Time to enjoy some Brighter Days Ahead. Ariana Grande unveiled the highly anticipated deluxe edition of her Billboard 200 chart-topping album, Eternal Sunshine, on Friday (March 28).
The extended edition of the original 13-song project features six new tracks, including “Twilight Zone,” “Warm,” “Dandelion,” “Past Life,” “Hampstead” and “Intro (End of the World) Extended,” a longer version of the emotional opening track on the original LP.
To celebrate the new arrival, Grande revived her role as Peaches from the Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind-inspired “We Can’t Be Friends” music video for the Christian Breslaue-directed Brighter Days short film.
Eternal Sunshine originally dropped almost exactly a year ago, in March 2024, and subsequently spent two weeks at No. 1 on the Billboard 200. The project also spawned two No. 1 singles on the Billboard Hot 100: lead single “Yes, And?” and “We Can’t Be Friends (Wait for Your Love).” The album’s standard release was then followed by a “Slightly Deluxe” version of the album, with four additional tracks: “Yes, And?” with Mariah Carey, “Supernatural” with Troye Sivan, an acoustic recording of “Imperfect for You” and an a capella version of “True Story.”
Since the album’s release, it’s been a busy year for Grande, who successfully forayed into the film world when she took on the role of Glinda the Good Witch in Jon M. Chu’s film adaptation of Wicked. Grande was also nominated for best supporting actress at the 2025 Oscars.
Stream Ariana Grande’s Brighter Days Ahead edition of Eternal Sunshine below.
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Bachman-Turner Overdrive is takin’ care of business again with “60 Years Ago,” the Canadian stalwart’s first new material in more than 25 years. And there’s more where that came from.
The sentimental single, releasing formally on Friday, March 28, was first written by Randy Bachman and his son Tal during their pandemic YouTube show Bachman & Bachman Friday Night Train Wreck and is part of a father-son album that has not yet been released. But after hearing that a highway section in Randy Bachman’s native Winnipeg was to be renamed the Bachman-Turner Overpass – with the dedication on April 18, the day before BTO plays there – inspired the Bachmans to revise the song and make the song public.
“I thought, ‘I’ll go and get “60 Years Ago,” and I’ll give it back to Winnipeg as a thank-you,’” Randy Bachman tells Billboard via Zoom from his current home in Victoria, B.C.. “There was no great plan for this song, y’know. But maybe they’ll play it on Winnipeg radio, and if you live in Winnipeg maybe you’ll want to download it and drive around singing ’60 years ago, so damn cold, so much snow’ and that kind of stuff. And I have a million BTO fans, followers on Instagram and my web site, so maybe some of them will download it.
“I have a lot of people asking me, always, ‘Is there anything new? Is there anything new?’ So now… yes, there is.”
With its remembrances of the Winnipeg music scene of the mid-’60s, Bachman further torqued up “60 Years Ago” with some appropriate guests – childhood friend and fellow Winnipegian Neil Young, whose guitar solo can be heard at the end, and BTO co-founder Fred Turner who, despite spates of bad health, contributed vocals to the song. Both men are name-checked in the lyrics, along with Bachman’s Guess Who partner Burton Cummings and, as Bachman notes, Winnipeg’s frigid climate.
“I sent it to Neil Young and said, ‘Here’s a song about us and Winnipeg,’” Bachman says. “And he said, ‘I love this. I’ll scream something and play my solo at the end of the track.’ So we did that.” Turner’s part took a bit more doing, however.
“Fred Turner has suffered a lot in the last three years, from Covid, from his own illness. He lost his wife, that was depressing. He lost his voice,” Bachman explains. “When I sent him [the song] I said, ‘Just put this on your computer… put on headphones and sing to it. I just want your voice, Fred.’ He said, ‘I haven’t sang in two and a half years, but I gave it a shot. But I lost my voice in the second verse.’ But because of digital (technology) now you can get a little, tiny sound and make it big, so we managed to get a great vocal on him throughout the song.
“This wasn’t planned to be a single targeting the charts or anything like that. If we have success with this, it’ll be stunning. But people who hear it are saying to me, ‘You’ve done a great thing here. It sounds like BTO in 1976,’ which is great. The new [Rolling] Stones album doesn’t sound like the Stones, right? But this sounds like BTO.”
“60 Years Ago” comes as BTO prepares to hit the road for an extensive Canadian tour that kicks off an extensive, 22-date tour of Canada, followed by summer dates in the U.S., both on its own and with the Marshall Tucker Band, Jefferson Starship and the Outlaws. Bachman is also preparing a BTO live album from 1976 shows at the Budokan in Tokyo for release, and he’s hoping that Takin’ Care of Business, a documentary about finding his stolen Gretsch 6120 guitar while in the midst of a serious cancer battle a couple of years back will see wider release after running on the film festival circuit.
Bachman says more new BTO songs may be in the offing as well, including one called “Rock ‘n’ Roll is the Only Way Out.”
“Rock ‘n’ roll is the only way out of rap and all this crazy pop stuff that’s going on,” Bachman says, “and all this weird country stuff…everybody’s trying to get on the country bandwagon because they still sell CDs.” He’s also collaborating with Turner on other new songs.
“When we were doing [’60 Years Ago’] I said, ‘Have you got any songs, Fred? People are asking for new BTO,’” Bachman recalls. “And he says, ‘Yeah, here’s a couple of old songs. You want to do something new with ’em?’ All he’s got are little cassette tapes, but with AI I can lift off his vocal and get them reformatted and rewrite them and do this and that. I just get a BPM, tick-tick-tick and match his vocal to it. I play guitar. My son Tal plays guitar, drums, bass, flutes, everything. Then we’ll send it back to Fred and get him to sing once it’s a good demo and we’ve got the new groove and new feel. So I am working on new BTO stuff, which is amazing.”
Bachman is also looking forward to a return to the Guess Who now that he and Cummings have successfully wrested control of the trademarks and copyrights from former bandmates Jim Kale and Gary Peterson, who operated the band with other musicians – which Bachman calls “the clones” – until last July. The guitarist says he and Cummings – who have toured together since Bachman’s 1970 departure, including under the Guess Who moniker during the early 2000s – plan to be on the road together during 2026 playing the band’s material along with BTO and Cummings’ solo hits.
“We’re gonna really have an incredible show, about two hours,” Bachman says. “It’ll be a celebration of the Guess Who. The fans have been wanting it. We’ve already got offers for gigs – really big gigs, really good money. We’re just dealing with them all and working out who’s gonna be in the band – but definitely me and Burton. It’s like Joe Perry and Steven Tyler; you get a rhythm section, and as long as you have those two, you still get Aerosmith. With me and Burton, it’s still the Guess Who.”
BTO’s upcoming tour dates include:
Canada 2025 Tour Dates
April 1 – Save On Foods Memorial Centre, Victoria, BC April 3 – Abbotsford Centre, Abbotsford, BC April 4 – South Okanagan Event Centre, Penticton, BC April 6 – Western Financial Place, Cranbrook, BC April 8 – CN Centre, Prince George, BC April 9 – Bonnetts Energy Centre, Grand Prairie, AB April 11 – Event Centre at Grey Eagle Casino, Calgary, AB April 12 – Event Centre at Grey Eagle Casino, Calgary, AB April 13 – VisitLethbridge.com Arena, Lethbridge, AB April 15 – Brandt Centre, Regina, SK April 17 – Westoba Place at Keystone Centre, Brandon, MB April 19 – Canada Life Centre, Winnipeg, MB April 24 – The Aud (Kitchener Memorial Auditorium), Kitchener, ON April 26 – Great Canadian Resort Toronto, Toronto, ON April 28 – Meridian Centre, St. Catharines, ON April 29 – Peterborough Memorial Centre, Peterborough, ON May 1 – Canada Life Place, London, ON May 2 – The Arena at TD Place, Ottawa, ON May 4 – Sudbury Arena, Sudbury, ON May 5 – Place Bell, Laval, QC May 7 – TD Station, Saint John, NB May 8 – Scotiabank Centre, Halifax, NS
US Tour Dates with The Marshall Tucker Band and Jefferson Starship
July 18 – Harrah’s Stir Cove, Council Bluffs, IA July 19 – Treasure Island Casino, Welch, MN July 20 – Scheels Arena, Fargo, ND July 22 – Kresge Auditorium, Interlochen, MI July 24 – Neuroscience Group Field, Appleton, WI July 25 – The Mill Terre Haute, Terre Haute, IN July 26 – Rose Music Center, Huber Heights, OH Aug. 1 – Lucky Star Casino, El Reno, OK#
# Outlaws replacing Jefferson Starship as special guest
US Tour Dates – BTO only
July 28 – Bloomington Center For The Performing Art, Bloomington, IL July 29 – The Village Green at the Charles Zettek Municipal Complex, Elk Grove Village, IL July 31 – MU Health Care Capital Region Amphitheater, Jefferson City, MO Aug. 15 – Peppermill Casino, Wendover, NV Aug. 16 – Vilar PAC, Beaver Creek, CO Aug. 18 – Western Idaho Fair, Boise, ID Aug. 21 – Pala Casino, Pala, CA Aug. 22 – We-Ko-Pa Casino, Ft. McDowell, AZ
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A little over a year ago, Ariana Grande made the pop world a little bit lighter with the release of Eternal Sunshine, her seventh studio album.
Crafted in the afterglow of her divorce from realtor Dalton Gomez during the 2023 SAG-AFTRA strikes that paused Wicked production, Eternal Sunshine arrived atop the Billboard 200 (her sixth set to reach the summit), launching a pair of Hot 100 No. 1 hits in “We Can’t Be Friends (Wait for Your Love)” and “Yes, And?” In the time since the album’s release, Grande picked up three Grammy nods for the LP and its singles, including the Brandy and Monica-assisted rework of “The Boy Is Mine,” released live renditions of nearly half the record and began teasing a short film inspired by the Peaches storyline that began with the “We Can’t Be Friends” music video.
Of course, about midway through 2024, Grande shifted her focus to all things G(a)linda. Alongside Cynthia Erivo as Elphaba Thropp, Grande and the Wicked cast racked up over $744 million at the global box office and 10 Academy Award nominations, ultimately winning best costume design and best production design. For her performance in the Jon M. Chu-helmed film adaptation of the iconic Broadway musical, Grande earned her first Oscar nod for best supporting actress; at the March 2 ceremony, she and Erivo opened the show with a medley of Oz classics, including “Somewhere Over the Rainbow” (from The Wizard of Oz), “Home” (from The Wiz) and “Defying Gravity” (from Wicked).
On March 12 — just ten days after the Oscars — Grande announced the Brighter Days Ahead short film to accompany the final deluxe version of Eternal Sunshine. She already released a “slightly deluxe” version of the album a few weeks after the standard set dropped, but this new edition features six new solo tracks, including an extended version of “Intro (End of the World).”
Grande has spent most of March teasing both the new songs and the short film via her Brighter Days hotline (934-33-ERASE), teaser trailers, and cryptic social media posts. Co-directed by Grande (in her directorial debut) and Christian Breslauer, Brighter Days Ahead draws inspiration from 2004’s Oscar-winning Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind and features parts of several Eternal Sunshine tracks. The film follows Grande’s Peaches character as she explores the memories she erased in the “We Can’t Be Friends” music video.
Just like she gave the world new music in the lead-up to Wicked, Grande has dropped off some more musical goodies ahead of Wicked: For Good, which hits theatres later this fall (Nov. 21).
Here’s every new Eternal Sunshine: Brighter Days Ahead track ranked.
Los Angeles-based alt-pop duo Magdalena Bay have paid tribute to David Bowie for their recent appearance onLike a Version, the long-running segment from Australian radio station triple j.
Premiering on the morning of Friday, March 28 (Australian time), the pair – which comprises Mica Tenenbaum and Matthew Lewin – recorded their performance during a recent trip to Australia in early March. The two-song set saw them performing original track “Image” before focusing on Bowie’s 1980 single “Ashes to Ashes.”
First released as the lead single to Bowie’s 1980 album Scary Monsters (and Super Creeps), the single did not impact the Hot 100, though it gave Bowie his first U.K. chart-topper since 1969’s “Space Oddity.” The album, meanwhile, peaked at No. 12 on the Billboard 200 and was Bowie’s first in six years to top the chart in his home country.
“It’s a great, kind of weird experimental pop song that I think we took a lot of inspiration from,” said Lewin in a post-performance interview. ”We’re always just kind of listening to it, it’s never really left our rotation of songs that we love,” added Tenenbaum.
“I drew a lot of influence from his ideas of being an artist and what it means to create art,” continued Tenenbaum. “I found [it] very inspiring as we were going into the creation of our latest album, Imaginal Disk.
“It’s tough, because when you love a song so much and you know what you love about it and then you also want make it your own a little bit, it’s like, ‘How much should you really mess with it?’”
Magdalena Bay’s cover was indeed preceded by a cut from latest album, Imaginal Disk, with second single “Image” also performed in the Like a Version studio. The track was voted in at No. 147 in triple j’s annual Hottest 100 countdown, and in December 2024 was chosen by Billboard staff as one of the 20 Pop Songs From 2024 That Deserved to Be Smashes.
Having first launched in 2004, the Like a Version series has gone from being a near-impromptu acoustic affair to featuring larger studio productions. Numerous artists have taken part over the past two decades, with the likes of Billie Eilish, Childish Gambino, Arctic Monkeys, and more reinventing classic tracks in the process.
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The original Broadway cast recording of Maybe Happy Ending – led by Emmy Award and Golden Globe-winner Darren Criss and Helen J Shen – scores the year’s highest debut on Billboard’s Cast Albums chart, as the set enters at No. 5 on the list dated March 29.
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Maybe Happy Ending was released on March 14 via streaming services and to purchase as a digital download album, while its CD release is slated for May 16 and a vinyl release is due on June 13. Will Aronson and Hue Park wrote the show’s book, music and lyrics, while the album was produced by Deborah Abramson, Ian Kagey and Aronson.
Maybe Happy Ending began its life on stage in Seoul, South Korea in 2016 and was later produced in Japan and China as well. It opened on Broadway at New York’s Belasco Theatre on Nov. 12, 2024, starring Criss and Shen as obsolete Helperbot robots who meet cute and fall in love. The show has drawn rave reviews, with The New York Timescalling it “supersmart” and “astonishing,” Entertainment Weeklysaid the musical “dazzles with its love story and astounds with its visual accomplishments,” and USA Todaysaid it was “wildly inventive and profoundly moving.”
Shen makes their Broadway debut in Maybe Happy Ending, while this is the fourth Broadway show for Criss – but his first originating a role in a musical production. He previously appeared on Broadway in the revival of the play American Buffalo (in 2022) and as a replacement in the revivals of the musicals Hedwig and the Angry Inch (2015) and How to Succeed In Business Without Really Trying (2012).
Billboard’s Cast Albums chart ranks the most popular cast recordings of the week in the United States, based on multi-metric consumption as measured in equivalent album units, compiled by Luminate. The March 29 chart reflects the tracking week ending March 20. 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.
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The inaugural Femmy Awards kicked off in high style and spirit Thursday (March 27) in Miami.
Happening amid the many (many) events of Miami Music Week, the awards were put on by Femme House, the nonprofit founded by LP Giobbi and Lauren Spalding that works to create and celebrate equity in the music industry by amplifying voices of women, femme, gender-expansive LGBTQIA+ and BIPOC creators.
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The afternoon ceremony took place on the waterfront patio at Palm Tree Club, the hotel opened by Kygo and his manager and Myles Shear this past December. In the sunshine and bay breezes, LP and Spaulding presented a variety of awards honoring artists, party brands, festivals, execs and other members across the dance music industry.
The event started with moving speeches by Barbara Tucker and Crystal Waters, who were honored with the Voice of House award for the prolific contributions they’ve made to the genre over the years. So too were DJ Minx and DJ Lady D each honored with the Pioneer Award for their everything they’ve each done to break barriers, reshape the dance and electronic music industries and pave the way for femme, non-binary, and LGBTQ+ artists.
The event also presented awards to a flurry of other artists, with Kaleena Zanders and Aluna Francis winning for best live performance, Coco & Breezy winning the Carolyn Horn Trailblazer Award (named for LP Giobbi’s longtime piano teacher who passed away in 2023), TSHA winning for best producer, Xandra being honored with the Rising Star Award and Sara Landry getting the award for producer of the year.
The ceremony also honored a number of executives, with WME’s head of electronic music Stefanie LaFera getting the Theresa Velasquez Award for Outstanding Executive award and WME’s Bailey Greenwood winning for agent of the year. Billboard was the official media sponsor of the event.
See the complete winners list below.
2025 Ally Award: Le Chev 2025 Breakthrough Artist: Alleycvt 2025 Most Diverse Festival: Lightning in a Bottle 2025 Theresa Velasquez Award for Outstanding Executive: Stephanie LaFera 2025 Ableton Instructor of the Year: Mini Bear 2025 Pass the Mic Media Award: DJ Mag 2025 Pass the Mic Media Award: Billboard 2025 Carolyn Horn Trailblazer Award: Coco & Breezy 2025 Femme House Community Member of the Year: Shak Jackson 2025 Best Live Performance: Kaleena Zanders + Aluna Francis @ Planet Pride
2025 Best Radio Mix: DJ Holographic 2025 Album of the Year: Sofi Tukker, Bread 2025 Best Sound Designer: Tokimonsta 2025 Best Producer: TSHA 2025 Best Vocalist: Kaleena Zanders 2025 Best Engineer: Jayda Love 2025 Best Mixer: Laura Sisk 2025 Sonic Innovator Award: FKA Twigs 2025 Best Visual Experience: The Blessed Madonna 2025 Best Visual Experience: Nora En Pure 2025 Activist & Impact Award: She Is the Music 2025 Culture Shifter Award: Ronny Ho 2025 Best Music Journalist: Katie Bain 2025 Best Record Label: HE.SHE.THEY. 2025 Manager of the Year: Julia Fugazy 2025 Agent of the Year: Bailey Greenwood 2025 Hospitality Visionary Award: Carly Van Sickle 2025 Talent Booker: Heather Church 2025 Best Club: Elsewhere 2025 Icon Award: Honey Dijon 2025 Song of the Year: Desiree, “Khuluma Nami” 2025 Creative Director of the Year: Sophie Muller 2025 Best Underground Promoter: Girls Room 2025 For the Culture Award: Interna$hional Bounce 2025 Voice of House Honoree: Barbara Tucker 2025 Voice of House Honoree: Crystal Waters 2025 Rising Star Honoree: Xandra 2025 Producer of the Year Honoree: Sara Landry 2025 Pioneer Award Honoree: DJ Lady D 2025 Pioneer Award Honoree: Minx
Miley Cyrus has upped her platinum records to 23. According to the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), her two hits, “Flowers” and “Used to Be Young,” have been certified 7x platinum and platinum, respectively.
A platinum certification recognizes one million equivalent song units earned. One equivalent song unit, as recognized by the RIAA, is equal to: one digital song sale, or 150 on-demand audio and/or video streams. The RIAA revamped its Gold & Platinum Awards Program on Feb. 1, 2016, growing from a pure sales certification process to one that includes tracks and streams.
In addition to her 23 platinum records, Cyrus also has a diamond song, with her 2010 hit “Party in the U.S.A.” selling or streaming a total of 10 million units in the United States.
Widely believed to have been written about her ex-husband, Liam Hemsworth, “Flowers” appeared on Cyrus’ eighth studio album, Endless Summer Vacation, which dropped in March 2023. The track spent a total of eight weeks at No. 1 on the Hot 100, while the album reached No. 3 on the Billboard 200.
At the 2024 Grammys, “Flowers” also won Cyrus her first two Grammys: best pop solo performance and record of the year. She performed the hit at her ceremony, celebrating her win.
Meanwhile, the introspective “Used to Be Young,” looks back on her growth over the course of her career. Watch the music videos for both tracks below.
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Just over two years since the arrival of their last record, English virtual band Gorillaz have confirmed that a new album will be arriving in 2025.
Word of the forthcoming LP was shared by frontman Damon Albarn in a nascent interview with French publication Les Inrockuptibles, where the prolific artist also touched on the premiere of his new opera, The Magic Flute II: La Malédiction, alongside his plans for the rest of the year.
“I’m finishing a new Gorillaz album,” Albarn explained. “One opera and one new Gorillaz album seems like enough for 2025! Unless someone accuses me of taking my foot off the gas!”
Albarn’s Gorillaz collaborator Jamie Hewlett reportedly confirmed the news, with an Instagram account focused on the band sharing a DM from the musician in which he stated, “Yes, the new album is coming out this year.” That same post also noted that Albarn confirmed to a French podcast the record would be completed in “6 more weeks.”
The current influx of French press from Albarn shouldn’t come as a surprise, especially given that his new opera premiered at Paris’ Théâtre du Lido on Thursday (March 27), and will run until Sunday (March 30). The production is a rather ambitious one, with The Magic Flute II: La Malédiction serving as the sequel to Mozart’s 1791 opera, The Magic Flute.
“The idea of me writing an opera and for it to be a continuation of The Magic Flute sounds ridiculous, it was and is, not only was I grappling with the genius of Mozart but I had Goethe to contend with too!!” Albarn said in a statement. “I suppose I took a relatively reductionist approach to the question, how the fuck do I do this? The answer came from a surprising source but one no less brilliant, Kraftwerk.”
Gorillaz last released a new album in 2023, with Cracker Island serving as their eighth record. It peaked at No. 3 on the Billboard 200 and was nominated for best alternative music album at the 2024 Grammys.
Albarn has remained busy since the release of the latest Gorillaz record, with Blur releasing The Ballad of Darren – their first album in eight years – in July 2023. It peaked at No. 94 on the Billboard 200 (their lowest-charting release since 1995) and hit No. 5 on the Top Alternative Albums chart, and would become their seventh consecutive release to top the U.K. charts.
Meanwhile, neither Gorillaz nor Blur have not made their return to the stage for some time, with the former not appearing live since the 2023 edition of the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival in California, and the latter not performing since the 2024 edition of the same event.
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LONDON – Abbey Road has announced the reopening of Studio One following an extensive restoration to the iconic recording studio space. The room closed in late 2024 for the first time in its history to allow for the work to take place.
On Thursday night (March 27), the studio celebrated the reopening with an event Synergy In Motion, which combined contemporary dance and music in a unique event. The choreography was helmed by Royal Ballet choreographer Joseph Toonga and set to the film scores of composer Daniel Pemberton (Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse), remixed and arranged by Jordan Rakei, Abbey Road’s Artist in Residence.
The studio has now reopened and is in operation for recording sessions.
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Studio One is described by the north-west London studio as “world’s largest purpose-built recording studio,” and can comfortably host 100-piece orchestras. The room is primarily used for the recording of classical and movie scores, with the soundtracks to a number of blockbusters having been recorded in in the space, including much of John Williams’ oeuvre, such as Raiders of The Lost Ark, Star Wars: The Return of The Jedi, as well as the Harry Potter movies. Earlier this month, on March 18, the studio hosted a one-off concert to celebrate the film scores recorded in the space over the past 45 years, including The Last Emperor, The Lord of The Rings and The Hobbit trilogies, Skyfall, The Shape of Water, Barbie, Black Panther and more.
The room has also been used by a variety of contemporary musicians in recent years, including Harry Styles, U2, Noel Gallagher, Little Simz, Sam Smith and Celeste.
In a statement, Abbey Road’s managing director Sally Davies said, “The reopening of Studio One sees Abbey Road embrace a renewed energy that not only honours our legacy but also looks forward to the future. Last night’s multidisciplinary Synergy In Motion celebration was the perfect way to usher in this new era, with an evening that championed innovation and creativity at every turn.”
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The refurbishment includes the replacing of the 20-year old 72-channel AMS Neve 88RS SP2 recording console with an 84-channel AMS Neve 88RS SP3D recording console, and extensive acoustic treatment and the installation of new fabric. The live room – where the musicians play – has seen the introduction of 10 rows of wool serge, as well as the integration of 3 rows of 9 LED pendants to increase visibility.
The premises was first built as a residential townhouse in 1831, and was converted into a recording studio a century later, reopening as EMI Studios in 1931. A number of classical greats including Edward Elgar and Sergei Prokofiev recorded there; in 1958, Studio Two was opened, with a number of influential acts like The Beatles recording in the space. The studio is currently owned by Universal Music imprint Virgin Records.
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La T y La M’s “Amor De Vago,” featuring Malandro de América, rebounds for an 11th week at No. 1 on the Billboard Argentina Hot 100 chart (dated March 29). The song trades places with Jombriel, Ryan Castro, Jotta and Alex Krack’s “Parte & Choke (remix),” which dips 2-1 after one week in charge.
Brazilian singer-songwriter Luisa Sonza achieves her highest-charting entry since the chart launched in 2018 thanks to “Bunda,” with Emilia, which jumps 4-3. Meanwhile, Bad Bunny’s “Velda” rebounds to its No. 10 high, after the song hit the top 10 on the chart dated Feb. 22.
Colombian influencer and Youtuber W Sound, better known as Westcol, earns his first entry on the Billboard Argentina Hot 100 ranking, as his latest project, “La Plena (W Sound 05),” with Beéle and Ovy On The Drums, becomes the Hot Shot Debut of the week debuting at No. 39. W Sound celebrates a dual milestone, following his recent deal with Warner Music Latina.
Beéle and Ovy on the Drums also take the Greatest Gainer honors of the week with “Mi Refe,” as the song surges 92-65.
Back in the top 60, Mexican Emanero and Argentinian Luciano Pereyra add a new career entry through their first collab “Ahora Resulta,” which bows at No. 60.
Lastly, Maria Becerra extends her record for the most entries among women, as “Tatú” opens at No. 62.
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