Saturday, April 29, 2023

Around the Tubes: April 29, 2023

  

I have gotten a plethora of cool press releases have been flooding my inbox recently that you may find interesting. This post includes blurbs Joy Oladokun, Shania Twain, New West, Yellowjacketsand Waco. 


Acclaimed singer, songwriter and musician Joy Oladokun’s anticipated new album, Proof of Life, is out today via Amigo Records/Verve Forecast/Republic Records. Stream/purchase HERE.  Already receiving critical attention, Oladokun recently spoke with The New York Timeswho praises, “the singer-songwriter with Springsteen aspirations wants to make music for everyone. Her new album, Proof of Life, pushes her one step closer,” and continues, “her songs are conversational and confessional, and her hooky but profound melodies turn her lyrics into mantras.” Additionally, The Tennessean declares, “everyone’s favorite unlikely breakout pop star…it’s the latest and greatest combination of eras of pop nihilism – ‘90s indie pop Beck and Weezer vibes delivered with blithe, Beatles-esque musicianship,” while No Depression proclaims, “She’s almost a throwback to a pre-internet era of big-tent pop-rock, with a tempered balance of self-doubt and affirmation delivered with a voice that can convey warm affability and stadium-filling uplift.”


- Five-time GRAMMY® Award-winning legend and the best-selling female artist in country music history Shania Twain presents the Royal Edition the Deluxe Version of her acclaimed new album, Queen Of Me, out now via Republic Nashville, a division of Republic Records. Listen to Queen of Me (Royal Edition)HERE.  She delivers the definitive edition of Queen Of Me with five extra tracks. Among the additional material, she serves up two new originals - “Bone Dry” and “Wanted Man.


Toronto based “collective” New West performs their hit song “Those Eyes” in an incredible performance on Jimmy Kimmel Live!, which serves as their late night television debut.  Watch HERE.  The song, via Giant Music/Republic Records, continues to amass major buzz with over 470 million streams worldwide and appears on their dynamic bundle entitled homecoming / in my city.


The second season of YELLOWJACKETS will resume with its sixth episode on Friday, May 5 after taking a one-week preemption this weekend. In the upcoming sixth episode of the season, titled “Qui,” the Yellowjackets, trapped inside on a snow day, revisit the highlights, humiliations and traumas of “Health Class.” Taissa and Vanessa help each other kindly rewind, Misty explores joining a classic Cosmic American tribute band, Lisa helps Natalie carp the day, and Shauna gets a pop quiz on her cookie-reading assignment.


SHOWTIME continues its winning streak with WACO: THE AFTERMATH’s impressive debut as a top three most streamed series launch ever for the brand behind only DEXTER: NEW BLOOD and YELLOWJACKETS while the latter extends its rise in viewership.

 Waco: The Aftermath premiere

  • The most-watched debut for a new Showtime original on the integrated Paramount+ SHOWTIME bundle
  • Most streamed debut since November 2021
    • top 3 most streamed debut of all time for a new SHO original, only behind the launches of DEXTER: NEW BLOOD and YELLOWJACKETS
  • 1M total viewers to date; doubling its audience from opening weekend

 YELLOWJACKETS Season 2

  • The premiere episode has been seen by nearly 5.5M total viewers to date
    • +65% gain in streaming over season one premiere episode
  • Season two streaming viewership posting double digit growth each week since premiere
  • Social on fire – with conversation +5X over season one 

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