NewYearsDayProject | a song a day blog

Coming back with an album three-and-a-half years after her 2020 album Positions , Ariana Grande  released Eternal Sunshine in March of this year. When she released the album’s first single, “ Yes, And? ,” the song debuted at number one on Billboard’ s Hot 100 in January, becoming one of the first new pop songs of the year. Her next single, “ We Can’t Be Friends ” (Wait for Your Love) also debuted at number 1, and the album also topped Billboard ’s 200 Album Charts. Grande had promised that she wouldn’t enter the studio until after she had finished filming her role as Glinda in Wicked . The film had wrapped production and the film premiered a teaser trailer during the Super Bowl in February with a November release date. Was Ariana Grande set to be the artist of the year?  THE BOY IS DIVINE. In hindsight, with solid releases from Billie Eilish , Sabrina Carpenter , and Charli xcx , Ariana Grande’s Eternal Sunshine risks being overlooked because of its early release date. Grande’s sev

  Did you have a good brat summer? This has been another incredible year for women in pop music, from Ariana Grande to Sabrina Carpenter , as women have dominated the pop charts. The competition for a number 1 album has been fierce with so many strong releases by Dua Lipa , Billie Eilish , and Chappell Roan so far failing to reach the summit of Billboard ’s 200 Albums Chart.  Besides the K-pop idol groups Twice and Stray Kids ; country singers Morgan Wallen and the late Toby Keith ; and rappers 21 Savage , ¥$ ( Kanye West and Ty Dolla $ign ), Future and Metro Boomin , Eminem , and Post Malone ; female pop singers held the number one spot for 22 weeks so far this year. Only Taylor Swift , Ariana Grande, Beyoncé , and Sabrina Carpenter have occupied the top spot as female pop acts.  SHOCK YOU LIKE DEFIBRILLATORS. Of the 22 weeks that the female pop superstars spent atop Billboard’ s 200 Albums Chart, Taylor Swift has claimed 17 of those weeks, and her latest album, The Tortured

Stand Atlantic formed in 2012 in Sydney, Australia. After gaining a following in the Australian music scene and releasing two demo EPs,  they released their first single “ Coffee at Midnight ” on international indie label Rude Records in 2017 and then signed with California-based indie label Hopeless Records in 2018. The band formed as a four-piece under the name What It’s Worth with lead vocals by Bonny Fraser , Arthur Ng on lead guitar, David Potter on bass, and Jordan Jansons on drums. Playing the local scenes, the band started touring Australia with American bands, such as State Champs , Cute Is What We Aim For , and New Found Glory .   I THINK I LIKE THAT SWEET CINNAMON . Since signing with Hopeless Records, Stand Atlantic has released four albums. The band captures an infectious sound with their brand of pop-punk.  Their second album Pink Elephant was released in 2020 and recorded with Stevie Knight . In later releases, the band experiments with hard rock, but the songs on

Following  Blue Neighbourhood ,   Troye Sivan released another collection of songs celebrating queer love in 2018. This time,  Bloom   was less about love in the abstract and more about sex. Songs like the  title track  dealing with anal sex, the Apple Music edition of the album's opener " Seventeen " recalling how the singer lost his virginity to an older man on Grindr when he was seventeen, to a song about his boyfriend who "Tastes like  Lucky Strikes " may take a few listens to understand the euphemisms. SHINE ON, DIAMOND.   Bloom  holds an 85% on  Meta-Critic , meaning that most reviews were favorable. In America, though, Sivan's music mostly is confined to the LGBTQ+ community,  and  Bloom  didn't make a splash in the mainstream pop market. But looking at the promotion, Sivan's team clearly had the young star's sights on conquering the charts.  A track with Ariana Grande , a performance, albeit a polarizing performance, on  Saturday Night