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‘Encanto’ Completes 11-Week Climb to No. 1 on Australia’s Albums Chart
Encanto works its magic on the Australian albums chart, as the original soundtrack rises to No. 1 in its eleventh week. The tie-in with the hit Disney animated film of the same name, Encanto (via (Walt Disney/Universal) earns its first ARIA Chart crown, with three songs from it impacting the singles survey: “We Don’t Talk About Bruno” (No. 8), “Surface Pressure” (No. 22) and “The Family Madrigal” (No. 50). Encanto completes its climb after debuting at No. 29 at the start of January, before lifting into the Top Ten for the first time in its second week, and staying there ever since. ARIA Award-winning singer and songwriter Missy Higgins lands the highest new entry on the national chart this week with Total Control (Eleven/EMI), new at No. 3 The mini-album is her first set of new material si...
Benee Enters The 1,000,000,000 List With ‘Supalonely’
Benee is welcomed into The 1,000,000,000 List. The New Zealand artist (real name Stella Rose Bennett) and her collaborator Josh Fountain gain entry to the club for 1 billion plays of “Supalonely,” a Top 40 hit on the Billboard Hot 100 following its release in 2019. The alt-pop breakup song caught fire on TikTok, where it became a dance challenge, and promptly made the leap to commercial radio and the mainstream charts. As NZ entered its first level-4 lockdown in 2020, “Supalonely” took fight, and Benee’s career soared. She went on to perform the song virtually on The Tonight Show with feature vocalist, New York singer-songwriter Gus Dapperton; and collected a slew of awards, including the 2020 APRA Silver Scroll Award for “Glitter,” four Tuis at the Aotearoa Music Awards, and her first BMI...
Charlie Hickey Announces Debut Album Nervous at Night, Shares Title Track: Stream
Fast-rising indie pop star Charlie Hickey has announced his long-awaited debut album, Nervous at Night. The Pasadena-based musician will release the LP on May 20th via Phoebe Bridgers’ Saddest Factory Records, and as a preview, he’s shared the record’s dreamy title track today, along with an accompanying music video. At just 21, Hickey knows he doesn’t quite have everything in life figured out yet. On Nervous at Night, he details the limbo stage between blissful adolescence and the looming fears of full-blown adulthood. With Bridgers assisting on the record alongside fellow musicians Marshall Vore, Harrison Whitford, Christian Lee Hutson, and Mason Stoops, Nervous at Night is a documentation of personal growth that’s wise beyond Hickey’s years. In line with the album’s theme...
The Dropout Creator Liz Meriwether Took on the Elizabeth Holmes Story With a Writers’ Room Full of Lizes
The Dropout creator Elizabeth (or Liz) Meriwether is pretty open about how, before taking on the story of famed entrepreneur-turned-fraudster Elizabeth Holmes for the Hulu limited series, she didn’t know too much about the world of entrepreneurs, or science. “It was totally new for me,” she tells Consequence in a phone interview. “I had to really learn a lot.” Holmes first became a famous figure as an anomaly in the Silicon Valley tech sphere: a young, conventionally attractive female innovator, whose big ideas for a blood-testing device that could lead to a massive uptick in early detection of medical issues led to magazine covers as well as hundreds of millions of dollars in investment funds. However, her innovative ideas turned out to be based on lies and deception, leading to the end o...
Michelle Zauner Shares Update on Crying in H Mart Movie: Exclusive
Michelle Zauner has shared an update about the process of turning her hit memoir Crying in H Mart into a movie. Speaking exclusively to Consequence around the launch of the Fender Player Plus Meteora on Wednesday (March 9th), Zauner, who performs as Japanese Breakfast, revealed that she’s knee-deep in the process of writing the film’s script. “So I actually just finished the first draft of the screenplay,” Zauner told Consequence by phone. “My producers really like it, so hopefully the revision process won’t be too brutal. And yeah, hopefully that will come out sometime in the next couple years. I’m just playing a lot of festivals and being back on the road, and Crying in H Mart the movie [will arrive] maybe sometime in the next few years.” Advertisement Related Video The movie adaptation ...
Human Resources Review: An Overly Raunchy, Occasionally Thoughtful Big Mouth Spin-Off
The Pitch: Five seasons into the Netflix animated comedy Big Mouth comes Human Resources, a spin-off dedicated to exploring the workplace antics of Big Mouth’s hormone monsters. Not only does the show feature familiar Big Mouth hormone monsters Maury (voiced by Nick Kroll) and Connie (voiced by Maya Rudolph), as well as The Shame Wizard (voiced by David Thewlis), Love Bugs, and Anxiety Mosquitos, Human Resources also introduces dozens of new characters, including a “Logic Rock” named Pete (voiced by Randall Park), Petra the Ambition Gremlin (voiced by Rosie Perez), and many other fantastical creatures that represent the complex emotions of human beings. Rather than dwell on the pubescent confusion of adolescence, the creatures of Human Resources serve humans of all ages, and throughout the...
Activision Confirms ‘Call of Duty: Warzone’ for Mobile
Following a tip-off from journalist and insider Tom Henderson last February, Activision has confirmed that it is going forward with building Call of Duty: Warzone for mobile and is currently hiring development and publishing teams. “We are creating an all-new, AAA mobile experience that will bring the thrilling, fluid and large-scale action of Call of Duty®: Warzone™ to players on the go,” Activision announced. Warzone Mobile will be the second free-to-play Call of Duty title for mobile following the current Call of Duty: Mobile offering first introduced in 2019. Henderson previously revealed that Warzone Mobile has been added to the PlaytestCloud database and is scoped for a 2022 release. Other Activision titles that will see a mobile version include Diablo Immortal which is also s...
The Official ‘Final Fantasy’ 35th Anniversary Website Has Launched
Square Enix has just revealed its dedicated page to the 35th Anniversary of the Final Fantasy game franchise. With Nobuo Uematsu Prelude from Final Fantasy VII as the background music, the landing pages shows the artwork of long-time series illustrator Yoshitaka Amano, and a message from the Final Fantasy VII REMAKE producer Yoshinori Kitase. V=30, VII=25, XI=20 What do you think these numbers mean? They are actually the anniversaries of FINAL FANTASY titles this year. Every year a number of titles celebrate their anniversaries, but if you think about it so many from one series lining up in such a way is pretty unusual.This is only possible because of the long-lasting passionate support for each game in the FF series from fans like you. Thank you so much. And this year, the FINAL FANTASY s...
Best New Tracks: Megan Thee Stallion x Dua Lipa, Benny The Butcher and More
As the week in music comes to a close, HYPEBEAST has rounded up the best projects for the latest installment of Best New Tracks. This week’s list is led by releases from Megan Thee Stallion x Dua Lipa and Benny The Butcher, who dropped the collaborative track “Sweetest Pie” and the album Tana Talk 4 respectively. Also joining this selection are offerings from Pink Siifu, Lucky Daye, Shenseea, Tanna Leone, Aya Nakamura x Damso, Omar Apollo, tobi lou and redveil. Megan Thee Stallion x Dua Lipa – “Sweetest Pie” [embedded content] Megan Thee Stallion and Dua Lipa team up for the sugary collab, “Sweetest Pie.” The track is produced by OG Parker, Romano and Platinum Library, and arrives a month after Dua Lipa kicked off her massive North American tour, which will also see Megan Th...
Original KISS Members ACE FREHLEY And PETER CRISS To Perform Together At CREATURES FEST In May
Original KISS members Ace Frehley and Peter Criss will perform together at this year’s Creatures Fest, set to take place May 27-29 at Nashville’s Sonesta Nashville Airport Hotel. Also scheduled to appear at the event are former KISS guitarists Bruce Kulick and Vinnie Vincent. According to Creatures Fest promoter Neil Davis, Criss will join Frehley on stage during the guitarist’s May 27 set to play a few tracks. “They both spoke, said they were excited about being at Creatures Fest; they were excited about seeing you, the fans,” Davis said. “And they talked, and they just thought that what would be great for the fans, for all of us, is if they got together and played some songs during Ace‘s set.” Vincent is scheduled to perform on night two of...
See Trailer For ‘Metal Lords’, A Heavy Metal Coming-Of-Age Film From Co-Creator Of ‘Game Of Thrones’
“Game Of Thrones” co-creator D.B. Weiss has teamed up with RAGE AGAINST THE MACHINE guitarist Tom Morello for a scripted movie titled “Metal Lords”, to be released on April 8 via Netflix. With Weiss as writer-producer and the Morello serving as executive music producer, “Metal Lords” follows two kids who want to start a heavy metal band in a high school where exactly two kids care about heavy metal. Hunter (Adrian Greensmith) is a diehard metal fan who knows his history and can shred. His dream in life is to win at the upcoming “Battle Of The Bands”. He enlists his best friend Kevin (Jaeden Martell) to man the drums. But with schoolmates more interested in Bieber than BLACK SABBATH, finding a bassist is a struggle. Until Kevin overhears Emily...
SLIPKNOT Is ‘Still Mixing’ New Album
During an appearance on the March 3 episode of Doug Bradley‘s “Down To Hell” show, SLIPKNOT frontman Corey Taylor was asked if there is a “hard release date” yet for the band’s upcoming follow-up to 2019’s “We Are Not Your Kind” album. He responded (as transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET): “We don’t have a hard date yet ’cause we’re lazy and we’re still mixing the damn thing. I can tell you it’s completely recorded and we’re about halfway through mixing it. So, to me, I would say probably two or three months [from now]. That’s my ballpark. I’m hoping; I’m gonna push to get it out then — maybe summertime sometime.” SLIPKNOT‘s next LP is expected to include the single ...
