• OMI 'Cheerleader' Is the Official Song of the Summer 2015

    If this season felt a little more cheerful than usual, that's because the official top song of the summer had a lot of pep to it. Following Labor Day, summer has (unofficially) come to an end, and Jamaican singer OMI has nabbed the lucrative song of the summer title for 2015, following Iggy Azalea's "Fancy" in 2014 and Robin Thicke's "Blurred Lines" in 2013.

  • Justin Bieber 'What Do You Mean' Beats The Weeknd for First No. 1 Song on Hot 100

    It's safe to say: Justin Bieber is back. After a three year pause between studio albums and plenty of controversies, the 21-year-old pop icon is having his best career week with his first ever No. 1 Hot 100 single, "What Do You Mean?" Meanwhile, The Weeknd is also experiencing a massive week with his songs "Can't Feel My Face" and "The Hills" both sitting in the top three.

  • The Weeknd, Major Lazer, OMI Top Spotify's Most Streamed Summer Playlist

    With Labor Day this Monday (Sept. 7), summer 2015 is officially coming to an end. With the passing of the hottest days of the year, Spotify has announced its top 10 most streamed songs of the summer for both the United States and the world as a whole. As should be expected, it was a big summer for the likes of The Weeknd, Major Lazer, Fetty Wap and OMI.

  • SNL Season 41 Musical Guests: Miley Cyrus, Demi Lovato and The Weeknd Announced

    Saturday Night Live season 41 has had the hosts for the first three episodes on lock for weeks now, but the musical guests have just been announced. Today (Sept. 1), just a month before the show's premiere date, SNL announced that Miley Cyrus, The Weeknd and Demi Lovato will be providing musical entertainment this October.

  • Prince Says "It's a Bad Time For Music," Cites Lack of Creativity

    Prince has always been critical of the music industry, but usually that criticism is directed at labels and the bureaucratic, political machine that runs the industry, not the artists themselves. Now he's turned his eye to artists though and in an interview with 'The New York Post' he cited his concerns about the lack of creativity in pop music today as why "it's a bad time for music."

  • Junk Mail: The Weeknd 'Beauty Behind the Madness' Album Review

    Welcome to Junk Mail, where a few Music Times staffers email back-and-forth about each week's biggest release throughout the work day. This week, Carolyn Menyes, Ryan Middleton, Johny Blue and Lindsay Haddox chat about The Weeknd's new album, Beauty Behind the Madness.

  • Travis Scott Rodeo Tracklist Leak: Kanye West, Future, 2 Chainz Featured

    With just under two weeks until the release of Travi$ Scott's new album Rodeo, details have remained quite sketchy as to what tracks will be on it and who will be featured. However someone going by the Twitter handle @LXRD_JAY claims to have gotten their hands on a physical copy of the album and took a picture of the back, leaking the previously unknown tracklist onto the web. It does not display the featured artists, but we already know that Future and 2 Chainz appear on it with The Weeknd and Kanye West reportedly also set to feature on the highly anticipated LP.

  • VMAs 2015: The Weeknd, Demi Lovato, Macklemore and More to Perform

    The 2015 MTV VMAs are only a few days away, but the first round of performers have just been announced. On Tuesday (Aug. 25), MTV announced that The Weeknd, Demi Lovato, Macklemore & Ryan Lewis and more will take to the legendary award show stage this Sunday, Aug. 30.
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