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‘Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings’ Surpasses $400M USD in Global Box Office
Entertainment Five Reasons to See Marvel Studios’ ‘Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings’ Presented by Marvel Studios More than just an action blockbuster, the movie represents a key cultural moment in the MCU. Presented by Marvel Studios /Sep 3, 2021 Sep 3, 2021 12,569 Hypes
Meek Mill’s ‘Expensive Pain’ Debuts at No. 3 on Billboard 200
Meek Mill is opening this week’s Billboard 200 at No. 3 with Expensive Pain. The 18-track project earned 95,000 equivalent album units, including 82,000 in streaming equivalent album units (110.53 million on-demand streams of the songs), 10,000 in album sales and 3,000 in track equivalent album units. Expensive Pain marks Mill’s seventh top 10 entry and is his first studio effort since 2018’s Championships. Elsewhere on the chart, Taylor Swift’s new version of Fearless returns to No. 1 while Drake’s Certified Lover Boy stays at No. 2, followed by NBA YoungBoy at No. 4 and Lil Nas X at No. 5. Making up the bottom half of week’s top 10 are Olivia Rodrigo, Doja Cat, Tony Bennett and Lady Gaga, Morgan Wallen and Kanye West, respectively. Elsewhere in music, Bruno Mars and Anderson .Paak have a...
Drake Releases New Trailer for His URL Birthday Event, Plans To “Rewrite History”
Drake is celebrating his birthday in style with an Ultimate Rap League event that is set to take place honoring the 6God’s birthday. Just last month, URL announced it was to host a Drake Card event in honor of the Canadian star’s birthday. The event, which has been titled, Til Death Do Us Part is set to see battles from Loaded Lux and Geechi Gotti, Pat Stay and Real Sikh, Tay Roc and Nu Jerzy Twork, just to name a few. Drake took to Instagram to reveal a new trailer for the event, surely hyping up his fans. The video hears Drake narrate, “These are battles that are fueled by rivalry, hate, a true chance to silence all the talking and definitely set up moments that will rewrite legacy, and rewrite history for some people.” Clips of rappers surrounded by crowds cheering them on after each ve...
Julian Casablancas: “I Always Wanted to Be in the Arctic Monkeys”
In the Tranquility Base Hotel & Casino song “The Star Treatment,” Arctic Monkeys frontman Alex Turner famously sings, “I just wanted to be one of The Strokes.” Well, it seems The Strokes’ own Julian Casablancas might be willing to switch places with Turner. “Lolll – I always wanted to be in the Arctic Monkeys,” The Strokes frontman captioned an Instagram post on Sunday in which he effortlessly recreated the cover art for his contemporaries’ 2006 album Whatever People Say I Am, That’s What I’m Not. (In the grayscale photo, Casablancas smokes a cigarette while glancing thoughtfully off-camera, mimicking the iconic shot of The Violet May’s Chris McClure from the original LP. Of course, he’s also replaced “Arctic Monkeys” on the sticker in the top left-hand corner with “The Strokes.”) McCl...
Fans Choose Jesy Nelson’s ‘Boyz’ Featuring Nicki Minaj as This Week’s Favorite New Music
“Boyz” marks Nelson’s first release since she announced her departure from Little Mix last year. “I find the constant pressure of being in a girl group and living up to expectations very hard,” she wrote in a statement at the time, adding that the experience took a “toll on my mental health.” Since leaving, Nelson feels “in control of my life,” she told Glamour U.K. for the October edition’s cover story. In addition to an assist from Minaj, “Boyz” features a heavy interpolation of Diddy’s undying 2001 anthem “Bad Boy For Life.” He even makes an appearance in the “Boyz” video, re-creating Ben Stiller’s interlude from the “Bad Boy For Life” as Nelson stares ahead, ready to get the party re-started. Placing second on the past week’s tally ...
Taylor Swift’s ‘Fearless (Taylor’s Version)’ Returns to No. 1 on Billboard 200
Of Fearless (Taylor’s Version)’s 152,000 equivalent album units earned in the U.S. in the week ending Oct. 7, album sales comprise 146,000 (up 15,807%), SEA units comprise 6,000 (down 1%, equaling 8.72 million streams of the album’s tracks) and TEA units comprise a negligible number. Of the 146,000 copies sold for the week, CD sales comprise 77,000, while vinyl LP sales total 67,000. The album sold about 1,000 in cassettes and 1,000 in digital downloads, too. (The album was discounted at digital retail, which spurred a 268% increase in digital album sales, but only 1,000 copies sold for the week.) Strikingly, 29% of the album’s to-date CD sales were generated in the week ending Oct. 7, concurrent with the availability of its signed CD. The signed CD was only sold via Swift’s webstore, for ...
Tony Bennett & Lady Gaga’s ‘Love for Sale’ Launches Atop Jazz Charts & In Billboard 200 Top 10
The Billboard 200 chart ranks the most popular albums of the week in the U.S. based on multi-metric consumption as measured in equivalent album units. Units comprise album sales, track equivalent albums (TEA) and streaming equivalent albums (SEA). Each unit equals one album sale, or 10 individual tracks sold from an album, or 3,750 ad-supported or 1,250 paid/subscription on-demand official audio and video streams generated by songs from an album. All of the Oct. 16, 2021-dated charts will be posted in full on Billboard‘s website on Oct. 12. For all chart news, follow @billboard and @billboardcharts on both Twitter and Instagram. Love for Sale starts with 41,000 equivalent album units earned in the U.S. in the week ending Oct. 7, according to MRC Data. Of that sum, album sal...
Timothee Chalamet Shares ‘Wonka’ First Look
Warner Bros. also shared the images on their social media channels. The film’s principal photography recently began in London. Earlier this year it was announced Chalamet had signed to star as young Willy Wonka in Warner Bros.’ reimagining of Roald Dahl’s classic children’s book Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. Warner Bros. described the prequel — the film is set to take place before the events of the book — as a “vivid, mythical beginnings of the imaginative young inventor before he becomes the renowned scrumdiddlyumptious Mozart of chocolate.” Paul King, the director of the Paddington movies, will helm the musical with David Heyman and Luke Kelly producing. Rowan Atkinson, Sally Hawkins, Keegan-Michael Key and Olivia Colman are set to star in the film. You Deserve to Make Money Even Wh...
Watch Reunited MUDVAYNE Perform At AFTERSHOCK Festival
MUDVAYNE played its second reunion show last night (Saturday, October 9) at the Aftershock festival in Sacramento, California. Fan-filmed video footage of the concert can be seen below. MUDVAYNE canceled its appearance at last month’s Louder Than Life festival in Louisville, Kentucky after the band’s singer Chad Gray and “a few staff members” tested positive for COVID-19, the disease caused by the novel coronavirus. MUDVAYNE played its first show in 12 years on September 11 at the Inkcarceration Music & Tattoo Festival in Mansfield, Ohio. The band is still scheduled to appear at one more festival this fall: Welcome To Rockville (November 11-14 in Daytona Beach, Florida). MUDVAYNE formed in 1996 and has sold over six million records worldwide, earning gold certif...
MEGADETH: More Behind-The-Scenes Video From ‘The Metal Tour Of The Year’
MEGADETH guitarist Kiko Loureiro has uploaded a new 16-minute behind-the-scenes video from the band’s recently completed “The Metal Tour Of The Year”. Check it out below. Kiko wrote in a message accompanying the YouTube release of the clip: “More behind the scenes of the MEGADETH tour.” MEGADETH played its first show with bassist James LoMenzo in nearly 12 years on August 20 in Austin, Texas at the opening concert of “The Metal Tour Of The Year”. LoMenzo joined MEGADETH in 2006 and appeared on two of the group’s studio albums, 2007’s “United Abominations” and 2009’s “Endgame”. He was fired from the band in 2010 and replaced with returning original MEGADETH bassist David Ellefson. In addition to MEGADETH, Lo...
STEVE ‘ZETRO’ SOUZA: ‘Persona Non Grata’ Is EXODUS’s ‘Best’ Album So Far
EXODUS frontman Steve “Zetro” Souza was asked in a new interview with MetalgodZradiO if he would agree that the band’s upcoming album, “Persona Non Grata”, is the group’s “best” effort to date. He responded (as transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET): “Yes, definitely. When we were recording it, and after we got done with it, we were saying that, and people are gonna say, ‘Well, how can you say that when there’s ‘Bonded [By Blood]’, ‘Fabulous [Disaster]’, ‘Tempo Of The Damned’, ‘Exhibit B[: The Human Condition]’, but this by far — yeah, this one’s it. We all think that; we all know that — very much so. All of our performances, I think, are definitely well spoken for. Each of us ...
Watch SLIPKNOT’s Entire Concert In Mansfield, Massachusetts
Fan-filmed video footage of SLIPKNOT‘s entire October 8 concert at Xfinity Center in Mansfield, Massachusetts as part of the band’s headlining “Knotfest Roadshow” U.S. tour can be seen below. Featured songs: 00:00 Insert Coin 00:28 Unsainted 04:44 Disasterpiece 13:29 Nero Forte 18:37 Before I Forget 25:34 The Heretic Anthem 29:21 Psychosocial 35:55 The Devil In I 45:09 Solway Firth 53:22 Wait And Bleed 56:06 Vermilion 1:04:16 All Out Life 1:10:06 Duality 1:14:49 Spit It Out Encore: 1:22:19 515 1:24:13 People=Shit 1:28:00 (Sic) 1:32:47 Surfacing 1:36:46 R.I.P Joey And Paul 1:37:13 ‘Til We Die Late last month, SLIPKNOT launched the 2021 incarnation of the “Knotfest Roadshow” with support from KILLSWITCH ENGAGE, FEVER 333 and CODE ORANGE. The 28-date ...
