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Stepz’s “Rock” lifts a spot to No. 1 on the TikTok Billboard Top 50 chart dated Dec. 7, becoming the rapper’s first leader on a Billboard ranking.
The TikTok Billboard Top 50 is a weekly ranking of the most popular songs on TikTok in the United States based on creations, video views and user engagement. The latest chart reflects activity from Nov. 25-Dec. 1. Activity on TikTok is not included in Billboard charts except for the TikTok Billboard Top 50.
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“Rock” bowed on the TikTok Billboard Top 50 dated Nov. 9 at No. 29 before spiking to No. 2 on the Nov. 30 survey. It lifts to No. 1 on the continued strength of a dance challenge.
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Stepz himself has contributed to usages of “Rock,” though his participation extends to other songs within the chart’s top 10; earlier in the week, he also contributed a dance to the trend for Adele’s “Send My Love (To Your New Lover),” which concurrently blasts 22-8 for its first week in the ranking’s top 10. Adele returns to the top 10 of the chart for the first time since January, when “When We Were Young” reached No. 8.
“Rock” concurrently jumps to 1.3 million official Billboard U.S. chart-eligible streams in the week ending Nov. 28, up 18%, according to Luminate. “Send My Love,” which peaked at No. 8 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 2016, rises 17% to 1.8 million streams.
Gia Margaret’s “Hinoki Wood” lifts 3-2 on the TikTok Billboard Top 50, while GloRilla and Sexyy Red’s “Whatchu Kno About Me,” the previous No. 1, drops to No. 3. “Hinoki Wood” is tied to the chill guy meme/trend, with creators using the song to upload content showcasing how much of a chill person they are, either using their own likenesses or the cartoon dog itself.
“Hinoki Wood” sports a 132% leap in streams to 720,000. It’s her second appearance on a Billboard chart, after the album Romantic Piano spent six weeks on the Classical Crossover Albums list in 2023.
“Bound 2” by Ye (formerly Kanye West) re-enters the TikTok Billboard Top 50 at No. 4 – its highest rank yet, following an appearance at No. 10 last December. Its return at the same time as last year (Dec. 2) is no coincidence; yet again, creators highlight the 2013 song’s “We made it to Thanksgiving/ So maybe we can make it to Christmas” lyric” (the chart’s latest tracking week includes the Nov. 28 Thanksgiving holiday in the U.S.).
Ole 60’s “Thoughts of You” soars into the chart’s top 10 for the first time, vaulting 41-6 in its second week. The country band’s recently released tune (it came out in September) surges via a timely lyric “Oh, eyes in line and hands together/ We almost made it through the weather/ Looked up, laughed and said, ‘Where’d November go?’” The trend then features users comparing their November 2023 to their November 2024. Some have begun applying the trend to December as well.
“Thoughts of You” rises to 2 million streams in the week ending Nov. 28, up 40%. The song represents the first country entry in the top 10 of the TikTok Billboard Top 50 since Johnny Cash’s “Folsom Prison Blues” in October.
One other song reaches the top 10 for the first time, and it’s also the week’s top debut: Silento’s “Watch Me,” which bows at No. 9. Released in 2015, the song fits TikTok perfectly, as the track had a corresponding series of dances instructed by the rapper in its lyrics. The latest trend includes the original dance, albeit with some additional flourishes when it features more than one person.
See the full TikTok Billboard Top 50 here. You can also tune in each Friday to SiriusXM’s TikTok Radio (channel 4) to hear the premiere of the chart’s top 10 countdown at 3 p.m. ET, with reruns heard throughout the week.
Charli XCX gives her all on stage, but it comes with a cost.
In a new video interview with Variety posted Wednesday (Dec. 4), the 32-year-old pop star opened up about suffering nerve damage from how intensely she performs, noting, “I find touring really hard emotionally.”
“I find the stage — especially these days — to be a very angry place for me,” she continued. “I’ve done a lot of physical damage to my body from performing, and I’m often in a lot of pain when I perform. Physically, I have nerve damage in my neck from things I’ve done on the stage.”
Charli is currently gearing up for a run of 2025 dates in support of her critically acclaimed album Brat. This year, she hit the road with Troye Sivan for their joint Sweat trek, an arrangement the “Von Dutch” artist called “a lot easier and less of an emotional battle for me.”
“For me to give a performance I feel is good enough, I have to really physically throw myself around and that makes me very upset when I do it,” she added. “It’s kind of this hellhole, but being with Troye softens that a lot.”
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The video comes alongside a feature interview with Variety, in which the musician opened up about the surprising success of Brat, her insecurities and more. At one point, she shared that her “Sympathy Is a Knife” remix collaborator Ariana Grande gave her advice on multiple fronts, including kick-starting her acting career and hosting SNL. (The “Yes, And?” singer helmed the show in September, followed by Charli in November.)
Charli also recalled bonding with the Wicked star over the “Sympathy Is a Knife” lyrics. “She had a lot to say,” the “365” artist said of Grande, who “gravitated” toward the track, according to Charli. “We went back and forth on the lyrics, talking about all the knives that we both felt in this industry.”
Watch Charli open up about her nerve damage above.
Carrie Underwood will help ring in 2025 on Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve With Ryan Seacrest. The country superstar is the latest artist added to the list of performers on the annual countdown that will air on ABC on Dec. 31 beginning at 8 p.m. ET. The most-watched NYE countdown show will once again […]
For the first time in 14 years, Ice Cube has a solo album in the top on Billboard’s Top Rap Albums as Man Down debuts at No. 8 on the chart dated Dec. 7. The set was released Nov. 22 through Lench Mob/Hitmaker Records and earned 20,000 equivalent album units in the U.S. in the tracking week ending Nov. 28, according to Luminate.
Of the first-week figure, album sales contribute 15,000 units, making Man Down the second-highest-selling rap album of the week, behind only Kendrick Lamar’s GNX (32,000). The project also debuts at No. 9 on the all-genre Top Album Sales chart. Five thousand units derive from the streaming sector, representing 13.9 million official on-demand U.S. audio and video streams of the album’s tracks, with a negligible amount of track-equivalent activity. (One unit equals the following levels of consumption: one album sale, 10 individual tracks sold from an album, or 3,750 ad-supported or 1,250 paid/subscription on-demand official audio and video streams for a song on the album.)
Thanks to Man Down, Ice Cube earns his fourth solo top 10 on the Top Rap Albums chart, which launched in 2004. It joins 2006’s Laugh Now, Cry Later (No. 2), 2008’s one-week No. 1 Raw Footage and 2010’s I Am the West (No. 6). Plus, N.W.A., the legendary West Coast hip-hop group whose best known lineup consists of Ice Cube, Dr. Dre, Eazy-E, MC Ren and DJ Yella, had The Best of N.W.A.: The Strength of Street Knowledge peak at No. 25 in 2007.
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Elsewhere, Man Down opens at No. 12 on the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart, Ice Cube’s best start since I Am the West began at No. 7 in 2010. Its arrival gives the rapper his 17th solo appearance on the list, a count that includes five No. 1s. Notably, N.W.A. has charted six titles on the list, with 1991’s Efil4zaggin the highest peaking, at No. 2.
Man Down includes Ice Cube’s current single “It’s My Ego,” which repeats at its No. 28 high on the Rhythmic Airplay chart. Despite no position movement, the song added 39% more plays in the latest tracking week.
Taylor Swift‘s The Eras Tour Book is following in the footsteps of her record-smashing global tour of the same name. According to the Associated Press, Circana BookScan reported that the $39.99 Target exclusive book chronicling the career-spanning outing moved an eye-popping 814,000 copies over the Thanksgiving holiday weekend. That made it the biggest publishing launch […]
Though the studio surely hopes that many people appreciate Timothée Chalamet‘s deep dive into his role as a young Bob Dylan in the upcoming biopic about the folk bard in A Complete Unknown, the 28-year-old star said he has gotten the only thumbs up he needs. “Floored,” Chalamet tweeted on Thursday morning (Dec. 5) after […]
Flavor Flav did not have a holly jolly time at Wednesday night’s (Dec. 4) Rockefeller Center Christmas tree lighting ceremony. The legendary Public Enemy hype man was on hand for the annual holiday tradition and in a since-deleted tweet he said that he was inexplicably booted from the Backstreet Boys’ dressing room by NBC security.
“I feel weird … I was invited to the Rockefeller Tree Lighting tonite and I was escorted to see my boys … THE BACKSTREET BOYS … and we were backstage in their dressing room … security came up to me and says @nbc does not want me in this area and I need to leave,” he wrote.
The 65-year-old rapper said things got even weirder after that. “At the same time,,, their social media woman came up and asked to capture social content,” he wrote. “What did I ever do to NBC or anyone,,?? all I ever do is try to spread joy and love,,, and I think I did that for NBC at the Olympics.”
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That latter comment was especially pointed in light of how ubiquitous Flav was at this summer’s Olympic games in Paris, which were broadcast by NBC. The network gave the PE MC lots of airtime, covering his pledge of cash and gifts to the U.S. Women’s Water Polo team and pick up rent for discus thrower Veronica Fraley, as well as chronicling his hop around from venue-to-venue cheering on the U.S. teams; Flav said afterwards that he wanted to throw his clock in the ring to be an official torchbearer at the 2028 L.A. games.
At press time a spokesperson for NBC had not returned Billboard‘s request for comment and it did not appear as if the BSB had commented on the alleged incident.
Though he removed the initial post, a dejected Flav later returned to X to add, “I deleted the tweet … but my spirit is broken.” A fan replied that they were sorry that happened to him and said NBC was wrong in reportedly asking him to leave, adding that the BSB “should have spoken up” about the incident. Flav assured them that “they spoke up for me,,, they sure did.” The New York native also later shared a video in which he was seen having a good time at the tree lighting, counting down to the big moment, writing, “Christmas in the city … ain’t nothing like the Rockefeller tree lighting.”
See Flav’s tweets below.
I deleted the tweet,,, but my spirit is broken.— FLAVOR FLAV (@FlavorFlav) December 5, 2024
They spoke up for me,,, they sure did.— FLAVOR FLAV (@FlavorFlav) December 5, 2024
Dorset’s End of The Road Festival has announced its first lineup for 2025’s event, confirming that Father John Misty, Sharon Van Etten, Caribou and Self Esteem will headline.
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Next year’s edition will take place at Larmer Tree Gardens in the south of England on Aug 29-31, 2025. The festival premiered in 2006 and has been held every year since (except 2020 due to the COVID pandemic).
Joining them on the lineup will be: Mount Kimbie, Black Country New Road, GOAT, Geordie Greep, Tropical F–k Storm, Moonchild Sanelly, Ela Minus, Throwing Muses, Emma-Jean Thackray and more. See the full lineup below.
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Tickets for the event are on sale now from the festival’s official website. More announcements are set to be made about the lineup and across the festival’s literature and arts offerings. Previous headliners at the event have included IDLES, Future Islands, Fleet Foxes, St Vincent, Vampire Weekend and more.
Father John Misty recently released his sixth studio, Mahashmashana, which landed on the Billboard 200 at No. 161. Sharon Van Etten, meanwhile, has written and recorded her upcoming album with her touring band The Attachment Theory, and will release the self-titled debut Sharon Van Etten & The Attachment Theory on February 7 via Jagjaguwar.
Self Esteem’s performance is the first show announced in 2025 for the British pop artist, who saw considerable success with her second LP, Prioritise Pleasure, and its ensuing live tour. Electronic producer Caribou released his sixth album, Honey, earlier this year, which included collaborations with generative AI across the vocal performances.
Sum 41 has canceled their entire Australian tour, including their co-headlining slot at the Good Things Festival, due to frontman Deryck Whibley’s battle with pneumonia.
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The band announced the decision on Dec. 5, citing medical advice from Australian doctors who deemed Whibley too unwell to perform.
“It is with deep sadness and regret that we announce our 2024 Australian tour is unable to proceed,” the band shared in a statement on social media. “We were beyond excited to deliver this tour from December 4 – December 12, and connect with our Aussie fans once more.”
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“Now that we’re here though, and under the guidance and direction of multiple Australian doctors, it’s clear that Deryck is too unwell to perform. We understand and appreciate your disappointment – we’re gutted too.”
The statement continued: “The good news is Good Things Festival is still going ahead in Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane this weekend with an incredible line-up of local and international acts. We can’t be there, but get along for us and have the best time.”
The tour was set to support Sum 41’s eighth and final album, Heaven :x: Hell, released in March. The dates were highly anticipated as part of the band’s farewell run, leading up to their final-ever show at Toronto’s Scotiabank Arena in January 2025.
The cancellation follows the band’s earlier decision to call off their Dec. 4 sideshow at Brisbane’s Fortitude Valley Music Hall. At the time, the band stated, “Unfortunately, we have to make the difficult decision to cancel tonight’s show in Brisbane due to Deryck being diagnosed with pneumonia. He is receiving the best possible local care.”
This marks the second time Australian fans have missed out on seeing the Canadian rockers due to Whibley’s health. In 2011, the band canceled their appearance at the Soundwave Festival after Whibley was hospitalized with pneumonia.
For their final act, Sum 41 will be inducted into the Canadian Music Hall of Fame during the 54th Annual JUNO Awards on March 30, 2025, in Vancouver.
Despite the setback, the Good Things Festival will proceed as planned, with Korn headlining the three-city event, alongside acts like Violent Femmes, Jet, Northlane, and Billy Corgan.
“Sum 41 are gutted they can’t perform, and we fully understand and appreciate fans’ disappointment,” the festival organizers said in a statement. “Deryck’s health and wellbeing is the focus and priority though, and we hope you will join us in sending him well wishes for his recovery.”
The festival kicks off in Melbourne on Dec. 6, followed by dates in Sydney and Brisbane. Ticket holders for Sum 41’s sideshows will receive refund information shortly.
After earning its first No. 1 on Billboard’s Alternative Airplay chart in over two decades earlier this year, Sum 41 scored another as “Dopamine” hit No. 1 on the Nov. 30-dated survey.
The song follows the two-week Alternative Airplay command for “Landmines” in March. The latter led 22 years, five months, and three weeks after Sum 41’s first No. 1, “Fat Lip,” in August 2001, rewriting the record for the longest break between rulers for an act in the chart’s 36-year history.
It shattered the previous best, held by The Killers, who waited 13 years and six months between the reigns of “When You Were Young” in 2006 and “Caution” in 2020.
Whibley’s recently released memoir, Walking Disaster: My Life Through Heaven and Hell, also became a No. 1 bestseller on Amazon’s punk musician biographies chart following its October debut. In the deeply personal autobiography, the frontman reflects on his rise to fame with Sum 41, navigating the highs of international success and accolades like Grammy nominations and MTV Video Music Award.
Depeche Mode fans may need to enjoy the silence for some time, with vocalist Dave Gahan noting that new music isn’t a priority for the band at this time. Gahan’s comments were made in a recent interview with NME which saw him reflecting on the loss of musicians such as close friend and collaborator Mark […]
