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City Girls get real RAW in their new third studio album, which was released Friday (Oct. 20). The 18-track project includes previously released singles “I Need a Thug,” “Piñata,” “No Bars,” “Face Down” and “Good Love,” featuring Usher. The other featured guests include Lil Durk (“Static”), Muni Long (“Emotions”), Juicy J (“Fancy Ass Bitch”) and […]
The Rolling Stones are back! The iconic rock n’ roll band unveiled their 26th studio album, Hackney Diamonds, on Friday (Oct. 20). Hackney Diamonds marks the first new Rolling Stones album of original music since the release of 2005’s A Bigger Bang, which peaked at No. 3 on the Billboard 200 chart. The album also is the […]
Trolls Band Together is hitting theaters in less than a month, but fans can get hyped in the meantime by listening to the film’s official soundtrack, which arrived on Friday (Oct. 20). Explore Explore See latest videos, charts and news See latest videos, charts and news The soundtrack features the previously released collaboration between Camila […]
The ladies of XG are Billboard’s newest cover stars. In honor of the Hot 100’s 65th anniversary, Billboard staff has been pulling together a huge list of the top 500 best pop songs. The 2023 Billboard Music Awards, set for Sunday, Nov. 19, will include a first-of-its-kind collaboration with Spotify ‘Fans First.’ And more!
Tetris Kelly:South by Southwest Sydney headliners XG are on the cover of Billboard. Major Billboard Music Awards announcement incoming. Sebastian Yatra takes us Behind the Photo. We reveal Billboard’s Top Pop Songs of All Time. And we run down the top songs on TikTok this week.
Welcome to another episode of Billboard News. I’m Tetris Kelly. It’s Thursday, October 19th. And we’re starting this show off with our latest cover stars Japanese global pop artists XG.
Maya:Well, we’ve been inspired by a lot of groups but maybe TLC, Destiny’s Child and Spice Girls. The evolution of girl power.
Jurin:I think the fundamental haven’t changed.
Maya:It hasn’t changed I agree, I agree.
Jurin:I think defining yourself in a certain way.
Maya:Don’t limit yourself.
Jurin:Yeah not being bound by any boundaries or anything like that is what I believe is the fundamental aspect of girl power.Whenever I decide on an outfit, I always try to project the image I want to become. For today’s Billboard interview, I went with something a bit more mature and colorful and added a bit of playful touch.Destiny’s Child, TLC and Aaliyah. I love them. I love new challenges, and I like to set my mind to something and just get on with it. So I call myself Active Gal.Well for me personally it means having my own style and loving myself. I think that’s what girl power is.
Harvey:We all have very different personalities and things we really like. Each of us have to remember what we’re really into. Taking time to do what you like to do? I think we are doing that individually. I’m the same with COCONA and HINATA but I also try to draw pictures. I also like to read books and do other things that I really like.
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BNYX re-enters Billboard’s Hot 100 Producers chart (dated Oct. 21) at No. 1, becoming the top producer in the U.S. for the first time, thanks to his work on Drake’s new No. 1 album on the Billboard 200, For All the Dogs.
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BNYX (known off-stage as Benjamin Saint Ford) is credited as a producer on six songs on the latest Billboard Hot 100: five from For All the Dogs and one from Travis Scott’s Utopia. Leading the pack is the Dogs track “IDGAF,” featuring Yeat, at No. 2. BNYX solely produced the song, helping boost his chart points on Hot 100 Producers.
Here’s a look at all of BNYX’s production credits on the current Hot 100, all of which contribute to his points total on Hot 100 Producers.
Hot 100 Rank, Artist Billing, Title (co-producers in addition to BNYX):No. 2, Drake feat. Yeat, “IDGAF”No. 11, Drake feat. Sexyy Red & SZA, “Rich Baby Daddy” (Gordo, Johannes Klahr, LIOHN, The Loud Pack, UV Killin Em, Dougie F)No. 18, Drake, “What Would Pluto Do” (Lil Yachty, GENT!, Bangs)No. 26, Drake feat. Chief Keef, “All the Parties” (Maneesh Bidaye, Harley Arsenault, Boi-1da, Jdolla, Fierce, Coleman)No. 32, Drake, “Away From Home” (Lil Yachty, Sad Pony, Justin Raisen, Lukas Levine)No. 59, Travis Scott feat. Drake, “Meltdown” (Boi-1da, Vinylz, Tay Keith, Coleman)
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BNYX also re-enters at No. 1 on the R&B/Hip-Hop Producers and Rap Producers charts, leading the former for the first time and the latter for a second time.
BNYX has produced seven additional Hot 100-charting songs in his career, including his first two top 10s. Here’s a recap, listed chronologically by peak date:
Artist Billing, Title (Peak Position, Peak Date):Yeat, “Talk” (No. 42, Sept. 17, 2022)Yeat feat. Lil Uzi Vert, “Flawless” (No. 77, Sept. 24, 2022)Yeat, “No More Talk” (No. 77, March 11, 2023)Drake, “Search & Rescue” (No. 2, April 22, 2023)Lil Uzi Vert feat. Travis Scott, “Aye” (No. 31, July 15, 2023)Travis Scott, Bad Bunny & The Weeknd, “K-Pop” (No. 7, Aug. 5, 2023)Lil Tecca & Kodak Black, “Hvn on Earth” (No. 88, Oct. 7, 2023)
BNYX concurrently debuts at No. 3 on Hot 100 Songwriters, as he’s also credited as a co-writer on all six of the charted songs that he produced. Drake returns to No. 1 on the chart for a 12th week.
Looking at other Drake collaborators on this week’s Hot 100 Producers chart, 40 re-enters at No. 4, OZ at No. 6, Lil Yachty at No. 7, Harley Arsenault at No. 9 and Jahaan Sweet at No. 10.
Billboard’s weekly Hot 100 Songwriters and Hot 100 Producers charts are based on total points accrued by a songwriter and producer, respectively, for each attributed song that appears on the Hot 100. As with Billboard’s yearly recaps, multiple writers or producers split points for each song equally (and the dividing of points will lead to occasional ties on rankings). Billboard launched its Hot 100 Songwriters and Hot 100 Producers charts, as well as genre-specific rankings for country, rock & alternative, R&B/hip-hop, R&B, rap, Latin, Christian, gospel and dance/electronic in June 2019. Alternative and hard rock joined in 2020, along with seasonal holiday rankings in 2022.
Tetris Kelly:It was August 4th, 1958, the Billboard Hot 100 was born. In honor of the chart’s 65th anniversary, Billboard staff has been putting together a huge list of the Top 500 Best Pop songs, everything from Tony Bennett to SZA, The Kinks to The Chainsmokers, Chubby Checker to *NSYNC. And now we’re revealing the […]
Mitski retains her lead on the TikTok Billboard Top 50 chart, while Future and Drake make major moves on the Oct. 21-dated survey.
The TikTok Billboard Top 50 is a weekly ranking of the most popular songs on TikTok in the United States based on creations, video views and user engagement. The latest chart reflects activity Oct. 9-15. Activity on TikTok is not included in Billboard charts except for the TikTok Billboard Top 50.
Mitski’s “My Love Mine All Mine” remains at No. 1 on the TikTok Billboard Top 50 for a second week. It’s the second song to reign for more than one week in the tally’s six-week existence, following FamousSally and YB’s “Wassup Gwayy.”
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Concurrently, “My Love Mine All Mine” zooms 9-7 on Billboard’s Hot Rock & Alternative Songs chart, sporting a gain of 28% to 10.7 million official U.S. streams Oct. 6-12, according to Luminate. It also crowns Alternative Streaming Songs, Mitski’s first ruler there.
A pair of debuts follow Mitski, led by Future’s “Wicked,” which bows on the TikTok Billboard Top 50 at No. 2. Why is a song from Future’s 2016 Billboard 200 No. 1 album EVOL ranking so high on a chart in 2023? A dance trend soundtracked by the tune, which mostly utilizes the uploader’s hands. “Wicked” peaked at No. 41 on the Billboard Hot 100 in July 2016.
Meanwhile, a brand-new song enters at No. 3: Drake’s “IDGAF,” featuring Yeat. Simultaneously debuting at No. 2 on the Hot 100 (40.8 million streams) and from the rapper’s new album For All the Dogs (No. 1 on the Billboard 200), “IDGAF” is the runaway success from the LP on TikTok, with users utilizing the sound in a variety of ways, from memes to simply discussing how much they like it.
Four Drake songs from For All the Dogs appear on the TikTok Billboard Top 50 in all, with “IDGAF” followed by “Virginia Beach” (No. 23), “First Person Shooter,” featuring J. Cole (No. 35) and “Rich Baby Daddy,” featuring SZA (No. 37).
The top TikTok Billboard Top 50 debut after Future and Drake belongs to JaidynAlexis, whose “Barbie” starts at No. 13. JaidynAlexis, with whom rapper Blueface has multiple children (the “Barbie” video was released on his YouTube channel), had not appeared on a Billboard ranking before; “Barbie,” released Oct. 2, has made waves on TikTok via a variety of lip-synching and dance clips.
The chart has also gotten into the Halloween spirit, with a pair of covers of “This Is Halloween” from The Nightmare Before Christmas bowing at Nos. 29 (The Party Cats) and 44 (Hairy & Scary Creatures).
See the full TikTok Billboard Top 50 here, including debuts from Jhene Aiko, Darell, Doja Cat and more. You can also tune in each Friday to SiriusXM’s TikTok Radio (channel 4) to hear the premiere of the chart’s top 10 countdown at 3 p.m. ET, with reruns heard throughout the week.
The Rolling Stones, we’ve learned over the years, is a juggernaut that simply can’t be stopped.
On Friday (Oct. 20), the rock ‘n’ roll legends drop Hackney Diamonds, the British band’s first new studio album or original material in 18 years.
Collaborators include Lady Gaga, Stevie Wonder, Elton John, former bass player Bill Wyman, and, yes, Paul McCartney, creating a “supergroup” — a “dream team” — that unites arguably the two greatest bands of all time, the Beatles and the Stones.
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Ahead of release, guitarist Ronnie Wood stopped by The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Kimmel on Thursday (Oct. 19) to give the low-down on the new record, the followup to 2005’s A Bigger Bang.
Wood’s verdict? It rocks.
“I can say it’s about time,” he tells Fallon. “It feels so exciting. Because I’m so excited about every track on it, every track has something to say and a different direction.”
That excitement should spill over to Stones fans, even more so with confirmation that the Stones are preparing for live performances.
“We’ve been doing a little rehearsing to see how these songs translate live,” Wood explains. “And they’re really cooking.”
Hackney Diamonds includes contributions from the band’s late drummer, Charlie Watts, who died August 2021, aged 80, a blow that had many fans wondering if we’d ever see or hear again from the Stones. Wood paused to remember his former bandmate. “Some things are beyond our control,” he recounts. “Losing Charlie was one of those things.”
As previously reported, Gaga and Wonder perform on the song “Sweet Sound of Heaven,” while Elton contributes piano to “Live By the Sword.” The late Watts contributes to two of the songs.
It’s McCartney’s bass work on “Bite My Head Off” that has everyone talking, including the two-time Rock And Roll Hall of Famer.
The song is a ball of energy, reckons Wood, and Paul was “so blown away. He was a bit like a school boy, a kid in a toy shop. He loved it. He said, ‘my dreams, a Beatle gets to play on a Rolling Stones album.’”
Hackney Diamonds is the Rolling Stones’ 24th studio album. “We didn’t want to make just any record and put it out,” frontman Mick Jagger said during a live stream in London last month to present the record. “Before we went in [the studio], we said we had to make a record that we really love ourselves. We must say that we are quite pleased with it. I’m not saying we are big-headed about it, but we’re pleased with it and we hope that you all like it.”
Watch Ronnie Wood’s late night interview below.
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The glitter, feather boas and rainbows came out for “Elton John Night” on Fox‘s The Masked Singer, and for one former sports professional and icon of the LGBTQ community, the end of the line.
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The Rocket Man and his music was everywhere on the night, as Tiki performed Goodbye Yellow Brick Road, Hawk hit “Saturday’s Alright For Fighting,” Husky performed “Bennie and the Jets,” Royal Hen tackled “Philadelphia Freedom,” and, for good measure, judge Robin Thicke performed “Tiny Dancer.”
The two celebrities with the lowest number of votes would enter the knockout. That meant Royal Hen vs. Hawk, on a rendition of “Don’t Go Breaking My Heart” by Elton John and Kiki Dee.
Hawk won the battle of the birds.
Under the Royal Hen mask was Billie Jean King, the tennis legend with 39 Grand Slam titles to her name who is as well remembered for her deeds on the court as those advocacy efforts off it.
King didn’t just perform the song. It’s hers.
Elton and his career-long collaborator Bernie Taupin wrote the song in the early 1970s for King, then a member of the Philadelphia Freedoms professional tennis team.
“You guys are so awesome, thank you so much,” she said after the big reveal.
The experience, on The Masked Singer, yeah “It was great but it was so hot” under that outfit. “I’m sweating bullets”.
King also recounted the moment her friend Elton told her about the song he was writing for her. “If you go to Philadelphia, everyone is still playing it,” she said. “It’s their anthem.”
It was King who, in 1973, lobbied for equal prize money for men and women at the U.S. Open.
Through her work, Flushing Meadows became the first major tournament to offer equal prize money to both sexes. Today, all four Grand Slams offer equal prize money to women and men. King also defeated self-proclaimed chauvinist Bobby Riggs in the so-called “Battle of the Sexes” in 1973, winning in three straight sets.
For her work, King in 2009 received the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the United States’ highest civilian honor, and she’s a recipient of the 1999 Arthur Ashe Courage Award.
King as Royal Hen follow the exit door after Michael Rapaport as Pickle, Tom Sandoval as Diver, Anthony Anderson as Rubber Ducky and Demi Lovato as Anonymouse as season 10’s unmasked celebrities.
Thicke, Nicole Scherzinger, Ken Jeong and Jenny McCarthy return as judges for the latest season, which airs Wednesdays at 8 p.m. on Fox.
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TikTok has launched TikTok Music, its new premium-only music streaming service, in Australia, Singapore and Mexico. The news arrives just months after the company announced its closed, beta version of the streamer for those three territories in July.
As part of the launch, TikTok Music is adding in new features like Party It (a personalized collaborative listening feature), FYP Tuning (swipable music discovery tool, letting users choose different musical scenes and moods), and Tonik (a music discovery personal assistant that is powered by Open AI’s ChatGPT).
With Tonik, users can search for an artist, track or playlist, ask about concerts and music news, learn about the stories behind the music and more.
The new streaming service has not yet made it to most of the major music markets around the world, including the U.S., but its interest in combining social media savvy with music listening could make it a strong new competitor to the established services like Spotify, Apple and Amazon as it expands worldwide.
Already, TikTok as a social platform has wielded great influence over the incumbent streamers. For example, Spotify announced earlier this year that they would integrate a new vertical, swipe-able discovery feed into their app, sparking comparisons to the short-form video app. Spotify also recently recruited some of TikTok’s most popular music influencers – like Ari Elkins and Dev Lemons – to help popularize its now-defunct live audio app, Spotify Live.
Other new features on the app include:
Sync With TikTok: sync your TikTok and TikTok Music accounts to enjoy songs from the social app
Play TikTok Hits: Stream the full versions of TikTok viral songs
Seamless Music Discovery With TikTok: Record your music discovery journey in TikTok and explore the songs in TikTok Music
Discover More Personalized Music: Swipe up and down to explore songs just for you
Discover New & Emerging Artists: Find your new favourite artist
Find Your Music Community: Express yourself through comments, enjoy behind-the-scenes stories, and connect with like-minded music lovers
Sing Along With Real-Time Lyrics: Sing and rap with built-in lyrics that play automaticallyCo-create collaborative Playlists with Friends: Making music better together
Import your Music Library: With just one click, import external playlists and play them through TikTok Music
Name That Song: identify any song you’re listening to with Song Catch
“We are pleased to publicly launch TikTok Music, a new kind of service that combines the power of music discovery on TikTok with a best-in-class streaming service. TikTok Music will make it easy for people to save, download and share their favourite viral tracks from TikTok,” says Ole Obermann, global head of music business development, TikTok. “We are excited about the opportunities TikTok Music presents for both music fans and artists, and the great potential it has for driving significant value to the music industry.”