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Kelly Clarkson’s voice is big enough to fill an arena, and that’s exactly where Kings of Leon’s anthemic hit “Use Somebody” belongs — so the singer’s latest Kellyoke cover is a perfect match.
On Wednesday’s (March 3) episode of The Kelly Clarkson Show, the multi-talented host tackled the Billboard Hot 100 top five hit from Kings of Leon’s 2008 album Only by the Night. In addition to peaking at No. 4 on the Hot 100, “Use Somebody” also topped the Alternative Airplay and Adult Alternative Airplay charts. Coincidentally, Kings of Leon are back atop the Triple A chart this week with their latest single “The Bandit.”
Clarkson was joined by a full band and a harmonizing backup singer for the rocking cover, with appropriately epic lights flashing all around to the song’s driving beat.
KoL’s latest single, “The Bandit,” is the lead track from When You See Yourself, Kings of Leon’s eighth full-length and first since 2016’s Walls, the band’s first Billboard 200 No. 1 album. The new set is due Friday via RCA Records.
Watch the Kellyoke cover below:
Swedish House Mafia and Columbia Records have amicably parted ways, Billboard has learned.
The EDM trio’s tenure with the label lasted only two years, with the group signing to Columbia in February 2019. Despite a label deal sources say was worth more than $3 million, the partnership resulted in no new music from the trio, which blew up in the early 2010s with a series of era and genre-defining tracks including “Don’t You Worry Child,” “Save The World” and “Greyhound.”
The trio previously released music on Polydor, Virgin and EMI, among others.
Two sources familiar with the matter also tell Billboard that Swedish House Mafia has parted ways with their manager, Patriot Management’s Ron Laffitte, who took over for longtime manager Amy Thomson following the group’s 2018 reunion show.
After splitting up in 2013 following their 53-date One Last Tour, the trio reunited for a show-closing performance at Ultra Music Festival 2018. There they teased a full-on reunion, with SHM member Axwell announcing to the crowd, “It’s Swedish House Mafia for life this time.” In the three years since, the group has played about a dozen dates in Europe, Asia, Mexico and Saudi Arabia, with these shows containing new, as-yet-unreleased music. In June of 2019, due to supposed scheduling conflicts, band members Sebastian Ingrosso and Steve Angello didn’t make it to Seoul for a much-anticipated appearance at Ultra Korea.
Columbia signed the band in 2019 after a bidding war that included Universal Music Group, sources tell Billboard. It is unclear whether Swedish House Mafia will have to return their advance to Columbia.
While sources also report that the trio has been in the studio in Stockholm throughout 2020, working on a possible album, the group hasn’t released any new music since 2012, and has been silent on social media since December of 2019.
ABC’s true-crime series The Con is returning on Wednesday night (Mar. 3), with five episodes delving into major fraud cases.
The first episode will look into the disgraced 2017 Fyre Festival, when entrepreneur Billy McFarland and rapper Ja Rule aimed to pull off an ultra-luxury two-weekend musical event on the beaches of Great Exuma, Bahamas, with the event being promoted by high-profile models including Hailey Bieber and Kendall Jenner.
However, the event quickly experienced disastrous problems related to security, food, accommodation, medical services and more, which led to the festival getting canceled. Instead of the luxury villas and high-end meals the pricey ticked promised festival attendees, they received prepackaged sandwiches and FEMA tents.
In March 2018, McFarland pleaded guilty to one count of wire fraud to defraud investors and ticket holders, and a second count to defraud a ticket vendor that occurred he was on bail. Later that year, he was sentenced to six years in prison.
The Con, hosted by Whoopi Goldberg, will interview McFarland from prison. The special airs at 10 p.m. ET on ABC. SlingTV also offers ABC as well as more than 30 other channels for $35 a month.
Watch the upcoming episode’s trailer below.
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Nick Jonas, Lily Collins, Rosario Dawson, Aubrey Plaza, Pedro Pascal and more are lending their voices to the auditory mystery thriller series Calls heading to Apple TV+ this month.
The official trailer, which premiered Wednesday (March 3), teased snippets of the nine bone-chilling conversations between loved ones that will leave listeners, both onscreen and off, hanging. Based on Timothée Hochet’s CANAL+ French series of the same name, Calls is an immersive television series that blends audio and abstract visuals to tell dark short-form stories through seemingly ordinary, unrelated phone calls that eerily find their point of connection. Fede Álvarez (Evil Dead, Don’t Breathe) directed the Apple Originals series in association with CANAL+ and in production with Studiocanal and Bad Hombre.
The star-studded cast of Calls also includes Nicholas Braun, Clancy Brown, Mark Duplass, Karen Gillan, Judy Greer, Paul Walter Hauser, Danny Huston, Riley Keough, Joey King, Stephen Lang, Jaeden Martell, Paola Nuñez, Edi Patterson, Danny Pudi, Ben Schwartz, Aaron Taylor-Johnson and Jennifer Tilly.
All nine episodes of the first season will premiere worldwide on Apple TV+ on Friday, March 19. The French-language version of Calls will premiere on CANAL+ in select markets. Apple TV+ will premiere the series under the title Llamadas, which will include custom Spanish-language graphics, in select Spanish-speaking markets in Latin America.
Watch the official trailer for Calls below.
Machine Gun Kelly’s longtime drummer JP Cappelletty, who goes by Rook, was recently attacked, robbed and hit by a car, TMZ reports.
Rook posted a picture of him raising his left arm cast on his Instagram Story on Wednesday (March 3), reassuring fans with the message, “Don’t worry I’ll bounce back.” Rook’s second picture featured MGK flipping off the camera while taking the selfie with his bedridden drummer in the hospital.
TMZ broke the news, saying Rook was walking down a street in the Hollywood Hills on Tuesday around 8 p.m. when two men jumped out of a vehicle and robbed him. Law enforcement told the publication that a physical altercation ensued, and thousands of dollars worth of property was stolen from the drummer. He was also reportedly hit by a car, which resulted in injuries to his foot and arm.
He accompanied the pop-punk artist for his debut Saturday Night Live performance on Jan. 30, where they tore through “My Ex’s Best Friend” and “Lonely” from MGK’s Billboard 200 No. 1 album Tickets to My Downfall. “SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE! Dreams come true, but it ain’t an easy road,” Rook wrote on his Instagram at the time. Rook also made a cameo in MGK’s Downfalls High musical film.
Rook has been performing and touring alongside the 30-year-old artist since he was offered the drummer gig as a senior in high school.
How about this for an 18th birthday? Olivia Rodrigo’s “biggest celebrity crush” Pete Davidson compared her to her biggest “idol” Taylor Swift during a Saturday Night Live sketch entirely about her breakout debut single “Drivers License,” which has been the biggest song in the world for seven weeks straight.
“I was absolutely floored, I was screaming. I think being made fun of and parodied on SNL is the biggest compliment in the whole world,” she told Radio.com in a new interview on Tuesday (March 2). “So that was so surreal.”
But the line Davidson draws between Rodrigo and Swift is pretty solid. Following Swift’s co-sign of “Drivers License,” Rodrigo said the pop superstar penned her a letter based on the teen singer’s favorite lyrics from “long story short” on Swift’s most recent Billboard 200 No. 1 album evermore: “Past me/ I wanna tell you not to get lost in these petty things/ Your nemeses/ Will defeat themselves before you get the chance to swing.”
“So she wrote about that a little bit in her letter,” Rodrigo elaborated about the heartfelt note. “She was like, ‘I think we make our own luck and I think when you’re kind to people and do what’s right, it always comes back to you in the best ways.’”
The High School Musical: The Musical: The Series breakout star has been experiencing a lot of positive things coming back to her in the best way, including more sweet messages from two of her favorite artists, Lorde and Phoebe Bridgers.
“Lorde doesn’t have social media, but Lorde’s sister reached out to me and was like, ‘My sister and I love the song,’ and I was like, ‘Oh my God, That’s crazy!’” she exclaimed. “Phoebe Bridgers… commented ‘happy birthday’ [on my] post on my Instagram, so that was cool. It’s just so surreal to have my idols become my peers so quickly. It’s just insane.”
Watch her entire Radio.com interview below.
