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Mammoth WVH makes it two-for-two atop Billboard’s Top Hard Rock Albums chart, as Mammoth II debuts at No. 1 on the tally dated Aug. 19. In the Aug. 4-10 tracking week, Mammoth II opened with 22,000 equivalent album units, according to Luminate. Of that sum, 20,000 units are via album sales. It’s the Wolfgang Van […]
Less than three months after tying Shinedown for the most top 10s in the history of Billboard’s Rock & Alternative Airplay chart, Foo Fighters take sole possession of the distinction.
“Under You,” the latest single from Foo Fighters’ new album But Here We Are, vaults 36-8 on the Aug. 19-dated ranking with 3.1 million audience impressions, a 163% surge, according to Luminate.
It’s the Dave Grohl-fronted band’s 16th top 10, the most among any act in the 14-year history of the survey, which reflects airplay on alternative, adult alternative and mainstream rock stations. Shinedown now has the second-most, 15, having broken the record earlier this year via “Dead Don’t Die,” which peaked at No. 3 in April.
Most Top 10s, Rock & Alternative Airplay16, Foo Fighters15, Shinedown13, Cage the Elephant13, Imagine Dragons13, twenty one pilots11, The Black Keys11, Muse10, Disturbed10, Weezer
Foo Fighters tied the record with “Rescued,” which eventually led the list for 11 weeks between May and July; the song ranks at No. 2 on the latest chart with 5.2 million impressions.
The band first reached Rock & Alternative Airplay’s top 10 with “Wheels,” a two-week ruler in 2009.
Concurrently, “Under You” flies 38-17 on Alternative Airplay and 37-21 on Mainstream Rock Airplay. “Rescued,” led both rankings, for 10 and six weeks, respectively.
“Under You” also returns to the multi-metric Hot Hard Rock Songs tally at No. 17. In addition to its airplay, the song earned 269,000 official U.S. streams Aug. 4-10.
But Here We Are debuted at No. 1 on the Top Alternative Albums and Top Hard Rock Albums surveys dated June 17 and has earned 121,000 equivalent album units to date.
Music from The Band hits multiple Billboard charts dated Aug. 19 following the death of guitarist and songwriter Robbie Robertson Aug. 9.
The influential group’s catalog is paced by a No. 1 re-entry for classic song “The Weight” on Billboard’s LyricFind U.S. and LyricFind Global tallies.
The LyricFind Global and LyricFind U.S. charts rank the fastest momentum-gaining tracks in lyric-search queries and usages globally and in the U.S., respectively, provided by LyricFind. The Global chart includes queries from all countries, including the U.S. The company is the world’s leader in licensed lyrics, with data provided by more than 5,000 publishers and utilized by more than 100 services, including Amazon, Pandora, Deezer, Microsoft, SoundHound and iHeartRadio.
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According to LyricFind, “The Weight” vaulted by 1,878% in lyric usages and searches in the Aug. 4-10 tracking week. Globally, the count was up 1,846%.
Music from The Band and Robertson dot both charts below “The Weight,” as “Chest Fever” and “The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down” appear at Nos. 6 and 9 on the U.S. survey, followed by Robertson solo tracks “Showdown at Big Sky” (No. 12) and “Somewhere Down the Crazy River” (No. 17). “Crazy Fever” (No. 15) and “Showdown at Big Sky” (No. 20) also reach the Global list.
The Band racked up 4.7 million official on-demand streams in the U.S. Aug. 4-10, up 56% from 3 million the previous week (July 28-Aug. 3). The group also accrued 4,000 paid song downloads, up 815%, and moved 2,000 in album sales, a 278% surge.
“The Weight,” “Up on Cripple Creek” and “The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down” reach Rock Digital Song Sales at No. 6 (2,000 downloads), No. 14 (1,000) and No. 17 (1,000), respectively.
Robertson’s solo material, meanwhile, earned 499,000 on-demand streams, a jump of 644%.
Robertson died Aug. 9 in Los Angeles from prostate cancer.
Green Day will celebrate the 30th anniversary of their major label breakthrough Dookie with a sprawling special edition featuring unreleased demos, outtakes and a never-before-heard June 1994 live set from Barcelona.
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The Dookie 30th Anniversary Deluxe Edition, due out Sept. 29, will honor the pop-punk classic featuring some of the trio’s most indelible breakthrough hits, including “Longview,” “Basket Case,” “Welcome to Paradise” and “When I Come Around.” Available digitally as well as in a limited-edition 6-LP vinyl box set and 4-CD box set, the collection will include the original 15-track album, 10 previously unreleased Dookie 4-track demos, seven Dookie cassette demos, a collection of six Dookie outtakes, as well as their 1994 Live at Woodstock set and the previously unreleased 17-track Live in Barcelona set from June 5, 1994.
A special version of the set will also be offered on the band’s web store and at indie record stores, with each record pressed in a different shade of brown vinyl. In keeping with the band’s arch sense of humor, the vinyl box will also be packed with a roll of Dookie dog poop bags, a five-button set, air freshener, postcard, bumper sticker, magnet sheet, paper airplane, black-and-white coloring page and a poster with alternate cover art.
The CD box set of the album that has sold more than 20 million albums and which peaked at No. 2 on the Billboard 200 album chart will have two stickers, the button set, air freshener and soft vinyl magnet; both sets will also contain a personal intro penned by the band’s longtime friend and Grammy-winning Dookie producer Rob Cavallo and extensive liner notes from Grammy-winning journalist/producer Bob Mehr. The Diamond certified album also won a Grammy for best alternative album in 1995.
Check out the track listing for the Dookie 30th anniversary editions below.
Vinyl Box (6 LPs):
LP 1: Dookie
LP 2: Dookie Demos
LP 3: Dookie Outtakes
LP 4: Live at Woodstock (1994)
LP 5 & 6: Live In Barcelona (June 5 ’94)
CD Box (4 CDs):
CD 1: Dookie
CD 2: Dookie Demos & Outtakes
CD 3: Live at Woodstock (1994)
CD 4: Live In Barcelona (June 5 ’94)
Dookie:
1. Burnout
2. Having A Blast
3. Chump
4. Longview
5. Welcome to Paradise
6. Pulling Teeth
7. Basket Case
8. She
9. Sassafras Roots
10. When I Come Around
11. Coming Clean
12. Emenius Sleepus
13. In The End
14. F.O.D.
15. All By Myself
Dookie 4-Track Demos:
1. Burnout
2. Chump
3. Pulling Teeth
4. Basket Case
5. She
6. Sassafras Roots
7. When I Come Around
8. In The End
9. F.O.D.
10. When It’s Time
Dookie Cassette Demos:
1. When I Come Around
2. Basket Case
3. Longview
4. Burn Out
5. Haushinka
6. J.A.R.
7. Having A Blast
Dookie Outtakes:
1. Christie Rd.
2. 409 In Your Coffeemaker
3. J.A.R.
4. On The Wagon
5. Tired of Waiting for You
6. Walking The Dog (demo)
Live at Woodstock (1994)
1. Welcome to Paradise (live)
2. One Of My Lies (live)
3. Chump (live)
4. Longview (live)
5. Basket Case (live)
6. When I Come Around (live)
7. Burnout (live)
8. F.O.D. (live)
9. Paper Lanterns (live)
10. Shit Show (live)
Live In Barcelona (June 5 ’94)
1. Welcome to Paradise (live)
2. One of My Lies (live)
3. Chump (live)
4. Longview (live)
5. Burnout (live)
6. Only Of You (live)
7. When I Come Around (live)
8. 2000 Light Years Away (live)
9. Going to Pasalacqua (live)
10. Knowledge (live)
11. Basket Case (live)
12. Paper Lanterns (live)
13. Road to Acceptance
14. Dominated Love Slave (live)
15. F.O.D. (live)
16. Christie Rd. (live)
17. Disappearing Boy (live)
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Brandon Flowers learned a lesson in diplomacy on Tuesday night (Aug. 15) during The Killers‘ show at the Black Sea Arena in Batumi, Georgia. In a portion of the show when the band typically invite a fan up to play drums on the song “For Reasons Unknown,” Flowers asked the crowd to weigh in on that night’s special guest.
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“We don’t know the etiquette of this land but this guy’s a Russian,” he told the audience in video posted by fans. “You OK with a Russian coming up here?” As it turns out, they were not. The question drew loud boos from the crowd in the country that came out from under the yoke of Russian rule in 1991 following the fall of the Soviet Union. Russia, however, still occupies around 20 percent of Georgia following a 2008 invasion.
According to local reports, a portion of the audience walked out in protest, further incensed by Flowers’ attempt at detente after the song ended. Asking the agitated audience if they were willing to let borders define them. “You can’t recognize that someone’s your brother? He’s not your brother? We all separate on the border of our countries?,” he said as the boos kept coming. “So I’m not your brother? Am I not your brother being from America? Am I your brother or no? I’m not your brother?”
Walking away from the mic in seeming exasperation, Flowers threw his head back and added, “One of the things we appreciate about being in this band is it brings people together. And tonight I want to celebrate that we’re here together. And I don’t want it to turn ugly. And I see you as my brothers and my sisters. “
Hours after the show, the band issued an apology, assuring their Georgian fans that they did not intend to cause an international incident more than a year-and-a-half into Russia’s devastating unprovoked war against Ukraine. “Good people of Georgia, it was never our intention to offend anyone! We have a longstanding tradition of inviting people to play drums and it seemed from the stage that the initial response from the crowd indicated that they were okay with tonight’s audience participation member coming onstage with us,” they wrote.
It continued, “We recognize that a comment, meant to suggest that all of The Killers’ audience and fans are ‘brothers and sisters,’ could be misconstrued. We did not mean to upset anyone and we apologize. We stand with you and hope to return soon.” The Killers are currently on tour in support of their 2021 album Pressure Machine. Their next scheduled show is in Bratislava, Slovakia on Friday (Aug. 18), after which they will head to England for the Reading and Leeds festivals, before flying back to the U.S. in September for a series of festival headlining gigs at Bourbon & Beyond, Sea.Hear.Now and Life is Beautiful.
Watch video of the moment and the read the full apology below.
Part of the audience left concert of @thekillers at the Black Sea Arena in Georgia in protest after amid booing the group’s frontman who invited a Russian drummer to the stage and said everyone are “brothers and sisters” pic.twitter.com/mhtklWIOKf— Formula NEWS | English (@FormulaGe) August 15, 2023
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