SOURCES:SINGERSROOM.COM,BBC.COMONOURPLAYLIST
SHEKHINAH RULES!
t’sofficial: Shekhinah is Mzansi’s most
streamed female singer. This is according
toApple Music which recently shared a
istof its most streamed local female art-
stsas part of its Women’s Month cam-
paign. The Please Mr hitmaker is much
oved and her debut album, 2017’s RoseGold, was certified platinum last year.
Lady Zamar took second place, fol-
lowed by Afrikaans rocker Karen Zoid,
gospel star Lebo Sekgobela and Simmy,
who collaborated with Sun-El Musician
on the smash house tracks Ubala, Sonini
and Ntabezikude.ONLY HUMAN
JONASBROTHERS
The third
single off
their new
album,
Happi-
ness Be-
gins, sees
the pop brothers flirting with
a reggae beat. Catchy.BROWN SKIN GIRL
BEYONCÉ
An ode
to dark-
skinned
women
every-
where,
this track
features on The Lion King:
The Gift soundtrack.HOLD ME
WHILE YOU WAIT
LEWISCAPALDI
The
Scottish
crooner
brings
the emo-
tions
again in
thisfollow-upsingle to Some-
one You Loved.PANINI
LIL NAS X
The Old
Town
Road
hitmak-
er incor-
porates
a melo-
dy from Nirvana’s In Bloom in
this highly anticipated follow-
up single.HATE ME
(FT JUICE WRLD)
ELLIE GOULDING
The Eng-
lish song-
bird and
the US
rapper
share the
pain of a
badbreak-up,withEllie singing,
“Chase me, chase me, tell me
how you hate me/Erase me...
wish you never dated me.”S
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lCarePackagemaynotbe the
newmusicwewerehopingfor,
butthe compilationalbumis a
sweetwalkdownmemorylaneWHAT’SINIT?The17-trackalbumconsists
ofloosies– songsreleasedbetween
2010 and 2016 butnotincludedon
otheralbums.Uptonowtheycould
befoundonlybysiftingthrough
SoundCloudorYouTube.WHOFEATURES?Afewwell-
knownnamespopupontheal-
bum.J ColeisonJodeciFreestyle
andRickRosscontributestoFree
Spirit. JamesFauntleroy and
SamphaaddvocalstoGirlsLove
BeyoncéandTheMotion,respec-
tively, whileBeyoncéfeatureson
CanI.DreamsMoneyCanBuy
samplesJaiPaul’sBTSTU.Curious-
ly, the MeekMill disstracks
ChargedUpandBacktoBackare
notonhere,presumablybecause
DrakeandMeekhavemadeup.WHYWEREN’TTHESE TRACKS
RELEASEDPREVIOUSLY?The
shortanswer isthatseveralof
them,suchasDreamsMoneyCan
Buy,DraftDayandGirlsLoveBe-
yoncé, containexpensivesamples,
whichmayhavemade theirrelease
prohibitive.Othertracksareraw
andexperimentalwarm-ups and
try-outsforlatertracks.CHARTSUCCESSWhenitdebuted,
CarePackagelookedsettohit No1 onthe
Billboard 200 chart.Nottoo shabby fora
bunchoflooseoldies.CHILLOUT|||MUSICCOMPILEDBYNICIDEWETGALLO IMAGES/GETTY IMAGES
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