Adele‘s “Easy on Me” notches a ninth week at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 songs chart.
Meanwhile, “We Don’t Talk About Bruno,” from Encanto, rises 5-4 on the Hot 100, becoming the highest charting song from a Disney animated film in over 26 years. Plus, two songs reach the Hot 100’s top 10: Gunna and Future‘s “Pushin P,” featuring Young Thug, a debut at No. 7 and from Gunna’s new LP DS4Ever, which launches at No. 1 on the Billboard 200, and GAYLE‘s breakthrough hit “abcdefu,” up 11-9. The Hot 100 blends all-genre U.S. streaming (official audio and official video), radio airplay and sales data. All charts (dated Jan. 22) will update on Billboard.com Wednesday (Jan. 19, a day later than usual due to the Martin Luther King Jr. Day holiday in the U.S. Jan. 17). For all chart news, you can follow @billboard and @billboardcharts on both Twitter and Instagram. “Easy on Me,” released on Columbia Records and which first led the Hot 100 in late October, drew 101.2 million radio airplay audience impressions (up 2%) and 15.1 million U.S. streams (down 4%) and sold 6,000 downloads (down 24%) in the Jan. 7-13 tracking week, according to MRC Data. The ballad spends an eighth week at No. 1 on the Radio Songs chart and drops 4-5 on Digital Song Sales, following two weeks on top, and 5-16 on Streaming Songs, after five weeks at No. 1. Notably, the song is the first to surpass 100 million in radio reach in over a year-and-a-half, since The Weeknd’s “Blinding Lights” drew 115 million as reflected on the Radio Songs chart dated May 23, 2020 (on its way to a record 26-week Radio Songs command, and its status atop the Greatest of All Time Hot 100 Songs chart). Among individual formats, “Easy on Me” continues atop Adult Pop Airplay (nine weeks at No. 1), Pop Airplay (seven) and Adult Contemporary (six). It also returns to its No. 6 best on Adult R&B Airplay and holds at No. 10 on Dance/Mix Show Airplay (sparked by remix rotation). Further, “Easy on Me” moves to within a week of Adele’s longest Hot 100 domination: “Hello” reigned for 10 weeks in 2015-16. The Kid LAROI and Justin Bieber’s “Stay” holds at No. 2 on the Hot 100, after seven weeks at No. 1 beginning in August, and Glass Animals’ “Heat Waves” keeps at its No. 3 high, as it leads the Hot Rock & Alternative Songs and Hot Alternative Songs charts, both of which use the same multi-metric methodology as the Hot 100, for a 17th week each. Read More... https://www.billboard.com/music/chart-beat/adele-easy-on-me-tops-hot-100-gunna-future-gayle-top-10-1235019783/ By Gary Trust 01/18/2022
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Kaytranada is full of surprises. The Haitian/Canadian producer hit the big league with his 2019 sophomore set Bubba, which topped Billboard’s Dance/Electronic Albums Chart and scored Grammy Awards for best dance/electronic album and best dance recording (for the Kali Uchis collaboration “10%).
Another surprise would come when he dropped the Intimidated EP, a three-track effort featuring contributions from H.E.R., Thundercat and Mach-Hommy. On Tuesday night (Jan. 18), Kaytranada stopped by The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon for a performance of the EP’s creamy title track with H.E.R., another big-league artist who, with her growing collection of Grammys and an Oscar, is more than capable of delivering surprises left and right. Kaytranada (real name Louis Celestin) dropped Intimidated last November, following the release of “Caution,” which premiered last February on TikTok as part of the platform’s Black History Month celebration.
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https://www.billboard.com/music/music-news/kaytranada-her-late-night-fallon-intimidated-1235020293/ By Lars Brandle 01/19/2022 A new Lana Del Rey song is teased in a preview for the next episode of Euphoria.
The song, suspected to be called “Watercolor Eyes,” can be heard in a new episode teaser, after fans had speculated earlier this month that the singer had written a track for the HBO drama. It’s not yet known if the song will feature on the third episode of season two, which is due to premiere Sunday, Jan. 23, or if it is only being used for the preview. “Why you always doing that? / Breaking up with me / And then making love / Just to make me mad,” she sings on the track against gentle guitar notes. Del Rey follows Labrinth in creating original music for the teen drama, which stars Zendaya as Rue, who added her own vocals to “All For Us,” which featured on season one. Last year Del Rey released two albums, Chemtrails Over the Country Club in March, followed by Blue Banisters in October. Last month, the “Summertime Sadness” singer received Variety‘s Decade Award, where she reflected on escaping a poor record label deal early in her career. Thanking managers Ben Mawson and Ed Millett, she said, “They got me out of a deal I made for 11 records for nine grand while I was working at a restaurant and living in a trailer park. Ben did that in one hour and then the next day he flew me to London and let me live with him. In a year, I wrote ‘Video Games’, and I was ready to make good records, I was ready to make a lot of records.” Meanwhile, before the first episode of Euphoria season two aired last week, Zendaya issued a warning to fans to “only watch it if you feel comfortable.” Read more... https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/euphoria-lana-del-rey-song-1286270/ By ROLLING STONE UK
Etched in rap as a quirky trailblazer due to his involvement in the forever-influential 2010s Odd Future collective, Earl Sweatshirt oozes nonchalant energy throughout his fifth studio album, ‘Sick!’. Sweatshirt has long been beloved for his deadpan delivery, but on an album meant to sonically imitate the chaotic start to the 2020s, he instead sums up the past two years, in his own way, in under half-an-hour.
Over this unusually short collection of 10 tracks, the LA rapper makes us enter a dystopian world full of thunderous bass and disorientating melodies, which are a little askew for hip-hop. Yet this is something fans love Earl Sweatshirt for: he’s always been able to make innovative music that nourishes the soul by making you pull the tightest stank face. With the super woofer-bursting opener that is ‘Old Friend’, Sweatshirt spews bars that feel venomous yet picturesque, imbuing the most mundane actions with wider meaning: “I held the page, gave the book ears / Whispered “Thanks”, hella pain, heavy rain in the Catskills”.
Having explored his more infantile ways on his 2013 debut album ‘Doris’ and perfecting this attitude on 2015’s ‘I Don’t Like Shit, I Don’t Go Outside’, on sick ‘Sick!’ it sounds like moody Earl finally has some bills to pay. He shows his maturity, and ‘Vision’ is a perfect example of this.
The standout track sees the rapper and upcoming Michigan star Zelooperz have juvenile fun over a boundless, soulful beat. ‘Vision’ (and much of ‘Sick!’) harks back to the dreamy, experimental productions of the early 2010s, which still kept pure hip-hop ideals like clear dictation and striking bars. It’s an utterly head-bumping track that offers an intense lesson on expert flow and rhyming schemes – especially via this topical line on waivered rent due to the coronavirus pandemic: “I picked up the clip with a step / Singular current event, everything we in the midst of / How long you waiving the rent?”. Read More https://www.nme.com/reviews/album/earl-sweatshirt-sick-review-3139528 ByKyann-Sian Williams 17th January 2022
It’s been reported that N-Dubz are set to reunite and are looking to release new music before the end of 2022.
According to The Mirror, the trio of Tulisa, Dappy and Fazer are currently in the studio working on new music, with an aim to release something at Christmas. A source said: “The long awaited reunion of N-Dubz is on the cards, with the plan being that new music will be ready before the end of the year.” Ahead of new N-Dubz music though, both Fazer and Dappy will release solo tunes, with Fazer’s ‘Tears’ – a “deeply personal” track about “losing loved ones” – out next month.
N-Dubz released their debut album ‘Uncle B’ in 2008 after winning the MOBO award for best newcomer a year earlier. ‘Against All Odds’ was released in 2009 with ‘Love,Life.Live’ coming in 2010. The band achieved three top ten singles (‘I Need You’, ‘We Dance Again’ and ‘Best Behaviour’) before they went on hiatus in 2011 after releasing a greatest hits album.
At the time, both Tulisa and Dappy said the break would only last a couple of years while they worked on their solo careers and in 2017, Fazer said a reunion would “100 per cent” happen. “That’s definitely going to come really soonish. Not right now, we’ve all got individual things we’re focusing on at the minute, but obviously it’s all about timing.” Fazer continued: “It was never a fallout, we took a break when we were at the peak. We’d literally just finished an arena tour, so we thought, ‘Let’s do it while we’re on a high’.” Read more https://www.nme.com/news/music/n-dubz-are-reportedly-set-to-reunite-and-release-new-music-in-2022-3139652 ByAli Shutler 17th January 2022 |
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