What You Missed In Music This Week: Frank Ocean’s New Albums, Apple Music Festival & ALL The MTV VMA Announcements
There's been a lot going on in the music world...
Megan DowningIt's been a pretty busy week in the music world so we don't blame you for missing things. That's where our handy round up comes in and saves the day...
From tonnes of MTV VMA 2016 announcements through the Frank Ocean making our lives complete with his new albums, we're here to bring you bang up to date with what you might have missed this week.
ALL The MTV VMA 2016 Announcements
It’s been quite the week for 2016 MTV Video Music Awards announcements with the ceremony approaching this weekend, so we thought we’d get you bang up to date with everything that’s going on.
Firstly, LOADS of performers have been announced. Joining Britney, Rihanna and Nick Jonas will be Future, Ariana Grande, Nicki Minaj, The Chainsmokers and Halsey. As well as this the pre-show performers have been announced with Alessia Cara, Troye Sivan, Jidenna and Lucas Graham joining host DJ Khaled.
If that’s not enough, there will also be a star-studded line up of celebrity presenters including Kim Kardashian West, Fifth Harmony, Jaden Smith and LOADS more (seriously, loads).
For everything you need to know about the VMAs, head here.
Little Mix Announced When We’ll Hear Their Next Single
After listening to Get Weird on repeat about 17000 times (it just doesn't get old!), we're very glad to hear that Little Mix will be gracing our ears with some new material soon.
The group revealed the news to Capital FM's Roman Kemp at V Festival over the weekend. Leigh-Anne said: "We've already decided the next single!" whilst Jesy confirmed: "Very, very soon. October, you'll hear it.”
Can I get a collective ‘YAAAS’? We’re SO excited.
Frank Ocean’s Multi-Media Album Release Made Our Lives Complete
A week ago today Frank Ocean let us into his little secret by sharing with the world his visual album, Endless. After years of waiting for new music fans were over the moon, however, when word got around that there was MORE to come, the world collectively lost their sh*t.
Next came ANOTHER album, Blonde, as well as a zine titled Boys Don’t Cry, a phrase we’re all very familiar with after Frankie O’s cryptic Tumblr posts. The zine even included a poem about McDonalds written by Kanye West. Only Frank could pull something like this off and we’re SO thankful to be on this planet right now.
Calvin Harris, Bastille And More Announced For Apple Music Festival's 10th Anniversary
Apple Music Festival is back once again, this time for its tenth anniversary and the line-up does not disappoint. Britney Spears, The 1975, Calvin Harris and more will be heading over to the festival’s spiritual home of London’s Roundhouse for a string of free gigs.
Other artists include Elton John, Alicia Keys, OneRepublic, Robbie Williams, Bastille, Michael Bublé and Chance The Rapper. With a line up this good we’re wishing September would hurry up and be here.
It's Britney, B**ch! Britney Spears Does Carpool Karaoke & Drops Her New Album, Glory
Can someone remind me what year it is? With Pokemon making a comeback and Britney Spears being the biggest star on the planet once again, we're convinced we’ve all travelled back to the 90s.
Britney was the next celebrity to join James Corden for Carpool Karaoke and we reckon it’s our favourite one to date. As they sing ALL of the princess of pop’s hits, we can’t help but want to sneak into the backseat and join along with them.
If that’s not epic enough for you, the video has been released on the same day as her new album, Glory. We don’t know about you, but we reckon this day should just be called The Britney Spears Appreciation Day from now on.
Let us know what you think about this week's music news over on Twitter @MTVMusicUK.
The Most Iconic VMA Moments Of All Time
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The VMAs always provide some celebrity entertainment for everyone involved. Here are the best moments EVER... -
1. We all remember the 2015 VMA beef between Nick Minaj and Miley Cyrus. Now the words 'Miley, what's good?' will go down in history. -
2. Kanye West interrupting Taylor Swift when she won the Video Of The Year VMA is one of the most iconic moments in not only VMA history, but in the ongoing feud between the two. -
3. We don't even need to introduce this iconic moment. Everyone knows that Britney kissing Madonna during her performance (with Christina Aguilera) was THE moment of the 2003 VMAs. -
4. Lil Kim's outfit for the 1999 VMAs was a little... revealing, to say the least. If that wasn't shocking enough, Diana Ross went and groped her boob on stage. Iconic. -
5. In our eyes Lady Gaga's meat dress she wore to the 2010 VMAs will go down in history for many reasons, not to mention the fact that she STILL OWNS IT! Eww. -
6. Miley Cyrus 2.0 came out in full force at the 2013 VMAs when she twerked all over Robin Thicke. We saw things we will never be able to unsee. -
7. Aww, we still well up thinking about the moment that Beyonceé announced that she was pregnant on stage at the 2011 VMAs. LOOK HOW HAPPY SHE IS! -
8. We still cringe when thinking about this moment from the 1994 VMAs. You can see Lisa-Marie Presley visibly squirm as she prepared for the most awkward onstage kiss of all time. -
9. We're all aware of the messy break-up between Taylor Swift and Harry Styles but when TayTay appeared to tell Harry to 'shut the f**k up' at the 2013 VMAs we couldn't contain our excitement. DRAMA! -
10. Poor Britney, she's had quite a lot of iconic VMA moments and not all of them in a good way. Her comeback performance of 'Give Me More' in 2007 was a little lack lustre to say the least. -
11. We all remember Madonna's less than virginal bride at the 1984 VMAs. The then little known singer performed her hit single 'Like A Virgin' and shocked EVERYONE. -
12. Prince was always known for his daring outfits and at the 1991 VMAs he took this to a whole new level with his butt exposing catsuit. We love you Prince. -
13. At the 2002 VMAs the King Of Pop accepted an award from Britney Spears, but she'd made up the title in her speech so he thought he was accepting the imaginary 'Artist Of The Millenium' award. -
14. We were a slave for Britney during her 2001 VMA performance of 'Slave 4 U'. We're not sure who decided on bringing the snake but it made for a great show. -
15. So the moment Lil Mama decided to crash the stage during Jay Z and Alicia Key's performance of 'Empire State Of Mind' at the 2009 VMAs is kinda like your younger sister trying to hang out with you and your mates. Not. Cool. -
16. Kanye West won last year's (2015) VMA Vanguard award but instead of performing he used his 20 minute slot for his empassioned speech where he declared he was running for president. We still hope that one day he will... -
All of this reminiscing has made us even more excited for this year's awards. The MTV VMA 2016 will take place on 28th August at Madison Square Garden, New York.
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