The Philadelphia Eagles won the Super Bowl. Carrie Underwood won the Super Bowl matchup on the music charts. Carrie’s new song “Champion,” featuring Ludacris, opened NBC’s Super Bowl coverage. The song quickly zoomed to number one on the iTunes singles chart. And 24 hours afterwards, it was still entrenched at number one on that…
There might have been some collateral damage from Phillip Phillips’ long musical silence. The Season 11 winner of American Idol released his third album, “Collateral,” on Jan. 19. On the Billboard charts dated Saturday, “Collateral” debuted on the Billboard 200 albums chart at number 141. Ten new albums landed above it on that chart. Eight…
A pop tune from RaeLynn? As improbable as it seems, that’s what landed Friday when RaeLynn dropped a song called “Festival.” And RaeLynn’s voice might be as country as it gets, but the new song is quite catchy. RaeLynn wrote it with Josh Kerr, co-writer of two tunes on Danielle Bradbery’s new album. And the…
With NBC hosting the Super Bowl, it’s only natural the network use the broadcast to market some of its own shows. And so we have an already released Super Bowl commercial for The Voice. It features coaches Blake Shelton, Adam Levine, Alicia Keys and Kelly Clarkson hanging out in a country setting, surrounded by puppies,…
Judging from fan reaction, Scotty McCreery struck a chord when he dropped a new song from his “Seasons Change” album on Friday. The song is called “In Between,” written by Scotty with assists from Frank Rogers, Jessi Alexander and Jonathan Singleton. In the lyrics, Scotty’s trying to explain himself to a new acquaintance. He starts…
It was back in November 2012 when Amanda Brown mesmerized Voice fans with her rendition of Aerosmith’s “Dream On.” Five-plus years later, she’s ready to mesmerize with her own brand of rock and roll. Amanda dropped her new single — “Believers” — on Friday. It’s also the lead track off an upcoming album called “Dirty…
Chloe Kohanski is promising that her new music will be “worth the wait.” But she’s also asking fans for a bit of patience. The Season 13 winner announced earlier this week that she’s heading back to L.A. to film something and asked fans to guess what it is. She hasn’t revealed yet, but some fans…
Brooke Simpson sprang a pleasant surprise on fans early Friday morning. She dropped her post-Voice debut single — appropriately titled “2 A.M.” — with no advance warning. “Surprise!!!” she wrote on Facebook, adding, “I wrote this song the night I got back from my time in L.A. finishing up The Voice finale. “I know this…
A week ago, Jason Warrior apologized for engaging in trash talk with an opponent on The Four, saying it wasn’t a true reflection of who he is. The former contestant on The Voice was eliminated during Thursday’s show, then took part in a bizarre exchange with Meghan Trainor, one of the show’s judges. It all…
