moving on.“
Here’s the full list of songs, including her amazing collaborations:
1. “Adore You”
2. “We Can’t Stop”
3. “SMS (Bangerz),” featuring Britney Spears
4. “4×4,” featuring Nelly
5. “My Darlin’,” featuring Future
6. “Wrecking Ball”
7. “Love Money Party,” featuring Big Sean
8. “#GETITRIGHT”
9. “Drive”
10. “FU,” featuring French Montana
11. “Do My Thang”
12. “Maybe You’re Right”
13. “Someone Else”
14. “Rooting for my Baby”
15. “On My Own”
16. “Hands in the Air,” featuring Ludacris
Lorde has the World's 5th best-selling Single this week! Her global hit "Royals" is also No.3 in the American Hot 100 Singles Chart for a third week and N°1 on the Digital Songs Chart (307,000, up 17%). She is the first solo female to send a debut entry to No.1 on the sales tally since Carly Rae Jepsen ruled for eight weeks last year with "Call Me Maybe." The track crowns alternative Songs for a seventh week, extending its mark as the longest leading N°1 by a lead female in the chart's 25-year history. "Royals" tops Hot Rock Songs for a fourth week and blasts into the Pop Songs top 10 (13-5).
But Lorde, at just 16, is a singer and songwriter with the maturity of someone twice her age. Born Ella Yelich-O'Connor on the North Shore of Auckland, New Zealand, Lorde has been compared to Alanis Morissette but cites artists such as James Blake, Etta James, Fleetwood Mac, and Otis Redding as her influences. Lorde was discovered by her current manager and Universal Music New Zealand A&R rep Scott Maclachlan at age 12 and was signed to the label at just 13. In 2012 Lorde released her debut EP, "The Love Club EP". The five-track EP reached No. 23 on the Billboard Top 200, spurred by the hit "Royals". The singer admitted it was pretty easy to write the song. “Lyrically, I wrote it super fast. I was just at home on a Saturday or something and wrote it in like half an hour, an hour,” Lorde said. “And it didn’t even end up getting rearranged that much. The bridge was the only part I wrote afterward, and then it took us kind of a few days in the studio figuring it out. Yeah, it was swift, I guess.”
In regards to her much anticipated debut Album "Pure Heroine" out Sept. 30, but currently streaming online, Lorde says she loves the song “Ribs,” which is about “getting old and rites of passage and being a teen and all that kind of stuff.” Produced by Joel Little, "Pure Heroine" features 10 tracks co-written by Lorde, including "Royals" and "Tennis Court". Lorde is currently in the midst of an international tour with dates scheduled through February 2014.
Britney is so hawt in her new video "Work B***h!
Britney looks amazing in her new video after training five hours a day for her exhaustive schedule of highly anticipated Las Vegas shows. See video below!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jueKLll9ZyY
The video, directed by Ben Mor, was shot over three days in the desert. The clip features Spears in several setups surrounded by sexy female dancers. The singer gyrates in front of a white wall, takes a lingering look at herself in a vanity mirror in the desert and later stands at attention, surrounded by scantily clad dancers, as a white Lamborghini drives around in the background.
"I had to learn to use a bullwhip," Britney revealed. "I may or may not have hit Ben with it a few times." She tweeted about how conditions shooting the video were tricky in the searing desert heat. "Gonna get my tan on in the desert in between shots on the#WorkB***h set today. It's HOT out here people!!!! #desert#heatwave," the 31-year-old singer wrote.
The star has been building up buzz for her new Album which will be released on December 3. Her two-year Las Vegas residency was just announced and her first concert will kick off at Planet Hollywood on December 27. And TMZ reported that she has already sold an impressive 70,242 out of 73,600 tickets available for the first 16 shows put up for sale!!
"Roar" is still the World's best-selling Single with Avicii's "Wake Me Up" close behind at N°2.
Miley slips from 2 - 3 with "Wrecking Ball" and Lady Gaga moves up 1 spot to N°4 with her N°1 Dance Hit "Applause".
Close behind Gaga is Lorde, the New Princess of Alternative with her global hit "Royals".
Robin Thicke feat. T.I. & Pharell Williams' "Blurred Lines" slips to N°6 and Jason Derulo's "Talk Dirty" enters the World's Best selling Singles chart at N°7. Drake stays put at N°8 with his immensely cool song and new video "Hold On We're going Home" and we have a brand new entry from Britney with her Super catchy new Single "Work B***h"!
Katy Perry closes this week's top 10 Best Singles with her new Single "Dark Horse".
New entry for "Lolly" by Def Jam's Maejor Ali feat. Juicy J & Justin Bieber at N°23. Avicii enters the Top 40 this week with his new Single "You Make Me" which debuts at N°29.
From Asia, new entry for J-Popstar Atsuko Maeda at N°27 with "Time Machine Nante Iranai"
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