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Hits, headline slots, awards and inter-band fighting. Since their 2003 debut, Kings of Leon has soaked it all up, rocked out, and, at times enjoyed the royal treatment. With the release at midnight of Can We Please Have Fun (via Capitol), KoL’s career goes nine albums deep.The award-winning sibling act’s latest LP is led by the shaggy rocker single “Mustang,” which cracked the top 5 of Billboard’s Adult Alternative Airplay and Alternative Airplay charts.“Our only rule is to not have any songs on the album that we would be embarrassed if they were a single — so we try to make the album great, because we don’t know anything about the business side of things or algorithms or which song will do well,” bandmate Jared Followill tells Billboard. “Now,” he continues, “it seems like you just need a great 15-second piece of a song to make it big on TikTok — slow it down, reverb it, make it huge. But we don’t know what works anymore, and I don’t think anybody knows … You just have to play ball a little bit, and hope that you’re with the right people who know what they’re doing.”After working with Markus Dravs on their last two full-lengths, including 2021’s When You See Yourself, the quartet tapped Kid Harpoon last year to guide the new effort. The rockers — Caleb (guitar/vocals), Nathan (drums), Jared (bass) and Matthew Followill (guitar) — burst into the mainstream in the late 2000s with smashes “Use Somebody” and “Sex on Fire,” both from 2008’s Only By the Night; the former song won record of the year in 2010, one of their three career Grammys.Along the way, they’ve collected three NME Awards, two Brit Awards, and one Juno, headlined major festivals around the globe, including Bonnaroo, Lollapalooza, Austin City Limits, and Glastonbury, and landed a No. 1 on the Billboard 200 with 2016’s Walls, one of the band’s four top 10 appearances on the chart. KoL hits the road this June for a world tour in support of Can We Please Have Fun. Produced by Live Nation in North America, the jaunt will visit 26 cities across the U.S. and Canada, starting Aug. 14 at Moody Center in Austin, TX.
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For the first time in over four years, two albums debut in the top 10 at the same time on Billboard’s Latin Pop Albums chart.
On the May 11-dated list, Jay Wheeler’s Música Buena Para Días Malos opens at No. 4, while Kany García’s García, arrives at No. 8. The pair marks the first time the Latin Pop Albums chart has dual titles launch in the upper region since Oct. 12, 2019, when José José bowed at Nos. 1, 6 and 7, following his death that September, with Serie Platino – 20 Exitos Vol. 2, El Principe de La Canción and Secreto, respectively.
Wheeler’s Música Buena Para Días Malos starts with 5,000 equivalent units earned in the U.S. in the week ending May 2, according to Luminate. Out of those, a little over 4,000 derive from streams, which equates to 6.3 million official on-demand streams of the album’s songs. Traditional album and track sales comprise the remaining sum of the album’s first week.
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Música Buena Para Días Malos was preceded by one song on the overall Latin Airplay chart: “Historia,” which peaked at No. 35 (chart dated April 27).
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Further, with the simultaneous top 10 debuts on Latin Pop Albums by two different artists, Wheeler and García also repeat a feat last achieved five years ago, when Miguel and Anitta debuted at Nos. 3 and No. 4, with Te Lo Dije (EP) and Kisses on the April 20, 2019-dated list.
Both sets add to the list of few albums that have debuted on Latin Pop Albums in 2024. Here are those five top 10 debuts, including two No. 1 albums:
Debut Date, Debut Pos., Title, ArtistJan. 27, No. 1, Orquídeas, Kali UchisApril 6, No. 1, Las Mujeres Ya No Lloran, ShakiraApril 13, No. 6, Final, Vol. 2, Enrique IglesiasMay 11, No 4, Música Buena Para Días Malos, Jay WheelerMay 11, No. 8, García, Kany Garcia
García’s eponymous album arrives on Latin Pop Albums with 2,000 equivalent units earned in the U.S. during the same period. García’s opening frame was almost entirely driven by the streaming activity of its 12 songs. That figure equals to 3.4 million official on-demand streams of the set’s songs.
García, who has history on the tally, returns to the top 10 after almost five years, when the Puerto Rican singer-songwriter’s Contra El Viento debuted and peaked at No. 3 in June 2019.
García has landed 10 titles on the chart altogether, with eight of them reaching the top 10, spanning three decades since the album Cualquier Día, her chart debut, rose to No. 10 in September 2007.
García was preceded by three songs on Latin Pop Airplay. The No. 15-peaking “Una Vida Buena” led the new recruits (Feb. 3). Meanwhile, “Que Vuelva,” with Carla Morrison, and “En Esta Boca,” with Young Miko, reached No. 12 on the March 16- and March 30-dated rankings, respectively. Lastly, “Te Lo Agradezco,” with Carin León, re-enters at No. 43 on the current multi-metric Hot Latin Songs chart, which combines airplay, digital sales, and streaming activity.
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It was the end of the line for Poodle Moth on Wednesday night’s (May 8) episode of The Masked Singer, as the furry bug had its wings clipped – all 10 feet of them.
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Season 11 of Fox’s kooky singing competition is reaching its climax. Tonight was the quarter-finals, and, as usual, the two celebrities with the least amount of votes went toe-to-toe in a smackdown.
From the top, Clock performed “Get On Your Feet” by Gloria Estefan, Goldfish covered “Unforgettable” by Nat King Cole, Poodle Moth checked in with “Price Tag” by Jessie J. ft. B.O.B., and Gumball rolled with a cover of Jason Mraz’s “I’m Yours”.
Poodle Moth and Gumball slipped into the bottom ranks, and each was tapped for a rendition of “If I Could Turn Back Time” by Cher.
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There could be only one winner: Gumball, who joins Goldfish and Clock in next week’s semi-finals.
Underneath the Poodle Moth mask was Chrissy Metz, the singer and actor from TV series This Is Us, which earned her nominations for a Primetime Emmy Award and two Golden Globe Awards.
Jenny McCarthy-Wahlberg guessed right. Rita Ora picked Faith Hill, Robin Thicke figured it was Shania Twain, and Ken Jeong suggested Melissa McCarthy.
Why would Metz want to do The Masked Singer? “I still think I’m educating people on me being a singer,” she told host Nick Cannon after the helmet came off, “so that’s part of the reason why I wanted to do the show.” There are moments on stage, in the suit, where it’s “really going full throttle.”
And to be certain, she remarked, “you don’t even know how much sweat is in this suit.” Ok. “I thought, let me challenge myself and I’m glad I did because I learned a lot about myself.”
Metz as Poodle Moth follows the exit of Ruben Studdard and Clay Aiken (as The Beets), Jenifer Lewis (Miss Cleocatra), Kevin Hart (Book); restauranteur Joe Bastianich (Spaghetti & Meatballs); TV personalities Savannah Chrisley (Afghan Hound), Billy Bush (Sir Lion) and Colton Underwood (Lovebird); NFL hall of famer DeMarcus Ware (Koala); and singer Sisqó (Lizard).
Watch Poodle Moth’s performance and unmasking below.
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Though it never produced a chart crown, The Killers’ “Mr Brightside” is a record-breaker in the U.K.
Two decades after release, the U.S. alternative rock act’s signature song is anointed as the biggest-ever single which didn’t snag a U.K. No. 1.
The Killers were originally discovered by and signed to U.K. independent Lizard King, and were embraced by Brits as one of their own. “Mr Brightside” was initially released in 2003 with a limited-edition 500 CD run, and was reissued in May 2004, peaking at No. 10.
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The track failed to set the charts on fire but has proven a slow burner, notching 408 weeks on the Official U.K. Singles Chart – almost eight full years.
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Since its release, “Mr Brightside” has accumulated 5.57 million combined units, including 1.066m sales and 530,340,000 streams, the Official Charts Company reports, good enough for third place on the all-time list of biggest songs, behind Elton John’s “Something About the Way You Look Tonight”/”Candle in the Wind 1997.” That streaming tally sends it to No. 5 in the list of most-streamed songs of all time in the U.K.
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The biggest week (across all formats) for “Mr Brightside” in the U.K. was July 2019, when it amassed 17,700 chart units following the Las Vegas act’s headline set at Glastonbury Festival, while its biggest week of sales was registered in 2012, when the single was bought and downloaded 125,200 times.
On its 20th anniversary, “Mr Brightside” eclipses Oasis’ 1995 ballad “Wonderwall” for the unusual honor. “Wonderwall,” lifted from the Manchester rock band’s sophomore album (What’s the Story) Morning Glory), peaked at No. 2.
The OCC crunched the numbers and declared “Mr Brightside” is actually gathering pace. Last year saw the track generate its biggest volume of streams, with 79.97 million plays, the OCC reports, and in 2024, combined weekly sales and streams are up 23% year-on-year.
The Killers will dish out the hits for the Rebel Diamonds Tour of the U.K. and Ireland this summer, which includes 16 arena shows.
It’s Wednesday, May 8th, and Drake & Kendrick Lamar’s beef is getting intense. On Tuesday morning, Drake’s security guard was shot at the rapper’s Toronto residence and his London OVO store was vandalized with the phrase “they not like us,” referencing Kendrick’s diss to Drake. On top of that, it looks like both rappers’ diss […]
In a video statement posted to Instagram over the weekend, longstanding English DJ Hot Since 82 shared the story of a terrifying carjacking attempt he experienced after a gig in Rio de Janeiro over the weekend.
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“Left the club at 5 a.m., still dark, 10 minutes into the car journey to the airport, we were being followed and pursued by a gang of jackers, murderers, I don’t know what they are, wearing AK-47s with full magazines” the producer born Daley Padley said in the clip.
“We’d been set up,” he continued. “They knew exactly where we were, what car and exactly where we were going to be at which time. Which leads me to believe that we were set up.”
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He continues that if not for “the heroic maneuvers of our driver, I don’t even know if we’d even be alive right now. I really don’t. We were on a busy motorway, pitch black, the car in front have pressed the brakes for us to stop, and then the people hung out of the car windows with balaclavas and AK47s.”
At this point, the driver put the car in reverse and says, Padley, “we were flying down a busy motorway going the wrong way, weaving in and out of traffic. If the AK-47s shooters didn’t get us, we’re lucky we didn’t have a really bad car crash, because we were weaving in and out of oncoming traffic going 60/70 miles per hour with the car full of AK-47s following us. They were adamant that they were going to get us; they wouldn’t stop. We had to go miles and miles down a motorway in reverse to try to get away from the shooters.”
Padley joked that the situation was like a Fast & Furious movie, but added that “I’m giggling about it, but I’m f—ing broken inside… It makes you lose faith in humanity, knowing that someone has told these shooters where we were going to be. To be honest, I don’t know if I’ll ever come back to Brazil now.”
He continued that after the incident, he changed hotels in case he was still being followed and booked a flight out of the country, missing his scheduled appearances at Warung Day Festival in Curitiba on May 4 and Timewarp Brazil on that same day.
He added that he “can’t risk being in positions like this” given that he has children, adding that his wife is set to give birth to the couples next baby in six weeks. He added that he sympathizes “with the people of Brazil who have to live their lives in fear.”
In the comments, a large group of DJs including Tiësto, Anabel Englund, Honey Dijon, Jamies Jones, Amelie Laens expressed their support and gratitude that Padley made it out alive and unharmed. Vintage Culture, who is Brazilian, commented that “We work hard to get artists here and those things happen. Hope you are safe; our country is not at all like that, let’s get you back in a better opportunity. Love ya mate. A few bad apples put Brasil in a very difficult position.”
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