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Cardi B Says New Album Is Coming Sooner Than Later

The Grammy-winning rapper says her second album is coming "very soon" as she works on cover art ideas and readies her next solo single.

A new Cardi B album release is imminent. The Bronx-bred rapper said she'll drop her second album "very soon."

Cardi revealed updates on forthcoming music in her cover story with Vogue Mexico y Latinoamerica on Aug. 25. In her translated interview, she said the next release will be a solo single expected to appear on the new album rather than a collaboration with another artist. Cardi also said she's currently working on the new project cover.

"Right now, I'm working on the cover art and ideas for the next record because it's definitely coming up," Cardi said. For years, fans have asked when she will release a new album, now the "Up" rapper insists that supporters won't have to wait much longer, saying, "Stay tuned because it's coming out very soon."

Cardi B is seen leaving her hotel on July 5, 2023 in Paris. (Photo by MEGA/GC Images)

The upcoming untitled album will follow her 2018 solo debut, "Invasion of Privacy." Featuring hits like "I Like It," "Bartier Cardi," and "Bodak Yellow," the album went quadruple platinum and won the Grammy for Best Rap Album.

Since "Invasion of Privacy," Cardi has released numerous non-album singles, such as "Please Me" featuring Bruno Mars, "WAP" with Megan Thee Stallion, "Press," "Money," and "Up." Cardi has reached the top 10 of the Billboard Hot 100 charts 11 times in her career so far.

The multi-platinum rapper has dropped several featured verses over the past few years, including Normani's "Wild Side (2021)," Lizzo's Rumors (2021)," and GloRilla's "Tomorrow 2 (2022)."

In 2023, Cardi continued a collaboration hot streak with Latto, husband, and former Migos member Offset. Latto and Cardi's single, "Put It On the Floor Again," is certified gold, while her latest collaboration with Offset, "Jealousy," was released in July.

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Netta To Release Her Debut Album In 2024

Netta, known as one of the world's most innovative modern pop stars, has announced that her long awaited debut album will be released in January 2024. To kick-off the announce, she dropped her first single "Wonderful & Great" off her upcoming album, giving us an exciting taste of what's to come! 

"I wrote a love song to that girl who has everything going for her in the most perfect and annoying way," stated Netta about the track. "I thought about how we rarely compliment free of charge, and wanted to promote this positive exchange of energy between people, and in myself.Turning envy into admiration. This song is inspired by a chant that me and my besties do when we're walking out of the club at 4 am together after a great night out."

"Wonderful & Great" is the ultimate friendship anthem with Netta expressing her fondness and adoration for her best friend. This quirk-pop gem showcases how you can find true fulfilment through friendship. The video is unreal and consists of a wild "tea party" organised by Netta showcasing trippy images.

Earlier this summer, Netta dropped her anthemic disco-pop earworm "Everything," which was co-written by Zara Larsson and AJR. This follows her successful run of June PRIDE events including this year's PRIDE LIVE Stonewall Day Celebration along with headliner Christina Aguilera. Netta has even more PRIDE performances planned for September as she will be headlining the opening ceremony at EUROPRIDE 2023 in Malta on September 7th and performing at this year's OUT & EQUAL Workplace Summit 2023 on September 12th.  As Consequence stated that Netta has "dominated stages around the world and has seen her music spread like wildfire," she is continuing her domination with her 'Wonderful & Great' World tour. She will bring her legendary loop wizardry and infectious charisma to several cities in Europe and the US. Dates below. Friday, September 1st - London, UK - The Garage Saturday, September 2nd - Amsterdam, Netherlands - Melkweg (upstairs) Monday, September 4th - Berlin, Germany - Lido Tuesday, September 5th - Cologne, Germany - Club Volta Thursday, September 7th – Valletta, Malta – EuroPride 2023 Tuesday, November 7th, Philadelphia, PA - The Foundry Wednesday, November 8th - New York, NY - Irving Plaza Thursday, November 9th - Washington, DC - Union Stage  Saturday, November 11th - Boston, MA - The Sinclair Tuesday, November 14th - Santa Ana, CA - Constellation Room Wednesday, November 15th - Los Angeles, CA - El Rey Theatre Thursday, November 16th - San Francisco, CA - Great American Music Hall Friday, November 17th - Denver, CO - Bluebird Theater Sunday, November 19th - Chicago, IL - Lincoln Hall Earlier this year, Netta debuted her riveting cover of Dead Or Alive's "You Spin Me Round (Like A Record)" at the Eurovision 2023 Grand Final in Liverpool. During her performance, Netta entered from high above the arena on a giant silver bird, dazzling the crowd with her unique stage presence and powerful voice. The entire performance was a colourful and joyous spectacle reminding Eurovision fans how legendary this 2018 winner is. 

Soft Cell Releases 'Non-Stop Erotic Cabaret' As A 6-CD 98-Track Super Deluxe Edition

In the four decades since its release, it's hard to overestimate just how influential the debut album by Soft Cell, Non-Stop Erotic Cabaret, has been. It's revered by artists such as Trent Reznor and sampled by the likes of Rihanna. It remains an icon of electronic music.

With its roots in post-punk electronics, French chanson, American soul, kitchen sink drama and New York dance, over forty years later, the album's themes still resonate and helped change the course of British pop.

It paved the way for countless synth-based music duos, fashioning something dark and distinctive with a hint of pop that helped kick-start a new decade. The phenomenal success of "Tainted Love" in America, where it spent a then-record breaking 43 straight weeks on the Billboard Hot 100) and led the way in the U.S. For alternative and electronic artists such as The Cure and Depeche Mode.

Initially released in November 1981, the ten-track song cycle, in the words of Marc Almond, "tells a story of a bored ordinary bloke seething with his life wanting more and looking for excitement and adventure in a red neon lit Soho world of red-light cabarets, prostitutes and sex dwarves, looking back at his youth and wondering what happened."

Non-Stop Erotic Cabaret contained three of the most significant singles of the decade; "Tainted Love" (the best-selling UK single of 1981), "Bedsitter" and "Say Hello Wave Goodbye." Dave Ball recalls making the album as "All very weird and extreme, from living in a council flat and suddenly you're flying on Concorde to New York" Looking back, Ball says "Non-Stop Erotic Cabaret was the first period of Soft Cell, really. It was our pop period, and by 1982 we were done and dusted with that. The next one, was much darker." Mercury-EMI / UMR are proud to present a timely celebration of Non-Stop Erotic Cabaret with various supplementary extras and rarities. The 6-CD, 98-track Super Deluxe Edition is the ultimate version of the album and features 40 unreleased pieces. CD1 features Non-Stop Erotic Cabaret newly remastered in 2023 by Barry Grint, plus the A & B sides in their original 7" versions, including "Torch," "What!," the band's first Phonogram single "A Man Could Get Lost" and "Memorabilia" produced by Mute's Daniel Miller along with the 2016 edit of "Fun City" and a new edit of "Persuasion," both only released on 12" at the time. CD2 Non-Stop Extended Cabaret contains the entire album in extended 12" form, made up of Dave Ball's 2018 studio reworkings of the album using only the original studio parts, plus the original "Bedsitter" 12" which all parties agreed just could not be improved upon. Also featured are new remixes of "Memorabilia" by techno legend The Hacker, Mute founder Daniel Miller and a new Dave Ball extended of "A Man Could Get Lost." CD3 entitled Non-Stop Eclectic Cabaret is a treasure trove of rarities including BBC session highlights, a selection of demos, outtakes, audio from BBC TV and radio appearances on The Richard Skinner Show, The Old Grey Whistle Test, Top Of The Pops / Top Of The Pops 2 and The Oxford Road Show as well as selections from Heat: The Remixes, including Richard X's now legendary version of "Seedy Films." CD4 is Non-Stop Instrumental Cabaret, which presents the full album instrumentally for the first time and six original 1981 demos, five of which are previously unreleased. These demos include a Daniel Miller-produced version of "Tainted Love," "Say Hello, Wave Goodbye" and a version of "Sex Dwarf" which was previously presumed lost. CD5 brings together the original 12" A and B-sides of 1981 and 1982 under the banner Non-Stop Original Cabaret including "Memorabilia," "Tainted Love," "Say Hello Wave Goodbye," and the standalone singles "Torch" and "What!." Soft Cell were rightly hailed in their day for pouring their creative efforts and energies into the extended form and these pioneering sides have become legendary. CD6 includes the album played in full plus, "Torch" and "Memorabilia," recorded live at Hammersmith's Eventim Apollo in November 2021. There are also three tracks from the band's jubilant London O2 Arena show in September 2018. In the beautiful 10" x 10" package is an essay on the story of the album by Adrian Thrills, including new interviews with Marc and Dave as well as full song lyrics, contemporary photography along, album and single sleeve scans and compiler's credits from Chris Smith. The 6-disc super deluxe edition is the final word about one of the albums that not only defined a genre but also an entire decade. Soft Cell continue to tour and release new music including their first new album in 20 years, Happiness Not Included and last year's rapturously received collaboration with the Pet Shop Boys, Purple Zone but As Marc Almond puts it, "Dave and I will carry on being creative, but it will be hard for us to produce another record that's loved in quite the same way as Non-Stop Erotic Cabaret was loved."

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