Pop Store Podcast – Billboard

When Taylor Swift introduced at Sunday’s MTV Video Music Awards that she would launch a brand new album on Oct. 21, she raised extra questions than solutions.

The singer/songwriter revealed later that night time that the brand new album shall be known as Midnights — and this isn’t considered one of her re-recorded Taylor’s Model albums; it’s a bundle of 13 brand-new songs. On the brand new Billboard Pop Store Podcast, Katie & Keith are speaking by means of all of the questions we’ve got about Swift’s upcoming tenth studio album. What does this imply for her re-recording schedule? What style will the album be, following her pair of 2020 indie-folk albums Folklore and Evermore? And can Swift launch a lead single earlier than the Grammy eligibility interval ends on Sept. 30?

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Additionally on the present, we’ve received chart information on how Harry Types’ “As It Was” returns to No. 1 on the Billboard Scorching 100 songs chart for an eleventh week — probably the most weeks atop the checklist in over two years — and the way Steve Lacy’s “Dangerous Behavior” climbs to a brand new excessive on the Scorching 100, rising 6-3. And, on the Billboard 200 albums chart, Demi Lovato scores her seventh consecutive high 10 with Holy Fvck — the whole thing of their charting releases — whereas Madonna makes historical past with the debut of Lastly Sufficient Love, changing into the primary girl with a brand new high 10 album in every decade for the reason that Nineteen Eighties.

Plus, we’re speaking all about Britney Spears and Elton John‘s new “Maintain Me Nearer” duet and the place it would land on subsequent week’s Scorching 100 after debuting at No. 30 on Pop Airplay with simply three days.

The Billboard Pop Store Podcast is your one-stop store for all issues pop on Billboard’s weekly charts. You may at all times depend on a full of life dialogue in regards to the newest pop information, enjoyable chart stats and tales, new music, and visitor interviews with music stars and people from the world of pop. Informal pop followers and chart junkies can hear Billboard’s government digital director, West Coast, Katie Atkinson and Billboard’s senior director of charts Keith Caulfield each week on the podcast, which will be streamed on Billboard.com or downloaded in Apple Podcasts or your favourite podcast supplier. (Click on right here to hearken to the earlier version of the present on Billboard.com.)