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20 Nov 2023

Dua Lipa’s ‘Houdini’ Unlocks No. 1 Debut on Hot Dance/Electronic Songs Chart

Dua Lipa works her magic on multiple Billboard charts dated Nov. 25 with her new single, “Houdini.” Among other entrances, it begins as her first No. 1 on the Hot Dance/Electronic Songs chart.

The song drew 23.8 million airplay audience impressions and 12.4 million official streams and sold 7,000 sold downloads in the U.S. Nov. 10-16, according to Luminate, following its release at 6 p.m. ET Nov. 9.

Lipa earns her second No. 1 on Hot Dance/Electronic Songs with the track, which previews her third studio album, expected in 2024. She spent 36 weeks at the summit with “Cold Heart (Pnau Remix),” with Elton John, beginning in October 2021.

The new song, whose title is an ode to famous late illusionist and escape artist Harry Houdini, also launches at No. 11 on the all-genre Billboard Hot 100, where it’s Lipa’s highest debut to date.

On the Radio Songs chart, “Houdini” starts at No. 25, likewise Lipa’s best beginning. It debuts at No. 16 on Pop Airplay, also a new personal first-week high, and No. 20 on Adult Pop Airplay.

As previously reported, “Houdini” enters at No. 3 on the Billboard Global 200, with 51 million streams and 13,000 sold worldwide. Lipa notches her fourth top 10 on the survey. The song also opens at No. 5 on the Billboard Global Excl. U.S. chart, where it’s her fifth top 10.

Lipa celebrated the song’s arrival with fans at the Houdini Estate in Los Angeles on Nov. 14, inviting them to navigate an escape room and, once safely free (if?), to dance.

Following his death nearly a century ago, Houdini has reappeared as the subject of other chart hits. Walter Brennan spent a week at No. 100 on the Hot 100 in 1962 with “Houdini”; Kon Kan hit No. 33 on Dance Singles Sales in 1989 with “Harry Houdini”; and Foster the People’s “Houdini” hit No. 37 on Alternative Airplay in 2012.

20 Nov 2023

Kelly Clarkson Delivers a Frank Sinatra Classic on ‘Kellyoke’

Kelly Clarkson kicked off the week with a classic on Monday (Nov. 20), when she performed Frank Sinatra’s rendition of “I Get a Kick Out of You.”

“I get no kick from champagne / Mere alcohol doesn’t thrill me at all / So tell me why should it be true / That I get a kick out of you,” Clarkson muses in the chorus, dressed in a black off-the-shoulder top and leopard print maxi skirt.

“I Get a Kick Out of You” was originally written by Cole Porter and first performed in 1934 for the Broadway musical Anything Goes, before it was featured in the 1936 film. Over the years, the track has been covered by legends beyond Sinatra, including Dolly Parton, Ella Fitzgerald, Tony Bennett and Lady Gaga. The Bennett/Gaga rendition was nominated for three awards at the 2022 Grammy Awards, including record of the year.

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Clarkson, meanwhile, is fresh off the release of the deluxe issue of her 10th album, Chemistry, which contains five brand new tracks — “I Won’t Give Up,” “Did You Know,” “You Don’t Make Me Cry” featuring her daughter River Rose, “Goodbye” and “Roses” — in addition remixes of the album singles “Mine” and “Favorite Kind of High” by David Guetta and Ty Sunderland respectively. There’s also a live version of “Mine” live from The Belasco.

Chemistry was initially released on June 23 via Atlantic Records and debuted at No. 6 on the July 8-dated Billboard 200, spending a total of three weeks on the chart following its release.

Watch Clarkson cover Frank Sinatra’s “I Get a Kick Out of You” below.


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20 Nov 2023

BTS Announce ‘Monuments: Beyond the Star’ Disney+ Docuseries

ARMY, get ready. BTS unveiled a launch teaser and poster on Monday (Nov. 20) for an upcoming documentary series titled BTS Monuments: Beyond the Star.

The eight-part Disney+ docuseries will take fans into the superstar group’s 10-year career, including the obstacles they’ve overcome in the journey to reach their record-breaking milestones. The docuseries will also feature an in-depth interview with Jung Kook, V, Jimin, Suga, J-Hope, Jin and RM — as seen in the brief 15-second teaser that came along with the docuseries announcement.

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BTS launched their decade of success back in 2013 when they debuted with 2 Cool 4 Skool, featuring their first single, “No More Dream.” Since then, they’ve done it all, from releasing solo projects and smashing records (both as a group and in personal endeavors) to going on tour and fulfilling their civic duties.

The group is planning a reunion in 2025, and Jung Kook recently told Apple Music’s Zane Lowe that he’s deeply looking forward to it. “Preparing as a solo artist and also working as a solo musician… there were times where I really missed [being in the group],” he admitted. “When I was in the waiting room or standing by  myself on stage or eating with the staff. We were always together for so many years that I felt the void of them not being next to me. You know, I miss them. And I was thinking about them. So I suppose that year could seem far away, but I don’t want to think that way. I think the synergy of BTS in 2025 will be incredible. I am so looking forward to it.”

BTS Monuments: Beyond The Star will be available exclusively on Disney+ starting on Dec. 20, with two new episodes released every Wednesday. 

Watch the BTS Monuments: Beyond the Star teaser below.

20 Nov 2023

‘Mambo 23’ Takes Juan Luis Guerra Back to No. 1 on Tropical Airplay for First Time in Almost a Decade

Juan Luis Guerra mambos his way to the top of Billboard’s Tropical Airplay chart as “Mambo 23” advances 3-1 to lead the Nov. 25-dated list. The new champ arrives nine years after he last led through “Tus Besos” in 2014, for one week in charge.

“Mambo 23” climbs to No. 1 with a 9% gain in audience impressions, to 4.45 million, earned during the Nov. 10-16 tracking week, according to Luminate. The song, released Sept. 22 via Rimas, is the first single from Guerra’s recently released EP Radio Güira (Nov. 3).

With the new champ, Guerra collects his 12th No. 1 on Tropical Airplay and breaks a tie with India for the eighth-most, a score led by Marc Anthony with 35 champs since the ranking began in 1994. Here’s the scoreboard:

35, Marc Anthony
29, Victor Manuelle
23, Prince Royce
18, Romeo Santos
14, Elvis Crespo
14, Gilberto Santa Rosa
13, Jerry Rivera
12, Juan Luis Guerra 440
11, India

As mentioned, Guerra last landed at the summit with “Tus Besos” in 2014. (He notched seven hits between “Tus Besos” and “Mambo 23,” including six top 10s.) The nine-year span becomes the longest between No. 1s since Don Omar took an equal nine years (and eight months) to dominate Tropical Airplay with the one-week ruler “Dutty Love,” featuring Natti Natasha (April 2012) and “Se Menea,” with Nio García, (Dec. 2021).

“Mambo 23” rules the tropical ranking as it ejects Chayanne’s “Bailando Bachata” from its 14-week domination; along with Manuel Turizo’s “La Bachata,” the third-longest run this decade, both with 14 weeks atop. The pair trail Prince Royce’s “Carita de Inocente” with 29 weeks at No. 1, the most in the 2020’s decade, and Daddy Yankee and Marc Anthony’s “De Vuelta Pa’ La Vuelta” (22 weeks in charge).

Elsewhere, “Mambo 23” lifts 25-21 on the overall Latin Airplay, Guerra’s highest rank since “Muchachita Linda” reached No. 15 in Oct. 2015.

For all chart news, you can follow @billboard and @billboardcharts on both Twitter and Instagram and all charts (dated Nov. 25) will refresh on Billboard.com tomorrow (Nov. 21).

20 Nov 2023

A$AP Rocky Says His Favorite Collab With Rihanna Is Their Kids: ‘Our Best Creation So Far’

Before A$AP Rocky and Rihanna became one of the internet’s favorite couples, they worked together on the 2011 remix of the pop star’s “Cockiness” remix. Two years later, Rih starred as Rocky’s muse in his 2013 music video for “Fashion Killa” and later reprised her role as leading lady in his 2022 visual for “D.M.B.”

But according to the rapper, there’s only one collaboration with Rihanna he considers his favorite.

“If me and my lady was to collab…what could we just team up and just like f—ing smash and go crazy on?” he mused in a Saturday interview with Complex. “I think we do a real great job at collaborating and making children. I think that’s our best creation so far. Nothing is better than that out there, any design. We had a third designer come and help — a ghost designer named God and shaped everything and we had these beautiful angels.”

The Fenty Beauty mogul and rapper are parents to 1-year-old RZA and 3-month-old Riot Rose. Prior to the birth of their second child, Rocky gushed about being a father and explained in an interview with Zane Lowe that it gives him new motivation for his career.

“It’s so unexplainable. It’s just one of those things. I’m a member of our club now, like the dad club. You see a dad, you see me. I’m playing on, I’m a full dad now,” he said. “Being outside and working and being creative, it drives more energy for you to obviously think and soak things up like a sponge now that I’m a dad, because I have a whole other perspective.

“But it honestly helps you get home to your family and get home to your baby,” he continued. “And I can’t even explain it, man. You come home to heaven every day. I’m so thankful. God is good, man.”

See A$AP Rocky talk about his favorite collaboration in the video below.

20 Nov 2023

Neil Young Is Done With X & Elon Musk: ‘We Are Taking Action Against His Company’

Neil Young is taking a stand against Elon Musk. On Monday (Nov. 20), the rock icon revealed that he will no longer be supporting X, formerly known as Twitter, and urged Palestinian and Jewish people to band together in light of the war between Israel and Hamas.

“We are stopping all use of X that we can control,” Young wrote in a statement posted to his website. “For reasons that should be obvious to the richest man on Earth, we are taking action against his company.” The post featured an image of Musk with the text “Tesla should fly flags of love, not hate” written over the billionaire’s face.

The statement continued, “For our many Palestinian friends and our many Jewish friends, we do need to start over in the present and release our terrible connections to the past. As bad as they are, they need to be forgotten so we can be free to move on in life together, all humanity, focused on saving our planet for future generations of all people.”

Young’s statement comes after the tech mogul approved of a Friday tweet that accused Jewish people facing antisemitism due to the Israel-Hammas war of furthering the “exact kind of dialectical hatred against whites that they claim to want people to stop using against them” and supporting “hordes of minorities” to become immigrants. Musk replied, “You have said the actual truth.”

“It is unacceptable to repeat the hideous lie behind the most fatal act of antisemitism in American history at any time, let alone one month after the deadliest day for the Jewish people since the Holocaust,” Andrew Bates, a White House spokesman, said in response to Musk’s co-signing of the tweet.

On Sunday, Musk addressed his stance and explained “nothing could be further from the truth” with regards to him being antisemitic. “I wish only the best for humanity and a prosperous and exciting future for all.”

Last month, Young announced that he’ll release a new album, titled Before and After, on Dec. 8. The album will feature fresh takes on Young’s favorite lesser-known tracks from his songwriting vault, per a press release. “The feeling is captured, not in pieces, but as a whole piece — designed to be listened to that way. This music presentation defies shuffling, digital organization, separation. Only for listening. That says it all,” Young wrote in a statement.

20 Nov 2023

This Is Travis Kelce’s Favorite Taylor Swift Lyric

Travis Kelce is a 1989 Swiftie!

In a new Wall Street Journal profile on Kelce, the Kansas City tight end revealed his favorite Taylor Swift lyric from the 2014 album that recently got the re-recorded treatment. “‘Blank Space’ was one I wanted to hear live for sure. I could make a bad guy good for the weekend. That’s a helluva line,” he shared. Funny enough, both Swift and Kelce were born in 1989.

“I’ve never been a man of words. Being around her, seeing how smart Taylor is, has been f—ing mind-blowing. I’m learning every day,” he added.

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“Obviously I’ve never dated anyone with that kind of aura about them…. I’ve never dealt with it,” Kelce said of dating someone as famous as Swift. “But at the same time, I’m not running away from any of it…. The scrutiny she gets, how much she has a magnifying glass on her, every single day, paparazzi outside her house, outside every restaurant she goes to, after every flight she gets off, and she’s just living, enjoying life. When she acts like that I better not be the one acting all strange.”

Kelce’s courtship of Swift began back in July, when he tried (and failed) to hand her a friendship bracelet with his phone number on it during her Eras Tour stop in Kansas City — at his Arrowhead Stadium home field.

20 Nov 2023

Travis Scott’s ‘I Know ?’ Goes to No. 1 on Rhythmic Airplay Chart

Travis Scott reclaims the No. 1 spot on Billboard’s Rhythmic Airplay chart as “I Know ?” crowns the list dated Nov. 25. The single jumps from No. 3 after a 10% gain in plays that made it the most-played song on U.S. monitored rhythmic radio stations in the week ending Nov. 16, according to Luminate.

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“I Know ?” dethrones Doja Cat’s “Paint the Town Red” from the summit after the latter’s seven-week run.

With the new champ, Travis Scott banks his eighth No. 1 Rhythmic Airplay and his first of the 2020s decade, after he managed at least one No. 1 every year from 2016 – 2019. Here’s a recap of his chart-toppers:

Song Title, Artist (if other than Travis Scott), Weeks at No. 1, Date Reached No. 1
“Antidote,” two, Jan. 9, 2016
“Goosebumps,” one, April 8, 2017
“Sky Walker,” Miguel featuring Travis Scott, one, Feb. 3, 2018
“Sicko Mode,” five, Oct. 27, 2018
“ZEZE,” Kodak Black featuring Travis Scott & Offset, one, Jan. 12, 2019
“Wake Up,” one, July 13, 2019
“Highest in the Room,” one, Dec. 14, 2019
“I Know ?,” one (to date), Nov. 25, 2023

Elsewhere, “I Know ?” rises 26-22 on the Mainstream R&B/Hip-Hop Airplay chart, following a 16% surge in weekly plays, and repeats at No. 27 on the audience-based R&B/Hip-Hop Airplay chart. There, it improved 8% to 3.5 million in format audience. The single is also climbing on Pop Airplay, holding at No. 31 (after having reached No. 29) but with a 3% boost in plays in the latest tracking week. Combined airplay gains across the multiple formats push “I Know ?” 50-44 on the all-genre Radio Songs chart, where it reached 15.1 million in total audience, a 14% increase from the prior week.

“I Know ?” appears on Travis Scott’s latest studio album, Utopia, which was released on July 28. The set, his first solo output since 2018, debuted at No. 1 on the all-genre Billboard 200 and led the chart for four weeks – the most among the rapper’s albums.

20 Nov 2023

Paris Hilton, Trixie Mattel & More to Join Demi Lovato on ‘A Very Demi Holiday Special’

‘Tis the season, and Demi Lovato is getting festive! The star is hosting a Roku special titled A Very Demi Holiday Special featuring the singer-songwriter and their star-studded lineup of celebrity friends that was announced on Monday (Nov. 20).

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Paris Hilton, Trixie Mattel, Hailey Bieber, Tiffany Haddish and JoJo are all set to join the holiday spectacular, with more guests to be announced in the coming weeks. The show will air on the Roku Channel on Dec. 8.

During the OBB Pictures-produced special, you can expect to hear songs such as “Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas,” “Rockin’ Around the Christmas Tree,” “Jingle Bell Rock” and a surprise duet, as well as a some of Lovato’s original hits. If you have Roku, then you can tune into the special through the Roku channel. Don’t have Roku? You can snag a Roku player on Amazon right now for just $30 or get a Roku TV for $140, which will give you access to the Roku channel along with additional benefits.

Later in the month, Lovato is welcoming 2024 with a New Year’s Eve concert at The Cosmopolitan in Las Vegas on Sunday (Dec. 31) at 10:30 p.m. PT. The star is fresh off the release of their Revamped album, which featured rock reimaginings of some of her greatest hits including “Skyscraper,” “Give Your Heart a Break,” “La La Land,” “Sorry Not Sorry” and more.

20 Nov 2023

Hot 100 First-Timers: 310babii Debuts With Viral Hit ‘Soak City (Do It)’

Just one month after making his first Billboard chart appearance, 310babii is now officially a Billboard Hot 100-charting artist.

The Los Angeles-based rapper scores his first career entry on the Nov. 25-dated Hot 100, as “Soak City (Do It)” debuts at No. 100. The song, released in June on sal.vo sounds, enters with 5.2 million U.S. streams (up 8%) and 2.5 million radio audience impressions (up 90%) in the Nov. 10-16 tracking week, according to Luminate.

The track also holds at its No. 21 high on Hot Rap Songs and rises 26-25 on Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs. Plus, it debuts at No. 25 on Rhythmic Airplay, marking 310babii’s first entry on a radio chart.

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“Soak City (Do It)” became 310babii’s first Billboard chart hit in October when it debuted at No. 33 on the TikTok Billboard Top 50 chart. The song reached a new No. 17 best on the Nov. 18-dated ranking. The viral track has soundtracked 400,000 clips on TikTok to date.

The song appears on the rapper’s debut full-length LP, Lottery Pick, released in June. The cut has also been boosted by a remix featuring Mustard, OhGeesy, BlueBucksClan, Tyga and Blueface, released Sept. 8.

Before Lottery Pick, 310babii had released four other songs: “Awful Lot,” “We The Ones,” “Walk” with Luh Tyler, and “Slow It Down” with John Mackk.