Eric Church Invites Morgan Wallen to Perform With Him at Philadelphia Concert

When Eric Church announced last week that his two “special solo sets” in Pennsylvania as part of his Gather Again Tour would include a few surprises, he wasn’t kidding.

During his concert at Philadelphia’s Wells Fargo Center on Saturday, Church first welcomed “Burning House” hitmaker Cam to sing with him, and later invited Morgan Wallen to the stage.

Church and Wallen performed a handful of  Wallen’s songs including “Sand in My Boots,” “Whiskey Glasses” and “Quittin’ Time,” as well as the Church hits “Record Year” and “Homeboy.”

Church is a co-writer on Wallen’s Dangerous: The Double Album, contributing to the track “Quittin’ Time” alongside Luke Laird and Josh Thompson. Over the past several months, Wallen has posted images from his offstage moments hanging out with Church, including golfing trips and jam sessions.

Despite the apparent close friendship between Church and Wallen, Church also denounced Wallen’s use of a racial slur earlier this year, telling Billboard during an interview in April, “That was indefensible. I was heartbroken when it happened. I think Morgan’s trying to work on that and on himself. And I hope he does.” Following the incident, Church also sent Wallen a note telling him to “hang in there.”

After TMZ released video of a drunken Wallen uttering a racial slur outside of his Nashville home in February, Wallen’s music was temporarily pulled from country radio and from several top streaming playlists, he was suspended from his record label Big Loud/Republic, and disqualified from several awards shows. However, Wallen’s “Sand in My Boots” currently resides just outside the top 20 on Billboard’s Country Airplay chart. Since its January release, Dangerous: The Double Album spent 10 weeks atop the all-genre Billboard 200 chart and still lives in the top 10.

At the Nov. 10 Country Music Association Awards, Wallen’s lone nomination is in the album of the year category, for Dangerous: The Double Album (he was disqualified from being nominated in any individual artist categories, such as male vocalist of the year, and has been banned from attending the ceremony.

Church, meanwhile is nominated for five trophies heading into November’s ceremony, including a nod for entertainer of the year.

This isn’t the first major headlining show Wallen has guested at so far this year: In July, Wallen joined Luke Bryan onstage at Bryan’s headlining show at Nashville’s Bridgestone Arena (along with Jason Aldean and Florida Georgia Line’s Tyler Hubbard). In September, Church also welcomed Wallen as a guest performer during a private event to celebrate the opening of the Nashville-based The Twelve Thirty Club, which was launched by Justin Timberlake and restaurateur Sam Fox.

Wallen is also gearing up for four of his own headlining shows later this year, including two stops in Alabama, one in Tennessee and one in Georgia.

Wallen recently shared the powerful new song “Don’t Think Jesus” that he says was penned by songwriters Jessi Alexander, Chase McGill and Mark Holman and inspired by his own story.

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Travis Barker & Kourtney Kardashian Make Skulls Seem Romantic With Disneyland PDA Video

Every day seems like Valentine’s Day for Travis Barker and Kourtney Kardashian, who are not shy about showing their love to the world. But their latest PDA post is appropriately Halloween-themed.

On Monday (Oct. 11), the blink-182 drummer posted a video of him carrying and kissing Kardashian next to a pirate ship at Disneyland, a timely backdrop for the superstar couple to get into the spirit of spooky season. And a Misfits track seems to have soundtracked their date.

“I want your skull,” he captioned the clip, borrowing the first line of the chorus of Misfits’ “Skulls,” which Kardashian completed in the comments section with the follow-up lyric “I need your skull.” Kudos to them for making a hardcore punk song that starts off with, “Corpses all hanging headless and limp/ Bodies with no surprises/ And the blood drains down like the devil’s rain/ We’ll bathe tonight” seem like a romantic ballad.

“Skulls” was released in 1982 from the horror punk band’s debut studio album Walk Among Us, which peaked at No. 6 on Billboard’s Vinyl Albums chart.

Kardashian’s younger sister Kim poked fun at the couple’s countless PDA moments on the ‘Gram in “The People’s Kourt” sketch from her Saturday Night Live hosting gig over the weekend. Kim portrayed her sister, while SNL’s Mikey Day played the role of Barker in the five-minute video.

See Kardashian and Barker’s real-life PDA post below, and listen to “Skulls.”

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Timothee Chalamet Shares ‘Wonka’ First Look

Timothée Chalamet offered a first look at Warner Bros.’ upcoming film Wonka.

Taking to social media Sunday, the actor shared a photo of himself on set, dressed in character as the chocolatier, donning a top hat and topcoat.

“The suspense is terrible, I hope it will last …WONKA,” Chalamet captioned the photo on Instagram, paying homage to Gene Wilder’s line in the original 1971 adaptation. In another photo, Chalamet shared a photo of Wonka’s cane, with a purple and red wrapped present sitting on top.

Warner Bros. also shared the images on their social media channels. The film’s principal photography recently began in London.

Earlier this year it was announced Chalamet had signed to star as young Willy Wonka in Warner Bros.’ reimagining of Roald Dahl’s classic children’s book Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.

Warner Bros. described the prequel — the film is set to take place before the events of the book — as a “vivid, mythical beginnings of the imaginative young inventor before he becomes the renowned scrumdiddlyumptious Mozart of chocolate.”

Paul King, the director of the Paddington movies, will helm the musical with David Heyman and Luke Kelly producing.

Rowan Atkinson, Sally Hawkins, Keegan-Michael Key and Olivia Colman are set to star in the film.

This article originally appeared on The Hollywood Reporter.

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Olivia Rodrigo Opens Up About ‘Life-Changing’ Therapy: ‘I’ve Learned So Much About Myself’

Olivia Rodrigo is making her therapist proud.

Back in January, when the hit singer-songwriter had just released her breakthrough smash “Drivers License,” she humbly tweeted, “can’t wait to tell my therapist that ppl like the song.”

In an interview just a few months later, Rodrigo reflected, “When it first came out, my therapist called me and she was like, ‘Girl, I’ve been married for 10 years, I’m 40, but this song makes me cry.’”

And now, in a segment that aired Oct. 10 on CBS Sunday Morning — just as Mental Health Awareness Week culminated — Rodrigo is continuing to speak candidly about going to therapy.

“I hadn’t really started going ’til I was like 16,” she told correspondent Tracy Smith, “and that was a really big, life-changing moment. I’ve learned so much about myself.”

Rodrigo, who recently addressed how fame can affect mental health, acknowledged that there’s “sometimes a stigma around it, too … Sometimes people are like, ‘Oh, you don’t need that. You have so much. Your life is so great. What are your problems?’”

“I think that’s definitely a thing that sometimes older people can do to younger people, too — kind of trivialize what they’re going through just because, you know, ‘Ah, they’re fine, they’re just kids. They’ll get through it,’” she added. “But it feels so real when you’re in it. It’s so valid.”

Among her many chart accomplishments since dropping “Drivers License” at the start of 2021, Rodrigo most recently joined an elite music club, as she became the first artist to have four Pop Airplay top 10s from a debut album since Lady Gaga over a decade ago. “Drivers License,” “Good 4 U,” “Deja Vu” and “Traitor” all ascended to the top 10 of the chart this year. All four songs are on Rodrigo’s chart-topping Sour album, which debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 and took that position for a total of five nonconsecutive weeks.

Watch Rodrigo’s latest interview below.

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Kim Kardashian’s Pop Trio Auditions for Costco in This ‘SNL’ Sketch That Was Cut for Time: Watch

SNL host Kim Kardashian West sang again for this weekend’s show, in a sketch that was cut for time on Oct. 9.

Her “Costco Meeting” sketch, which had her co-starring with Aidy Bryant and Bowen Yang, was uploaded to YouTube on Sunday. The scenario has Kim, Aidy and Bowen in a pop trio that’s introduced to a Costco exec by an intern who has a big idea for the big-box retail store.

The trio is introduced as Glitter Revolution, “a three-person bop factory” in coordinating bubble gum pink outfits, and they try to win over the VP of marketing at Costco with three original tunes aimed at bringing teens into the store: one about “bulk b—-es,” plus a slow jam about the chain’s hot dogs and “Flop Shop,” a takedown of their competitors.

His reaction? “Our teen customers are going to absolutely stan this. I’m closing my eyes and I’m seeing Olivia Rodrigo buying bags of beef Wellington.”

As reported earlier, the reality TV star — who actually had a solo dance-pop single of her own called “Jam (Turn It Up)” in 2011 — showed off some vocals for the first time in a decade on Saturday Night Live for “Ladies Night Song,” a sketch that was televised.

Check out Kim trying out for a job with Costco in the video below.

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Taylor Swift’s ‘Fearless (Taylor’s Version)’ Returns to No. 1 on Billboard 200

Taylor Swift’s Fearless (Taylor’s Version) returns to No. 1 on the Billboard 200 albums chart for a second nonconsecutive week atop the list. The album surges from No. 157 to No. 1 with 152,000 equivalent album units earned in the U.S. in the week ending Oct. 7 (up 1,931%), according to MRC Data. The set vaults back to No. 1 after the Oct. 1 release of a signed CD available only in Swift’s webstore and its vinyl LP. Fearless (Taylor’s Version) debuted at No. 1 nearly six months ago, on the April 24-dated Billboard 200 chart.

Also in the new top 10: Meek Mill’s Expensive Pain arrives at No. 3, while Tony Bennett and Lady Gaga’s second collaborative album, Love for Sale, bows at No. 8.

The Billboard 200 chart ranks the most popular albums of the week in the U.S. based on multi-metric consumption as measured in equivalent album units. Units comprise album sales, track equivalent albums (TEA) and streaming equivalent albums (SEA). Each unit equals one album sale, or 10 individual tracks sold from an album, or 3,750 ad-supported or 1,250 paid/subscription on-demand official audio and video streams generated by songs from an album. The new Oct. 16, 2021-dated chart [where Fearless (Taylor’s Version) returns to No. 1] will be posted in full on Billboard’s website on Oct. 12. For all chart news, follow @billboard and @billboardcharts on both Twitter and Instagram.

Of Fearless (Taylor’s Version)’s 152,000 equivalent album units earned in the U.S. in the week ending Oct. 7, album sales comprise 146,000 (up 15,807%), SEA units comprise 6,000 (down 1%, equaling 8.72 million streams of the album’s tracks) and TEA units comprise a negligible number.

Of the 146,000 copies sold for the week, CD sales comprise 77,000, while vinyl LP sales total 67,000. The album sold about 1,000 in cassettes and 1,000 in digital downloads, too. (The album was discounted at digital retail, which spurred a 268% increase in digital album sales, but only 1,000 copies sold for the week.)

Strikingly, 29% of the album’s to-date CD sales were generated in the week ending Oct. 7, concurrent with the availability of its signed CD. The signed CD was only sold via Swift’s webstore, for a limited time, during a pre-order window in late September. (Swift apparently signed so many copies, she “may never write the same again,” as her hand “is now frozen in the permanent shape of a claw.”) Of Fearless (Taylor’s Version)‘s 400,000 total album sales to-date, CD sales comprise 264,000 of that sum — with 77,000 of those CDs sold in the latest tracking week.

As for the vinyl LP sales of Fearless (Taylor’s Version), its 67,000 sold marks the fourth-largest sales week for a vinyl album since MRC Data began tracking music sales in 1991. Her own Evermore holds the record, with 102,000 sold in its first week of availability on vinyl (June 12-dated chart). The debut frames of Olivia Rodrigo’s Sour (76,000; Sept. 4) and Billie Eilish’s Happier Than Ever (73,000; Aug. 14) are in second and third place, respectively.

Fearless (Taylor’s Version) was issued in two vinyl editions: a gold-colored version that was sold through Swift’s webstore and widely available to all retailers and a red-colored edition exclusive to Target.

With the rush in sales for Fearless (Taylor’s Version), its release-to-date sales now climb to 400,000 in the U.S. That makes it the No. 2-selling album of 2021, second only to Swift’s own 2020 release Evermore, which has sold 434,000 copies in 2021. The No. 3-selling album of 2021 is Rodrigo’s 2021 release Sour, with 378,000. Thus, Swift has both the Nos. 1 and 2-selling albums of 2021, as well as the year’s top-selling album released in 2021: Fearless (Taylor’s Version).

For good measure, Swift has three albums among the top 10-sellers of 2021, as Folklore is the No. 7 best-selling album of the year, with 228,000.

With the return of Fearless (Taylor’s Version) to No. 1 after nearly six months, it’s the first album to wait that long between weeks on top since last November, when Luke Combs’ What You See Is What You Get returned to No. 1 after nearly a year. (Earlier in 2021, on the June 12-dated chart, Swift’s own Evermore returned to No. 1 for a fourth week, after nearly five months, following its vinyl LP release.)

Further, with Fearless (Taylor’s Version)’s leap from No. 157 to No. 1, it has the largest positional jump to No. 1 since the April 12, 1997, chart, when The Notorious B.I.G.’s Life After Death rose 176-1 after street date violation sales enabled its debut on the chart a week early.

Lastly, Swift’s total weeks at No. 1, across all nine of her No. 1 albums, now rises to 53. She continues to have the third-most weeks atop the list dating to the chart’s 1956 start. The Beatles have the most, with 132, while Elvis Presley is in second place with 67.

Fearless (Taylor’s Version) is a re-recorded version of Swift’s No. 1 2008 album Fearless. The re-recorded album has 26 tracks, including re-recordings of the original 13 songs on Fearless, along with the six bonus songs added to a 2009 reissue of Fearless (dubbed the Platinum Edition) and the 2010 single “Today Was a Fairytale.” Beyond those 20 re-recordings, Fearless (Taylor’s Version) also has six newly recorded “from the vault” songs that were written for the original Fearless album but were never recorded and released until 2021.

At No. 2 on the new Billboard 200, Drake’s Certified Lover Boy is a non-mover with 110,000 equivalent album units earned (down 19%). The album spent its first three weeks on the chart at No. 1.

Meek Mill collects his seventh top 10 album on the Billboard 200 as Expensive Pain debuts at No. 3. The set earned 95,000 equivalent album units in the week ending Oct. 7. Of that sum, SEA units comprise 82,000 (equaling 110.53 million on-demand streams of the set’s songs), album sales comprise 10,000 and TEA units comprise 3,000.

YoungBoy Never Broke Again’s Sincerely, Kentrell falls from No. 1 to No. 4 in its second week with 71,000 equivalent album units earned (down 48%). Lil Nas X’s Montero dips 3-5 (45,000; down 22%), Olivia Rodrigo’s former No. 1 Sour moves 5-6 (just over 43,000; down 5%) and Doja Cat’s Planet Her is down 6-7 (43,000; down 2%).

Tony Bennett and Lady Gaga’s second collaborative album, Love for Sale, debuts at No. 8 on the Billboard 200. The pair’s first project, Cheek to Cheek, debuted at No. 1 in 2014.

Love for Sale is a covers collection of songs written by Cole Porter. Cheek to Cheek featured renditions of favorites from the American songbook by an assortment of songwriters. Love for Sale starts with 41,000 equivalent album units earned. Of that sum, album sales comprise 38,000; SEA units comprise 3,000 (equaling 3.85 million on-demand streams of the set’s songs) and TEA units comprise a negligible number.

Love for Sale marks Bennett’s sixth top 10 album on the Billboard 200, and Lady Gaga’s 10th top 10.

Bennett achieved his first top 10 in 1962 with I Left My Heart in San Francisco. It climbed from No. 11 to No. 7 on the Monoaural LP’s chart dated Oct. 6, 1962. (At the time, there were two main album charts, a Monoaural LP’s chart, and a Stereo LP’s chart.) Gaga’s first top 10 came on the March 7, 2009-dated Billboard 200, when The Fame rose 26-10.

With Love for Sale’s top 10 arrival, Bennett has a 59-year span of top 10 albums on the Billboard 200 – the longest span of top 10s for a living artist.

Only Nat “King” Cole, who died in 1965, has a greater span of top 10s among all acts: a 63-year and eight-month span between his first top 10, Love Is the Thing, in April of 1957 and his most recent top 10, The Christmas Song, in January of 2021.

The 95-year-old Bennett made his Billboard 200 debut with the simply-titled Tony on Feb. 23, 1957 (when the chart was known as Best Selling Pop Albums).

Rounding out the new top 10 on the Billboard 200 is a pair of former No. 1s: Morgan Wallen’s Dangerous: The Double Album falls 7-9 (40,000 equivalent album units; up 2%) and Kanye West’s Donda drops 4-10 (39,000; down 20%).

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Tony Bennett & Lady Gaga’s ‘Love for Sale’ Launches Atop Jazz Charts & In Billboard 200 Top 10

Tony Bennett and Lady Gaga’s second collaborative album, Love for Sale, debuts at No. 8 on the all-genre Billboard 200 chart and arrives atop both Billboard’s Traditional Jazz Albums and overall Jazz Albums charts (all dated Oct. 16). On Traditional Jazz Albums, its Bennett’s 15th No. 1, breaking him out of a tie with Harry Connick, Jr. for the most No. 1s in the 54-year history of the chart.

Love for Sale follows Bennett and Lady Gaga’s first project, Cheek to Cheek, which reached No. 1 on all three charts in 2014.

Love for Sale is a covers collection of songs written by Cole Porter, including familiar tunes like “Night and Day,” “I Get a Kick Out of You” and “It’s De-Lovely.” Cheek to Cheek featured renditions of favorites from the American songbook by an assortment of songwriters.

The Billboard 200 chart ranks the most popular albums of the week in the U.S. based on multi-metric consumption as measured in equivalent album units. Units comprise album sales, track equivalent albums (TEA) and streaming equivalent albums (SEA). Each unit equals one album sale, or 10 individual tracks sold from an album, or 3,750 ad-supported or 1,250 paid/subscription on-demand official audio and video streams generated by songs from an album. All of the Oct. 16, 2021-dated charts will be posted in full on Billboard’s website on Oct. 12. For all chart news, follow @billboard and @billboardcharts on both Twitter and Instagram.

Love for Sale starts with 41,000 equivalent album units earned in the U.S. in the week ending Oct. 7, according to MRC Data. Of that sum, album sales comprise 38,000; SEA units comprise 3,000 (equaling 3.85 million on-demand streams of the set’s songs) and TEA units comprise a negligible number.

Love for Sale marks Bennett’s sixth top 10 album on the Billboard 200 and Lady Gaga’s 10th top 10.

Bennett achieved his first top 10 album in 1962 with I Left My Heart in San Francisco. It climbed from No. 11 to No. 7 on Monoaural LP’s chart dated Oct. 6, 1962. (At the time, there were two main album charts, a Monoaural LP’s chart, and a Stereo LP’s chart. The Billboard 200 began as a regularly published weekly chart in 1956, though it wouldn’t become known by its current name, the Billboard 200, until 1992.)

Gaga’s first top 10 came on the March 7, 2009-dated Billboard 200, when The Fame rose 26-10.

With Love for Sale’s top 10 arrival, Bennett has a 59-year span of top 10 albums on the Billboard 200 – the longest span of top 10s for a living artist.

Only Nat “King” Cole, who died in 1965, has a greater span of top 10s among all acts: a 63-year and eight-month span between his first top 10, Love Is the Thing, in April of 1957 and his most recent top 10, The Christmas Song, in January of 2021.

The 95-year-old Bennett made his Billboard 200 debut with the simply-titled Tony on Feb. 23, 1957 (when the chart was known as Best Selling Pop Albums).

Love for Sale also debuts at No. 1 on both Billboard’s Traditional Jazz Albums and overall Jazz Albums charts. On the former, its Bennett’s 15th No. 1, breaking him out of a tie with Harry Connick, Jr. for the most No. 1s in the 54-year history of the chart. (The list began in 1967.) The Traditional Jazz Albums chart ranks the most popular traditional jazz albums of the week, by equivalent album units.

On the overall Jazz Albums chart, which started in 1993, Love for Sale is Bennett’s 10th leader, tying him with Connick, Jr. for the third-most No. 1s. (Kenny G has the most No. 1s on Jazz Albums, with 12, followed by Diana Krall, with 11.) The Jazz Albums tally ranks the most popular jazz albums of the week, by equivalent album units, across all flavors of jazz – including both traditional and contemporary jazz titles.

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Cardi B Helps Marry a Same-Sex Couple in Surprise Wedding on ‘Cardi Tries’: ‘I Do It All’

Cardi B, along with Raven-Symoné, helped a happy couple get married on the latest episode of Cardi Tries, the rapper’s Facebook Messenger video series.

Cardi acted as the officiant and Raven was the ringbearer for the wedding of Brandi and Shannon, a lovely same-sex couple, in an episode released just ahead of National Coming Out Day.

“By the way WORLD I’m licensed to marry people ….sooo yea… I do it all and this was such a fulfilling thing to do and Raven was soo fun I was sooo starstruck,” Cardi tweeted on Saturday (Oct. 9).

Cardi Tries: Tying the Knot shows the brides’ big day, where one surprised the other with the celebrity-assisted pop-up wedding.

Cardi and Raven helped with planning the same-day nuptials — from selecting table settings to choosing a wedding gown — before taking part in the actual ceremony.

“You guys are probably wondering why I’m here,” Cardi — who recently gave birth to her second child, made history with her “WAP” wins at the 2021 BET Hip Hop Awards, and had her “Rumors” collab with Lizzo debut in the top 5 on the Billboard Hot 100 — announced in front of a small group of the couple’s family and friends. “I’m gonna get these two beautiful ladies married.”

“It’s not only a special day for you guys. It’s a special day for me. I want to thank you guys for making me a part of your beautiful journey,” she said, fanning her face before beginning the ceremony.

By the end of the episode, Cardi — who privately wed Offset in 2017 — had decided, “I think I’m gonna have a wedding-wedding now.”

Earlier, she’d confided to Raven, “I got married in my bedroom … I do wish I had a bigger wedding because I’m very flamboyant, so I do want the whole dress and the whole cake and everything. I didn’t even have a ring, so I just didn’t feel like I was married because I didn’t have the whole shabangabang.”

Watch a clip of the ceremony below, and view the entire Cardi Tries video on Facebook.

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Demi Lovato Shares ‘Unforgettable (Tommy’s Song)’ in Memory of Friend Who Died From Drug Overdose

Demi Lovato is honoring their late friend with an emotional new song.

On Saturday (Oct. 9), the 29-year-old singer took to social media to share “Unforgettable (Tommy’s Song),” a heartfelt track dedicated to model Thomas Trussell III, who died in October 2019 after battling a drug addiction.

“Two years ago I lost someone who meant so much to me. His name was Tommy and he was such a beautiful, special man,” Lovato captioned a clip of the song. “I wrote this song the day after I found out that he had lost his battle with addiction. This disease is extremely cunning and powerful.”

Lovato, who has been open about her own struggles with substance abuse, added that proceeds from “Unforgettable (Tommy’s Song)” will benefit The Voices Project, a nonprofit recovery advocacy organization founded by Ryan Hampton.

The singer also encouraged anyone struggling with addiction to call the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration’s national helpline at 1-800-662-HELP.

Following his death in 2019, Lovato paid tribute to Trussell on social media. “Devastated. Please hold your loved ones tight. Tell them they are special and that you love them,” they captioned a photo of the late model. “Make sure they know it. RIP to my boo.”

Earlier this year, Lovato released a two-part magnum opus about their own 2018 overdose: the YouTube Originals docuseries Dancing With the Devil and a companion album of the same name. The singer re-created the hospital scene following their overdose in a music video for the album’s title track. Lovato also opened up about the cathartic and “healing” process of filming the video while they broke down on set revisiting the darkest moment of their life.

Listen to Lovato’s “Unforgettable (Tommy’s Song)” below.

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Adele Drops ‘Easy On Me’ Song Preview on Instagram Live: Listen

Adele unexpectedly played about 40 seconds of new single “Easy On Me” for fans Saturday afternoon (Oct. 9).

The singer had an hour to kill before an interview, so she hopped on to Instagram Live to chat. Toward the end of her time logged on with fans, she gifted those tuning in with a taste of the new ballad.

“There ain’t no gold in this river/ That I’ve been washing my hands in forever/ And there is hope in these waters/ But I can’t bring myself to swim when I am drowning in this silence/ Baby, let me in,” Adele can be heard singing in the snippet.

Some familiar names popped up in the chat as thousands of followers joined in to listen. Alicia Keys chimed in with a fitting “snippet vibes” comment, while Ben Platt expressed the general excitement of the room with “ITS HAPPENING.”

Adele — who was a bit distracted by her two new dogs and trying to figure out how to add another Instagram user to her live session — stared in wonder at the stream of questions coming in ahead of playing “Easy On Me,” which is set for an Oct. 15 release. The track is the first new music to be heard from the star in nearly six years and is expected to be on her next album, which fans believe could be titled 30 based to mysterious billboards that recently popped up around the world.

Besides giving fans a sneak peek of “Easy On Me,” Adele answered a number of random questions as they appeared in the chat stream.

Many questions, of course, were centered on her upcoming album, but she didn’t want to “give too much away” yet.

“I do have a favorite song from the new album,” Adele teased. “But I’m not gonna tell you what it is ’cause you don’t have the track list yet.”

“I’m excited to get it out into the world at last,” she added.

Adele vaguely revealed that the album is “dropping soon. Don’t you worry,” and although she’d previously said the new album isn’t necessarily a “divorce record,” during Saturday’s Instagram Live she did say it’s based on “divorce, babe. Divorce.”

Also of note: Adele had some kind words for Britney Spears — “Of course I support #FreeBritney. I love Britney. Met her a couple times. I absolutely adore her. Really happy for her,” she said — and decided that her favorite album of 2021, so far, is Drake’s.

Adele’s previous studio album, 2015’s 25, sold 3.38 million copies in its debut week in the U.S., which was the biggest sales week of an album since Nielsen (now MRC Data) began tracking point-of-sale music purchases in 1991. That impressive number brought the fun fact that 25 sold about 335 copies per minute in the U.S. during its first week on sale.

Watch a clip of the “Easy on Me” song preview, followed by a recording of her full chat with fans, below.

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