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A new debut and summer songs staying on top. This is the Billboard Hot 100 top 10 for the week dated June 8. Billie’s “Lunch” falls to No. 10. “Beautiful Things” is at No. 9, as “Too Sweet” moves up to No. 8. Teddy Swims is at No 7. Zach Bryan’s “Pink Skies” debuts at […]
With the release of Camilo’s new album Cuatro, he takes Billboard on a tour of his studio, where he’s created hits such as “Misión Imposible,” “Una Canción de Amor Para la Pulga” and many more. He goes in-depth about each aspect of the studio, his day-to-day schedule, his creative process with his team and more!
Camilo: Hi, I’m Camilo and you’re watching Billboard News. Leila, welcome to the creative workshop.
Leila Cobo: Thank you.
Camilo:Is it really hot outside or no?
Leila Cobo: It’s getting very hot outside, but in here it’s …
Camilo:It’s nice in here.
Leila Cobo:Perfect.
Camilo:Welcome to the creative workshop. The whole album was made here in the creative workshop — everything. It was the first creative piece of the workshop. I dreamed of this. I dreamed that the album would be completely made here, from the first idea or the album to the final mastering of music. And the videos, handmade by us in our creative workshop. First, take a quick peek at everything. I’m going to give you a little tour. I have a special talent for making cortado. Do you want a small cortado?
Leila Cobo: I want the Camilo cortado.
Camilo:Yeah? Coming right up. Well, my dear … For me, one of the things I really enjoy the most about the creative workshop is to have the coffee that I like.
Leila Cobo:As it is important.
Camilo:It’s so important. It all came out. So now, we comb through it so that there are no air bubbles. Then we tap it a couple of times to make it go down. It also already has the measurement of the pressure that we like to use.
Leila Cobo:I have never seen a coffee maker taking such care in making a coffee.
Camilo:And there it should go up within the range of espresso, which went up perfectly.
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Ayra Starr invites Billboard behind the scenes of her new music video, “Last Heartbreak Song,” with Giveon off of her sophomore album, The Year I Turned 21. Ayra Starr: Everybody knows I love, I love to film, and I love to make people feel through my music. Giveon: I don’t usually shoot that many videos, […]
With summer just around the corner, Jennifer Lopez has announced that she is canceling her This Is Me… Live summer tour to spend time with her family. Tetris Kelly: We won’t be on the floor anytime soon, at least until later. Jennifer Lopez has completely canceled her summer tour and we have the details. JLo […]
After Trump’s guilty verdict was revealed yesterday, celebrities such as Katy Perry, Bette Midler, Kathy Griffin and more took to social media to share their joy in the ruling. Tetris Kelly: Donald Trump is guilty. The former president and reality star was found guilty of 34 charges of falsifying business records, and we have what […]
Eminem drops new single “Houdini,” while Megan Thee Stallion and Cardi B join GloRilla on “Wanna Be.” Ayra Starr and Shaboozey drop their new albums, and more! Tetris Kelly:Did Eminem just take a shot at Megan Thee Stallion, as Cardi B joins Meg and Glo on a new track. And fresh drops from Normani, Shaboozey […]
After NLE Choppa’s success with “SLUT ME OUT 2” and “Stickin and Movin,” he shares how his artistry plays a significant role in everything he creates. He shares his perspective on the Kendrick Lamar vs. Drake feud, the importance of mental health and philanthropy in his life, balancing fatherhood and more!
NLE Choppa:Yo, what’s up? It’s NLE Choppa and this is Billboard News. Tune in for the interview right now. Let’s do it.
Tetris Kelly:It’s slut season, you declared it man.
NLE Choppa:Yes, sir, the one in the flesh.
Tetris Kelly: So listen, “Slut Me Out 2”: 20 million streams, 4 million views on YouTube, man. You having fun with it?
NLE Choppa:Man, having a lot of fun. I feel like that’s the most important part of it. If we ain’t doing that, we ain’t doing something right so yeah.
Tetris Kelly:Then, “Slut Me Out” came out two years ago, so tell me why now was the time that you was like, “I want to do a part two, I want to follow that up.”
NLE Choppa:Man what’s funny is “Slut Me Out 2” came out two years ago. I released it around, like, March and it didn’t pick up traction until December, so like, it kind of was like a little bit under the rug and then in December, out of nowhere, it just started to gain traction. It goes crazy. I feel I could never really commit to it, so I was like, “No, I want to do a No. 2,” but really commit to it and see how far I can take it because the first one went like d–n near top 10 on Billboard, so I’m trying to push this one to one.
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Twenty One Pilots land a second No. 1 in Australia with Clancy (via Atlantic/Warner), the U.S. act’s seventh and latest studio album.
Hailing from Columbus, OH, Twenty One Pilots now boast four top 10s on the ARIA Chart, including 2018 leader Trench, plus 2015’s Blurryface (No. 7 peak) and Scaled and Icy (No. 3) in 2021.
Clancy is also on track for the U.K. crown, having led the midweek tally ahead of Paul Weller’s 66 and Taylor Swift’s The Tortured Poets Department.
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After bowing at No. 1 on the ARIA Chart, Billie Eilish’s Hit Me Hard And Soft (Interscope/Universal) dips 1-2, while Swift’s Tortured Poets (Universal) slips 2-3.
U.K. heavy rock band Bring Me The Horizon enjoy a top 10 start in Australia with Post Human: Nex Gen (RCA/Sony), their ninth studio album. It’s new at No. 4 on the ARIA Chart, published Friday, May 31. The fresh release is the second in the four-album Post Human series. The first, Post Human: Survival Horror, peaked at No. 3 in 2020. The Sheffield, England act has led the national chart on four occasions: There Is A Hell Believe Me I’ve Seen It, There Is A Heaven Let’s Keep It A Secret (in 2010), Sempiternal (2013), That’s The Spirit (2015) and Amo (2019).
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Homegrown hip-hop favorites Hilltop Hoods return to the top 10 with Walking Under Stars (Island/Universal), thanks to a 10th anniversary edition. The LP logged two weeks at No. 1 in 2014 for two weeks and is one of the Adelaide trio’s five consecutive No. 1 studio albums. Walking Under Stars won best urban album at the ARIA Awards, one of the group’s 10 career ARIAs.
Over on the singles chart, Tommy Richman’s “Million Dollar Baby” (Concrete Boat Boy) enters a second week at No. 1, while country tracks Shaboozey’s “A Bar Song (Tipsy)” (Empire) and Post Malone featuring Morgan Wallen’s “I Had Some Help” (Universal) respectively complete the top 3.
The top new entry on the current frame belongs to U.S. country star Zach Bryan, whose “Pink Skies” (Warner) open up at No. 15. It’s Bryan’s third top 20 hit in Australia, following “Something In The Orange” and “I Remember Everything” with Kacey Musgraves, which both peaked at No. 6.
When a New Zealander rises to the very top, and does it with style, Australians have a tendency to claim them. It’s a sign of warmth, affection and respect, or a damn nuisance, depending on which side of the ditch you live.
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Neil Finn and Crowded House is one towering example.
Finn, a proud Kiwi, formed Crowded House out of the ashes of Spilt Enz, the great early-‘80s Kiwi act that signed with the late Michael Gudinski’s Mushroom Records and might have been global superstars were it not for the tyranny of distance.
Today, Crowded House drops Gravity Stairs, their eighth studio album and first through a new deal with BMG.
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Gravity Stairs is produced with Steven Schram (Paul Kelly, San Cisco) and the band, currently featuring Finn and his sons Elroy and Liam; founding, Australia-born bass player Nick Seymour; and U.S.-born keyboardist Mitchell Froom, and is inspired by a heavy stone staircase near where the band leader vacations.
“The Gravity Stairs are symbolic of the struggle to ascend,” says Auckland-based Finn, “acknowledging the opposing forces of weight on the mechanics of living. It’s an act of will every day.”
Since emerging fully-formed in 1986 as a trio of Finn (singer, songwriter, guitar), Seymour and the late, Australian drummer Paul Hester, the group has sold over 15 million records worldwide, and achieved induction into the ARIA Hall of Fame, 13 ARIA Awards, an MTV VMA, a BRIT Award and a U.K. No. 1 album (with 1996’s Recurring Dream – The Very Best Of). Finn was on hand at the 2024 Rolling Stone Australia Awards in Sydney this April to collect the second-ever “icon” honor.
That first self-titled album housed the hits “’Something So Strong” and “Don’t Dream It’s Over,” which peaked at No. 2 on the Billboard Hot 100. “Don’t Dream It’s Over” made a mighty comeback last year. Thanks to a sync to an episode of the rebooted detective classic Magnum P.I., the song powered to No. 1 on Billboard’s Top TV Songs chart.
Featuring the previously released tracks “Teenage Summer” (which was changed from “Life’s Imitation”) and “The Howl,” Gravity Stairs is the followup to Dreamers Are Waiting, which peaked at No. 2 in Australia, No. 6 on the Official U.K. Chart, and won best adult contemporary album at the 2021 ARIA Awards.
Crowded House will support the new LP with a trans-Tasman tour, kicking off Nov. 9 at TSB Arena in the NZ capital, Wellington, with Australia dates starting Nov. 29 at Perth’s Kings Park & Botanical Gardens. Live Nation is producing the swing Down Under.
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Keke Palmer, Janelle Monáe, Adam Lambert and many more artists are getting ready to perform at WeHo Pride this weekend! Tetris Kelly: Kesha, Janelle Monae, Kylie Minogue and so many more are heading to West Hollywood this weekend for the OUTLOUD Music Festival at WeHo Pride. Jeff Consoletti: We are so excited to be back […]