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B-Sides Report for 11/26/2015



Nsync Reacts To Adele Breaking Their Sales Record

(Radio.com) Adele's latest record 25 was a smash out of the gate. According to Nielsen Music, Adele's album has sold a record 2.8 million units since release last Friday (Nov. 20).

The British singer broke the fifteen year record set by *NSYNC's 2000 album No Strings Attached, which moved 2.413 million. The members of the boy band congratulated her publicly on her massive accomplishment.

Joey Fatone spoke to Billboard about Adele breaking Nsync's longstanding record, "Records are always meant to be broken, but with technology and current business model, I thought this one would be tough to beat. In all honesty, Adele is the truth - kinda excited a rare talent like hers is in the same breath as our group. I'm a huge fan�.I even bought the damn album."

JC Chasez posted a tweet, "Well done Adele." Chris Kirkpatrick retweeted an article announcing the news. Lance Bass responded with a funny tweet. We'll have to wait and see what Justin Timberlake says.

Check out the tweets here.

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Kylie Jenner Denies Tyga Breakup Rumors

(Radio.com) Kylie Jenner's romance with rapper Tyga has been under constant media scrutiny since they confirmed their relationship this past August. According to Billboard, Jenner will be the guest on the Nov. 30 episode of The Ellen DeGeneres Show where she will discuss her relation ship to the Young Money soldier. She even dispels rumors they've called it quits.

Wearing a body-hugging dress, the 18-year-old reality star tells DeGeneres people are totally wrong about her relationship with the 26-year-old Tyga. Kylie says, "We're not broken up. We just, honestly, we became best friends before anything happened so I think that's awesome. And we're just like, I don't know, hanging out."

With a comment like that, Jenner leaves a lot of room for people to speculate and draw their own conclusions. Kylie might have played coy answering about her relationship status, but she did admit Tyga did buy her a Ferrari as a birthday gift for her 18th birthday. Jenner said she drove the car to the Ellen taping. In true comedic fashion, Ellen urged Kylie to stay with Tyga because of the expensive gift. "I mean stay with him. He bought you a car!" Ellen said.

Take a look at the preview clip here.

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Wu-Tang's Secret Double Album Reportedly Sells For Millions

(Radio.com) The mysterious Wu-Tang double-album, Once Upon A Time In Shaolin, has been sold to a private American collector, according to auction house Paddle8.

The precise cost of the album was not revealed but according to Paddle8, it will be "in the millions" making it the most expensive single album sold. Fans won't get to hear the music because there is an 88-year waiting period before it can be shared with the public.

'The Wu-Tang Clan have always been driven by innovation, and this marks another moment in musical history," said Wu-Tang cofounder RZA in the statement (via Forbes). 'From the beginning, we hoped that this concept would inspire debate and new ways of seeing creativity. Both of those goals have been achieved, and the ideas continue to evolve."

Back in March, Wu-Tang shared the news that they had been secretly working on the double-album, but confounded fans when they announced that there would only be a single copy of the album produced for one collector. Read more here.

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Clint Black Announces Short Christmas Tour

(Radio.com) Clint Black will hit the road on Dec. 1 for a 12-city Christmas tour. The holiday themed concerts will include songs from both of his Christmas album, Looking for Christmas and Christmas With You, as well as tunes from his recently released album, On Purpose.

'The Christmas album was a very special album for me," said Black in a prepared statement. '[December] is really the only time of year that I can play these songs for people, so I feel compelled to get out there and play!"

The tour will be kicking off on December 1st at The Villages, Florida at the Sharon L. Morse PAC and concluding on December 20 in The Woodlands, Texas at the Dosey Doe. See all of the dates here.

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Kelsea Ballerini and Tori Kelly Perform 'Should've Been Us'

(Radio.com) Kelsea Ballerini was all about female empowerment during her show at West Hollywood's Troubadour on Monday night (Nov. 23). "When I decided to be an artist and I wrote a song called 'Love Me Like You Mean It,' I decided that I wanted to be about women empowerment," she told the crowd. "I decided I wanted to be about girls lifting girls up."

Then Ballerini welcomed singer-songwriter Tori Kelly to join her on the stage to sing the pop star's "Should've Been Us" from her 2015 album Unbreakable Smile.

"There's been an incredible amount of incredible artists that have come up the last few years and I'm about to bring one out that is one of my favorite artists ever," Ballerini introduced Kelly. "She is the kindest and most talented and effortlessly confident people I've ever met in my life." Watch it here.

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Trey Songz Previews Two New Songs 'Everybody Say' and 'Walls'

(Radio.com) Trey Songz has been putting in a lot of work in the studio in spite of his busy schedule. Chicago producer Mano just released two new Trey Songz tunes via his Soundcloud account. Songz collaborated with MIKExANGEL and Dave East on the song "Everybody Say" and takes it to the bedroom on "Walls."

"Everybody Say" is a close to seven minute song about cliches people tell themselves and others. Nas protege Dave East boasts about once having to ride the 6 train and now he's riding in an expensive car with Trey Songz.

Trey's confidence in his sexual prowess is on full display on "Walls." He gets explicit giving a detailed account of how he pleases his partner. Think of this as a much dirtier version to his previous hit "I Invented Sex." He sings to a woman on the KE production, "She said she like it when I'm nasty. So I'ma give her what she asked for."

These tracks are the first from Trey in about a year. He had a Top 30 hit with "Slow Motion" and re-released his 2014 project Trigga, which received positive reviews. Check out his new material here.

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2 Chainz Reveals Ugly Christmas Sweaters And 'BFF' Video

(Radio.com) The ugly Christmas sweater trend continues with 2 Chainz adding his touch. The rapper launched a special holiday shop, which features a few different festive sweater designs.

The sweaters retail between $30.00 and $34.99 and come in several different colors. If rap-inspired Christmas sweaters are your thing, you can also check out Drake's "Hotline Bling" sweater, which brings to life one of the Canadian rapper's famous moves from the video. U

nlike 2 Chainz, Drake had nothing to do with designing or producing the sweaters besides providing bad-dance-move inspiration.In addition to announcing his sweater line, 2 Chainz also released the music video for "BFF," which also features Jeezy. Read more here.

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Charli XCX Documentary 'The F Word and Me' Goes Online

(Radio.com) The 'F word' in the title of Charli XCX's new BBC documentary, The F Word and Me, isn't the one you might think. The singer focuses on 'feminism' and being a young woman in the music industry in the nearly 45-minute documentary now available on YouTube.

"Girls are ruling the charts like never before, so it feels like a great time to be a woman in pop," she says in the documentary's intro. "The F word-that's feminism-is everywhere."

In part, the documentary aims to dissect whether "the male-dominated music industry" has really changed to include women, and why women's bodies are "under more scrutiny than ever."

"I make my own decisions--good and bad--and that's what feminism's all about," Charli XCX says at the documentary's end. Read more and watch it here.

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Rapper YG Looks Back At Nearly Fatal Shooting

(Radio.com) YG (Keenon Daquan Ray Jackson) appears on Fader's newest cover, where he talks about his musical transition from 2009's easy hit "Toot It and Boot It" to the more weighted 2014 single "My N--" off his debut LP with Def Jam, My Krazy Life.

In that time, YG has come a long way, including a near fatal shooting on June 12 that pierced his hip and groin. The incident made things more difficult for the rapper, who had to hire a bodyguard in the aftermath, and found that industry executives began giving him the cold shoulder.

Speaking about the shooting, he says, 'That was some inside type, somebody-was-really-coming-to-get-me type s-. It was like n-as knew where we was at, and they was coming to do what they was supposed to do." Read more here.

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Granger Smith Talks New Single Backroad Song

(Radio.com) As Granger Smith preps his tenth album, his fans can get a taste of what to expect from its first single "Backroad Song." 'Expectations are raised with each album, but this one is different," says Smith.

"It shocked us when (2013's) Dirt Road Driveway debuted at Number One -- we kept thinking, 'People are going to wake up and figure out that they're following the wrong guy!' But no one wants to take a step back, so this time there's some pressure, and I embrace that, because it means you have a good business rolling."

The single was inspired by Smith's life on the road. "We have toured like crazy, and have seen so much of the country," says Smith. "We see all kinds of back roads now, coast to coast, it's a part of our everyday lives, me and the band and the crew."

"It's ingrained in who I am, it's what I am," says Granger. "When I think about music, I'm thinking about songs about back roads." Read more here.

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