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Tyler, the Creator’s Call Me If You Get Lost Returns to Billboard No. 1 Due to Vinyl Sales
Tyler, the Creator’s Grammy-winning LP Call Me If You Get Lost has reclaimed its spot at the top of the Billboard 200. The album, which debuted at No. 1 shortly after its release in 2021, has jumped from No. 120 to No. 1 on the chart due to massive vinyl sales, as Billboard points out. The LP edition of the record was sold exclusively through Tyler’s website. Citing Luminate (formerly MRC Data), Billboard reports that his web store moved 49,500 physical copies, making it the largest sales week for a hip-hop album on vinyl. Read Billboard’s full breakdown here. Call Me If You Get Lost is Tyler’s second No. 1 LP following 2019’s Igor. Both records nabbed the Best Rap Album award at the 2022 and 2020 Grammys, respectively. According to Billboard, Call Me If You Get Lost is only the fourth alb...
Megan Thee Stallion Details Alleged Tory Lanez Shooting in Gayle King Interview
Note: This article contains descriptions of alleged assault. Megan Thee Stallion sat down with Gayle King on CBS This Morning to discuss the 2020 incident in Los Angeles that left her foot injured by two gun shots. The interview will air tomorrow morning (April 25). Megan has previously identified her alleged assailant as rapper Tory Lanez, who she claimed shot her from inside of an SUV following a verbal altercation. Lanez was arrested on a felony gun charge the night of the incident, and was later charged with felony assault in connection with his arrest. Lanez has since pleaded not guilty to the charges. Speaking with King, Megan said that she feared for her life as Lanez allegedly shot at her after screaming, “dance bitch.” “I never put my hands on anybody,” Megan added. “I never...
Lorde Calls Viral Video of Her Shushing Crowd at Shows a “Dramatic Ass Move”
Hush now, Lorde has something say about that viral video of her shushing her fans during a recent concert on her “Melodrama Tour.” The “Solar Power” singer and famously social media-averse star’s response came courtesy of a fan account on Saturday with the caption “Lorde just wanted me to share this video with y’all.” “OK, I just woke up. I just wanted to talk about this thing of me shushing people at my shows,” she says in the clip from bed while wearing a sleep mask above her eyes. “That was something I did in that one song, a couple of times, when I wanted to sing it a capella and/or off the microphone so people could hear me, and because I wanted to try something different. If you come to my shows, you know it’s like an hour and a half of all of us singing and screaming together.” Adve...
Mick Jagger Touts Yungblud and Machine Gun Kelly as the Future of Rock Music
Mick Jagger has seen the future of rock ‘n’ roll, and their names are Yungblud and Machine Gun Kelly. “In rock music you need energy, and there have not been a lot of new rock singers around. Now there are a few,” The Rolling Stones frontman said in a new interview with Swedish radio station P4 as reported by The Independent. “You have Yungblud and Machine Gun Kelly. That kind of post-punk vibe makes me think there is still a bit of life in rock and roll.” Yungblud, who most recently released single “The Funeral” as a follow-up to 2020’s Weird!, has cited Jagger in the past as an inspiration for the type of career longevity he hopes to have, telling NME back in 2019, “I’m not arsed about being about for 10 minutes, have a hit song, get a fucking mansion, do too many drugs and kill myself. ...
Barry’s Anthony Carrigan on Showing a Whole New Side to NoHo Hank in Season 3
[Editor’s note: The following contains spoilers for Barry, Season 3, Episode 1, “forgiving jeff.”] It wasn’t perhaps the love story you were expecting to bloom when the dark HBO comedy Barry first premiered, but that just makes it a well-earned and also unexpected delight: Following the events of the Season 2 finale, as seen in the Season 3 premiere, the overwhelmingly cheerful NoHo Hank (Anthony Carrigan) and rival mob leader Cristobal (Michael Irby) are now romantically involved. Of course, Barry is not exactly a show built for happy endings, especially for the confirmed mobsters at its core, but for right now, Carrigan is just happy to play a new dimension to NoHo Hank, one which builds upon the character’s established desire to care for others, but with a whole new edge. “I’m excited t...
Tyler, the Creator’s ‘CALL ME IF YOU GET LOST’ Tour Dethrones J. Cole’s Tours as Highest-Earning Post-Pandemic Hip-Hop Tour
Tyler, the Creator‘s CALL ME IF YOU GET LOST tour has officially dethroned J. Cole‘s The Off-Season and Millennium tours as the highest-earning hip-hop tour of the post-pandemic era. According to reports, Tyler’s 32-city engagement earned a total of $32.6 million USD from 389,000 tickets sold. His March 31 Los Angeles show at the Crypto.com Arena was the biggest night of the tour as it raked in $1.6 million USD from 14,757 tickets; the tour also earned $2.9 million USD from his two-night performance at Madison Square Garden in New York City from March 13 to March 14. On average, the hip-hop star earned $1.02 million USD and sold 12,155 tickets per show — more than twice the number of his IGOR tour in 2019 which averaged $442,000 USD and 7,786 tickets per show. The CALL ME IF YOU GET LOST t...
Watch: Former METALLICA Bassist JASON NEWSTED And THE CHOPHOUSE BAND Perform At Charity Event In Jupiter
THE CHOPHOUSE BAND, the band led by former METALLICA bassist Jason Newsted, performed last night (Saturday, April 23) at the Maltz Jupiter Theatre in Jupiter, Florida. It was a benefit event for the Goldner Conservatory, a professional conservatory that offers the highest caliber of artistic education to students of all ages. Professional violinist Carl Schmid, who is part of Jason‘s backing band, shared photos and video of yesterday’s concert and included the following message: “METALLICA was the second band I ever saw when I was a kid-I went to Giants Stadium in New Jersey, where I saw them with GUNS N ROSES and FAITH NO MORE opening the show. My ears are still ringing from that show-it had to be the loudest event I’ve ever been at. And it was my first taste of Ro...
Fans Choose The Kid LAROI’s ‘Thousand Miles’ as This Week’s Favorite New Music
The Kid LAROI‘s latest song “Thousand Miles” has topped this week’s new music poll. Music fans voted in a poll published Friday (April 22) on Billboard, choosing the 18-year-old singer’s radio-ready single as their favorite new music release of the past week. The brooding and self-loathing anthem brought in 38% of the vote, beating out new music by Ed Sheeran featuring Lil Baby (“2Step”), Megan Thee Stallion (“Plan B”), Pusha T (It’s Almost Dry), PinkPantheress featuring Willow (“Where You Are”), and others. Explore Explore See latest videos, charts and news See latest videos, charts and news “Thousand Miles” finds LAROI lamenting on his inability to do things right in a relationship and tells the listeners that he’s “about to f— it up with you.” With his unique vocals that showcase his po...
Vinyl Release Pushes Tyler, the Creator’s ‘Call Me If You Get Lost’ Back to No. 1 on Billboard 200 Albums Chart
Tyler, the Creator’s Call Me If You Get Lost returns to No. 1 on the Billboard 200 albums chart (dated April 30), as the set’s release on vinyl LP prompts its jump from No. 120 to No. 1. It’s the album’s second nonconsecutive week atop the list; it debuted at No. 1 on the July 10, 2021-dated chart. Explore See latest videos, charts and news See latest videos, charts and news Call Me earned 59,000 equivalent album units in the U.S. in the week ending April 21 (up 507%), according to Luminate, formerly MRC Data. Of that sum, 51,000 were in traditional album sales — almost entirely vinyl LP sales. The vinyl edition of Call Me was sold exclusively through the artist’s webstore and sold 49,500 copies, making it the largest sales week for a hip-hop album on vinyl, or for a solo male album on vin...
Nathy Peluso Talks Her Coachella Debut & Her Dream of Collaborating With Miley Cyrus
Leading up to her Coachella performance this weekend, Nathy Peluso spoke with Billboard about what she’d be bringing to the festival, which pop star she’d love to collaborate with and more. “I’m bringing something fresh,” the Argentine artist can be heard saying in the video above, speaking of her first time taking the stage at the California festival, during its second weekend of 2022. “I’ve been working a lot on this show. It’s important to me to share the music. I did the arrangements with my band; we really want to share the good music with the people. I worked a lot to be here. So I’m like, ‘Yes, now I’m here,’ — so focus and try to enjoy all [of] the experience.” Explore Explore See latest videos, charts and news See latest videos, charts and news For those in the audience who are ne...
Hayley Williams Joins Billie Eilish for ‘Misery Business,’ ‘Happier Than Ever’ at Coachella
Billie Eilish surprised the Coachella crowd this weekend by bringing “my friend Hayley Williams” out during her headlining set. The Saturday night (April 23) set, which had the pair teaming up on “Misery Business” and “Happier Than Ever,” was the Paramore singer’s first time performing at the Indio, California, festival. “Hi. Wow. It’s my first Coachella,” said Williams as she took the stage with Eilish. “Thanks for sharing this with me. This is sick!” Explore See latest videos, charts and news See latest videos, charts and news Williams sat on stool in between Eilish and Finneas to treat the audience to an acoustic rendition of “Misery Business,” the 2007 single off of Paramore’s Riot! album. She also joined in on Eilish’s “Happier Than Ever.” Eilish’s show during the first weekend of Coa...
Coachella 2022: aespa Make Their US Live Debut
Rising K-pop group aespa played their first US live show on Saturday night, and the setting, of all places, was the main stage at Coachella. The group’s five-song set began with the live debut of “ænergy,” followed by “Black Mamba,” “Savage”, and an English language version of a new, unreleased song called “Life’s Too Short.” Then then closed their set by performing “Next Level.” Replay the full performance below. Despite forming in the midst of a pandemic, aespa, one of our 2022 Rising Artists to Watch, have enjoyed some pretty mind-blowing success. The four-piece released their first EP, Savage, in September, and its title track entered at No. 20 on the Billboard 200 — the highest K-pop girl group debut on the U.S. charts. Now, the quartet has become the third K-pop act in history to per...
