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Nelly Does the Foxtrot on Disney Night for ‘DWTS’: Watch
Woah, Nelly! Is there nothing this man can do? Apparently not. As Dancing With This Stars hosted its special Disney Night on Monday (Sept. 28), the “Hot In Herre” rapper impressed once again. Nelly and his dance partner Daniella Karagach slowed the tempo, stepped on out for a Foxtrot, and took us back in time. The pair performed their classy routine to “It’s All Right” by Jon Batiste from the new Pixar movie, Soul. In the season so far, the St Louis artist has performed a Cha Cha (to Earth, Wind & Fire’s “Let’s Groove”) and a hot Salsa (to his own song, “Ride Wit Me”). Watch below. [embedded content] You Deserve to Make Money Even When you are looking for Dates Online. So we reimagined what a dating should be. It begins with giving you back power. Get to meet Beautiful people, chat and...
BTS Set to Make Millions as Big Hit Entertainment Goes Public
The seven members of the K-pop supergroup BTS are set to make millions when their label Big Hit Entertainment goes public in October. Demand for shares in Big Hit has hit record levels, driven in part by fans of the boy band, giving the music giant a valuation of $4.1 billion. Big Hit’s Oct. 15 IPO will be South Korea’s largest in three years. The IPO will make Big Hit founder and co-CEO Bang Si-hyuk, known widely as “Hitman” Bang, a billionaire. In August, Bang gave each BTS member shares in the company, which are currently valued at almost $8 million. As well as being home to RM, Jin, Suga, J-Hope, Jimin, V, and Jungkook, Big Hit’s roster includes the five-member boy band TXT and singer Lee Hyun. BTS makes up the vast majority of Big Hit’s revenue, gen...
BTS Start Late-Night Takeover With ‘Idol’ Performance: Watch
The BTS takeover of The Tonight Show started with a bang as the K-pop superstars dug out a rare gem. On Monday night, RM, Jin, Suga, J-Hope, Jimin, V, and Jungkook stepped onto Jimmy Fallon’s floor and in front of a temple for a dynamite rendition of “Idol”. The late-night host hyped it as “an original, never seen before performance,” and the excitement wasn’t lost on ARMY as BTS immediately trended on social media (Jimin was the standout this time). “Idol” is, of course, lifted from the K-pop superstars’ 2018 chart-topping album from Love Yourself: Answer. Throughout “BTS Week,” the seven-piece will perform, chat and play games. Each night they’ll deliver a unique performance and take part in skits with Fallon and a virtual interview. It’s all part...
Warner Music Australasia President Niko Nordström Is Returning to Finland
Warner Music Australasia president Niko Nordström is returning to his homeland, Finland, to take on a familiar role with the music major. Announced Tuesday, Nordström is named executive vice president, Warner Music Nordics and managing director of Warner Music Finland, based in Helsinki. Nordström will report to Mark Fry, the newly appointed president of Warner Music Nordics. “It’s fantastic news that Niko is returning home to the Nordics,” Fry comments in a statement. “He’s a friend and a partner, as well as one of the most admired figures in the history of the Finnish music industry. He moved the business and culture into the modern age, while nurturing an entire generation of groundbreaking artists.” Niko played a “central role in making Finland a pioneering global music market,” ...
Big Beard & Little Boy: Tory Lanez Responds To Rick Ross Criticism
Source: Bernard Smalls / @PhotosByBeanz Tory Lanez is still covered in struggle juice but is trying his best to take it off. He has answered The Boss but his response is falling on deaf ears. As spotted on TMZ all signs are pointing to the fact that Daystar is making the Canadian performer more unpopular by the day. Upon the release of the new album Rick Ross was one of the first celebrities to call him out for dropping a new project that did not provide a public apology to Meg Thee Stallion for allegedly shooting her. On Friday Rozay did not hesitate to question his intentions by launching the new album the week of the Breonna Taylor indictment announcement; a move he said showed a lack of respect for Black women. “We got to respect these sisters” Ross explained. Naturally this got back t...
Kis-My-Ft2 Leads, Arashi’s New Bruno Mars-Produced Single Bows at No. 6 on Japan Hot 100
J-pop boy band Kis-My-Ft2’s “ENDLESS SUMMER” debuts at No. 1 on this week’s Billboard Japan Hot 100, dated Sept. 14 to 20, selling 180,763 copies in its first week. The septet’s 26th single leads physical sales and look-ups, while also performing well in Twitter mentions (No. 3) and radio airplay (No. 27). Arashi’s new single “Whenever You Call” — an all-English R&B ballad produced by Bruno Mars — dropped digitally last Friday (Sept. 18), and the highly anticipated track racked up 58,989 downloads in just three days to blast in at No. 1 for the metric this week. The song also buzzed on Twitter (No. 1) and fared well in video views (No. 9), bowing at No. 6 on the Japan Hot 100. [embedded content] This week sees two other acts besides the two Johnny’s boy bands debuting in the top 10, wh...
Billboard Japan & NTT Data’s Joint Research Predicts Future Hits From Chart Data & Cerebral Information
Billboard Japan and NTT Data/NTT Data Institute of Management Consulting (NTT Data/IMC) partnered on a new project that combines the former’s chart data and the latter’s neuroscientific technology to develop a new way to analyze music trends. Billboard Japan’s Hot 100 song chart is based on a weighted formula incorporating eight metrics such as CD sales, downloads, streams and Twitter mentions. NTT Data/IMC is a pioneer in the advancement of the brain information business, in part through its development of the “NeuroAI” that predicts the cerebral activity and perceptual content of people viewing moving images. The underlying technology of NeuroAI was adopted by this year’s AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-20). The collaborative project used technology called “NeuroAI-Music...
Garth Brooks Welcomed Fans to 360-Degree Studio G With Trisha Yearwood & a Live Virtual Audience
Studio G goes 360 degrees! Garth Brooks unveiled on Monday (Sept. 28) his new stage with screens 360 degrees around for “Inside Studio G: A Monday Night Conversation.” Trisha Yearwood even popped in, joining the live virtual audience for some conversation and performances of “I’ll Carry You Home,” “Like We Never Had A Broken Heart” and “It Doesn’t Matter Anymore.” The couple also teased something big on the way. When a fan asked if they have anything in the works, like a Nashville museum or restaurant, Brooks verbally said no but cheekily nodded his head and gave a wink. “Inside Studio G” airs on Garth’s Facebook Page every Monday at 7 p.m. ET/4 p.m. PT. The episode was also simulcast on Garth’s SiriusXM Channel (Channel 55). ...
21 Savage & Metro Boomin to Unveil Sequel to ‘Savage Mode’ This Week
They’re back. 21 Savage and producer Metro Boomin announced that they are finally dropping the highly anticipated sequel to their 2016 Savage Mode EP on Friday (Oct. 2). The news comes just two weeks after more than 28,000 fans signed a petition for Savage Mode 2‘s release, according to XXL. The announcement also arrived with an epic trailer, narrated by none other than the master of voiceovers, Morgan Freeman. The one-minute, Gibson Hazard-directed clip finds the musical duo in the studio on a dark, snowy night. “‘Savage’ is defined as fierce, beastly and untamed. ‘Mode’ is defined as a way of operating or using the system,” Freeman explains as two masked figures break into the eerie property, smashing the duo’s platinum...
Juelz Santana Explains How Forgetting A Gun In A New Supreme Bag Landed Him In Jail
Source: WENN.com / WENN Juelz Santana was freed earlier this year after serving a little less than 2 year for firearm charges. The Dipset rapper recently explained the circumstances that momentarily cost him his freedom—fleeing an airport after TSA discovered a gun in his luggage. According to the “Clockwork” rapper, he packed the toast to a video shoot in Queens the prior day just in case ish got crazy, but forgot that he still had the gun in his luggage the next day when he was due to fly out of Newark. He explained the situation in detail recently to Fat Joe on the Bronx rapper’s The Fat Joe Show. Apparently, at the aforementioned video shoot he had copped a new Supreme duffel bag that he threw the gun in when he saw everything was peace. But then at Newark Airport, it wasn’t even when ...
Tamika Mallory Places Sellout Jacket On Kentucky AG Daniel Cameron
Source: Jon Cherry / Getty If it walks and quacks like a duck; chances are that it is a duck. The same goes for bootlicking sellout. After the miscarriage of justice that was Breonna Taylor’s indictment announcement or rather lack thereof, the feeling towards Kentucky’s government might be at an all time low with people of color. As spotted on Blavity activist Tamika Mallory went ten toes down on Daniel Cameron, the resident Attorney General for the city. On Friday, September 25 she spoke at a press conference where she took objection to his decision to place higher value on concrete walls than Breonna’s life. “I want you to understand how wicked he is and how wicked this system is,” she said. Mallory also pointed to the fact that he had pledged his allegiance to the local police upon...
Platinum Plan President Trump’s 2016 Campaign Allegedly Listed Black Voters As “Deterrence”
Source: NICHOLAS KAMM / Getty President Donald Trump, fresh from selling a so-called “Platinum Plan” for Black America to drum up votes, might need to address a claim made by a United Kingdom news outlet. According to the report, Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign database listed millions of Black voters as “deterrence” in the file. The UK’s Channel 4 has much more: In 16 key battleground states, millions of Americans were separated by an algorithm into one of eight categories, also described as ‘audiences’, so they could then be targeted with tailored ads on Facebook and other platforms. One of the categories was named ‘Deterrence’, which was later described publicly by Trump’s chief data scientist as containing people that the campaign “hope don’t show up to vote”. Analysis by Channel 4 ...
