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It’s still Young Angel and Young Lion. The Young Money ties are running deep, as Drake has shown support for Lil Wayne after some in the hip-hop community were outraged Weezy was overlooked for Kendrick Lamar to headline the Super Bowl LIX Halftime Show next year. The 6 God posted a series of photos of […]
Maroon 5 and Cardi B‘s cameo-stuffed 2018 video for “Girls Like You (Volume 2)” has reached the billion views mark on YouTube. The female empowerment anthem and fifth single from the band’s fifth album, 2017’s Red Pill Blues, got a bonus-edition visual in May 2018 with Cardi slotted-in midway through for a verse about her her come up from stripper to world-beating rap superstar.
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The ascension to the billie club for the Vol. 2 version of the tune marks the fifth time both M5 and Cardi have landed billion view music videos on YouTube.
The original video for Billboard Music Award-winning song — which spent seven weeks at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart and 33 weeks in the top 10 — has racked up more than 3.6 billion views to date. That David Dobkin-directed clip found the camera swinging in a circle around M5 singer Adam Levine as a series of famous female singers, comedians, athletes, activists, politicians, actresses and models materialized behind the vocalist and danced along to the bouncy pop tune.
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Among the stars popping in were: Camilla Cabello, Phoebe Robinson, Aly Raisman, SarahSilverman, Gal Gadot, Lilly Singh, Amani al-Khatahtbeh, Trace Lysette, Tiffany Haddish, Angy Rivera, Franchesca Ramsey, Millie Bobby Brown, Ellen DeGeneres, Jennifer Lopez, Chloe Kim, Alex Morgan, Mary J. Blige, Beanie Feldstein, Jackie Fielder, Danica Patrick, Ilhan Omar, Elizabeth Banks, Ashley Graham and Rita Ora, as well as Levine’s wife, model Behati Prinsloo and their daughter, Dusty Rose.
In addition to dancing and lip synching along to the tune, a number of the women in the clip rock message T-shirts with pointed social messages, including immigration activist Rivera’s “Undocumented Unafraid Unapologetic” one, as well as U.S. gymnast Raisman’s “Always Speak You Truth” shirt and activist Fielder’s “Divest, Water Is Life” top.
Watch the “Girls Like You (Volume 2)” video below.
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This one is for the veteran hip-hop heads. LL Cool J and Eminem take fans back in time as they recreate some memorable moments for their “Murdergram Deux” music video, which was released on Wednesday (Sept. 11). Explore See latest videos, charts and news See latest videos, charts and news LL and Em traveled to […]
Frankie Beverly, the honey-coated baritone frontman for the soul and funk group Maze, has died. He was 77. His family announced his Sept. 10 passing on Facebook Wednesday (Sept. 11). A cause of death has not been revealed. The post, signed by The Beverly Family, reads as follows: “Grieving the loss of a loved one […]
Special guest appearances have long been prevalent when it comes to the Super Bowl halftime show. So when Kendrick Lamar was announced as the Super Bowl LIX headliner over the weekend, fans started speculating what might be on the Compton MC’s potential setlist and what guests might join him. Lamar is gearing up to hit […]
On Tuesday (Sept. 10), The Revels Group, alongside the Black Music Action Coalition, Amazon Music and Live Nation, announced plans for the third annual BLACK: Future. Now. Brunch 2024 in Los Angeles.
The celebratory brunch is set to go down Sunday (Sept. 15) and serve as a lead into BMAC Gala Week (starting Sept. 19). Decorated music executives and artists across the industry will be honored during the ceremony, including Jhené Aiko, Cash Cobain and Rachelle Jean-Louis.
Following her successful North American run on the Magic Hour Tour, Aiko will receive the “Brilliant Beyond” Creative Artistry Award. The burgeoning Cash Cobain is slated to take home the “Future Phenom Now” Award while Blake Brown-Gakal will accept the “L(Eagle) Eye” Attorney of the Year Award.
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On the heels of winning Billboard‘s 2024 R&B/Hip-Hop Power Players Executive of the Year, Victoria Monet’s manager and Tell Your Friends co-founder Rachelle Jean-Louis will collect more hardware when she’s honored with the “Executive of the Year Impact” award this weekend.
“We’re super excited to be kicking off BMAC week once by celebrating the future and now of Black excellence,” said The Revels Group CEO Jamil Davis. “When I started the BFN and the Brunch my mission was to bring together a diverse room to highlight the creatives, executives and thought leaders of tomorrow that are having breakout years, or typically don’t get as much shine.”
Davis continued: “It’s beautiful and has grown each year. I’m ready to have an incredible time! I’m thrilled to honor our 2024 class of BFN awardees, including my dear friend, theincomparable, Jhené Aiko.”
Elliot Grainge’s 10k Projects and Spirit Music Group have also joined the Black: Future. Now. Brunch as partners.
Live Nation CEO Michael Rapino added of the event: “I admire Jamil’s ability to bring such an eclectic group of people together, and The Revels Group’s continued mission to celebrate and empower the next generation of artists, creators, and executives. It will be a great time.”
Past BLACK: Future. Now. honorees include Lil Bibby, Tunde Balogun, Brandra Rigo, Gordon Dillard, Ebonie Ward, Sydney Lopes and more.
It’s shaping up to be another spooky Friday the 13th. Eminem announced plans for his The Death of Slim Shady: Expanded Mourner’s Edition on Tuesday (Sept. 10). The deluxe version of his 12th studio album will be hitting streaming services on Friday, and Em dropped off an ominous trailer to accompany the announcement. Explore Explore […]
Up until this week, only five albums in the 68-year history of the Billboard 200 had spent 700 weeks or more on the chart. This week (on the chart dated Sept. 14), Eminem’s 2005 best-of compilation, Curtain Call: The Hits, joins the ranks as the sixth album to reach the milestone – and the first hip-hop set.
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Curtain Call: The Hits ranks at No. 198 with 8,000 equivalent album units earned in the United States Aug. 30-Sept. 5, according to Luminate.
Dating to when the chart became a regularly published weekly list in 1956, only five other albums have reached the 700-week milestone. Here’s a look at those five, along with the albums next in line:
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990 weeks, Pink Floyd, The Dark Side of the Moon
851, Bob Marley, Legend: The Best of Bob Marley & The Wailers
821, Journey, Journey’s Greatest Hits
758, Metallica, Metallica
710, Creedence Clearwater Revival, Chronicle: The 20 Greatest Hits
692, Guns N’ Roses, Greatest Hits
692, Bruno Mars, Doo-Wops & Hooligans
686, Nirvana, Nevermind
642, Michael Jackson, Thriller
622, AC/DC, Back In Black
619, Kendrick Lamar, good kid, m.A.A.d city
611, Queen, Greatest Hits
610, Adele, 21
601, Drake, Take Care
(All except for Dark Side of the Moon are still charting this week)
Curtain Call: The Hits is Eminem’s first greatest hits album and includes songs from four of his first five studio albums: The Slim Shady LP (1999), The Marshall Mathers LP (2000), The Eminem Show (2002), the 8 Mile soundtrack (2002) and Encore (2004). (The set doesn’t include any songs from his 1996 debut album Infinite, which he released before he signed to Interscope Records.)
After The Slim Shady LP peaked at No. 2 on the Billboard 200 in 1999, The Marshall Mathers LP debuted at No. 1 and became his first of 11 leaders, including his most recent project, The Death of Slim Shady (Coup de Grâce), in July. That run includes Curtain Call, which spent two weeks on top.
How come Curtain Call spent more weeks on the chart than any of Eminem’s classic studio projects? That’s due to a Billboard 200 chart rule that came into effect in 2009. In December of that year, Billboard allowed catalog albums back on the chart (after barring them since 1991).
When streaming began to impact the chart in 2014, Billboard instituted rules about where songs that appear on multiple albums should be assigned (say, a song that appears on both a studio album and a greatest hits album). Since then, songs are assigned to whichever album by that artist sells the most (by traditional album sales) in a given week. So, Curtain Call has been able to spend an historic amount of weeks on the chart because, A) catalog albums are now allowed to chart each week, and B) the album includes many of Eminem’s big early hits (“Lose Yourself,” “My Name Is,” “Without Me,” “Stan,” etc.) which, as a collection, are counting more towards this album week-to-week than to the original studio albums on which they appear.
Ben Stiller has long been a rap fan, and he’s looking forward to seeing Kendrick Lamar headline the Super Bowl LIX Halftime Show in New Orleans in February. The star offered a simple response to seeing Kendrick announce his Super Bowl appearance on Sunday (Sept. 8). “Yes,” the Dodgeball actor wrote. Fans flooded Stiller’s replies […]
Yesterday, Kendrick Lamar revealed that he’ll be headlining the Super Bowl LIX Halftime Show in New Orleans next February. This won’t be his first time performing at the Big Game: Kendrick first popped out during the Dr. Dre & Friends set at the Super Bowl LVI Half Time Show in his hometown of L.A., where […]