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It’s Ovy On The Drums’ winning week as the Colombian celebrates his first No. 1 as an artist on any Billboard ranking, as “Mírame,” with Blessd, advances 2-1 on the Latin Rhythm Airplay chart (dated Nov. 9). As a songwriter and producer, he’s banked 12 rulers on the list.
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“Mírame,” released on Cigol/Globalatino/Warner Latina, jumps to No. 1 on Latin Rhythm Airplay with 7.6 million audience impressions, earned in the U.S. during the 25-31 tracking week. That’s a 6% gain from the week prior across monitored Latin rhythm radio stations according to Luminate.
With “Mírame” at No. 1, Blessd collects his third No. 1on Latin Rhythm Airplay, and second in 2024 through a Colombian pair-up, following “Si Sabe Ferxxo,” with Feid, which ruled for one week in June.
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Two other Colombian team-ups –by two artists in a lead role– have landed at the summit on Latin Rhythm Airplay in the 2020s decade, both through Shakira collabs: while “Copa Vacía,” with Manuel Turizo, reigned for one week, “TQG,” with Karol G, dominated for seven weeks, both in 2023.
Before Ovy on The Drums’ secured his fist champ this week as an artist, he managed 12 No. 1s as songwriter and producer (mostly through Karol G songs) spanning his eight-year Billboard chart career. Among those, Becky G and Karol G’s “Mamiii” earned him his longest-leading No. 1 track on Latin Rhythm Airplay, dominating for 10 weeks in 2022.
Elsewhere, “Mírame” holds at its No. 3 high on the overall Latin Airplay chart, Ovy’s highest-charting entry and first top 10 there. Plus, in addition to its radio haul, the song rebounds to No. 15 (from No. 18) on the multi-metric Hot Latin Songs chart with a 4% boost in streams, after it generated 2.3 million official U.S. clicks during the tracking week. The latter blends airplay, streams and digital sales.
All charts (dated Nov. 9, 2024) will update on Billboard.com tomorrow, Nov. 5). For all chart news, you can follow @billboard and @billboardcharts on both X, formerly known as Twitter, and Instagram.
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Tyler, The Creator earns new career milestones on Billboard’s charts, thanks to his latest album, Chromakopia.
The set debuts at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 (dated Nov. 9) with 299,500 equivalent album units earned in the U.S. in the Oct. 25-31 tracking week, according to Luminate – Tyler, The Creator’s biggest week ever in terms of units. Notably, the set was released on an off-cycle Monday (Oct. 28); thus, its first-week sum is from only four days of activity. (Most albums are released on Fridays, giving them a full seven days of activity in their opening chart weeks.)
The LP sold 66,000 on vinyl, the third-biggest debut week for a rap album on vinyl since Luminate began tracking sales in 1991.
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Further, all 14 songs from Chromakopia chart on the latest Billboard Hot 100, led by the set’s opening track, “St. Chroma,” featuring Daniel Caesar, at No. 7, and “Noid” (released ahead of the album on Oct. 21), which jumps 43-10. The tracks mark his first two career Hot 100 top 10s.
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Here’s a recap of every song from the album on the latest Hot 100 (all of which are debuts except “Noid”):
Rank, TitleNo. 7, “St. Chroma,” feat. Daniel CaesarNo. 10, “Noid” (up from No. 43)No. 14, “Sticky,” feat. GloRilla, Sexyy Red & Lil WayneNo. 15, “Darling, I,” feat. Teezo TouchdownNo. 16, “Rah Tah Tah”No. 32, “Thought I Was Dead,” feat. ScHoolboy Q & SantigoldNo. 33, “Hey Jane”No. 40, “Judge Judy”No. 42, “Take Your Mask Off,” feat. Daniel Caesar & LaToiya WilliamsNo. 45, “Like Him,” feat. Lola YoungNo. 46, “I Killed You”No. 53, “Tomorrow”No. 56, “Balloon,” feat. DoechiiNo. 65, “I Hope You Find Your Way Home”
Prior to this week, Tyler, The Creator had charted 33 Hot 100 hits, reaching as high as No. 13 with “Earfquake” in 2019. His new total of 46 career entries dates to September 2011, when he first charted as a featured act on The Game’s “Martians vs Goblins,” also featuring Lil Wayne. The song spent one week on the chart at No. 100. He returned in July 2017 with “Who Dat Boy” (No. 87 peak).
Thanks to their featured appearances on the songs listed above, Santigold, LaToiya Williams and Lola Young all earn their first career entries on the Hot 100.
Meanwhile, Lil Wayne tallies his 187th career Hot 100 hit, and first of 2024, thanks to his feature on “Sticky.” He has now charted at least one song on the Hot 100 in every year since 2004 – 21 consecutive years and counting, the longest active streak among all acts. The next-longest active runs are by Jason Aldean and Chris Brown (20 years each), Taylor Swift (19), Luke Bryan (18) and Mariah Carey (17) – all five acts have all charted in 2024, thus continuing their respective streaks.
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Incredibly, it’s been twenty years since JC Chasez released his debut solo album, Schizophrenic — his first and only solo foray following his time in *NSYNC. But after all that time — during which Chasez has explored various creative outlets, from judging America’s Best Dance Crew to, more recently, reuniting on two songs with his former bandmates — Chasez is back with an unexpected release.
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Playing With Fire is the concept album for a musical based on Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, which Chasez co-wrote with longtime collaborator Jimmy Harry — and the singer stopped by Billboard News to discuss the project and how it pushed him creatively.
“We knew we wanted to write a musical, we just didn’t know what about,” says Chasez of the seeds of the project. “[Jimmy and I] come from pop music — we write different styles of pop music, but essentially our strengths are in pop music. [But] we’re more mature, we have more ideas than just the typical pop song, and this gave us the opportunity to express those ideas — to do something that’s bigger than three minutes and is a bit more focused but allows us to dream in different ways.”
Chasez is a deep theater fan who admits, “I could go to a show every night if I was lucky enough,” and he says Jesus Christ Superstar was their biggest inspiration for Playing With Fire. “They started with a concept album, and that’s kind of what inspired us to release it as an album first. If someone as smart and talented as Andrew Lloyd Webber thinks [it’s a good idea] is to release the music for a show first, why don’t we give it a shot?”
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And speaking of potential reunions, he speaks about celebrating the 25th anniversary of fellow former Mouseketeer Christina Aguilera’s debut album with her — and the potential for them to do a duet someday: “If it was the right thing and organic, I’d be happy to sing with her anytime,” he says with enthusiasm.
Watch the full interview — including the story behind “Better Place,” how *NSYNC’s performance with Timberlake earlier this year in Los Angeles came together, and how Playing With Fire pushed Chasez vocally — above.
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Steve Earle’s son, John Henry, was diagnosed with autism when he was 19 months old, while the singer/songwriter was on tour in Australia. He received a phone call with the news from his then-wife, country singer-songwriter Allison Moorer.
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“That was the beginning of me trying to figure out what John Henry needed,” says Earle, “and I got lucky.”
John Henry, now 14, is enrolled in the Keswell School in New York City. The year-round school nurtures and educates students with autism ages 3 to 22, with a teacher-to-student ratio of 1:1 for “pretty intense” therapy, says Earle. John Henry is non-verbal, with a diagnosis of a sensory processing disorder.
For the past decade, Earle has used his acclaimed artistry and career-long friendships to raise funds to help the school with an annual must-see performance.
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On Monday (Nov. 4), at Town Hall in New York, the 10th annual John Henry’s Friends Benefit will feature Earle with Jackson Browne, along with singer-songwriter Margaret Glaspy and the husband-and wife duo of Larry Campbell and Teresa Williams.
The show is a rare opportunity to see Browne in a small venue. “Jackson and I have been showing up for each other’s causes for a long time,” says Earle. Glaspy is a New York-based singer/songwriter whose latest album Echo the Diamond was released last year. Earle has been friends for decades with Williams and Campbell, the latter the Grammy-winning producer/singer/guitarist known for his tours with Bob Dylan and as the musical director of Midnight Rambles with the late Levon Helm of The Band.
Presented by Earle and City Winery, the benefit will feature a guitar pull format, “all four artists on stage at the same time, just kind of swapping songs and telling stories,” he says. “It’s a unique experience for the audience.” Earle will draw from his repertoire of classics like “Guitar Town” and “Copperhead Road,” which he recently re-recorded live for his new solo acoustic concert album Alone Again (Live).
The community spirit of the benefit show reflects what Earle has learned about parenting an autistic child, beginning immediately after that very first phone call, he recounted recently.
In Australia, in early 2012, he was playing festivals with Crosby, Stills and Nash. “I’d never really met Stephen [Stills] before that week,” says Earle. But he knew Stills and his wife Kristen have a now-grown autistic son, Henry. (Henry Stills was featured in the 2007 HBO documentary Autism: The Musical, for which his mother was an executive producer.) “I just made a beeline for Stephen and he put me on the phone with Kristen,” recalls Earle.
Connection with others facing the challenge of autism is crucial, he says. Earle, who has overcome addiction to heroin and cocaine, recalls: “There was a guy in my twelve-step group that had a kid, who was a young teenager by that time, who had autism, and [that father] was the one that showed me the ropes in New York City.”
(Although Earle recovered from his addiction, his first-born son Justin Townes Earle, 38, died in August 2020 of an accidental overdose. “I’ve had two of the worst bits of news a parent can receive,” says Earle. “One is your child has autism and the other, my son [was found] deceased on the floor of his apartment.” Earle subsequently released J.T., an album of his son’s songs on Jan. 4, 2021, which would have been Justin’s 39th birthday.)
“Everything that can happen has happened to me,” says Earle, who nevertheless responded to John Henry’s diagnosis with his instincts as an activist. “I have skin in this game,” he says. “I have something I could offer that might be able to raise some funds.”
Earle has become an advocate for those with autism, dismissing misinformation and offering guidance where he can. “It is an epidemic and, yeah, we don’t know what causes it,” he says. “Whatever else you think about vaccinations, it doesn’t cause autism.”
Earle notes that federal disability laws state that “if your public school system can’t provide what your child needs — and that’s any special needs child — then the school system has to fund that education” in a private school setting. “But you have to lawyer up,” says Earle. “You have to litigate to get those funds, even though there’s a federal law, because it’s an unfunded law. There’s a lot of those on our books.”
Earle also sought legal advice to set up what’s known as a special needs trust to provide for John Henry’s future. “It’s something you definitely need to do,” says Earle, while acknowledging that John Henry also will benefit from a strong extended family. The singer’s son, Ian, will care for John Henry when his parents are gone.
“That was decided early on,” says Earle. “I didn’t force that on him or anything. And I think my grandkids will step into the breach,” he adds. “They’ve just been raised that way. We’re that kind of family.”
Federal government support for autism crosses party lines. A renewal of the Autism CARES Act, which will provide $2 billion over the next five years for autism research and healthcare training benefiting individuals with autism, passed both the House and the Senate in September. And yet, “the truth is, any kind of services provided by the government are in danger in an election like this,” says Earle.
Perhaps surprisingly, this self-described “hard-core lefty” does not criticize those who have previously supported Donald Trump. “There’s some people whose lives just didn’t get any better in the administration before and they voted for something different. That’s heartbreaking, but it is the way that it is.”
But on this Election Day, he says, “we have a candidate on one side that really isn’t concerned about anything but lowering his taxes and [the taxes for] people like him and keeping himself out of jail.” On Monday, Earle will be focused on helping the school that has done so much for his son.
“John Henry’s improved a lot,” says Earle. “He’s still non-verbal. He navigates an iPad fairly well.” He also enjoys a wide range of music, Early explains, helping his father develop an appreciation for classical compositions and opera.
“He understands way more than we ever know,” says Earle. But he also will not respond, due to his autism — or perhaps due to him simply being a teenager.
“I’m his father, and there are other times when he understands exactly what I’m saying, and he ignores me,” Earle says with affection. “So that’s not autism. That’s just like any other 14-year-old.”