Will the Grammys Classify Taylor Swift’s ‘Folklore’ as Pop or Alternative?

Billboard.com

Last week, we asked whether Taylor Swift’s new album Folklore would put her back in the album of the year finals at the Grammys for the first time since she won for 1989. Most of you seem to think it will.

Here’s a tougher follow-up question: Will the album compete for best pop vocal album, as Swift’s last three albums have, or best alternative music album?...Read the rest of the story

Katy Perry announces new album Smile and drops title track

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The release of Katy Perry’s upcoming album, her first since 2017’s Witness, is little over a month away. Today she announced that the body of work released on the 14th of August is titled Smile and will include previous singles, of which ‘Daisies’ and ‘Never Really Over’ were easily the strongest. To get her fans even more excited, she decided to drop another new tune taken from the record, title track ‘Smile’...Read the rest of the story