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In just its third week on Billboard‘s Alternative Airplay chart, Blink-182‘s “Edging” is No. 1.
The song’s three-frame ascent to the top of the list dated Nov. 5 is the quickest of 2022, eclipsing the four-week trip of The Killers‘ “Boy.” It’s also the fastest rise since Twenty One Pilots‘ “Shy Away” made it in three weeks in May 2021.
In the last decade, just three songs have taken three weeks or fewer to hit No. 1 on Alternative Airplay, with “Edging” and “Shy” joined by twenty one pilots’ “Jumpsuit” and its two-week sprint in 2018.
Prior to “Jumpsuit,” the last such coronation belonged to Foo Fighters‘ “Rope,” at three weeks, in 2011.
“Edging” is Blink-182’s fourth No. 1 on Alternative Airplay and first since “Bored to Death” in 2016. The others are “I Miss You” in 2004 and “All the Small Things” in 1999, giving the band No. 1s in each of the last four decades. Green Day and Red Hot Chili Peppers are the only other acts with leaders in four distinct decades, also in the ’90s through the ’20s, dating to the chart’s 1988 inception.
In between “Bored” and “Edging,” Blink-182 – then featuring Matt Skiba on guitar and vocals as of “Bored,” whereas “Edging” marks the return of Tom DeLonge – charted five songs, paced by the No. 2-peaking “She’s Out of Her Mind” in 2017.
Concurrently, “Edging” leaps 22-14 on Mainstream Rock Airplay, marking the trio’s top-charting track since “Bored” reached No. 6.
On the all-rock-format, audience-based Rock & Alternative Airplay chart, “Edging” rules for a second week with 5.7 million audience impressions, up 5%, according to Luminate.
In addition to its radio airplay, the song earned 2.1 million official U.S. streams and sold 1,000 downloads in its second full week of availability.
“Edging” is currently a standalone single from Blink-182, whose last album, 2019’s Nine, debuted at No. 1 on Billboard‘s Top Rock & Alternative Albums chart.
Machine Gun Kelly is misunderstood and he knows it.
The “Papercuts” singer sat down with The Hollywood Reporter at the SCAD Savannah Film Festival, and while talking about his new movie Taurus, he clarified that unlike some believe, he never took a break from rap music in favor of his more pop-punk-leaning albums Tickets to My Downfall and Mainstream Sellout.
“I’m talented as f— and I added on to my catalog of four great rap albums. So what I did was I added on — never departed, left or switched. Because in the same year I was the most-viewed YouTube video putter-outer with all rap, which was my lockdown sessions, which gained more views than almost any of my other videos. And it was hundreds of millions of views of me rapping,” the 32-year-old explained.
MGK further explained that outlets often try to discredit his achievements in rap music and stated that he worked incredibly hard at writing his songs. “When you conveniently leave that out, that when quarantine happened and everyone was stuck in the house with no new entertainment, and I picked up my cell phone and put this thing on and wrote my a– off and rapped my a– off weekly … then you watch it and you’re like, ‘Damn, he’s actually saying some sh–.’ I was rapping,” he added. “And then later on we dropped a [Billboard 200] No. 1 album that was a pop-punk album. So when they say ‘departed’ or when they say, ‘Oh, man, you switched.’ Mother—-er, are you dumb?!”
Kelly further added that assumptions about his art often discourages him from doing interviews.
“I stopped doing interviews because I’m so sick of being asked questions that don’t make me think or that don’t make me feel. I’ve just sat there and heard this, ‘Oh, he departed, oh, he switched, oh, he’ — Do you know how long? How much that kills me every day? That if I died tomorrow, I know every single person would be like, ‘Legend, dude, this mother—-er did this and did this.’ And while I’m alive my flowers can’t be brought to me. … I don’t give a f— about actual money. I’ve never once in my life looked at my bank account. I could care less. I care about real human interaction. That’s the sh– to me.”
Taurus will be released Nov. 18. Listen to Machine Gun Kelly’s entire conversation with The Hollywood Reporter here.
Never change, James Hetfield. This Halloween, the Metallica frontman paid tribute to Stranger Things by dressing up as fan-favorite character Eddie Munson, whose performance of “Master of Puppets” in a season four episode sparked a renaissance for the band’s song earlier this year.
Hetfield debuted his 1980s-inspired outfit in an Instagram photo posted to Metallica’s official account, just a couple hours after Halloween ended. In the photo, the singer-guitarist does one of Eddie’s signature poses — two rock n’ roll hand-horns signs held to the top of his head, tongue sticking out — while dressed in a denim jacket, shaggy hair and a recreation of the “Hellfire Club” T-shirts worn by his group’s Dungeons & Dragons players in Stranger Things.
“Eddie Munson says Happy Halloween!” read the post’s caption.
Played by Game of Thrones actor Joseph Quinn, Eddie Munson captured the hearts of millions of Stranger Things fans when the character debuted this summer in the Netflix sci-fi series’ fourth chapter. One of his most beloved scenes came in the season’s finale, when Eddie whipped out his electric guitar and performed an epic cover of Metallica’s 1986 track “Master of Puppets” in an alternate dimension known on the show as the Upside Down, earning his long-awaited hero moment when the concert successfully distracted evil creatures from harming his friends.
After the episode premiered on Netflix in July, Metallica took to Instagram to praise Quinn and the show’s creators, The Duffer Brothers. “We were all stoked to see the final result and when we did we were totally blown away,” wrote the band, also comprised of Lars Ulrich, Kirk Hammett and Robert Trujillo. “It’s so extremely well done.”
Following the song’s use in the show, “Master of Puppets” appeared on the Billboard Hot 100 for the first time, 36 years after the song was originally released. It reached a peak at No. 35 and also experienced a surge on streaming services, with daily on-demand U.S. audio streams growing nearly 400% in a matter of days.
See James Hetfield’s Eddie Munson Halloween costume below:
D.H. Peligro, the drummer for influential punk band Dead Kennedys who also was a drummer for the Red Hot Chili Peppers for a short period of time, had died. He was 63.
The band confirmed the news of Peligro’s passing on their official social media accounts Saturday night (Oct. 29), noting that he died the day before in his Los Angeles home following an accidental fall.
“Dead Kennedys’ drummer D.H. Peligro (Darren Henley) passed away in his Los Angeles home yesterday, October 28th,” Dead Kennedys wrote in a statement on Instagram. “Police on the scene stated that he died from trauma to the head caused by an accidental fall. Arrangements are pending and will be announced in the coming days. We ask that you respect the family’s privacy during this difficult time. Thank you for your thoughts and words of comfort.”
“My dear friend, my brother I miss you so much,” Red Hot Chili Peppers’ Flea wrote on Instagram upon hearing of his death. Peligro had played with the band briefly, in 1988, and has three writing credits on RHCP’s Mother’s Milk album.
Flea’s tribute said: “I’m devastated today, a river of tears, but all my life I will treasure every second. The first time I saw you play with the DK’s in ‘81 you blew my mind. The power, the soul, the recklessness. You became my beloved friend, so many times of every kind. We had so much fun, so much joy, having each other’s backs. I love you with all my heart. You are the truest rocker, and a crucial part of rhcp history. D H P in the place to be, you live forever in our hearts, you wild man, you bringer of joy, you giant hearted man. I will always honor you. Rest In Peace and freedom from all that restrained you.”
Peligro, born Darren Henley in 1959, joined Dead Kennedys in 1981 and first appeared on the band’s In God We Trust, Inc. EP that year. The St. Louis native who moved to San Francisco recorded on the band’s pre-breakup studio albums Plastic Surgery Disasters (1982), Frankenchrist (1985) and Bedtime for Democracy (1986), plus the compilation album Give Me Convenience or Give Me Death (1987).
Dead Kennedys reunited (without original vocalist Jello Biafra) in 2001, with Peligro returning on drums alongside other original band members East Bay Ray and Klaus Flouride.
In a 2018 interview with LA Weekly, he spoke of the racism he faced touring in a punk rock band over the years. “You go down South, you go across the Midwest, then people were thinking that it was music for white people, or I was the janitor or security or something,” Peligro said. “You got to experience the racism firsthand, because everybody wasn’t as open-minded as they were in San Francisco. It’s a bit more open and accepted today, but there’s still pockets of people who want to use punk rock to create hate music. That angers me to no end.”
At the time, he said he was working on a script for a series based on his 2013 memoir, Dreadnaught: King of Afropunk. “It’s about all the stuff you don’t hear about from African-American punk rockers,” he told the publication.
BTS‘ Jin delivered the debut live performance of his new solo single “The Astronaut” alongside Coldplay at the band’s concert in Argentina on Friday (Oct. 28).
Big Hit Music recently confirmed on BTS’ Weverse page that the K-pop star would appear during Chris Martin and Co.’s Music of the Spheres tour stop at Buenos Aires’ River Plate stadium. Friday’s sold-out show, which arrived just hours after “The Astronaut” dropped on streaming services, was broadcast live across 3,5000 movie theaters in more than 80 countries.
Co-written by Jin and Coldplay, “The Astronaut” reveals the stadium-sized rock sound that the British band is known for as a perfect bed for Jin’s steady, soothing vocals. Prior to the single’s live debut, Coldplay’s Martin shared the story of the track’s origins with the roaring South American crowd.
“About six months ago, one of [BTS’] members called me up and he said, ‘I have to leave the band in December for two years to join the army in Korea, because that’s the rules there,” Martin said from behind his piano. “And he said, ‘I need a song that says goodbye to everybody for a little while, and tells them that I love them. …So I said, ‘Okay, we’ll do a song together.’ Instead of being worried about it, I feel so excited about it, so grateful for this relationship that we have with BTS. Then this song arrived and I was said, ‘This is one of our best songs — let’s give it to this gentleman.’”
BTS previously collaborated with Coldplay on the single “My Universe” for the latter’s 2021 album, Music of the Spheres. The track debuted atop the Billboard Hot 100, becoming the first Hot 100 No. 1 by two groups each sporting lead billing on a song.
Watch Jin’s performance of “The Astronaut” with Coldplay below.
Machine Gun Kelly tried out a new look for the Time100 Next Gala on Wednesday night and his post about it on social media drove fiancée Megan Fox to say something wild in the comments.
“I came for the Targaryen BDSM party,” the pop-punk rocker wrote on Instagram alongside a few snaps of his platinum top-knot, full-length black latex gloves, see-through corset and matching pants at the gala. And while plenty of friends and fans loved the House of the Dragon reference, his fianceé took it a step further than everyone else by commenting, “Never has anyone with better bone structure walked this earth…Exquisitely, devastatingly handsome. And 6 foot 5? Kill me or get me pregnant. Those are the only options.”
Fox, of course, happened to be Kelly’s date for the evening in a copper gown that can be seen in two of the photos he posted. Her extreme comment had racked up nearly 5,000 likes and hundreds of replies in the hours since it was posted.
Kelly’s BDSM-inspired look and Fox’s subsequently eyebrow-raising reaction both came just one day before the trailer dropped for the couple’s next movie, Taurus. In the meta music industry drama, the “Twin Flame” singer will play a self-destructive rocker named Cole, while Fox appears in the role of Mae and can be seen in the teaser flirting with Kelly’s character in the recording studio. The twosome previously starred together in 2021’s Midnight in the Switchgrass.
Check out Kelly’s latex ensemble from the Time100 Next Gala below.
Now they’re all gone. With Jerry Lee Lewis‘ death at age 87, which was announced on Friday (Oct. 28), the last survivor of the inaugural class of the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame has passed on. Lewis became the sole survivor upon Don Everly’s death on Aug. 21, 2021.
That inaugural class in 1986 consisted of nine solo artists and a duo, The Everly Brothers.
Three of the first year’s inductions were made posthumously. Buddy Holly had died in a plane crash in 1959 at age 22, Sam Cooke was shot to death in 1964 at 33, and Elvis Presley had died of cardiac arrest in 1977 at 42.
Eight of the inaugural inductees were alive at the time of the first Rock & Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony on Jan. 23, 1986, at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel in New York but have since died. Ray Charles died in 2004 at 73, followed by James Brown in 2006 at 73, Phil Everly in 2014 at 74, Chuck Berry in 2017 at 90, Fats Domino in 2017 at 89, Little Richard in 2020 at 87, Don Everly at 84 and now Jerry Lee Lewis at 87.
Here’s a quick look at the inaugural class, showing the artist’s highest-charting hit(s) on the Billboard Hot 100 (or predecessor charts) and the name of the person who inducted them into the Rock Hall. For the five artists whose highest-charting hits occurred before the inception of the Hot 100 on Aug. 4, 1958, we also show their highest charting Hot 100 hit.
Chuck Berry
Top hit: “My Ding-a-Ling,” No. 1 in 1972
Inducted by: Keith Richards
James Brown
Top hit: “I Got You (I Feel Good),” No. 3 in 1965
Inducted by: Steve Winwood
Ray Charles
Top hits: Three No. 1 hits: “Georgia on My Mind” in 1960, “Hit the Road Jack” in 1961 and “I Can’t Stop Loving You” in 1962
Inducted by: Quincy Jones
Sam Cooke
Top hit: “You Send Me,” No. 1 in 1957. Top Hot 100 hit: “Chain Gang,” No. 2 in 1960
Inducted by: Herb Alpert
Fats Domino
Top hit: “Blueberry Hill,” No. 2 in 1957. Top Hot 100 hits: “Whole Lotta Loving,” No. 6 in 1959, “Walkin’ to New Orleans,” No. 6 in 1960.
Inducted by: Billy Joel
The Everly Brothers
Top hits: Four No. 1 hits: “Wake Up Little Susie in 1957, “All I Have to Do Is Dream” in 1958, “Bird Dog” in 1958 and “Cathy’s Clown” in 1960. Only the latter song reached No. 1 on the Hot 100.
Inducted by: Neil Young
Buddy Holly
Top hit: “That’ll Be the Day” (The Crickets),” No. 1 in 1957. Top Hot 100 hit: “It Doesn’t Matter Anymore,” No. 13 in 1959.
Inducted by: John Fogerty
Jerry Lee Lewis
Top hit: “Great Balls of Fire,” No. 2 in 1958. Top Hot 100 hit: “What’d I Say,” No. 30 in 1961.
Inducted by: Hank Williams Jr.
Little Richard
Top hit: “Long Tall Sally,” No. 6 in 1956. Top Hot 100 hit: “Baby Face,” No. 41 in 1958.
Inducted by: Roberta Flack
Elvis Presley
Top hits: 17 No. 1 hits from “Heartbreak Hotel” in 1956 to “Suspicious Minds” in 1969. Seven No. 1 hits on the Hot 100.
Inducted by: Julian and Sean Lennon
A hefty list of country artists are celebrating the 60th anniversary of rock band The Rolling Stones, by contributing to an upcoming album that reimagines several of the seminal group’s classic hits. Stoned Cold Country is set to release in 2023 via BMG.
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Eric Church takes on “Gimme Shelter,” Lainey Wilson offers “You Can’t Always Get What You Want,” Maren Morris performs “Dead Flowers,” and Ashley McBryde offers a take on “(I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction.” Brooks & Dunn offer a rendition of “Honky Tonk Women.”
A first look at the album comes via Brothers Osborne, who team with The War & Treaty for “It’s Only Rock N’ Roll (But I Like It),” which will release Nov. 4.
It’s only rock n roll… but we like it. Honored to be a part of the upcoming Stoned Cold Country tribute album, celebrating 60 years of the legendary @RollingStones. “It’s Only Rock N’ Roll (But I Like It)” with our friends @warandtreaty will be out everywhere on 11/4. pic.twitter.com/f2zz74s3mB— Brothers Osborne (@brothersosborne) October 28, 2022
Others featured on the record include Jimmie Allen, Steve Earle, Marcus King, Little Big Town, Elvie Shane and Koe Wetzel.“This album is country music’s thank you to The Rolling Stones for 60 years of inspiration and providing the soundtrack of our lives. While recording the record, I was reminded that this is a showcase and spotlight on the best we have to offer as a genre,” says producer Robert Deaton, who helmed the album. “From our artists to all of the musicians that played on the record, we boldly state that Country Music is second to none when it comes to artists of integrity and creativity.”
This isn’t the first time country artists have contributed to a tribute project to the Rolling Stones. In 1997, artists including Travis Tritt, Deana Carter, George Jones and Nanci Griffith contributed to Stone Country: Country Artists Perform the Songs of the Rolling Stones.
Earle previously covered the band’s “Ruby Tuesday” on the 2016 album Colvin & Earle, and “Dead Flowers” in his live shows. The late Johnny Cash recorded the band’s “No Expectations” on his 1978 album Gone Girl. On his 2002 album Stars & Guitars, Willie Nelson teamed with Ryan Adams, The Rolling Stones’ Keith Richards, and Hank Williams III for a rendition of “Dead Flowers.” In 2002, Lucinda Williams and Elvis Costello included a rendition of “Wild Horses” during their collaboration taping for the very first installment of CMT Crossroads. During a 2015 concert, Miranda Lambert covered The Rolling Stones’ 1971 hit “B—h.” That same year, Brad Paisley opened for The Rolling Stones on their No Zip Code Tour, during their tour stop in Nashville.
In a recent interview with Billboard, Dolly Parton discussed her love for The Rolling Stones, saying, “I’ve always wanted to do the song ‘Satisfaction.’ That’s one of my husband’s favorite songs. And I may have to drag Mick [Jagger]’s guys up there to help me sing it. I thought about writing a song called ‘Rock of Ages,’ where I get all the great old rock ‘n’rollers, the people that I have always admired and respected. I didn’t follow rock music that much, but my husband is a rock ‘n’ roll freak. He loves all the groups and all the great stuff.”
See the full Stoned Cold Country tracklist below:
1. “(I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction” – Ashley McBryde
2. “Honky Tonk Women” – Brooks & Dunn
3. “Dead Flowers” – Maren Morris
4. “It’s Only Rock ‘N’ Roll (But I Like It)” – Brothers Osborne & The War And Treaty
5. “Miss You” – Jimmie Allen
6. “Tumbling Dice” – Elle King
7. “Can’t You Hear Me Knocking” – Marcus King
8. “Wild Horses” – Little Big Town
9. “Paint It Black” – Zac Brown Band
10. “You Can’t Always Get What You Want” – Lainey Wilson
11. “Sympathy for the Devil” – Elvie Shane
12. “Angie” – Steve Earle
13. “Gimme Shelter” – Eric Church
14. “Shine A Light” – Koe Wetzel
Highly Suspect is back at No. 1 on Billboard‘s Mainstream Rock Airplay chart, as “Natural Born Killer” slashes its way to the top of the Oct. 29-dated survey.
The group adds its third No. 1 on the ranking. It last ruled with “16,” for four weeks in 2019, after “My Name Is Human” reigned for eight weeks in 2016.
In between “16” and “Killer,” the band appeared on the chart with two tracks, “These Days” (No. 10 peak) and “Canals” (No. 40), both in 2020.
The band boasts seven Mainstream Rock Airplay top 10s, dating to its arrival with “Lydia” (No. 4, 2015). In addition to its aforementioned No. 1s, the band also reached No. 5 with “Bloodfeather” in 2016 and No. 2 with “Little One” in 2017. The band formed in 2009 on in Massachusetts.
Concurrently, “Killer” places at No. 19 on Alternative Airplay, after reaching No. 16 earlier in October. It’s the band’s second-highest-ranking song on the tally, following “16,” which peaked at No. 15. Between “16” and “Killer,” “Days” reached the list at No. 39.
On the all-rock-format, audience-based Rock & Alternative Airplay chart, the song lifts 8-7, a new best, with 2.9 million audience impressions, up 7%, in the week ending Oct. 23, according to Luminate.
“Killer” is the lead single from The Midnight Demon Club, Highly Suspect’s fourth studio album and the follow-up to 2019’s MCID. The former has earned 13,000 equivalent album units since release in September. The new set is the group’s first on FRKST/Roadrunner/3EE.
“American Pie” singer Don McLean has added his name to the list of artists calling out Kanye West for the rapper’s recent barrage of antisemitic hate speech. The singer released a statement on Friday (oct. 28) strongly condemning Ye (as the MC is now known) for a weeks-long series of interviews in which West has repeatedly made comments disparaging of the Jewish people, actions that have resulted in Kanye losing nearly every aspect of his once-formidable music and fashion empire.
“Lately a flood of antisemitic invective has been triggered by the ranting of a stupid attention-seeking fool we all know,” McLean wrote in the statement that did not mention Ye by name. “I want to say I stand with my Jewish friends and I stand with the state of Israel. When this kind of thing happens we should realize why the state of Israel must be respected and protected.”
McLean noted that he lived in Israel on-and-off from 1978-1982 and he “grew to love the country and the people. Living there changed my life forever.” The Anti-Defamation League, which tracks antisemitic behavior in the U.S. recently reported that there were 2,717 antisemitic incidents in 2021, a 34 percent rise from the year before for an average of more than seven such attacks per day.
The Washington Post reported this week that longtime watchdogs of antisemitism say the type of overtly derogatory comments made recently by Ye — as well as former president Donald Trump — are not new, but that the unapologetic manner in which they’ve been delivered in public forums is concerning at a time when incidents of harassment, vandalism and violence against Jews is at its highest level in the U.S. since the 1970s.
“Empirically, something is different. The level of public animosity towards Jews is higher than it’s been in recent memory,” Jonathan Greenblatt, CEO of the ADL told the paper. “While at a generalized level, antisemitic attitudes have dropped, the incidents have risen because there is less shame. People feel they can say and do anything.”
Over the past several weeks West has been on a bizarre media tour in which he has doubled and tripled-down on comments disparaging Jews after already raising eyebrows by promoting a “White Lives Matter” shirt at his recent Paris Fashion Week show. As a result, over the past week West has been dropped by his reps at CAA, lost partnerships with Adidas, The Gap and Balenciaga, had his Essentials playlist pulled from Apple Music, his products taken off shelves at TJ Maxx and was cut off by Foot Locker. The end of the Adidas deal will reportedly result in a $246 million loss for the company this year and is believed to be the linchpin in Ye’s loss of billionaire status.
In further blows to the once-esteemed rapper’s tattered public image, he was unceremoniously escorted out of the Skechers office on Tuesday (Oct. 26) after showing up “uninvited,” even as his wax figure was removed from Madame Tussauds London and his Donda Academy basketball team was bounced from a tournament over his hate speech.
Lately a flood of antisemitic invective has been triggered by the ranting of a stupid attention-seeking fool we all know. I want to say I stand with my Jewish friends and I stand with the state of Israel. When this kind of thing happens we should realize why the state of Israel must be respected and protected.