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Douglas McCarthy, the co-founding vocalist of English industrial dance outfit Nitzer Ebb, has passed away at the age of 58.
McCarthy’s death was confirmed by Nitzer Ebb’s official social media account on Tuesday (June 11). “It is with a heavy heart that we regret to inform that Douglas McCarthy passed away this morning of June 11th, 2025,” a post read.
“We ask everyone to please be respectful of Douglas, his wife, and family in this difficult time,” it added. “We appreciate your understanding and will share more information soon.”
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McCarthy co-founded Nitzer Ebb in 1982 alongside school friends Vaughan ‘Bon’ Harris and David Gooday, with the group taking inspiration from the post-punk genre for their early single releases. That sound soon evolved with more industrial and electronic influences, with the band quickly becoming regarded as noted figures within the ‘electronic body music’ scene – a genre that combined elements of industrial and punk with dance music.
The group’s debut album, That Total Age, would be issued in May 1987, and though avoiding chart success, the single “Join the Chant” would reach No. 9 on the Dance Club Songs charts.
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Nitzer Ebb would remain a fixture of the chart in the coming years, with singles such as “Control I’m Here,” “Lightning Man,” and “Fun to Be Had” all appearing therein, with the latter giving the band their highest peak when it reached No. 5 in 1990. They would also impact the Alternative Airplay charts, with 1991’s “Family Man” giving them a career high when it reached No. 21.
While 1991’s Ebbhead would be their only record to reach the Billboard 200 (peaking at No. 146), their follow-up, 1995’s Big Hit, would be the band’s last for 15 years, with Nitzer Ebb splitting soon after its release.
McCarthy would contribute to Recol, the solo project of Depeche Mode‘s Alan Wilder throughout the ’90s, and later collaborate with French producer Terence Fixmer as one half of Fixmer/McCarthy. Nitzer Ebb would reform in 2006 and release their final album, Industrial Complex, in 2010. In 2013, McCarthy would release his only solo album, Kill Your Friends.
In recent years, McCarthy had suffered from noted ill health, with Harris taking over vocals for a series of 2021 performances after McCarthy collapsed before a show due to a “pre-existing” medical condition. In early 2024, McCarthy announced he would no longer be performing live after being diagnosed with cirrhosis of the liver.
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We caught up with Snoop Dogg, Ciara, Keke Palmer, Jermaine Dupri, and more on the red carpet of the 2025 BET Awards and found out their all-time favorite Mariah Carey song.
What’s your favorite Mariah Carey song? Let us know in the comments!
Keke Palmer: You’ll always see my baby
Snoop Dogg: I would be like “Mariah. You know, when I was in jail, ‘Vision of Love,’ we used to sit around waiting for that video to come on. I can’t believe I did a song with you.”
Ciara: Oh my gosh, there’s so many hits.
Lauren-Ashley Beck: Mariah Carey is being nominated for an icon award this evening, what is your favorite Mariah Carey song?
Amerie: My favorite? “We Belong Together.”
Lucky Daye: I like the one she did with. Uh, is it Ol’ Dirty Bastard.
Oh yes, I can see the music video.
Ciara: That right there, by far, is one of the most timeless records that is special.
Jermaine Dupri: “My All.” I know y’all thought I was gonna say one of my songs.
We did.
Jermaine Dupri: She knows that’s my song. Yeah, I love that song. I wish I would have made that song,
We gotta get you on the stage. Okay, that was amazing. I have chills, actually.
Amerie: That’s my son’s favorite Christmas song. He actually liked it outside of Christmas, but he just started dancing and running around. Yeah, it’s just great, like she created a new classic.
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Alison Wonderland connects with fans on a spiritual level around the world — but when she’s in Las Vegas, she goes big. See how she translates her love of DJing into shows where her fans can be present in the moment on her journey to ‘Get It Together’ ahead of her electric White Claw Sessions performance in Las Vegas.
Tetris Kelly:
Alison, Alison, Alison.
Alison Wonderland: Oh, hey, Tetris.
I thought you were gonna meet me in the lobby.
I got carried away. I’m so sorry.
On the White Claw bus? It’s waiting on us. We need to roll.
Let’s go. Let’s go.
Yo, what’s good it’s Tetris!
And I’m Alison Wonderland.
And we’re rushing to the casino right now because Alison is performing tonight, and she’s taking us with her.
White Claw session? Let’s go.
Gonna have some fun before we get to that show. So now that the vibes are ready, what are we preparing?
Well, we are in Vegas, so we gotta go big because I started off as a scratching DJ. I still like to play in vinyl mode, because even if I’m playing on CBJ, it’s not copper vinyl, you can still treat it like an instrument. You can still do scratches. The best thing you can do as a DJ is make sure everyone is having the best time and they forget about their phones. I don’t even think about it for me. I just feel like, oh my gosh, all these people are here, and we’re doing this together. I literally can sit in my bedroom and mix for hours, and I do that every day. I genuinely love,DJing.
Tonight, we’re gonna create the vibe again, and it’s all about grabbing life by the claw. What’s a time in your life that you did something crazy and you were like that really worked out?
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Manuel Turizo invites us to his house to share an exclusive interview on his 201 Tour, his friendship with Shakira after their “Copa Vacía” collab, his collaboration with Xavi on “En Privado” reaching No. 1 on the Latin Airplay chart, teases his new music, how “QUE HACES” with Becky G came to life and more.
What’s your favorite song from Manuel Turizo? Let us know in the comments!
Manuel Turizo:
Hello! Billboard, welcome to my house. Good evening!
Jessica Roiz:
Hi Manuel, thank you.
I’m just letting you guys know I’m sorry for the mess, today we are on set, so it’s a mess in there, but enter. Welcome.
Manuel, thank you for having us in your beautiful home in Miami.
Welcome, welcome.
It seems like a dream that I’m sitting here on a sofa in the living room of Manuel Turizo. If I knew I would’ve brought my bikini because when I entered I saw the big pool.
You could’ve gone in the pool-
And we could’ve done this interview in the pool.
Even though it’s not daytime, but it doesn’t matter, whatever you want.
Manuel, we are at the point of almost going on tour. You are going to be in Latin America and the United States for the rest of the year. What do you miss the most from your house when you are on the road?
What I miss the most… I think that no one sleeps that good unless it’s in their own bed. That’s another level, that’s something else, but honestly the ambiance of the house. The ambiance of when you’re carefree at home and I’m naked at home.
Relaxed, your house is super cozy man.
Look, there are the three dogs, well the camera can’t see them, but they’re outside, they’re bothering her.
What happens with the dogs when you go on tour, you don’t bring them?
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Billboard’s Dance Moves roundup serves as a guide to the biggest movers and shakers across Billboard’s many dance charts — new No. 1s, new top 10s, first-timers and more.
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This week (on charts dated June 14, 2025), Tate McRae, D.O.D., Sammy Virji and others achieve new feats. Check out key movers below.
Tate McRae
Tate McRae is back at No. 1 on Billboard’s Hot Dance/Pop Songs chart with her new song, “Just Keep Watching.” She released the track May 30 via Apple/Atlantic from F1 the Album, the soundtrack to the film F1, starring Brad Pitt. The set arrives June 27, the same day that the movie premieres in North American theaters.
The song opens with 11.4 million official U.S. streams, 1.3 million radio audience impressions and 1,000 downloads sold in its opening week (May 30-June 5), according to Luminate. It also debuts at No. 33 on the Billboard Hot 100 — the highest launch on the chart this week.
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McRae has been one of the top-performing artists on the Hot Dance/Pop Songs chart dating to its launch in January. She led the inaugural list dated Jan. 18 with “It’s Ok I’m Ok” (which spent four weeks on top) and returned with two-week leader “Revolving Door” in March. The only other artist to top the chart since its start is Lady Gaga, whose “Abracadabra” has ruled for 15 weeks.
D.O.D.
The British DJ and producer tops a Billboard chart for the first time this week thanks to his song “Wrap Yourself Around Me,” featuring NORTH. The track, released in February on Armada Music, rises 3-1 on Dance/Mix Show Airplay with an 18% gain in plays among 24/7 dance reporters and pop stations’ mix show hours.
D.O.D. charted two other songs on Billboard’s charts before this week: “So Much in Love” reached No. 8 on Dance/Mix Show Airplay in August 2023 and “Somedays,” with Sonny Fodera and Jazzy, also hit No. 8 on the chart in November 2024 (as well as No. 15 on Hot Dance/Electronic Songs this April).
As for NORTH, the song grants the singer her first No. 1 with her initial chart entry.
Sammy Virji & Issey Cross
The acts each earn their first Billboard radio chart hit this week with their collaboration, “Nostalgia.” Released April 25 on Polydor/Capitol/ICLG, the song debuts at No. 40 on Dance/Mix Show Airplay (up 12%).
Both artists are up-and-coming on Billboard’s charts. Virji had logged one chart hit before this week: “Summertime Blues,” with Chris Lake and Nathan Nicholson, reached No. 48 on Hot Dance/Electronic Songs in May 2024. Issey Cross claims her first chart appearance.
Daft Punk
The legendary DJ duo’s 2013 album Random Access Memories spends a 500th week on the Top Dance Albums chart, at No. 20. The LP is just the fourth album to reach the 500-week milestone in the chart’s 24-year history, after Lady Gaga’s The Fame (586 weeks), David Guetta’s Nothing But the Beat (542) and Gorillaz’s Demon Days (539).
English progressive rock icons Yes have announced a new fall tour which will see them play their 1971 album Fragile in full.
Officially dubbed The Fragile Tour 2025, The Album Series, the newly-announced run of shows will launch on Oct. 1 and sees the band performing a total of 31 dates until Nov. 16. Per a press release, the tour setlist will include Fragile full along with a number of other “classic cuts.”
Released in November 1971, Fragile was the fourth album from the group, and their third to be released in a 16-month span. It also became their most successful release up to that point. Expanding upon the initial chart success that The Yes Album brought earlier in the year (reaching No. 40 on the Billboard 200), Fragile would peak at No. 4, only being bested by one position thanks to Close to the Edge the following year.
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The album’s lone single, “Roundabout,” would be issued in January 1972 and would reach No. 13 on the Hot 100. It remained their highest-charting single until “Owner of a Lonely Heart” hit No. 1 in 1983.
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Fragile would also be supported by a 115-date album tour, with the group returning to the U.S. in November 1971 – mere months after wrapping up their debut visit to the country. As a press release for the new run of dates explains, the record’s initial tour was a vital part of the band’s history, and marked the moment when Yes “became a headline act in the US.”
“All the band’s albums had a unique feel and approach,” explained guitarist Steve Howe. “After The Yes Album, so many things came together, with [co-producer] Eddie Offord steering the proceedings.
“While the band focused on only four main songs with full arrangements, each of us wrote and designed a solo piece, which was Bill [Bruford]’s great idea. It’s fairly ‘odd-ball,’ but we were at the height of our creativity, determined for success.
“It gave us confidence, further than our own in-stock belief, we’d crafted this unusual but noticeable musical twist to rock and what later became prog,” he added.
Of the original lineup which recorded Fragile in 1971, only Howe remains an active member. Drummer Bill Bruford would depart the group in 1992, while both vocalist Jon Anderson and keyboardist Rick Wakeman would depart in 2004. Bassist Chris Squire would remain with the band through all iterations until his passing in 2015.
Yes – The Fragile Tour 2025, The Album Series
Oct. 1 – Toyota Oakdale Theatre, Wallingford, CTOct. 2 – Mayo Performing Arts Center, Morristown, NJOct. 4 – Hard Rock Live at Etess Arena, Atlantic City, NJOct. 5 – The Capitol Theatre, Port Chester, NYOct. 7 – The Paramount, Huntington, NYOct. 8 – Keswick Theatre, Glenside, PAOct. 9 – Keswick Theatre, Glenside, PAOct. 11 – Appell Center for the Performing Arts, York, PAOct. 12 – Penn’s Peak, Jim Thorpe, PAOct. 14 – Warner Theatre, Washington, D.C.Oct. 16 – Carolina Theatre, Durham, NCOct. 18 – Ruth Eckerd Hall, Clearwater, FLOct. 19 – Broward Center, Au-Rene Theater, Ft Lauderdale, FLOct. 21 – Sharon L. Morse Performing Arts Center, The Villages, FLOct. 22 – Charleston Music Hall, Charleston, SCOct. 24 – Coca-Cola Roxy, Atlanta, GAOct. 25 – Graceland Soundstage, Memphis, TNOct. 27 – The Louisville Palace, Louisville, KYOct. 28 – Taft Theatre, Cincinnati, OHOct. 30 – Murat Theatre at Old National Centre, Indianapolis, INOct. 31 – Des Plaines Theatre, Des Plaines, ILNov. 1 – The Arcada Theatre, St. Charles, ILNov. 3 – The Orpheum Theater, Madison, WINov. 4 – The Riverside Theater, Milwaukee, WINov. 6 – Stifel Theatre, St. Louis, MONov. 7 – Steelhouse Omaha, Omaha, NENov. 9 – Paramount Theatre, Denver, CONov. 11 – Mesa Arts Center, Mesa, AZNov. 13 – YouTube Theater, Inglewood, CANov. 14 – Viejas Casino, Alpine, CANov. 16 – Grand Theatre at The Grand Sierra Resort, Reno, NV
