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Radiohead’s second live album, Hail to the Thief: Live Recordings 2003-2009, makes a top 10 debut across four Billboard album charts (dated Nov. 15), including a No. 8 bow on Top Album Sales, marking the band’s ninth top 10. The set also enters the top 10 on Indie Store Album Sales (No. 4), Vinyl Albums (No. 5) and Top Current Album Sales (No. 8).
On the overall Billboard 200 chart, the set squeaks in at No. 200, landing the group its 17th chart entry. The set also bows at No. 30 on Independent Albums and at No. 48 on Top Rock & Alternative Albums.
In the tracking week ending Nov. 6 in the United States, the album earned a little over 8,000 equivalent album units, of which essentially all were in traditional album sales (purchases of digital and physical copies of the album).
Billboard’s Top Album Sales chart ranks the top-selling albums of the week based only on traditional album sales. The chart’s history dates back to May 25, 1991, the first week Billboard began tabulating charts with electronically monitored piece count information from SoundScan, now Luminate. Pure album sales were the sole measurement utilized by the Billboard 200 albums chart through the list dated Dec. 6, 2014, after which that chart switched to a methodology that blends album sales with track equivalent album (TEA) units and streaming equivalent album (SEA) units.
Radiohead’s new live album is one of six debuts or re-entries among the top 10 on the latest Top Album Sales chart, where Florence + the Machine’s Everybody Scream debuts atop the list. Tyler, The Creator’s chart-topping CHROMAKOPIA reenters at No. 2 after its one-year anniversary reissue on CD, vinyl and in two deluxe boxed sets (each containing branded merch and a copy of the CD). Grateful Dead’s latest archival live set Dave’s Picks, Vol. 56: Rainbow Theatre, London, England, 3/20/81 & 3/21/81 enters at No. 3, while Taylor Swift’s former No. 1 The Life of a Showgirl slips 3-4. The KPop Demon Hunters soundtrack rises a spot to No. 5, while Hamilton: 10 Shots (Highlights From the Original Broadway Cast Recording) bows at No. 6. Stray Kids’ chart-topping KARMA climbs 9-7, Bob Dylan’s from-the-vaults compilation Through the Open Window: The Bootleg Series, Vol. 18, 1956-1963 debuts at No. 9 and Vince Guaraldi Trio’s A Charlie Brown Christmas soundtrack returns to the top 10, rising 14-10.
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Toni Cornell is reflecting on the emotional experience of performing at her late father Chris Cornell‘s induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame on Saturday (Nov. 8). The grunge icon was enshrined posthumously along with his Soundgarden bandmates — drummer Matt Cameron, bassist Ben Shepherd, guitarist Kim Thayil and founding bassist Hiro Yamamoto — with Toni, 21, performing a moving version of the band’s 1995 single “Fell on Black Days” alongside Heart’s Nancy Wilson.
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“Soundgarden belonged in the Rock Hall from the day they started making their revolutionary music. A huge congratulations to Matt, Kim, Ben, and Hiro, and especially to my dad, who should have been here to share this moment with his bandmates. I know how proud he is,” Toni wrote in a lengthy Instagram post on Tuesday (Nov. 11). “Thank you to the legendary @nancywilson for honoring him beside me, and to Brandi [Carlile] and Taylor [Momsen] for continuously sharing his music and keeping his spirit alive. And to the fans, who are the reason this music still breathes.”
Toni said that performing the churning single from the band’s fourth studio album, Superunknown, was “one of the greatest honors of my life, and one of the hardest things I’ve ever done. My dad’s absence is always felt, but singing his songs always makes me feel closer to him. I’m so grateful I got to share this moment for him, and with him, in some way.”
The young singer who released her debut single, “Far Away Places,” in 2019, included a number of pictures from Saturday’s induction performance, as well as a snap of the first time she ever saw her dad’s band perform live in which she is holding up an iPad while watching from the wings. The photo roll also included a snap with her brother, Christopher Cornell and an image of the siblings greeting their dad onstage as children.
“I was six years old when Soundgarden reunited. My brother and I were lucky to see small pieces of that moment unfold, not realizing we were witnessing something historic,” she wrote of seeing the legendary grunge band come back together in 2010 following their split in 1997. “I’ll never forget walking into Soundgarden’s reunion show with my brother, my American Girl doll in tow, and seeing my dad step onstage again with Soundgarden after more than a decade. I might have been too young to understand the magnitude of this moment, but I still knew I was witnessing something extraordinary. I will forever be grateful for those years, eventually spending time in Seattle and experiencing the greatness of the Pacific Northwest that inspired my dad and his bandmates so immensely.”
Toni said those critical moments watching her dad shaped her, while being on the road for years with the band also molded her as an artist and person outside her public persona as “Chris’s daughter.” She said people would often tell her that Cornell and Soundgarden’s music had saved them, and watching the band’s legacy get honored by the Rock Hall made her realize how true that was.
“Daddy, you are beloved and your music will forever change people’s lives. Long live Soundgarden,” she wrote.
The emotional post got a thumbs up from Pretty Reckless singer Momsen, who earlier in the night took the stage fronting Soundgarden at the induction ceremony to perform a searing version of Soundgarden’s “Rusty Cage.” “So beautiful Toni,” Momsen wrote in the comments.
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Hundreds of bagpipers broke a world record this week when they assembled in Australia to perform AC/DC‘s “It’s a Long Way to the Top.”
The musicians gathered on Wednesday (Nov. 12) in Melbourne’s Federation Square, where thousands of fans watched as 374 bagpipers squeezed into the square and perform the rock and roll classic. The Australian Book of Records then confirmed with the Associated Press that they had indeed broken the world record for most people gathered to play the bagpipes. The oldest performer was 98-years-old. The previous record holder was 333 pipers in Bulgaria back in 2012.
The event was called “The Great Melbourne Bagpipe Bash,” and paid homage to a scene from the Australian hard rock band’s 1976 film where they blasted “It’s A Long Way To The Top” on a flatbed truck while traveling through traffic. The square is also right near Melbourne Cricket Ground, where AC/DC is scheduled to perform their first Australian show in over a decade later tonight.
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The band recently added dozens of dates to their Power Up Tour heading into 2026. The new dates for the nearly two-year-old tour by the legendary rockers will kick off on Feb. 24 at Estádio do MorumBIS in São Paulo, Brazil and include stops in Santiago, Chile on March 11 and Buenos Aires, Argentina on March 23 before winding down on April 7 in Mexico City at Estadio GNP Seguros.
AC/DC will then take a break before heading out again on July 11 in Charlotte, N.C. in Columbus, Ohio, Madison, Wi., San Antonio, Denver, Las Vegas, San Francisco, Edmonton, Alberta, Vancouver, Atlanta, Houston, South Bend, Ind., St. Louis, Montreal, Toronto and East Rutherford, N.J. before winding down on Sept. 29 at Lincoln Financial Field in Philadelphia.
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Next year’s Hellfest will feature more than 180 bands, including headliners Limp Bizkit, Iron Maiden, The Offspring and Bring Me the Horizon. The huge four-day (June 18-21) hard rock festival in Clisson, France will kick off with Bring Me the Horizon topping a bill that will also include Papa Roach, Breaking Benjamin, The Plot in You, We Came As Romans, Deep Purple, Alice Cooper, The Pretty Reckless, Social Distortion, All Time Low, Lagwagon and many others.
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The June 19 lineup will have Maiden joined by Helloween (playing a 40th anniversary set), Ultra Vomit, Accept, Queensryche, Sortilege, Winds of Steel, Blackrain, Sabaton, Opeth, Sepultura, Bloodywood, Tesseract, Brothers of Metal, The Dillinger Escape Plan, Ceremony, Mastodon, Slift, Stoned Jesus, Blood Incantation, Decapitated, Blood Red Throne, My Dying Bride, Rotting Christ and more.
Saturday night will find Limp Bizkit sharing the stage with A Perfect Circle, Tom Morello, Static-X, Enhancer, House of Protection, Thornhill, Slay Squad, Volbeat, Megadeth, Anthrax, Cavalera, Crisix, Gatecreeper, Escuela Grind, Insanity Alert, Hatebreed, Lionheart, Cro-Mags, Trash Talk, Cancer Bats, Cult of Luna, God Is an Astronaut, Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs, Deicide, Carcass and more.
The final night will have the Offspring topping the main stage on a bill that also features The Hives, Rise Against, Pennywise, The Ataris, The Bones, The Dwarves, Not Scientists, Bad Omens, Architects, Three Days Grace, Black Veil Brides, President, The Funeral Portrait, The Adicts, Agnostic Front, Circle Jerks, Buzzcocks, Down, Acid Bath, Corrosion of Conformity, Eyehategod, Soilent Green, Napalm Death, Possessed, Six Feet Under, Bloodstain and Sublimate Cadaveric Decomposition and more.
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Since her days as a kid on Long Island, pop-rock singer-songwriter Julia Wolf has been fascinated by horror films. “My mom was putting on slasher films from when I was in the womb,” she says.
Over time, such grisly themes began to spill over into her music. In early 2024, she thought of the lyric “I’d slit my own throat just to see if you’d mourn me” while crafting a track about a recent ex — but then texted her sister and best friend to make sure that the line wasn’t overly morbid. Soon after receiving the go-ahead, she found another lyric, “I stalk myself on the internet just to see what you’ll find,” tucked away in her phone’s Notes app. Before long, Wolf had enough material to begin recording.
“It was just the choice of how vulnerable I wanted to get,” she recalls. “It’s something that took me until my thirties to understand that that’s what I want to do — be as honest as possible.”
The resulting track, “In My Room,” has pushed the 30-year-old from the indie shadows into a hitmaker. Propelled by its niche usage by a particular cult fandom on TikTok, its following has since carried over to the Billboard charts: the grungy song has reached a No. 27 high in 17 weeks on Hot Rock & Alternative Songs and a No. 21 high on Hot Alternative Songs. And its success has opened doors that Wolf can hardly fathom, including an Instagram direct message from — and eventual collaboration with — Drake earlier this year, who opened their conversation by quoting lyrics from the breakthrough.
Raised on a steady diet of Avril Lavigne and emo music, Wolf began experimenting with music in high school at open mic nights and restaurant gigs around Queens. Debut EP Girls in Purgatory arrived in 2021 and full-length Good Thing We Stayed followed in 2023, with the latter’s pop-leaning singles “Get Off My” and “Gothic Babe Tendencies” with blackbear garnering buzz within the indie scene. As Wolf readied “In My Room” in 2024, she teased it relentlessly on TikTok. Though heavier and darker than anything she’d made before, the song quickly gained traction on the platform, thanks to Wolf tying snippets of the track to rotating images of different Twilight characters and scenes.
“Julia is the most Twilight-obsessed person I’ve ever met in my entire life,” NU.WORLD Management founder Tanner Barry, Wolf’s manager since 2023, says. “When it started working, it was so easy for us to keep playing into it.”
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Lifted by several posts of Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson as Bella Swan and Edward Cullen, Wolf released the song in full in March 2024. But as the trend began to wane, funding dried-up, according to Barry. At the time, they were working with independent distributor Stem, which was hesitant to back a bigger push for “In My Room” because of it being based around a timely fad, Wolf says.
“Since the song was already out for so long, they didn’t want to add any more funds to it. It was just me and Tanner thinking of what we can do to [grow] this organically.”
She remained convinced that the Twilight universe would remain the most receptive vessels for “In My Room,” and every time she continued to post the song with a clip surrounding the franchise’s characters, it’d rack up hundreds of thousands of views. Wolf and her team brought those stats to fellow independent distributor AWAL, and while they were in discussion, the track experienced its biggest viral wave yet, with a TikTok video celebrating Stewart’s beauty in a collage of photos. Today, the video has more than six million views. “We were all panicking like, ‘What do we do?’ ” Wolf remembers.
She quickly followed it up with a clip in the same format of Twilight co-star Ashley Greene (who portrays Alice Cullen), which has since surpassed 12 million views. Wolf and AWAL reached a deal this January, and the company helped boost Wolf’s visibility, in part by funding microinfluencer campaigns. The timing of the hit’s resurgence proved fortuitous: She had nearly wrapped the recording for 2025 full-length Pressure — which ultimately arrived in May — and the scorching hot single provided a push in the lead-up. Initial plans to release single “Jennifer’s Body,” a nod to a different cult fandom, were temporarily shelved, and she instead opted for an acoustic version of “In My Room” in February.
“She’s such a good singer,” Barry says. “I thought [the acoustic video] would be a good way to show people that she actually sounds like that.”
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The following month, Drake surfaced in Wolf’s DMs. According to Wolf, he discovered the song after a woman requested that he play it at a club. “Shout out to that girl for having my back,” she says today with a laugh. The two then exchanged numbers and began to talk about making music together. Wolf recorded a few demos to send to the superstar, and one titled “Dog House” became the winner. Wolf’s raw vocal serves as the intro to the track, which erupts into a high octane rage-rap single that also features Yeat. The song arrived in September, and in turn became Wolf’s first entry on the Billboard Hot 100, peaking at No. 53.
“She was at probably two million monthly listeners and jumped up just shy of 10 million,” Barry reflects of the A-list co-sign. “We were seeing the highest streams of [Pressure] on a daily basis. What Drake did so well, that we’re so appreciative of, is he allowed [the song] to be a showcase of Julia.”
Drake also supported Wolf in the months before its release, watching her perform at Toronto’s Velvet Underground in June and sharing some advice over dinner afterward.
“He was expressing how everyone has access to the internet and is able to say anything they want,” Wolf says. “The loudest people aren’t the right people, but it just feels that way. I get so in my head about internet comments and people being mean. He can definitely relate to that.”
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But even with a coveted Drake collaboration opening up an entirely new fan base, Wolf remains devoted to the crowd that got her to this moment: In August, she performed an intimate showcase for 60 fans in Forks, Washington, at the location used for Bella Swan’s home in the Twilight movies. And her star only continues to grow: She released 2MUCHPRESSURE, a remix EP helmed by producer duo 2DUMB on Halloween and will begin touring arenas in support of mgk later this month.
“What helps me stay grounded is that ‘In My Room’ existed for so long when nobody cared,” Wolf says. “I truly believe that any song that I believe in can work. It just needs all these factors to get it to click.”
A version of this story appears in the Nov. 15, 2025, issue of Billboard.
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Madi Diaz pulled double duty while recording her recently released seventh album, Fatal Optimist. In addition to laying down her own songs, the singer also recorded a track-by-track cover of Blink-182’s breakthrough 1999 album, Enema of the State.
The collection — dubbed Enema of the Garden State in honor of the location of the studio — is available only on Bandcamp, with proceeds earmarked for the Defending our Neighbors Fund, which provides legal assistance to immigrants in the midst of the Trump administration’s massive immigration enforcement actions.
“These recordings started out as a fun exercise fueled by the love and fandom I have for blink-182 and the record Enema Of The State,” Diaz wrote in an Instagram post on Monday (Nov. 10) of the re-record she tracked in a New Jersey studio while “peeling back layers and tracking/writing Fatal Optimist. “Every morning producer and engineer Andrew Maury would set up some mics and turn on the 4 track. I had been listening to this batch of songs obsessively (again) on my jogs and I wanted to see if I could run these songs and let the nostalgia drive my memory for the lyrics and tear through a punky acoustic arrangement,” Diaz added.
“No planning, no overthinking, no analyzing allowed, just ripping into the songs. It was pure joy with no clear intention of releasing this project until recently. We started thinking about how incredible the name Enema Of The State is for a record,” she wrote of the joyously juvenile LP featuring the classic hits “What’s My Age Again?,” “All the Small Things” and “Adam’s Song,” among others.
Not for nothing, Diaz said the album’s once-silly, punny title is suddenly not so hilarious. “How the title is somehow so current and politically culturally socially ironic… How ridiculous it is to cover this record in 2025 when it feels like we need to flush the system and give our whole government a health check / gut check,” Diaz wrote. “There is so much going on at this moment across America and so much pain with ICE raids and false condemnations of hard working American citizens and undocumented immigrants. And maybe we could use this version of enema of the (garden) state to raise awareness and money for people in need of defense and aid in their right to live and work and breathe and be and stay on American soil.”
Diaz noted that while she was born in the U.S., her family is made up of Danish and Peruvian immigrants, like so many other American families whose roots trace back to other nations. “There is a lot here we have to love and protect and nurture,” said Diaz, who promised that “every penny” it generates will go to the Defending Our Neighbors Fund, a rapid-response non-profit that helps families, adults and children in need of advocates access legal representation and financial support in the midst of the Trump administration’s aggressive, nationwide immigration raids.
“They are providing immediate grants for trusted organizations to deploy legal advice and bond assistance,” she said of the organization. “For me, it’s about much more than a nostalgia for teenage rebellion against mom and dad. F–k ICE. Enema Of The State Forever.”
You can purchase the entire digital album now and listen to acoustic versions of “Don’t Leave Me” and “Anthem” for free here.
Trending on Billboard Metallica surprised Melbourne fans on Saturday night (Nov. 8) by covering Aussie punk rock legends The Living End during their M72 World Tour stop at the city’s Belluna Arena — and frontman Chris Cheney has officially responded, with a delightfully cheeky tale from his high school days. Explore See latest videos, charts […]
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