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Eminem, Adele, And The Other Musicians Who Just Need One More Award For An EGOT

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The Creative Arts Emmy Awards were handed out this weekend and it was a big moment for some notable folks in the music industry: Adele, Eminem, Paul McCartney, and Ringo Starr all won awards, which puts them each just a Tony Award victory away from attaining the coveted EGOT status — meaning they’ve won an Emmy, Grammy, Oscar (Academy Award), and Tony.

The Adele: One Night Only concert special won a total of five awards, as did the The Beatles: Get Back documentary, getting Adele, McCartney, and Starr their first Emmys. This year’s Super Bowl Halftime Show also got three awards, giving Eminem his first Emmy.

Those four artists now join a list of musicians who are just one win away from the EGOT, as they all already had Grammy and Oscar wins under their belts. Aside from the aforementioned, performers just missing a Tony include Cher, Common, producer/composer Ludwig Göransson, Randy Newman, Trent Reznor, Atticus Ross, Barbra Streisand, and composer John Williams. Meanwhile, Oscar Hammerstein II, Elton John, and Stephen Sondheim are an Emmy shy of their EGOT. As for artists who are an Oscar shy, that list includes Quincy Jones, Cyndi Lauper, Bette Midler, and Lin-Manuel Miranda.

The short list of those who have gotten their EGOT already includes Richard Rodgers (who secured his in 1962), Helen Hayes (1977), Rita Moreno (1977), John Gielgud (1991), Audrey Hepburn (1994), Marvin Hamlisch (1995), Jonathan Tunick (1997), Mel Brooks (2001), Mike Nichols (2001), Whoopi Goldberg (2002), Scott Rudin (2012), Robert Lopez (2014), Andrew Lloyd Webber (2018), Tim Rice (2018), John Legend (2018), Alan Menken (2020), and Jennifer Hudson (2022).

Find the full list of people (musician or otherwise) who are one win away from an EGOT below.

Needs an Emmy Award

  • Henry Fonda
  • Oscar Hammerstein II
  • Elton John
  • Alan Jay Lerner
  • Frank Loesser
  • Benj Pasek
  • Justin Paul
  • Stephen Sondheim
  • Jule Styne

Needs a Grammy Award

  • Jack Albertson
  • Anne Bancroft
  • Ingrid Bergman
  • Shirley Booth
  • Ralph Burns
  • Ellen Burstyn
  • Viola Davis
  • Melvyn Douglas
  • Bob Fosse
  • Jeremy Irons
  • Glenda Jackson
  • Jessica Lange
  • Frances McDormand
  • Liza Minnelli
  • Helen Mirren
  • Thomas Mitchell
  • Al Pacino
  • Christopher Plummer
  • Vanessa Redgrave
  • Jason Robards
  • Geoffrey Rush
  • Paul Scofield
  • Maggie Smith
  • Maureen Stapleton
  • Jessica Tandy
  • Tony Walton

Needs an Academy Award (Oscar)

  • Harry Belafonte
  • Leonard Bernstein
  • Jerry Bock
  • Martin Charnin
  • Cy Coleman
  • André De Shields
  • Fred Ebb
  • Cynthia Erivo
  • Anne Garefino
  • George Grizzard
  • Julie Harris
  • Hugh Jackman
  • James Earl Jones
  • Quincy Jones
  • Rachel Bay Jones
  • John Kander
  • Tom Kitt
  • Alex Lacamoire
  • Stan Lathan
  • Cyndi Lauper
  • Katrina Lenk
  • Audra McDonald
  • Bette Midler
  • Lin-Manuel Miranda
  • Cynthia Nixon
  • Trey Parker
  • Ben Platt
  • Billy Porter
  • Marc Shaiman
  • Bill Sherman
  • Ari’el Stachel
  • Matt Stone
  • Charles Strouse
  • Lily Tomlin
  • Dick Van Dyke
  • James Whitmore
  • David Yazbek

Needs a Tony Award

  • John Addison
  • Adele
  • Kristen Anderson-Lopez
  • Julie Andrews
  • Burt Bacharach
  • Alan Bergman
  • Marilyn Bergman
  • Jon Blair
  • George Burns
  • Cher
  • Common
  • Eminem
  • Rob Epstein
  • James Gay-Rees
  • Michael Giacchino
  • Alex Gibney
  • Alex Gibson
  • Ludwig Göransson
  • Brian Grazer
  • Hildur Guðnadóttir
  • Ron Howard
  • Paul McCartney
  • James Moll
  • Morgan Neville
  • Randy Newman
  • Sid Ramin
  • Trent Reznor
  • Caitrin Rogers
  • Atticus Ross
  • Martin Scorsese
  • Ringo Starr
  • Barbra Streisand
  • Peter Ustinov
  • John Williams
  • Robin Williams
  • Kate Winslet

Megan Thee Stallion Had ‘A Blast’ Twerking On ‘She-Hulk: Attorney At Law’

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Last Thursday (September 1), Megan Thee Stallion made her much-discussed debut in the Marvel Cinematic Universe by popping up in She-Hulk: Attorney At Law. The most noteworthy part of her appearance came in a mid-credits scene, when she hired Jennifer Walters/She-Hulk to be her lawyer. The two celebrated by dancing in Walters’ office, a moment that saw the two of them twerk together.

After the episode debuted, Meg took to Instagram to share her thoughts on what it was like to film the show. She had a terrific time, as she wrote, “Likeee thee hot girl coach is now in thee marvel universe [green heart emojis] ive been holding this in for so long im glad the hotties finally get to see it !!! Shooting this was a BLAST thank you @shehulkofficial @marvel for asking me to be apart. Im gonna manifest I get to do moreeeeee.”

She-Hulk head writer and executive producer Jessica Gao recently said about how Megan came to appear on the show, “We knew that for that story, we needed a famous, beautiful, successful woman… We were going through all the possibilities… but when it came down to it, Jameela [Jamil, who plays Titania] knew Megan from working on [HBO Max’s] Legendary together, and she brought her up. We were like, ‘Don’t say it if it’s not really true! Don’t tease us with this!’”

Megan Thee Stallion is a Warner Music artist. Uproxx is an independent subsidiary of Warner Music Group.

The Weeknd Loses His Voice During His Show In Los Angeles

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During his second of two shows at SoFi Stadium in Los Angeles on his After Hours Till Dawn tour, The Weeknd abruptly ended his show three songs into his performance.

While singing his 2015 hit single, “Can’t Feel My Face,” The Weeknd abruptly stopped in the middle of the song and exited the stage. Shortly after, he returned to the stage and told the audience of over 70,000 that he had lost his voice.

As the crowd expressed their disappointment, The Weeknd assured everyone, “You’ll get your money back. But I’ll do a show real soon for you guys.”

He continued, saying, “You know how much this kills me right now. I’m sorry. I love you so much.”

At the time of writing, it is unclear what The Weeknd’s condition is, however, in a fan-recorded video, viewers can hear a raspiness in his voice as he speaks.

Later that night, the “Out Of Time” singer took to social media, explaining that he had lost his voice earlier during the set, but had tried to push through.

“My voice went out during the first song and I’m devasted,” he said. “Felt it go and my heart dropped. My deepest apologies to my fans here. I promise I’ll make it up to you with a new date.”

Cardi B Shared Photos From When She Was In High School And Says, ‘I Wasn’t Emo!’

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Cardi B has a hot and cold relationship with social media and Twitter in particular. Back in April, she left the platform for two weeks because fans were harassing her for skipping the Grammys. You have to wonder why a big name celebrity like the “I Like It” singer spends their time engaging with trolls and shifty fans. But when she does, it’s typically gold. And for the most part, Cardi is just trying to have some fun. So when she posted a series of photos from her high school days in The Bronx yesterday, some fans were having some fun with her.

“Ghetto teenager……fun fact -The emo kids in school were actually really cool and will give me free cigarettes,” she wrote along with four photos from her as a high schooler. One photo focused on her eyebrow piercing, in another she was lighting a cigarette in another, and on the last one, she was holding a vodka bottle looking, well…sorta emo.

One user definitely thought Cardi was the emo kid herself and let her know, saying, “Idky the last pic got me screaming. Emo Cardi was deep in that sh*t.”

Cardi B got defensive, but she clearly was having a good time with it. “I wasn’t EMO ….I was pierced cause Piercings was a big thing in the Bronx specially since this was the side lip piercing era,” she tweeted. “However they were a lot of emo kids in my school I will have history convos wit them while they give me free cigarettes [cry laughing emoji].”

So you be the judge. Was Cardi B an emo kid in high school? If her thoughts on My Chemical Romance are any indication, then this case is closed.

Cardi B is a Warner Music artist. Uproxx is an independent subsidiary of Warner Music Group.

The Best Vinyl Releases Of August 2022

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Anybody who thought the vinyl resurgence was just a fad was mistaken: The industry has experienced a legitimate revival. As a result, music fans are interested in physical media in ways they may not have if the decades-old medium hasn’t made a comeback. That doesn’t mean everybody is listening to just their parents’ old music, though. That’s part of it, sure, thanks to rereleases that present classic albums in new ways. A vital part of the renewed vinyl wave, though, is new projects being released as records, of which there are plenty.

Whatever you might be into, each month brings a new slew of vinyl releases that has something for everybody. Some stand out above the rest, naturally, so check out some of our favorite vinyl releases of August below.

Beastie Boys — Check Your Head (Deluxe Edition)

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1992’s Check Your Head was an important album for Beastie Boys, as it was their second top-10 LP and it featured standout singles “So What-cha Want” and “Pass The Mic.” Now that the album turns 30 this year, they’re reissuing the album, specifically the rare 4-LP deluxe edition that was previously an artist store exclusive. It’s worthwhile for fans of the album, most notably due to the two LPs of bonus material like remixes, live versions, and B-sides.

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Oasis — Be Here Now (25th Anniversary Reissue)

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Oasis’ 1997 album Be Here Now had the unenviable task of following the colossal success of “Wonderwall” and (What’s The Story) Morning Glory?. It fared well, though, becoming their third No. 1 in the UK while hitting No. 2 in the US (still the band’s highest chart rank in the region). Now that the LP is 25 years old, there’s a new limited collectors’ edition, pressed on silver-colored double heavyweight vinyl. Also, revisit our recent song ranking on the band.

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David Porter — Chapter 1…Back In The Day

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Porter is a soul legend, a Songwriters Hall Of Fame inductee who’s credited on songs by everybody from Aretha Franklin to Drake to ZZ Top to Wu-Tang Clan. Now, he’s releasing his first new music in nearly 50 years, teaming with the folks at Vinyl Me, Please to drop Chapter 1…Back In The Day as a vinyl-exclusive project.

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Interpol — Turn On The Bright Lights (Vinyl Me, Please Reissue)

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Not only was Interpol’s 2002 album Turn On The Bright Lights a defining release of its era, it still holds up today. The album turns 20 this year, so Vinyl Me, Please have re-pressed it on gorgeous red vinyl. Furthermore, this edition is also a proud Uproxx moment, as our own Danielle Chelosky penned a new listening notes booklet for it.

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R.E.M. — Chronic Town (40th Anniversary Reissue)

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For R.E.M., it all started with the 1982 EP Chronic Town, a release that turns 40 years old in 2022. So, the band is reissuing it as a standalone CD for the first time ever, but for vinyl lovers, there’s also a lovely picture disc edition available.

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Cigarettes After Sex — Cigarettes After Sex (5th Anniversary Limited Edition)

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Cigarettes After Sex was a strong debut for the titular band, a critically enjoyed album that also landed on the Billboard 200. It’s been five years since the fateful day the 2017 album was released, so now the band is celebrating with a lovely white and clear vinyl edition. They’re going on tour, too, so here’s a chance to hear at least some of these things both on your turntable and your local concert venue.

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Paul McCartney — McCartney I II III Box Set

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Super young Paul McCartney fans might know the Beatles leader best by his latest solo album, 2020’s McCartney III (or perhaps the next year’s McCartney III Imagined project featuring contemporary artists). Well, as the title suggests, it’s part of a trilogy of albums, which have now been collected in a new box set. The vinyl edition includes special photo prints as well as notes about each album from McCartney himself.

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Blondie — Blondie: Against The Odds 1974-1982

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Blondie’s giant new box set arrives with good timing, as the group recently had a memorable moment on the beloved show Better Call Saul. As for what’s included in this retrospective release, it features newly remastered pressings of releases from the band’s original era, as well as 36 previously unissued songs, two volumes of liner notes, and more.

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Madonna — Finally Enough Love: 50 Number Ones

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Madonna had yet another wild appearance with Jimmy Fallon on The Tonight Show earlier this month, but through all the antics, she was there to promote her new remix album, Finally Enough Love: 50 Number Ones. The vinyl edition of this massive collection comes with alternate cover art that’s more straightforward than that from other formats.

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Pavement — Slanted And Enchanted (30th Anniversary Reissue)

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Pavement set the table for years of esteem with their broadly appreciated 1992 album Slanted And Enchanted. That was 30 years ago now, and the album has been reissued on a lovely red-colored LP with black and white splatters, a perfect visual complement to the iconic cover art. Aside from the vinyl, the band is also offering a treat for diehard fans: A replica of Courting Shutdown Offers, the cassette the band used when trying to sell the album to record labels.

Get it here.

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On The Up: The Must-Hear Artists To Know This Month

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On The Up is back after a short break, once again highlighting five new artists you should be listening to this month. September’s picks jump from a surging Bay Area R&B singer to a new face on the Brazilian music scene signed to Stones Throw Records. Fans of Big Thief will be hyped on one of our picks, while a dizzying LA rapper and rising Aussie psych-pop group round out September’s group. Check ’em out and listen in below.

Zyah Belle

We’ve been featuring some of Zyah Belle’s tracks in our Best New R&B column dating back to when the Bay Area singer signed with Guin Records last year and dropped the silky Who’s Listening Anyway EP. She hasn’t let up in 2022 and has her album, Yam Grier, set to drop on September 9th. “Not The One” beams with some serious mystique from her and LA rapper Tempest, while “DND” is armed with a sultry, electro-R&B bounce. Named after ’70s blaxploitation film queen Pam Grier (who also starred in Quentin Tarantino’s 1997 cult classic, Jackie Brown), Yam Grier sees Belle channeling that alpha woman energy Grier made famous on the silver screen and she says the album is, “The embodiment of a woman who has finally come into her own, unapologetically.”

Gabriel Da Rosa

When Brazil’s Gabriel Da Rosa arrived in LA eight years ago, he was armed with a guitar, a backpack, a dog, and a rock and roll dream. Where he’s at today looks very different — well, at least musically. The latest signee to the always-eclectic Stones Throw Records label, Da Rosa is making music in the mold of the Brazilian samba, bossa nova, and tropicalia greats. On his debut single, “Jasmim Parte 1,” that uncanny breezy guitar, pairs with lush Wurly keys, bossa horns and a gorgeous Brazilian sidewalk flute. In the song’s video, the avid vinyl collector flips through records from legends like Joao Gilberto, Novos Baianos, Gal Costa, etc… and if any of those names mean something to you, you’re gonna want to press play on “Jardim Parte 1” stat.

Tenci

We’ve got a soft spot for so many artists on Austin’s indie workhorse label Keeled Scales. Acts like Sun June, Why Bonnie, and Katy Kirby are helping shape the label’s roster and now Chicago’s Tenci are pushing towards their second album on the imprint. A Swollen River, A Well Overflowing is due out on November 4th, and lead single “Two Cups” showcases singer/bandleader Jess Shoman’s imaginative arrangements and inviting vocals that harken to Adrianne Lenker’s distinct range.

Rhys Langston

LA’s off-kilter art rap scene has always rested on the foundations of MCs dropping stream-of-consciousness raps that in actuality, aren’t that at all. For these cats are just delightful, highly-intelligent weirdos with a microphone and a lot to say. Rhys Langston is one of these artists and the POW Records-signee has a sharp-tongued, verbose approach that comes across as trippily as smashing melons on the shores of the La Brea tar pits. The Sufjan Stevens-esque-titled “I Will Stop At Nothing (I A Magnetized And I Move!)” is a spiraling display of wordsmithery, as Langston spits in a controlled fury, “And my voice box full of stuffing, dressings, fixings / MacGuyver’d, Epoxy, aluminum wire. Ready-made, sculpted tableau portmanteau…” His album Grapefruit Radio is set to drop on September 14th and also features Jersey’s Fatboi Sharif, LA mainstay The Koreatown Oddity, and others.

Babe Rainbow

In a most unusual, but wholly welcome collaboration last year, Jaden Smith guested on the sunny, shore-break airiness of Babe Rainbow’s “Your Imagination.” It was another high-profile co-sign for the Aussie psych-y surf pop band following a release on Danger Mouse’s 30th Century Records and King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard’s Stu Mackenzie producing their debut. Now the group are pushing towards a new album as tunes like “Smash The Machine” have grown increasingly more psychedelic. It’s no surprise that their upcoming tour begins on Sept 30th at SoCal’s buzzy, psych rock-focused (but still eclectic) Desert Daze festival alongside Tame Impala, King Gizzard, and Sky Ferreira.

All The New Albums Coming Out In September 2022

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Keeping track of all the new albums coming out in a given month is a big job, but we’re up for it: Below is a comprehensive list of the major releases you can look forward to in September. If you’re not trying to potentially miss out on anything, it might be a good idea to keep reading.

Friday, September 2

  • The Amazons — How Will I Know If Heaven Will Find Me? (Blood Records)
  • Ayka — Eleven EP (Glassnote Records)
  • Armani Caesar — The Liz 2 (Griselda Records)
  • Bitchin Bajas — Bajascillators (Drag City)
  • Creature Canyon — Remarks (Gnu Roam/Kartel Music)
  • Coma Girls — No Umbrella For Star Flower (Baby Robot Records)
  • George FitzGerald — Stellar Drifting (Domino)
  • The Front Bottoms — Theresa EP (Wuacasokle/Fueled By Ramen)
  • The Hu — Rumble Of Thunder (Better Noise Music)
  • Jon Pardi — Mr. Saturday Night (Capitol Nashville)
  • Lean Year — Sides (Western Vinyl)
  • Lee “Scratch” Perry — King Scratch (Musical Masterpieces from The Upsetter Ark-ive) (Trojan Records)
  • Megadeth — The Sick, The Dying… And The Dead! (Tradecraft)
  • Nina Nesbitt — Älskar (Cooking Vinyl)
  • Pale Blue Eyes — Souvenirs (Full Time Hobby)
  • Parker Gispert — Golden Years (Normaltown/New West Records)
  • Rina Sawayama — Hold The Girl (Dirty Hit)
  • S. Raekwon — I Like It When You Smile EP (Lex Records)
  • Stereolab — Pulse Of The Early Brain [Switched On Volume 5] (Warp/Duophonic UHF Disks)
  • Tom Chaplin — Midpoint (‎BMG)
  • Two Door Cinema Club — Keep On Smiling ([PIAS])
  • Unloved — The Pink Album (Heavenly Records / [PIAS])
  • Warmduscher — At The Hotspot EP (Bella Union)
  • The Wonder Years — The Hum Goes On Forever (Hopeless Records)
  • Yungblud — Yungblud (Locomotion/Geffen)

Friday, September 9

  • The Afghan Whigs — How Do You Burn? (Royal Cream/BMG)
  • Ari Lennox — Age/Sex/Location (Dreamville/Interscope Records)
  • Beacon — Along The Lethe (Apparent Movement)
  • Built To Spill — When The Wind Forgets Your Name (Sub Pop)
  • Breland — Cross Country (Bad Realm Records/Atlantic Records/Warner Music Nashville)
  • Charles Stepney — Step On Step (International Anthem Recording Co.)
  • Charley Crockett — The Man From Waco (Son of Davy/Thirty Tigers)
  • Daniel Romano’s Outfit — La Luna (You’ve Changed Records)
  • The Deer — The Beautiful Undead (22 Sound Records)
  • Flogging Molly — Anthem (Rise Records))
  • Foreign Air — Hello Sunshine (Lex Records)
  • George Riley — Running In Waves (PLZ Make It Ruins)
  • Highly Suspect — The Midnight Demon Club (Roadrunner/FRSKT)
  • Holy Fawn — Dimensional Bleed (Wax Bodega)
  • Jackson Wang — Magic Man (Team Wang)
  • Jockstrap — I Love You Jennifer B (Rough Trade Records)
  • John Legend — Legend (Columbia)
  • JR Slayer — Not Rotten EP (Memory Music)
  • Kane Brown — Different Man (Sony Music Nashville)
  • Lake Street Dive — Fun Machine: The Sequel EP (Fantasy Records)
  • Living Hour — Someday Is Today (Kanine)
  • Marlon Williams — My Boy (Dead Oceans)
  • Mike Adams — Graphic Blandishment (Joyful Noise Recordings)
  • Miya Folick — 2007 EP (Nettwerk)
  • Oliver Sim — Hideous Bastard (Young)
  • Ozzy Osbourne — Patient Number 9 (Epic Records)
  • The Paranoyds — Talk Talk Talk (Third Man Records)
  • Parkway Drive — Darker Still (Epitaph Records)
  • Preoccupations — Arrangements (self-released)
  • Reuben And The Dark — In Lieu Of Light (Arts & Crafts)
  • Robbie Williams — XXV (Columbia)
  • Sampa The Great — As Above, So Below (Loma Vista)
  • San Fermin — Your Ghost EP (Better Company Records)
  • Santigold — Spirituals (Little Jerk Records)
  • Sarah Davachi — Two Sisters (Bleep)
  • Son Little — Like Neptune (ANTI-)
  • Sudan Archives — Natural Brown Prom Queen (Stones Throw)
  • Suzi Analogue — Infinite Zonez (Disciples)
  • Tyler Bryant & The Shakedown — Shake The Roots (Rattle Shake Records)
  • Wyldest — Feed The Flowers Nightmares (Hand In Hive)

Friday, September 16

  • Bazzi — Infinite Dream (Atlantic)
  • Behemoth — Opvs Contra Natvram (Nuclear Blast)
  • The Beths — Expert In A Dying Field (Carpark Records)
  • The Black Angels — Wilderness Of Mirrors (Partisan Records)
  • Blackpink — Born Pink (YG Entertainment/Interscope Records)
  • Carina — Spaceout! EP (Mini Mind Museum)
  • Carl Cox — Electronic Generations (BMG)
  • Clutch — Sunrise On Slaughter Beach (Weathermaker Music)
  • Con Brio — Seasons EP (self-released)
  • Crack Cloud — Tough Baby (Meat Machine)
  • Daniele Luppi And Greg Gonzalez — Charm Of Pleasure (Mute)
  • Danielle Ponder — Some Of Us Are Brave (Future Classic)
  • Daya — In Between Dreams EP (Sandlot Records)
  • Death Cab For Cutie — Roman Candles (Atlantic)
  • Dear Boy — Forever Sometimes (Mono Mundo/Thirty Tigers)
  • Disco Doom — Mt. Surreal (Exploding in Sound)
  • Djo — Decide (AWAL)
  • Ela Minus & DJ Python — Corazón EP (Smugglers Way)
  • Fletcher — Girl Of My Dreams (Capitol Records)
  • Gloria de Oliveira And Dean Hurley — Oceans Of Time (Sacred Bones)
  • Gogol Bordello — Solidaritine (Casa Gogol/Cooking Vinyl)
  • Horace Andy — Midnight Scorchers (On-U Sound Records)
  • Jesca Hoop — Order Of Romance (Memphis Industries)
  • Jessie Reyez — Yessie (FMLY/Island Records)
  • Julian Lage — View With A Room (Blue Note Records)
  • Kings Elliot — Bored Of The Circus EP (Vertigo Berlin)
  • LeAnn Rimes — God’s Work (EverLe Records/Thirty Tigers/The Orchard)
  • Lissie — Carving Canyons (Lionboy Records)
  • Little Big Town — Mr. Sun (UMG Nashville)
  • Little Dragon — Opening The Door EP (Ninja Tune)
  • The London Suede — Autofiction (BMG)
  • Maggie Lindemann — Suckerpunch (swixxzaudio)
  • Marcus Mumford — Self-Titled (Island Records)
  • The Mars Volta — The Mars Volta (Clouds Hill)
  • Michelle Branch — The Trouble With Fever (Nonesuch Records)
  • Miloe — Gaps EP (Loma Vista)
  • Molly Lewis — Mirage EP (Jagjaguwar)
  • The Ms — Introducing… The Mellons (Earth Libraries)
  • The Murlocs — Rapscallion (Greenway Records)
  • Mura Masa — Demon Time (Polydor)
  • Mxmtoon — Rising (The Deluxe) (AWAL Recordings)
  • The New Mastersounds — The Deplar Effect (Color Red)
  • No Age — People Helping People (Drag City)
  • No Devotion — No Oblivion (Equal Vision Records)
  • Noah Cyrus — The Hardest Part (Records, LLC/Columbia Records)
  • Ondara — Spanish Villager No: 3 (Verve Forecast)
  • Quinn Christopherson — Write Your Name In Pink (Play It Again Sam)
  • Rhett Miller — The Misfit (ATO)
  • PJ Western — Here I Go (New West Records)
  • Ringo Starr — EP3 (UMe)
  • Smith/Kotzen — Better Days… And Nights (Bertelsmann Music Group)
  • Steve Aoki — Hiroquest (Ultra/Dim Mak)
  • Vundabar — Good Old (Amuse)
  • Well Wisher — That Weight (Egghunt Records)
  • What So Not — Anomaly (Too Future)
  • Whitney — Spark (Secretly Canadian)
  • Young Jesus — Shepherd Head (Saddle Creek)

Friday, September 23

  • Alex G — God Save The Animals (Domino)
  • Alphaville — Eternally Yours (BFD)
  • Altopalo — Frenemy (Nettwerk)
  • Arkells — Blink Twice (Universal Music Canada)
  • Beth Orton — Weather Alive (Partisan Records)
  • Billy Idol — The Cage EP (Dark Horse Records)
  • Blackstarkids — Cyberkiss (Dirty Hit)
  • Daniel Lanois — Player, Piano (Modern Recordings)
  • David Poe — Everyone’s Got A Camera (ECR Music Group)
  • De Lux — Do You Need A Release? (Innovative Leisure)
  • Divino Niño — Last Spa On Earth (Winspear)
  • Dr. John — Things Happen That Way (Rounder Records)
  • Editors — EBM (Play It Again Sam)
  • Eerie Wanda — Internal Radio (Joyful Noise Recordings)
  • Francis Lung — Short Stories EP (Memphis Industries)
  • Future Teens — Self Help (Triple Crown Records)
  • Jackie Cohen — Pratfall (Earth Libraries)
  • Jessie Baylin — Jersey Girl (Missing Piece)
  • Kelsea Ballerini — Subject To Change (Warner Music Nashville)
  • Khruangbin And Vieux Farka Touré — Ali (Dead Oceans)
  • Luci — Juvenilia EP (Don’t Sleep)
  • Maddie & Tae — Through The Madness Vol. 2 (Lex Records)
  • Magdalena Bay — Mercurial World Deluxe (Luminelle Recordings)
  • Makaya McCraven — In These Times (International Anthem/Nonesuch/XL)
  • Marisa Anderson — Still, Here (Thrill Jockey)
  • Mark Owen — Land Of Dreams (BMG)
  • Maya Hawke — Moss (Mom + Pop)
  • Mobley — Cry Havoc! EP (Last Gang Records)
  • Nils Frahm — Music For Animals (Leiter)
  • Nikki Lane — Denim & Diamonds (New West Records)
  • Peter Matthew Bauer — Flowers (Fortune Tellers)
  • Redcar — Redcar les adorables étoiles (Because Music)
  • Sofie Royer — Harlequin (Stones Throw)
  • The Soft Moon — Exister (Sacred Bones)
  • Sorcha Richardson — Smiling Like An Idiot (Faction)
  • Tim Burgess — Typical Music (Bella Union)
  • Toledo — How It Ends (Grand Jury)
  • Willow — Copingmechanism (Roc Nation/MSFTSMusic)

Friday, September 30

  • 2nd Grade — Easy Listening (Double Double Whammy)
  • The Bad Plus — The Bad Plus (Edition)
  • The Big Pink — The Love That’s Ours (Project Melody Music)
  • The Cowsills — Rhythm Of The World (Omnivore Recordings)
  • Dream, Ivory — About A Boy (AWAL)
  • Dropkick Murphys — This Machine Still Kills Fascists (Dummy Luck Music/[PIAS])
  • Drowning Pool — Strike A Nerve (T-BOY/UMe)
  • e4444e — I Spend All Day Drawing A Circle (Dinosaur City)
  • False Heads — Sick Moon (Scruff Of The Neck)
  • Fujiya & Miyagi — Slight Variations (Impossible Objects)
  • Julia, Julia — Derealization (Suicide Squeeze Records)
  • Julie Odell — Autumn Eve (Frenchkiss Records)
  • Kaya Stewart — If Things Go South (Bay Street Records)
  • Lambchop — The Bible (Merge/City Slang)
  • Mamalarky — Pocket Fantasy (Fire Talk Records)
  • Melody’s Echo Chamber — Unfold (Fat Possum)
  • Milly — Eternal Ring (Dangerbird Records)
  • Moon Duo — Live At Levitation (Reverberation Appreciation Society)
  • Off! — Free LSD (Fat Possum)
  • Oren Ambarchi — Shebang (Drag City)
  • Pixies — Doggerel (BMG)
  • Pretty Sick — Makes Me Sick Makes Me Smile (Dirty Hit)
  • Sammy Hagar & The Circle — Crazy Times (UMe)
  • Shygirl — Nymph (Because Music)
  • Slipknot — The End, So Far (Roadrunner Records)
  • Snarky Puppy — Empire Central (GroundUP Music)
  • Sonic Flower — Me And My Bellbottom Blues (Heavy Psych Sounds)
  • Titus Andronicus — The Will To Live (Merge)
  • Tycho — Back To Mine (Back To Mine)
  • Yeah Yeah Yeahs — Cool It Down (Secretly Canadian)

Some artists covered here are Warner Music artists. Uproxx is an independent subsidiary of Warner Music Group.

Kate Bush And Harry Styles Top Spotify’s Most-Streamed Songs Of The Summer Lists

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Every year, music fans crave the knowledge: What is the “song of the summer?” A lot of discussions about that sort of thing tend to be based on opinion, but now Spotify has some hard data to add to the conversation.

The methodology was simple: Check what songs got the most streams on Spotify from May 29 to August 29. That has been done, and if you’re looking at just the United States, Kate Bush’s Stranger Things-boosted hit “Running Up That Hill (A Deal With God)” is No. 1, with Harry Styles’ “As It Was” behind at No. 2. If you check the global list, though, those positions are swapped, with Styles on top and Bush earning silver.

Perhaps the most dominant artist of both lists, though, is Bad Bunny: He has seven songs in the top 20 on the global list and six on the US rank. Besides Styles, Bush, and Bad Bunny, the only artist to make the top 10 of both lists is Joji with “Glimpse Of Us” (No. 5 globally, No. 4 in the US).

Check out the full lists below.

Spotify’s most-streamed songs of summer globally
1. Harry Styles — “As It Was”
2. Kate Bush — “Running Up That Hill (A Deal With God)”
3. Bad Bunny and Chencho Corleone — “Me Porto Bonito”
4. Bad Bunny — “Tití Me Preguntó”
5. Joji — “Glimpse Of Us”
6. Bad Bunny and Bomba Estéreo — “Ojitos Lindos”
7. Bizarrap and Quevedo — “Quevedo: Bzrp Music Sessions, Vol. 52”
8. Bad Bunny — “Efecto”
9. Bad Bunny — “Moscow Mule”
10. Glass Animals — “Heat Waves”
11. Karol G — “Provenza”
12. Lizzo — “About Damn Time”
13. Harry Styles — “Late Night Talking”
14. Bad Bunny and Rauw Alejandro — “Party”
15. Shakira and Rauw Alejandro — “Te Felicito”
16. The Kid Laroi and Justin Bieber — “Stay”
17. Bad Bunny, Jhay Cortez — “Tarot”
18. Camila Cabello — “Bam Bam” Feat. Ed Sheeran
19. Elton John and Dua Lipa — “Cold Heart (PNAU Remix)”
20. OneRepublic — “I Ain’t Worried”

Spotify’s most-streamed songs of summer in the US
1. Kate Bush — “Running Up That Hill (A Deal With God)”
2. Harry Styles — “As It Was”
3. Bad Bunny and Chencho Corleone — “Me Porto Bonito”
4. Joji — “Glimpse Of Us”
5. Bad Bunny — “Tití Me Preguntó”
6. Steve Lacy — “Bad Habit”
7. Drake — “Jimmy Cooks” Feat. 21 Savage
8. Post Malone and Doja Cat — “I Like You (A Happier Song)”
9. Harry Styles — “Late Night Talking”
10. Lizzo — “About Damn Time”
11. Jack Harlow — “First Class”
12. Future — “Wait For U” Feat. Drake and Tems
13. Glass Animals — “Heat Waves”
14. Doja Cat — “Vegas”
15. Bad Bunny — “Efecto”
16. Bad Bunny — “Moscow Mule”
17. Bad Bunny and Bomba Estéreo — “Ojitos Lindos”
18. Morgan Wallen — “You Proof”
19. OneRepublic — “I Ain’t Worried”
20. Bad Bunny and Rauw Alejandro — “Party”

Some artists covered here are Warner Music artists. Uproxx is an independent subsidiary of Warner Music Group.