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18 Aug 2024

Fans Choose Kenia OS & Steve Aoki’s ‘Replay’ as This Week’s Favorite New Music Latin

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 favorite music release of the week.

“Replay” generated over 53% of the week’s votes, beating out other new releases that dropped, including new studio albums by Eden Muñoz (Eden) and Nio Garcia (Anto-Nio), as well as Myke Towers and Darell’s “Otra Noche,” Jessi Uribe’s “Si Ya Me Voy,” and Javiera Mena’s “Volver a Llorar,” among others.

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Coming in second place was Grupo Firme and Demi Lovato’s flirtatious dance collaboration, “Chula,” where the artists mesh electronic music with banda elements.

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In this week’s winning track, Mexican pop star Kenia OS teamed up with renowned DJ Steve Aoki, proving her versatility by navigating from sugary pop to pulsating EDM. “This track represents something big not only for me, but also to put Mexico on the global map,” the Mexican artist expressed in a press statement. “I’ve always been a fan of Steve Aoki and I think we managed to capture that feeling of an endless night. I wanted to give them a different and special song, and what better way to do it than by working with the coolest DJ in the world.”

Last week, music fans crowned Kim Loaiza and Codiciado’s “QuesoXTE” as the winner, bringing in more than 60% of the vote. See the final results of this week’s new music Latin poll below.

18 Aug 2024

Travis Scott Announces ‘Days Before Rodeo’ 10-Year Anniversary Re-Release

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, The 1975, Rich Homie Quan, Migos, T.I. and Peewee Longway.

Plus, an exclusive digital deluxe version of the re-released album, with unreleased bonus tracks from the era of the original Days Before Rodeo, is available to order now for $4.99 via the Houston rapper’s webshop at travisscott.com. (The digital download of the album will be delivered on Aug. 23).

A standard version of Days Before Rodeo is priced at $10, and the vinyl record is $30. Days Before Rodeo merch and vinyl bundles are also up on Scott’s webshop.

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Three box set variations, set to ship within 2-3 weeks of the album’s Aug. 23 release, are available to order.

Box Set 1 includes a Days Before Rodeo vinyl LP (cover 2), a custom-printed mailer box and a spray-washed hooded sweatshirt with screenprint detail ($125); Box Set 2 includes the vinyl LP (standard cover), a custom-printed mailer box; a heavy-washed cotton T-shirt with screenprint detail ($65); Box Set 3 includes a Days Before Rodeo CD, a custom-printed mailer box and a custom hat with embroidery detail ($55).

Scott’s Days Before Rodeo track list included 2014 singles “Don’t Play,” with Big Sean and The 1975, and “Mamacita,” with Rich Homie Quan and Young Thug.



18 Aug 2024

More Than 20 Injured in Ferris Wheel Fire at Highfield Music Festival in Germany

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 to a second one on Saturday night, local police said. The operator of the Ferris wheel told dpa that no passengers were sitting in the gondola in which the fire started.

Details in a statement from police in the state of Saxony said 65 people received medical care and 16 were transported to hospitals for further treatment, including four with burn injuries and one with an injury from a fall. None of the injured were in life-threatening condition on Saturday.

Police posted an update on X (formerly Twitter) on Sunday regarding their investigation into the cause of the Ferris wheel fire.

“After the fire, investigators were deployed and an initial assessment was made. By means unknown, material underneath the Ferris wheel caught fire. As a result, the fire spread to a gondola. The investigation is still ongoing,” the statement said.

German rapper Ski Aggu was performing on the festival stage during the incident; in an Instagram Story, Aggu said he was dismayed and in shock.

His statement, translated from German to English, said he was told via his earpiece to continue his performance in an effort to avoid a mass panic situation in the crowd.

18 Aug 2024

Fans Choose LISA & Rosalía’s ‘New Woman’ as This Week’s Favorite New Music in All-Genre Poll

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.

18 Aug 2024

Taylor Swift’s ‘Tortured Poets Department’ Hits 15th Week Atop Billboard 200

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.

18 Aug 2024

Bob Dylan to Contribute ‘Don’t Fence Me In’ Cover for Ronald Reagan Biopic

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).

18 Aug 2024

Paramore’s Hayley Williams Dedicates ‘Twilight’ Song to Robert Pattinson at Eras Tour Show

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.

18 Aug 2024

You Care: Kanye West & Bianca Censori Hit A Trump Rally In Beverly Hills

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In case you were wondering, Kanye West is still Team Donald Trump. Ye and his wife Bianca Censori were spotted hitting up a Trump rally in Beverly Hills on Saturday (August 17).

Reportedly, the couple who has never seen a camera they won’t pose for pulled in a Tesla Cybertruck (probably a promo gift from Phony Stark, allegedly).

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Ye and Bianca rolled up Saturday in Bev Hills, where supporters of the former president were waving American flags and “Make America Great Again” banners. They just stopped on the side of the road, but that was enough to fire up the crowd.

Check out the video … a group swarms the Tesla, not realizing at first it’s Kanye behind the wheel, but when they spot him, they go nuts and start chanting his name!

Ye loves the attention. Democracy, not so much—just saying.

Bianca on the other hand, didn’t seem too enthused to be there.

17 Aug 2024

Jelly Roll Says Alcoholics Anonymous Meeting Inspired New Album Track ‘Winning Streak’

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.



17 Aug 2024

Keith Urban Plays Surprise Concert, Preps Brisket Behind the Counter at a Buc-ee’s in Alabama

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 chain of roadside stores known for barbecue.

“I came down to this Buc-ee’s about a month ago. And when I left, I went, ‘It’d be kind of fun to do a show there,’” Urban told the crowd during the concert, according to an Instagram video posted by WAFF-TV in Huntsville, Alabama.

Urban said his “caveman brain” told him it would be fun to set up a little stage for a small audience.

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“I swear to you, I thought maybe 100, 200 people,” Urban said as a video showed a larger crowd.

People started gathering hours before the show, news outlets reported.

“I was at work and we heard it on the radio that there was going to be a surprise concert at Buc-ee’s in Athens,” Cindy Wilson told FOX 54 WZDX-TV in Huntsville. “And I was like, ’Oh my God, it’s on my way home.’ And it’s 15 minutes from my house. So I couldn’t believe it.”

While he was at the store, Urban also worked behind a food counter. A video showed him wearing a Buc-ee’s T-shirt and apron as he poured barbecue sauce on some brisket and chopped the meat into smaller pieces.