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The new billboard appearing with the message “Looking for Utopia” has sparked a debate around Travis Scott’s Utopia release date. Travis Scott’s “Utopia” has been teased many times over the past year but still, people aren’t getting the new album’s release date.
Travis Scott’s fourth studio album, Utopia, is set to be released later this year. Cactus Jack Records and Epic Records are set to release the album. Following his third studio album Astroworld (2018) and his compilation project JackBoys (2019), the next album will be released this year. Before Utopia’s release date Travis Scott dropped two songs, “Mafia” and “Escape Plan,” the day before the horrific Astroworld events on Nov. 4, but it’s uncertain if they’ll appear on Utopia.
The R&B singer and songwriter SZA has edged out Taylor Swift to hold at No. 1 on Billboard’s album chart for a fourth time, attaining a notable victory during what is usually the post-holiday sales doldrums. It is the first time an album by a woman has held at No. 1 four consecutive times since Adele’s “30,” which reigned for six weeks at the end of 2021, Billboard reported. (Swift’s “Midnights” notched five No. 1’s over a six-week stretch last fall.) “SOS” is also the first R&B title by a woman to rack up four weeks at the top since Alicia Keys’s “As I Am” (2007).
The Weeknd continues to pleasantly surprise his fans with his music. His most recent surprise: a collaboration with Metro Boomin and 21Savage for Metro Boomin’s newest album “Heroes & Villains,” which is full of collaborations from the record producer, record executive, DJ and various well known artists. 21Savage is known for many singles, but his most notable song is “A Lot.” “Creepin” is a beautiful homage to Winans’ classic song while also perfectly adding a twist from Weeknd, Metro Boomin and 21Savage. The song serves as a message to their listeners to understand their situation and understand that they deserve better than a relationship where cheating is involved.
Drake and 21 Savage have reached new heights, as their collaborative LP, Her Loss, has just surpassed one billion streams on Spotify, ChartData reports. On Sunday (Dec. 25), the music data platform tweeted out the news following the project’s success after being released under two months ago on Nov. 4th. Reportedly, Her Loss has become the “A Lot” rapper’s first LP to meet such a feat, as this is the twelfth for Drake.
“[Her Loss] is one of the greatest albums I ever made in my life,” Drake said during an interview on SiriusXM Sound 42. “I said the other day, I think this is a clear entry into my top five of my catalogs, if not, top three.” Drake also admitted to helping 21 with some of his verses on the album, as the Atlanta rapper did for him. “I ain’t gon cap, Drake wrote some of my verses on this album,” 21 admitted. “These facts. I don’t give a f**k what a ni**a say, Drake helped me with some of my verses on this album.”
LA rapper Yeat has been having a busy year and quickly rising up in the world. He released his new album 2 Alivë, followed by the Lyfë EP (we also named him one of 12 newer rappers to watch), and now he has announced an extensive North American tour for 2023. Tickets go on sale Friday (12/9) at 10 AM.
A$AP Rocky has dropped off “Shittin’ Me,” which appears on the official soundtrack of the newest Need for Speed Unbound video game. Clocking in at approximately two-and-a-half minutes, the track is produced by Kelvin Krash and hears Rocky slide over a bass-heavy beat. While this marks the track’s official release, “Shittin’ Me” has been a favorite across the rapper’s fanbase for about four years now, with Rocky even performing it live on several occasions such as Camp Flog Gnaw 2018.
Although he has found himself on the fast track to stardom, Steve Lacy is a big believer in taking things slowly. The artist’s most famous song, “Bad Habit,” which spent three weeks at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 this fall and is nominated for record and song of the year at the Grammys, is a prime example.
Lacy spent nearly a year making it, incrementally adding new segments and textures, pulling it down from the shelf and putting it back up again. Its improbable-seeming transitions — from post-punk jangle to boy-band crooning to hip-hop drum loops — are the source of the track’s infectious vitality. A less patient process would have produced a different song, and a different outcome.
Grammy Award-winning musician Frank Ocean has remained characteristically quiet in the years since the release of his sophomore album Blonde in 2016. In late 2022, the Channel Orange artist opened up about where his career stands today, not just in music, and seemingly hinted that he was ready to move past the world of music, naturally sending fans into a frenzy.
“Twenty years of my life was about song-writing and recording music. I’d been in the studio since I was 12-and-a-half years old,” he continued. “My assumption was that some of what I developed in one field of art and business would be useful in the next field, but I still wanted to know more about exactly what I was doing before I did it.”
Singer Kehlani is standing her ground after she alleged a fan sexually assaulted her as she was walking through the audience after a recent concert. In a since-deleted Instagram Stories post on Monday, the Grammy-nominated “Distraction” artist claimed a fan put their “hands up my skirt & started pulling my underwear to touch my genitals.” “This s— made me sick to my stomach,” they said, according to Billboard. “As a victim of sexual assault, I am endlessly triggered and mindblown.”