LeToya Luckett continues to flex her acting muscles ahead of the release of new album ‘Back 2 Life’ (due May 12th).
Case in point ‘Used To.’
The cinematic clip picks up after the visual for the LP’s title track, which was released in January.
Clocking in at over 10-minutes, Ms. Luckett certainly is proving generous with her output this era – holding true to her promise of delivering a video series to support her project.
Check out the vid, which co-stars Thomas Q. Jones, below…
Welcome to The Stream Scene, the TGJ party thrown to celebrate streaming gains made by some of the brightest stars in the Popverse.
Who made their way into the club this time around? Lady Gaga, Kendrick Lamar, Aston Merrygold and Beyonce.
Lamar’s new album ‘DAMN‘ is already on its way to casting a creative shadow of Drake’s hit-stained set ‘Views’.
How so?
The set, which is fronted by the single ‘Humble’, has already been streamed 50 million times and will cross the 200 million mark by the end of the week, making Lamar the first act to do so in the same space of time since Drake.
How much the album is expected to move in pure sales by the end of its first week? Between 275-300k.
Elsewhere, streams and pure sales have lifted Beyonce‘s ‘Hold Up’ to enviable new heights!
Streams garnered by her 2016 release ‘Hold Up’ recently swam past the 90 million spins point recently and, as of today, now sit at the 91,488,539 point.
Pure sales of the song’s parent album ‘Lemonade’ have been just as stellar.
By the end of 2016, the album had moved 1.5 million copies in the United States alone before streaming data pushed its to number over the 2.1 million mark!
Of course, the album’s unique rollout has seen fans opt to purchase the set as a whole instead of picking up its songs individually resulting in a less than stellar run on the Billboard Hot 100 but an epic one on the Billboard 200 where it peaked at #1.
Joining the club this week is the British vocalist Aston Merrygold, formerly of the Urban Pop group JLS.
His new single ‘Precious‘ impacted the net last week and cruises past the 20,000 spins landmark before the unveiling of his first solo studio set and the live shows he has launched to support it.
How ‘Precious’ is faring so far?
Since its arrival on April 12th, it’s been watched for a total of 744 hours and picked up 406 shares.
Will his forthcoming live shows help to push these numbers to higher ground?
Weigh in below!
Last, and never least, is Lady Gaga.
Back in February, the Pop diva rocked the NFL’s Super Bowl Halftime Show with a tame and restrained live serving out of her discography.
How the world responded? Positively.
Proving that the general public is still very much interested in her live shows, her Super Bowl online viewing figure was recently flung into new heights after it was watched 29 million times!
29,598,336 to be exact.
This news will undoubtedly give her diehard fans cause to celebrate after they pushed her new single ‘The Cure’ to #1 on iTunes USA!
Easter united friends and family across the globe – including Destiny’s Child sisters Beyonce and Kelly Rowland.
The bandmates, along with their respective families, marked the occasion together.
Bey’s mom Tina Knowles Lawson shared the shot above, as well as various clips.
It marks the latest sighting of Mrs Carter, who is heavily pregnant with twins.
Peep footage below, which includes brief appearances from Jay Z, Kelly‘s husband and son Titan, Tina’s bae Richard Lawson, and more…
Eccentric singer/actress Janelle Monae serves as one of five beautiful covergirls for Marie Claire’s May 2017 issue dedicated to female empowerment.
Hitting newsstands April 18, Monae – alongside Aja Naomi King, Emily Ratajkowski, Zoey Deutch, and Alexandra Daddario – struck their fiercest poses inside the pages of the mag that crowned them the ‘fresh faces of 2017.’
Each lending her thoughts on how ‘The Future is Female,’ tuck in to not only see more pics from the shoot, but see the behind the scenes footage as well:
Mariah Carey and Nick Cannon continue to serve as a shining example of commendable co-parents.
The pair went their separate ways in 2015 after five years of marriage. Yet, in the time since, they’ve made a point to spend time as a unit with their adorable twins Monroe and Moroccan.
Easter 2017 is one of such occasions.
Taking to social media, Mimi shared a shot of the Carey-Cannon family coloring their eggs. The snap comes a week after news hit that she and dancer Bryan Tanaka have parted after five months “together.”
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Kudos to she and Nick for doing well by their kids. Maturity at its finest.
During Destiny’s Child run, the many line-up’s have blessed the masses with many a classic gem. This week’s From The Vault hailed by many as their defining song. Today we salute ‘Say My Name.’
Rumor has it the ladies hated the song in its initial form, saying that there was too much happening on the track. It was only after reworking by its producer Rodney “Darkchild” Jerkins that track evolved into a favorite of theirs.
Penned by the group’s original lineup, the song was serviced as the third offering from their sophomore set ‘The Writing’s On The Wall.’ After hitting #1 in the U.S. and Australia and scoring Top 5 placing in the U.K. and Canada, ‘Say My Name’ was considered a pivotal moment for R&B music and turned the band into a household name.
But with all this success came a dose of drama…
The music video for ‘Say My Name’ featured the second incarnation of Destiny’s Child, which saw Michelle Williams and Farrah Franklin replacing LeToya Luckett and LaTavia Roberson.
According to Luckett and Roberson – who had asked for separate management because of perceived favoritism from manager and Beyonce’s dad, Mathew Knowles, they didn’t know they were out of the group. Not until ‘Say My Name’s simultaneous premiere on MTV and BET in February 2000. A press release announcing the lineup change sealed their fate.
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Directed by Joseph Kahn, it presented the four members in color-coded moving sets. In most of the clip, the girls can be seen posing instead of dancing as a result of having no time to learn the song’s choreography.
Looking back, it’s nothing short of miraculous DC came out of this scotfree as it remains one of the most soap-opera like dramas Pop culture has witnessed. Talk about being a survivor. Still, one thing must be said about Destiny’s Child: no matter who was in the group, talent has always been its defining feature. It’s no surprise, then, why they would go on to become one of the most iconic acts of all time.
The Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival kicked off in California yesterday ushering in a buffet of stars.
Struggling to keep with up the stream of snaps flowing in from its sun-kissed location?
Fret not, for we’ve got you covered!
Solange, Katy Perry Branden Miller, The Weeknd and more below…
Just hours after releasing surprise new single ‘The Cure,’ Lady Gaga has found herself in a position to which she has become accustomed – #1.
The Pop force has stormed to the top of the US iTunes tally with the track, which has received a potently positive response since being debuted live at Coachella.
Produced by Nick Monson, the rousing production also sits atop of the pack on UK iTunes. In doing so, it dethrones the seemingly unshakable Harry Styles in the process.
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The arrival and early success of ‘Cure’ is fascinating.
Indeed, not only was it totally unexpected, it re-writes the usual “what is the next single from the album” narrative.
Gaga is still in-cycle for her ‘Joanne’ LP and sets sail on a tour to support the set in August, and yet ‘The Cure’ is not featured on the project.
Could it be a re-release track? A standalone track to plug the tour? Or the launch of something different?
The latter doesn’t seem far-fetched. After all, Gaga mastered this with ‘The Fame’ and ‘Fame Monster’ mixed, meshed eras almost a decade ago.
Whatever the case, we’re buzzed.
‘The Cure’ is the most mainstream, Pop-pleasing song she’s released in years and should go someway in satisfying all corners of the public.
It sounds like a smash in waiting. It’ll be interesting to see whether its success sustains.
Mary J. Blige is renown for baring her soul…in song.
However, it appears the Queen of Hip-Hop/Soul is now venting on via social media.
As widely reported, MJB is in the thick of dirty divorce battle with husband and former manager Kendu Isaacs.
Today she shocked the masses, when she took to Twitter to post the following…
Some are scratching their heads, as she’s candid but rarely “this” candid. However, it wouldn’t be far fetched given how contentious their very public split has been.
Indeed, as widely reported, Kendu has petitioned for a hefty amount of coin as well as spousal support.
What’s more, during a recent run of promo for new album ‘Strength Of A Woman,’ the singer heavily alluded to Isaacs cheating on her. She also flat out said that he tried to dent her confidence by saying that her fans had deserted her.
Viewed this way, we can’t say we blame her.
Lady Gaga sprung a sprung a surprise on fans at Coachella tonight in the form of a brand new song ‘The Cure.’
Speaking to the Californian crowd, Mother Monster explained:
“I’ve been so excited for this next part of the show because I’ve been trying to keep it a secret for so long I’ve been in the studio and I’d like to debut a brand new song, The Cure.”
I love you guys so much. I have been through so much in my life and I’ve seen so much. And you cure me every time with your love.” {GGD}
Take a listen below…
Yes, yes, and yes!
Now, this is what hits are made of.
It’s sonically in the thick of what’s current, while also serving as something fresh for Gaga’s discography.
It remains to be seen if this is in anyway connected to ‘Joanne’ or whether this is tied to a different project altogether. But, either way, we aren’t complaining; this is a winner.
Readers of That Grape Juice know what avid music lovers we are – especially of hits past.
So, just as our retrospective features ‘From the Vault’ and ‘TGJ Replay’ allow us the chance to re-spin the gems and jams of yesterday of one artist, our newest feature Chart Rewind – a variation of our current Retro Rewind assay – accedes salutes to an entire era of music history.
This week we’ll go to ‘There You Go’ – the debut single from pop powerhouse P!nk. Written by Xscape‘s Kandi Burruss and P!nk herself, the tune served as the first release from the latter’s inaugural album, ‘Can’t Take Me Home’ (read our ode to the full album by clicking here).
The songstress and her Urban-inspired pop tune were welcomed by critics as a much needed departure from the wealth of vocally incapable pop offerings of the day. Rebellious and spunky, ‘Go’ went to the upper dectet of the Billboard Hot 100 in no time. Eventually peaking at #7, this week in 2000 saw the tune maintain its perch for a second rung before eventually slipping out of the top 10. Not only serving as an unforgettable introduction to the singer/songwriter who – unlike many of her contemporaries of the day – has stood the test of time, ‘Go’ also helped ‘Home’ hit the 2x platinum mark when all was said and done.
Tuck in below to see who else joined her in the Hot 100 this week 17 years ago:
With his Uganda-shot new video, ‘Unforgettable,’ many will perceive French Montana‘s latest as an attempt to convince the masses he’s not a colorist after a fiery, racially charged verbal attack on a Twitter user (read more about that by clicking here). That, however, shouldn’t take away from the beauty of scenes found aboard the clip.
Tagging Rae Sremmurd‘s Swae Lee to assist, the duo took a safari in Kampala, Uganda for their island-inspired tune. Coming across trouble along the way in the cinematic video, which apparently lays the groundwork for a sequel, tuck in to watch and weigh in:
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