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Gracie Abrams is back on top. Her sophomore album, The Secret Of Us, has reclaimed the No. 1 spot—leaping from No. 6—on the ARIA Albums Chart for the week of Jan. 20, fueled by the release of its deluxe edition on vinyl.
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The record previously hit No. 1 in July 2024 and has continued to be a favourite with fans since its release. Abrams’ first album, Good Riddance, peaked at No. 30 in 2023, making her latest success a milestone in her career.
Sydneysiders Dear Seattle celebrated their highest-ever chart debut as their third album, TOY, entered at No. 4. This marks the band’s first time in the top 10, surpassing their prior records: Don’t Let Go peaked at No. 45 in 2019, and Someday climbed to No. 31 in 2022.
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Meanwhile, Robbie Williams made a strong debut at No. 5 with the soundtrack to Better Man, his biopic. The album features 13 tracks, including re-recordings and fresh cuts, contributing to Williams’ 15th top 10 solo album in Australia. Williams has previously claimed five No. 1 albums in the country, with Greatest Hits (2004), Intensive Care (2005), Rudebox (2006), Reality Killed the Video Star (2009), and The Christmas Present (2019). The biopic has also sparked renewed interest in Williams’ extensive catalog, with fans revisiting his biggest hits.
Mac Miller also returned to the ARIA chart with Balloonerism, debuting at No. 12. The posthumous release features collaborations with SZA and his alter ego Delusional Thomas, showcasing tracks recorded in 2014. It’s Miller’s third top 10 album in Australia, following Swimming (No. 7, 2018) and Circles (No. 3, 2020).
Meanwhile, Luke Combs’ upcoming Australian tour, which kicks off in Brisbane on Jan. 24, has also propelled his albums back up the ARIA chart. His 2017 debut album, This One’s For You, rises from No. 11 to No. 8 (it previously peaked at No. 7 in 2019 and again in 2022), whileFathers & Sons leaps from No. 77 to No. 20, continuing its impressive run after peaking at No. 3 last year.
On the ARIA Singles Chart, Rosé and Bruno Mars’ “APT.” extended its reign at No. 1 for an 11th non-consecutive week, becoming the longest-running chart-topper since Miley Cyrus’ “Flowers” in 2023. Abrams also continues to dominate the singles chart, with her track “That’s So True” holding steady in No. 2.
For all the latest chart updates, visit the ARIA Charts.
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Xbox kicked January off with a banger Developer_Direct presentation, and an iconic video game franchise is back!
Thursday, January 23, Xbox said oh, we got some things to show you, showcasing some titles coming to the Xbox Series X/S and whatever device that is now considered an Xbox console.
Ahead of the direct, Xbox revealed that we would hear from the developers behind upcoming titles South of Midnight, Doom: The Dark Ages, and Clair Obscure: Expedition 33.
Ninja Gaiden Is Back!
A mystery game from a mystery studio was also teased. In the presentation, we quickly learned that we are getting a new entry in the Ninja Gaiden franchise, Ninja Gaiden 4, which has a feel reminiscent of Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty.
Team Ninja and Platinum Games are collaborating on Ninja Gaiden 4, which continues the style of the other titles in the 3D reboot trilogy that dropped between 2004 and 2012.
This time around, you will be able to play as two protagonists: Ryu Hayabusa and a new character named Yakumo, who is following in the footsteps of Ryu and wants to become a master ninja.
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Based on the trailer, Platinum Games is the perfect studio for this game because the action looks much faster and even more stylish, and if it keeps the same energy as the other Ninja Gaiden games, being extremely difficult.
Ninja Gaiden 4 has no release date, but it will be available on PC, PS5, Xbox Series X/S, and Game Pass.
But wait, that’s not all. Xbox had another big Ninja Gaiden announcement and provided extensive looks into other games were made. Hit the gallery for those announcements.
1. NINJA GAIDEN 2 Black Official Launch Trailer
The legendary high-speed ninja action game returns graphically remastered!
Using Unreal Engine 5 to significantly enhance graphic expression, this is the definitive version of “NINJA GAIDEN 2,” featuring additional playable characters and enhanced battle support functions.
Play Today with Game Pass: https://www.xbox.com/games/store/prod…
2. South of Midnight
When a hurricane rips through Prospero, Hazel is pulled into a Southern Gothic world where reality and fantasy are interwoven, and ancient creatures from folklore emerge.
Coming to Xbox Game Pass, Xbox Series XIS, and Windows PC on April 8, 2025.
Play it day one with Game Pass or Pre-Order South of Midnight today! https://www.xbox.com/games/south-of-m…
3. Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 | Release Date Trailer
Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, the debut title from Sandfall Interactive, launches on Xbox Series X|S on April 24, 2025, and will be available Day One with Game Pass. With turn-based combat enhanced by real-time mechanics, you’ll face the Paintress to end her cursed countdown and save the future of Lumière.
Explore a Belle Époque-inspired fantasy world using the expansive World Map, uncovering secrets, side quests, and challenges.
Set up camp to reinforce weapons, bond with your Expedition teammates, and plan your next steps. Join Monoco (voiced by Rich Keeble), a shape-shifting Gestral, and Esquie (voiced by Maxence Cazorla), a towering ally who helps you swim, soar, and explore new paths.
Play it day one with Game Pass or Pre-order now: https://www.xbox.com/games/expedition-33
4. Doom: The Dark Ages
Join Marty, Hugo and the team at id Software as we journey into our first gameplay deep dive for DOOM: The Dark Ages!
Developed by id Software, DOOM: The Dark Ages is the prequel to the critically acclaimed DOOM (2016) and DOOM Eternal that tells an epic cinematic story of the DOOM Slayer’s rage.
In this third installment of the modern DOOM series, players will step into the blood-stained boots of the DOOM Slayer, in this never-before-seen dark and sinister medieval war against Hell. Coming May 15, 2025. Pre-order on Xbox Series X|S, PC or PlayStation 5.
As fate would have it, Bruno Mars and Sexyy Red came together for their “Fat, Juicy and Wet” strip club anthem, which dropped Friday (Jan. 24) accompanied by a star-studded music video featuring Lady Gaga and Rosé. Bruno’s big collab with Sexyy Red arrives on the heels of his three-week Billboard Hot 100 No. 1 […]
Save this storySaveSave this storySaveBruno Mars and Sexyy Red have shared a new song. “Fat Juicy & Wet” is the retro-pop revivalist and St. Louis rapper’s first collaboration. The track’s accompanying music video, directed by Mars and Daniel Ramos, also features cameo appearances from Rosé and Lady Gaga. Watch it below.Both artists spent the latter half of the week teasing the single online, with Mars describing it as a “strip club anthem.” He’s nominated for Song of the Year and Best Pop Duo/Group Performance at the 2025 Grammy Awards for another recent collaboration, the Gaga duet “Die With a Smile.”Sexyy Red released In Sexyy We Trust last year. Read about the artist’s “Get It Sexyy” at No. 47 in Pitchfork’s list “The 100 Best Songs of 2024.”
Central Cee dropped his long-awaited debut album Can’t Rush Greatness on Friday (Jan. 24) via CC4L and Columbia Records. The 17-track LP features previously released singles “BAND4BAND” with Lil Baby, “Gen Z Luv” and “GBP,” featuring 21 Savage. “BAND4BAND” hit No. 1 on the U.K. Hip-Hop and R&B Singles chart and reached No. 3 on the U.K. Singles chart. In the U.S., […]
Travis Scott’s highly-anticipated “4×4” single is here. La Flame unleashed his latest track on Friday (Jan. 24) after a series of teasers on WWE’s Raw and a debut live performance atop Atlanta’s Mercedes-Benz Stadium. Explore Explore See latest videos, charts and news See latest videos, charts and news Scott is feeling philanthropic and he’ll be […]
Bush frontman Gavin Rossdale is taking his skills to the small screen, with his new celebrity culinary talk series set to premiere next month.
Titled Dinner with Gavin Rossdale, the new show will see its titular host opening up his home to a number of celebrity guests as he prepares them meals, and engages in deeply personal conversations about their lives, careers, and everything in between. The series will premiere on VIZIO WatchFree+ on Feb. 13.
Some of the guests featured in the series include tennis icon Serena Williams, actress Selma Blair, multi-hyphenate entertainer Common, comedian Jack McBrayer, singer Sir Tom Jones, and actress Brooke Shields. “Miles Davis said that every musician should be able to cook,” Rossdale said in the series’ trailer. “So I took that as a great inspiration with my love affair with food.”
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“I had a very simple idea about a TV show where I cook dinner for an inspiring guest,” Rossdale said in a statement. “We get to see these amazing people up close and no one held back. It’s magic to sit and eat with Sir Tom Jones or Serena Williams. I’m so grateful to all my guests.
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“When we met with the team at VIZIO – it was obvious this was home,” he added. “It was a huge endeavor and I’m so happy we pulled it together. I’m hoping that everyone enjoys this series as much as I enjoyed making it. I’m very lucky and thrilled – but most of all grateful to everyone who worked to make this show happen.”
“Our team was excited to bring Dinner with Gavin Rossdale to our VIZIO audience because this series is an exceptionally unique blend that delivers equal parts culinary experience and emotional journey,” added Katherine Pond, Vizio’s Group Vice President of Platform Content & Partnerships. “We know our fans respond to food-related content, and with Gavin’s ability to foster meaningful conversation with his extraordinary celebrity guests, we knew this was going to be a hit.”
Rossdale rose to widespread fame as the frontman for British rock outfit Bush, who reached No. 4 on the Billboard 200 with their 1994 debut album, Sixteen Stone, which included charting singles such as “Comedown” and “Glycerine”. Two years later, they would best their previous accomplishments and top the chart with 1996’s Razorblade Suitcase. Their latest album, The Art of Survival, arrived in 2022.
Brad Pitt had dreams of portraying Jeff Buckley on the silver screen, the late musician’s mother has revealed.
Buckley, who passed away in 1997 at the age of 30, was the focus of many artistic endeavors in the wake of his death, though his story has not yet been made into a dramatized film. However, according to Buckley’s mother, Mary Guibert, Pitt had grand ideas for her son’s iconic tale.
On Friday (Jan. 24), a new documentary called It’s Never Over, Jeff Buckley will premiere at Sundance. However, as Variety reports, its origins can be traced back to some plans that Pitt first floated in 2000. According to Guibert, Pitt initiated a friendship with her, ultimately requesting permission to turn Buckley’s story into a biopic. Though she was receptive to the notion at first, it soon left her feeling skeptical.
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“We’re going to dye your hair, put brown contact lenses on those baby blues, and you’re going to open your mouth and Jeff’s voice is going to come out?” Guibert says she asked Pitt.
Despite the initial bump in the road, Pitt wasn’t the only film-minded individual to desire seeing Buckley’s story on the big screen. Director Amy Berg – who received an Oscar nomination for the 2006 documentary Deliver Us from Evil – later sought to move from nonfiction features to a narrative project, with Buckley as her first focus. Guibert, however, was reticent to “being in a someone’s-learning-on-the-job situation”.
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More ideas soon swelled, and when Berg was granted given access to Buckley’s archive, she decided instead to turn the late musician’s story into a documentary. With Pitt joining as executive producer and helping to digitize and preserve Buckley’s belongings, the final product now arrives on Jan. 24 as It’s Never Over, Jeff Buckley.
“Once I started listening to his voicemail messages and his DAP player and demos and reading his journals, I just couldn’t imagine it being anything but a documentary,” explained Berg. “And I just didn’t know how you could kind of replicate Jeff in that scripted sense.”
In 2021, however, Guibert was announced as the co-producer of Everybody Here Wants You, a planned biopic which would see Reeve Carney portraying Buckley. “This will be the only official dramatisation of Jeff’s story which I can promise his fans will be true to him and to his legacy,” Guibert said at the time. No updates have been provided since.
Born to Guibert and late folk musician Tim Buckley, Jeff began his career as a session musician before gaining a following throughout venues in Manhattan’s East Village.
After signing to Columbia in 1994, he released his debut album, Grace, which initially received mixed reviews and reached No. 149 on the Billboard 200. Retrospective evaluations have since seen the album considered one of the greatest records of the ’90s, and among the best of all time.
Buckley would pass away in 1997, drowning in Memphis during a spontaneous swim. Though he never completed a second record, Guibert would later compile his demo recordings as 1998’s Sketches for My Sweetheart the Drunk, which would reach No. 64 on the Billboard 200, and receive a Grammy nomination for Best Male Rock Vocal Performance for the single “Everybody Here Wants You”.
Rock band Tremonti notches its first top 10 on Billboard’s Top Album Sales chart as The End Will Show Us How debuts at No. 10 on the chart dated Jan. 25. The project also bows at No. 14 on Top Hard Rock Albums and No. 34 on Independent Albums. Fronted by Mark Tremonti, the band has logged six charting efforts on Top Album Sales, stretching back to 2012’s All I Was.
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Also in the top 10 of the latest Top Album Sales chart, Taylor Swift’s reissued Lover: Live From Paris reenters at No. 1, Heidi Montag’s 2010 album Superficial debuts at No. 4 following an outpouring of fan support following the loss of her home in the Pacific Palisades fire, and Ringo Starr logs his first top 10 on the Top Album Sales chart with the No. 7 arrival of his new country set Look Up.
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Billboard’s Top Album Sales chart ranks the top-selling albums of the week based only on traditional album sales. The chart’s history dates back to May 25, 1991, the first week Billboard began tabulating charts with electronically monitored piece count information from SoundScan, now Luminate. Pure album sales were the sole measurement utilized by the Billboard 200 albums chart through the list dated Dec. 6, 2014, after which that chart switched to a methodology that blends album sales with track equivalent album (TEA) units and streaming equivalent album (SEA) units.
Tremonti’s The End Will Show Us How sold nearly 7,000 copies in its first week, landing the band its best sales week since 2018. The album was led by the radio single “Just Too Much,” which climbs 31-26 on the Mainstream Rock Airplay chart (dated Jan. 25), making it the highest-charting hit ever on the chart for the band. The group has logged seven entries on the radio tally in total.
At No. 1 on Top Album Sales, Taylor Swift’s reissued Lover: Live From Paris reenters atop the list with 202,500 copies sold – largely from vinyl purchases. It’s the 15th No. 1 for Swift on the chart – the most in the chart’s 33-year history.
The Wicked film soundtrack is a non-mover at No. 2 with 12,000 (down 23%) and Chappell Roan’s chart-topping The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess moves 5-3 with 11,000 (up 28%).
Heidi Montag’s 2010 album Superficial surges onto the chart at No. 4 with 11,000 copies sold (up from a negligible sum the previous week). After Montag and husband Spencer Pratt lost their home in the Pacific Palisades wildfire in Los Angeles, the pair took to social media to encourage fans to purchase the album and stream its songs to help the family rebuild and generate income. The couple are best known for the appearances on reality TV programs, most famously on MTV’s The Hills.
Stray Kids’ former leader HOP falls 3-5 with 10,000 sold (down 24%) and Sabrina Carpenter’s Short n’ Sweet slides 4-6 with 9,000 (down 5%).
Ringo Starr lands his first top 10 on the Top Album Sales chart with the No. 7 debut of Look Up, selling 8,000 copies. It also grants The Beatles’ drummer with his second top 40-charting effort (and highest yet) on Top Country Albums.
Rounding out the rest of the latest top 10 are Bad Bunny’s Debí Tirar Más Fotos, falling 6-8 in its second week with nearly 8,000 (down 3%) and Billie Eilish’s Hit Me Hard and Soft, slipping 7-9 with nearly 7,000 (down 5%).
Heidi Montag and Spencer Pratt have joined more than 20 other property owners in suing the City of Los Angeles and the L.A. Department of Water and Power, claiming the city’s decision to “drain” a local reservoir left firefighters without enough water to fight the devastating Palisades Fire that destroyed their home.
In the complaint, which was filed Tuesday (Jan. 21), Pratt, Montag and their co-plaintiffs accuse L.A.’s Department of Water and Power (LADWP) of making “the conscious decision to operate the water supply system with the reservoir drained and unusable as a ‘cost-saving’ measure,” leading hydrants in the Pacific Palisades to “fail…within a span of 12 hours” because the tanks that fed them were not replenished by water from the “empty” Santa Ynez Reservoir.
The lawsuit cites multiple public officials, including Los Angeles County Public Works director Mark Pestrella, for allegedly acknowledging the failures that led to the fire’s uncontrolled spread through a heavily populated area. It claims that “Defendants also designed the water system for public use such that it would not have enough water pressure to fight an urban fire” despite knowing the region was prone to destructive blazes.
“LADWP and City of Los Angeles had a duty to properly construct, inspect, maintain and operate its water supply system,” reads the complaint, filed by attorneys Peter McNulty, Brett Rosenthal and E. Kirk Wood. “The Palisades Fire was an inescapable and unavoidable consequence of the water supply system operated by LADWP and City of Los Angeles as it was planned and constructed. The system necessarily failed, and this failure was a substantial factor in causing Plaintiffs to suffer the losses alleged in this Complaint.”
A key reason for the city and the LADWP’s failure, according to the suit, was its stated decision to leave the reservoir “empty for nearly a year” in order “to seek contractor bids rather than using in-house personnel to repair” it.
“This stated public purpose was far outweighed by the substantial risk posed to Pacific Palisades by wildfires,” the complaint continues. “The degree of damage that resulted from the Palisades Fire far outweighed any benefit that could have been realized by outsourcing and delaying repairs to the Santa Ynez Reservoir.”
Montag, Pratt and their co-plaintiffs are seeking damages including “costs of repair, depreciation, and/or replacement of damaged, destroyed, and/or lost personal and/or real property” and “loss of wages, earning capacity, and/or business profits or proceeds and/or any related business interruption losses and displacement expenses,” among other relief.
The City of Los Angeles and the LADWP did not immediately respond to Billboard‘s requests for comment.
Pratt became a ubiquitous presence on TikTok earlier this month after his and Montag’s home was destroyed in the massive Palisades Fire, with the reality star encouraging fans to stream Montag’s 2010 album Superficial to help them recover from their losses. Thanks to those efforts, Superficial and its songs have appeared on multiple Billboard charts. This week, the album notched a No. 54 debut on the Billboard 200 with more than 15,000 equivalent album units in the U.S. the week ending Jan. 16, according to Luminate, with more than 3.5 million on-demand official streams in the tracking week and 12,000 downloads sold.
Since breaking out on Jan. 7, the ongoing Palisades Fire has burned more than 23,000 acres, destroyed more than 6,000 structures and killed 11 people. It is now 72% contained. A second blaze, the Eaton Fire in Altadena, has burned more than 14,000 acres, destroyed more than 9,000 structures and killed 17. That fire is now at 95% containment.