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Charley Young, the multiple award-winning music video producer and singer, has just announced she is teaming up again with audio recording engineer Fabio Arauz and producer Justin Michael Tallman at Fresco Recording Studio in Pensacola, Florida. The project “Alpha Female” will be released on the Charley Girl LLC label.

Charley shares, “Alpha Female is an empowerment anthem for women that may not feel as confident as they could regarding their place in the world. The song is quite powerful, and it’s also personal as I reveal details about my own personal journey. We are tremendously excited about its upcoming release.” 

To learn more: Charley Young (mscharleyyoung.com)

CHARLEY YOUNG (BMI/SAG-AFTRA/AEA) is a singer, songwriter, actress, writer, producer, and CEO of Charley Girl LLC based out of Whitefish, Montana. She wrote and recorded her debut EP and two subsequent singles with Grammy-award nominated producer Terence “Delivery Boy” Odige in New York City. She frequently writes and collaborates with fellow independent artists/producers in Nashville, London, and Paris.

She has produced and starred in 19 music videos, her most recent videos for “Run Away” and “Werk” winning the Best Music Video Award at the Around Films Festival International Awards in Paris and screening at the Golden State Film Festival at the historic TCL Chinese Theatre (formerly known as Grauman’s Chinese Theatre) in Hollywood, respectively. Charley has performed annually at the TCS NYC Marathon and TD Bank Five Boro Bike Tour with her band.

Charley is currently working on new songs and music videos slated for release in 2024. She has just completed an original song for film/TV for Just Another Label Limited, (a UK-based label who helped popularize the dance genres of Drum & Bass, Happy Hard-core, and Jungle) with Gary J. Robinson, a prolific film and TV composer whose music has been featured in films like “Venom: Let There be Carnage” to TV shows like “Shameless” and “Keeping Up with the Kardashians.” Charley divides her time between Montana and Florida, and frequently travels to Los Angeles and New York City. 

TAYLOR SWIFT’S THE TORTURED POETS DEPARTMENT LANDS AS THE BIGGEST ALBUM OF THE DECADE & BIGGEST DEBUT OF HER CAREER WITH 2.610M TOTAL CONSUMPTION IN THE US AND 4M + WORLDWIDE

THE TORTURED POETS DEPARTMENT #1 ON THE BILLBOARD 200, BILLBOARD ALBUM SALES CHART AND AROUND THE WORLD

Taylor Swift’s 11th full-length studio album, The Tortured Poets Department, shattered countless records during its first week of release. See below for the highlights.

• ‘The Tortured Poets Department’ debuts at #1 around the World: (with more to come)
    • UK, Canada, Australia, Germany, France, Ireland, Italy, Sweden, Norway, Netherlands, Denmark, Belgium, Switzerland, New Zealand
• ‘The Tortured Poets Department’ Breaks Record for Highest First Week US Streams for any album in history
• ‘The Tortured Poets Department’ earns biggest US sales week of Taylor Swift’s career, surpassing ‘1989 (Taylor’s Version)’
• ‘The Tortured Poets Department’ Breaks record for biggest vinyl sales week for any album in Nielsen era
• ‘The Tortured Poets Department’ Becomes Fastest Album to Surpass 1 Billion Global Album Streams in history
• ‘The Tortured Poets Department’ Becomes #1 Best Selling Album of the Year in under 48 hours 
• Taylor Swift becomes the only artist to have seven albums debut with over 1 million units sold in their first week
• Taylor Swift the #1 Best Selling Artist By Total Album Units in the US in 2024
• ‘The Tortured Poets Department’ breaks record for biggest first week global Spotify streams for any album in under four days of release
• Breaks her own all-time record for most single day streams for an artist catalog in global Spotify history (380 million)
• Fastest artist to 10 billion streams on Spotify in a calendar year
• Breaks record for most #1 albums on the Billboard 200 this century
• Extends record as soloist with the most weeks at #1 on the Billboard 200
• Extends record as the artist with the most weeks at #1 on the Billboard Artist 100 (106 weeks)

Spotify:
• ‘The Tortured Poets Department’ Breaks Record For Biggest Album Debut in Spotify History (314M million streams)
• ‘The Tortured Poets Department’ Breaks Record For Biggest Album Debut in US Spotify History (150 million streams)
• “Fortnight” f. Post Malone Debuts at #1 on the Global Spotify chart with 25.2 million streams. Biggest single day in history.
• ‘The Tortured Poets Department’ Song “The Tortured Poets Department” Debuts at #2 on the Global Spotify chart with 19.1 million streams. Second biggest chart debut in history, and biggest debut for a solo song.
• “Down Bad” Debuts at #3 on the Global Spotify chart with 17.4 million streams. Third biggest chart debut in history.
• Taylor Swift now holds the top 7 biggest global streaming single debuts in chart history.
• Taylor Swift breaks the all-time record for most single day streams for an artist catalog in Spotify history (380 million)
• ‘The Tortured Poets Department’ over 100 million streams in each of its first seven days of release, only album to ever achieve this
• ‘The Tortured Poets Department’ fastest album to ever reach 1 billion streams, first to do so in under a week
• “Fortnight” f. Post Malone Debuts at #1 on the US Spotify chart with over 10 million streams. Biggest single day streams in history and only song ever over 10 million.
• Taylor Swift now holds the top 10 biggest single day streaming peaks in US chart history.

Apple and iTunes:
• Four #1 hits on US iTunes from ‘The Tortured Poets Department’, all self-replacing at top spot
• “The Black Dog”
• “So High School”
• “thanK u aIMe”
• “Fortnight” f. Post Malone
• Extends record most #1 hits on US iTunes among all artists (69)
• “Fortnight” f. Post Malone peaks at #1 both US and Global Apple Music
• First song by a female artist to immediately debut at #1 in the US
• ‘The Tortured Poets Department’ biggest first day streams for a Pop album in Apple Music history

Amazon:
• ‘The Tortured Poets Department’ biggest first day global streams for any album in history, doubling her own ‘1989 (Taylor’s Version)’
• ‘The Tortured Poets Department’ biggest first week global streams for any album in history, surpasses her own ‘1989 (Taylor’s Version)’ in less than 5 days

Around the World:
• Biggest Debut Week of 2024
• Australia
• Brazil
• Canada
• Germany
• Ireland
• Mexico
• New Zealand
• Spain
• Sweden
• UK

• Taylor Swift’s Biggest Consumption Week EVER
    • Australia
    • Austria
    • Belgium
    • Canada
    • Denmark
    • France
    • Germany
    • Ireland
    • Italy
    • Mexico
    • Netherlands
    • Portugal
    • Spain
    • Sweden
    • Switzerland
    • UK

• Vinyl
    • Australia - Biggest vinyl week 1 in ARIA history with 27,097 units
    • Canada - biggest Canadian vinyl sales week in Soundscan/ Luminate history

• UK
    • TTPD is Taylor’s 12th consecutive #1 album in the UK
    • Taylor Swift matches Madonna as the female artist to have 12 #1 albums in the UK
    • TTPD debuts with the biggest week one sales since Ed Sheeran’s ‘Divide’ in March 2017

• Australia
    • TTDP is Taylor’s 13th #1 album in a row in Australia
    • TTPD debuts with the biggest week one sales since Adele ‘25’ in 2015
    • TTDP breaks record for biggest streaming week in Australian history 
    • TTDP breaks record for most week 1 vinyl sales in Australian history
    • Taylor Swift becomes first artist to capture the entire Top 10 Singles Chart in Australian history
    • Taylor Swift breaks the record for most #1 albums by a female artist in Australian history
    • Taylor Swift breaks the record for most #1 singles by a female artist with 12 in Australian history
    • Taylor Swift replaces herself again at #1 on the albums chart.  She remains the only artist to replace themselves at #1 on the albums chart in Australian history. 
    • Taylor Swift becomes the only artist to have 7 simultaneous albums and singles in Australian history.simultaneously hold #1
    • Taylor Swift becomes to the only artist to capture the Top 16 songs on Spotify in Australian history

• Canada
    • TTPD is the Most streamed album in a single day in Canadian history
    • TTPD is the Most streamed album in a single week in Canadian history;
    • “Fortnight” (feat. Post Malone) is the most streamed song in a single day in Canadian history
    • “Fortnight” (feat. Post Malone) is the most streamed song in a single week in Canadian history
    • TTPD is the Biggest album debut of the modern streaming era
    • This is Taylor Swift’s 14th consecutive #1 album in Canada. She trails only The Beatles for most #1 albums of all-time in this country
    • This is biggest album debut in Canada since Adele’s 25 (in 2015) and the only album since to sell more than 150,000 units in the first week
    • In the last 20 years, THE TORTURED POETS DEPARTMENT is one of only two albums to sell more than 150,000 units first week (the other is Adele’s 25)

• Germany
    • TTPD Breaks Record for the Highest First Day streams in history of Germany
    • ll Time in Germany
    • Most Streams by a Female Artist in 24 Hours in Germany

• Brazil
    • TTDP Breaks Record for Highest first week International Album consumption in history of Brazil

• New Zealand
    • TTDP is Taylor’s 14th #1 album in New Zealand
    • TTDP Breaks Record for the most #1 albums in history of New Zealand

• Ireland
    • TTDP is Taylor’s 11th #1 album in Ireland
    • TTDP Breaks Record for Highest first week Album consumption in history of Ireland

• Netherlands
    • TTPD is Taylor's 7th #1 album
    • TTPD sold more than the rest of the Top 100 charts combined
    • The #2 album in the charts (Pearl Jam - Dark Matter) stands at 6% of what TTPD sold. Such a big difference with #2 in the charts has not occurred since 1996

• Norway
    • TTDP Breaks Record for Highest first week Album consumption by a female artist in history of Norway

Courtesy of Republic Records Media 

Punk Mafia Presents: Radio Silence EP on Earth Program/Virgin Music – Available 03.01.24 Punk Mafia Presents: Radio Silence EP 

Punk Mafia presents their Radio Silence EP, the first of a series, to Spotify and all the major services via Earth Program/Virgin Music. Sample the record here.

Inspired by Joy Division, The Ramones, Type O Negative, Ministry & The Deadboys, the recordings were produced by M.O.B. and R-Low, with all instruments/vocals + lyrics created by M.O.B. and mixed/mastered by R-Low. 

M.O.B. & R-Low have produced over sixty hit songs with some of the biggest bands and rappers in the world, including artists such as Patrick Stump of Falloutboy, DJ Lethal of Limp Bizkit, Fever 333, 311, Onyx, DMC of Run-DMC and death pop kings ORGY, Chali2Na of Jurassic 5 and DJ Kilmore of Incubus among others.

This initial EP consists of four tracks; entitled “Anarchy”, “Psycho”, “Rebel” and “Rock N’ Roll Disco”, with a stated plan to release an EP every two months.

Focused on turning a negative into a positive, this ambitious project contains twenty six songs recorded over a short period of time by M.O.B. in his apartment located in the very same Franklin Village, Los Angeles building as the infamous “Hillside Strangler” once resided, with M.O.B. on Guitar, bass, synth, drums/programming vocals and lyrics. 

His partner R-Low then flew in from Italy to track vocals, drums and some other overdubs and additional production on the vocals, and quickly flew back to Italy to mix and master the songs. A sign of the times, the two maestro’s have steadily built M.O.B. together remotely across the ocean from LA to Italy and back for ten years strong.

Recently, M.O.B. Left L.A. and is back in NY putting a band together to play the Punk Mafia songs live. “I was giving too much of myself to people who weren’t respecting my love, talent, or well-being. When I give my heart, I give it all and I do not tolerate bullshit or f-around. This is real life. Real music. Now isolated away from all the posers and hookers, I feel like I finally got to address my personal mental health struggles. Getting to self-produce the music was really important to me to find the sound that best describes who I am, how I feel and what has happened in my journey of truth in music. I was able to channel my traumas and heartbreak into powerful, artistic, meaningful songs that I truly feel will help others. I am not alone in my feelings. These songs address the current political crisis, Love, Hate, heartbreak and healing, and I think many people will relate.”

Learn more about Punk Mafia on Instagram:

https://www.instagram.com/punkmafiamusic/

Posted by Entertainment Magazine.

Fans can cut loose to Loggins’ Oscar-nominated title track with the release of an all-new 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray edition of the 1984 smash film.

This week, music legend Kenny Loggins is celebrating the 40th anniversary of the movie Footloose, the smash 1984 movie that helped to cement the singer-songwriter’s reputation as “the Soundtrack King.” To mark this milestone, Paramount Home Entertainment has remastered the film and is releasing it for the first time as a 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray in standard and steelbook packages.

Released on February 17, 1984, Footloose was directed by the legendary filmmaker Herbert Ross (The Turning Point, Steel Magnolias) and concerned a Chicago teenager who moves to a small town and attempts to overturn its ban on dancing. The movie was an immediate hit and soon became a phenomenon, turning Kevin Bacon into a star and dominating music charts with a multi-million-selling soundtrack album that included two songs performed by Loggins: “I’m Free (Heaven Helps the Man)” and, of course, the iconic title track. Both songs were written by Loggins and Dean Pitchford.

“Footloose” exploded on radio and MTV, topping the Billboard Hot 100 for three weeks. It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Song, and in 2018 was placed in the Library of Congress’ National Recording Registry as being “culturally, historically or artistically significant.”

“Being a part of Footloose has been one of the biggest highlights of my life,” says Loggins. “Working with Dean Pitchford on both songs was definitely special for me. I can still remember singing some of the first lyrics to Dean in the laundry room of my house. Everything came together so organically. I’ve had a blast performing ‘Footloose’ for decades, and I still enjoy watching audiences jump out of their seats to dance every time they hear the first guitar riff.”

About Kenny Loggins

Kenny Loggins has sold more than 25 million albums and has won two Grammy Awards. In addition to his string of successful recordings, both solo and as a member of the famed duo Loggins & Messina, Loggins became the first major rock star to dedicate himself to recording music for children and families. His album Return to Pooh Corner remains the best-selling children’s album of the last 20 years. In 2016, he released his latest children’s project, the book Footloose (Moondance Press, an imprint of Quarto Publishing Group USA), inspired by his 1985 Oscar-nominated and Grammy Award-winning “Song of the Year.”

His song “Conviction of the Heart” was hailed as the “unofficial anthem of the environmental movement” by Al Gore, when Loggins performed it on Earth Day in 1995 at The National Mall in Washington, D.C.

In 2016, he received the ASCAP Harry Chapin Humanitarian Award at the annual Chapin Awards hosted by WhyHunger. Later that year, The Guild of Music Supervisors honored Loggins with the organization’s first-ever Icon Award for his outstanding achievements in film, television and soundtracks.

His generous support of countless local organizations has made a lasting impact on the causes that are close to his heart. Through his work with Toys for Tots in Santa Barbara, CA, Loggins helped launch Unity Shoppe in 1988. An expansion of the Council of Christmas Cheer, which previously only existed during the holiday season, Unity Shoppe extended the program year-round so individuals could volunteer their services to help low-income families, children, the elderly, sick and disabled in Santa Barbara County. Loggins regularly lends his support to youth-based programs like Make a Wish, Teddy Bear Cancer Foundation and Little Kids Rock.

Loggins was honored with a Humanitarian of the Year Award from Little Kids Rock for his extensive commitment to children’s causes in 2016. In 2018, he helped re-open the original Notes for Notes (N4N) Studios at the Boys & Girls Club of Santa Barbara and United Boys & Girls Club of Santa Barbara County, giving over 600 kids each year access to a world of musical expression.

Loggins released At The Movies on June 12, 2021 – a Record Store Day exclusive vinyl that included some of his career-spanning soundtrack hits for the first time ever on one album, including “I’m Alright” (Caddyshack), “Footloose” (Footloose), “Danger Zone” (Top Gun) and many more.

His hit song “Danger Zone” was featured once again in Paramount’s Top Gun: Maverick, which become the biggest release of 2022, earning over $1.5B globally and saw “Danger Zone” earning over 1M streams per day at its peak.

On June 14, 2022, Hachette Books published Still Alright, Loggins’ long-awaited memoir. In Still Alright, Loggins gives fans a candid and entertaining perspective on his life and career as one of the most noteworthy musicians of the 1970s and ’80s.

Throughout 2023, Loggins crisscrossed the U.S. on his sold-out “This Is It” tour celebrating his spectacularly successful six-decade career as a hit songwriter and performer. On Saturday, Nov. 4, 2023, he staged the closing show of his final concert tour in grand style – in his hometown of Santa Barbara at the beloved Santa Barbara Bowl.

Get Transported to a Sun-Kissed Paradise, Hit the Beach and Catch the Carefree Vibe

Add some fun and upbeat vibes to your summer playlist with Stacy Gabel’s new single “Great Escape”, the ultimate feel-good track for summertime!  Perfect for outdoor adventures, cruising on the water, or just chilling with friends.

LISTEN ON SPOTIFY | WATCH ON YOUTUBE

With its catchy melody and lively lyrics, “Great Escape” is sure to get you in the mood for warm sunny days spent in the open air, and have you singing along in no time! Don’t miss out on this exciting new release from one of the most promising artists of the year. 

Stacy Gabel is an accomplished and award winning performer and singer/songwriter. A graduate of AMDA (American Musical and Dramatic Academy in NYC), and a member of SAG/AFTRA, she has appeared in many TV & film roles including “Charmed” and “General Hospital” to name a few. 

She has been gaining national and international attention recently, winning several Global Music awards and a Los Angeles Pinnacle Film award for Best Song and making press appearances on PBS, NBC, FOX, Forbes Living Magazine and on various music blogs and podcasts. Her music has topped the Indie European Charts and received many spins on international and US radio stations. 

Stacy is also a former TV promo producer/writer at Nickelodeon/MTV Networks in NYC and Los Angeles, and is thrilled to be teaming up with TV/Film Producer Anthony Friedman, a former Nickelodeon colleague, on “Great Escape”.

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