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Although it’s been just under two years since J-Hope launched Jack in the Box, his debut studio album, and the BTS member is already gearing up for two massive new projects. On Wednesday (March 13), the “Chicken Noodle Soup” rapper unveiled the main trailer for his upcoming Hope on the Street docuseries, which will arrive […]
Saying goodbye is death by a thousand cuts, but luckily, the Eras Tour film is forever. Now that it’s coming to Disney+, Taylor Swift’s blockbuster concert film will be available to stream as many times as fans want, complete with the pop star’s previously scrapped acoustic performance of one of her Lover fan favorites. Swift […]
“Did She or Didn’t She? Cher She Did!”
Underneath that headline, Fred Bronson wrote in the Chart Beat column in the March 13, 1999, Billboard, “The big question this issue is whether you looked here first or at the Billboard Hot 100 to discover if Cher went to No. 1 with ‘Believe.’ I won’t keep you in suspense: Cher rewrites the record books in many ways, as her international hit seizes the summit in her own country.”
That week, “Believe,” with its trademark AutoTune-enhanced vocals, rose to No. 1 on the Hot 100 “just 10 days shy of a quarter-century since Cher was last on top,” Bronson noted. “‘Dark Lady’ spent a frame at No. 1 for the week ending March 23, 1974. That means Cher has the longest gap between No. 1 hits” in the chart’s history.
To date, Cher maintains the mark for the longest break between Hot 100 No. 1s excluding holiday fare. Overall, only Brenda Lee has waited more patiently between time on top: 63 years, one month and two weeks between the reigns of “I Want to Be Wanted” in 1960 and “Rockin’ Around the Christmas Tree” this past December.
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With “Believe,” Cher also claimed the record for the longest span of Hot 100 No. 1s: 28 years, four months and one week, dating to her first leader, “Gypsies, Tramps & Thieves,” in 1971. Similarly, she continues to boast the lengthiest span of No. 1s outside of holiday hits; Lee leads with a span of 63 years, five months and three weeks of ruling the chart.
(If including Sonny & Cher’s 1965 No. 1 classic “I Got You Babe,” Cher’s span atop the Hot 100 would stretch 33 years, seven months and three weeks.)
Meanwhile, Cher was 52 when “Believe” crowned the Hot 100. “As William Simpson of Los Angeles points out,” Bronson wrote, citing Cher’s impressive longevity, “that’s even more dramatic when one notes the ages of the three most recent artists to reach No. 1: Monica (18), Britney Spears (17) and Brandy (19 when she was No. 1).”
“It’s not that amazing, OK?,” Cher, now 77, laughed on NBC’s Today in November regarding the 25th anniversary of “Believe” leading the Hot 100. “I’d give anything to be 70 again …”
Cher is currently working on a memoir. “It’s very difficult because I’ve lived too long, and I’ve done too many things,” she said on Today. “It would have to be, like, an encyclopedia.”
After channeling her inner rage and nu-metal bona fides on the 2022 album , Willow is going in the opposite direction on her just-released meditative new single, “Symptom of Life.” Explore See latest videos, charts and news See latest videos, charts and news In an Instagram post announcing the song’s release on Tuesday (March 12), […]
Former Little Mix singer Perrie Edwards is gearing up to release her debut solo LP. The singer announced the title of her first solo single, “Forget About Us,” on Tuesday (March 12). “‘Here’s the truth of it…’ Wow [crying eyes emoji] it’s happening! My first solo single ‘Forget About Us’ is coming,” the singer wrote. […]
Kelly Clarkson is headed to Paris this summer. The singer and daytime talker announced on Tuesday night (March 12) that she will be joining NFL hall of famer Peyton Manning and veteran NBC sportscaster Mike Tirico as hosts of the opening ceremonies of the 2024 Summer Olympics.
“You know, Peyton hosted the Country Music Awards, Kelly’s one of the greatest of all time, so the three of us are going to do an album,” Tirico joked to Tonight Show host Jimmy Fallon in introducing the three-headed hosting crew for the first time.
“I’m so glad we can say it. We’ve been holding this forever,” Clarkson said about the exciting news that the trio will anchor the live coverage of the kick-off to the summer spectacular that will air on NBC and Peacock at noon ET on July 26 and find more than 10,000 athletes parading through the heart of the French capital. The hosts brought along examples of the gold medals that will be handed out at both the Olympics and Paralympics, each of which has a tiny piece of the Eiffel Tower embedded in them.
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“The opening ceremony is going to be so different and unique. Down the Seine, down the river with the athletes on a boat, so it’s not the stadium where they walk in,” said four-time opening ceremony host Tirico, who was also asked which athletes or teams fans should be looking out for. “It will incorporate Paris. And the games are going to be amazing as you know, swimming, gymnastics … Simon Biles, Katie Ledecky, Team USA in track and field could be incredibly strong, the Dream Team, the U.S. soccer team, the women’s basketball team.”
Fallon asked each host what they might win a gold medal for, with two-time NFL champ Manning jumping in with a most unexpected skill: event planning. “It’s kind of my true calling,” Manning said. Tirico weighed in with his skill, which is being an expert packer and travel-planner, while Clarkson said she is “not like that at all,” and hates planning vacations. If, however, you need help building something out of LEGO, she’s your lady. “I am the Simone Biles of LEGOs,” she said. “I am incredible at LEGOs.”
The gold medal trio were back after a break for a game of “Olympictionary,” with Clarkson up first in the game with Olympics-inspired clues. You should watch for yourself, but suffice it to say that Clarkson clearly need to bone up on her badminton knowledge given her very NSFW drawing that made teammate Fallon’s cheeks as red as a rooster’s waddle.
Watch Clarkson’s announcement and her not-ready-for-prime-time game show clue below.
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MAX is totally stupid in love, and Le Sserafim’s Huh Yunjin is helping him spread the word.
The pop singer, songwriter and actor (real name: Max Schneider) teams up with the K-pop icon on “Stupid in Love,” the opening track on his new album Love In Stereo.
The fresh cut is bursting with pop vitality, and, since the stroke of midnight, is accompanied with an official music video that follows Max on his travels from Los Angeles, CA to Seoul, South Korea where the pair get down to moving and grooving for the cameras.
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“Stupid in Love” came about in a moment of serendipity. Max made his own luck; he was visiting South Korea to work with a producer on music for BTS, when one of the lads suggested the idea of a collaboration with Le Sserafim.
He showed up to a meeting, “and they gave me this gift, which is a really beautiful thing in Korea — a lot of times you give your gift as an album and write a letter,” he tells People. “Yunjin wrote me a letter, and it was like, ‘I hope we get to meet and work together,’” he recounts. “It was really endearing, so I extended my trip to see her live.” The connections run deeper than a love of pop music; both artists were raised in New York.
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Le Sserafim is hot right now. The South Korean pop group became a Billboard Hot 100-charting act for the first time this year, thanks to the single, “Easy,” debuting at No. 99.
The group’s five-track EP of the same name bowed at No. 8 on the Billboard 200. Also, Easy started at No. 2 on both the World Albums and Top Album Sales charts, while the title track roared to No. 6 on the Billboard Global Excl. U.S. chart, marking the group’s second, and top charting, top 10 effort.
Max enjoyed a breakthrough with his tender pop hit “Lights Down Low” featuring gnash, which peaked at No. 20 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart back in 2016. The New Yorker has also collaborated with the likes of BTS and bandmate Suga, Hayley Kiyoko, Noah Cyrus and Chromeo, many of whom assisted on his 2020 project, Colour Vision.
Stream “Stupid in Love” below.
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Just days before Taylor Swift’s record-breaking concert film surrounding her massive Eras Tour hits Disney+ on Friday (March 15), fans can experience an exclusive preview of a previously unseen performance of her hit Folklore track “Cardigan.” Explore Explore See latest videos, charts and news See latest videos, charts and news This exclusive clip will only […]
On the new Billboard Pop Shop Podcast, Katie & Keith ventured to the final date of Madonna‘s five-night stint at the Kia Forum in Inglewood, Calif., for her Celebration Tour. It was Keith’s second time seeing the show, after attending opening night in London, and Katie’s first — and it was our second Pop Shop […]
It’s been a few days since Ariana Grande released what is already one of the year’s most acclaimed albums, Eternal Sunshine, on March 8, meaning fans have had ample time to pick their favorite song on the project. Marking the pop star’s seventh studio record, the 13-track, Max Martin-produced LP is just 35 minutes long. […]