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Chase Matthew is officially a Billboard Hot 100-charting artist thanks to his single “Love You Again.”
Released in December 2022, the song debuts at No. 91 on the Sept. 14-dated chart with 20.3 million all-format radio airplay audience impressions (up 12%) and 2.1 million official U.S. streams Aug. 30-Sept. 5, according to Luminate.
The track also rises 32-24 on Hot Country Songs for a new high. On Country Airplay, where it’s Matthew’s first entry, it returns to the top 10, jumping 12-9 for a new best in its 67th week on the chart.
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“Love You Again” appears on Matthew’s second studio album, Come Get Your Memory, which was released in June 2023 on Warner Music Nashville.
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Matthew first appeared on Billboard’s charts dated July 17, 2021, with “County Line,” released on Ryan Upchurch’s Holler Boy Records. The song, which he wrote after a breakup, went viral on TikTok, helping it to debut at its No. 29 peak on Hot Country Songs; it also hit No. 10 on Country Digital Song Sales that week.
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Matthew earned his second chart hit with “We Had It Good,” which reached No. 44 on Hot Country Songs in February 2022. The song is from his debut album Born for This, which reached No. 31 on Top Country Albums that month.
Following the success of Born for This, Matthew signed to Warner Nashville in October 2022. “Ryan Upchurch gave me an opportunity that put me on the map,” he said upon his signing. “Looking forward, we wanted to maintain how we work, but grow the team in order to build bigger. Warner Nashville understood our goals and provided the opportunity for a true partnership allowing me to maintain my creative control. I’m thrilled to be able to work with the Warner Nashville team and take this thing to a whole new level for the fans.”
Matthew was born in Sevierville, Tenn., and raised just outside Nashville in Ashland City. Before focusing on music, he was a full-time mechanic.
Billboard named Matthew its September Country Rookie of the Month, and he shared that he’s planning to drop his third album next year. “I’ve probably got 300 songs on my phone just begging to be released,” he said, adding that it’ll include some collaborations. “It’s going to be some really good songs and I’m being very selective on what’s going to end up on that project.”
Matthew is currently on his solo Born for This Tour. He has additional shows lined up supporting both Jason Aldean and Luke Bryan. Next year, he’ll join Keith Urban’s High and Alive World Tour.
The finalists for the 2024 Billboard Latin Music Awards are set to be announced on Thursday, Sept. 12, at 10 a.m. ET on Billboard.com and Telemundo.com.
This year’s finalists will be recognized in a wide range of award categories, including top Latin album of the year, artist of the year, Hot Latin Song of the year, tour of the year and songwriter of the year, among others. Additionally, the show will honor a few select artists with Billboard‘s special awards, which will be announced soon. The finalists, as well as the eventual winners, will be determined based on their performance on Billboard‘s albums and songs charts from Aug. 19, 2023, to Sept. 7, 2024.
Produced and broadcast by Telemundo, the Billboard Latin Music Awards stands as the only awards show that recognizes the most popular albums, songs, and performers in Latin music, as determined by Billboard‘s weekly charts. The awards ceremony will take place in Miami and air on Sunday, Oct. 20, at 9 p.m. ET.
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The awards will culminate Billboard Latin Music Week, which returns to Miami Oct. 14-18, celebrating Latin music, cultur, and entertainment all week long with exclusive performances, one-of-a-kind panels, workshops, showcases and exclusive fan experiences. The star-studded event, taking place at The Fillmore Miami Beach at the Jackie Gleason Theater, will feature Latin music’s biggest stars, including Peso Pluma, Alejandro Sanz, Young Miko, J Balvin, Gloria Estefan, among many others in its lineup.
Learn more about Billboard Latin Music Week and register at billboardlatinmusicweek.com.
It is a rare alignment of the stars that allows a self-proclaimed, multi-hypehnate “model, actress, whatever” to live both of their biggest dreams at the same time and then have one of them turn into her main gig. But that’s where English singer/actress/model Suki Waterhouse finds herself these days as she prepares to release her second studio album, Memoir of a Sparklemuffin.
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After a memorable turn as keyboardist Karen Sirko in the 2023 Amazon Prime musical drama series Daisy Jones & the Six, Waterhouse, 32, tells Billboard the show “definitely” helped her to get more focused on her musical dreams. “I guess that show was really special, because it kind of put me in that world for a long time,” she says of the courage the show about a fictional Fleetwood Mac-style battling band gave her to pursue her music with renewed energy.
“When I started doing that show, I still was, like… ‘you could never do that,’” she says of the pervasive thoughts convincing her that she couldn’t pull off her character, or a tour, or release a follow-up to her debut 2022 Sub Pop full-length LP, I Can’t Let Go. “I was very much in this like, ‘Oh no, you’re, you’re not good enough to do that. Or, like, you just that just won’t happen for you’… that was just where I was mentally.” But after spending hours and hours a day in L.A.’s legendary Sound City Studios working on songs for the series and learning new chords she realized that all that pretend rocking could be turned into the songs for her about-to-be-released sophomore album, which drops on Friday (Sept. 13).
“It as very special to be able to do something that combines [my two loves and] really moves you in your own life as well, it’s very unique,” says the veteran of such films as Detective Pikachu, A Rainy Day in New York and Billionaire Boys Club and one of the hand-picked opening acts on Taylor Swift’s August 17 Eras Tour gig at London’s Wembley Stadium.
The London native got her start as a teenage model before breaking into movies in 2012 and then pivoting to music in 2016 with her debut single, “Brutally.” She says the process for recording Sparklemuffin was a world away from that of her debut because when she first started in music she didn’t have a label or anyone behind her after nearly a decade of self-releasing songs.
“And then Sub Pop said yes, but I had to kind of really bang down the door,” she says. “It took like, six months of writing emails, and they said, ‘No, we don’t want to listen to any songs from models or actresses, whatevers.’ So it was a completely different experience this time. I’ve been able to collaborate with different people and have different artists that I could call up, and a few more people wanted to get in the room with me than they did before. So it was, like, very, very different in that way.”
The other thing that was very different was that Waterhouse was pregnant with her first child with fiancé actor Robert Pattinson; she gave birth in March of this year. That was news she was trying to keep secret until she got sick during a car ride to the studio, at which point the cat was out of the bag. “I was really like, glad to have a project that I was so into whilst also being pregnant, because it was like, you know, you’re just powering through,” she says. “And it was great to have a distraction. And I kind of had this thing in my head where I’m like, ‘I’m just going to power through. Who cares? I’m going to vomit sometimes.. and then you feel fine afterwards.”
For more about the album and the inspiration behind the guys-going-way-too-hard at the club single “Blackout” and the great tips Alison Wonderland gave her for touring with a baby check out the video above.
Attention for Linkin Park’s catalog has soared following the release of the rockers’ comeback single “The Emptiness Machine” on Sept. 5.
On Sept. 6, the first full day for U.S. streams after “The Emptiness Machine” premiered at 6 p.m. ET on Sept. 5 and following a multi-song concert and livestream introducing new band members Emily Armstrong and Colin Brittain, Linkin Park’s catalog earned 11.8 million official on-demand U.S. streams, according to initial reports to Luminate.
That’s a 71% gain in streams over Sept. 5, which saw the band rack up 6.9 million streams. And it’s a 103% leap over Sept. 4, the day before the new song, livestream and album/tour announcement, when the band accrued 5.8 million streams.
Attention around Linkin Park’s catalog continued into the weekend, when the overall count was 10.1 million streams on Sept. 7, 14% down from Sept. 6. Its streaming sum on Sept. 6-7 was 21.8 million, nearly as much as the preceding four days (Sept. 2-5), during which period the band accumulated 22.8 million listens.
Of course, a not-insignificant chunk of those streams on Sept. 5-7 is from “The Emptiness Machine” itself; after a partial Sept. 5 of 680,000 official on-demand U.S. streams, the song received 2.8 million on Sept. 6, followed by 1.9 million on Sept. 7.
Removing “The Emptiness Machine” from the equation, the band’s pre-Armstrong and -Brittain catalog still sports meaningful movement: 9 million streams Sept. 6, up 46% from Sept. 5 (6.2 million) and 55% from Sept. 4 (5.8 million). On Sept. 7, its music earned 8.2 million streams, down 9% from Sept. 6, and its two-day count (17.2 million) nearly outpaced the preceding three days (Sept. 3-5, 17.5 million).
“Numb” is the most-streamed song of the group in the measured time frame. It received 858,000 official U.S. streams on Sept. 6, up 25% from Sept. 5 (689,000) and up 30% from Sept. 4 (662,000). On Sept. 7, it added another 851,000 streams. “Numb” is one of 12 No. 1s for Linkin Park on Billboard’s Alternative Airplay chart, reigning for 12 weeks beginning in late 2003. It also peaked at No. 11 on the Hot 100 in March 2004.
There’s interest in purchasing music from Linkin Park’s catalog past and present, too. On Sept. 5, digital song sales of the band’s output totaled 2,000 downloads, with 1,000 from “The Emptiness Machine.” On Sept. 6, that number swelled to 4,000 (2,000 from “The Emptiness Machine”), followed by another 4,000 on Sept. 7 (2,000 again from the new single).
As for digital album sales, the band sold 1,000 copies Sept. 5-7 across its entire catalog, a 791% leap from the previous three-day period (Sept. 2-4).
Myriad chart activity for Linkin Park will occur on the Sept. 21-dated Billboard rankings, which includes consumption from Sept. 6 to 12. That includes first-full-week numbers for “The Emptiness Machine,” which is challenging for strong starts on the Alternative Airplay and Mainstream Rock Airplay surveys after debuting at No. 24 on the Rock & Alternative Airplay list dated Sept. 14 after just one day of data, as previously reported. Its aforementioned stream and sales count was also enough for a No. 7 premiere on the multimetric Hot Hard Rock Songs tally.
From Zero, Linkin Park’s eighth studio album, is due Nov. 15, the six-piece’s first release since 2017’s One More Light. Singer Armstrong and drummer Brittain join the band after the 2017 death of co-frontman Chester Bennington as well as the departure of longtime drummer Rob Bourdon this year.
Rap great Kendrick Lamar was announced as the Super Bowl LIX Halftime Show headlining performer on Sunday (Sept. 8). Despite much criticism from the hip-hop world about the NFL’s decision — as some voiced their hopes to see Lil Wayne on the Super Bowl stage, with the big game being played in his hometown of […]
If there are two ladies who’ve ruled pop music this summer, it’s Chappell Roan and Sabrina Carpenter, both of whom have experienced mind-bogglingly fast rises to fame.
And in her first Rolling Stone cover story, the 26-year-old “Hot to Go!” artist revealed that the pair have bonded over the pressures that come with the territory of so-called overnight success. “We’re both going through something so f–king hard,” Roan told the publication of the 25-year-old Girl Meets World alum. “She just feels like everything is flying, and she’s just barely hanging on.”
The Missouri native also said that Carpenter suggested meeting up to discuss how overwhelming their year has been so far. “It was just good to know someone else feels that way,” she added.
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The interview comes as both ladies have been climbing the charts for months, with the “Espresso” singer recently scoring her first-ever No. 1 album on the Billboard 200 thanks to Short n’ Sweet. She also nabbed her first No. 1 single on the Billboard Hot 100 earlier this year, with “Please Please Please” reaching the top spot in June.
Meanwhile, Roan isn’t far behind Carpenter, with the “Pink Pony Club” musician’s debut album The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess reaching a new peak at No. 2 on the albums chart in August. She’s also had seven songs enter the Hot 100 since April, including the No. 6-peaking “Good Luck, Babe!”
With the rapid rise to fame, however, comes way more people watching your every move, which, for Roan, has manifested into countless inappropriate interactions with fans that led her to set some boundaries in multiple social media posts in August. And for the first time, Roan went into detail about some of the exchanges that led to her calling out such “predatory behavior” in her posts, telling Rolling Stone that an admirer once grabbed her and forcibly kissed her at a bar. She also had to hire her own security because she has a stalker who once followed her from Missouri to a New York hotel room, and at one point, a man berated her at an airport for not signing autographs.
The good news is, a lot of other female stars — from Billie Eilish to Phoebe Bridgers, Lorde and more — have reached out to her offering support. “I just wanted to humbly welcome you to the s—tiest exclusive club in the world, the club where strangers think you belong to them and they find and harass your family members,” reads a letter from Mitski that Roan shared with the publication.
See Roan on the cover of Rolling Stone below.
Ye — formerly known as Kanye West — jogged fans’ memory when he ran through hit after hit from his decorated discography during his show with Ty Dolla $ign in Seoul, South Korea, earlier in September.
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Ye posted a highlight from the concert on Instagram Monday (Sept. 9), which saw him performing “On Sight” and Tyler, the Creator hopped into the comments section wondering why the 24-time Grammy winner wasn’t rapping the lyrics to his Yeezus opener.
“N—a u was right there just say the words,” Tyler wrote. The comment has nearly 100,000 likes, and fans echoed the “Earfquake” rapper’s sentiments.
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Ye’s Vultures collaborator added a goat emoji into the comments, while Chicago rapper Joey Purp chimed in, “This my 5 am alarm.”
Yeezy and Ty Dolla $ign have performed a handful of Vultures listening parties over the months, but that typically involves no rapping and gives fans a chance to hear the music rather than a conventional concert.
West gave fans a taste of what a tour could look like when rapping along to some of his anthems at the Seoul show, which consisted of a 70-track set spanning his entire Hall of Fame discography.
Ye will have a chance to build on the Korea performance with his next show slated for Haikou, China, on Sept. 15 at the Haikou Wuyuan River Sports Park. He’ll be without Ty Dolla $ign, so Ye will have to do the heavy-lifting at the concert.
The Chicago native — who faced widespread criticism and lost deals after repeatedly doubling down on his antisemitic hate speech in 2022 — hasn’t embarked on a traditional tour since 2016’s Saint Pablo Tour, which was cut short following West’s hospitalization due to extreme exhaustion and dehydration in November 2016.
Vultures 2 arrived on Aug. 3 after multiple delays, and debuted at No. 2 on the Billboard 200 with 107,000 total album units sold in the first week.
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Country Music Hall of Famers Brooks & Dunn are set to bring their high-octane live show and stacked arsenal of hit songs to arenas in Texas, North Carolina, Illinois and more in 2025, as they have revealed the dozen-concert initial slate of shows for their Neon Moon Tour. Explore Explore See latest videos, charts and […]
As Chappell Roan dealt with backlash to her comments on toxic fan behavior over the last month, the singer says a huge number of fellow female artists have offered her their support.
In a new cover story for Rolling Stone, Roan said that a number of her fellow pop girls reached out to her and offered their words of encouragement. The list of singers included Charli XCX, Billie Eilish, Hayley Williams, Katy Perry, Lorde, Muna, Miley Cyrus, Lady Gaga, Lucy Dacus, Julien Baker, Phoebe Bridgers and Mitski. “I’m not trying to name-drop,” she explained. “I’m trying to tell you there are girls who are good people, who are helping other girls out. I’m name-dropping them because people just need to know that people are good people.”
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Roan specifically thanked Sabrina Carpenter during the conversation, saying that the pair had a long heart-to-heart about their similarly huge years and the implications that has on their mental health. “We’re both going through something so f–king hard … she just feels like everything is flying, and she’s just barely hanging on,” Roan said. “It was just good to know someone else feels that way.”
The “Pink Pony Club” singer did point out that she’s noticed a worrying trend among the artists reaching out to her. “Not a lot of boys have been like, ‘Let me know if you ever want to talk about it,’” she said, before revealing that a few — including Orville Peck, Troye Sivan and Noah Kahan — have offered her their support.
One living legend who has supported Roan throughout her career also reached out — Sir Elton John. The “Rocket Man” singer told Rolling Stone that he felt “protective” over Roan. “She is kind, innocent and wonderful. She is not ‘Chappell Roan’ off stage – a bit like me,” he said. “She is one of those people who I felt like I have known for a long time.”
Roan added that as much as audiences like to pin the toxic fan discussion on her, she is far from the only artist feeling this way. “I don’t want to be agoraphobic. That’s [how] most of my peers [feel]. Every f–king artist is on this page,” she said. “Everyone is uncomfortable with fans. Some people just have more patience. I f–king don’t.”
Elsewhere in her interview, Roan revealed a number of specific instances of fans being inappropriate with her, including a fan kissing her without consent and a stalker showing up to her parents’ home in Missouri. “[Fans] need to see me as a random b—h on the street,” she said. “You can’t yell at a random b—h who’s on the sidewalk that you don’t know. It’s considered catcalling or harassment.”
Flavor Flav knows how to work his way around a clock, but maybe don’t let him get a gavel in his hands. The lesson was learned when the Public Enemy rapper joined U.S. Women’s Water Polo Team goalie Ashleigh Johnson at the New York Stock Exchange on Monday (Sept. 9). Explore Explore See latest videos, […]