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Inaugural leader, biggest song of 2024 and now the final No. 1 of the year: Shaboozey’s “A Bar Song (Tipsy)” takes the top spot of the TouchTunes Frontline Chart for the fourth quarter of 2024.
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The TouchTunes Frontline and Catalog charts for the fourth quarter of the year track the most played music on TouchTunes jukeboxes from Oct. 1 to Dec. 31, 2024, with the Frontline ranking inclusive of music released in the last 18 months, followed by the Catalog tally for any music that was released more than 18 months ago. TouchTunes has jukeboxes in over 60,000 locations worldwide. TouchTunes data is not factored into other Billboard charts.
Since the TouchTunes Frontline and Catalog charts’ existence (beginning with the second quarter of 2024), “A Bar Song” has been No. 1 on the Frontline ranking, as well as the top song on TouchTunes across its entire playable catalog.
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Its reign coincides with the song’s standing as the top-played tune on TouchTunes jukeboxes for 2024, the first song since Chris Stapleton’s “Tennessee Whiskey” to be the platform’s most-played song in a year that was considered a frontline (18 months old or less) release at the time.
“A Bar Song” also sports 19 weeks at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 between July and November 2024, tying Lil Nas X’s “Old Town Road,” featuring Billy Ray Cyrus, for the lengthiest rule in chart history. It appears at No. 4 on the latest survey, dated Feb. 1.
The aforementioned “Tennessee Whiskey” retains its hold on the TouchTunes Catalog Chart, and it’s also the second-most-played song on the platform overall. Like “A Bar Song,” “Tennessee Whiskey” has reigned on its respective chart for all three quarters since both rankings were launched.
It does, however, have somewhat of a challenger in Teddy Swims’ “Lose Control,” which graduates to the Catalog list after previously being part of Frontline. It enters Catalog at No. 2 after appearing at No. 3 on the third-quarter Frontline tally.
Toby Keith’s “I Love This Bar,” Garth Brooks’ “Friends in Low Places” and Brooks & Dunn’s “Neon Moon” round out Catalog’s top five, giving “Lose Control” the distinction of the ranking’s first non-country song.
That said, the Frontline Chart’s top five is all country, with Post Malone’s “I Had Some Help,” featuring Morgan Wallen, holding its No. 2 rank, followed by Ella Langley’s “You Look Like You Love Me” (featuring Riley Green), Wallen’s “Cowgirls” (featuring ERNEST) and Zach Top’s “I Never Lie.”
Of those, Langley and Top are debuts, marking the top new entries of the quarter. “Cowgirls,” meanwhile, reaches a new peak, lifting 5-4.
Kendrick Lamar’s “Not Like Us” represents the highest-ranking non-country song on Frontline, dropping three spots to No. 7.
With the holiday season falling within the fourth quarter, the Catalog Chart also sees a seasonal classic in Mariah Carey’s “All I Want for Christmas Is You,” which enters the tally at No. 19.
And once again, it’s Wallen who boasts the most appearances across both rankings, with six songs – as a lead act or featured – on the Frontline ranking and one on Catalog. Jelly Roll follows with four total (two on each).
See both 25-position charts below.
TouchTunes Frontline Chart
1. “A Bar Song (Tipsy),” Shaboozey (=)2. “I Had Some Help,” Post Malone feat. Morgan Wallen (=)3. “You Look Like You Love Me,” Ella Langley feat. Riley Green (debut)4. “Cowgirls,” Morgan Wallen feat. ERNEST (+1)5. “I Never Lie,” Zach Top (debut)6. “Lies Lies Lies,” Morgan Wallen (+5)7. “Not Like Us,” Kendrick Lamar (-3)8. “Pink Pony Club,” Chappell Roan (+9)9. “Beautiful Things,” Benson Boone (=)10. “Too Sweet,” Hozier (-3)11. “I Am Not Okay,” Jelly Roll (+8)12. “Last Night,” Morgan Wallen (-6)13. “Ain’t No Love in Oklahoma,” Luke Combs (+3)14. “White Horse,” Chris Stapleton (+1)15. “Love Somebody,” Morgan Wallen (debut)16. “Whiskey Whiskey,” Moneybagg Yo feat. Morgan Wallen (-4)17. “The Door,” Teddy Swims (debut)18. “Espresso,” Sabrina Carpenter (debut)19. “Pour Me a Drink,” Post Malone feat. Blake Shelton (-1)20. “Get It Sexyy,” Sexyy Redd (debut)21. “Hot To Go!,” Chappell Roan (debut)22. “Miles On It,” Marshmello with Kane Brown (debut)23. “Million Dollar Baby,” Tommy Richman (-10)24. “You Proof,” Morgan Wallen (=)25. “Wild Ones,” Jessie Murph with Jelly Roll (-2)
TouchTunes Catalog Chart
1. “Tennessee Whiskey,” Chris Stapleton (=)2. “Lose Control,” Teddy Swims (debut, previously No. 3 on Frontline)3. “I Love This Bar,” Toby Keith (-1)4. “Friends in Low Places,” Toby Keith (-1)5. “Neon Moon,” Brooks & Dunn (-1)6. “Son of a Sinner,” Jelly Roll (-1)7. “I Think I’ll Just Stay Here and Drink,” Merle Haggard (+5)8. “Fat Bottomed Girls,” Queen (-2)9. “Copperhead Road,” Steve Earle (=)10. “Drinkin’ Problem,” Midland (-3)11. “Don’t Stop Believin’,” Journey (-1)12. “Save Me,” Jelly Roll with Lainey Wilson (debut, previously No. 10 on Frontline)13. “Rockstar,” Nickelback (+1)14. “Whiskey Glasses,” Morgan Wallen (-6)15. “Family Tradition,” Hank Williams Jr. (=)16. “Simple Man,” Lynyrd Skynyrd (-3)17. “Something in the Orange,” Zach Bryan (-6)18. “Higher,” Creed (+4)19. “All I Want for Christmas Is You,” Mariah Carey (debut)20. “Fast Car,” Luke Combs (debut, previously No. 8 on Frontline)21. “The Joker,” The Steve Miller Band (-5)22. “Thunderstruck,” AC/DC (-3)23. “Sweet Child o’ Mine,” Guns N’ Roses (=)24. “In the Air Tonight,” Phil Collins (re-entry)25. “Brown Eyed Girl,” Van Morrison (-5)
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Marianne Faithfull, British singer, songwriter, actress and iconic figure of the 1960s, has died. She was 78 years old.“It is with deep sadness that we announce the death of the singer, songwriter and actress Marianne Faithfull,” a statement shared to BBC reads. “Marianne passed away peacefully in London today, in the company of her loving family. She will be dearly missed.”
A cause of death has yet to be revealed.
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Faithfull was born in the Hampstead area of North London, the daughter of an Austrian aristocrat and a British intelligence officer. Starting a career as a folk singer in the early ’60s, she made the acquaintance of Rolling Stones producer Andrew Loog Oldham, who introduced her to the band’s circle, and offered her “As Tears Go By,” a composition co-penned by the band’s Mick Jagger and Keith Richards. The sparse, acoustic ballad hit the top 10 in the U.K. in 1964, and also crossed over to the Billboard Hot 100, peaking at No. 22.
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“As Tears Go By” made Faithfull a star, and further hits followed the next year: “Come and Stay With Me,” “This Little Bird” and “Summer Nights,” all of which hit the U.K. top 10 and the Hot 100 top 40. Faithfull also became a British tabloid fixture, particularly after she began an affair with Jagger in 1966, ultimately leaving her first husband John Dunbar to live wth him. Early the next year, she made headlines for being at the scene of a drug bust at Richards’ house, dressed only in a fur rug at the time of the arrest.
The hits dried up for Faithfull in the late ’60s, but she continued to be a pop/rock presence, singing backing vocals on The Beatles’ No. 2 hit “Yellow Submarine” and co-writing the Rolling Stones’ Sticky Fingers classic drug ballad “Sister Morphine.” However, her drug addiction ended up consuming much of what should have been her prime years, particularly after she split with Jagger and lost custody of her son Nicholas (with first husband Dunbar) in 1970. After 1967’s Love in a Mist album — her last on Decca Records — she would not release another album until 1976.
Faithfull would make her first and most resounding comeback in 1979, with the new wave and disco-influenced Broken English set. The singer/songwriter’s voice had transformed into something lower and more weathered with her drug usage, and the set drew rave reviews for its modern sounds and brittle energy. Substance abuse sapped the momentum the Grammy-nominated set earned Faithfull’s career, until a 1987 reinvention as a jazz and blues singer on her Strange Weather set.
She was a sporadic presence in the mainstream for the rest of the 20th century, with high-profile guest roles on Roger Waters of Pink Floyd’s 1990 live tour of his band’s best-selling The Wall set, and as a featured vocalist on Metallica’s 1997 single “The Memory Remains.” She experienced another critical resurgence in the early 21st century with 2002’s Kissin Time set — including songs written by popular alt-rock figures Beck, Blur and Billy Corgan of Smashing Pumpkins — and released further albums of originals and covers for the next two decades, most recently with 2018’s Negative Capability, her highest-charting set on the U.K. albums chart since 1965, and 2021’s She Walks in Beauty alongside Australian composer Warren Ellis.
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Outside of her recording career, Faithfull also had a successful run as an actress, appearing in theatrical roles on the stage, in television and in film. She holds the distinction of being the first person to ever say the word “f–k” in a mainstream movie, doing so in the 1967 Michael Winner film I’ll Never Forget What’s’isname, and had small 21st century rules in the hit British sitcom Absolutely Fabulous (as God), and in the Sofia Coppola-directed biopic Marie Antoinette (as Empress Maria Theresa). For her starring role in 2007’s Irina Palm, as a 60-year-old widow who becomes a sex worker out of necessity, she was nominated for a European Film Award for best actress.
Faithfull also endures as one of the defining popular figures of ’60s Swinging London, iconic for her voice and her fashion, and for being a muse to many of the musicians in her orbit, primarily of course The Rolling Stones. She was ranked 25th in VH1’s 1999 list of the Greatest Women of Rock and Roll, and in 2009, she was named icon of the year at the U.K.-based Q Awards. “‘I’m glad you can hear the experience in my voice,” she told Time Out New York in 2016. “I should think so, after 50 years.”
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SYDNEY, Australia — Various Artists Management is now open for business in the land Down Under.
As VAM builds out its international footprint, the company establishes an office in Sydney. Leading the new affiliate is industry veteran Arwen Hunt, VAM’s head of Australia/New Zealand, with duties across the talent agency’s management, label and publishing activities. Hunt reports to CEO David Bianchi.
With the launch, VAM’s empire includes offices in London, Los Angeles and now Australia’s most populous city.
“After the successful opening of our L.A. office a few years back we decided upon further global expansions and Australia/New Zealand seemed like a logical next step, both in terms of the amount of business we have down there and its proximity and access to Asia,” comments Bianchi.
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In Hunt, VAM lands a talented international executive with a stellar CV.
Born in the U.K., Hunt entered the music industry as a 17-year-old and has soaked-up experience as an artist manager, A&R, music publisher, label manager, product manager and promoter.
“It took one meeting with Arwen to know that she was the person to run Various in Australia/New Zealand,” explains Bianchi. “Her management background with Catfish and the Bottlemen and Kate Nash was super-impressive. Mixed with her publishing background at Universal she is just perfect! We are so happy to welcome her to the global VAM Family”.
Most recently, Hunt served as vice president, creative / head of A&R for Universal Music Publishing Group Australia and New Zealand, signing and A&Ring such artists and writers such as PJ Harding, Ruel, Lime Cordiale, Idris Elba, DMA’S, Odette, Timmy Trumpet, Alex the Astronaut, Guy Sebastian, Jessica Mauboy, Gang of Youths, Vera Blue, The Chats, Styalz Fuego, Hiatus Kaiyote, CW Stoneking, D.N.A. and others.
Previously, she was as an artist manager and partner at ATC London, where she guided the careers of Catfish and the Bottlemen, Kate Nash, Augustines, Half Moon Run, Black Lips (U.K. & Europe), Tegan and Sara (U.K. & Europe), and more.
“If you’re lucky enough to find your tribe in this often brutal industry, you find a way to work together. That’s exactly what happened when I first sat down with the VAM team, and now, here we are,” Hunt comments in a statement, issued Jan. 30.
VAM’s team “not only have a knack for identifying incredible musical talent,” she continues, “they’re also astonishingly adept at handpicking the right people to grow VAM and the careers of their artists and writers.”
The team culture is “one that inspires and excites me more than any other I’ve encountered in my lifelong career, and exactly what working in music should be about: a shared vision and exuberant passion and belief in the art they represent; an incessant drive to kick down doors for their artists, clearing the path for them so they can progress; a team that fights together, grows together, celebrate wins together, and inspires and supports each other.”
The VAM roster includes Tom Grennan, Good Neighbours, Melanie C, Ashnikko, The Libertines, Supergrass, La Roux and Rose Gray.
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Ahead of the 2025 Grammys, Teddy Swims sat down to share his feelings of being nominated for Best New Artist and his Hot 100 Top 10 hit, “Lose Control.” The soon-to-be father talks about how fatherhood is inspiring him, the sequel to his first album, ‘I’ve Tried Everything But Therapy (Part 2),’ his tour plans, working with Giveon and more!
Meghan Mahar:
What’s your full McDonald’s order?
Teddy Swims:
I’m gonna get, I’m gonna get two McDoubles. Sometimes I add the Mac sauce to it, because that’s the vibe. And then, you know, you got to get the large fry, baby. Or I’m abig fan of the breakfast too, those little d*mn hash browns. Man, two packs of ketchup on the top. God I-.
You put it right on the top?
I could destroy a hash brown, right now, girlfriend.
Wait, you don’t dip your hash browns?
No. I mean, they’re like, kind of made, like stupid for dipping, you know, they’re like a platform for two packs of ketchup, exactly. And you do, you can even do, like the Toaster Strudel kind of swirl, you know, kind of thing, the zigzag. Hit that with a couple packs. It’s perfect.
We’re making designs with the ketchup, now? That’s crazy.
Yeah, maybe add five of them and draw your name, T-E-D-D-Y.
What was the last concert you attended? Just as a fan.
I want to say, oh, I think last year I got a chance to go see Ocean Alley. They had played in LA and I was just getting back from tour. And, man, Ocean Alley is so dope. Man, my tour manager’s brother was doing the lights for them. So, you know, he got us in there.
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