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Darren Criss and Helen J Shen are headed to Broadway to star in the musical Maybe Happy Ending. The pair sits down to discuss what it’s like to work with each other, how they got the roles, the beauty of musicals and more!
Darren Criss:This is a funny little backdrop, because before we were like in previews. We’ve done performances for audiences over 20 times, I think, or something like that. This is we’ve met for …
Helen J Shen:Probably 48 hours, less.
Darren Criss:Yeah, just a couple, yeah. This is, this is so proto what we are now. The show looks very different from this. I don’t have, none of us have our wigs on, but I think the heart is there, I suppose. So I don’t want to misdirect it too much.
Rebecca Milzoff: The heart and the plant.
Darren Criss: Most importantly, the main star of our show. He couldn’t make it today. He’s already on the private yacht. Yeah, he’s partying on a yacht somewhere.
We’ll give Hua Boon his moment later on, I feel like the show is straightforward to explain, but also sort of defies description in so many ways. I would love to hear when you’re giving kind of your elevator pitch on it to friends and people considering coming. How do you describe Maybe Happy Ending?
Darren Criss: There’s what the story is, and then there is what the show is about. Those aren’t necessarily the same things. Thematically it’s kind of about, yeah, two elderly people in hospice that decide to break out of the situation, to go connect with their family. Now that is a really grim, depressing construct for a show. So why would you ever want to see a musical comedy about that?
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Benson Boone’s “Beautiful Things” tops the first Top Gabb Music Songs chart as the most-played song on Gabb Wireless phones during October 2024.
As announced Nov. 14, Billboard has partnered with Gabb Wireless, a phone company for kids and teens, to present a monthly chart tracking on-demand streams via its Gabb Music platform. Gabb Music offers a vast catalog of songs, all of which are selected by the Gabb team to include only kid- and teen-appropriate content. Gabb Music streams are not currently factored into any other Billboard charts.
Boone’s “Beautiful Things” leads the inaugural 25-position list, one of two songs from the pop singer-songwriter in the initial top 10. Released in early 2024, “Beautiful Things” peaked at No. 2 on the Billboard Hot 100 in March and ranks at No. 8 on the latest, Nov. 16-dated survey. It earned 82.7 million official U.S. streams on Billboard in October 2024, according to Luminate.
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Boone also appears in the top 10 of Top Gabb Music Songs via “Slow It Down,” at No. 9; it peaked at No. 32 on the Hot 100 in September.
Country music is represented in Gabb’s top 10 by Luke Combs’ “Ain’t No Love in Oklahoma,” at No. 2. Combs’ contribution to the Twisters: The Album soundtrack peaked at No. 13 on the Hot 100 in August and at No. 3 on the Hot Country Songs ranking in September.
And at No. 3 comes the top hip-hop entry (as well as the newest release in the top 10, as the song arrived on Oct. 3): KSI’s “Thick of It,” featuring Trippie Redd. Known not just as a musician but also as a YouTube star, boasting nearly 25 million subscribers, KSI’s latest release reached No. 64 on the Hot 100 dated Oct. 26.
Continuing a trend of genre variety, Hozier’s “Too Sweet” represents rock/alternative music in Top Gabb Music Songs’ top 10, at No. 4. It’s one of two songs in the top 10 to reach No. 1 on the Hot 100 — alongside Sabrina Carpenter’s “Please Please Please,” at No. 8 — having ruled for a week in April.
Then there’s NF, who charts the most appearances in the top 10 with three in all; “Let You Down,” from 2017’s Perception, leads the group at No. 5, followed by “Hope” at No. 7 (from his 2023 album of the same name) and “The Search” at No. 10 (the title track to his 2019 album).
NF doesn’t stop there; the rapper also boasts the No. 13 song with “Motto,” giving him four total entries on the inaugural Top Gabb Music Songs chart. That’s the second-most of any act, behind Imagine Dragons, which has five, led by “Bones” at No. 16.
Speaking of Imagine Dragons: “Radioactive” (No. 19) and “Demons” (No. 21), both from the band’s 2012 album Night Visions, are the oldest songs on the chart. The aforementioned “Thick of It” is the newest.
See the full top 25 below.
Top Gabb Music Songs, October 2024
1. “Beautiful Things,” Benson Boone2. “Ain’t No Love in Oklahoma,” Luke Combs3. “Thick of It,” KSI feat. Trippie Redd4. “Too Sweet,” Hozier5. “Let You Down,” NF6. “Golden Hour,” JVKE7. “Hope,” NF8. “Please Please Please,” Sabrina Carpenter9. “Slow It Down,” Benson Boone10. “The Search,” NF11. “Heat Waves,” Glass Animals12. “Stressed Out,” Twenty One Pilots13. “Motto,” NF14. “Stargazing,” Myles Smith15. “Deja Vu,” Olivia Rodrigo16. “Bones,” Imagine Dragons17. “Eyes Closed,” Imagine Dragons18. “Pink Skies,” Zach Bryan19. “Radioactive,” Imagine Dragons20. “Enemy,” Imagine Dragons21. “Demons,” Imagine Dragons22. “She’s All I Wanna Be,” Tate McRae23. “We Can’t Be Friends (Wait for Your Love),” Ariana Grande24. “I Am Not Okay,” Jelly Roll25. “Sunroof,” Nicky Youre & Dazy
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