Rihanna receives her first Oscar nomination for ‘Lift Me Up’
Rihanna is nominated for her first-ever Oscar! She is nominated for the 95th Academy Awards for 'Best Original Song', her single 'Lift Me Up' in 'Black Panther: Wakanda Forever'. Rihanna made a monumental return last year when she released the emotional single 'Lift Me Up', a stripped-down song featuring just her vocals and a grand piano. The song was released prior
Rihanna officially becomes a billionaire
International superstar and Barbados native, Rihanna has just joined the billionaire club this past week as Forbes estimates she is now the wealthiest female musician in the world with a fortune of $1.7 billion, making her second to Oprah Winfrey. The newly named billionaire has earned 14 #1 top singles and 31 top-10 singles solely in the US alone. Rihanna's most
Calvin Harris turns 37: celebrate his birthday with his best 15 songs
World-renowned Scottish DJ, producer, singer and songwriter Calvin Harris, born Adam Richard Wiles on January 17 1984, celebrates his 37th birthday today! Across his 15 year-long career, the Grammy Award-winning superstar showed the world his evergrowing producer skills starting from his 2007 debut album 'I Created Disco'. He is constantly refreshing the electronic music scene with new sounds and a new moniker, working
Calvin Harris hits a billion Spotify streams on both Rihanna & Dua Lipa singles
This week, on Tuesday, to be exact, Calvin Harris reached 1 billion streams on Spotify with two of his songs. With this achievement, the Scottish hitmaker joins a very restricted group of artists who can also claim such a goal. The big news was shared by Calvin Harris on his Instagram page with the humble caption: ‘Cheers Spotify’ and with the
Calvin Harris & Rihanna collab ‘We Found Love’ turns 9 years old
Back in 2011, it was hard to find a bigger name in the world than Calvin Harris. This was an era when Barack Obama was still serving his first term as president of the United States, Manchester United were still winning trophies in football, and Kim Kardashian was still three years away from her marriage to Kanye West. Safe to
Calvin Harris is the only DJ in 2020’s ‘The Sunday Times’ Rich List
Since 1989, the British newspaper 'The Sunday Times’ releases its annual Rich List of the wealthiest people in the UK, ranking 1000 individuals or families residing in the UK, or predominantly working there, by their net worth. In this year's edition, exactly one DJ made it into the list, which is none other than our favorite Scottish friend Calvin Harris. Harris’
The Chainsmokers ‘Closer’ becomes second biggest song of all time globally
After announcing the popular duo will be taking a social media break from February, nothing can hide The Chainsmokers ongoing accomplishments. From closing out multiple main stages at festivals around the world which includes Ultra Music Festival 2019 to producing hit singles which have hit the Billboard Charts numerous times, the list goes on for this power-duo. Celebrating a huge accomplishment, The
Coachella 2020 lineup reveals Flume, Calvin Harris & more
Coachella is easily one of the world's most recognized festivals as attendees are able to catch their favorite artists and discover new emerging talent to hit the scene. After months of teasing attendees on their official Twitter profile, Coachella has provided us something to look forward to as they have released their official 2020 lineup to celebrate their 21st annual year. Headliners
Flume announces new album for release beginning 2020
Grammy-award winning Australien producer and DJ Flume landed a couple of headlines this year, especially for his Burning Man performance, his recently released, Grammy-nominated mixtape 'Hi This Is Flume' and recently sliding into Rihanna's inbox suggesting a collaboration between him and the Barbadian pop-star. In an interview with Billboard, Flume now announced that he's working on a new album for 2020
Flume slides in Rihanna’s DMs over potential collaboration
Who would have ever thought Grammy-winning future bass artist Flume and pop artist, Rihanna would collab? With their music styles and genres being so diverse this potential collaboration has an immense amount of imaginable greatness fans are going to applaud. Flume revealed to The Sydney Morning Herald that he would love to work with Rihanna and said he was going to "DM
DJ Snake reveals “No Option” was initially meant for Rihanna
DJ Snake has unveiled his original intentions for his collaboration "No Option" alongside Burna Boy, stating he actually produced the track with pop sensation Rihanna in mind. The 33-year-old Frenchman has just released his second album "Carte Blanche", which has already seen great success, reaching #28 in the iTunes album chart, reaching particular chart heights in the US, Spain, Brazil
Alesso opens up about Rihanna collaboration rumour
This summer, Alesso caused a stir during an interview with The Daily Star when he revealed that Rihanna had plans to release a dance-heavy album. He was quoted as saying that Diplo, Calvin Harris, David Guetta and Martin Garrix were all set to feature, resulting in the below tweet from Diplo. https://twitter.com/diplo/status/1045802615567613953?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1045802615567613953&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youredm.com%2F2018%2F11%2F23%2Falesso-clarifies-previous-rumors-about-working-with-rihanna%2F This was Alesso's original quote from the interview with The
Martin Garrix will treat your ears with new music ‘very soon’!
October is here and that always means a lot of new music. The current number 1 DJ in the world, Martin Garrix, is no exception to that! The 22-year-old Dutchman has teased fans on Instagram with a picture in his story saying "Lots of new music SOOOOOON", so we can expect nothing but at least two new songs by the DJ and
Rihanna’s new album is set to include numerous EDM collabs
It wasn't even all that long ago that Rihanna referred to Major Lazer's smash hit 'Lean On' as house music and that she compared a song produced by Diplo to 'a reggae song at an airport'. The American popstar's remark caused quite a stir on social media at the time, but after her sincere apologies ("My bad, Diplo"), a collab
David Guetta talks ‘Flames’ and upcoming album release
David Guetta, one of the most influential musicians behind the commercialization of electronic music, sat down in a recent interview with Billboard Radio China following his performance at Road to Ultra Hong Kong to talk about his likeness of coming back to Hong Kong, his most recent collaboration with Sia and some exciting upcoming news. Guetta opened with his thoughts