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Beyonce’s ‘The Lion King: The Gift’ Returns to Top 10 on Billboard 200 After ‘Black Is King’ Premiere
Beyoncé’s The Lion King: The Gift album re-enters the Billboard 200 chart at No. 10, following the July 31 premiere of Black Is King on Disney+. The set earned 27,000 equivalent album units in the U.S. in the week ending Aug. 6 (up 1,462%), according to Nielsen Music/MRC Data. The album originally debuted and peaked at No. 2 on the Aug. 3, 2019-dated chart. The Billboard 200 chart ranks the most popular albums of the week in the U.S. based on multi-metric consumption as measured in equivalent album units. Units comprise album sales, track equivalent albums (TEA) and streaming equivalent albums (SEA). Each unit equals one album sale, or 10 individual tracks sold from an album, or 3,750 ad-supported or 1,250 paid/subscription on-demand official audio and video streams generated by songs from...
Christina Aguilera Is ‘Feelin’ Some Type of Way’ About Cardi B & Megan Thee Stallion’s ‘WAP’
“WAP” is bringing out “Dirrty”-era Christina Aguilera. Cardi B and Megan Thee Stallion’s hot new song got Xtina cooling off in the pool in a sexy pose this weekend. “#WAP got me feelin some type of way,” she captioned a photo on Twitter Saturday (Aug. 8). The sizzling snapshot caught Cardi’s eye. “I want to be that pool tho,” the rapper commented. {“nid”:”9430596″,”type”:”post”,”title”:”Megan Thee Stallion & Cardi B Unleash 'WAP': Watch the Video”,”relative_path”:”\/articles\/columns\/hip-hop\/9430596\/megan-thee-stallion-cardi-b-wap-video\/”,”media”:{“width”:1280,”height”:720,”ext...
Fans Choose Diplo and Joji’s ‘Daylight’ as This Week’s Favorite New Music
Diplo and Joji’s new song “Daylight” has topped this week’s new music poll. Music fans voted in a poll published Friday (Aug. 7) on Billboard, choosing the latest single from Joji’s forthcoming album, Nectar, as their favorite new music release from the past week. In the music video for their new collaborative track, Diplo and Joji work behind the scenes on a video shoot for an elderly boy band. The pair is tormented by a very tanned, waxed and demanding director before breaking into the wardrobe department and wreaking an innocent sort of havoc on the set. {“nid”:”9430283″,”type”:”post”,”title”:”Diplo & Joji Go Behind the Scenes as PAs in 'Daylight' Video: Watch”,”rela...
Icona Pop Have All the “Feels in My Body” on New Single: Stream
After spending most of summer either cooped up in our homes or out protesting injustice, we’ve all got a lot of stored up energy waiting to burst. Today, Icona Pop have delivered the soundtrack to that explosion with their new single “Feels in My Body”. The track swells with synths,… Please click the link below to read the full article. Icona Pop Have All the “Feels in My Body” on New Single: Stream Ben Kaye 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.
FINNEAS Shares New Version of “Let’s Fall in Love for the Night (1964)”: Stream
Just shy of a year after releasing his debut Blood Harmony EP, FINNEAS has released a digital deluxe version of the effort. Included on the expanded tracklist is his 2018 single “Break My Heart Again” as well as a new take on “Let’s Fall in Love for the Night” called “Let’s… Please click the link below to read the full article. FINNEAS Shares New Version of “Let’s Fall in Love for the Night (1964)”: Stream Ben Kaye 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 In...
Madonna Out of Interscope Deal After Nearly a Decade
Sources close to Madonna confirm to Billboard that the Queen of Pop is out of her deal with Interscope after nearly a decade. The iconic singer first inked a three-album deal with Interscope in 2011 at a base of $1 million per LP; with the release of Madame X in 2019, that three-album deal is up, and Madge is eying a new label to call home. While The Sun reports that Madonna is considering a return to Warner Music (which was known as Warner Bros. when she called it home for her series of albums released from 1983-2008), sources tell Billboard that she has not inked a new deal anywhere as of Saturday (Aug. 8) and any talks are in early stages. Warner Music declined to comment for this story. Madonna’s three albums for Interscope include the Billboard 200 toppers MDNA (2012) and Madame...
Mika Shares Letter to the Lebanese People ‘Devastated by the Apocalypse’
A massive warehouse explosion in Beirut last Tuesday (Aug. 4) killed at least 157 people and injured thousands more, devastating the city’s port area. As investigators continue to comb through the rubble, protesters have vented their anger against the Lebanese government, accusing leaders of years of negligence in the storing of 2,750 tons of ammonium nitrate linked to the blast. British glam-pop star Mika (real name Michael Holbrook Penniman Jr.), who was born in Beirut and whose mother was of Lebanese descent, wrote a letter to the Lebanese people to share in their grief and anger over the incident. Billboard was sent an English-language transcript: My dear Lebanon, My dear Beirut, It’s still early in the morning on the other side of the Mediterranean and I feel so close and yet so far a...
Demi Lovato & Max Ehrich Celebrate Dating Anniversary With a Kiss and Sweet Notes
Engaged couple Demi Lovato and Max Ehrich rang in a dating anniversary with a night out and some flirtatious photos. The happy pair, sharing a kiss in one picture and broad grins at each other in another, wrote notes on Instagram to mark the occasion this weekend. “i love u baby happy anniversary,” Ehrich wrote on his account on Saturday (Aug. 8), while Lovato captioned the moment with “Falling more and more in love everyday with you honey.” “more and more every moment baby,” her fiancé wrote back in the comments. “thank you for all that you are. I am truly the luckiest man in the world. Cheers to forever and then some.” {“nid”:”9428468″,”type”:”post”,”title”:”Demi Lovato Shows...
Nick Jonas & Priyanka Chopra Welcome Furry New Family Member: ‘We’re Already in Love’
Nick Jonas and Priyanka Chopra’s family is growing. The couple introduced Panda, the latest addition to their brood, on Saturday (Aug. 8). “Welcome to the family Panda! Panda is a Husky Australian Shepard mix rescue and we’re already in love,” Jonas wrote on Instagram, where the pair posted an adorable family photo. Panda — adopted from nonprofit dog rescue Hollywood Huskies — joins their pups Gino and Diana, making it a trio of pets for their handsome little family. {“nid”:”9390250″,”type”:”post”,”title”:”Priyanka Chopra Shares Sweet Throwback to First Date With Nick Jonas: 'Here's to Many More'”,”relative_path”:”\/articles\/columns\/pop\/9390250\/priyanka...
YouTube Twins Lose it During First Listen to Phil Collins’ ‘In the Air Tonight’: Watch
There’s nothing quite like the feeling of discovering an amazing new song — just ask twin brothers Tim and Fred Williams, who have been documenting their first-time reactions while listening to classic hits on YouTube. The 21-year-old siblings, who post under TwinsthenewTrend, have gone viral in recent months for their “First Time Hearing” video series, where they have recorded their priceless reactions and commentary while discovering music by icons such as Dolly Parton, Stevie Wonder, and Queen. In late July, the Williams brothers — who grew up mostly listening to rap — posted a particularly memorable clip of themselves listening to Phil Collins’ 1981 debut single “In the Air Tonight” for the first time. {“nid”:”8528...
20 Questions With Monsta X
Monsta X will perform during an epic virtual concert, Live From Seoul with Luv, on Saturday (Aug. 8). Presented by LiveXLive, the one-of-a-kind livestream will serve as the idols’ only live music event for the year, and will feature them performing a combination of tracks from their 2020 English-language LP All About Luv and hits in their native Korean, including “Fantasia,” “Follow,” “Dramarama” and more. Ahead of the much-anticipated concert event, (which was postponed to this weekend after originally being scheduled for July 27), the K-pop group chatted with Billboard over email about everything from the first music they ever purchased, the dream concerts they’d want to attend, what’s left on their bucket list as a band, their devoti...
Post Malone’s ‘Circles’ Sets More Records With Run to No. 1 on Adult Contemporary Chart
Post Malone’s “Circles” adds more honors to its chart résumé, as it reaches No. 1 on Billboard’s Adult Contemporary radio airplay ranking (dated Aug. 8). With the coronation, Post Malone becomes the first artist to have topped both the AC and Rap Airplay charts as the sole lead artist on each No. 1. On Rap Airplay, he reigned with “Rockstar,” featuring 21 Savage, for two weeks in 2017. Plus, “Circles” rules in its 41st week on the AC chart, completing the longest climb to No. 1 by a solo male in the chart’s 59-year history. It falls shy of the overall record by one week: matchbox twenty’s “Unwell” hit the top in its 42nd frame in October 2001. On the all-genre, multi-metric Billboard Hot 100, “Circles,” rel...
