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Bad Bunny Makes History as Top Touring Act for 2022: The Year in Charts
Things, for a while, have been unprecedented. Following an 18-month quiet period for concert venues worldwide, doors slowly opened, first in the U.S. and increasingly so around the globe. This made for an excepted review of touring in 2021, but the full return of live music presents a much fuller picture this year. With the 2022 year-end Boxscore recap, precedents continue to fade as Bad Bunny finishes as the year’s top touring act (No. 1 on Top Tours) with total gross of $373.5 million from 1.8 million tickets across 65 shows. Explore All of Billboard’s 2022 Year-End Charts Bad Bunny is the first Latin act, and first act who doesn’t perform in English, to finish atop Billboard’s year-end Top Tours chart. Beyond the historic nature of his win for genre and language, he is th...
Lin-Manuel Miranda Is the Top Hot 100 Songwriter of 2022: The Year in Charts
Lin-Manuel Miranda has already won a slew of impressive accolades, including a Pulitzer Prize, Grammys, Tonys and Emmys and now he can add yet another distinction to his resume: he’s No. 1 on the 2022 year-end Hot 100 Songwriters chart. The multifaceted talent finishes the year at No. 1 thanks to his work on Disney’s Encanto soundtrack, including its five-week Billboard Hot 100 leader “We Don’t Talk About Bruno,” credited to Carolina Gaitan, Mauro Castillo, Adassa, Rhenzy Feliz, Diane Guerrero, Stephanie Beatriz and the Encanto Cast. Miranda is credited as the sole songwriter on the track, helping boost his chart points (as he does not split chart points with multiple writers). During its 20-week run on the chart, “Bruno” earned the distinction as the biggest Disney son...
Greg Kurstin Is the Top Hot 100 Producer of 2022: The Year in Charts
For the second time in his career, Greg Kurstin is the No. 1 Hot 100 Producer of the year. Thanks to his work with Adele, Maren Morris and Tate McRae, he returns as the year’s top producer for the first time since 2016. Kurstin scored nine entries on the Billboard Hot 100 as a producer during the 2022 chart eligibility period, including Adele’s 10-week No. 1 “Easy On Me.” Explore All of Billboard’s 2022 Year-End Charts Here’s a look at all nine of Kurstin’s production credits on the Hot 100 during the 2022 tracking period, which all contribute to his placement on the year-end ranking—Kurstin is the sole credited producer on eight of the songs below, helping boost his chart points (as he does not share chart points with any other individuals): Peak Position, Artist Billing, Title (producers...
Knucks and Little Simz Share Best Album Award at the 2022 MOBO Awards
U.K. rappers Knucks and Little Simz have been named joint winners of the best album prize at this year’s MOBO Awards, a first in the 25-year history of the awards. Little Simz and Knucks were crowned joint winners for their albums, Sometimes I Might Be Introvert and Alpha Place, respectively, while the paneled judges said that both artists “showed where British rap can go, both production-wise and lyrically.” Elsewhere, Central Cee won the award for Best Male Act, as well as Video of the Year for his hit song “Doja,” which was directed by Lyrical Lemonade founder, Cole Bennett. PinkPanthress won Best Female Act, and Nigerian star Burna Boy took home two trophies for Best International Act and Best African Music act. Little Simz’s Album of the Year win comes a year after her first MOBO win ...
Jennifer Lopez Announces First New Album in 9 Years, This Is Me … Now
Jennifer Lopez has announced her first album in nine years. It’s called This Is Me… Now and will arrive sometime in 2023. The title is a play on her third studio LP This Is Me… Then, which celebrates its 20th anniversary today. Lopez also revealed the tracklist for the new album, which you can find below. This Is Me … Now spans 13 songs, including a track titled “Dear Ben Pt. II” – presumably a sequel to her 2002 song “Dear Ben” about her husband Ben Affleck. When breaking the news on social media, Lopez shared a video in which her This Is Me… Then album cover morphs into a modern day photoshoot of her posing, possibly for the new album cover. Lopez’s last album, A.K.A., came out in 2014. Since then, she’s released standalone singles like “Dinero” (featuring Cardi B and DJ Khal...
Astroworld Task Force Calls for Added Security and Permit Requirements at NRG Park
On Tuesday (November 29), the City of Houston-Harris County Special Events Task Force published a new agreement with updated safety protocols for NRG Park—where a crowd surge took place during Travis Scott’s 2021 Astroworld Festival, resulting in the deaths of 10 people (hundreds more were injured). According to Billboard, the agreement aims to streamline safety measures and permit requirements for large-scale events at the entertainment complex. The document, obtained by Billboard, states that any NRG Park event hosting upwards of 6,000 attendees will require an on-site unified command center staffed by the Houston Police Department, the Houston Fire Department, the Harris County Sheriff’s Office, the Harris County Fire Marshal’s Office, and the Mayor’s Office of Special Events, as well a...
Watch Mac DeMarco Join Domi & JD Beck to Perform “Two Shrimps” on Fallon
Mac DeMarco joined jazz duo Domi & JD Beck onstage during The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon on Wednesday (November 30). They performed their joint single “Two Shrimps,” which appears on Domi & JD Beck’s debut album Not Tight. Watch DeMarco and the two musicians perform among shrubs and cherry blossoms below. Domi & JD Beck released Not Tight in July. The LP also features the singles “Take a Chance,” featuring Anderson .Paak, as well as “Smile” and “Whatup.” The record also has contributions from Herbie Hancock, Snoop Dogg, Thundercat, Busta Rhymes, and Kurt Rosenwinkel. The duo were recently nominated for two Grammy Awards: Best New Artist, and Best Contemporary Instrumental Album (Not Tight). In September, DeMarco linked up with Snail Mail for their new song “A Cuckhold’s...
Every Song to Re-Enter the Billboard Hot 100 in the Top 10
Burl Ives blasts back onto the Billboard Hot 100 chart (dated Dec. 3), as his holiday standard “A Holly Jolly Christmas” re-enters the ranking at No. 10. The track’s revival can be attributed to annual gains for yuletide hits during the holiday season. The song debuted on the Hot 100 during the 2016 holiday season, 52 years after its release, and has re-entered every year since. The song first hit a No. 4 high over the 2019 holidays, and has returned to its peak in each of the last two years. This year is especially notable in that it brings the song’s highest re-entry, as it becomes the first holiday song ever to re-enter in the top 10. How rare is it for songs to return to the Hot 100 all the way in the top 10? Pretty rare. In the chart’s 64-year history, “A Holly Jolly Christmas” is jus...
Harp Talks ‘Masked Singer’ Season 8 Win: ‘I Was as Surprised as Anyone When I Made It Through Every Round’
It was a wild ride on season 8 of The Masked Singer, which once again served up its patented mix of non-singing celebs (William Shatner, Jeff Dunham, Mario Cantone, Daymond John, Jerry Springer, Le’Veon Bell, George Foreman, Chris Jericho, Adam Carolla, Linda Blair, Nikki Glaser), veteran pop and R&B singers (Chris Kirkpatrick, Montell Jordan, Gloria Gaynor, Kat Graham, George Clinton and Ray Parker Jr.), as well as some actors who’ve been known to carry a tune (Eric Idle, Brady Bunch trio Christopher Knight, Barry Williams and Mike Lookinland and Joey Lawrence). But in the end, when all the masks came off, it was seasonlong front-runner Harp who plucked her way to the winner’s circle with a commanding run that began on this season’s first episode when she turned P!nk’s “Perfect” into ...
‘The Masked Singer’ Sets ‘Christmas Sing-A-Long’ Special
It’s the time of year for giving, and The Masked Singer doing just that. As season eight of Fox’s quirky singing contest wraps, with Harp declared the champion, The Masked Singer announces a special Christmas extravaganza. The Masked Singer Christmas Sing-A-Long will air next week with new holiday-themed performances by Harp, Bride, The Lambs and Snowstorm, fun behind-the-scenes bloopers and celebrity shout-outs from across all seasons. Explore Explore See latest videos, charts and news See latest videos, charts and news The season proper of The Masked Singer came to its climax this Wednesday night (Nov. 30), with front-runner Harp declared the victor. The two-hour finale saw the judge’s favorite lock horns with the three-headed threat The Lambs. Despite finding perfect harmony on Chaka Kh...
Here Are YouTube’s Top Songs of 2022
2022 was a big year for music and music videos, and YouTube officially unveiled on Thursday (Dec. 1) its top 10 songs of the year. Leading the U.S.-based list is “We Don’t Talk About Bruno” from the Encanto soundtrack, which also rocked the Billboard charts as it ruled the Billboard Hot 100 songs chart for five weeks back in February. Following the Disney hit is Kodak Black‘s “Super Gremlin” and Jessica Darrow‘s “Surface Pressure” in second and third place, respectively. Explore See latest videos, charts and news See latest videos, charts and news The songs that appear on the annual YouTube include streams from the official music video, lyric videos and user-generated content that uses the full official song, and cover the period from Jan. 1, 2022 to Nov. 15, 2022. Its lists are ...
Atlantic Records Accused Of Using Bots To Inflate Views For Don Toliver Video
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Matt Winkelmeyer / Getty Q-Tip’s industry rule 4080 still rings true today. Atlantic Records is being accused of using bots to juke the numbers for Don Toliver’s new video. As spotted on Complex, the New York based company is facing some serious heat after the release of the MC’s “Do It Right” visual. Several viewers noticed that the video had a glaring amount of suspect comments ranging from irreverent emojis to your typical spam language. As expected, they took their findings to social media and had Twitter calling foul on the Houston, Texas rapper’s name. So much so the chatter got back to him and his team. One of Don Toliver’s representatives denied any foul play in a statement to TMZ. “Just like other artists and their teams who have been attacked wi...
