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Olivia Rodrigo Chases Chart Double In U.K.
Some way behind at No. 2 at the midweek albums survey is Gary Numan’s 22nd studio effort Intruder (BMG), which is on track to give the veteran synth-pop artist his seventh Top 5.Intruder, so far, is the biggest physical release of the cycle. Meanwhile, Twenty One Pilots are coming in to land their third U.K. Top 10 with Scaled And Icy (Atlantic/Fueled By Ramen), new at No. 3, following the American alternative rock artists’ performance Sunday (May 23) at the Billboard Music Awards. Another act who’s enjoying a post-BBMAs boost is Pink, whose All I Know So far: Setlist (RCA), the companion set to her streaming concert film, bows at No. 4. It’s the most downloaded album of the week. Pink, the Icon Award winner and a performer at the BBMAs, also sees a spike for her 2010 career retrospec...
Paul Weller Scores Sixth Solo U.K. No. 1 With ‘Fat Pop’
Also enjoying a fast start is J. Cole’s The Off-Season (Interscope), new at No. 2. The Off-Season clocks up the most album streams in a single week of 2021, and gives the U.S. rapper his third Top 10 album in the U.K., equaling the peak of his previous album, 2018’s KOD. Three tracks from The Off-Season this week enter the Top 20 on the national singles chart. Meanwhile, Rag’n’Bone Man’s Life By Misadventure (Columbia) dips 1-3 on the albums survey, while alternative pop hero St Vincent starts at No. 4 with Daddy’s Home (Loma Vista), for her highest-peaking LP in the U.K. The Top 5 is rounded out by the Black Keys’ Delta Kream (Nonesuch). It’s new at No. 5, for the blues-rockers’ fourth U.K. Top 10. Over on the Official U.K. Singles Chart, Tion Wayne & Russ Millions’ “Body” (Atlantic) ...
Olivia Rodrigo Heading For U.K. Chart Crown With ‘Good 4 U’
It’s now set to replace Tion Wayne & Russ Millions’ “Body” at the summit. “Body,” which logged three weeks at No. 1 and is the first drill leader in the U.K., dips to No. 3. “Good 4 U” is one of three tracks from Rodrigo’s newly-released debut album, Sour, that impact the chart blast after the weekend. Previous single “Déjà Vu” is currently at No. 5 and “Brutal” is at No. 10. Sour also features Rodrigo’s global hit “Drivers License,” which locked-in top spot for nine weeks earlier this year and is the biggest single of 2021, the OCC reports. The rising star performed the song May 11 at the Brit Awards in London. Meanwhile, K-pop superstars BTS is set for the U.K.’s top debut with “Butter,” which opens at No. 2 on the First Look survey. BTS is in winning form. “Butter” creamed the...
Maneskin Singer Agrees to Drug Test After Eurovision Cocaine Use Rumors
Eurovision confirmed that broken glass was found under the table in question, but announced David had offered to take the test, which is scheduled for Monday. In Italy, the drug claim didn’t mar the praise that poured in Sunday from the Italian establishment for the victory of the rather anti-establishment Maneskin, a glam rock band that got its start busking on Rome’s main shopping drag. Their win gave Italy a sorely needed boost after a dreadful year as one of the countries worst hit by the coronavirus and will bring next year’s competition back to the place where European song contests began. The band was the bookmakers’ favorite going into the Eurovision finale and sealed the win early Sunday with the highest popular vote in the enormously entertaining, and incredibly kitsch, annual so...
Rock Band Maneskin Wins Eurovision Song Contest for Italy
Move over sequins, disco beats and power ballads. A four-piece band of Italian rockers won the Eurovision Song Contest in the early hours of Sunday. Maneskin’s win was only Italy’s third victory in the immensely popular contest and the first since Toto Cutugno took the honor in 1990. Italy, the bookmakers’ favorite, trailed Switzerland, France and Malta after the national juries delivered their votes but were propelled to victory by votes from the viewing public. 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 Internet revenue.
Hey! Say! JUMP Debuts at No. 1, HKT48 at No. 2 on Japan Hot 100
Hey! Say! JUMP’s “Negative Fighter” rules as three songs debut in the top 10 on this week’s Billboard Japan Hot 100, dated May 10 to 16. The eight-member boy band’s 29th single debuts at No. 1 with 215,704 CDs sold in its first week, leading physical sales, look-ups, and Twitter mentions. The Johnny’s group’s previous single, “Your Song,” sold about the same number of copies in its first week (215,442), demonstrating the strength of its solid fanbase. Bowing at No. 2 is HKT48’s “Kimi to dokoka e ikitai” (“I want to go somewhere with you”), the girl group’s 14th single. Selling 193,066 copies in its first week — about 20,000 more than the previous single, “3-2” (172,981) — the song comes in at No. 2 for sales, which mainly powered the song to its debut position. The track also comes in at N...
Japan’s Haru Nemuri Shares SXSW Showcase Performance Video & Rescheduled US Tour Dates
The 26-year-old artist also announced the new schedule for her U.S. tour, twice-postponed due to the pandemic. See the rescheduled dates below: Haru Nemuri North American Tour 2021Mon., Nov. 1: Knitting Factory, Brooklyn, N.Y.Tues., Nov. 2: Sleeping Village, Chicago, Ill.Thurs., Nov. 4: DNA Lounge, San Francisco, Calif.Sun., Nov. 7: The Echo, Los Angeles, Calif. 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 Internet revenue.
Japan’s Top Concert Promoters Form Alliance to Bring Back International Acts
Promoters in Japan are currently in dire straits due to the prolonged COVID-19 pandemic. Ticket sales lost because of cancellations and postponements from the pandemic totaled approximately $333 million (36.3 billion yen) in 2020. Earlier this month, Japan extended a state of emergency until the end of May for Tokyo and three other areas amid a fourth wave of coronavirus cases, which are hitting Tokyo and Osaka particularly hard. Japan, where more than 12,100 people have died from COVID-19, recorded 216 deaths on May 18, the most since early January, according to Johns Hopkins University. The members of the new IPAJ are Avex Entertainment Inc., Creativeman Production Co., Hanshin Contents Link Co. (Billboard Japan), Hayashi International Promotions Ltd., Kyodo Tokyo, Inc., Live Nation Japa...
After Two COVID-19 Cancelations, Bluesfest Plots October Return
It was the second successive year COVID-19 had sunk Bluesfest’s best-laid plans. The most recent was a gut punch for the wider music industry, and the local businesses that rely on footfall that’s triggered by the five days of festivities. That cancelation “really affected the industry and pulled the last strands of confidence out of everything,” notes veteran concert promoter Michael Chugg. Rather than dwell on the negatives, Noble and his team have locked-in a lineup and new dates, Oct. 1-4, for what will be the first major festival to return since the pandemic struck. “We’re rising,” Bluesfest director Peter Noble told Australian Broadcasting Corporation’s Breakfast program Wednesday (May 19), immediately after the announcement of Bluesfest’s return. “We have to do that because the Aust...
Marshmello to Perform at UEFA Champions League Final
In a preview clip for the performance, Marshmello can be seen deliberating between cities for the match, with locations suggestions coming from some of the biggest stars of the sport — including Argentine icon Lionel Messi, French star Paul Pogba and English player Jadon Sancho — while ‘Mello’s 2020 Juice Wrld collab “Come & Go” plays in the background. Watch the clip below. The 2021 UEFA World Champions League Final was originally scheduled to take place at Istanbul’s Atatürk Stadium, but was moved to Portugal on May 13 after the U.K. listed Istanbul on its “red list” of COVID-19 travel destinations, which would have meant that fans from the U.K. would not have been able to attend. According to a statement from the Union of Europea...
Tencent Music Reports Steady Q1 as China’s Streaming Market Grows
In 2020, China had the fourth largest music streaming market globally, growing 90.7% to $718 million, according to IFPI. Just as Western music services are jumping into podcasts, TME is making a hard push into long-form audio — mainly audiobooks — in what Cussion Pang, chairman of Tencent Music, said in a statement is an “evolution into an all-in-one online music and audio entertainment destination in China.” TME isn’t turning this plan into more money just yet: average revenue per subscriber dropped 1.1% to 9.3 yuan ($1.44) from the first quarter of 2020. Long-form audio does, however, make the music apps stickier by increasing engagement: in Q1 2021, the percent of monthly active users who listened to long-form audio improved to 20.0%, compared to 5.5% in Q1 2020 and 15% in Q...
Paul Weller’s ‘Fat Pop’ Is Cruising to U.K. No. 1
Coming in at No. 2 on the Official U.K. Albums Chart Update is J. Cole’s The Off-Season (Interscope). The U.S. rapper has the most-streamed album in the first half of the week, and it’s on target to become his third Top 10 entry. Cole’s peak U.K. position in his career to date is a No. 2 for 2018’s KOD. The current leader on the Official U.K. Albums Chart, Rag’n’Bone Man’s Life By Misadventure (Columbia), dips 3-1 but still manages to lead the market in downloads. Also new to the midweek chart is St. Vincent’s sixth and latest effort, Daddy’s Home (Loma Vista). It’s new at No. 4 and is on track to give the Grammy Award-winning alternative pop artist her best-ever chart position in the U.K. Completing the Top 5 at the midweek stage is the Black Keys’ covers album Delta Kream (None...
