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With the winter season upon us and everyone hibernating until next summer, Benny The Butcher sees opportunity to stack some paper for the next few months before splurging during the hotter months and from the looks of his latest video, he’s doing a damn good job of that.
Once again linking up with 38 Spesh for the visuals to “Money Counter,” The Butcher and Spesh hide out at a club where they count bricks of cash with, well, a money counter and spit their bars while lauging all the way to the bank. They didn’t actually do that last part but y’all know they were at least smiling on their want to deposit all that cash.
On another side of town Roc Marciano lives his life like a boss as well and in his clip to “Chopstick” Roc rolls through the streets of his city with The Alchemist riding shotgun while they blaze a spliff and let the city lights give their diamonds something to dance to. Those were some pretty icey pieces.
Check out the rest of today’s drops including work from Skyzoo, Ricky Famous, and more.
BENNY THE BUTCHER & 38 SPESH – “MONEY COUNTER”
ROC MARCIANO & THE ALCHEMIST – “CHOPSTICK”
SKYZOO – “ESOTERIC”
JACQUEES & DEJ LOAF – “JUST ANOTHER LOVE SONG”
RICKY FAMOUS – “TILL THE END”
KASPERRR – “BASEMENT”
RUSS – “HOW LONG”
BELLY GANG KUSHINGTON – “BE EASY FREESTYLE”
COYOTE – “CHINGASU”
ZEROTHEGOD – “LAVA GIRL”
LIL MC – “ITS ALL LOVE”
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Thousands of people from the global dance music community gathered in Amsterdam this past October for ADE 2024. The dance industry’s largest conference, this year’s event featured (as always) panels, keynotes, workshops and educational sessions. And, naturally, a lot of dancing. Many of the artists who took part in sessions during the day got behind […]
Shaboozey’s “A Bar Song (Tipsy)” isn’t just one of the longest-running No. 1s of all time on the Billboard Hot 100; it was also the most-played song on TouchTunes jukeboxes for 2024, TouchTunes announced on Tuesday (Dec. 10).
“A Bar Song (Tipsy),” which was released in April, was an immediate hit on the company’s jukeboxes, allowing it to reign as the most-played song of the year despite not being available for the first quarter of the year. In July, Billboard began partnering with TouchTunes to present a pair of quarterly charts – the Frontline and Catalog rankings – and Shaboozey’s tune has ranked at No. 1 on the Frontline survey for both iterations so far.
According to TouchTunes, “A Bar Song (Tipsy)” is the first Frontline song (defined as music released in the past 18 months) to be its most-played year-end music on its jukeboxes since Chris Stapleton’s “Tennessee Whiskey,” which was released in 2015.
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(Naturally, Stapleton’s rendition of “Tennessee Whiskey” remains a perennial favorite; it’s the second-most-played song on TouchTunes for the year.)
“A Bar Song (Tipsy)” has spent 19 weeks at No. 1 on the Hot 100 between July and November, tying the song with Lil Nas X’s “Old Town Road,” featuring Billy Ray Cyrus, for the longest reign on the tally in its history.
Shaboozey was also the 10th-most-played artist on TouchTunes in 2024. The distinction of No. 1 goes to Morgan Wallen, whose music dots the collection of most-played songs on TouchTunes for the year. Along with being featured on Post Malone’s “I Had Some Help,” the No. 5 song of the year, his own “Last Night” is No. 8, and he’s featured on six of the top 50 most-played songs of the year in all. “I Had Some Help,” “Last Night” and his “Cowgirls,” featuring ERNEST, are also Nos. 3-5 for the most-played songs in the Frontline category of the year.
The No. 2 in the Frontline category also happens to be the only non-country song in the top 10 of the overall ranking: Teddy Swims’ “Lose Control,” which ends the year as the third-most-played song overall. The pop track topped the Hot 100 for a week in March and boasts a monstrous 45 weeks in the top 10, second-most all time behind The Weeknd’s “Blinding Lights.”
One must scroll to No. 11 to find the most-played rock song of the year, Queen’s “Fat Bottomed Girls.” Even still, the rock genre remains the most-consumed genre on TouchTunes, with the company reporting that 38% of its plays were rock songs in 2024. Country music follows with 24%. Comparatively, rock had 39% in 2023, while country had 23%. Other genres that saw gains year over year include hip-hop (up 2% to 14%) and pop (up 1% to 11%).
The entire top nine of the year was performed by soloists; the first duo or group to appear comes in at No. 10 via Brooks and Dunn’s “Neon Moon.” AC/DC’s “Thunderstruck,” which ranks at No. 31, is the highest-performing song of the year for the veteran rockers, who rank as TouchTunes’ most-played band of the year.
Taylor Swift ends the year as the most-played solo woman on the platform, with the top song from a woman being “Save Me,” Lainey Wilson’s duet with Jelly Roll.
See more insights from TouchTunes’ year-end roundup here and see below for the top 50 most-played songs of the year.
TouchTunes’ Most-Played Songs of 2024
1. “A Bar Song (Tipsy),” Shaboozey2. “Tennessee Whiskey,” Chris Stapleton3. “Lose Control,” Teddy Swims4. “I Love This Bar,” Toby Keith5. “I Had Some Help,” Post Malone feat. Morgan Wallen6. “Friends in Low Places,” Garth Brooks7. “Son of a Sinner,” Jelly Roll8. “Last Night,” Morgan Wallen9. “Fast Car,” Luke Combs10. “Neon Moon,” Brooks & Dunn11. “Fat Bottomed Girls,” Queen12. “I Think I’ll Just Stay Here and Drink,” Merle Haggard13. “Copperhead Road,” Steve Earle14. “Drinkin’ Problem,” Midland15. “Cowgirls,” Morgan Wallen feat. ERNEST16. “Don’t Stop Believin’,” Journey17. “Something in the Orange,” Zach Bryan18. “Whiskey Glasses,” Morgan Wallen19. “Lovin on Me,” Jack Harlow20. “Save Me,” Jelly Roll with Lainey Wilson21. “Simple Man,” Lynyrd Skynyrd22. “Truck Bed,” HARDY23. “White Horse,” Chris Stapleton24. “Rockstar,” Nickelback25. “Family Tradition,” Hank Williams Jr.26. “Wasted On You,” Morgan Wallen27. “Beautiful Things,” Benson Boone28. “The Joker,” The Steve Miller Band29. “Should’ve Been a Cowboy,” Toby Keith30. “Brown Eyed Girl,” Van Morrison31. “Thunderstruck,” AC/DC32. “Save Me,” Jelly Roll33. “Where the Wild Things Are,” Luke Combs34. “Higher,” Creed35. “Oklahoma Smokeshow,” Zach Bryan36. “Sweet Child o’ Mine,” Guns N’ Roses37. “Not Like Us,” Kendrick Lamar38. “In the Air Tonight,” Phil Collins39. “Too Sweet,” Hozier40. “Bartender Song,” Rehab41. “Kryptonite,” 3 Doors Down42. “Picture,” Kid Rock feat. Sheryl Crow43. “Feathered Indians,” Tyler Childers44. “You Proof,” Morgan Wallen45. “Hippies and Cowboys,” Cody Jinks46. “I Remember Everything,” Zach Bryan feat. Kacey Musgraves47. “Chicken Fried,” Zac Brown Band48. “Pour Some Sugar on Me,” Def Leppard49. “Dreams,” Fleetwood Mac50. “Sweet Home Alabama,” Lynyrd Skynyrd
Kaskade is set to open Decca Live, a new 1,000-capacity venue located at 323 E Bay Street in downtown Jacksonville, Fla., that organizers say will create a cutting-edge, immersive experience for fans of both underground and mainstream music acts.
Launched by longtime Jacksonville promoter Eric Fuller of BLNK CNVS, the new venue features a steel megastructure as the main stage, a 360-degree mezzanine wrapping around the dance floor and a rooftop bar with stunning views of the St. Johns River and Jacksonville skyline. The architectural design was led by JAA Architecture, with interior design by Moyano Productions and production and stage design by Collyns Design Inc.
Decca Live is spread over three floors, including a second-floor mezzanine level and a rooftop level with its own bar, entrances and exits.
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“We can open the rooftop bar through the venue or we can separate the space where the ground floor and the mezzanine are focused on concerts and the rooftop maintains a cocktail, loungy vibe where fans can go upstairs get some peace and quiet if they want to,” says Fuller.
Kaskade will perform the first public concert at Decca Live on Jan. 31, 2025. Fuller built the venue from the ground up and sees it as a major cultural hub and economic milestone for the Northern Florida city, filling a long-standing void in the city’s music scene.
“We’re going to book a little bit of everything — EDM, rock and even country music. We want it to be a room for everyone,” Fuller said. “The idea is to be an open room and serve as a beacon in the state where the room is always available to talented promoters.”
Through BLNK CNVS, Fuller already serves as the largest independent promoter of Miami Music Week, hosting more than 35 events with more than 40,000 tickets sold last year. His partners in Decca Live include Jacksonville native Shawn Rouf and Evan Rajta. While BLNK CNVS will handle much of the in-house buying, Decca Live is an open building available to all promoters. Ticketing will be handled by Eventbrite.
“Jacksonville as a city is at a tipping point,” says Rajta in a statement to Billboard. “The city is starving for new ideas and entertainment and that is exactly what we are creating with Decca Live. Our goal is simple: build a world class venue that will be here for decades to come.”
Fuller is a graduate of Jacksonville’s University of North Florida and formerly served as COO at companies including Life In Color, Advanced Concert Productions, Club Space Miami and Celine Orlando.
“Florida is a great state for touring and this room sounds incredible,” says Fuller. “We’ve put everything we have into this project and we’re excited to now share it with the rest of the world.”
Check out concept art for Decca Live below.
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Meg White turned 50 years old on Wednesday (Dec. 10), and to celebrate, her former husband and White Stripes bandmate Jack White took to Instagram to pay tribute to the drummer. Explore Explore See latest videos, charts and news See latest videos, charts and news “HAPPY 50TH BIRTHDAY to my big sister, the great Meg […]
Elton John certainly gained a lot after he adopted his rock-star persona — but according to the superstar born Reginald Dwight, some things got lost along the way. In a new interview clip with Good Morning America posted Tuesday (Dec. 10), the 77-year-old icon opened up about the moment he realized his name change had […]
“When I was a boy, just about every summer we’d take a vacation. And, you know, in 18 years, we never had fun.”
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In 1983’s National Lampoon’s Vacation, Clark W. Griswold (Chevy Chase) ruminates about his childhood trips, as he takes his own family cross-country in their new metallic-pea Wagon Queen Family Truckster. (The blue Sports Wagon was much too small.)
Despite the Griswolds’ series of mishaps, the hit film introduced, upon its opening frames, a buoyant theme song: “Holiday Road,” written and performed by Lindsey Buckingham. The single spent five weeks on the Billboard Hot 100, reaching No. 82 in August 1983. It became the then-Fleetwood Mac member’s second of three career solo entries, in between “Trouble” (No. 9 peak, 1982) and “Go Insane” (No. 23, 1984).
Like the Griswolds finally witnessing Walley World, and Marty Moose (the moosiest moose we know), “Holiday Road” this week reaches the top 10 of a Billboard chart for the first time at last, as Kesha’s cover ascends 10 spots to No. 6 on the Hot Dance/Electronic Songs survey dated Dec. 14. It debuted on the list three weeks earlier, marking the first charted version of the song since Buckingham’s.
The update was released Oct. 15 as an exclusive on Spotify, along with four other holiday-themed songs.
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To date, Buckingham’s original “Holiday Road” has drawn 40.9 million official U.S. streams and 25.8 million in radio airplay audience and sold 133,000 downloads.
National Lampoon’s Vacation grossed a reported $60 million-plus in U.S. theaters. The film, directed by Harold Ramis, with its screenplay by John Hughes, is bookended by Buckingham’s music, closing with his likewise sprightly “Dancin’ Across the USA.” Along with Chase, its cast includes Beverly D’Angelo, Imogene Coca, Randy Quaid, John Candy and, in her first film role, Christie Brinkley.
Notably, Billy Joel’s “Uptown Girl” – his ode to Brinkley, his then-future wife – debuted on the Hot 100 three weeks after Buckingham’s version departed, on its way to a No. 3 peak.