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Chase & Status have claimed their first-ever U.K. No. 1 single on the Official U.K. Charts with “BACKBONE,” a DnB-heavy collaboration featuring Stormzy.
For Stormzy, this track marks his fourth time topping the charts, following his previous hits “Vossi Bop” (2019), “Take Me Back to London” with Ed Sheeran (2019), and “Own It” with Ed Sheeran and Burna Boy (2020).
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Reacting to the major achievement, the British electronic duo told Official U.K Charts: “We knew that connecting with Stormzy was going to create something special, but we didn’t expect a KO reaction like this. To see him running out at our show at The Milton Keynes Bowl, in his best man’s suit—straight from a wedding and in front of 45,000 people—was insane! One of the greatest British MCs to ever do it, spitting over DnB & for it to go straight into No. 1? It couldn’t get any better for us.”
“BACKBONE” dominated the charts this week, racking up 6.4 million streams to secure the top spot.
Billie Eilish’s “BIRDS OF A FEATHER” also made waves, returning to its previous peak at No. 2. Her recent collaboration with Charli XCX, “Guess,” held strong in the Top 5 at No. 4, while another track, “WILDFLOWER,” continued its steady climb, now sitting at No. 36.
In the dance music scene, “Kisses” by Bl3ss, CamrinWatsin, and bbyclose moved up to No. 6, securing its place as a standout hit of the summer.
JADE re-entered the U.K. Top 10 with “Angel Of My Dreams,” which soared eight spots to No. 10, thanks to the release of its “S.A.D (sad. angelic. dramatic.) Version”‘. The achievement makes her the first Little Mix alum to have a solo single spend two weeks in the Top 10.
Just outside the Top 10, “Move” by Adam Port, Stryv, and KeineMusik climbed to a new peak at No. 11, while Chappell Roan’s “HOT TO GO” rose to No. 12, with another track, “Red Wine Supernova,” reaching No. 31.
In the U.K. Top 20, Sonny Fodera, Jazzy, and D.O.D’s “Somedays” made a significant jump to No. 19, and Indian rapper Hanumankind, along with producer Kalmi, saw their track “Big Dawgs” rise to No. 21.
Madonna’s classic hit “Like A Prayer” made a return to the U.K. Top 40 at No. 27, thanks to its feature in the new blockbuster Deadpool & Wolverine. Originally released in 1989, the song spent three weeks at No. 1 and now enjoys its 10th week inside the Top 40, just in time for Madonna’s 66th birthday.
Other notable movements include Calvin Harris & Ellie Goulding’s “Free,” which reached No. 35, and Gracie Abrams securing her third Top 40 single with “I love you, I’m sorry” at No. 38.
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Kenia OS and Steve Aoki’s “Replay” has topped this week’s new music Latin poll. In a poll published on Friday (Aug. 16) — in support of the weekly New Music Latin roundup and playlist, curated by Billboard Latin and Billboard Español editors — music fans voted for Kenia and Aoki’s first collaborative effort as their […]
Travis Scott‘s Days Before Rodeo is getting re-released, with previously unreleased bonus tracks, for the mixtape’s 10th anniversary. The re-release of the project means Scott’s mixtape will be available on streaming platforms later this week, on Aug. 23. Days Before Rodeo was originally released on Aug. 18, 2014, and featured guests Young Thug, Big Sean, […]
At least 23 people were injured when two gondolas of a Ferris wheel caught fire at a music festival near Leipzig in eastern Germany, the German news agency dpa reported Sunday (Aug. 18). The accident took place at the Highfield Festival at Lake Strömthal near Leipzig. The fire started in one gondola and then spread […]
LISA and Rosalía‘s “New Woman” has topped this week’s new music poll that features artists in various genres of music.
Music fans voted in a poll published Friday (Aug. 16) on Billboard, choosing the BLACKPINK superstar and Spanish artist’s team-up as their favorite new music release of the past week.
“New Woman” brought in 54% of the vote on the poll, securing an edge ahead of new releases from Lady Gaga and Bruno Mars (“Die With a Smile”), Post Malone (F-1 Trillion), Foster the People (Paradise State of Mind), Hozier (Unaired), and others.
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LISA and Rosalía’s Y2K-inspired single arrived Thursday (Aug. 15) with an equally colorful music video. “Hit it when I serve/ B—-, you better swerve/ Revving up my, uh-uh-uh-uh-aura/ Focus on my mind/ Taking my time/ I’m a new woman,” LISA declares on the catchy chorus.
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For her verse, Rosalía adds a bilingual element musing, “Nací pura, sí/ Ni una era será un flop en mi porvenir/ P—, soy la Rosalía, solo sé servir,” which translates to “I was born pure/ There won’t be a flop era in my future/ W—-, I’m Rosalía, I only know how to serve.”
The new song arrives a little over a month after the K-pop icon stepped into a new phase of her solo career outside of BLACKPINK with “Rockstar,” which debuted at No. 70 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart and No. 4 on the Billboard Global 200.
Trailing behind LISA and Rosalía on this week’s poll is Lady Gaga and Bruno Mars’ “Die With a Smile,” with nearly 36% of the vote. The superstars barely gave fans a heads up before unveiling the collab, the existence of which they only confirmed less than 12 hours ahead of its arrival.
It’s been a while since either artist has released proper solo music. Gaga’s last album, Chromatica, dropped in 2020, while Mars’ 24K Magic is approaching its eight-year anniversary. The former topped the Billboard 200 albums chart, and the second peaked at No. 2.
See the final results of this week’s poll below. Check out Billboard‘s Friday Music Guide to catch up with more must-hear releases from this week.
Taylor Swift’s The Tortured Poets Department reaches a 15th week atop the Billboard 200 chart (dated Aug. 24) — tying Carole King’s Tapestry for the third-most weeks at No. 1 among albums by women. The latter spent 15 frames at No. 1 in 1971. Only Adele’s 21 (24 weeks in 2011-12) and the Whitney Houston-led soundtrack to The Bodyguard (20 weeks in 1992-93) have more weeks at No. 1 among women.
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Tortured Poets earned 85,000 equivalent album units in the U.S. in the week ending Aug. 15 (down 40%), according to Luminate.
Meanwhile, in a quiet top 10 (where no albums debut for the second time in three weeks), Chappell Roan’s The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess hits a new peak for the third week in a row, as it climbs 3-2 with 72,000 units (up 13%), a new weekly high, by units, for the set.
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The Billboard 200 chart ranks the most popular albums of the week in the U.S. based on multi-metric consumption as measured in equivalent album units, compiled by Luminate. Units comprise album sales, track equivalent albums (TEA) and streaming equivalent albums (SEA). Each unit equals one album sale, or 10 individual tracks sold from an album, or 3,750 ad-supported or 1,250 paid/subscription on-demand official audio and video streams generated by songs from an album. The new Aug. 24, 2024-dated chart will be posted in full on Billboard‘s website on Aug. 20. For all chart news, follow @billboard and @billboardcharts on both X, formerly known as Twitter, and Instagram.
Of The Tortured Poets Department’s 85,000 units earned in the week ending Aug. 15, SEA units comprise 57,000 (down 1%, equaling 74.77 on-demand official streams of the set’s widely available deluxe edition’s 31 songs), album sales comprise 28,000 (down 67%) and TEA units comprise a negligible sum (up 5%). On the Top Streaming Albums chart, Poets falls 2-3 and on the Top Album Sales chart, it clocks an eighth week at No. 1.
With Tortured Poets — Swift’s longest-leading album on the Billboard 200 — she adds her 84th career week at No. 1 on the Billboard 200, extending her record among soloists. (Elvis Presley has the second-most among soloists, with 67.) The total encompasses her 14 No. 1 albums. (She’s tied with Jay-Z for the most No. 1s among soloists.)
In the tracking week of Aug. 9-15, news continued to emerge from the foiled terror attack on Swift’s cancelled Eras Tour dates in Vienna. The three Vienna dates (Aug. 8-10) were nixed on Aug. 7 and were the first cancelled shows of the tour, which began on March 17, 2023. On Aug. 15, the tour continued on to its scheduled five-night stand at London’s Wembley Stadium (Aug. 15-17, 19-20), for The Eras Tour’s final shows in Europe.
During the last day (Aug. 15) of the chart’s tracking week, Swift introduced one all-new digital album variant of Poets on her official webstore, which was available for six hours and sold for $4.99. The set included the standard album’s 16 songs, plus one exclusive bonus track, “The Prophecy (Long Story Short – Live From Lyon),” recorded during The Eras Tour on June 2.
Also on Aug. 15, for only six hours, Swift’s webstore restocked a $4.99 digital album variant that was available briefly the previous tracking week — it contained the standard album’s 16 songs plus a live version of “thank You aimEe (Mean – Live from London),” recorded on June 22 during her The Eras Tour. In the previous tracking week, the same digital album variant was sold in Swift’s webstore, but with one slight difference — the stylization of the letters in the title of bonus live song. It was initially stylized as “thanK you aIMee” (mirroring the studio version on the Poets album), and then on Aug. 15, its stylization changed to “thank You aimEe.” The capitalization of the specific letters in the title — KIM and YE — could reference Kim Kardashian and her ex-husband (and longtime Swift foe), Ye, formerly Kanye West.
In the tracking week ending Aug. 15, Tortured Poets sold nearly 10,000 in digital album downloads across all variants through all sellers (including her webstore, the iTunes Store and others). Even if Poets had not sold a single digital album in the latest tracking week, it still would have been No. 1 on the Billboard 200. The No. 2 title, Chappell Roan’s The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess, trails Poets by 13,000 units.
As for The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess, the album reaches a new peak for a third week in a row, as it steps 3-2 with 72,000 equivalent album units earned (its best week by units earned; up 13%). In the last 10 weeks, the album has steadily inched its way up the list. It broke into the top 10 on the June 22-dated chart, rising 12-10. It has since moved 8-6-5-5-7-8-4-3-2.
The 3-2 ascent for Rise reflects the tracking week that contained a buzzy festival performance from Roan — her Aug. 11 gig at Outside Lands in San Francisco. The latter generated a quasi-viral moment where she chastised the VIP section for not singing along to the album’s “Hot To Go!”
Morgan Wallen’s chart-topping One Thing at a Time dips 4-3 on the latest Billboard 200 with 63,000 equivalent album units earned (up 1%). It also claims a ninth nonconsecutive week at No. 1 on the Top Streaming Albums chart.
Billie Eilish’s Hit Me Hard and Soft steps 5-4 on the Billboard 200 with 57,000 (up 1%), while Zach Bryan’s The Great American Bar Scene climbs 7-5 with 48,000 (though down 6%).
Charli XCX’s Brat is a non-mover at No. 6 (47,000; down 16%); Noah Kahan’s Stick Season steps 9-7 (just over 38,000; up 3%); Wallen’s former No. 1 Dangerous: The Double Album is stationary at No. 8 (38,000; up 2%); Twisters: The Album rises 10-9 (34,000; down 7%); and Zach Bryan’s self-titled chart-topper returns to the top 10, climbing 12-10 (nearly 34,000; up 6%).
Luminate, the independent data provider to the Billboard charts, completes a thorough review of all data submissions used in compiling the weekly chart rankings. Luminate reviews and authenticates data. In partnership with Billboard, data deemed suspicious or unverifiable is removed, using established criteria, before final chart calculations are made and published.
Bob Dylan will contribute a cover of Cole Porter’s “Don’t Fence Me In” for the upcoming biopic about Ronald Reagan.
The forthcoming film, which stars Dennis Quaid as the 40th President of the United States, will also feature music by Gene Simmons, Clint Black and Tanya Tucker, according to Spin.
Dylan’s rendition of the Porter-written classic, which was popularized by Bing Crosby & The Andrews Sisters, Gene Autry, Kate Smith and more performers in the 1940s, will reportedly play during the end credits of Reagan.
“I was honored to have Bob join our film,” Quaid said in a statement to Spin. “We gave him the freedom to do any song he wanted to do, whether an original or a cover, and he chose ‘Don’t Fence Me In.’ That was extra special since it was a song that Gene made famous. Bob is a great lover of the American Songbook and we were delighted with the way he delivered the song. He’s a national treasure and was the perfect addition to the film.”
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The Sean McNamara-directed film, which hits theaters on Aug. 30, will also include Simmons’ version of the 1930s standard “Stormy Weather” and Black’s take on John Denver’s “Take Me Home, Country Roads,” according to Spin.
Reagan will include major events throughout the former president’s lifetime, including difficulties with childhood bullies, his time in the Screen Actors Guild, and his rise in U.S. politics. Watch a trailer for the film here.
The biopic has an all-star cast that includes Jon Voight (playing Viktor Petrovich), Mena Suvari (Reagan’s first wife Jane Wyman), Lesley-Anne Down (Margaret Thatcher), David Henrie (teenage Reagan), Kevin Dillon (Jack Warner), Amanda Righetti and Justin Chatwin (Reagan’s parents, Nelle and Jack), and Creed’s Scott Stapp (Frank Sinatra).
Hayley Williams showed vampire love for Robert Pattinson from the stage at Wembley Stadium in London.
During Paramore‘s opening set at Taylor Swift‘s Eras Tour on Saturday (Aug. 17), Williams gave a shout-out to fellow support act Suki Waterhouse’s Twilight-starring fiancé and performed the band’s 2008 track “Decode.”
“Suki killed it earlier. But I would like to dedicate this next song to Mr. Waterhouse,” Williams is heard telling the crowd in a fan-captured clip on X (formerly Twitter). “He has the skin of a killer, Bella. It’s for you, Robert.”
“Decode” was featured on the teen vampire romances soundtrack, which debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 albums chart. The Grammy-nominated song — which also appeared on Paramore’s third album, Brand New Eyes, in 2009 — reached No. 33 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart.
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It’s not clear if the 38-year-old actor, who shares a daughter with Waterhouse, was in attendance at Saturday night’s concert. The couple began dating in 2018 and got engaged in late 2023. Swift announced Waterhouse as one of her Eras Tour openers in London earlier this month.
“It feels like an honour to simply exist at the same time as @taylorswift, let alone be an opener for her on the biggest and best tour ever,” Waterhouse, who is close friends with Swift, wrote after the announcement. “A dream come true that I never want to wake up from. Playing at wembley stadium in my hometown!!”
Paramore’s performance of “Decode” wasn’t the only standout moment at Saturday’s Eras Tour stop. During the show, Swift delivered the tour’s live debut of Reputation‘s “I Did Something Bad” during the acoustic section of the show.
“The whole tour I’ve done 100s of songs, but I’ve not done one of my favorite ones,” teased Swift, guitar in hand in front of 92,000 people, “because I was waiting for the right crowd.”
The pop superstar’s surprise songs set also featured a piano mashup that pulled at the heartstrings: “My Boy Only Breaks His Favorite Toys,” from The Tortured Poets Department, and “Coney Island,” from Evermore.
Swift has two more Wembley shows (Aug. 19-20) before wrapping her run of London tour dates.
Jelly Roll is speaking candidly about his experience attending Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) meetings, a topic he says he’s never talked about in public before.
In a new interview with The New York Times, the artist — who’s topped both the Mainstream Rock Airplay and Country Airplay charts — was asked about an unreleased song, “Winning Streak,” which will be heard on upcoming album Beautifully Broken, scheduled for release in fall 2024. “Winning Streak” “basically describes going to an AA meeting,” NYT‘s David Marchese noted in the conversation. “Is alcohol addiction something you struggle with or have struggled with?”
Jelly Roll explained the song was written “from the perspective of a story I’d seen happen for real” at an AA meeting, which he’ll attend “for my demons.”
“I still will have a cocktail every now and then and I’m a known weed smoker, but I got away from the drugs that I knew were gonna kill me,” Jelly Roll said of his relationship with drugs and alcohol in the podcast interview published on Saturday (Aug. 17).
He continued, “It was really hard for me to get away from those drugs,” which he’s previously said included substances including cocaine, pain pills and codeine. “Something I do [for] maintaining my relationship with those drugs is I will still attend the meetings, even though I’m not a textbook sober guy — but I never share, I just quietly sit and appreciate the message and the meaning.”
Added Jelly Roll, “This is the first time I’ve talked about this publicly at all. I don’t tell people I go to meetings. It’s not a part of my story that I share because I have so much respect for the men and women in that program that get actually completely sober, that I never want my stuff to get in the way of them.”
Jelly Roll, who says in the chat that he’s “actively doing better every single day,” described the moment at an AA meeting that influenced his writing on “Winning Streak.” It tells someone else’s story, but in the first-person perspective.
He said that felt right for this particular track, and named first-person songs like James Taylor’s “Carolina in My Mind” that have inspired him and made him emotional, solely as the listener.
“This kid, he’s going through it,” he said of the meeting that resulted in writing “Winning Streak.” “One of the old men sitting there was like, ‘Look man, it’s all good. Nobody came in here on a winning streak.’ It was such a beautiful thing. If you’ve ever been to an AA meeting, a big one, like this room had 20, 30 people in it, it felt like …. You watch the room kind of split when he said that ‘cause half of the room are old, sober dudes who remember being the young dude, so they chuckle, and the other half are other dudes who just immediately feel it in their bones and cry. But it’s all the same emotion and feeling, and right then, there it was. That was the beginning of ‘Winning Streak.’”
“Get By,” another new song from his upcoming album, will serve as the soundtrack for ESPN’s season-long college football coverage across ESPN networks and ABC. Jelly Roll, who’s latest new music release is the collab “Losers” on Post Malone’s F-1 Trillion album, will hit the road for a series of headlining tour dates later this month.
Listen to his full interview, clocking in at over a half-hour, with The New York Times below.
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Keith Urban gave just a few hours’ notice before performing a free concert Friday night (Aug. 16) in the parking lot of a large convenience store and gas station in north Alabama. Hundreds of people turned out for the show in Athens, about 100 miles (161 kilometers) south of Nashville. It was outside a Buc-ee’s, a […]
