Beyoncé’s new album will be called ‘Act II: Cowboy Carter’ – Entertainment News

On Mar 12, 2024

Maria Sherman, The Associated Press – Mar 12, 2024 / 1:21 pm | Story: 476672

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FILE – Beyoncé performs at the Wolstein Center, Nov. 4, 2016, in Cleveland, Ohio. Beyoncé is full of surprises — and on Tuesday, March 12, 2024, dropped yet another one. Her forthcoming album has a name: Act II: Cowboy Carter. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, File)

Beyoncé is full of surprises — and on Tuesday, dropped yet another one. Her forthcoming album has a name: ‘Act II: Cowboy Carter.’

The title was revealed on Bey’s official website, along with details on a few limited edition CD, vinyl and box set releases.

‘Act II: Cowboy Carter’ arrives March 29.

Beyoncé first announced the news of a album last month after starring in a Verizon commercial during the Super Bowl that ended with the superstar saying “They ready, drop the new music.” The main details about the release had been a cryptic Instagram video with country iconography appeared that teased “act ii” coming out in March. (Beyoncé’s 2022 album “Renaissance” is frequently referred to as “Act I: Renaissance.”)

Soon after, she released two new country tracks — “Texas Hold ’Em” and “16 Carriages.” Those releases made Beyoncé the first Black woman to top Billboard’s country music chart.

BANG Showbiz – Mar 12, 2024 / 10:23 am | Story: 476617

Mel B has promised that the Spice Girls are “doing something” again.

The 48-year-old pop star shot to fame alongside Geri Halliwell, Melanie C, Emma Bunton, and Victoria Beckham in the late 1990s and they went on to become the best-selling female group of all time with hits like ‘Wannabe’ and ‘Say You’ll Be There’ but ahead of meeting royalty on Tuesday (12.03.24) amid her ongoing work with domestic abuse charities, Mel admitted that she “can’t say” exactly what is on the horizon for the band even though “something” is coming.

Speaking on UK TV show ‘Good Morning Britain’, she said: “I’m always the one saying that the Spice Girls are getting together and I always get told off, but we are doing something. I just can’t say. Listen, I’ve got to go, I’m off to meet the Queen, sorry!”

Towards the end of last week, the ‘I Want You Back’ hitmaker – who was made an MBE for services to charitable causes and vulnerable women in 2021 following the campaign work she has done after her allegedly abusive marriage to producer Stephen Belafonte ended in 2017 – also claimed that she and her bandmates were getting back together at some point.

During an appearance on UK TV show ‘Loose Women’, she said: “Oh we are definitely doing something. I’m probably gonna get told off, but I’ve said it – there you go!”

The Spice Girls were formed through an open audition in 1994 and were initially known as Touch, before going through a couple of lineup changes, choosing a different name, and breaking away from their original management.

They achieved a record-breaking run of six consecutive number-one singles and two number-one albums before the shock exit of Geri in 1998 and released their last record in 2000 but got back together in 2007 for a world tour.

In 2012, all five members performed a medley of hits at the closing ceremony of the London Olympics and were briefly seen together again at the opening of their short-lived West End musical ‘Viva Forever’ but Victoria opted not to return for the group’s last run of stadium shows in 2019.

The Associated Press – Mar 12, 2024 / 7:13 am | Story: 476584

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FILE – Conductor Esa-Pekka Salonen arrives at the premiere of “The Soloist” in Los Angeles, on April 20, 2009. Nile Rodgers, American songwriter and co-founder of the influential 1970s disco band Chic and esteemed Finnish classical music composer and conductor Esa-Pekka Salonen have won the 2024 Polar Music Prize, a Swedish music award, the award panel announced Tuesday, March 12, 2024. (AP Photo/Matt Sayles, File)

Nile Rodgers, American songwriter and co-founder of the influential 1970s disco band Chic, and esteemed Finnish classical music composer and conductor Esa-Pekka Salonen won the 2024 Polar Music Prize on Tuesday.

The Polar Music Prize is awarded annually to individuals, groups and institutions in recognition of exceptional music achievements. It was founded in 1989 by the late Stig Anderson, a Swedish publisher, lyricist and manager of ABBA, who established the record label Polar Music.

Rodgers and Salonen will each receive prize money of one million Swedish kroner (about $95,000) in ceremonies in Stockholm on May 21.

The award panel said Tuesday of the American guitarist, composer and producer: “There are few in history, if any, who have composed dance music as sophisticated and subtly arranged as Nile Rodgers,” who “turned disco and funk into an art” with his group Chic and songs like “Le Freak” and “Dance, Dance, Dance.”

“In Nile Rodgers, we honor a…