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Stevie Wonder has topped the U.K. album chart after he made an appearance during "Carpool Karaoke" on The Late Late Show With James Corden. The soul singer's Definitive Collection skyrocketed to number one on the iTunes U.K. album chart after the video of them singing "Carpool Karaoke" went viral.

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Chvrches are streaming their latest, Every Open Eye, ahead of its release on September 25. The follow-up to 2013's The Bones of What You Believe is now available at NPR.org. Last month, after the band released the music video for "Leave a Trace," frontwoman Lauren Mayberry spoke out against the misogynistic abuse she took for wearing a short dress in the vid.

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AC/DC filmed their recent performance at Chicago's Wrigley Field for an upcoming DVD, according to a report from the Chicago Tribune. An alderman for the city confirmed that helicopters flying overhead were in fact used to take aerial shots of the band's performance. The band hasn't confirmed the news.

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Joe Nichols has released a lyric video for "Freaks Like Me," the lead single from his upcoming album. "'Freaks Like Me' is about being unapologetically proud of who you are and not worrying about being cool or what the other people think of you," Nichols says in a statement. "I'm a traditional guy, and some people don't think that's necessarily cool, but that's all right."

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Karen Fairchild and Kimberly Schlapman of Little Big Town will be honored as Artists of the Year at the 2015 Women in Music City Awards, which goes down at the Omni Nashville Hotel on September 24. "Karen Fairchild and Kimberly Schlapman represent what makes Nashville great," Nashville Mayor Karl Dean told the Nashville Business Journal.

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Royal Blood took their act to the stage of the Late Late Show With James Corden, performing their track "Figure It Out" on a recent episode. "Figure It Out" is taken off of the band's 2014 eponymous debut.

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Jewel has released "My Father's Daughter," a duet with Dolly Parton, which appears on the former's latest album Picking Up the Pieces. "When you grow up as a girl on a homestead with an outhouse, you don't have many heroes in the public eye," Jewel tells Time magazine.

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Blondie and Janelle Monae are among the artists whose album covers have been re-imagined by girls from Girls Rock Camp. Beth Ditto's niece took the role of Debbie Harry for the remake of the band's Parallel Lines cover.

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Rod Stewart says that he wants to reunite the Jeff Beck Group for a double bill concert with his band the Faces. Stewart says that he has already proposed the idea to guitarist Ronnie Wood, who loved it. "I put this to Ronnie and Ronnie thought it was a great idea," Stewart told Uncut magazine.

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Prior to their performance before a crowd of 80,000 at Rock in Rio, System of a Down played before a crowd of 80 at a hotel bar in Brazil. Video of the impromptu gig shot by the band's manager saw the band jamming on "Toxicity." "What happens in #Rio rocks Rio!" the rep captioned the vid on Instagram.

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