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Noah Kahan extends his winning season in the U.K., as the American artist logs a fourth consecutive week at No. 1, and nabs the top debut.
The Vermont singer and songwriter’s “Stick Season” (via Republic Records) enters a full month atop of the Official U.K. Singles Chart, raking-in a market-leading 8.7 million streams, the OCC reports.
Kahan sticks another top 10, his second, as “Homesick” (Polydor/Republic Records) featuring Sam Fender debuts at No. 5.
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“Homesick” is also Fender’s second U.K. top 10 hit, following “Seventeen Going Under,” which this week vaults back into the top 40 following the release of the new collaboration. “Seventeen Going Under” returns at No. 32, having peaked at No. 3 in 2022.
Meanwhile, the parent to “Stick Season” and “Homesick,” Stick Season, lifts 4-2 for a new high on the Official U.K. Albums Chart.
Saltburn continues to light a flame under Sophie Ellis-Bextor’s 2001 hit “Murder on the Dancefloor” (Polydor). The British pop singer’s disco number lifts 3-2, its peak position from 23 years ago. Emerald Fennell’s dark drama is in the hunt for five BAFTAs, including best British film.
Another British pop nugget from the noughts is riding high on the U.K. chart, thanks to a sync to the silver screen. Natasha Bedingfield’s international breakthrough “Unwritten” (Phonogenic) improves 18-13. Originally released in 2004, “Unwritten” catches flight after its inclusion in the romcom “Anyone But You.”
Meanwhile, Benson Boone, the U.S.-born singer, multi-instrumentalist and TikTok star, who was named as MTV’s Global PUSH Artist for October 2023, is on target for his first U.K. top 20 appearance with “Beautiful Things” (Warner Records). It’s new at No. 18.
English singer Becky Hill and Australian producer Sonny Fodera enter the top tier with “Never Be Alone” (Polydor), new at No. 34. It becomes Becky’s 19th top 40, a tally that includes a No. 1 with Oliver Heldens on 2014’s “Gecko (Overdrive)”; and Fodera’s second overall.
U.S. viral artist David Kushner scores a second U.K. top 40 appearance with “Skin and Bones” (Miserable Music), new at No. 36. It’s the followup to “Daylight,” which last year climbed the ladder to No. 2.
Finally, Norwegian EDM star Kygo and “Sweet But Psycho” singer Ava Max bag a top 40 on debut with “Whatever” (Columbia/Kygo). “Whatever,” which lifts its chorus from Shakira’s English-language breakout single “Wherever, Whenever” from 2001, is new at No. 39. It’s Kygo’s 10th and Ava’s sixth U.K. top 40.
Green Day is on top in the U.K. with Saviors (Reprise), the U.S. pop-punk trio’s 14th studio album.
Opening at No. 1 on the Official U.K. Albums Chart, published Friday, Jan. 26, Saviors is the Rock Hall-inducted band’s fifth leader in the U.K., after American Idiot (2004), 21st Century Breakdown (2009), Revolution Radio (2016) and Father of All… (2020).
The outright leader at the midweek stage, when it was the outselling the rest of the top 10 combined, Green Day draws level with the Foo Fighters, Prince and Celine Dion and other acts with five U.K. leaders.
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Saviors finishes the cycle as the best-seller on wax, according to the Official Charts Company, with vinyl generating one-third of its first-total tally.
The Bay Area trio of Billie Joe Armstrong, Mike Dirnt and Tré Cool will reward their legion of British fans this summer with a run of dates on The Saviors Tour, a stretch that includes concerts at Manchester’s Old Trafford Stadium, Isle of Wight Festival, and London’s Wembley Stadium.
The only way is up for Noah Kahan, whose breakthrough third studio album Stick Season (Island) rises 4-2 for a new peak position. Meanwhile, the title track from the Vermont, U.S. singer-songwriter leads the U.K. singles chart for a fourth successive week.
Completing the podium on the albums tally is The Weeknd’s The Highlights (via Republic Records/XO), up 5-3.
Also new to the latest U.K. chart is Neck Deep’s eponymously titled fifth studio LP. Neck Deep (via Hopeless) bows at No. 11, for the Welsh pop-punk outfit’s fourth U.K. top 40, after 2015’s Life’s Not Out to Get You (No. 8), 2015’s The Peace and the Panic (No. 4) and 2020’s All Distortions are Intentional (No. 4).
Finally, British heavy metal veterans Saxon snag an 11th U.K. top 40 album with Hell, Fire and Damnation (Militia Guard Music), new at No. 19.
Nicki Minaj has beef, and she lets it sizzle with “Bigfoot.”
Announced over the weekend and unleashed at the stroke of midnight, “Bigfoot” appears to be the response to Megan Thee Stallion‘s apparent diss on her just-released single “Hiss.”
Megan spits venom in the direction of Minaj on “Hiss,” on which she sinks her fangs into her husband, registered sex offender Kenneth Petty, while referencing Megan’s Law, a federal law requiring law enforcement to make information available about registered sex offenders.
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“These hoes don’t be mad at Megan, these hoes mad at Megan’s Law/ I don’t really know what the problem is, but I guarantee y’all don’t want me to start/ B—h, you a p—y, never finna check me/ Every chance you get, bet your weak ass won’t address me,” the Houston rapper unloads on “Hiss,” which arrived on Friday (Jan. 26)
Minaj wasted little time in firing back. Later Friday, the Trinidadian hip-hop star previewed an unreleased track, in which she references Megan getting shot in the foot by Tory Lanez in 2020. The shooting case ended last year with the Canadian artist sent to jail.
“Bad b—h she like six foot, I call her big foot/ The b—h fell off, I said get up on your good foot,” Nicki raps on “Bigfoot”.
And at the top, she drops, “Your flow is such a bore/ Drinkin’ a bottle of Henny through a straw/ b—h, you better stop that dialog/ ‘Fore I hit Carl and buy your catalog.”
Nicky rounded on “Hiss” with a spray on social media, and waited for her moment to drop “Bigfoot” in full. “It’s been rdy for 2 days. just was tryna be cool & let her get her lil streams,” she writes on X (formerly Twitter). “Wasn’t gon say anything. But I remember how everyone kept my name in their mouth & how I said the next person mention my family gon regret it. Btw, they haven’t even heard the song. Who said it’s even a “diss”? Never even knew I had this much power.”
It’s been rdy for 2 days. just was tryna be cool & let her get her lil streams. wasn’t gon say anything. But I remember how everyone kept my name in their mouth & how I said the next person mention my family gon regret it. Btw, they haven’t even heard the song. Who said it’s even…— Nicki Minaj (@NICKIMINAJ) January 28, 2024
The Queen of Rap’s cover art features a high-heeled pink boot stepping into a much larger footprint embossed in pink concrete. If there was every any doubt of its target, the image appears alongside a close-up of Megan’s face looking distressed.
The “Bigfoot” line is, most likely, a reference to Megan’s proportions. The “WAP” singer reportedly adopted the name “stallion” in her youth on account of her height (she’s said to be 5’10”). As Minaj fired away on X, #Bigfoot became a trending topic.
In another post, Nicki hinted that she has a slate of unreleased tracks to introduce into the world. That’s in addition to Pink Friday 2, which debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 last month, marking her third leader on the albums chart — and the most No. 1s among female rappers. She previously reigned on the tally with Pink Friday: Roman Reloaded in 2012 and her debut studio set Pink Friday in 2011.
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Doja Cat sent the records tumbling as her modern classic “Paint The Town Red” leapt to No. 1 on triple j’s Hottest 100 poll for 2023.
When her name was called out late Saturday, Jan. 27, the U.S. artist became the first female rapper and first woman of color to lead the countdown, the 31st edition.
“Paint The Town Red” beat out homegrown multi-instrumentalist and singer-songwriter G Flip with “The Worst Person Alive” and Aussie EDM star Dom Dolla with “Saving Up,” respectively, to take the title.
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“When we first heard ‘Paint The Town Red’ back in August, there was little doubt that we’d see it appear at the pointy end of this year’s countdown,” explains triple j music director Nick Findlay.
“Over an iconic sample of Dionne Warwick’s ‘Walk On By’, ‘Paint The Town Red’ shows Doja Cat in her truest form: effortlessly shaking off the haters while flexing her uncanny ability at executing pure pop perfection.”
During its ARIA Chart run last year, “Paint The Town Red” clocked up 10 weeks at No. 1, and is now certified double-platinum in these parts.
The Hottest 100 poll is an institution Down Under, one that triple j, a division of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC), has, in the past, called the “world’s biggest musical democracy.”
Though it no longer coincides with Australia Day, on Jan. 26 — a controversial date in the minds of a growing number of Australians — 2,355,870 votes were cast for the countdown, down slightly from more than 2.4 million votes last year (the all-time record is the 3.2 million votes cast for the 2019 edition). Also, the annual event raised A$500,000 ($330,000) for triple j’s charity partner, headspace.
Though G Flip came off second-best to Doja Cat’s champ, the Australian artist established a new Hottest 100 record with seven titles in the countdown. That shatters the mark previously held by rock trio Wolfmother, which scored six entries back in 2005.
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A multiple winner at the 2023 ARIA Awards and a leader on the ARIA Albums Chart last year with Drummer (Future Classic/Universal), G Flip (real name Georgia Claire Flipo) now vaults to 19 career Hottest 100 entries, good enough for equal third all-time with Tame Impala and Kanye West. Adelaide hip-hop favorites Hilltop Hoods are the kings, with 24 all-time entries, while Powderfinger and Foo Fighters are equal second with 22 each.
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Australia’s own princess of pop Kylie Minogue establishes a new mark, with her U.K. top 10 hit “Padam Padam” making the Hottest 100 list. The last time she did so was in 1997, the 26-year gap between entries a new record.
This year’s pool of 2.335 million-plus votes were predominantly cast by women (61%) and 45% of all voters hailed from triple j’s target audience — 24 years of age, or under.
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Also, according to reps for triple j, 52 of those hottest 100 songs were homegrown.
All told, 35 artists made their triple j Hottest 100 debuts over the weekend, including Troye Sivan, Kita Alexander, Dua Lipa, Budjerah, Old Mervs and Royel Otis.
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It’s Friday, January 26th, and there are a ton of new music releases. Megan Thee Stallion dropped her new track “Hiss,” Justin Timberlake made his big comeback with “Selfish,” Ice Spice’s highly anticipated track “Think U The Sh– (Fart)” is here and more. Megan Thee Stallion’s new track “Hiss” is causing quite the stir. Fans are convinced that the rapper was taking shots at Nicki Minaj and her husband Kenneth Petty. Drake responds to the release of Young Thug and Mariah the Scientist’s jail phone call. Snoop Dogg talks about being scolded by Michael Jackson. And more.
Tetris KellyMegan and Nicki seem to turn up the heat, the latest on Young Thug, Snoop Dogg and Teyana Taylor. We catch up with Bad Gyal, and we’ve got new music from Meg, Ice, JT and more. It’s Friday January 26th, and welcome to Billboard News. I’m Tetris here to run it all down for you, so let’s start with some new music.
Tetris KellyWe love a snake queen. Megan Thee Stallion has a lot to say with “Hiss.”
Tetris KellyMore bops to come throughout the show, but for now let’s hit the top story. Nicki Minaj is attacking Megan Thee Stallion in a big way after the release of her new single “Hiss.”
Nicki MinajYou will be running on your good foot for the rest of your sorry days.
Tetris Kelly She’s taking the fight to X and with new music on IG Live even mocking Meg getting shot, and Thee Stallion isn’t backing down.
Megan Thee StallionI’m saying a hit dog gonna holla.
Tetris Kelly The new Meg track seemingly takes a shot at Nicki Minaj and her husband with the lyric about Megan’s Law, the federal law requiring law enforcement to make information available regarding registered sex offenders. Nicki Minaj had her own track in response.
Tetris KellyTory Lanez was convicted of shooting Megan Thee Stallion in the foot, and Nicki went on to make fun of Megan’s success and style of rapping.
Nicki MinajBecause you have three Grammys and you have to learn how to rap on the beat and being comfortable in the music.
Tetris Kelly 1:55Fans of both artists are following the fallout online, but some are pointing out Nicki has hundreds of posts shading Meg. Meg went on the Breakfast Club and held her position.
Megan Thee StallionThey’re gonna act like it’s unprovoked. I’m gonna take a little nap and we’ll wake back up and I’m gonna see what they have to say.
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The late Chris “CM” Murphy, the enigmatic entrepreneur who guided the career of INXS, and mapped out a raft of projects which kept their music alive, well after the band had called time on touring or creating new music, is posthumously awarded the Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM).
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Murphy, who died in January 2021 following a battle with cancer, is awarded for “service to the performing arts through music,” and is one of 1,042 Australians recognized “for distinguished and conspicuous service” on Australia Day, Jan. 26.
Murphy managed the new wave legends from 1979 until 1995, and again in the 2000s – following the death of frontman Michael Hutchence.
Formed in Western Australia in 1977, INXS summited the mountain that is popular music with six U.K. top 10 albums (including a No. 1 with Welcome To Wherever You Are from 1992) and five U.S. top 20 albums, a BRIT Award (in 1991 for best international group) and, in 2001, elevation into the ARIA Hall of Fame.
The band’s journey was tragically derailed by the 1997 death of Hutchence, at the age of just 37, though INXS continued with replacement singers. The end of the road came in 2012 with a show in Perth, where the group’s journey began all those years ago.
It was Murphy who saw a golden future — and opportunity — for INXS and its catalog, which didn’t rely on performance or new music.
Through a combination of strategic music releases, remixes, film, exhibitions, merch, media partnerships and more, INXS would become the biggest-selling act in Australia in 2014, a full two years after the band played its final gig. Indeed, the band’s best-of collection from 2011 was the best-selling album by a homegrown act in Australia last year.
The surviving members of INXS last year reunited in Sydney to launch Calling All Nations, a 400-plus “love letter” created by a global fanbase and the band, and released through a partnership of Murphy’s Petrol Records, UMe, uDiscover Music and This Day In Music Books.
“Chris was hungry,” recounted founding saxophone player and guitarist Kirk Pengilly during that rare reunion. “He just took no prisoners”.
Other music industry standouts named in the Australia Day 2024 Honours List include Milly Petriella, managing director of Milk and Honey’s operations in Australia and New Zealand, who is lauded with an OAM for “service to music and the performing arts.” That service included a 27-year stint as director, member relations and partnerships at APRA AMCOS, from 1995 to 2022, where she earned a reputation for moving mountains for the PRO’s members.
During her time at APRA AMCOS, Petriella founded the Vanda and Young Global Songwriting Competition, which has raised over A$2 million for Nordoff-Robbins since its launch in 2009; served as creative producer of the APRA Music Awards; championed the SongHubs program; administered the society’s Ambassador program; the Professional Development Awards; the Women In Music Mentorship program; the Vanda and Young Global Songwriting Competition; and grew its Los Angeles, London and Nashville as director, Global Music Export Offices.
Others music figures feted today include Dennis Burgess, chairman of the Australian Songwriters Association and patron of the Association of Artist Managers, who earns an OAM “for service to the performing arts, and to the music industry”; John Foreman OAM, the musical director, event director, pianist and composer, who now receives an AM; and Max Lambert, the composer and musical director for the 2000 Sydney Olympics, and ARIA Award winner for The Boy From Oz (2000) and Playschool (1998), who receives an AM.
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Taylor Swift is back on Australia‘s chart throne, as 1989 (Taylor’s Version) returns to the summit.
The best-selling album for 2023 in Australia, according to trade body ARIA, 1989 (Taylor’s Version) racks up its 12th non-consecutive week at the summit of the ARIA Albums Chart, published Friday, Jan. 26.
21 Savage’s American Dream last week bumped Swift’s re-recorded LP from top spot. But the dream didn’t last. Savage’s set dips 1-7, as Swift moves back to the top, 2-1 on the latest tally.
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1989 (Taylor’s Version) is one of four TayTay albums in the top 10. With the start of the U.S. pop superstar’s The Eras Tour of Australia less than a month away, expect Swifties to keep her music at or near the top of the albums chart.
The top debut this week belongs to Green Day with Saviors, arriving at No. 2. The U.S. pop-punk trio’s 14th and latest studio album becomes their 12th top 10 album in these parts. The Rock Hall-inducted Bay Area band has topped the ARIA Chart on three occasions, with Dookie (1994), American Idiot (2004) and Father Of All Motherf—ers (2020).
Noah Kahan makes a move on both main Australian charts with Stick Season and its title track. The U.S. singer and songwriter’s album lifts 10-6, for a new peak, while “Stick Season” improves 3-2, also a new high, on the ARIA Singles Chart. Further down the singles tally, a new version of the album track “Homesick,” featuring English singer Sam Fender, bows at No. 57.
At the top of the ARIA Singles Chart is Jack Harlow’s “Lovin On Me,” which enters a 10th non-consecutive week at No. 1, ahead of “Stick Season” and Tate McRae’s “Greedy” (up 4-3), respectively.
The Saltburn bump can be felt on the singles chart as Sophie Ellis-Bextor‘s 2001 hit “Murder On The Dancefloor” gains 12-7. The single, which is synced to the dark drama, peaked at No. 3 following its initial release.
U.S. singer and TikTok star Benson Boone bags a career high with “Beautiful Things,” new at No. 18, besting the “34” peak for his 2022 single “In The Stars.”
Finally, homegrown EDM DJ and producer Dom Dolla cracks the top 50 with “Saving Up.” The reigning ARIA Award-winner for best dance release, Dolla’s latest release starts at No. 44.
First the single, then the album, now Justin Timberlake completes his solo return with confirmation of a world tour.
The former boybander announced the big news when he stopped by The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, for a stint surfing the guest couch.
The Forget Tomorrow World Tour will support JT’s forthcoming collection Everything I Thought It Was, his first solo album release in more than six years.
Due out March 15, EITIW is Timberlake’s sixth studio LP, and the followup to Man of the Woods which peaked at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 following its release in February 2018, for his fourth consecutive solo leader.
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As a warm-up, the pop singer will play a small-capacity show in New York on Wednesday, Jan. 31, the 1,100-capacity Irving Plaza.
Fallon teased the touring news out of JT, in a totally above-board, pre-rehearsed kind of way.
Was there anything more to announce, the late-night show host prompted his musical guest? Well, yes, “we are still putting the setlist together for Irving Plaza,” noted Timberlake.
But wait, there was more.
“I’m going on tour,” was the dry response.
The 10-time Grammy Award winner gave fans a taste of things to come earlier this week with the release of “Selfish,” the first cut from EITIW. He’ll be back on our screens when he serves as musical guest on Saturday Night Live this weekend, with Dakota Johnson hosting.
Though his solo music career has been in deep freeze, Timberlake did return to his boy band roots last year when he reunited with *NSYNC for “Better Place,” which accompanied the JT-starring animated family film Trolls Band Together. The track started at No. 25, for *NSYNC’s lucky 13th appearance on the Billboard Hot 100 and first appearance on the tally since “Girlfriend” featuring Nelly reached No. 5 — way back in 2002.
As a solo artist, Timberlake has landed 19 titles in the top 10 on the Billboard Hot 100, including five No. 1s.
Details of the Forget Tomorrow World Tour have yet to be announced. Watch the big reveal on Fallon’s late-night show below.
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Mesita, Nicki Nicole, Emilia and Tiago PZK‘s “Una Foto” holds at No. 1 on the Billboard Argentina Hot 100 chart (dated Jan. 27) for a second week.
The song earned Uruguayan Santiago Messano, better known as Mesita, his first champ on the overall Argentina songs chart, when it flew from No. 30 to No. 1 (list dated Jan. 20). While Nicki Nicole added her fourth leader and Emilia her third, Tiago PZK secured his sixth, entering into a tie with Maria Becerra for the second-most, both with six No. 1s, trailing only Bizarrap’s long-standing crown with nine rulers.
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Argentinian rapper Khea earns his first top 10 in 2024, and sixth overall, as “Hola Perdida,” with Luck Ra, rises 8-2. Luck Ra captures his fourth top 10.
Young Miko nabs her highest-charting song with her first Bizarrap collab, “Bzrp Music Sessions, Vol. 58”. The song, which gives the Puerto Rican her second top 10, picks up the Greatest Gainer honors of the week, as it climbs 55 rankings, from No. 58 to No. 3. Bizarrap ups his top 10 career count to 20. Young Miko is also set to receive the Impact Award at the 2024 Billboard Women in Music Awards, taking place March 6 and streaming on March 7.
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Elsewhere, Emilia notches her 29th entry on the Billboard Argentina Hot 100 as “Jet_Set.Mp3,” her team-up with Nathy Peluso, debuts at No. 30. The song, the Hot Shot Debut of the week, gifts Peluso her highest debut thus far, after “Argentina,” with Trueno, debuted and peaked at No. 48 in May 2022.
Further, two other songs debut this week, starting with “Tal Para Cual” by Salastkbron and Omar Varela, which starts at No. 55. The track brings back Varela to the tally, after “P Rreo,” with Kaleb Di Masi, Salas, and Alejo Isakk, took him to a No. 99 high in April 2022. Lastly, Ariana Grande secures her 11th chart entry with “Yes, And?” at No. 61.