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Olivia Rodrigo’s ‘Good 4 U’ Extends U.K. Chart Reign
Meanwhile, 2021 Eurovision winners Måneskin from Italy now have a U.K. Top 10 with “I Wanna Be Your Slave” (Columbia), which lifts 12-7. British singer and songwriter Mimi Webb has this week’s highest new entry with “Dumb Love” (Epic), new at No. 12. It’s Webb’s second Top 20 single following “Good Without,” which holds at No. 9 on the Official U.K. Singles Chart this week. New Zealand singer and songwriter Lorde returns to the chart with “Solar Power” (Virgin), which powers in at No. 17 for her third Top 20 appearance. Also notable this week is the return of the “3 Lions” soccer anthem by David Baddiel, Frank Skinner & The Lightning Seeds. “3 Lions” typically comes home to the U.K. singles chart when the national team competes in a major tournament. Such i...
Olivia Rodrigo’s ‘Good 4 U’ On Track for Another U.K. Chart Crown
Close behind “Good 4 U” is KSI’s summer release “Holiday,” which debuts at No. 2 on the chart update. Co-written with Jake Gosling and Digital Farm Animals, KSI’s latest will appear on the rapper’s album All Over The Place, due out July 16 via BMG/RBC Records. Meanwhile, 2021 Eurovision Song Contest champs Måneskin could snag a third U.K. Top 20, as their cover of Frankie Valli & The Four Seasons’ “Beggin’” lifts 56 places to No. 17 on the chart blast. The Italian rockers’ “I Wanna Be Your Slave” lifted to No. 7 last Friday while their Eurovision-winner “Zitti E Buoni” peaked at No. 17. Finally, David Baddiel, Frank Skinner & Lightning Seeds score another goal with “Three Lions,” their evergreen soccer anthem. Originally released in 1996, the song climbs 22-7 as the England t...
Seventeen’s ‘Choice’ for Latest Mini-Album? ‘We Want to Top the Billboard Charts’
Seventeen typically releases new music on a Monday, but with Your Choice, they’re released on a Friday. There’s a reason for that. They’re “targeting audiences in the U.S. and the Americas as well. And I think we’ll have more opportunities to perform on global shows,” Seungkwan said. “It’d be really nice to place our name on the main Billboard charts,” S.Coups added. “That would be really great and we’d get energized.” As part of their U.S. invasion, they’re performing Wednesday on Jimmy Kimmel Live!, and other shows yet to be revealed. Your Choice is the group’s eighth EP, and it comes eight months after their last, October 2020’s Semicolon. Now all eyes are on them to see if they will become quadruple-million sellers,...
Nogizaka46 Shoots to No. 1 on Japan Hot 100 With Over 700K CDs Sold
Nogizaka46’s “Gomenne Fingers Crossed” soars to No. 1 on the latest Billboard Japan Hot 100, dated June 7 to 13, selling 704,346 CDs in its first week. The popular girl group’s new single sold more copies than its predecessor, “Boku Ha Boku Wo Suki Ni Naru” (678,684 copies), to lead sales and look-ups, while also coming in at No. 6 for radio airplay, No. 15 for downloads, No. 19 for Twitter mentions, and No. 83 for video views. After leading the tally for two straight weeks, BTS’ “Butter” slips to No. 2, but continues to hold the top spots for streaming, video and Twitter. While the figures are tapering off — streams are down from last week’s 18,729,013 to 16,133,460, video views are also down from 11,348,160 to 7,309,315 views — the numbers themselves are still far greater than the tracks...
Here’s Who Topped PRS’ Most Played UK National Football Anthems Chart
A fan favorite, “Three Lions” served as the official song of the England team at Euro ’96. Two years later, the enduring track was re-released as an unofficial anthem for England’s FIFA World Cup campaign. PRS’ Most Played UK National Football Anthems Chart ranks the official Football Association, FIFA World Cup and UEFA Euro songs for England, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales. The list is based on streams and downloads across online music and video-on-demand platforms in 2020. Placing second on the list is “World in Motion,” performed by British rock band New Order with the English national football team (credited as Englandneworder) for the 1990 World Cup. Coming in at No. 3 on the chart is “This Time (We’ll Get it Right),” by the...
Olivia Rodrigo Extends Reign Over Australia’s Charts
Polo G bags a new chart best as Hall of Fame (Columbia/Sony), his third album, starts at No. 3. The U.S. rapper’s previous best was a No. 10 for his most recent, sophomore set The Goat, from 2020. Meanwhile, ‘90s alternative rock favorites Garbage earn a seventh Top 10 with their comeback album, No Gods No Masters (Liberator Music/Universal). It’s new at No. 5. No Gods is the followup to 2016’s Strange Little Birds, which went to No. 9 on the ARIA Chart, and it continues the Shirley Manson-led outfit’s run of having all their studio albums enter the Top 10, dating back to their 1996 self-titled debut. With Rodrigo extending her reign over the ARIA Singles Chart, the U.S. singer and songwriter has now logged 10 weeks at No. 1 on the survey this year, a feat that includes six straight ...
Belgian Officials Force Tomorrowland to Cancel 2021 Festival
During a press conference Thursday in Belgium, government officials said that while they revere the festival and regret this outcome, they have to follow current law and react to the current situation regarding the virus, especially on an international scale. For Tomorrowland to happen, its roughly 75,000 daily attendees would need to undergo testing for each day of the three-day event, officials said Thursday. The Belgian government stipulates that private companies cannot do the testing, and today local officials noted that the police do not have the resources to provide that level of testing. The police also have stated that they would not be able to secure the area sufficiently if they would also have to check IDs and proof of vaccination. In a statement, Tomorrowland said th...
Noel Gallagher Flying to No. 1 on U.K. Albums Chart
Back The Way We Came is on track to give the rocker his fourth leader with his post-Oasis band. Including his releases with Oasis, Gallagher has ruled the Official U.K. Albums Chart on 11 occasions. Also new to the Official Chart Update is Garbage with No Gods No Masters (Infectious Music). It’s new at No. 3, and is on course for the alternative rock outfit’s highest charting set since 1998’s leader Version 2.0. Meanwhile, a deluxe edition release of Jessie Ware’s What’s Your Pleasure (Virgin) returns the album to the survey at No. 4, while U.S. rapper Polo G completes the Top 5 with his third LP, Hall Of Fame (Columbia). American rap trio Migos land at No. 7 on the midweek chart with Culture III (Motown/Quality Control); Marina could snag her fifth Top 10 with Ancient...
Japan’s Kenshi Yonezu Talks New Single ‘Pale Blue,’ Looks Back on ‘Fortnite’ Virtual Concert & More
Yonezu shared the process of writing the songs on his latest single and more in this latest interview with music journalist Tomonori Shiba for Billboard Japan. Yoshiyuki Okuyama Kenshi Yonezu What was going through your mind when you began writing “Pale Blue”? I’d been interested in writing a love song again since before I was working on my album STRAY SHEEP. I wanted to create one that has strength as a pop song. To elaborate… I think music, as compared to other forms of art, has a tendency to foster a kind of narcissism in a broad sense. Music is inherently like that, so the strongest type of pop song is a love song in my view. As someone who creates pop music, I wanted to see what would happen if I went back and tried writing one in a straightforward way. So this was something that I’d ...
Wolf Alice Snags U.K. No. 1 With ‘Blue Weekend’
Some 14,700 units of Blue Weekend (41% of the total) were on vinyl, a market-leading tally. With Wolf Alice reaching the summit for the first time, Olivia Rodrigo’s Sour (Geffen), the week’s most-streamed album, is bumped 1-2 on the main chart. Coming in at No. 3 is James with All The Colours of You (Nothing But Love Music), for the Manchester act’s 10th Top 10 album. Dua Lipa, the most popular act across the U.K.’s airwaves in 2020, according to a report published last week by collecting society PPL, stages a return to the Top 5 with her Brit and Grammy Award-winning sophomore album Future Nostalgia (Warner Records). It lifts 8-4 in its 63rd week on the chart. Rounding out the Top 5 is U.S. rappers Lil Baby & Lil Durk’s collaborative album The Voice of the Heroes (Motown/Quality...
Olivia Rodrigo Makes U.K. Chart History
It’s an historic chart week in the U.K., where Olivia Rodrigo bags three Top 5 singles, including the leader with “Good 4 U” (Geffen). The teenage Californian singer and songwriter becomes the first female artist to occupy three spots in the Official Singles Chart Top 5 in the same cycle, the OCC confirms. “Good 4 U” enters a third week at No. 1 with 96,000 combined sales, including 11.2 million streams, while “Déjà Vu” lifts 5-4 and “Traitor” reenters at No. 5, both new highs. 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. Get to meet Beautiful people, chat and make money in the process. Earn rewards by chatting, sharing photos, blogging and help give users back their fair share of Inter...
IFPI’s Frances Moore, Alison Moyet Recognized In Queen’s Birthday Honours List
“I am really pleased that the role of the recording industry and its contribution to our culture and economy has been recognized and honored in this way,” she comments in a statement. Moyet, the former Yazoo singer, leads a string of recording artists feted in the 2021 honors list. The English singer is awarded an MBE for services to music, having already scooped two U.K. No. 1 albums and a brace of Brit Awards for best female artist across a stellar career. Veteran crooner Engelbert Humperdinck (born Arnold George Dorsey) is also awarded an MBE for services to music, while veteran Scottish singer and entertainer Lulu is made a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE), for services to music, entertainment and charity. Also recognized is Skin (real name Deborah Ann Dyer), frontwom...
