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SZA Performs An Unreleased Song During Her Apple Music Live

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SZA’s collaboration with Apple Music has made for headline news all week. It started when she did a Q&A where she answered numerous questions from her fans. One particular question got quite a bit of attention. The fan posed a question about whether or not she was working on a collab with pop-punk band Paramore. She made a song on her album SOS called “F2F” which saw her embracing a pop-punk style and fans have been begging for more. That’s why they were so excited when she said “yes” when asked if she’s got a song coming up with the “Ain’t It Fun” rockers.

But it was an entirely different unreleased song making waves today. That’s because she gave fans a treat during the actual live performance part of her Apple Music collab. It starts as a slower ballad-type song before erupting with excess instrumentation similar to “Gone Girl.” The song has fans online buzzing about the fact that she’s working on new music. Many are still looking forward to LANA, the deluxe version of her album SOS. Check out the video of her performing the new song below.

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SZA Unpacks An Unreleased Song

SZA first started teasing LANA last year when she confirmed the name of the project. But after the initial announcement news started to slow down. At least until earlier this week when she popped up for a surprise performance. She joined Isaiah Rashad on stage for a duet during his Cilvia Demo 10th anniversary show.

During the show, they passed out flyers making a major announcement for the entire Top Dawg Entertainment label. They confirmed that nearly every single artist on their roster and even some currently un-confirmed new artists will be releasing new projects this year. What do you think of the new unreleased song SZA played during her Apple Music Live show? Do you think LANA will be coming out anytime soon? Let us know in the comment section below.

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SZA Performs Exclusive Apple Music Live Show From Brooklyn

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Grammy-award-winning music trendsetter and icon SZA is the next artist to take the stage for Apple Music Live — the live performance series that gives the biggest stars in music a platform to connect with audiences around the world. 

The “S.O.S. Tour” marks SZA’s first-ever arena tour and earned the superstar endless praise. The Apple Music Live performance at the Barclay’s Center in Brooklyn, New York will debut Wednesday, January, 31 at 7:00pm PST / 10:00pm EST exclusively on Apple Music at http://apple.co/SZA-AML and Apple TV+. Fans can also stream the Apple Music Live performance anytime on demand on both Apple Music and Apple TV+.

During the performance, SZA showcases her biggest hits and fan favorites including, “Kill Bill”, “Snooze”, “Seek & Destroy”, and “Nobody Gets Me”, plus selections from the critically acclaimed Ctrl: “Drew Barrymore”, “Broken Clocks”, “Love Galore” and more.

In an extensive career spanning conversation airing tomorrow on Apple Music 1, SZA sits down with Zane Lowe to reflect on the Apple Music Live performance and her record-breaking year, telling Zane, “I love connecting with people in the crowd when I feel like it’s really me and you right now. And I go eye to eye with so many people during this show, and it’s something about tour that it makes the love real, and tangible.” During the candid conversation, SZA also touches on navigating fame, her spiritual hygiene, overcoming anxiety, taking creative risks, and more. The full interview is available on Apple Music 1 now at https://youtu.be/zc0vRDh1ECA.

“SZA was one the most streamed artists of 2023 with only her second full length album, we are elated to finally bring her S.O.S Tour to Apple Music Live,” said Apple Music’s Global Head of Hip Hop and R&B Ebro Darden. “The show is, of course, incredible just like her music, her songwriting and her desire to give us, the fans, so much amazing content. Here’s to an even more successful 2024 for her. Thank You SZA!” 

Over the past year, streams for SZA’s music has nearly quadrupled on Apple Music worldwide increasing 280% as she smashed a number of all-time records with her sophomore album SOS. Upon the release of the album, SZA broke the record for the R&B artist with the most simultaneous entries on the Global Daily Top 100, with 26 songs reaching the chart in one day. Breakout single, ”Kill Bill” spent 28 days at No. 1 on the Global Daily Top 100, her longest run at No. 1 in the chart’s history. All told the song reached No. 1 in 37 countries worldwide. Additionally, “Kill Bill” finished at No. 3 on Apple Music’s Top 100 2023: Global chart. With single “Snooze” at No. 5, she became the first R&B artist in the year-end chart history to have two songs in the top five of the year-end global songs chart. SOS was the second biggest album of 2023 on Apple Music worldwide, and the No. 1 R&B album of the year. 

Over the past two years, “SZA Essentials” has been one of the fastest-growing R&B playlists on Apple Music, with a 203% increase in streams worldwide. SZA has launched 12 songs to the top 10 of Apple Music’s Global Daily Top 100. She is among the top 50 artists of all time on Apple Music worldwide. 

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Wizkid Reveals That He Will Perform His New Album At An Apple Music Live Show

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Prior to this month, Wizkid was pretty quiet in the afrobeats world in a year that’s been one of the best for the genre in recent memory. However, his silence isn’t shocking as he spent most of 2021 in the spotlight thanks to the success behind “Essence” with Tems and his Made In Lagos album. The song peaked at No. 9 on the Billboard 200, making it the highest-charting Nigerian song to date. While things have certainly cooled off for Wizkid, he returned to form this month with the release of the amapiano-focused “Bad To Me.” It turns out that it’s not all the Nigerian star has up his sleeve.

Just a week after Wizkid released “Bad To Me,” Apple Music announced that he would be the next artist to have a live performance through the platform. The show will be held in London next week on September 27 and be released later this fall, and it turns out that Wizkid will perform new music during the show. “Biggest bird bringing #AppleMusicLive to London!” Wizkid wrote in a tweet. “For one night only at the Roundhouse performing my new album,” he added before sharing a link to purchase tickets for the show.

Wizkid previously revealed that the album would be titled More Love, Less Ego, but a release date for the project was not shared.

You can view Wizkid’s tweet about his upcoming Apple Music Live show above.

[WATCH] Mary J. Blige Previews Tomorrow’s Apple Music Live Performance

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Ahead of tomorrow’s broadcast of Mary J. Blige’s one-night-only Apple Music Live performance at New York City’s historic United Palace, the Grammy award-winning and Academy award nominated artist, actress, producer and entrepreneur joins Nadeska on Apple Music to discuss what fans can expect from the performance and her approach to crafting a career-spanning setlist with plenty of classic fan favorites. She also discusses how performing today differs from at the start of the career, why she’s proud of her career, being a north start for a new generation of female R&B artists, how her song “You Remind Me” changed her life, battling depression and insecurity between the release of her first two albums, her most recent album Good Morning, Gorgeous, early Diddy memories, collaboration, and more. 

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