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Morgan Wallen Tallies Second Week at No. 1 on Artist 100, Why Don’t We Hits Top Five
Wallen becomes just the fifth country act to spend multiple weeks at No. 1 on the Artist 100, dating to the chart’s July 2014 launch. Among acts in the genre, Jason Aldean has spent the most time at the summit (three weeks), followed by Kenny Chesney, Luke Combs, Florida Georgia Line and Thomas Rhett (two each). Among all genres, Taylor Swift has tallied the most total weeks at No. 1 (45). Among other Artist 100 chart moves, Why Don’t We re-enters at No. 3, reaching a new peak and the top 10 for the first time, on the strength of the group’s new LP The Good Times and the Bad Ones. The set arrives at No. 3 on the Billboard 200, also a new personal best, with 46,000 units. The Artist 100 measures artist activity across key metrics of music consumption, blending album and track sales, radio a...
Clive Davis Taps Keith Urban, Cher, Sia & More for Pre-Grammy Virtual Events
He’s rounded up Bruce Springsteen, Rod Stewart, Sean Combs, Jamie Foxx, Alicia Keys, Barry Gibb, Earth Wind & Fire, Gladys Knight, Jennifer Hudson and John Legend. The Hollywood Reporter has learned that Nicole Kidman, Keith Urban, Cher, Casey Affleck, Stacey Abrams, Candace Bushnell, Sia, Timbaland and Ludacris are expected to attend as guests. Other RSVPs include longtime friend Nancy Pelosi, Cardi B, Offset, Quincy Jones, Megan Thee Stallion, Cyndi Lauper and H.E.R. Surprise moments and more talent confirmations are expected. The first event will serve as a benefit for MusiCares and the March 13 gathering will benefit the Grammy Museum. This article originally appeared in THR.com. You Deserve to Make Money Even When you are looking for Dates Online. So we reimagined what a dating sh...
Weinstein Sexual Misconduct Settlement Confirmed by Bankruptcy Judge
Once a sexual misconduct claim is allowed, each accuser will have the choice of whether to release all future claims against Weinstein. If a woman chooses to release him, she’ll get what the examiner determines to be her full share. Those who choose not to release him will only receive 25 percent of the value assigned to their claim using the points system, and the rest will go to the insurance companies. The deal includes a mandatory perpetual release of claims against The Weinstein Co. and TWC board members and execs, including Bob Weinstein. The financial penalty for not releasing claims against Weinstein, and the mandatory release of claims against the others, drew sharp criticism from women who object to the deal. They also argued that women who have rape claims against Weinstei...
Sea Shanty Singer Nathan Evans Takes Fight to Olivia Rodrigo For U.K. Chart Title
There’s action aplenty in the U.K. chart races where Nathan Evans’ sea shanty “Wellerman” (Polydor) takes the challenge to Olivia Rodrigo’s leader “Drivers License” (Interscope) and just 103 units separate the two best-selling albums at the halfway point. Bicep, the Northern Irish electronic duo of Andrew Ferguson and Matthew McBriar, take top spot on the Official Chart Update with Isles, their second album. According to the Official Charts Company, Bicep’s latest is the most-downloaded LP over the weekend and the most-streamed new release of the week so far, and should easily eclipse the No. 20 peak of their self-titled debut album from 2017. You Deserve to Make Money Even When you are looking for Dates Online. So we reimagined what a dating should be. It begins with giving you back power...
Alejandro Fernández and Fher Olvera Join Campaign for Immigration Reform
Although Olvera has never endorsed U.S. political candidates, he and his band, Maná, have been longstanding advocates of voters’ rights, immigrant rights and human rights. Also joining the “We Are Home” campaign is Alejandro Fernández, who has been a vocal supporter of Biden and sang from Mexico at one of the inauguration events. “There are more than 11 million stories like these,” says Fernandez in his video, which shows multiple immigrant faced (the 11 million alludes to the estimated number of undocumented immigrants living in the United States). “Because of you, your fight, I join this campaign. We demand citizenship, dignity and a halt to deportations.” Olvera and Fernández’s call to action are the first acts of what organizers are calling a “multimillion-dollar campaign” that w...
Olivia Rodrigo Speeds to Second Week at U.K. No. 1 With ‘Drivers License’
This week, the hit single clocks up 13.7 million streams, the biggest one-week tally for a leader in two years, while a second track from the breakthrough artist cracks the Top 40 on the current frame, “All I Want,” a cut from High School Musical: The Musical: The Series on Disney +. It’s new at No. 32. At No. 2, “Don’t Play” is the highest new entry this week on the Official U.K. Singles Chart, giving Anne-Marie her highest-charting single as a lead artist, and career bests for KSI and Digital Farm Animals. The top five is completed by Ariana Grande’s “34+35” (Republic Records), up from No. 11 to No. 3, a new peak; followed by Little Mix’s “Sweet Melody” (down 4-2 via RCA) and The Kid Laroi’s “Without You” (RCA), up 6 -5, a new high. Also making waves is Longest Johns’ sea shanty “We...
Olivia Rodrigo Stays on Top In Australia With ‘Drivers License’
Also, British psychedelic pop outfit Glass Animals are on the climb, as “Heat Waves” improves 17-11 in its seventh week in the Top 50. “Heat Waves” was on fire earlier this week as it took out Triple J’s Hottest 100 countdown, one of the band’s three entries. Over on the national albums survey, Illy earns his second No. 1 with The Space Between. It’s the Melbourne rapper’s sixth album and the first since Two Degrees, which ruled the chart in November 2016. Also impacting the chart this week is The Good Times And The Bad Ones by American band Why Don’t We. It’s new at No. 2. Finally, Zayn returns to the Top 10 for the first time in nearly five years as Nobody Is Listening starts at No. 10. The third solo album from the former One Direction singer is the follow-up to 2018’s Icarus Falls, whi...
Morgan Wallen’s ‘Dangerous: The Double Album’ No. 1 for Second Week on Billboard 200
Of Dangerous’ 159,000 equivalent album units earned in the tracking week ending Jan. 21, SEA units comprise 133,000 (down 26%, equaling 177.11 million on-demand streams of the album’s songs), album sales comprise 22,000 (down 70%) and TEA units comprise 4,000 (down 39%). Since the Billboard 200 began ranking albums by equivalent album units in December of 2014, Dangerous is the first country set to log two weeks of at least 150,000 units. Notably, in the last 12 months, Dangerous is just the fourth album, among all genres, to log at least two weeks of 150,000-plus units. It follows Taylor Swift’s Evermore, Juice WRLD’s Legends Never Die and Lil Uzi Vert’s Eternal Atake — all with two weeks each of 150,000-plus units. Pop Smoke’s former No. 1 Shoot for the Stars Aim for the Moon ...
Justin Timberlake & Ant Clemons’ ‘Better Days’ Feat. Kirk Franklin Breaks Shazam Record After Inauguration
Following the festivities of the Biden-Harris inauguration on Jan. 20, “Better Days” — a duet by Justin Timberlake and Ant Clemons, which was released to streaming services featuring Kirk Franklin — has topped the record for most-Shazamed song in a single day in the United States. “Better Days” was performed by Timberlake and Clemons during the Celebrating America primetime inaugural special honoring President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris. According to stats released by Shazam, the song was Shazamed more than 90,000 times within 24 hours of the performance, bringing it to No. 1 on the U.S. Shazam chart and breaking previous records held by “Have You Ever Seen the Rain” by Willie Nelson (heard on Big Little Lies) and “Jenny ...
Larry King, Legendary Broadcast Journalist, Dies at Age 87
With his celebrity interviews, political debates and topical discussions, King wasn’t just an enduring on-air personality. He also set himself apart with the curiosity be brought to every interview, whether questioning the assault victim known as the “Central Park Jogger” or billionaire industrialist Ross Perot, who in 1992 rocked the presidential contest by announcing his candidacy on King’s show. In its early years, “Larry King Live” was based in Washington, D.C., which gave the show an air of gravitas. Likewise King. He was the plainspoken go-between through whom Beltway bigwigs could reach their public, and they did, earning the show prestige as a place where things happened, where news was made. King conducted an estimated 50,000 on-air interviews. In 1995 he presided over a Middle Ea...
‘Ghost Ship’ Organizer Pleads Guilty in Warehouse Fire That Killed 36 People
Thompson scheduled sentencing for March 8, when she will determine whether he will pay restitution, continue to be monitored electronically at his home in rural Northern California and be subject to supervised probation. Families of the victims will be allowed to give victim impact statements at that time. Prosecutors say Almena was criminally negligent when he illegally converted the industrial Oakland warehouse into a residence and event space for artists dubbed the “Ghost Ship,” stuffing the two-story building with flammable materials and extension cords. It had no smoke detectors or sprinklers. The Dec. 2, 2016, fire broke out at the warehouse during an electronic music and dance party, moving so quickly that victims were trapped on the illegally constructed second floor. Prosecutors s...
Is the SAG Award for Outstanding Movie Cast a Good Predictor for Best Picture Oscar?
But the two awards don’t always go hand-in-hand. Of the 25 films to win the SAG Award for outstanding performance by a cast in a motion picture since the category’s inception in 1995 (the awards show’s second year), 12 have gone on to win the Oscar for best picture, 12 have gone on to be nominated for best picture (but not win), and one wasn’t even nominated for an Oscar for best picture. (That was Mike Nichols’ 1996 farce The Birdcage.) Looking at it from the other direction, of the last 25 Academy Award winners for best picture, all but three were at least nominated for the SAG cast award. The three Oscar winners for best picture that were not SAG-nominated in the cast category were Braveheart (1995), The Shape of Water (2017) and Green Book (2018). Are there any pattern...
