What You Missed In Music This Week: Drake’s Tour, Glastonbury Anger & ALL The Little Mix News
What a week it has been for music news. Honestly, we struggled to put together this week's article because there is simply SO MUCH going on.
Because we love you guys we've managed to bring it down to a manageable and easily digestible level to get you bang up to date - enjoy!
Drake Announces ‘Boy Meets World’ UK And European Tour
Drake has FINALLY announced that he’s coming to the UK and we’re so stoked. The Toronto rapper released his fourth album, Views, earlier this year and he will be showcasing songs from it on the ‘Boy Meets World’ tour next year.
The tour starts on 26th January in Glasgow and he will be playing in locations such as Leeds, Manchester, Birmingham and London’s O2 Arena, where he will be playing eight nights. Yep, EIGHT!
Tickets are already on sale, but be quick as they’re sure to sell out with new dates being added due to popular demand. Go on Drizzy!
Little Mix Have Announced Their New Album Title, Release Date, Artwork AND Tour Dates
It’s been a great week for Mixers everywhere as Little Mix have announced SO many details about their forthcoming album.
First we got the album title, 'Glory Days' (which we LOVE by the way) as well as super sassy artwork AND the fact that they’re heading out on tour.
Yes, that’s right, the girls are set to visit London, Manchester, Cardiff, Liverpool, Leeds, Sheffield, Nottingham and Birmingham next autumn to promote the new album and we literally can’t wait.
We're giving you the chance to ask Little Mix anything you like, just head here to submit your questions for our exlcusive MTV Asks show.
The 2016 MTV EMAs Is Shaping Up To Be One Hell Of A Show
In case you’ve been hiding under a rock all week, we thought we’d get you bang up to date with ALL the EMA announcements that have been going on.
Earlier on this week we announced our FIRST performer as the absolute legend that is Bruno Mars. After dropping his epic new track ’24k Magic’ we can expect great things from his performance.
And if that wasn’t enough we decided to spoil you guys with an announcement of FOUR performers. Shawn Mendes, DNCE, Lukas Graham and Zara Larsson will all take to the MTV EMA 2016 stage and we’re SO excited.
Stay tuned for more exciting EMA updates.
New Music Videos From The Weeknd, DNCE, Bruno Mars & More!
It’s been an epic week for music videos starting with the aforementioned Bruno Mars visuals for ’24k Magic’, which is actually this week’s ‘Most Wanted’ music videoFYI.
If that wasn’t enough we premiered DNCE’s amazing new ‘Body Moves’ video, which featuresa VERY HOT Joe Jonas. Someone pass us a cold towel please.
As well as these two corkers we’ve had a very NSFW video from The Weeknd for ‘False Alarm’ and Gallants’ weird and wonderful visuals for ‘Love On Me’.
Glastonbury 2017 Sells Out In Less Than An Hour Amid Website Crashes
It happens every year so I don’t know why we’re surprised but the tickets for Glastonbury 2017 sold out in under an hour earlier this week.
Although, this wasn’t without it’s hiccups as many fans complained about the website crashing, causing them to miss out on the coveted tickets.
There has also been rumours of Radiohead headlining next year’s festival (again, this happens every year, we shouldn’t be surprised) and Ed O’Brien, guitarist of the band, didn’t deny that they would “love to” perform in an interview with BBC 6 Music.
Joining Radiohead on the rumour mill are strong contenders such as Daft Punk and The Stone Roses. We don’t know about you but we can’t wait to get the 'actual' line-up…
Bands Protest Against Donald Trump With '30 Days,30 Songs' Playlist
In what might just be yet another first for a US presidential election, an independent project created by writer Dave Eggers entitled '30 Days, 30 Songs' has recently launched in support of defeating this year’s Republican nominee.
'30 Days, 30 Songs' is a daily updating playlist available via Spotify that features a mix of original material and unheard tracks from a range of brilliant independent musicians, all of whom are campaigning against the prospect of a “President Donald J. Trump.”
A new track will be released each day until Election Day on November 8th. This first week’s collection features original songs by Death Cab for Cutie, Jim James, Aimee Mann, Thao Nguyen, clipping., Bhi Bhiman, and a previously unreleased live R.E.M. song.
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