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Roddy Ricch’s ‘Night’ Rises to No. 1 on Rhythmic Airplay Chart
Roddy Ricch banks a fifth No. 1 on Billboard’s Rhythmic Airplay chart as “Late at Night” surges from No. 5 to lead the list dated July 31. The single advances with a 17% burst in plays in the week ending July 25 to become the most-played song of the week on monitored U.S. rhythmic stations, according to MRC Data. With the new champ, here’s a rundown of the rapper’s five leaders: Song Title, Artist (if other than Roddy Ricch), Weeks at No. 1, Date Reached No. 1“Ballin,” with Mustard, two, Dec. 21, 2019“The Box,” six, Feb. 22, 2020“High Fashion,” featuring Mustard, one, July 13, 2020“Rockstar,” DaBaby featuring Roddy Ricch, nine, July 4, 2020“Late at Night,” one (to date), July 31, 2021 You Deserve to Make Money Even When you are looking for Dates Online. So we reimagined what a dating shoul...
Charles Connor, Drummer for Little Richard, Dies at 86
“He was one of those drummers that was a bricklayer of creating that rock ‘n’ roll genre,” she said. “He played behind so many legendary musicians in the 1950s. He was a loving grandfather and was very proud of his family and took a lot of pride in his contributions to rock ‘n’ roll.” Connor began playing drums at age 12. Three years later, he started his professional career when Professor Longhair, a singer and pianist, hired him as a last-minute replacement for the 1950 Mardi Gras in New Orleans. After Connor turned 18, he joined Richard’s original road band, The Upsetters. The band appeared in several popular feature films including The Girl Can’t Help It with Jayne Mansfield along with Don’t Knock the Rock and Mr. Rock ‘n’ Roll. During his career, Connor toured ...
iTunes R&B Sale Sends Otis Redding, Mariah Carey & Aretha Franklin Back Onto Charts
Otis Redding’s “Sittin’ on the Dock of the Bay” leads the R&B resurgence as it returns to the list at No. 3, having sold 7,700 downloads in the week ending July 22, according to MRC Data. Among notable feats for the recording, “Dock” posted four weeks at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1968 and became the first posthumous leader in the chart’s history, as Redding died in December 1967 in a plane crash. Including “Dock,” 13 of the R&B/Hip-Hop Digital Song Sales chart’s 25 positions can be traced at least in part to the iTunes discount. Here’s a full rundown of the markdown’s impact: Position, Song Title, ArtistNo. 3, “Sittin on the Dock of the Bay,” Otis ReddingNo. 4, “Ain’t No Mountain High Enough,” Marvin Gaye & Tammi TerrellNo. 6, “Suga Suga,” Baby Bash featuring Frankie JN...
Ariana Grande, ‘Vaxxed n Masked,’ Urges Others to Get the COVID-19 Vaccine
Any person age 12 or older is currently eligible to get a COVID-19 vaccine in the United States. Grande explained that she was “sharing some info because i care and if i can, i’d like to help anybody who is hesitant or curious with making their decision.” “this delta variant is very new and since data is changing all the time, i’ll source some links for you to stay up to speed yourself but so far,” she wrote. “we do know that it spreads much more easily compared to previous variants. most of the spread is among unvaccinated people and in areas with low vaccination rates ! and yes although you can still get it while vaccinated, the vaccine helps to protect against severe illness, hospitalization, and death ! all great things to be protected against in my book. ...
Drake Confirms ‘Certified Lover Boy’ Is Finally Finished
Shortly after reports stated that Certified Lover Boy is receiving its final touches, Drake officially confirmed that the highly-anticipated album is finally finished. The Six God stopped by OVO Sound 42’s Fri Yiy Friday show on SiriusXM, which was relaunched in March after almost three years off the air, to make the announcement. “Album’s cooked. Looking forward to delivering it to you,” Drake said during his brief appearance. “I hope everybody in the world is blessed. I hope everybody has their drinks, everyone’s locked in. Good vibes and good energy for this weekend.” “OVO, we aim for the head, we don’t aim to please. Certified Lover Boy on the way, and that’s for anyone in the way.” In mid-July, Drizzy mentioned that the delayed album was being mixed, “You know, Uncle Dr...
The Kid LAROI Earns First No. 1 as ‘F*CK LOVE’ Jumps From No. 26
The Kid LAROI‘s July 2020 record F*CK LOVE jumped from No. 26 to No. 1 on this week’s Billboard 200, giving the 17-year-old artist his first ever chart-topper. The album earned a total of 85,000 equivalent album units including 82,000 (up 403 percent; 113.97 million on-demand streams of the tracks) in streaming equivalent album units, 2,000 (up 978 percent) in album sales and just under 2,000 (up 458 percent) in track equivalent album units. F*CK LOVE initially debuted at No. 8 on the August 8, 2020 chart and was reissued a total of four times on November 6, 2020, November 21, 2020, July 23 and July 27, with the latest version featuring “Stay” with Justin Bieber. Elsewhere on the chart are Olivia Rodrigo, Doja Cat, Morgan Wallen and Pop Smoke as Nos. 2, 3, 4 and 5 respectively. Making up t...
OTTTO Featuring Son Of METALLICA’s ROBERT TRUJILLO: ‘Ride Low’ Music Video Out Now
OTTTO, the three-piece band featuring Tye Trujillo (son of METALLICA bassist Robert Trujillo), has just released a new song called “Ride Low”. OTTTO is fronted by Bryan Noah Ferretti on vocals and guitar, with Tye on bass and Ryan Duswalt on drums. The band’s first LP comes out late 2021, which is a follow-up to their EP released last year. Based out of Venice Beach, OTTTO is has strong roots in thrash, funk and metal. Fusing those genres, the band (whose members all range in age from 17 to 18) creates a powerful new style of music. OTTTO‘s video for “Ride Low” was directed by Paul Marchand, an award-winning screenwriter, director and editor. His 2015 documentary “Jaco” debuted at the SXSW Film Festival, was streamed on Netflix and was produc...
TRIVIUM’s MATT HEAFY: Getting COVID-19 Vaccine Is Not A Political Decision
TRIVIUM frontman Matt Heafy has advocated for COVID-19 vaccinations, saying that public health is not a political issue. The 35-year-old musician, who revealed last month that he tested positive for the novel coronavirus after being fully vaccinated, addressed the hot-button topic of vaccines, masks and other COVID-19 protocols in a social media post on Friday (July 30). He wrote: “Comments are off where possible, and will not be read where they can’t be turned off. Simply because — I know where this will unfortunately likely go with 33.3% of the people who will see this. I’m seeing a lot of panic (in media and social media and society) on ‘people still getting Covid despite being vaccinated.’ “Think of my family as a mini case study. “My dad and I...
Ex-JUDAS PRIEST Guitarist K.K. DOWNING: ‘I Owe My Whole Life And My Whole Being To Heavy Metal’
Former JUDAS PRIEST guitarist K.K. Downing, who is currently promoting the debut album from his new band KK’S PRIEST, discussed his five-decade relationship with the heavy metal genre during a brand new interview with El Cuartel Del Metal. He said (as transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET): “I owe everything — my whole life and my whole being — to metal. Because I was there at the very beginning when it didn’t exist, and heavy rock didn’t exist. Even rock didn’t exist, really. We had rock and roll in the early ’60s, but that was different; that was kind of Bill Haley and Elvis [Presley] and Chuck Berry. But we didn’t have rock. We had blues, which turned into progressive blues, and that was great. There were so many great progressive blues bands. But we ...
RATT’s STEPHEN PEARCY Opens Up About His Cancer Battle: ‘I Felt It Was Time To Share It’
In a new interview with Shawn Ratches of Laughingmonkeymusic, RATT singer Stephen Pearcy opened up about his private three-year battle with liver cancer. He said (as transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET): “Everything’s kind of copacetic now. I’m on a ritual and monitoring things. And do I really wanna put myself through all this stuff, with taking care of your health and the broken bones and knees, staph infection. “I don’t know why I’m still here,” he continued. “But, look, I’m appreciating every day and minute above ground here, because all of our peers are seemingly disappearing. And it’s such a drag. But it’s under control. And I never wanted to bring it up until I really started feeling guilty about it.” Pearcy reveale...
R.I.P. Thea White, Courage the Cowardly Dog Voice Actress Dead at 81
Thea White, the actress behind the voice of Muriel Bagge on Courage the Cowardly Dog, passed away on Friday. She was 81. The actress was born in Newark, New Jersey on June 16, 1940 to parents Arthur and Eleanor Zitzner. The acting bug was firmly planted in her bloodline long before her arrival, as both her mother and maternal grandmother were also actresses. After graduating from high school in Caldwell, New Jersey, White studied acting at both the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts in London and the American Theater Wing in New York City. While pursuing her early career, the aspiring actress also worked as a personal assistant to none other than Marlene Dietrich, accompanying the screen legend on a tour of Australia during her later years. Advertisement Related Video “This was towards the end...
Kehinde Wiley Reimagines MTV Moonperson With Flowers And Vines
Before MTV developed the novel reality show formats that have come to dominate television, even before it became the first network to play music videos around the clock, it first broadcast footage and photographs cut from NASA’s Apollo 11 expedition, the spaceflight that landed humans on the moon in 1969. The flag the astronauts placed into the craterous surface appeared without its stars and stripes, instead taking on the brand’s neon logo, as a voiceover echoed a new mission. “Ladies and gentleman, rock and roll.” That was August 1, 1981, and as MTV became ingrained within pop culture in the decades that followed, so did the Moonperson. An iconic symbol of the brand’s pioneering spirit, it has appeared on every VMA trophy since the launch of the award ceremony in 1984, and will agai...
