Demi Lovato Hosts ‘Funeral’ Mourning Their Pop Music, Teases New Rock Song

Demi Lovato is ready to get back to their rock roots.

On Friday (Jan. 21), the “Melon Cake” singer jokingly hopped on Instagram and told fans that their pop music is knocking on death’s door.

Lovato shared an image to their grid posing with both middle fingers up,  joined by music executives from Island Records and manager Scooter Braun. Every person in the picture wore all black. “A funeral for my pop music,” Lovato captioned the image. 

The 29-year-old singer shared more insight through their Instagram Story, with one of the label executives saying, “You put out whatever music you want, whenever you want to. Break the rules.” Demi promptly screamed in excitement at the news, and shared two snippets of a new rock song in the following clips.

“Yeah you’re pushing me to the edge/ Prod me, lie to me, ungodly things have been sent/ Here are your tickets to the freak show baby, sci-fi, watch the freak go crazy,” the former Disney Channel star sings over heavy guitar strumming, before a high-energy chorus rolls in.

It’s currently unclear what the track is titled or when it will be available, but the star has an unrelated collaboration with band Winnetka Bowling League titled “FIIMY” (F— It, I Miss You) arriving on Feb. 4.

Lovato’s most recent album, Dancing With the Devil…The Art of Starting Over, primarily featured pop lyrics and production. The album peaked at No. 2 on the all-genre Billboard 200 chart. Fans were first given a taste of Lovato’s rock-inspired sound in their first two albums, Don’t Forget and Here We Go Again, under Disney’s Hollywood Records.

See Lovato’s Instagram post below.

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This Adele Fan Tried (and Failed) to See Three Separate Concerts, Finneas Invites Her to His Show Instead

It’s tough being an Adele fan — at least for one TikTok user.

Eleni Sabracos took to TikTok on Thursday (Jan. 20), just hours after Adele announced she is postponing her Las Vegas residency, to hilariously reveal that this isn’t the first time she tried to see the “Hello” singer to no avail.

“I bought tickets to see Adele at Madison Square Garden, but they were fake tickets,” she said against a photo of herself frowning outside MSG with a t-shirt she made for the star. “But nobody felt bad for me because I bought them off Craigslist so that was my own doing.”

She continued that she also bought tickets for Adele’s 2017 show in London, where she would be seated in the “Golden Circle,” directly surrounding the stage. “She canceled her show,” Sabracos added. “Mind you, I risked my life flying to London on this cardboard airplane called WOW Airlines that is now discontinued. The only thing ‘wow’ about it was it was surprising that the airplane could fly.”

To add fuel to the flame, her Uber driver that took her to get dinner after the show was canceled was named… Adeel.

As if two canceled shows wasn’t enough, Sabracos revealed that her brother surprised her on Christmas in 2021 with tickets to Adele’s Vegas residency, which was scheduled to kick off on Friday (Jan. 21).

“I am in Vegas right now, and Adele canceled her show again,” she concluded, before screaming “Why” off her balcony in Sin City.

@elenisabracos IM NOT MAD AT #ADELE I JUST WANT TO GIVE HER THESE SHIRTS AND DRINK WHISPERING ANGEL TOGETHER #storytime #ellenshow ♬ original sound – Eleni

Her story, thankfully, has a happy ending. Finneas happened to be scrolling through TikTok and found her video just as hilarious as the 6.5 million other viewers did, and commented, “‘I’m in Vegas right now’ had me DYING.”

Sabracos, of course, replied to Finneas’ comment gushing over both him and his girlfriend, Claudia Sulewski. “Please invite me to the Christmas party because I make a rad gingerbread house,” she said.

Finneas, to make up for Sabracos’ three canceled Adele shows, then replied, “If you ever want tickets to a show, lemme know! Hopefully we won’t cancel [laughing face emoji.”

See the interaction below. Here’s to hoping Eleni makes it to a concert in 2022.

@elenisabracos Reply to @finneas ♬ original sound – Eleni

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Purple Hair, Don’t Care: Britney Spears Unveils Hair Transformation

After all the back-and-forth with her sister Jamie-Lynn Spears this week, Britney Spears is lightening the mood by coloring her hair.

On Thursday (Jan. 20), Spears took to Instagram to unveil her latest hair look — dying her signature blonde locks purple.

“Here’s me with purple hair,” Spears wrote in the caption with a series of shrug emojis. “I’m bored, ok ??? Very bored so my nail girl said do it !!!! Girl .. I did it but not sure I like it but hey.”

Spears is rocking a low-cut little black dress in the video with tall red boots, describing the look as “a 100 dollar mini dress with my boots.”

The pop star has been making daily headlines this week because of her sister Jamie-Lynn promoting her new memoir, Things I Should Have Said, in a series of interviews. Britney, in turn, has responded to Jamie-Lynn’s claims, including issuing a cease-and-desist over her media appearances.

See Britney’s hair transformation below:

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Adele’s ’30’ Surpasses 1.5 Million in U.S. Sales, Hits Eighth Week at No. 1 on Top Album Sales Chart

Adele’s 30 collects an eighth consecutive, and total, week at No. 1 on Billboard’s Top Album Sales chart (dated Jan. 22). The set now has the most weeks in a row at No. 1 since 2014, when the Frozen soundtrack notched eight straight weeks atop the list (charts dated March 29-May 17, 2014), of its total 13 nonconsecutive weeks at No. 1.

In terms of total weeks at No. 1 on Top Album Sales (not just consecutive No. 1 weeks), the last album with eight weeks at No. 1 was Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper’s soundtrack to A Star Is Born, with 10 nonconsecutive weeks at No. 1 between the charts dated Oct. 20, 2018 and March 30, 2019.

30 sold 21,000 copies in the U.S. in the week ending Jan. 13 (down 26%). (The Jan. 22-dated Top Album Sales chart reflects the sales week ending Jan. 13.)

30 has sold 1.51 million copies in the U.S. since its release on Nov. 19, 2021 It is the most recently released album to surpass 1.5 million in U.S. sales since Taylor Swift’s Folklore, which was released on July 24, 2020 and has sold 1.59 million.

Billboard’s Top Album Sales chart ranks the top-selling albums of the week based only on traditional album sales. The chart’s history dates back to May 25, 1991, the first week Billboard began tabulating charts with electronically monitored piece count information from SoundScan, now MRC Data. Pure album sales were the sole measurement utilized by the Billboard 200 albums chart through the list dated Dec. 6, 2014, after which that chart switched to a methodology that blends album sales with track equivalent album units and streaming equivalent album units. For all chart news, follow @billboard and @billboardcharts on both Twitter and Instagram.

The soundtrack to the Disney animated film Encanto surges 4-2 (a new peak) on Top Album Sales with 16,500 sold (up 44%). The album is only available to purchase as either a digital download (which sold 3,800 during the week; up 23%) and as a CD (with 12,700 sold; up 52%). The soundtrack is scheduled for release on vinyl LP on April 8.

The Weeknd’s new Dawn FM album debuts at No. 3 on Top Album Sales with 15,000 copies sold – all from digital album sales. Its CD edition is slated to be released on Jan. 28, while its vinyl LP and cassette editions are scheduled to arrive on April 29. Dawn FM is the eighth top 10 on Top Album Sales for The Weeknd.

Olivia Rodrigo’s former No. 1 Sour falls 2-4 on with 10,000 sold (up 33%). Taylor Swift’s chart-topping Red (Taylor’s Version) is a non-mover at No. 5 with 9,000 sold (down 22%). Fleetwood Mac’s Rumours rises 7-6 with 7,500 sold (down 11%) and NCT’s Universe: The 3rd Album, Neo Culture Technology falls 6-7 with nearly 7,000 (down 31%).

Kendrick Lamar’s Good Kid, M.A.A.D City climbs 11-8 with 6,000 sold (down 6%), NCT 127’s former No. 1 Sticker: The 3rd Album is stationary at No. 9 with nearly 6,000 (down 13%) and The Beatles’ chart-topping Abbey Road is steady at No. 10 with 5,500 (down 14%).

In the week ending Jan. 13, there were 1.716 million albums sold in the U.S. (down 5.9% compared to the previous week). Of that sum, physical albums (CDs, vinyl LPs, cassettes, etc.) comprised 1.318 million (down 7.4%) and digital albums comprised 398,000 (down 0.7%).

Year-to-date album sales total 3.541 million (down 14.3% compared to the same time frame a year ago). Year-to-date physical album sales stand at 2.742 million (down 12.5%) and digital album sales total 799,000 (down 19.8%).

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Kelly Clarkson Delivers Heart-Wrenching Cover of Sarah McLachlan’s ‘Adia’

Kelly Clarkson brought the emotion to her eponymous talk show on Thursday (Jan. 20), kicking the new episode off with a moving cover of Sarah McLachlan‘s 1997 song, “Adia.”

“Adia, I’m empty since you left me / Trying to find a way to carry on / I search myself and everyone / To see where we went wrong,” Clarkson belted the heartbreaking lyrics, backed by her full band.

“Adia,” off McLachlan’s 1997 album Surfacing, first appeared on the Billboard Hot 100 on the chart dated May 30, 1998 — before shooting up to its No. 3 peak on the chart dated August 22, 1998. The song spent 27 total weeks on the Hot 100.

During her 1998 VH1 Storytellers performance, the Canadian singer-songwriter told the crowd that the song is about her problems “dealing with feeling responsible for everyone else.”

In 2018, however, McLachlan revealed the true meaning of the song, which doesn’t “paint her in the best light.” She later retold the story to a crowd in Las Vegas, explaining that she “crossed a line” by falling in love with “my best friend’s ex.” Her relationship with her best friend, Aida, was ruined after that. “It wasn’t a fling,” she assured the audience, revealing that the man was her former husband Ashwin Sood. “I did marry the guy and had kids with him, and subsequently divorced him.”

Luckily McLachlan and Aida reconnected, and Aida’s son is now the singer’s godson.

Clarkson’s wide array of choices for other recent “Kellyoke” moments include Aerosmith’s 1994 power ballad “Crazy,” The Pretenders’ 1995 single “Angel of the Morning,” “Working” by Tate  McRae and Khalid, Alanis Morissette’s “Hands Clean” and her very own Piece By Piece-era album cut “Someone.”

Watch Clarkson’s rendition of “Adia” below.

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