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Céline Dion was the honorary queen of the ice at the Boston Bruins vs. New York Rangers game Thursday (March 21), where she met with some of the players and enjoyed the day’s proceedings with her twin 13-year-old sons, Nelson and Eddy.
In clips captured by game attendees, Dion — who also shares 23-year-old René-Charles with late husband René Angélil — smiles and flashes a hand heart to the jumbotron as fans at the TD Garden in Boston roar with excitement. In another video, she and her boys, who sport matching Bruins jerseys, jam out to Bon Jovi’s 1986 smash “Livin’ on a Prayer,” the Canadian vocalist showing off her air-guitar moves.
Prior to the game, Dion joined the Bruins back in the locker rooms to read off that day’s lineup — adding her own flair, as any iconic diva would. “Up front, Heinen,” she began, angelically singing left wing Danton Heinen’s last name.
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“On defense, you better bite — Grizzy,” she continued, calling defenseman Matt Grzelcyk by his nickname and adding a dramatic pause. “Ooooh.”
The game marks a rare outing for Dion, who was diagnosed with a rare neurological disorder called Stiff-Person Syndrome a couple years ago. Earlier this month, she marked International SPS Day with a post on Instagram, writing, “Trying to overcome this autoimmune disorder has been one of the hardest experiences of my life, but I remain determined to one day get back onto the stage and to live as normal of a life as possible.”
She added, “I am deeply grateful for the love and support from my kids, family, team and all of you!”
Prior to the game — which saw the Rangers win 5-2 against the Bruins — Dion made a surprise appearance at the 2024 Grammys, where she presented Taylor Swift with album of the year for Midnights. In January, Amazon announced that a Prime Video documentary chronicling the “My Heart Will Go On” singer’s battle with SPS is in the works.
Watch clips of Dion enjoying the Bruins game below.
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There’s a good reason listening to The Black Keys’ new album, Ohio Players, is like spending time with a well-curated collection of vintage vinyl singles. Dan Auerbach and Pat Carney spent part of 2023 taking their DJ gig, The Black Keys Record Hang, across North America and Europe, playing 7” vinyl singles in small clubs into the wee hours of the morning.
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The discerning taste required to keep the audience engaged proved valuable as the band worked on the songs that would eventually comprise the Nashville-based, Ohio-born band’s 12th studio album. “I think we started to get so picky with the records and we started to do the same when we were in the studio,” Auerbach tells Billboard’s Behind the Setlist podcast. “We didn’t want to make songs that sound like old 45s, but we wanted to have the same spirit.”
The genre- and era-spanning setlists at those Record Hang events, documented by attendees in Spotify playlists, included such earworms as 1967’s “Let It Out (Let It All Hang Out)” by Memphis garage band The Hombres, 1969’s “Love Buzz” by Dutch psychedelic rockers Shocking Blue (it was later covered by Nirvana for its 1989 debut album, Bleach) and 1970’s “Chocolate” by San Antonio funk band Mickey & The Soul Generation.
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Gauging the crowd’s reaction to those 45s proved to be valuable market research and helped Auerbach and Carney tighten up their songwriting. From the debut single, the Top Adult Alternative Airplay No. 1 “Beautiful People (Stay High)” or “I Forgot to Be Your Lover,” a cover of the 1968 recording by William Bell, Ohio Players has the efficiency of two-and-a-half minute Motown standards or radio-ready classic rock tracks.
“The way those classic 45s are,” says Carney, “it’s like there’s no wasted space.”
Auerbach and Carney had little room to spare when they wrote “On the Game” with Noel Gallagher (Oasis, Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds) in a studio in London barely big enough for a drum kit and a few people. “We were in a circle in this tiny room,” says Auerbach. “That’s the sound you hear on the record. It was amazing watching Noel go through the process of writing and run through all the chords up and down the neck until he finds the one that he hears in his mind is just right. We were just kind of like sitting patiently, you know, letting him do his thing. It was it was really cool to to watch him go through his process.”
Listen to the entire interview with The Black Keys in the Spotify player embedded below or go to Spotify, Apple Podcasts, iHeart or Amazon Music.
A week after her old friend Neil Young‘s return to Spotify, Joni Mitchell‘s catalog has been restored to the streaming service. Mitchell pulled her music from Spotify in early 2022 in solidarity with Young over their concerns about the vaccine and COVID-19 misinformation being spread on the platform’s popular Joe Rogan Experience podcast.
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Though Mitchell, 80, had not commented on her music’s return to Spotify at press time, in a note on her official website posted at the time of the boycott she explained, “I’ve decided to remove all my music from Spotify. Irresponsible people are spreading lies that are costing people their lives. I stand in solidarity with Neil Young and the global scientific and medical communities on this issue.”
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Last week, Young said in a post on his Archives site that the end of Spotify’s exclusive deal with Rogan led to the restoration of his music to the service. “My decision comes as music services Apple and Amazon have started serving the same disinformation podcast features I had opposed at Spotify,” Young’s post read – in a clear reference to the Rogan podcast, though he never mentioned the show, or its host, by name. Since last month, the Rogan podcast has been available on a variety of platform, including Apple Podcasts, Amazon Music and YouTube.
“I cannot just leave Apple and Amazon, like I did Spotify, because my music would have very little streaming outlet to music lovers at all, so I have returned to Spotify,” Young explained about his turnabout.
At the time of Mitchell’s boycott not all of her music was actually removed from Spotify. While such iconic titles as 1970’s Ladies of the Canyon, 1971’s Blue and 1974’s Court and Spark went away during the pull-out, her four Geffen Records albums from the 1980s and early 1990s — Wild Things Run Fast (1982), Dog Eat Dog (1985), Chalk Mark in a Rain Storm (1988) and Night Ride Home (1991) — were still available. In fact, Billboard reported at the time that in the first four days after the wider catalog removal, songs from Mitchell’s Geffen albums across all streaming services saw at 484% increase in on-demand streaming activity in the U.S.
Young’s original 2022 boycott was also supported by several other artists, including his Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young bandmates David Crosby, Stephen Stills and Graham Nash, as well as India.Arie, though CSN/CSN&Y and Arie’s music were back on the service in short order.
Mitchell’s return to Spotify comes amidst the singer’s late-career resurgence, which last month found her performing at the Grammy Awards for the first time. The emotional run through “Both Sides Now” from the singer who has been off-the-radar for years due to a brain aneurysm and a battle with the rare skin condition Moregellons disease included an introduction from superfan and collaborator Brandi Carlile and backing from Alison Russell, Lucius and Jacob Collier.
Jack Black is 100% down to slip into Dewey Finn’s bowtie one more time. According to JOE, more than 20 years after Black scammed his way into a teaching position and whipped some awkward kids into a wall-shaking rock band in 2003’s family-friendly music comedy School of Rock, the now 54-year-old actor/musician said he’s down […]
There’s nothing worse than that seasick wave of being overcome by heat and feeling like you’re gonna lose your lunch. Now imagine that sweaty nausea in front of tens of thousands of screaming fans. Because that’s exactly what happened to Blink-182 guitarist/singer Tom DeLonge earlier this week during a show in Paraguay when he suffered […]
Elton John and Bernie Taupin were the guests of honor Wednesday night (March 20) at DAR Constitution Hall in D.C., where the Library of Congress awarded the songwriting duo with the Gershwin Prize for Popular Song. And to help celebrate the pair, Metallica showed out to perform one of their most beloved songs — “Funeral […]
Gavin Rossdale got vulnerable about his divorce from Gwen Stefani while speaking to Amy Robach and T.J. Holmes on their Amy and T.J. podcast on Thursday (May 21).
Without naming her directly, the 58-year-old rocker spoke about Stefani while bonding with the former Good Morning America anchors — whose respective divorces from their former partners and subsequent romance turned into major headline fodder in 2023 — over going through relationship drama in the public eye.
“My clearest, simplest shame,” he began. “I never thought I’d ever get divorced. Sometimes I wish that, when you see the kids, there’s a loss. It would be nice if there was more of a connection with the person that made them with me.”
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Rossdale and the No Doubt frontwoman tied the knot in 2002 after six years of dating, but parted ways in 2015. The pair share three children — 17-year-old Kingston, 15-year-old Zuma, and 10-year-old Apollo.
Stefani has since remarried to Blake Shelton, whom she met on The Voice, and Rossdale is now dating musician Xhoana.
“I feel bad for my kids,” Rossdale continued on the podcast. “I wish I could have just figured out a way to not have that in their lives. It wasn’t fun for me to be from a broken home … It can be quite debilitating for kids. The overriding thing is you don’t want to let your kids down.”
The musician also added, “I’d never wanna overly say anything negative about their mom … It’s not right.”
The “Love Remains The Same” singer — whose band will celebrate its 30th anniversary by embarking on a 32-date North American tour in July — opened up about his parenting setup with Stefani last year. “I think you can go one of two ways,” he revealed. “You can either do everything together and really co-parent and see how that goes, or you can just parent. And I think we just parent.”
“We’re really different people,” he added at the time. “I don’t think there’s much similarity in the way we bring them up but I think that gives them an incredible perspective to then choose which pieces of those two lives they’d like to inherit and move on with and which part of themselves come out of the whole process.”
Listen to Rossdale open up about his and Stefani’s divorce below.
Tenacious D’s version of Britney Spears’ “…Baby One More Time” is No. 1 on a Billboard chart.
The rendition, recorded for Tenacious D member Jack Black’s new movie Kung Fu Panda 4, starts at No. 1 on the Rock Digital Song Sales survey dated March 23.
The act’s “…Baby One More Time” reigns with 4,000 downloads sold in the U.S. March 8-14, its first week of release, according to Luminate.
Tenacious D notches its first No. 1 on Rock Digital Song Sales, which began in 2010. In fact, it becomes the duo of Jack Black and Kyle Gass’ first No. 1 on any Billboard songs chart, with the pair’s previous commands logged on album surveys – including two leaders on Top Rock & Alternative Albums in 2006’s The Pick of Destiny and 2012’s Rize of the Fenix.
“…Baby One More Time” is also the tandem’s first top 10 on the all-format Digital Song Sales chart, debuting at No. 9, exceeding the No. 36-peaking “The Pick of Destiny” in 2006.
On the multimetric Hot Rock & Alternative Songs chart, “…Baby One More Time” enters at No. 26. In addition to its sales, it earned 2.5 million official U.S. streams and 84,000 radio audience impressions.
Tenacious D charts its second entry on the ranking, after another cover, of Lana Del Rey’s “Video Games,” hit No. 27 last year.
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Spears’ original earned its own bump in consumption from the cover, rising 11% to 1.7 million streams March 8-14. The classic became Spears’ breakout hit (and Max Martin’s, as a writer and producer), ruling the Billboard Hot 100 for two weeks beginning in January 1999.
Tenacious D’s version is heard in the credits of Kung Fu Panda 4, which premiered March 8 and stars Black as main character panda Po.
One of summer’s biggest blowouts, Milwaukee’s annual multi-weekend Summerfest festival, announced the full lineup for the 2024 edition on Thursday (March 21). As always, it is packed with some of the best, biggest and brightest pop, rock, country, hip-hop and EDM acts, including headliners Kane Brown (with Kameron Marlowe and Nightly) and Mötley Crüe (with Seether and Buckcherry) on the first weekend (June 20-22).
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That inaugural weekend will also feature performances from: Goo Goo Dolls, Toosi, Black Pumas, Chelsea Cutler, Taking Back Sunday, David Kushner, Brittany Howard, O.A.R., Umphreys McGee, En Vogue, Gin Blossoms,Dawes, The War & Treaty, Allen Stone and many more.
The second weekend (July 27-29) will be topped by Illenium, Tyler Childers (with S.G. Goodman and Adeem the Artist) and Keith Urban (with NEEDTOBREATHE and Alana Springsteen), with additional sets from Muna, Jessie Murph, Allison Wonderland, Key Glock, Hippo Campus, Fletcher, REO Speedwagon, Sleater-Kinney, the Hold Steady, Mario, Metric, Briston Maroney, The Church, Ethel Cain, Brent Cobb, the Dandy Warhols and more.
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The final weekend (July 4-6) will feature AJR (with Carly Rae Jepsen and mxmton) as headliner, along with Maroon 5 and Lil Uzi Vert (with Lil Yachty, JID, Rico Nasty and LIHTZ), as well as Ivan Cornejo, Bryson Tiller, Mt. Joy, Lil Tecca, Chase Rice, Local Natives, Cold War Kids, Mariah the Scientist, JXDN, Coin, Extreme, Del Water Gap, Nikki Lane and Cimafunk, among others.
“Our 2024 lineup embodies the essence of what makes Summerfest so special. With a curated selection of artists spanning genres and styles, the festival reflects the vibrancy of today’s music scene,” said Milwaukee World Festival Inc. president/CEO Sarah Pancheri in a statement. “With 600 artists at a 75-acre permanent festival park, Summerfest creates a one-of-a-kind environment that our fans look forward to every summer.”
Tickets for Summerfest are on sale now here, with single-day GA starting at $28; a UScellular Power Pass is available for $65 for a limited time (now through March 28 at 11:59 p.m. ET), which includes admission to all 9 days of the festival.
See the full 2024 Milwaukee Summerfest lineup poster below.
Djo takes “End of Beginning” back to No. 1 on the TikTok Billboard Top 50 chart, jumping 3-1 on the March 23-dated tally.
The TikTok Billboard Top 50 is a weekly ranking of the most popular songs on TikTok in the United States based on creations, video views and user engagement. The latest chart reflects activity March 11-17. Activity on TikTok is not included in Billboard charts except for the TikTok Billboard Top 50. As previously noted, titles that are part of Universal Music Group’s catalog are currently unavailable on TikTok.
“End of Beginning” previously reached No. 1 on the TikTok Billboard Top 50 list dated March 2, becoming the first Billboard ruler for Djo (real name Joe Keery, also well known as an actor in Stranger Things, Fargo and more).
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Its return to No. 1 coincides with its rise to the top of Billboard’s Alternative Streaming Songs ranking. The tune racked up 16.7 million official U.S. streams March 8-14, a jump of 21%, according to Luminate. It also achieves a new peak of No. 21 on the multi-metric, all-genre Billboard Hot 100.
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Trends utilizing the “End of Beginning” sound are paced by the “If I won the lottery” theme, which helped the song rise to No. 1 on its initial ascent and continues well into March.
Unlike the March 16-dated TikTok Billboard Top 50, in which the top five remained completely static from the previous frame, the chart’s upper reaches experiences some shakeup below Djo, as Benson Boone’s “Beautiful Things” leaps 11-2.
It’s a new peak for “Beautiful Things,” which debuted at No. 6 on the Feb. 10 survey and has bounced around the top 20 since. While the song’s initial debut was largely thanks to being teased on TikTok for weeks prior to its official release (Jan. 18), its latest jump is via a proliferation of newly released lip-synching clips featuring the track, concurrent with its rise on the Hot 100, returning to its peak of No. 3 on the March 23 tally.
Ye (formerly known as Kanye West) and Ty Dolla $ign’s “Carnival,” No. 1 on the TikTok Billboard Top 50 for the previous two weeks, falls to No. 3, while Beyonce’s “Texas Hold ‘Em” returns to the top five, blasting 39-4, and Bobby Caldwell’s previous No. 1 “What You Won’t Do for Love” dips 2-5. The “Texas Hold ‘Em” dance trend is what continues to fuel No. 4, with many users donning cowboy garb as well to celebrate Beyonce’s country turn. The song had fallen off the chart briefly due to being removed from the platform but has since returned.
Dasha’s “Austin” is the only song of the week to reach the top 10 for the first time, leaping to No. 6 after debuting at No. 15 March 16. Its ascent gives the chart two country songs in the top 10 (alongside “Texas Hold ‘Em”), the first time that’s happened since the TikTok Billboard Top 50’s September 2023 inception.
Like “Texas Hold ‘Em,” “Austin” benefits from a line dance-inspired trend, with Dasha herself leading the pack via a variety of uploads.
“Austin” sports a 65% jump in official U.S. streams to 6.7 million March 8-14, allowing for Dasha’s first appearance on the Hot 100 at No. 74, as previously reported.
The top debut of the week on the TikTok Billboard Top 50 belongs to Don Toliver, whose “Bandit” premieres at No. 14. “Bandit” was initially released Feb. 1 and has sported a swift rise on TikTok following its use in multiple viral clips over the past few weeks.
Finally, as a potential precursor to future rankings, Sexyy Red’s “Get It Sexyy” and Cardi B’s “Enough (Miami)” start at Nos. 44 and 45, respectively, following their official releases March 15, meaning the tracks bow despite having just three days of tracking with the official sound (the TikTok Billboard Top 50 runs on a Monday-Sunday tracking period).
See the full TikTok Billboard Top 50 here. You can also tune in each Friday to SiriusXM’s TikTok Radio (channel 4) to hear the premiere of the chart’s top 10 countdown at 3 p.m. ET, with reruns heard throughout the week.