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Come June, Addison Rae fans will have one big reason to put their headphones on: Addison, the TikToker-turned-singer’s debut studio album, is officially on its way. As announced Wednesday (April 23), Rae will release her first LP on June 6, following a run of singles in 2024 and the first few months of 2025 that […]
Lana Topham‘s obsessive quest for the perfect Pink Floyd at Pompeii film cut began in 1994, when guitarist David Gilmour requested unedited footage from the concert shot in 1971. If found, says Topham, the band’s restoration director, these rushes could have been used for a more evocative edit of Pink Floyd‘s only major concert film, which documented the band in happier, more experimental days, long before they turned into feuding rock megastars. But, she recalls: “Despite my extensive search, I was unable to locate the rushes. I found every laboratory that existed in Britain and France and every storage facility.”
Then came a breakthrough. In 2020, working with film technician Marie-Louise Fieldman, Topham discovered a trove of film cans labeled “Pompeii” at a London storage facility, where they had been relocated over the years from Gilmour’s own warehouse. These were not the film rushes, or unedited raw footage, which could have provided alternate camera angles and unseen footage. But they were almost as good: The original, 35-millimeter “first-cut negatives,” as Topham calls them, which provide “the ultimate source of quality,” allowing for more sophisticated color-grading and film restoration. “Restoring from a negative is a whole different ballgame from a print,” she says. “These prints that are out there, back in the day, were used for running in cinema and used over and over again. Once you find one, it’s not ideal.”
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Those negatives became source material for Pink Floyd at Pompeii – MCMLXXII, which opens a worldwide IMAX run on Thursday (April 24). A remixed Pink Floyd at Pompeii – MCMLXXII album is also due May 2, marking the first time a full-length live album will document the concert.
Shot at the Roman Amphitheatre in Pompeii, Italy, in 1971 and first released in 1972, Pink Floyd at Pompeii captures the band looking impossibly young, performing a full concert to a small group of spectators consisting of camerapeople, roadies and “a few local kids that had talked their way in,” according to Mark Blake’s 2008 book Comfortably Numb: The Inside Story of Pink Floyd. Drummer Nick Mason‘s massive gong matches the drama of the ancient-ruin surroundings, complete with gargoyles and other sculptures, as the band emphasizes material from 1971’s Meddle, including “Echoes” and “One of These Days.” In subsequent versions of the film, filmmakers added performance material from London’s Abbey Road Studios and a Paris soundstage.
“It is a crucial film, because it’s the closest you’ve got to a Pink Floyd concert film during the ’70s,” Blake says. “They did film The Wall, but that was never released, and it’s floating around the Internet, and it’s not very good. It’s like Led Zeppelin — you’ve got The Song Remains the Same. It’s the only thing available to the public.”
The band has reissued the film numerous times, including a director’s cut DVD in 2003. And while the version shown at select IMAX theatres contains no revelatory content — “People have already seen it,” Blake says — it’s startlingly vibrant, the Italian sky impossibly blue, the multicolored butterflies on Mason’s T-shirts poised to float into real life. (The new version is also a boon for Sony Music, which purchased some of Pink Floyd’s recorded-music assets last October for $400 million and now owns the rights to the film; the new release will also likely improve the band’s streaming numbers and social-media views.)
The recently discovered negatives allowed for this kind of coloring, with help from colorist Andy Lee. “The problem with working from a print is there are limitations of what you can do, restoration-wise,” Topham says, describing Pink Floyd at Pompeii – MCMLXXII as having “a three-dimensional feeling” that brings to life even trivial details such as “the logo on the speakers and the red tape on Nick’s drumkit.”
“The technology now has enabled us to get the full, glorious detail of the film. You can literally see the fingerprints on David Gilmour’s Strat,” Blake adds. “It’s a cliche, but it kind of puts you right there in the amphitheatre with them.”
Snoop Dogg is getting back in the coaching chair. As announced Wednesday (April 23), the rapper is locked in to return to The Voice as part of an expansive new partnership with NBCUniversal, which will also see him exploring various film, television, sports and streaming projects in conjunction with his Death Row Pictures company, according […]
Green Day landed one of its biggest hits with their 2004 single “Boulevard of Broken Dreams” — now, 20 years later, the trio’s dreams are coming true over on Hollywood Boulevard. The veteran rock band is set to receive a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame on Thursday, May 1 at 11:30 a.m. PT. […]
Morgan Wallen was the most-played act on TouchTunes jukeboxes in the first quarter of 2025, headlining the first artist-specific chart from TouchTunes alongside the latest iterations of its songs-based Frontline and Catalog rankings.
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The TouchTunes charts for the first quarter of the year track the most played songs and artists on TouchTunes jukeboxes from Jan. 1 to March 31, 2025, with the Frontline ranking inclusive of music released in the last 18 months, followed by the Catalog tally for any music that was released more than 18 months ago. TouchTunes has jukeboxes in over 60,000 locations worldwide. TouchTunes data is not factored into other Billboard charts.
Wallen leads the inaugural TouchTunes Artists Chart, representing nearly double the quarterly plays of the second-most-played act, Shaboozey. Not that that’s a major surprise for anyone who’s been following the TouchTunes Frontline and Catalog lists since their inception, as Wallen, despite still searching for his first No. 1 song on either tally, is routinely the most-represented act on each.
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Sure enough, Wallen can be found on six of the 25 songs on the Frontline chart this quarter, plus two of the 25 on Catalog. His highest rank comes as a featured act on Post Malone‘s “I Had Some Help,” which falls one spot to No. 3 on the latest Frontline list, while “Love Somebody” is his top-performing tune as a lead act, leaping eight spots to No. 7 on Frontline. (Perhaps helping matters: all eight Wallen songs feature at least one lyric referencing drinking, and many of TouchTunes’ jukeboxes can be found in bars.)
He leads the artists-based ranking over Shaboozey, whose “A Bar Song (Tipsy)” concurrently leads Frontline yet again, a distinction it’s held since the charts were first presented in July 2024.
Then comes the top-performing hip-hop act in Kendrick Lamar, who ranks at No. 3. Lamar’s music dots the Frontline list; he had previously found success with “Not Like Us,” which leaps three spots to No. 4 on the latest survey, while “TV Off,” “Luther” and “Squabble Up” debut at Nos. 9, 10 and 25, respectively, in their first full quarter of tracking after being released in December 2024.
“Not Like Us” equals its mark from the third quarter of 2024, when it also appeared at No. 4. It remains the only song since the chart’s inception to appear in the top five.
Country TouchTunes staples Chris Stapleton and Toby Keith round out the top five of the Artists tally (while Stapleton’s “Tennessee Whiskey” retains its lead on the Catalog chart, a distinction it’s held since the ranking debuted), while AC/DC leads all rock acts at No. 6.
Chappell Roan may not be on the inaugural Artists chart, but she’s making significant inroads on TouchTunes regardless – thanks to “Pink Pony Club,” which reaches a new peak on Frontline of No. 2, up six spots from the fourth quarter of 2024. Its rise is concurrent with the song’s path on the Billboard Hot 100, on which it broke into the top 10 in February and reaches a new peak of No. 4 on the latest ranking (April 26).
The aforementioned “TV Off” sports the top Frontline debut of the quarter, leading a slew of entries that includes music from Lamar, Wallen, Lady Gaga and Bruno Mars, Lainey Wilson, Koe Wetzel and Sabrina Carpenter.
The Catalog list, meanwhile, includes a pair of debuts in Wallen’s “Cowgirls,” which graduates to the ranking at No. 15 after previously appearing on the Frontline survey, and Creed’s “One Last Breath” (No. 24).
Overall, the rock genre holds the lion’s share of TouchTunes plays for the first quarter of 2025, accounting for 38% of all plays, including 42% of Catalog-eligible titles. But while country music is a distant second overall at 23%, it accounts for 43% of all Frontline-eligible plays, followed by rap at 20%. The rock genre is a distant fourth at 10%.
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TouchTunes Frontline Chart
“A Bar Song (Tipsy),” Shaboozey (=)
“Pink Pony Club,” Chappell Roan (+6)
“I Had Some Help,” Post Malone feat. Morgan Wallen (-1)
“Not Like Us,” Kendrick Lamar (+3)
“I Never Lie,” Zach Top (=)
“You Look Like You Love Me,” Ella Langley feat. Riley Green (-3)
“Love Somebody,” Morgan Wallen (+8)
“Beautiful Things,” Benson Boone (+1)
“TV Off,” Kendrick Lamar feat. Lefty Gunplay (debut)
“Luther,” Kendrick Lamar with SZA (debut)
“I’m the Problem,” Morgan Wallen (debut)
“Too Sweet,” Hozier (-2)
“Lies Lies Lies,” Morgan Wallen (-7)
“Smile,” Morgan Wallen (debut)
“Whatchu Kno About Me,” GloRilla feat. Sexyy Red (debut)
“Messy,” Lola Young (debut)
“Die With a Smile,” Lady Gaga & Bruno Mars (debut)
“4x4xu,” Lainey Wilson (debut)
“I Am Not Okay,” Jelly Roll (-8)
“High Road,” Koe Wetzel with Jessie Murph (debut)
“Whiskey Whiskey,” Moneybagg Yo feat. Morgan Wallen (-5)
“The Door,” Teddy Swims (-5)
“Ain’t No Love in Oklahoma,” Luke Combs (-10)
“Espresso,” Sabrina Carpenter (debut)
“Squabble Up,” Kendrick Lamar (debut)
TouchTunes Catalog Chart
“Tennessee Whiskey,” Chris Stapleton (=)
“Lose Control, “Teddy Swims (=)
“I Love This Bar,” Toby Keith (=)
“Friends in Low Places,” Garth Brooks (=)
“Neon Moon,” Brooks & Dunn (=)
“Copperhead Road,” Steve Earle (+3)
“I Think I’ll Just Stay Here and Drink,” Merle Haggard (=)
“Simple Man,” Lynyrd Skynyrd (+8)
“Fat Bottomed Girls,” Queen (-1)
“Drinkin’ Problem,” Midland (=)
“Don’t Stop Believin’,” Journey (=)
“Brown Eyed Girl,” Van Morrison (+13)
“Rockstar,” Nickelback (=)
“Whiskey Glasses,” Morgan Wallen (=)
“Cowgirls,” Morgan Wallen feat. ERNEST (debut, previously No. 4 on Frontline)
“Family Tradition,” Hank Williams Jr. (-1)
“The Joker,” The Steve Miller Band (+4)
“Higher,” Creed (=)
“Thunderstruck,” AC/DC (+3)
“Sweet Child o’ Mine,” Guns N’ Roses (+3)
“Something in the Orange,” Zach Bryan (-4)
“In the Air Tonight,” Phil Collins (+2)
“Save Me,” Jelly Roll with Lainey Wilson (-11)
“One Last Breath,” Creed (debut)
“Son of a Sinner,” Jelly Roll (-19)
TouchTunes Artists Chart
Morgan Wallen
Shaboozey
Kendrick Lamar
Chris Stapleton
Toby Keith
AC/DC
Zach Bryan
Lynyrd Skynyrd
Jelly Roll
Luke Combs
Russell Wilson has been loud and proud about his desire to have another baby with Ciara, but the singer would like her husband to take two steps back from his ongoing campaign to expand their family.
In a hilarious moment from Ciara’s video with Access Hollywood posted Wednesday (April 23), the “1, 2 Step” musician reacted to Wilson’s ongoing calls for Baby No. 5 — whom he’s preemptively started calling “Cinco” on social media — by saying, “Someone need to take my husband’s phone, right now.”
“He needs to stop, OK?,” she continued, laughing. “I’m like, ‘Babe!’ Amora came out, and he started talking about Cinco. I’m like, ‘This is disrespectful! Do you know what I just went through right now?’ He is so funny.”
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The interview comes about a year and four months after the couple welcomed Amora Princess, Ciara’s fourth child and third with the New York Giants quarterback. The two stars are also parents to 7-year-old Sienna and 4-year-old Win, and the “Level Up” artist shares 10-year-old Future Zahir with ex Future.
In the months since Amora’s birth, Wilson has been not-so-subtly signaling his desire to grow their family even more. “I’m ready when you are,” he commented on one of his wife’s Instagram posts in October. “We can call him Cinco.”
“This is my mating call I see…,” he then wrote in March under a video of Ciara in a peacock-inspired getup. “Cinco goin’ to be on di way!”
Many of the couple’s fans have been cheering Wilson on in his quest, about which Ciara told Access Hollywood, “He’s got a great campaign going, I’m not gonna lie … Y’all going to have a little love and sympathy for my ovaries over here? For my uterus?”
After meeting in 2015, Ciara and the athlete tied the knot in 2015. In the interview, the former shared some of her best advice for keeping the spark alive for as long as they have, gushing, “We love our date nights.”
“You gotta carve out time for the both of you,” she added. “Communication is so important. Sometimes you gotta talk about the ugly things and it’s just not comfortable, but I feel like when you break through that, you grow together.”
She also touched on the recent engagement of her husband’s former teammate DK Metcalf and her friend Normani, whom Ciara and Wilson set up. Earlier this month, the “Motivation” singer said on The Jennifer Hudson Show that she’d love for the “Goodies” artist to officiate their wedding and recalled, “[Ciara] kept telling me, ‘There’s this guy, there’s this guy,’ for literally like two years … when the time came around and the time was right, God put all of that together.”
On Access Hollywood, Ciara said, “Whatever DK and Normani want us to do, we’re going to be there for them.”
“We are beyond happy,” she added. “Like, we knew. We really believed in our souls that it was meant for those two to meet each other.”
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Kevin Gates pulled up to the Los Angeles Lakers game at Crypto.com Arena on Tuesday night (April 22), which had social media buzzing on the heels of his controversial remarks about Lakers star LeBron James and his wife, Savannah James.
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Over the weekend, Kevin Gates took to social media detailing a conversation he had with a friend regarding how he wouldn’t want to switch places with LeBron James and explained that he didn’t like the way James’ wife looked at her superstar husband.
“We was talking about how LeBron do the little handshake with Savannah. Then I came, maybe I notice s–t people don’t notice. They were like, ‘What if you had LeBron money?’ He one of the greatest players to play the game, but I wouldn’t want to trade places with him,” Gates said. “I said because I don’t like the way Savannah look at LeBron. I like the way them white women look at LeBron.”
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KG later compared Savannah to the “warden of the jail” and feels that she “polices” James. “I couldn’t do it,” he said. “It hurt me to see that… I love LeBron and I hate that he gotta go through that.”
James typically doesn’t respond to social media chatter involving him, but many fans took his Instagram post on Monday (April 21) as a possible dig at Kevin Gates.
“‘Kings don’t concern themselves with the opinions of peasants.’ Where to next Queen?!?! Let’s get it,” he captioned the pair of photos, laughing with his wife.
Symba, Victoria Monét, D-Nice and more applauded James for showing love to Savannah. “[fire emoji] and that’s that on that,” Monét wrote in his comments.
Unlike when he confronted ESPN’s Stephen A. Smith, James appeared to pay Gates and his girlfriend, Brittany Renner, no mind during game two against the Minnesota Timberwolves.
James and Luka Doncic led the Lakers to a much-needed 94-85 victory on Tuesday night to even the series at one game apiece. King James finished with 21 points, 11 rebounds and seven assists to help power the Lakers.
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Bon Iver’s SABLE, fABLE premieres atop a host of Billboard album charts dated April 26.
The set bows with 37,000 equivalent album units earned in the U.S. in the week ending April 17, according to Luminate. That sum includes 25,000 in album sales, begetting a No. 1 debut on Top Album Sales. Its 19,000 vinyl copies sold also spark a No. 1 start on Vinyl Albums.
The Justin Vernon-led band rules the Top Rock & Alternative Albums chart for the first time since 22, A Million led in 2016. Before that, Bon Iver hit No. 1 with its self-titled effort.
SABLE, fABLE also starts at No. 1 on Top Rock Albums, Top Alternative Albums and Americana/Folk Albums, likewise marking Bon Iver’s third leader on each list.
Bon Iver adds its second Top Albums Sales No. 1, following 22, A Million, and its third on Vinyl Albums, after Bon Iver and I,I.
On the all-genre Billboard 200, SABLE, fABLE enters at No. 11, Bon Iver’s best rank since 22, A Million reached No. 2; Bon Iver also hit No. 2. The band first made the survey in 2008 with For Emma, Forever Ago, which peaked at No. 64 in 2009.
Concurrently, four tracks from the new album appear on the Hot Rock & Alternative Songs chart, led by “There’s a Rhythm” at No. 35 thanks to 1.9 million official U.S. streams. “Everything Is Peaceful Love,” the set’s current radio single, follows at No. 44, along with “S P E Y S I D E” (No. 46) and the Dijon– and Flock of Dimes-featuring “Day One” (No. 48).
“Everything Is Peaceful Love” ranks at No. 7 on the latest Adult Alternative Airplay chart, Bon Iver’s second-highest-charted song on the tally and best as a lead act, having passed the No. 13 peak of “S P E Y S I D E” last year. Its best remains its featured turn on The National’s “Weird Goodbyes,” which reached No. 6 in 2022.
“Gay pop” star JoJo Siwa might be looking to change the name of her beloved genre to “queer pop” after a recent episode of Celebrity Big Brother UK.
On the April 22 episode of the show, Siwa spoke with fellow contestant and Drag Race UK winner Danny Beard about how her experience in the Big Brother house has helped her come to terms with her evolving sexuality. “It’s made me feel so queer. And I’ve always been afraid of feeling ‘queer,’” she said. “Like, I always said ‘lesbian,’ right? But I feel, like, so queer … I think I’ve always told myself I’m a lesbian, and I think being here I’ve realized, ‘Oh, I’m not a lesbian, I’m queer.’ And I think that’s really cool.”
She continued, saying that she’s “switching letters” before exlcaiming, “F–k the ‘L’, I’m going to the ‘Q’!”
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Siwa first came out publicly in 2021, when she posted a photo of herself wearing a T-shirt that read “Best. Gay. Cousin. Ever.” In a 2021 interview with People magazine, though, Siwa explained that she was still figuring out which label best fit her. “I want to figure it out … I don’t know — bisexual, pansexual, queer, lesbian, gay, straight. I always just say ‘gay’ because it just kind of covers it, or ‘queer’ because I think the keyword is cool,” she said at the time.
Siwa had also previously been criticized by a fan who claimed that she called the word “lesbian” a “dirty word,” which she vehemently denied. “I never said that ‘lesbian’ was a dirty word and I never, ever would say that it’s a dirty word because it is not. It is not a bad word, it is not a slur and it is especially not a word that I am ashamed of saying or ashamed of identifying as by any means,” she said in a 2023 TikTok.
This also isn’t the first time Siwa’s sexuality has been brought up in the Celebrity Big Brother UK house. In earlier episodes of the season, contestant Mickey Rourke was “warned” about making inappropriate comments to Siwa about her sexuality, including the use of slurs, saying that he would “vote the lesbian out” and claiming that the “Karma” singer wouldn’t “be gay anymore” if he stayed for longer than four days. Rourke later agreed to leave the competition and apologized to Siwa and the other contestants he offended with his comments.
Atlanta rap legend Jeezy has announced the TM:101 Live Tour — teased as a “black-tie symphonic tour” — with special guest DJ Drama to celebrate his third studio album and commercial debut, Let’s Get It: Thug Motivation 101, as it turns 20 this year. Explore See latest videos, charts and news See latest videos, charts […]