Reba McEntire will air her Reba Live concert special for the first time on YouTube this Friday, July 17.
Reba Live was filmed in 1994 at the Omaha Civic Center. The hour-long special initially aired on NBC in November 1994, and features Reba performing 12 songs, including “They Asked About You,” “Is There Life Out There,” “Walk On,” “Fancy” and more, as well as covers of Dolly Parton’s “9 to 5” and Aretha Franklin’s “Respect.” The show also features Reba as “Flucy” in a special Thanksgiving-themed I Love Lucy spoof.
The special will premiere at 7 p.m. CT on July 17 via YouTube, with Reba celebrating with fans with a chat. You can view the Reba Live trailer at the link: here
Luke Combs has set an unprecedented record on the Billboard Top Country Albums chart, with the singer’s sophomore album, “What You See Is What You Get,” claiming the No. 1 spot again this week. This marks the album’s 25th week in the top slot, which makes Combs the first artist in the chart’s 56-year history to have his first two studio albums spend more than 25 weeks at No. 1. His debut album, “This One’s For You,” released in 2017, spent 50 weeks at No. 1.
Taylor Swift previously held the chart record, with her 2006 self-titled debut sitting at No. 1 for 24 weeks, while her Grammy-winning follow-up, "Fearless," spent 35 weeks at the top of the chart.” data-reactid=”22″ type=”text”>Taylor Swift previously held the chart record, with her 2006 self-titled debut sitting at No. 1 for 24 weeks, while her Grammy-winning follow-up, “Fearless,” spent 35 weeks at the top of the chart. Garth Brooks, Shania Twain and Alabama are the only other artists in the history of the Top Country Albums chart who have spent 25 or more weeks at No. 1 with two albums.
Combs has also tied Twain’s record for “Come on Over” with “This One’s For You” for the longest run at No. 1, both logging 50 weeks.
The original Broadway cast recording of Hamilton: An American Musical is climbing up on the Billboard 200 albums chart, jumping from No. 14 to No. 2 in the wake of the show’s Disney+ premiere on July 3. The album earned 102,000 equivalent album units in the U.S. in the week ending July 9, according to Nielsen Music/MRC Data.
The Billboard 200 chart ranks the most popular albums of the week in the U.S. The Hamilton cast album is the highest charting cast album since the original cast recording of Hair spent 13 weeks at No. 1 in 1969
So far, Hamilton has sold 1.97 million copies in the U.S.
Justin Bieber is getting fans talking after he posted a short video of himself on his InstagramStories, rapping a verse of Jack Harlow’s hit TikTok single, “Whats Poppin.”
Bieber unexpectedly dropped the remix on SoundCloud, creating a new account to share the verse.
Harlow’s “WHAT’s POPPIN” currently sits at No. 3 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart after peaking at No. 2 last week. Bieber’s remix will likely give Harlow’s track a boost. “WHAT’S POPPIN” already received a star-studded remix from Lil Wayne, DaBaby, and Tory Lanez.
ABC/Image Group LAWhen Jake Owen set out to create the music video for his latest single, “Made for You,” he called on his fans for help, asking them to send in video footage of themselves with the people who are “made for them.”
The result is a sweet tribute to love in all its forms, from parents sending in footage of their kids, to lovers offering up videos of themselves with their partners.
“I was looking for love of all different types and representations,” Jake tells People, which premiered the video this week. “There were so many submissions, [so it was] hard to choose.”
While “Made for You” was written as a tribute to his own loved ones, the singer says he’s since seen its message grow and expand to apply to all the fans who love the song.
“We wanted to feel like people saw themselves in the story, because when they adopt it to their own narrative, it becomes part of their story in their lives, too,” he says.
Of course, Jake didn’t forget to pay tribute to the people that he was “made for” either: The video includes plenty of footage of the singer spending quality time with his girlfriend, Erica Hartlein, their 15-month old daughter Paris, and Jake’s 7-year-old daughter Pearl, who he shares with ex-wife Lacey Buchanan.
And as the COVID-19 pandemic continues to keep him off the road, Jake says that he’s not taking the extra time with his family for granted.
“Usually I’d be calling [Erica] from wherever, from a bus, a parking lot,” he says. “It’s been a really big blessing.”
ABC/Mark LevineMarenMorris’ hit crossover single, “The Bones,” is the lone country entry in Billboard’s all-genre list of the Top 10 Radio Singles of 2020 so far. The song clocks in at #7, Billboard tweeted this week, citing Nielsen Music/MRC Data and basing the ranking on audience.
The list of top-ranking songs features singles from the likes of Billy Eilish, Lewis Capaldi and Harry Styles. Singer-songwriter and producer The Weeknd appears twice, and rapper Post Malone tops the pack with his massively popular hit, “Circles.”
Upon seeing the news that her song had made the top 10, Maren’s reaction was succinct and shocked. “WHAT?!” she tweeted in response.
The second single to be released off of Maren’s 2019 album, Girl, “The Bones” was initially a chart-topping hit on Billboard’s Hot Country Songs chart, and then it became a pop hit.
Last month, the song became the longest-running number-one from a solo female artist in Hot Country Songs history. When she heard that news, Maren admitted that she never expected the song to be so successful, especially because her attention was divided between promoting the song and caring for her newborn son, Hayes.
“I remember having this dumb anxiety before my son was born that a single of mine would never do well if I couldn’t go and promote it since I was on maternity leave,” she said at the time. “Sitting here in shock still over this little love song proving me wrong every day.”
On Tuesday, President Donald Trump signed the Hong Kong Autonomy Act, which would impose sanctions on businesses and individuals that assisted China in implementing a security law that criminalizes secession, sedition, subversion, terrorism and working with foreign agencies to undermine the national security of China in Hong Kong. Trump also announced the signing of an executive order that would end preferential treatment for Hong Kong.
“This law gives my administration powerful new tools to hold responsible the individuals and the entities involved in extinguishing Hong Kong’s freedom,” Trump said, adding, .”Hong Kong will now be treated the same as mainland China. No special privileges, no special economic treatment and no export of sensitive technologies.”
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo condemned the measure when the security law went into effect at the end of June, declaring that the United States “will not stand idly by while China swallows Hong Kong into its authoritarian maw.”
Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg was hospitalized on Tuesday for treatment of a possible infection, the court announced. Ginsburg was initially evaluated at Sibley Memorial Hospital in Washington, D.C., on Monday night after experiencing fever and chills and was admitted to Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore on Tuesday morning, according to a statement.
The Supreme Court said, “She underwent an endoscopic procedure at Johns Hopkins this afternoon to clean out a bile duct stent that was placed last August The justice is resting comfortably and will stay in the hospital for a few days to receive intravenous antibiotic treatment.”
The 87-year-old Ginsburg was hospitalized for a benign gallbladder condition in May. She was also hospitalized in November after being admitted for chills and a fever. She was previously treated for a tumor on her pancreas in August and has been treated for colon and pancreatic cancer in the past.
Country singer Morgan Wallen is a dad. Wallen, 27, announced on Instagram he has welcomed a baby boy. Son Indigo “Indie” Wilder was born to Wallen and his ex, KatieSmith, on Friday, July 10 in Nashville, Tennessee. Smith and Wallen were at one point engaged, according to her past Instagram Stories.
Wallen wrote on Instagram alongside a photo holding his son, “Since you came into the world Friday, I see mine differently now. It’s not just me anymore, and I’m glad it’s not. This year has been the hardest of my life in so many ways, but that’s not what I will remember it by. You are. You are a gift and this tough year just made sense.” Wallen promised the baby that he will be “the Dad you deserve as well as the co-parent your mother deserves.”
Wallen said that he is “glad” to share the news of his son’s arrival, admitting he was “a little scared” to learn what parenthood feels like. “But it’s the coolest damn feeling,” he said, “and I’m ready for whatever God has planned for me and my little guy.”
Miranda Lambert released a new lyric video for her song, “Dark Bars.” The song isfeatured on Miranda’s seventh studio album, Wildcard, which dropped in 2019.
Nashville natives and tourists may recognize a number of the bars featured in the new lyric video, including The Stage, Skull’s Rainbow Room, Robert’s Western World, Loser’s Bar & Grill and more.
Watch Miranda’s new lyric video for “Dark Bars” at the link: here
