New Kids On The Block to release new EP
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New Kids On The Block will release an EP called ‘Thankful’ shortly. The group will release a single from the EP called ‘One More Night’ on 12th May. The US boy band was formed in 1984, but emerged as a popular act in 1988 with the hit song ‘You Got It (The Right Stuff)’. Their first US chart topping song followed soon after with ‘Hangin’ Tough’, ‘I’ll Be Loving You (Forever)’ and ‘Step By Step’. New Kids On The Block recently performed on James Corden’s Late Late Show.Harry Styles has teased his forthcoming solo release in a TV commercial on The Voice UK and social media with date 7th April. The 23 year old One Direction member is most likely to release his debut solo single on that day.
Meanwhile his former group mate Zayn Malik has uploaded his new song ‘Still Got Time’ as the first single from his forthcoming second album. The tropical pop track features Canadian rapper PartyNextDoor is a follow up to his recent duet ‘I Don’t Wanna Live Forever’ with Taylor Swift.
Mariah Carey’s hit Christmas song ‘All I Want For Christmas’ has been turned into a movie. The animated movie is called All I Want For Christmas Is You. Carey produced the film and has also narrated most parts of the cartoon. The song was originally released in 1994 and was taken from her yuletide album ‘Merry Christmas’. To date it has sold over 14 million copies worldwide.
Boyzone are reuniting next year according to reports. The Irish boyband will mark 25 years as a group next year with a tour and make a new album being touted. Boyzone was led by Ronan Keating and comprised Shane Lynch, Keith Duffy and Mikey Graham. Founding member Stephen Gately died in 2009. Some of their famous hit songs were ‘Words’, ’A Different Beat’, ‘All That I Need’, ‘No Matter What’, ‘When The Going Gets Tough and You Need Me’. Boyzone had released six albums and 24 singles.
While Ed Sheeran stranglehold on the top three spots on the UK singles chart continued, the Canadian artist Drake attracted attention as two of his songs debuted inside the top 10 this week. ‘Passionfruit’ is a soft dance hall track that debuted at No:4. The song is due for release on 28th March but by off loading his playlist ‘More Life’ on 18th March, enthusiastic downloading has lead ‘Passionfruit’ to an early chart entry. Also another of Drake’s songs ‘KMT’ a rap track featuring British rapper Giggs has debuted at No: 9. This track too is from the playlist ‘More Life’. The band Clean Bandit secured the second highest debuting song at No: 6 on the UK chart with ‘Symphony’ featuring the vocals of Zara Larsson. ‘Symphony’ is the third single to come off the classical crossover band’s upcoming album and is a follow up the huge chart topping song ‘Rockabye’ which featured the vocals of Anne- Marie.Anne-Marie meanwhile has her own hit ‘Ciao Adios’, advancing on to the UK top 10 at No: 10. The pop dancehall/ pop track began its chart life six weeks ago at No: 40. Ciao and Adios are the Italian and Spanish words for “bye”.
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