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Sam Smith and Kim Petras make it a hattrick as “Unholy” (via EMI) claims a third consecutive week at No. 1 in the U.K.
The track draws level with Smith’s 2017 single “Too Good At Goodbyes” as their second-longest-running No. 1 hit, with both songs boasting three straight weeks at the summit.
Of Smith’s eight U.K. No. 1s, none has logged more time at the top than their “Promises” collaboration with Calvin Harris, at six weeks.
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“Unholy” leads an unchanged top three, ahead of David Guetta and Bebe Rexha’s “I’m Good (Blue)” (via Parlophone) and Lewis Capaldi’s “Forget Me” (Vertigo), respectively.
Beyoncé’s “Cuff It” (Columbia/Parkwood Ent) is enjoying a renaissance after going viral on social media. The single lifts 10-5 for a new chart high in its 11th week on the Official U.K. Singles Chart.
Also on the rise is Anne-Marie and Aitch’s “Psycho” (Atlantic), up 12-9 for its first stint in the top 10. “Psycho” leads Aitch’s three appearances in the top 40 of the latest U.K. chart frame, published Friday, Oct. 14, with Ed Sheeran collab “My G” (Asylum/Capitol) up 16-14, and Tion Wayne alliance “Let’s Go” (Atlantic) debuting at No. 30.
Another song on the rise after turning viral on TikTok is Tom Odell’s 2010 release “Another Love,” up 18-13. That’s the highest chart position for the track since July 2013, and it’s closing in on its peak of No. 10. The debut from the BRITs Critics Choice winner began trending alongside protest videos, including tributes in response to the death of 22-year-old Iranian woman Mahsa Amini in suspicious circumstances.
A slew of singles rise on the latest survey, including Lizzo’s “2 Be Loved (Am I Ready)” (via Atlantic), up 20-16; Rema’s “Calm Down” (Mavin) up 21-17; Burna Boy and Ed Sheeran’s “For My Hand” (Atlantic) up 19-18; Cian Ducrot’s “All For You” (Polydor) up 23-19; Venbee and Goddard’s “Messy In Heaven” (Columbia) up 38-20 and d4vd’s “Romantic Suicide” (DVD4) 31-22.
The highest new debut on the latest frame belongs to Mimi Webb, as “Ghost Of You” (Epic) starts at No. 23. Lifted from her forthcoming debut album Amelia, “Ghost Of You” is Webb’s fifth top 40 appearance.
Finally, Oliver Tree and Robin Schulz snag a top 40 debut with “Miss You” (Atlantic), new at No. 28. It’s Tree’s highest chart position in the U.K. and his second top 40 after “Life Goes On,” which last year peaked at No. 33, and it’s Schulz’ fourth appearance in the top tier.
Country singer Jimmie Allen has announced that he’ll appear on the new season of ABC’s The Conners.
“This is gonna be a good time,” he tweeted. “Learning my lines as I type.”
The sitcom — a sequel to the 1988-97 series Roseanne, which was briefly revived in 2018 before creator Roseanne Barr was fired over controversial tweets — is now in its fifth season. It’s yet to be revealed whether Allen is playing a character on the show or himself.
Allen has appeared on other television shows this year too, performing on American Idol and serving as an advisor to Blake Shelton on The Voice. The singer got his start on season 10 of Idol back in 2011 but was cut before the show’s live voting rounds; he signed a deal with Wide Open Music shortly thereafter. More than a decade after his time on American Idol, Allen teamed up with his former judge Jennifer Lopez to create a country remix of the Marry Me soundtrack single “On My Way.”
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Allen has earned three No. 1 spots on Billboard‘s Country Airplay chart, and in 2021, he won the CMA Award for new artist of the year and ACM Award for new male artist of the year.
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Daniel Johns is back in a familiar place — at No. 1 on Australia’s albums chart.
The ex-Silverchair frontman sets a chart record as FutureNever (BMG/ADA), his third solo album, returns to the summit on the ARIA Chart.
Following its release April 22, FutureNever bowed at No. 3 in Australia, then lifted to No. 1 in its third week.
Now, thanks to its release on vinyl, the album stages another return to the top.
Its 22 weeks between stays at the chart penthouse is the biggest gap for an album by an Australian artist, ARIA reports.
FutureNever, the best-seller on wax this week, earned Johns a nomination for best artist at the 2022 ARIA Awards, announced Wednesday (Oct. 12).
“To have FutureNever go to No. 1 on the ARIA Albums Chart twice in 2022 and spend 6 weeks in the ARIA Top 10 is amazing,” Johns says in a statement as the chart was published late Friday, local time.
“Thank you to the incredible people who worked on this album with me and a very special thank you to everyone who has listened to FutureNever and helped spread the word. For an album with no singles and no music videos, I’m truly grateful that the music is speaking for itself.”
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Johns’ album also lends its name to the veteran rocker’s not-for-profit FutureNeverFund, which announced it would work closely with EquiEnergy Youth, a Newcastle, Australia-based charity dedicated to helping communities reduce instances of mental health distress, self-harm and suicide risk in young people, an alliance that coincides with Mental Health Month.
FutureNever is Johns’ first solo leader in Australia, and sixth in total, including all five of Silverchair’s studio LPs, from Frogstomp through to Young Modern, a feat no other band can match.
Meanwhile, a pair of new releases impact the ARIA top five, led by Stray Kids’ Maxident (ING), new at No. 4, a debut that easily eclipses the K-pop band’s previous chart peak, No. 14 for 2021’s Noeasy.
Close behind is Charlie Puth’s Charlie (Atlantic/Warner), which debuts at No. 5, for the U.S. pop singer’s third ARIA top 10.
Beyonce’s Renaissance (Columbia/Sony) roars back into the top 10, up 29-7, following its own release on vinyl. Over on the national singles chart, “Cuff It” becomes the second Renaissance single to crash the top 10, lifting 16-8 after going viral on TikTok.
There’s no change at the top of the ARIA Singles Chart, as Sam Smith & Kim Petras’ “Unholy” (Capitol/EMI) holds at No. 1, ahead of David Guetta and Bebe Rexha’s “I’m Good (Blue)” (via Warner) and OneRepublic’s “I Ain’t Worried” (Interscope/Universal), respectively.
The highest debut on the latest singles chart, published Oct. 14, is Ed Sheeran’s ”Celestial” (Atlantic/Warner), new at No. 37. Sheeran’s latest top 40 hit will appear on the Pokémon “Scarlet” and ”Violet” games, set to rollout Nov. 18 on the Nintendo Switch.
Nicki Minaj has called out The Recording Academy for switching her hit “Super Freaky Girl” out of the Grammy Awards’ rap category, and into pop, a decision she reckons is a contradiction, and part of a broader agenda to celebrate rising rap artists over veterans.
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Earlier this week, Billboard’s sister title The Hollywood Reporter disclosed the Grammys change-up, despite “Super Freaky Girl” logging its eighth week on top of Billboard’s Hot Rap Songs chart.
Minaj’s team submitted the track to the rap categories at the Grammys, but the decision was overturned by the Recording Academy’s rap committee, a source told THR.
The Trinidadian star addressed the situation in a series of tweets, and went deeper still in a 17-minute rant posted on social media.
“’Super Freaky Girl’ was removed from the rap category, we found out today in the Grammy submission. ‘Super Freaky Girl,’ where I only rapped on the song, was removed out of the rap categories at the Grammys, right. And put it in pop,” she explains.
It should be noted that MC Hammer also sampled Rick James’ “Super Freak” for “U Can’t Touch This,” which won the best rap solo performance Grammy back in 1991.
Drake’s “Hotline Bling,” however, in 2017, took out best rap song and best rap/sung collaboration, she points out, though even Drake himself admitted it was a pop number.
On the flip side, Minaj wants the same rules applied to Latto’s pop leaning “Big Energy”.
“Now, let’s say that ‘Super Freaky Girl’ is a pop song. Let’s just say that, right. What is ‘Big Energy?’ If ‘Super Freaky Girl’ is a pop song, what song is ‘Big Energy.’ What genre is ‘Big Energy?’
Suggesting she’s been hard done by, Minaj continued, “If you know something is unfair as an artist, speak on that shit. Drake could’ve just let that shit slide and added it to his collection, but he spoke up.”
If you move “Super Freaky Girl” out of rap and “put it in pop,” she adds, “do the same for ‘Big Energy’. Same producers on both songs, by the way. So let’s keep shit fair.”
Minaj’s “Super Freaky Girl” was a mainstream hit, blasting to No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 in August. Its shift into the pop frame, or “moving the goal post,” she says, is part of a process to “uplift the people who they want to shine, the people who these corporate giants can make the money off of the people, control things behind the scenes, they have to elevate someone that they profit off.”
Minaj also issued a warning, claiming unnamed power players had an agenda that would eventually upend diversity in hip-hop.
“If you can’t tell by now that there is a concerted effort to give newer artists things that they really don’t deserve, over people who have been deserving for many years, then you’re not paying attention. And soon female rap will really not have any black women. If you pay attention, you’ll see, you’ll understand.”
The Recording Academy doesn’t reveal reasons when its screening committees relocate tracks into categories other than those that eligible recordings were submitted in, THR notes. The general ballot, which can include thousands of submissions in a single category, isn’t released to the public.
Despite it all, Minaj insists she’s still the queen of rap.
“I know one thing,” she says, “even when I’m rapping on a pop track, I still out-rap.”
Blink-182 are back, they’re playing in a huge venue near you next year, and they’ll road test some new tunes.
One of those tracks is “Edging,” the first taste of new music from the reunited classic lineup of Blink-182, which set social media ablaze this week with news of Tom DeLonge’s return to the band.
“Edging” is the first cut from the pop-punk favorites’ forthcoming album, the first with DeLonge since the singer/guitarist left the band for a second time, in 2014.
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DeLonge returns to the trio alongside singer/bassist Mark Hoppus and drummer Travis Barker for an upcoming Live Nation-produced trek that’s being called their biggest international tour to-date.
Dropping at this stroke of midnight, “Edging” marks the first time in a decade that Mark, Tom and Travis have been in the studio together.
If you thought the lads were all grown up and graduated to soft ballads, fear not. “Edging” is straight-up Blink-182 material, hewn from misspent youth and with all the bluster, swagger and stop-on-a-dime detail that made the threesome one of the most popular alternative rock acts of its era.
“I’m a punk rock kid, I came from hell with a curse/ She tried to pray it away, so I f***ed her in church,” Delonge and Hoppus sing at the top.
The tour is slated to kick off on March 11 in Tijuana, Mexico at the Imperial GNP festival and keep the band on the road in South America and Mexico through April 12 before shifting to North America on May 4 with a show at the Xcel Energy Center in St. Paul, Minnesota; those dates will run through a July 16 gig in Nashville at the Bridgestone Arena and then move on to Europe in September and Australia/New Zealand in early 2024.
Along the way, Blink-182 will play multiple festivals in Latin America and the U.S., including Lollapalooza and the 2023 edition of We Were Young.
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AC/DC have done it all in the rock ‘n’ roll, from dropping multi-million selling albums, filling stadiums around the globe, induction into the Rock And Roll Hall of Fame. Heck, even Iron Man is a fan.
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Now, the Aussie rock titans are playing a different note, with a children’s picture book.
Angus Young and Co. signed off on The AC/DC AB/CD High-Voltage Alphabet, available in-stores from Nov. 11 and online at lovepolicebooks.com.
Illustrated by Paul “The Mayor” McNeil, it’s the fourth in a series of kid’s picture books released by Australian merch and lifestyle company, Love Police, after Never Mind Your Ps and Qs, Here’s the Punk Alphabet, M Is For Metal, and the Country and Western Alphabet Book.
“From the greatest rock n roll band in history, comes the most rockin’ alphabet book ever,” reads the blurb on the new page-turner, priced at A$24.95 ($15.80).
“Join Angus, Malcolm, Bon, Brian and the boys for a classic stroll through the alphabet. Every page leaps out with color, humor and the band’s history as you wind down the Highway To Spell.”
The latest look at Akka Dakka, as they’re known in these parts, came about when Young got his hands on M is for Metal while in Australian during the pandemic. He contacted Love Police chief Brian Taranto, and conversations moved from rock ‘n’ roll tales to the written word.
“What an honor it is to work on this book, and to have had a connection to Angus for the real deal stuff makes it even more wild and special,” comments Taranto. “Yeah, it’s a kid’s book, but any AC/DC or music fan will find something on every page.
The Mayor “has done a sweet and rockin’ job. We are looking forward to educating another generation of rock and rollers.”
AC/DC has already educated several generations. The band’s 17th and latest studio album, 2020’s Power Up, went straight to the top in the U.S. (their third leader), the U.K. (fourth No. 1) and Australia (sixth). The band was inducted into the ARIA Hall of Fame at its inaugural edition, in 1988, and into the Rock And Roll Hall of Fame in 2003.
Björk begins at No. 2 on Billboard‘s Top Dance/Electronic Albums chart (dated Oct. 15) with Fossora. The set starts with 10,000 equivalent album units earned, including 9,000 in album sales, in the Sept. 30-Oct. 6 tracking week, according to Luminate.
It’s the Icelandic songstress’ sixth top 10 dating to the chart’s 2001 inception, a run that began with Vespertine (three weeks at No. 1, 2001). Björk’s other top 10s are Greatest Hits (No. 2, 2002), Family Tree (No. 6, 2002), Volta (nine weeks at No. 1, 2007) and Biophilia (No. 1, 2011).
Björk landed five earlier titles on the Billboard 200, led by Homogenic (No. 28, 1997). Volta brought Björk her highest rank, and lone top 10 to date, on the chart (No. 9).
Concurrently, Fossora arrives on Top Album Sales (No. 7), Vinyl Albums (No. 7; 5,000 vinyl copies), Top Alternative Albums (No. 9), Independent Albums (No. 15) and the Billboard 200 (No. 100), among other tallies.
Additionally on Top Dance/Electronic Albums, Shygirl (aka Blane Muise) starts at No. 7 with Nymph (3,000 units). The U.K.-based DJ/singer has scored two hits on the multi-metric Hot Dance/Electronic Songs chart: “Sour Candy (Mura Masa Remix),” with Lady Gaga and BLACKPINK (No. 24, September 2021), and as featured on FKA Twigs’ “Papi Bones” (No. 32, this January).
Speaking of Hot Dance/Electronic Songs, Farruko flies20-12 with “Nazareno,” earning top Streaming Gainer honors following the Sept. 29 drop of a remix and video with Ankhal. The track, which reached No. 7 in June, earned 1.2 million U.S. streams, up 102%, in addition to gathering 2.6 million in all-format radio airplay audience impressions.
Shifting to the Dance/Mix Show Airplay chart, MK collects his fourth top 10 and BURNS earns its first with “Better,” featuring Teddy Swims, who adds his second (13-10). The song is drawing core-dance airplay on Music Choice’s Dance/EDM channel, iHeartRadio’s Evolution and KMVQ-HD2 San Francisco, among other outlets. (The Dance/Mix Show Airplay chart measures radio airplay on a select group of full-time dance stations, along with plays during mix shows on around 70 top 40-formatted reporters.)
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