One Direction Announces New Album "FOUR" + Free Single "Fireproof"

The band has announced a brand new album (due November 17th) and is offering a free download of new promotional effort "Fireproof" for 24 hours to celebrate.

One Direction is slowly taking over the world. Just a year after releasing their third studio album, Midnight Memories, the band has announced that their 4th studio album (conveniently titled FOUR) will be released on November 17th. Alongside the announcement of the new album, the band revealed that they'll be offering an unlimited amount of free downloads of their new promotional single, "Fireproof", for 24 hours.

The announcement of the new album comes after the release of a perfume and the prepping of a new limited engagement theatrical film. The new album will contain 12 songs on its standard edition, with 4 bonus tracks and a bonus Behind the Scenes video being reserved for the "Ultimate Edition" (the deluxe version). As with their other releases, the Japanese version is currently rumored to contain several additional bonus tracks and videos. While the album is now available for pre-order around the world (currently #1 in 52 countries, and top 10 in 72 countries), no official track-list has been revealed. 

Despite this, "One Chance to Dance" has been confirmed as the album's lead single. It was written by Zayn Malik, Emeli Sandé and Naughty Boy, the latter of which it was produced by. "Fireproof" is expected to be released onto iTunes for sale as the first promotional single from the album (remember, it's not the first official single) sometime on Tuesday (after the 24 hours have lapsed; approximately 9 AM EST on Tuesday morning).

As far as album sales go, I'm expecting it to sell between 525,000 and 560,000 copies in its first week of release in the United States. That range allows for a 3% decrease to a 3% increase in sales. Either way, it'll easily debut at #1 in the United States as the year's second most successful debut (after Taylor Swift's 1989, which should debut with sales of 1.15 million or more at the end of October). It's also likely to become one of the year's top 10 best sellers in the United States and one of the year's 3 most successful albums worldwide (with yearly sales of over 4.5 million expected worldwide).

Watch One Direction's announcement video and click the link above to download "Fireproof" for free. What do you think of "Fireproof"? Will you be pre-ordering or buying FOUR. Let me know below or on Twitter!

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Review: Fall Out Boy Soars Back With Amazing "Centuries"

Coming off their highly successful Save Rock and Roll era, American punk band Fall Out Boy has announced that they'll release a brand new album before the end of the year. Preceded by the just released lead single, "Centuries", the new era is already off to a fabulous start.

Incorporating hints of the electronic rock and punk pop sub genres, "Centuries" spins the classic Fall Out Boy sound on its head. As a opposed to just being a straightforward alternative track, "Centuries" feels and sounds like it could become a crossover success on Pop, Rock and Electronic radio formats as well. Based on several first listens, it's bound to appeal to a wider audience than most Fall Out Boy tracks -- it has received glowing reviews from almost everyone except "hard core" fans, who have deemed the track a "sell out". Unfortunately, the success of "Centuries" is guaranteed to be extremely front loaded, just like their last lead single, "My Songs Know What You Did In The Dark (Light 'Em Up)", was. The track also cleverly incorporates the hook used by Suzanne Vega in her 1987 hit "Tom's Diner".

Speaking on the usage of the hook, lead singer Patrick Stump and fellow band member Pete Wentz said:

[Patrick] It was something that kind of came up between us and Jonathan Rotem, who produced the track. [Pete] It seems kind of ripe for the picking, right? To me, thinking about what people are culturally into right now, it feels like "pick it off". [Patrick] I feel like, I don't know, it was so ubiquitous when we were kids, I mean that song was absolutely everywhere and it kind of just disappeared... [Pete] It was kind of something we wanted to re-inject into pop-culture.

It's a massive win in my opinion, being one of the band's best singles in quite a while. Expect a large debut on the CDS Music Chart Hot 50 come Saturday.

Thursday A.M. Update: As predicted, the track has fallen sharply on charts around the world. Take a look at some of the statistics (by country) below via kworb.net:

#3 United States (=)	#73 Mexico (-33)
#3 Singapore (-2)	#77 Chile (-12)
#4 Dominica (-2)	#78 Netherlands (-27)
#5 Philippines (=)	#80 Turkey (+18)
#6 United Kingdom (-2)	#81 Estonia (+28)
#10 Canada (-5)	#81 United Arab Emirates (-17)
#15 Ireland (-4)	#87 Germany (-31)
#16 Malaysia (-6)	#87 Thailand (-35)
#16 Mongolia (+4)	#93 Bulgaria (-36)
#18 Belarus (-11)	#95 Japan (-25)
#19 South Africa (-1)	#95 Spain (-34)
#20 Russia (-4)	#100 Switzerland (-28)
#24 New Zealand (-10)	#103 Azerbaijan
#24 Norway (-10)	#107 Saudi Arabia
#26 Indonesia (-10)	#121 Belgium (-61)
#27 Sweden (-19)	#125 Brazil (-80)
#35 Zimbabwe (-24)	#131 The Bahamas
#38 Australia (-8)	#141 Cayman Islands
#39 Taiwan (-26)	#145 Kazakhstan
#41 Luxembourg (-25)	#148 Slovakia
#42 Latvia (-22)	#158 France (-53)
#42 Poland (+10)	#167 Bermuda
#43 Finland (-32)	#178 Ecuador
#48 Denmark (-23)	#187 Italy (-87)
#50 Austria (-20)	#187 Trinidad and Tobago
#50 Israel (-33)	#188 Macau
#60 Ukraine (-15)	#192 Costa Rica
#65 Hong Kong (-25)	#192 Panama

24 hour difference in parenthesis. 

Rating: 9.5/10

Vote For Your Favorites of the Week (Week 20)!

Hot New Track This Week:

"Body Language (feat. Usher & Tinashe)"
Kid Ink
From the forthcoming re-release of In My Own Lane
Release: September 8th

Thoughts: Kid Ink has never made the CDS Music Chart Hot 50 (though he came close with 2014's "Show Me"), but he definitely has a chance at cracking the list with his new single, "Body Language (feat. Usher & Tinashe)", the first single from the upcoming release of his 3rd studio album, In My Own Lane. Featuring a sung chorus courtesy of Usher (and Tinashe in the background), the single is clearly a direct shot at conquering the Hip-Hop charts, the R&B charts and potentially the Pop charts.

Now you be the judge. Does "Body Language (feat. Usher & Tinashe)" have what it takes to debut on the Hot 50? If yes, vote it up, if no, vote down.

Last Week's Outcome: Chris Brown's "X" failed to debut on the CDS Music Chart Hot 50.

New Entries:
- "Body Language (feat. Usher & Tinashe)" by Kid Ink
- "You and Me" by You+Me (P!nk + City and Colour)
- "Fireproof" by One Direction
- "Blame (feat. John Newman)" by Calvin Harris
- "Right Now" by Mary J. Blige
- "What Are You Waiting For?" by Nickelback
- "Centuries" by Fall Out Boy

Note: The final positions of the songs at the end of the week is equivalent to the Social Songs 100 chart. This is only accounts for approximately 1/3 of all points entered into the Hot 50 weekly issue.

Hey guys! There have been some concerns and questions on voting for your favorite tracks every week. To make things a whole lot easier, you can now vote songs up and down the list. At the end of the week, the points will be calculated and the ranker will be reset for the next week! All votes count! Don't see your favorite song? Feel free to leave a comment and I will add it! I will be updating the ranker from time to time as new tracks become available!

Welcome to the 20th week of voting! Your votes help determine the top songs on the CDS Music Chart Hot 50. Please note that only the top 10 most approved tracks will receive bonus points toward their scores on the upcoming chart. Make sure you share this to get your favorite tracks into the top 10. If this gets 250 voters and/or 5,000 votes by the end of Friday, each track in the top 10 will get 2x the regular votes and #11-20 on the list will get the score that the top 10 usually gets.

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Daughtry Drops Weak "Utopia" to Complement Television Series

Utopia, a year long social experiment, airs as new reality series starting tonight at 8/7c on FOX.

America continues to amaze me. As if we didn't have enough competition reality shows already, the FOX Network will premiere a brand new, Survivor inspired "experiment" titled Utopia tonight at 8/7c (running until 10/9c). Following the Sunday night premiere, the show will permanently move to Tuesday and Friday, airing for a single hour on each night (instead of a two hour block), for presumably the rest of the season (which will conclude in September of next year).

The interesting thing about Utopia, is that the series lasts a full year with several contestants being swapped in and out of the game as voted by viewers at home. It's currently not clear if the series will end with a winner. Though the whole idea sounds somewhat odd, the main reason I'm covering this is because of the new music Daughtry has recorded for the series.

"Utopia" is a cover of a song originally recorded by a Dutch artist for the Dutch version of the television series. Not only is is one of the group's weakest efforts in quite a while in possibly ever, "Utopia" is just one of the most dull and lifeless covers I've heard... ever.

Let me know what you think of both "Utopia" the song, and Utopia the TV Show. Will you be watching the premiere? Follow Utopia on Twitter for updates about the show.

Album Development: Jason Aldean's "Old Boots, New Dirt", Nick Jonas Album Covers Drop

Jason Aldean's "Old Boots, New Dirt" Cover, and Track-List Revealed

After the release of "Burnin' It Down" as the first single from his forthcoming 6th studio album, Jason Aldean released "Sweet Little Somethin" on September 2nd as the album's first promotional single. Alongside the release of the track, Jason Aldean announced the name of his new album, the track-list as well as the album's cover.

The album is expected to be released on October 7th, 2014, and is likely to debut atop the Billboard 200 with sales similar to that of his 2012 album, Night Train (which debuted with 409,000 copies in its first week of availability). It has almost no competition during its first week of release, though it could face some holdover competition from Blake Shelton's Bringing Back the Sunshine and Lady Antebellum's 747 (which both drop a week before). Additionally, Florida Georgia Line's Anything Goes drops the next week.

See the track-list below, and click here to pre-order.

Standard Edition

1. "Just Getting' Started"

2. "Show You Off"

3. "Burnin' It Down"

4. "Tryin' to Love Me"

5. "Sweet Little Somethin"

6. "Laid Back"

7. "Tonight Looks Good On You"

8. "Too Fast"

9. "If My Truck Could Talk"

10. "Old Boots, New Dirt"

11. "I Took It With Me"

12. "Don't Change Gone"

13. "Miss That Girl"

14. "Gonna Know We Were Here"

15. "Two Night Town"

Deluxe Edition

16. "Fast Lanes" - Target Exclusive

17. "Too Much You For Me" - Target Exclusive

18. "Ain't No Easy Way" - Target Exclusive

Nick Jonas Reveals Album Cover For Self Titled Set

Nick Jonas is finally back with a brand new set of singles, and of course a brand new album. Due for a November 2014 release, the new album will include lead single "Chains" (which dropped in late July) and the forthcoming second single, "Jealous" (due out September 8th). There will be a standard edition as well as a deluxe edition, with a Target Exclusive edition also being rumored. 

Other than the singles, the album will contain the Mike Posner penned "Numb", "Push", "Nothing Will Be Better" and the Demi Lovato featuring "Avalanche". Angel Haze is also expected to be one of the many other collaborators. More news as it comes.