Every time the clock ticks it seems Adele sells another million records. She did it again. Adele is set to sell another million albums in a week. All in all, Adele’s ’25’ could sell near 7 million copies by years end.

A band started by three NJ natives who go under the moniker ARIZONA are buzzing with their latest track ‘Where I Wanna Be‘. With hints of M83, although it’s hard to pin the band down, they’ve clocked hundreds of thousands of Soundcloud streams. Having just signed with Atlantic Records, the band spends most of their time either on the road creating in a mobile recording studio they built in an old Toyota. The three piece indie-alt act is back in their NJ hometown working on the 2016 upcoming release.
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In a recent interview with Time Magazine, Adele says she quit social media in order to spend time writing a great album.

“How am I supposed to write a real record if I’m waiting for half a million likes on a #$%^! photo? That ain’t real”

Nearing 7 million albums sold in a quick short weeks, Adele is astonished with her recent success in America:

“I’m not even from America.” Maybe they think I’m related to the Queen. Americans are obsessed with the royal family.”

Other artists may heed Adele’s advice. Instead of spending hours tweeting, consider spending hours creating a real album.

UK Indie alternative act Secret Company has become a 2015 favorite and could be a 2016 breakthrough artist. Why? Unlike their cohorts, the band has a knack for writing memorable anthems followed by classic guitar riffs. The new single release ‘Picture’ follows their debut EP that contains the track ‘Saviour’ which has garnered over 150,000 plays Soundcloud. Lead singer & guitarist Scott Revell explains the meaning behind the new track …“I fell out with an old friend of mine and he went on to tell another mate of ours what happened. This other mate, hearing only his side of the story then stopped talking to me as a result. Frustrating, because I didn’t feel in the wrong at all and maybe if he’d have heard it from my point of view, things would have been different. But he never did. Quite often, I think people will hear things about someone and then take that word as gospel. There’s always another side to the story, so I decided to tell mine with ‘Picture’”. The new video can be viewed here.
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Originally published at Nylon

Billboard’s annual Women in Music Awards are meant to bring women in the music industry together, instead of doing what the Internet loves to do and pit them against one another. The result is always a memorable night, full of inspiration. Seeing our favorite ladies get the honors they rightly deserve is always a treat, but this year’s ceremony was extra touching, as Billboard honored new loves and pop culture mainstays.

Missy Elliott was honored with the Innovator Award after bumping back on to the scene with both a Super Bowl performance and a new single. In a touching speech, Elliott not only detailed her own struggles and successes, but thanked the performers who helped pave the way for her: “I want to thank all those women who came before me, and I don’t know if y’all know how important that is to me because they kicked down the door for me to be able to walk through.”

Both Demi Lovato and Selena Gomez also accepted awards, the Rulebreaker Award and the Charttopper Award, respectively. While Gomez gave a short and sweet speech on the transformative period in her life that resulted in Revival, Lovato talked a little bit more about her history of being a rule breaker: “Another thing that reminded me of the Rulebreaker award is when I was in the first grade, this boy named Antonio Wallace, he came up to me and he said ‘girls suck!’ and I was all hyped up on Spice World and stuff, so I punched him in the face and I said ‘girl power!’ Needless to say, [I’ve] kinda always been a rule breaker, even since the first grade.”

However, the icon of the night proved to be Lady Gaga, as she accepted her Woman of the Year Award from her mother. Before a harrowing performance of her latest single, “Til it Happens to You,” Gaga sat behind her piano and offered a simple, heartwarming piece of advice: “If you work really hard you can just do anything.”

Lady Gaga’s always been an awe-inspiring live performer, but this one is extraordinary. Watch the full video of Gaga accepting her award and performing below.