Demi Lovato is taking her ‘okay’ message on the road…
The 28-year-old part-Mexican American singer/actress has joined voices with Marshmello at Los Angeles’ legendary Troubadour nightclub to perform their smash collaboration “OK Not To Be OK.”
Lovato and Marshmello performed the mental health-themed single as part of the Save Our Stages Fest, an initiative that’s raising money for independent music venues on the verge of closing due to the pandemic.
Marshmello and Lovato’s confidence-boosting ballad is currently at No. 4 on Billboard’s Hot Dance/Electronic Songs.
The Troubadour is just one of thousands of venues threatened with closure due to COVID-19. The West Hollywood nightclub is famous for incubating the Los Angeles music scene of the ’60s and ’70s, with acts including Linda Ronstadt, Jackson Brown, Eagles, Elton John, Joni Mitchell and more all playing the stage early in their careers.
Save Our Stages is aiming to raise $5 million to help fund the Troubadour, and thousands of other venues like it, over the next few months as doors remain shut amidst the global pandemic.
Demi Lovato is letting us know she is all she needs.
The 28-year-old half-Mexican American singer/actress has released a new single “Still Have Me,” with the song arriving just days after her split from fiancé Max Ehrichbecame public knowledge.
The breakup ballad features Lovato singing the lyrics, “I’m a mess and I’m still broken/ But I’m finding my way back/ And it feels like someone’s stolen /All the light I ever had.”
Later, she adds, “Like the world disappeared/ And I’m laying right here/ While the silence is piercing/ And it hurts to breathe.”
Lovato shared the song in a tweet alongside a caption that reads: “Music is always there for me.”
Lovato’s split from Ehrich made headlines last week. The couple had been dating for six months and had been engaged for the last two.
“Still Have Me” is the first solo single Lovato has released since March’s “I Love Me.” She has since dropped the collaborations “I’m Ready,” with Sam Smith, “Lonely Hearts” with Jojo, and “OK Not to Be OK” with Marshmello.
Demi Lovato’s spreading her “OK Not To Be OK” message with the world…
NBA player Kevin Love moderated a Twitter Q&A about mental health with the 28-year-old half-Mexican American singer/actress and her “OK Not To Be OK” collaborator Marshmello.
While 2020 has thrown curveball after curveball at the world and the well-being of millions, Lovato, Marshmello and Love wanted people to know it will get better.
The Cleveland Cavaliers player — who recently penned a personal essay about his mental health struggles — replied to fans who asked questions using the #OKNotToBeOK hashtag about what tools, from therapy to different hobbies, they can use to improve their mindset.
“It’s not easy some days, but knowing ‘it’s ok not to be ok’ has truly helped me with this,” Lovato responded to a fan who asked about motivating yourself even during the rough patches. “You have good days… and a couple bad days in between. We can’t stress ourselves with trying to be perfect. Love you too!”
The 22-year-old Venezuelan internet personality, actress, singer, dancer and host of La Voz… México appears in YouTube’s “YouTube Rewind 2018: Everyone Controls Rewind.”
The clip, jam-packed with references to this year’s music, features many of YouTube’s popular creators and recaps the year’s content, trends and tunes.
The YouTube Rewind series first hit the internet in 2010..
The eight-minute-plus video opens with Will Smith (who made his YouTube channel debut earlier this year) against a mountainous landscape, announcing, “It’s rewind time.” He continues, “If I control rewind, I would want Fortnite and Marques Brownlee.” Snapping his fingers, a dreamlike YouTuber-filled compilation begins.
“Is this what you wanted?” asks Brownlee from a flying Fortnite-esque bus full of YouTubers ready to pick out their own favorite moments as Cardi B’s “I Like It” plays in the background.
The scene eventually swaps to one in which the content creators crowd around a campfire together. “Apparently we control rewind this year. Y’all, we can do whatever we want,” confirms Liza Koshy. “What do we do?”
“K-pop!” pipe up the Merrell Twins and Casey Neistat as a dancing montage backed by BTS’ “Idol” plays in the background.
Marshmello soon makes a brief appearance (as does his collaboration with Bastille, “Happier“).
The next music moment comes when the animated TheOdd1sOut suggests they accept Drake’s “In My Feelings” Challenge, the moving-car dance craze inspired by the song earlier this year.
YouTubers including Pons, Anwar Jibawi and Rudy Mancuso later take on a catwalk wearing oversized blocky bodysuits meant to resemble the ones Kanye West and Lil Pump sported in the “I Love It” music video; Panic! at the Disco’s “High Hopes” backs them up.
The social-media-famous “Baby Shark” song by Pinkfong also gets a nod, accompanied by some colorfully costumed kid show characters.
This year’s video has, notably, at time of press, been disliked more than 2.2 million times — over twice as many times as it has been liked — with viewers pointing out that some of YouTube’s biggest stars, including PewDiePie (who boasts over 74 million subscribers), are absent. Despite this, the recap has already received 33 million views.
The 25-year-old Mexican American singer/actress has notched her eleventh Top 20 hit on the Billboard Hot 100, as her collaboration with Marshmello, “Wolves,” soars 51-20 on the chart dated December 9.
Gomez’s notable surge on the chart was fueled by her performance of the song at the American Music Awards, as well as the November 18 debut of its official video.
The collaboration vaults 34-5 on the Digital Song Sales chart (35,000, up 194 percent, marking the Hot 100’s top sales gain) and 44-24 on Streaming Songs (16.5 million, up 46 percent) and enters Radio Songs at No. 47 (23 million, up 25 percent).
Marshmello makes his first trip to the Hot 100’s top 20, while Gomez earns her 11th appearance, and first since “Bad Liar” reached No. 20 in July.
“Wolves” additionally tops Hot Dance/Electronic Songs for a second (nonconsecutive) week, dethroning Marshmello’s other current hit, “Silence,” featuring Khalid.
The 25-year-old Mexican American singer/actress’ collaboration with Marshmello, “Wolves,” rises 7-1 on Billboard‘s Hot Dance/Electronic Songs chart dated November 18, following its first full tracking week.
The song debuted a week ago with a day’s worth of streaming and sales data.
Gomez, Billboard‘s 2017 Woman of the Yearhonoree, earns her second No. 1 and first as a lead act, after “I Want You to Know” (by Zedd featuring Gomez), which spent six weeks at No. 1 in March and April 2015. “Wolves” is Marshmello’s first leader on the list.
“Wolves” reigns with 13 million U.S. streams, 8 million in all-format radio audience and 28,000 downloads sold, according to Nielsen Music.
It holds at No. 1 on the Dance/Electronic Digital Song Sales chart and soars 13-2 on the Dance/Electronic Streaming Songs chart, behind Marshmello’s “Silence” (featuring Khalid) in the latter’s 10th week at the top.
On the all-genre Billboard Hot 100, “Wolves” vaults 88-35. Gomez earns her 19th top 40 Hot 100 hit, and 14th in a row, dating to “Love You Like a Love Song” (by Gomez and The Scene), which hit No. 22 in March 2012. She’s notched four top 40 entries apiece in both 2016 and 2017.
Meanwhile, a toast to Marshmello, who celebrates his first top 40 Hot 100 hit. He previously hit a No. 42 high with “Silence,” which remains near its peak this week, at No. 50.
Selena Gomez is ready to go into the wild at the American Music Awards…
The 25-year-old Mexican American singer/actress is set to perform at this year’s awards ceremony.
Gomez will perform her new single “Wolves,” a collaboration with Marshmello, live for the first time.
Gomez teased a video for the song within the ad for the 2017 AMAs. She revealed the clips in a tweet, captioned, “Here’s a first look at the music video for Wolves! Tune-in to the @amas Nov 19th to see me perform it live for the first time. #SELENAxAMAs”
Gomez also recently shared a vertical video teaser as a Spotify exclusive, now available to watch on YouTube.
Catch the official first performance of “Wolves” at the AMAs on November 19.
Selena Gomez is dancing her way onto the Billboard charts…
The 25-year-old Mexican American singer/actress and Marshmello have scampered onto Billboard‘s Hot Dance/Electronic Songs chart (dated November 11) at No. 7 with their new collaboration “Wolves.”
Released October 25 (a day before the close of the streaming and sales tracking week), the song starts with 19,000 downloads sold and 3.8 million U.S. streams, according to Nielsen Music.
It bows at No. 1 on Dance/Electronic Digital Song Sales and No. 13 on Dance/Electronic Streaming Songs.
On Hot Dance/Electronic Songs, the collaboration is the third top 10 for both artists.
The track concurrently opens on the Billboard Hot 100 at No. 88.
After three weeks in the runner-up position, the 20-year-old Cuban singer has the U.K. chart crown in her sights.
Cabello’s hit “Havana” climbs 2-1 on the midweek chart, with a 3,500 combined sales lead over the second-placed “Rockstar” by Post Malone featuring 21 Savage, which is unseated from the chart throne after four weeks. It’s the first time that “Havana” has led the Official Chart Update.
Meanwhile, Marshmello and Khalid’s “Silence” is unchanged at No. 3, Avicii and Rita Ora’s collab “Lonely Together” is unmoved at No. 4 and Ed Sheeran’s “Perfect” rises one place to No. 5.
Rita Ora could snaffle a second top 10 when the Official U.K. Singles Chart is published this Friday as “Anywhere” leaps 20-6, just up from Charlie Puth’s “How Long,” which follows a similar trajectory by soaring 18-7.
Marshmello, meanwhile, backs up his “Silence” hit with “Wolves,” a collaboration with Selena Gomez which bites into the chart at No. 14 for the highest debut on the current midweek survey.
Selena Gomez is (marsh)mello-ing out on her next album…
The 25-year-old Mexican American singer/actress’ new album will feature a song with Marshmello, the “Fetish” singer confirmed during a recent radio interview.
Gomez spoke with San Diego’s Energy 103.7 about her track with the DJ, which she says is “beautiful” and “one of my favorite songs.”
“It’s really cool. It’s kind of in that world, his world, and I’m stepping into it and bringing my style too,” she said.
Gomez isn’t saying much about a release date for the Marshmello collaboration — and, for that matter, one for her upcoming, as-yet-untitled LP, which she says is “on some level done.”
“There’s a lot more music that’s coming,” she promised.
News about the song with Marshmello comes after the pop star’s recent release of her Petra Collins-directed video for “Fetish,” her latest single, featuring Gucci Mane.
