via The actual box set page: The Spice Girls Store · The vinyl version: The Spice Girls Store · The chart-side announcement: Official Charts · Fan-press coverage: Classic Pop
The Spice Girls' "The Singles Collection" lands today, thirty years to the week after "Spice" came out, per Universal Music. It is 14 CDs, 160 tracks, four unreleased songs, and a booklet with messages from all five members, packed into a white handbag-inspire…
via The lineup announcement: Variety · The film's post-release VR plans: Deadline · The lead single, official lyric video: YouTube
The 29-track companion album "The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping (The Album)" was announced Monday, with The Cure, Depeche Mode, Stevie Nicks, Tyler Childers, and Jennifer Lawrence among the contributors. According to Variety, it drops November 13 on the…
via The announcement: Variety · Rival coverage: Consequence · Format and tracklist details: The Second Disc
The Prince Estate and NPG Records announced a 3121 Expanded Edition arriving December 11, with the original 12 tracks plus 10 more vault recordings, per Variety. It lands digitally and in 2CD + Blu-ray and 3LP + Blu-ray sets, alongside a 154-minute Las Vegas c…
John Mayer is launching Sob Rock Records, a new imprint in partnership with Universal Music Group's Mercury Records, named after his 2021 album and confirmed Thursday, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The announcement lands the day before his first new sin…
via The chart math: Variety · Billboard's own numbers: Billboard
According to Variety, "The Life of a Showgirl" held No. 1 on the Billboard 200 for a second week, giving Taylor Swift her 100th cumulative week at No. 1 as a solo artist. One hundred weeks. Elvis got 67. Garth Brooks got 52. The Beatles, as a group, got 132. T…
via The drop and the Nov. 6 reissue: People · Same story, same vault: Today · The Timberlake co-write, per EW · UK coverage of the 25th edition: The Independent
Britney Spears released "She'll Never Be Me" on Friday, a song recorded in 2001 for her self-titled album that never officially came out, according to People. It is the first of five vault tracks on the "Britney" 25th anniversary edition, which arrives Nov. 6.…
via The chart report: Variety · The No. 1 debut: Billboard · The chart itself: Billboard 200 · The video: Rolling Stone
Miley Cyrus's "Bass Persuades" debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 on September 28 and then plummeted to No. 157 in its second week, the biggest drop ever recorded for an album after a No. 1 debut, according to Variety. The mechanism is the chart itself. For…
via The recap: Just Jared · The trade version: Variety · The vinyl preorder: Official Charts · The release-time explainer: Cosmopolitan
Taylor Swift announced on Instagram this morning that The Life of a Showgirl: The Encore, a four-track follow-up to last year's record, drops this Friday with pre-orders already open on Apple Music, Spotify and Amazon. Caption and tracklist courtesy of Just Ja…