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It’s Friday, November 3rd, and we’re breaking down all the new music releases this week! Jung Kook’s debut solo album ‘Golden’ is out now, Olivia Rodrigo drops a new track titled “Can’t Catch Me Now” for ‘The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes,’ The Beatles release their final song “Now and Then” and […]
Blink-182 earns its second consecutive and total No. 1 on Billboard’s Rock & Alternative Airplay chart, as “One More Time” tops the Nov. 11-dated ranking.
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The song lifts from No. 2 to No. 1 with 9 million audience impressions, up 11%, in the Oct. 27-Nov. 2 tracking week, according to Luminate.
The song follows the group’s “Edging,” a 17-week leader on the list beginning nearly a year ago.
Concurrently, “One More Time” rules the Alternative Airplay survey for a fourth week. It also rises 5-4 on Mainstream Rock Airplay, marking Blink-182’s second-highest-charting entry, after “Edging” reached at No. 2 in January.
“One More Time” is also bubbling under Adult Alternative Airplay; should it chart, it would become the band’s first appearance there.
The song has crossed over to non-rock radio formats, too. It rises 32-29 on Adult Pop Airplay, having become the band’s first title to make the tally since “I Miss You,” which peaked at No. 24 in 2004.
On the most recently published multi-metric Hot Rock & Alternative Songs chart (dated Nov. 4), reflecting activity Oct. 20-26, “One More Time” ranked at No. 10. In addition to its radio airplay, the song earned 3.8 million official U.S. streams and sold 2,000 downloads in that span.
The song is the second single from Blink-182’s LP One More Time…, the trio’s ninth studio album and first since the return of guitarist and vocalist Tom DeLonge. The set debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 dated Nov. 4 with 125,000 equivalent album units earned.
All Billboard charts dated Nov. 11 will update on Billboard.com on Tuesday, Nov. 7.
It’s Taylor Swift week on Australia’s charts, as the U.S. pop star completes a double and floods the top deck of the national singles tally.
As expected, 1989 (Taylor’s Version) (via Universal) flies to No. 1 on the ARIA Albums Chart, published Friday, Nov. 3, for Swift’s 12th career leader in the land Down Under, while “Is It Over Now?” debuts at the pinnacle of the singles survey.
Remarkably, 1989 (Taylor’s Version) is her third No. 1 for 2023, following Midnights, which reigned for seven non-consecutive weeks earlier this year (after clocking seven weeks at the top in 2022) and Speak Now (Taylor’s Version), which checked-in at the penthouse for two weeks in July.
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Although ARIA doesn’t publish the combined sales, the trade body reports 1989 (Taylor’s Version) accumulates the biggest sales week ever for Swift on the ARIA Albums Chart, the top opening week for any new album since 2017, and a record-setting first week for a vinyl album.
All four of Swift’s rerecorded LPs have led the national chart. Two more are to come.
With her latest feat, Taylor levels-up with Madonna in third place on the all-time list of acts with the most No. 1 albums in Australia. Jimmy Barnes leads that list with 15 as a solo act (he had another five with Cold Chisel), with the Beatles in second place with 14.
TayTay’s 12 leaders include the original version of 1989, which reigned for four weeks in 2014 and another five weeks in 2015.
With its fast debut, “Is It Over Now? (Taylor’s Version) (From The Vault)” becomes Swift’s 10th No. 1 on the ARIA Singles Chart, a list that’s dominated by tracks from the new album. Eight of the top 10 are from Swift, including a top four sweep.
Swift will repay her fans in February 2024 when she plays seven stadium shows in Australia, on her The Eras Tour, produced by Frontier Touring (three at the Melbourne Cricket Ground, four at Sydney’s Accor Stadium).
Across her career, the pop star has spent 23 weeks at No. 1 on the ARIA Singles Chart, the trade body reports, drawing level with “You’re The Voice” singer John Farnham.
The Beatles lead that list, with 130 weeks, ahead of Elvis Presley (61 weeks) and Justin Bieber (48 weeks). With “Now And Then,” which arrived Thursday, Nov. 2, the Beatles could extend that lead when the next chart is published.
Meanwhile, prolific Australian alternative rock act King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard earn their second top 10 of the year with The Silver Cord (KGLW/Universal), new at No. 5 on the ARIA Albums Chart. King Gizzard are nominated for four categories in the 2023 ARIA Awards, set for Nov. 15 in Sydney.
Close behind is Australian singer and songwriter Angie McMahon’s Light, Dark, Light Again (AWAL). It’s new at No. 6. Light, Dark, Light Again is McMahon’s second album, and the followup to Salt, which peaked at No. 5 in 2019. McMahon was Billboard’s Indie Artist of the Month for October.
Just two albums into her career, Olivia Rodrigo is proving impossible to catch.
The U.S. pop star is a perfect two-from-two atop the Billboard 200 chart, and the Official U.K. Albums Chart. In her homeland, she’s bagged three No. 1s on the Billboard Hot 100, most recently with “Vampire” sinking its fangs in for two weeks in July.
On the other side of the Atlantic, she became the youngster solo artist to history to claim the U.K. chart double when, at 18 years and three months, she led both main charts in May 2021 (with Sour and “Good 4 U”). The next month, in June 2021, Rodrigo became the first female solo artist to claim three simultaneous U.K. top 5 singles with “Good 4 U,” “Déjà vu” and “Traitor.”
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Add to that a hattrick of Grammy Awards, including best new artist; a BRIT Award for best international song at the BRIT Awards in February 2022; and in August of this year, at the age of 20, she became the youngest artist receive a BRIT Billion Award by the BPI.
Before she bent charts to her will, Rodrigo was high-profile piece of the Disney machine, starring in High School Musical: The Musical: The Series.
Rodrigo adds another feather to her cap with “Can’t Catch Me Now,” from The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes (Music From & Inspired By), the official soundtrack to Lionsgate’s latest film in The Hunger Games franchise.
Rodrigo wrote the searing ballad with producer Daniel Nigro, less than two months after the release of Guts, her sophomore LP. It’s one of 17 songs on the soundtrack, including works performed in the film by The Hunger Games star Rachel Zegler, as well as tracks by young artists in the folk and Americana genre.A prequel, set 64 years before Katniss Everdeen volunteered as tribute, and long before Coriolanus Snow became the dark overlord of Panem, The Hunger Games: The Ballad Of Songbirds & Snakes arrives in theaters Nov. 17.
The upcoming movie stars Zegler alongside Tom Blyth, Peter Dinklage, Hunter Schafer, Josh Andrés Rivera, Jason Schwartzman and Viola Davis, and follows the story of Coriolanus (Blyth), who is the last hope for his failing lineage, the Snow family that has fallen from grace in a post-war Capitol.
The full soundtrack also arrives Nov. 17. Stream “Can’t Catch Me Now” below.
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Willie Nelson’s 90th birthday party is set to continue well into the last weeks of the 2023, with a televised all-star concert special, honoring the life and career of the country music legend. Featuring performances from Beck, Gary Clark Jr., Sheryl Crow, Snoop Dogg, Norah Jones, Miranda Lambert, Dave Matthews, Keith Richards, and the man of honor, Willie Nelson’s 90th Birthday Celebration is set to air Sunday, Dec. 17 on the CBS Television Network, and streaming on Paramount+.Nelson’s sons Lukas Nelson and Micah Nelson will also perform, alongside George Strait and Chris Stapleton, with Jennifer Garner, Chelsea Handler, Woody Harrelson, Ethan Hawke, Helen Mirren and Owen Wilson confirmed as hosts.
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The iconic artist, author, actor, and activist broke the news of the televised concert special Thursday night (Nov. 2) when he appeared as a guest on Stephen Colbert’s The Late Show. “I’m ready for it,” he tells Colbert.
Many stars on the lineup for next month’s special were on hand when Nelson blew out 90 candles back in April of this year.
The likes of Beck, George Strait, Snoop Dogg, Miranda Lambert, Norah Jones, Sheryl Crow, Dave Matthews, Tom Jones, The Chicks, and Chris Stapleton performed at the Long Story Short: Willie Nelson 90, A Star-Studded Concert Celebrating Willie’s 90th Birthday, spread across two-dates at the Hollywood Bowl.
“It was great,” he tells Colbert of that earlier love-in, “a little surreal of course. I loved every minute of it.”
Like a fine wine, Nelson seems to be improving with age. He was nominated for four Grammys earlier this year and a multi-part documentary on Nelson, titled Willie Nelson & Family, premiered at the Sundance Film Festival. On March 3, he released his latest album, I Don’t Know a Thing About Love, which highlighted songs written by Harlan Howard, on Sony’s Legacy Recordings. On Friday, Nov. 3, Nelson is inducted into The Rock And Roll Hall of Fame.
The party doesn’t end there. “It is the sincere privilege of our lives to have produced these shows celebrating our beloved Willie, and to partner with CBS to bring this special to fans around the world,” comment Mark Rothbaum and Keith Wortman, creators and executive producers of Willie Nelson’s 90th Birthday Celebration. “Viewers will now have the chance to sing, and laugh, and cry and experience the joy of this celebration like never before.”
For his latest late-night stint, Nelson performed “I Never Cared For You,” and “Whiskey River,” both of which appear on his Greatest Hits, released today to coincide with his Rock Hall elevation.
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Jung Kook teases his new track “Standing Next to You” and is set to make his solo ‘The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon’ debut on November 6th. K-pop girl group STAYC gives us an inside look at a day in their lives. In this week’s episode of Billboard Explains, we take a deep dive into […]
Latin icon Chayanne sat down with Billboard’s Latin Chief Content Officer Leila Cobo to talk all about his new album Bailemos Otra Vez, the possibility of a tour in 2024 and how he finds balance in his life.Leila Cobo:Cuando oí “Bailemos Otra Vez” dije “Bueno, esta canción puede ser para una persona, pero yo la oí como una canción para los fans.”
Chayanne:Sí.
Leila Cobo:Así la oí yo. Yo dije esta canción es una canción de amor, sí. Pero es una canción que yo siento que se la hiciste dedicándosela a tus fans de bailemos otra vez. ¿O no?
Chayanne:Sí, es una invitación a la novia. Bailemos otra vez. Es una invitación a… Estoy aquí, las invito a bailar otra vez. Son un apoyo de tantos años. Vamos a seguir disfrutando. Es básicamente el ángulo de esta canción.
Leila Cobo:Entonces tú vas a abrir la gira con “Bailamos Otra Vez.” ¿Y cuándo va a empezar esta gira?
Chayanne:Mira cómo me pone.
Leila Cobo:¿Marzo del 2024?
Chayanne:Toma mucho tiempo.
Leila Cobo:Junio del 2024.
Chayanne:Leila, sabes lo que toma la gira, me conoce, sabe cómo se trabaja detrás del escenario. Y ahora con lo de TikTok y todo eso que la gente me ve corriendo, haciendo ejercicio, bailando en las ensayos. Pero sí, vamos a estar planificando para el año que viene. Todavía no se sabe el mes, pero obviamente tiene que montar- imagínate, están todos confabulados.
Leila Cobo:Es una conspiración.
Chayanne:No, olvídate.
Leila Cobo:Todo el mundo que está aquí.Watch the full video above!
Kate Bush celebrates her extraordinary comeback with a reissue of her albums in physical formats.
The enigmatic English singer’s label Fish People is pulling the trigger on “unlimited editions” of her reissued albums, spanning her 10 studio efforts, including U.K. No. 1s Hounds of Love and Never for Ever, The Dreaming, and her debut The Kick Inside, plus the remix album Director’s Cut.
“It’s been great fun putting together these new versions, including the colored vinyl for independent record stores,” comments Bush in a statement.
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“They’ve been designed as a ‘set’. It’s very exciting to see the resurgence of appreciation for the physical presence of albums released on vinyl. It’s how it’s always been for me, especially when I was a teenager. The whole buzz of the record store was part of the experience. Buying an album was an event.”
She continues, “There’s a special emotional connection that happens between the possessor of an album, the music and the artwork, when it exists in the real world. It’s something we can treasure in a unique way.”
The reissues feature the remastered audio from a 2018 campaign, when Bush’s entire musical output was released on vinyl across four box sets, including songs that had never before been pressed on wax.
The release campaign caps a thrilling resurgence for Bush in recent years. Powered by the fourth season of Stranger Things, Bush’s 1985 hit “Running Up That Hill (A Deal With God”) became a chart phenomenon all over again.
By mid-2022, she was No. 1 on Hot 100 Songwriters Chart, and the song had logged multiple weeks at No. 1 in Australia and the U.K., where she was anointed as the oldest female artist ever to lead the Official U.K. Singles Chart (at 63 years and 11 months). This Friday (Nov. 3), Bush will be inducted into the Rock And Roll Hall of Fame, during a ceremony that will air live on Disney+.
“I hope you enjoy these reissues,” writes Bush. “A great deal of care and thought has gone into them.”
The release of a new Beatles record, a band that officially split in 1970, is rare as hen’s teeth, and a legitimate cause for celebration.
That time has almost come, with “Now And Then” set to drop Thursday (Nov. 2) at 10am ET, followed 24-hours later by the release of an official music video, directed by Lord of the Rings mastermind Peter Jackson, marking the Oscar-winner’s first foray into the short format.
Described as the “last Beatles song,” “Now And Then” began life as a demo written and sung by John Lennon, was later developed and worked on by Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr, and now finally finished by Paul and Ringo, the surviving members of The Beatles, more than 40 years after the group began work on it.
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No Beatles project is complete without a deep-dive, multi-channel exploration, which is what the band provides with a new 12-minute documentary, a companion piece to the song and video.
Directed by Oliver Murray and featuring input from McCartney, Starr, the late Harrison, Jackson, and Sean Ono Lennon, Now And Then – The Last Beatles Song is an origin story, tracing the tale of a bold project undertaken in February 1995 by Paul, George and Ringo, a studio mission that would get the old band back together.
“Real Love” and “Free as a Bird” both arrived, fresh, in 1995, as part of the Beatles Anthology project. But “Now And Then” remained unfinished — “languishing in a cupboard,” is how McCartney describes it — partly due to the technological limitations of the time.
The late Lennon’s vocals were recorded to tape in the 1970s, and remained there until Jackson found a solution. The New Zealander and his team developed a technology for the three-part documentary series Get Back, which paved the path for Lennon’s vocals to be uncoupled from his piano part.
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“He was always making demos,” Sean says of his dad in the short film, now streaming on YouTube, “and I do remember him recording into these tape cassette recorders. Mum had these handful of songs that my dad hadn’t finished. And she gave them to the other Beatles.”
Recounting the first attempts at converting Lennon’s rough cut into a Beatles diamond, McCartney says, “we listened to the track. There’s John in his apartment in New York City, banging away at his piano, doing a little demo. Is it something we shouldn’t do? Every time I thought, like that, I thought ‘wait a minute.’ Let’s say I had a chance to ask John. ‘Hey John, would you like us to finish this last song of yours?’ I’m telling you, I know the answer would have been ‘yeah.’ He would have loved that.”
Sean agrees. “My dad would have loved that, because he was never shy to experiment with recording technology. I think it’s really beautiful.”
“Now And Then” has been named as Radio 1’s Hottest Record, and will be issued as a double A-side single with “Love Me Do,” through Apple Corps Ltd./Capitol/UMe.
Watch The Beatles – Now And Then – The Last Beatles Song below.
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SYDNEY, Australia — Sounds Australia stalwart Esti Zilber will take the reins at the national music export body, succeeding Millie Millgate as executive producer.
With effect from Monday, Nov. 20, Zilber, currently creative producer, will lead a team that includes Glenn Dickie (export music producer), Dom Alessio (digital export producer) and Larry Heath (associate producer).
“Esti has been such an integral part of the growth of Sounds Australia over the last 13 years,” comments Millgate, who leaves the organization to lead Music Australia as its inaugural director, “and I’m truly excited for the future of the program knowing what a compassionate and formidable leader she will be. Sounds Australia is in extremely safe hands.”
Joining Sounds Australia in 2010, Zilber has played a key role in developing and delivering Sounds Australia’s program around the world. “Her work with inbound buyers across Australia’s domestic music conferences has seen thousands of invaluable connections made between international industry and local artists and managers,” reads a statement announcing her promotion.
During the peak-pandemic years of 2021 and 2022, Zilber managed Sounds Australia’s Export Stimulus Program, which saw $1.2 million distributed, across three rounds, to over 320 Australian artists, crew and music professionals. That financial support was used to realize “significant career-defining moments” in global markets and earn much needed income after 18 months of cancelled work due to the impacts of the pandemic.
Prior to working at Sounds Australia, she was the executive assistant to legendary concert promoter Michael Chugg and managed the offices of Chugg Entertainment and, before that, worked in book publishing in New York and was the executive producer arts and culture at FBi Radio, the Sydney community radio station.
Sounds Australia will next year celebrate its 15th anniversary. Since its launch in 2009, Sounds Australia has managed the presentation of over 2,200 Australian artists on global show stages, covering 86 different international events, in 75 cities, across 26 countries. Its presence can be felt at the Aussie BBQ and Australia House at SXSW, and, for its 10th anniversary in 2019, the Central Park SummerStage with Australian artists San Cisco, Hermitude, The Teskey Brothers, WAAX, Tkay Maidza Australian Music Prize winning Indigenous hip-hop act A.B. Original.
Sounds Australia will “imminently” kick start a recruitment process for Zilber’s replacement, reads a statement.