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Billboard’s inaugural Top Movie Songs chart, powered by Tunefind (a Songtradr company), is here, and Bee Gees’ “Tragedy” claims the first No. 1 spot after its synch in Beetlejuice Beetlejuice.
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Rankings for the Top Movie Songs chart are based on song and film data provided by Tunefind and ranked using a formula blending that data with sales and streaming information tracked by Luminate during the corresponding period of September 2024. The ranking includes newly released films from the preceding two months.
Billboard has previously partnered with Tunefind on the Top TV Songs chart, which tracks usages each month of music in television shows. Gracie Abrams’ “Close to You,” from Emily in Paris, is the latest No. 1.
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“Tragedy” reigns as one of five songs featured in Beetlejuice Beetlejuice on the first Top Movie Songs tally. The film, a sequel to the 1988 favorite Beetlejuice, was released on Sept. 6 and again stars Michael Keaton, Winona Ryder and Catherine O’Hara alongside franchise newcomers Jenna Ortega, Willem Dafoe and more.
In September 2024, “Tragedy,” which peaked at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 for two weeks in 1979, earned 3.8 million official on-demand U.S. streams and earned 2,000 downloads, according to Luminate.
“Tragedy” also featured in one of Beetlejuice Beetlejuice’s pre-release trailers.
Jimmy Buffett’s “Margaritaville” (No. 5; 6.1 million streams, 1,000 downloads), Richard Marx’s “Right Here Waiting” (No. 6; 4.2 million streams, 1,000 downloads) and a pair of versions of “MacArthur Park” (Richard Harris’ at No. 9 with 1.2 million streams and 1,000 downloads, Donna Summer’s at No. 10 with 750,000 streams and 1,000 downloads) supplement the Beetlejuice Beetlejuice onslaught on the inaugural Top Movie Songs.
Like “Tragedy,” the other four songs also reached the Hot 100 in their time. “Margaritaville” peaked at No. 8 in 1977, Buffett’s top-performing hit on the chart. Marx’s “Right Here Waiting” ruled for three weeks in 1989. Harris’ rendition of “MacArthur Park” peaked at No. 2 in 1968, and Summer’s was a three-week leader a decade later in 1978.
Beetlejuice Beetlejuice topped the box office in its first three weeks of release.
One other movie notches more than one song on the September 2024 ranking: It Ends With Us, released Aug. 9, which boasts the Nos. 2 and 3. Starring Blake Lively, the movie features, among others, synchs of Taylor Swift’s “My Tears Ricochet” and Post Malone’s White Iverson,” which appear at Nos. 2 (12.9 million streams, 1,000 downloads) and 3 (13.4 million streams), respectively, representing a decidedly more updated flair versus Beetlejuice Beetlejuice’s largely ’60s, ‘70s and ‘80s soundtrack.
See the full top 10, also featuring music from Transformers One, Cuckoo and Speak No Evil, below.
Rank, Song, Artist, Movie1. “Tragedy,” Bee Gees, Beetlejuice Beetlejuice2. “My Tears Ricochet,” Taylor Swift, It Ends With Us3. “White Iverson,” Post Malone, It Ends With Us4. “If I Fall,” Quavo, Ty Dolla $ign & ARE WE DREAMING, Transformers One5. “Margaritaville,” Jimmy Buffet, Beetlejuice Beetlejuice6. “Right Here Waiting,” Richard Marx, Beetlejuice Beetlejuice7. “Inside Out,” Martin Dupont, Cuckoo8. “Black Velvet,” Alannah Myles, Speak No Evil9. “MacArthur Park,” Richard Harris, Beetlejuice Beetlejuice10. “MacArthur Park,” Donna Summer, Beetlejuice Beetlejuice
The rest of us will have to wait one more month before we can see the first part of director Jon M. Chu’s big screen take on Wicked. Not Kim Kardashian. The Skims founder hosted her own private screening of the movie musical on Tuesday night (Oct. 22) at her home, where she was joined by stars Ariana Grande and Cynthia Erivo.
She chronicled the special night on her Instagram Story, where fans could watch her narrate the special night, beginning with a walk through the front door flanked by a giant arch of pink balloons. “Okay, I just came home, look what we’re watching tonight,” Kardashian says as she passes a pair of Wicked movie posters and makes her way down the green carpet, past a series of huge pink flower arrangements.
“Look what Cynthia and Ariana set up for us,” she says as she walks up to a giant movie theater lobby standee featuring the co-stars posted in front of the title rendered in towering pink and green letters. “Oh my gosh, I’ve never been more excited,” Kardashian says as she moves further down the green carpet to another room featuring green-draped cocktail tables and another massive standee of Grande and Erivo as Glinda and Elphaba reaching out to each other.
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There were, of course, also themed green and pink drinks for Kardashian, her children and family, who all joined her for the screening that took place the night after Kim celebrated her 44th birthday. There was also copious swag for the kids, including Glinda and Elphaba Barbie dolls and Funko! Pop figures. The Story featured a foot pic of sisters Kylie, Khloé and Kourtney, and mother Kris Jenner, all standing in their pink socks and green pajamas, though Grande stood out in her green socks and pink jammies.
The Story ended with a huge group photo of the Kardashian crew — including Kim’s kids, North, Chicago and Psalm West, as well as Kourtney’s daughter Penelope, Khloé’s kids True and Tatum and Kyli’s daughter, Stormi Webster — flanking Grande and Erivo. “We laughed, we cried (a few times) and we loved it so much!” Kim captioned the pic. “Thank you @arianagrande and @cynthiaerivo for watching @wickedmovie with us tonight [pink and green heart emoji]. The most magical pajama party.”
The first part of the big screen adaptation of the Broadway musical — which also co-stars Jeff Goldblum, Michelle Yeoh, Jonathan Bailey, Ethan Slater and Bowen Yang — opens on Nov. 22.
Shyne (born Jamal Barrow) served eight years behind bars for his role in the 1999 NYC nightclub shooting involving Diddy. The former Bad Boy rapper is telling his story of evolving from rapper to politician in The Honorable Shyne documentary.
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Hulu released a trailer for the feature doc on Tuesday (Oct. 22) ahead of its arrival on the streaming giant on Nov. 18. At one point in the clip, Shyne alleges that he was “set up” to be the “fall guy” in the club shooting, which led to Diddy getting off scot-free.
“I was absolutely set up to be the fall guy,” Shyne claimed. “I spent 10 years in prison, but I was able to move on. There’s a time to pivot, there’s a time to transition.”
The scene pivots to a Diddy press conference following the club shooting, which the mogule attended with his girlfriend at the time, Jennifer Lopez. “I had nothing to do with a shooting in this club,” he emphatically stated.
Shyne’s heart turned cold while watching other artists thrive throughout the 2000s, while he himself lost out on his opportunity at stardom behind bars.
“One of the most difficult parts of it was watching everybody succeed. Watching 50 [Cent],” he said. “I spent 10 years in prison, but I was able to move on. There’s a time to pivot, there’s a time transition. And that’s how I got into politics.”
Following his sentencing in 2001, Shyne was released from prison in 2009 and immediately deported to Belize. He pivoted to a career in politics, and currently serves as the Leader of the Opposition in the Belize House of Representatives.
Shyne commented on the nature of his currentrelationship with Diddy following the embattled Bad Boy mogul’s arrest on federal sex trafficking and RICO charges in September.
“I was defending him, and he turned around and called witnesses to testify against me,” he recalled of the 1999 shooting. “He contributed … he pretty much sent me to prison. That is the context by which you must always describe that [relationship]. I forgave. I moved on. But let us not pretend as if I was in Miami for Thanksgiving and Christmas.”
Shyne added at the time: “So, let us not lose sight of what the cold, hard facts are. This is not someone who I vacationed with and who he and I enjoyed this great, intimate relationship of brotherhood. This is someone who destroyed my life and who I forgave and who I moved on and for the better interest of Belize”
The Honorable Shyne arrives on Nov. 18. Watch the trailer below.
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Do you get deja vu? Olivia Rodrigo‘s Guts World Tour concert film is coming soon to Netflix, allowing fans to relive the 21-year-old pop star’s show over and over again — as teased by a new trailer that dropped Tuesday (Oct. 22).
The minute-long video opens with Rodrigo on stage, dressed in a sparkly red leotard. “Here’s the deal,” she yells into the microphone as the crowd cheers. “Right now, I want you to think about something or someone that really pisses you off, and when the lights go down, you’re going to scream as loud as you can and let it all out!”
The teaser then cuts to a backstage shot of the “Vampire” singer with her band and backup dancers, standing in a circle as they hype each other up ahead of a show. “I’m so grateful that I get to be here and do this with you guys,” she tells the crew. “I love you all to death.”
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Rodrigo’s concert film is set to drop on Netflix Oct. 29. As seen in the rest of the trailer, the project will document the star’s first-ever arena tour with shots of her singing, playing guitar and piano, dancing on stage and interacting with fans at her August tour stop at the Intuit Dome in Los Angeles.
“For those of you who didn’t get a chance to rock out in person, now you can have the best seats in the house!” Rodrigo wrote in a statement when the film was first announced early October. “And to the fans who cheered, screamed and danced with me, I am so glad we get to do it all over again!”
The High School Musical: The Musical: The Series alum has been on the road since February in support of her Billboard 200-topping sophomore album, Guts. Just days before her concert film premieres, Rodrigo will wrap the trek with four shows in Sydney Oct. 17-22, after which she won’t take the stage again until 2025 for a limited run of dates in Latin America and two rescheduled shows in Manchester.
“It brings me so much joy to perform in front of my fans,” Rodrigo recently reflected on the experience to Billboard. “We sing, we scream and we dance … Everyone’s energy is really inspiring and makes me want to bring my all every night.”
Watch the trailer for Olivia Rodrigo: Guts World Tour below.
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Smiles are normally looked at with a positive connotation, but one horror movie franchise looks to flip the script. Smile 2 is the next installment in the franchise and premiered in theaters on Friday (Oct. 18), with fans clamoring to get tickets to see the movie.
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While the first film focused on a therapist, Smile 2 kicks it up a notch with the latest of victim being pop star who is being haunted by a sinister force while dealing with the pressures of fame. Opening weekend for the sequel saw a grin-worthy performance, gaining $23 million domestic, which surpasses what Smile initially made its first weekend at the box office, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
Whether you’re new to the movie series or just want to rewatch the first Smile, there are a few options that’ll let you watch it online at home for free.
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Keep reading to learn the streaming options available.
How to Watch Smile Online for Free
Paramount Pictures is the official distributer for both Smile and Smile 2. While the sequel is currently only available to watch in theaters, you can watch Smile for free through Paramount+ — the official streaming platform for Paramount Pictures. Current Paramount+ subscribers can stream the first movie for no added cost when you sign into your account.
Don’t have a subscription? Paramount+ offers a seven day free trial to new users when you sign up. You’ll be able to stream Smile online for free in addition to the entire Paramount+ library. Once your free trial is over, you’ll be charged the regular subscription fee starting at $7.99/month.
Paramount+ offers two packages for you to choose from depending on your needs: Paramount+ Essential and Paramount+ with Showtime. The cheapest option is Paramount+ Essential at just $7.99/month or save nearly 40% off when you choose an annual plan for $59.99/year. The ad-supported plan comes with more than 40,000 episodes and movies for you to stream on up to three devices at once. Sports fans can watch NFL on CBS and UEFA Champions League live.
For even more content options, you can choose Paramount+ with Showtime for $12.99/month or $119.99/year (giving you savings of 37%). You’ll get everything in the Paramount+ Essential plan with no ads plus access to Showtime Originals, the ability to download content to watch offline and live CBS 24/7.
Besides Smile, subscribers can look forward to streaming content like Tulsa King, Mayor of Kingstown, Fraiser, Seal Team, Criminal Minds Evolution, Evil, Halo, Ink Master, Special Ops: Lioness, RuPaul’s Drag Race Global All Stars, The Good Fight, Colin From Accounts and Showtime Originals like Yellowjackets, The Curse, The Chi, Dexter: New Blood, Ray Donovan and Billions.
How to Watch Smile Online At Home for Free
You can also watch Smile online through video-on-demand offered through Prime Video and Apple TV. What we recommend: Prime members can get a seven-day free trial to Paramount+ when you add the premium channel option to your subscription. Once the free trail is over, you’ll be charged $12.99/month on top of your Prime membership.
Don’t have a Prime membership? Amazon offers a 30-day free trial for new subscribers that’ll let you watch everything in the Prime Video library for free as well as redeem the free Paramount+ trial. Once each free trial is over, you’ll be charged $12.99/month for Paramount+ as well as $14.99/month (or $139/year) for your Prime membership.
Prime Video also lets you rent Smile for $3.99 or you can buy it on VOD for 50% off at $7.99 (regularly $14.99). You don’t need to be a Prime member to watch Smile online through VOD, just make your purchase and the movie will automatically be added to your video library to stream whenever. Rentals are available for 30 days after buying and 48 hours once you start streaming.
Apple TV is another VOD option that’ll let you stream Smile on VOD with rentals for $3.99 or you can buy Smile for $7.99. You don’t have to be an Apple TV+ subscriber to watch Smile online, you just need an Apple TV streaming device or the app.
Prefer a hardcopy? Collectors can find Smile in 4K UltraHD for as low as $16 and enjoy bonus features VOD won’t supply.
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Smile in 4K UltraHD doesn’t just give you the entire movie in crystal clear definition, you’ll also have access bonus features like deleted scenes and director commentary. Fans of the music will also get to go behind-the-scenes and learn more about the making of the chilling songs.
Before you see Smile 2, go back to the beginning in Smile and see how a therapist’s witnessing of a strange suicide leads her to be haunted by a supernatural force with malevolent intentions.
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Ariana Grande is weighing in on the Wicked memes after Cynthia Erivo called certain AI-generated videos and fan-made edits “offensive” and “deeply hurtful.”
While speaking to Variety on the Academy Museum Gala red carpet Saturday (Oct. 19), the pop star said that she thinks the situation is “very complicated.” “I find AI so conflicting and troublesome sometimes, but I think it’s just kind of such a massive adjustment period,” she continued. “This is something that is so much bigger than us, and the fans are gonna have fun and make their edits.”
“I think so,” Grande responded when asked whether fans sometimes go “too far” with their edits. “And I have so much respect for my sister, Cynthia, and I love her so much. It’s just a big adjustment period. It’s so much stimulation about something that’s so much bigger than us.”
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The R.E.M. Beauty founder’s comments come three days after Erivo made headlines for slamming one fan’s Wicked edit, for which they’d photoshopped the upcoming film’s poster to look more like the original poster for the Wicked Broadway musical. “This is the wildest, most offensive thing I have seen,” the Pinocchio star wrote at the time. “Our poster is an homage not an imitation, to edit my face and hide my eyes is to erase me.”
Erivo went on to say that the altered poster was “equal to that awful Ai of us fighting” — referring to a viral AI-generated video that animated a fight between the Emmy winner and “Yes, And?” singer using their likenesses on the same movie poster — and “equal to” a long-running, vulgar joke in the Wicked community.
“None of this is funny,” she’d added. “None of it is cute. It degrades me. It degrades us.”
The premiere of the first of two Wicked films is set for Nov. 22, featuring Erivo as Elphaba and Grande as Glinda. Directed by Jon M. Chu, the duology will also star Michelle Yeoh, Jonathan Bailey, Jeff Goldblum, Ethan Slater and Bowen Yang.
The project’s soundtrack — which also arrives Nov. 22 — will showcase the live vocals Erivo and Grande performed on set. While speaking to Variety, the “We Can’t Be Friends” artist confirmed that she’d “absolutely” love to work with her fellow-leading lady on more music beyond the films, saying, “I think we are stuck with each other, professionally and personally for the rest of our lives.”
Watch Grande share her thoughts on the Wicked meme situation below.
Ariana Grande on artificial intelligence and the #Wicked poster that Cynthia Erivo criticized: “It’s very complicated, because I find AI so conflicting and troublesome sometimes, but I think it’s such a massive adjustment period…I have so much respect for my sister Cynthia, and… pic.twitter.com/J2YnHxfQ9w— Variety (@Variety) October 20, 2024
Billie Eilish isn’t interested in going viral on TikTok — at least that’s the message she gives in a Saturday Night Live sketch about the social media platform.
During SNL‘s Michael Keaton-hosted episode on Oct. 19, the 22-year-old pop star made a cameo in a nearly four-minute sketch, aptly titled “TikTok,” in which she brushes off influencer Harry Daniels (played by Bowen Yang), who’s made a name for himself by singing to random celebrities on TikTok.
“Excuse me, Miss Eilish, can I sing to you?” Bowen’s Daniels requests as he accosts Eilish in hallway and quickly belts out a tune. Clearly annoyed, the “What Was I Made For?” hitmaker quickly interrupts him with a lucrative request. “Here’s 10 grand, please stop following me,” she says, handing him a wad of cash and scurrying off.
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Daniels has indeed encountered Eilish in real life, as seen in videos on his TikTok account, which boasts 1.6 million followers. During the SNL skit, Bowen’s Daniels also sings to Maya Rudolph’s Kamala Harris and James Austin Johnson’s Donald Trump
The pre-recorded “TikTok” sketch featured a person doomscrolling through their social media tread, encountering clips of a cat dancing to SNL cast member’s Marcello Hernandez viral cover of Sabrina Carpenter’s “Espresso,” Chloe Fineman playing Call Her Daddy podcast host Alex Cooper and Kenan Thompson portraying a foodie reviewing a Fruity Pebble-covered chicken sandwich from his car.
Elsewhere during the episode, Eilish appeared for the fourth time as musical guest, performing Hit Me Hard and Soft album tracks “Birds of a Feather” and “Wildflower” alongside her brother Finneas. She previously performed on SNL in 2019 and 2023, pulling double-duty in 2021 as host and musical guest. Her appearance with Keaton follows last week’s Ariana Grande-hosted episode, which featured live performances from Stevie Nicks.
Watch SNL‘s “TikTok” sketch below. For those without cable, the broadcast streams on Peacock, which you can sign up for at the link here. Having a Peacock account also gives fans access to previous SNL episodes.
Billie Eilish made a celestial appearance on Saturday Night Live. The 22-year-old pop star dropped by Studio 8H on Oct. 19 for her fourth time as musical guest on the long-running NBC sketch comedy show, delivering a pair of out-of-this-world live performances from her third album, Hit Me Hard and Soft, which dropped in May. […]