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BE:FIRST’s “Blissful” debuts at No. 1 on the Billboard Japan Hot 100, dated Aug. 21.
The lead single from the septet’s second album 2:BE, due Aug. 28, dropped digitally ahead of the project on Aug. 12 and hit the top spot on the Japan song chart after ruling downloads, radio airplay, and video views, while also coming in at No. 7 for streaming. The track is the group’s seventh No. 1, following “Gifted.,” “Bye-Good-Bye,” “Scream,” “Boom Boom Back,” “Mainstream” and “Masterplan.”
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Mrs. GREEN APPLE‘s “Lilac” continues to hold at No. 2, now in its fifth week in this position. Streaming (93%), radio (73%), and video (85%) are down from the previous week, but downloads have gone up (102%). The popular three man band’s latest single “familie” follows at No. 3, jumping from No. 17. Downloads for this song featured in commercials for the new Honda FREED decreased (75%) week-over-week, but is doing well in streaming (179%), video (up three times the week before) and radio (up 36 times the week before).
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Morning Musume. ’24’s “Nandaka Sentimental na toki no Uta” (“A song for when you’re feeling sort of sentimental”) bows at No. 4. The 74th single by the Morning Musume. girl group sold 136,205 copies in its first week to top sales, while coming in at No. 10 for downloads and No. 59 for radio.
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Meanwhile, songs by Vaundy are on the rise. “Homunculus” moved 27-19 after the CD version launched with 3,843 copies, while “Kaiju no Hanauta” climbed 12-10, “Time Paradox” 32-27, and ”Odoriko” charted again after two weeks, perhaps influenced by the 24-year-old hitmaker’s recent double-headlining concert with the band back number (whose former No. 1 song “to new lovers” is at No. 9 this week).
The Billboard Japan Hot 100 combines physical and digital sales, audio streams, radio airplay, video views and karaoke data.
See the full Billboard Japan Hot 100 chart, tallying the week from Aug. 12 to 18, here. For more on Japanese music and charts, visit Billboard Japan’s English Twitter account.
Kenshi Yonezu announced the dates for the international leg of his 2025 JUNK world tour. The tour is scheduled to start in March after the J-pop hitmaker wraps up his domestic trek, making stops through April in Shanghai, Taipei, London, Paris and New York and closing in Los Angeles. This will be the “KICK BACK” […]
Fat Joe reps New York about as hard as any rapper in the game, and the city returned the favor on Tuesday night (Aug. 20) when the 54-year-old received a key to New York City.
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Joey Crack was performing at the Up NYC concert at Orchard Beach’s in his hometown of the Bronx when Mayor Eric Adams surprised him on stage with the Key to the City. Adams gave Joe his flowers for everything from his music to his philanthropic endeavors.
“Fat Joe who’s getting the Key to the City of New York. All his legendary — his music, a real brother, authentic — we want to give you this key,” he said.
The musician then grabbed the mic and proceeded to show love to the rap pioneers who paved the way before him.
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“Shout-out my wife, my daughter, shout-out my favorite aunt in the world. I gotta thank the pioneers. From Melle Mel, Mr. Ness to KRS-One — my whole life I been trying to be KRS-One — LL Cool J, Heavy D and the list goes on,” he said. “I want to shout out everybody here because we in the Bronx and I know I know all of you. Every last one of you, I know you — I love you.”
Continuing a celebratory birthday week, Joe had Mayor Adams step to the side before getting into performing some of his hits, including his Billboard Hot 100-topping “Lean Back” and “My Lifestyle.”
2024 is shaping up to be another busy year for Fat Joe. He parlayed his Instagram Live debates into a Starz talk show, which will be executive produced by LeBron James and himself.
Joe picked up a tennis racket and will also serve as the voice of the upcoming 2024 U.S. Open tournament kicking off next week in Flushing, Queens. Earlier this year, Fat Joe performed at President Joe Biden’s rally in North Carolina and he also received an honorary doctorate degree from Lehman College.
On the music side, he returned with frequent collaborators Remy Ma and Cool & Dre for their “Outta Control” single in July.
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You know I had to Boogie Down to the Bronx to join the crowd at our Rise Up NYC concert at Orchard Beach!We made it an even more special evening by presenting Fat Joe with the “New York City Entertainer’s Key” for always giving back to the borough that raised him. pic.twitter.com/7fygjWWSH4— Mayor Eric Adams (@NYCMayor) August 21, 2024
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With the Democratic National Convention fully underway, more star-studded performers have been added to the lineup at Chicago’s United Center to celebrate Vice President Kamala Harris‘ presidential nomination. On Wednesday night (Aug. 21), John Legend will take the stage to perform, according to CNN. The “All of Me” singer has been an outspoken supporter of Harris, […]
Janet Jackson officially announced her Las Vegas residency at Resorts World Las Vegas on Wednesday (Aug. 21), with the show set to launch New Year’s week. “This is going to be a lot of fun and I look forward to spending the start of the New Year with you!!” the five-time Grammy-winning superstar captioned her […]
For The Weeknd fans who won’t be able to catch him in Brazil next month for his one-night-only show, they’re in luck. The superstar will be livestreaming his Sept. 7 show at Estádio MorumBIS in São Paulo exclusively on his YouTube channel, he announced Wednesday (Aug. 21). “Feast your eyes. São Paulo will be live […]
John Legend has long been outspoken about his political beliefs and when it comes to this November’s presidential campaign, the singer said there is only one candidate he can, and will, support. Speaking to CBS Mornings, Legend told co-host Tony Dokoupil that he is fully behind Vice President Kamala Harris, who became the official Democrat nominee on Tuesday night (August 20) after a raucous, musical roll call at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago.
“I live in California, so I’ve gotten to watch her run for election multiple times,” Legend said of Harris, who before she became President Joe Biden’s VP in 2020 was also the Attorney General of California and a Senator from the state. “And seen how smart and charismatic and empathetic and how ready she is for this, she’s prepared herself for this role. She is eminently qualified to be president. And then she also has the right character traits I think to be a great president, which means she cares about people’s lives, wants government to work for people and improve their lives.”
Legend joins a long, and growing, list of musicians who have thrown in with the Harris campaign since the Vice President unexpectedly jumped into the race in place of Biden when the President stepped down a month ago amid concerns that the 81-year-old commander in chief was not up to the task. His endorsement is now added to a roster that includes Ariana Grande, Barbra Streisand, Cardi B, Charli XCX, Demi Lovato, Katy Perry, Lil Nas X, Megan Thee Stallion, Olivia Rodrigo, Patti LaBelle and Beyoncé, whose “Freedom” has been adopted as the official Harris campaign theme song.
The singer told CBS that he felt compelled to weigh in on the election because of the vital impact politics has on all of our lives as American citizens. “We all have a stake in what happens in this country. We pay taxes here. Our kids are growing up here, going to schools here. And I don’t want to sit out,” said the Ohio native who has long been an advocate for prison reform and voting for progressive prosecutors. “I want to make sure that my voice is heard, but also that I lift up other voices and make sure they’re heard too.”
A longtime critic of twice impeached former President Donald Trump, Legend threw cold water on the notion that the Democratic party is one of “coastal elites,” a tag often put on the party by their Republican rivals thanks to Dems’ strong support in New York and California, as well as the tendency for A-list music, movie and entertainment figures to throw in with the other side. He noted that Republicans have gone all-in on a convicted felon whose story is the very definition of what former First Lady Michelle Obama referred to as “the affirmative action of generational wealth” in her rousing DNC speech on Tuesday night.
“They’re represented by a guy who grew up with a silver spoon in his mouth, who was gifted a real estate company, grew up in New York City and is only famous because he was on national television playing a businessman,” Legend said of Trump, who is running for President for a third time alongside his pick for a second-in-command, Ohio Senator JD Vance. “So, you know, it doesn’t ring very true for them to accuse us of being the Hollywood elites. I’m from Springfield, Ohio. I grew up in a blue-collar family. I would not even comprehend the kind of upbringing someone like Donald Trump had.”
The bottom line, Legend said, is that Harris and her VP candidate, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, “care about people like you. They care about ordinary Americans and they want to make life better for ordinary Americans. And their opponent cares about enriching himself and his other rich friends and the difference is very clear.”
Watch Legend’s full interview below.
.@johnlegend is at the DNC to help bolster support for VP Kamala Harris’ run for the White House.He told @tonydokoupil about the impact of celebrity endorsements: “I don’t want to sit out. I want make sure that my voice is heard, but also that I lift up other voices.” pic.twitter.com/jDUfRxZ7Yn— CBS Mornings (@CBSMornings) August 21, 2024
Maren Morris won’t be taking back her viral comments about Brittany Aldean any time soon. In a new interview on Cosmopolitan‘s series Cheap Shots, the singer-songwriter doubled down on her choice to dub the former NBA dancer “Insurrection Barbie” in a social media dispute over trans rights and gender-affirming healthcare in 2022 — even though the opposing party recently called Morris out for coming after her.
During the game-style interview, Morris had to avoid taking shots of cheap liquor by honestly answering questions, one of which inquired whether she regrets any of her past posts. “I don’t really have any tweets that I’ve regretted,” she said. “I will say I didn’t think my ‘Insurrection Barbie’ tweet to a certain someone would have picked up so much momentum, but I stand by it.”
By “a certain someone,” the “The Middle” singer means Brittany, who is married to country star Jason Aldean. Two years ago, the lifestyle influencer thanked her parents on Instagram for letting her enjoy her “tomboy” phase without “changing [her] gender,” after which she proceeded to spread misinformation about what she called “the genital mutilation of children” in reference to gender-affirming healthcare. Meanwhile, Morris tweeted in response to her claims, saying, “It’s so easy to, like, not be a scumbag human? Sell your clip-ins and zip it, Insurrection Barbie.”
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For the record, experts — some of whom spoke on the matter with Billboard at the time — agree that parents having the sex of their underage children changed through reassignment surgery is exceedingly rare. Most kids who receive gender-affirming care are treated with impermanent courses of action such as speech therapy, puberty blockers or hormone treatments.
Even so, Brittany recently doubled down on her stance during a July episode of the Try That in a Small Town podcast with her husband. She also slammed Morris, saying, “She’s got a group of friends here in Nashville that, they just have it out for me for whatever reason … to be so pro-woman and all the bulls–t … you’re not, because I’ve never said a word to you and you come for me.”
“She started to make fun of my business, which at the time was hair extensions,” Brittany continued at the time. “But to me it’s, like, once again, going back to the feminist movement. Aren’t you supposed to be all peace, love and all inclusivity and all the things? Why are you coming for me like that about my business?”
Watch Morris on Cheap Shots below.
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Barack Obama and Michelle Obama rallied the United Center crowd at the 2024 Democratic National Convention with a pair of fiery speeches on Tuesday night (Aug. 20), and drawing comparisons to Kendrick Lamar‘s Drake disses in the process.
The former president and first lady electrified democrats on night two of the DNC while attacking Republican nominee Donald Trump and encouraging citizens to get out and vote to make sure they’re heard on Nov. 5, which is 76 days away.
“We don’t need four more years of bluster and chaos,” Barack said. “We’ve seen that movie — and we all know that the sequel’s usually worse. America is ready for a new chapter. America’s ready for a better story. We are ready for a President Kamala Harris.”
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Rap fans immediately began connecting the Obamas’ speeches toLamar’sdisses against Drizzy. “They should’ve put the ‘meet the grahams’ beat behind this michelle speech,” former Desus & Mero host Desus Nice tweeted.
Others were a step ahead and edited the harrowing instrumental behind the speeches, which some dubbed the remix as “Meet the Trumps.”
“His limited, narrow view of the world made him feel threatened by the existence of two hard-working, highly educated, successful people who happened to be Black,” Michelle Obama said of Trump before her mic drop as the music plays in the remixed video. “I wanna know who’s gonna tell him that the job he’s currently seeking might just be one of those Black jobs?”
Apple Music host Lowkey continued to quote lyrics from K. Dot’s “Euphoria” alongside clips of Obamas’ speeches. “There’s three goats left and i see two of them kissing and hugging on stage,” he tweeted.
Another viewer chimed in: “Trump’s Truth Social meltdown on the Obama’s is like Drake tryin to respond after Kendrick left him for dead. Done and dusted.”
Music has also been at the center of the DNC in Chicago this week, with Patti LaBelle, Common and DJ Cassidy hitting the stage on night two. Lil Jon even made a surprise appearance to fire up the thousands in attendance, which included Spike Lee and Eva Longoria.
During the California roll call, West Coast hip-hop dominated the segment. Lamar’s “Not Like Us” provided the soundtrack for a set that included K. Dot’s “Alright,” Snoop Dogg and Dr. Dre’s “The Next Episode” and 2Pac’s “California Love.”
Find more reactions to the Obamas’ speeches below.
dnc bringing out 2pac tomorrow— Desus MF Nice💯 (@desusnice) August 21, 2024
That Obama family is cookin tonight cyat dang !!!— Peter Rosenberg (@Rosenbergradio) August 21, 2024
President Barack Obama’s speech at the DNC if it were backed by Kendrick Lamar’s “Meet The Grahams” instrumental (produced by The Alchemist). pic.twitter.com/gGf7tGqKgU— Andrés Tardio (@AndresWrites) August 21, 2024
There are two people in the world that you don’t wanna have beef with: Kendrick Lamar and Michelle Obama. You will not win. Worzers!!!— Kafui Dzirasa, MD PhD (@KafuiDzirasa) August 21, 2024
Feel like the Obama’s listened to Kendrick all night and then showed up to the DNC— Trump Is Weird (@UnSpoken_Victim) August 21, 2024
The Obama’s danced on trump’s corps like Kendrick Lamar and Whitney danced on Drake’s— 🇨🇩Sports Guy🇨🇩 (@PlamsAbt) August 21, 2024
I need to see Michell Obama’s Summer playlist because I know every single track that Kendrick dropped recently is on there 😂— Chloe (@CosmicallyChloe) August 21, 2024
Olivia Rodrigo and Chappell Roan saw an opportunity, and they took it. After surprising fans with a duet of the latter’s “Hot to Go!” at the former’s Guts World Tour concert in Los Angeles, the two friends posted a hilarious TikTok capitalizing on one of the app’s latest trends. In the clip posted Wednesday (Aug. […]
