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The White House didn’t take too kindly to Jack White‘s recent criticism of the building’s decor under Donald Trump‘s second presidential term, with one official lambasting the musician as a “loser” in a new statement. In a Tuesday comment to Daily Beast, White House Communications Director Steven Cheung fired back at the rock star — who’d slammed the revamped interior of the president’s official home as “vulgar, gold leafed and gaudy” the day prior — by calling White a “washed up, has-been loser posting drivel on social media because he clearly has ample time on his hands due to his stalled career.” “It’s apparent he’s been masquerading as a real artist, because he fails to appreciate, and quite frankly disrespects, the splendor and significance of the Oval Office inside of ‘The People’s House,’” Cheung added. The harsh remarks follow White’s heated Aug. 18 post on Instagram, in which he’d shared a photo of Trump speaking with Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in the Oval Office and written, “Look at how disgusting trump has transformed the historic White House.” “Look at his disgusting taste, would you even buy a used car from this conman, let alone give him the nuclear codes?” the former White Stripes band member had added in the post, which was “liked” by Olivia Rodrigo and Maren Morris. “What an embarrassment to American history.” As it turns out, though, White wasn’t finished. Shortly after Cheung spoke to Daily Beast, the 12-time Grammy winner reshared the director’s words in a follow-up Instagram post calling Cheung a “professional liar.” White also unleashed several more paragraphs detailing his dislike of the president and calling out the White House for commenting on such a superficial matter while ignoring criticisms of Trump’s handling of more important issues. “How petty and pathetic and thin skinned could this administration get?” he wrote. “‘Masquerading as a real artist?’ … Trump is masquerading as a human being. He’s masquerading as a Christian, as a leader, as a person with actual empathy.” Sharing various photos of Trump holding up flashy gold sneakers, posing with Goya products and showing Zelenskyy a shelf stocked with red “Make America Great Again” caps, White also added in his caption, “This man is a danger to not just America, but the entire world, and that’s not an exaggeration, he’s dismantling democracy and endangering the planet on a daily basis.” White has never been shy about vocalizing his opinions on Trump, whom he called an “obvious fascist” and “wannabe dictator” in November after the billionaire won the 2024 election. Before that, Jack and his ex-wife/former White Stripes bandmate sued Trump for using “Seven Nation Army” in a social media post. At a concert in March, the guitarist also changed the opening line of his song “Corporation” — which usually goes “I’m thinking about starting a corporation, who’s with me?” — to mock the twice-impeached POTUS. “I’m thinking about not being elected,” he said on stage. “Never holding a public office. Never serving one day of military service. But somehow having the authority to control parts of the U.S. Government. Who’s with me?” Source link

Redacción Panamericana “Luz de Luna 4” regresa con fuerza y emociona al público al grabar en Ayacucho, mostrando la tierra que marcó la niñez del León de la cumbia. La cuarta entrega de Luz de Luna, la telenovela que conquistó a millones de peruanos, ha decidido volver a las raíces para contar su historia. Y lo hace con un viaje a uno de los lugares más emblemáticos y conmovedores del país: Ayacucho, tierra de historia, música, fe y paisajes que parecen pintados por la memoria. Desde la imponente Pampa de la Quinua, escenario de la independencia, hasta las piedras milenarias de Vilcashuamán, pasando por las calles de Huamanga y la grandeza de sus montañas, el elenco y el equipo técnico desplegaron cámaras y talento para capturar no solo imágenes, sino también la esencia de un pueblo que respira tradición y esperanza. La producción recrea en estas locaciones la niñez del “León de la cumbia”, en medio de la comunidad que marcó su carácter y alimentó sus sueños. No se trata solo de grabar escenas: es un homenaje a la tierra y a la gente que inspira cada nota de su música. “Estoy muy emocionado. Ayacucho es un lugar mágico y lleno de historia. Filmar aquí es un privilegio y un regalo para todos los peruanos. Cada rincón y cada sonrisa nos inspira a dar lo mejor en esta nueva temporada”, confesó André Silva, protagonista de la serie, con la emoción de quien reconoce que la ficción puede devolver algo de lo que la vida real le dio. Tras tres temporadas y un spin-off que batieron récords de audiencia, Luz de Luna regresa con más fuerza que nunca. Y esta vez, lo hace con el corazón puesto en Ayacucho, para regalar al público no solo nuevas revelaciones en la vida de su protagonista, sino también un recorrido visual y emotivo por una de las regiones más vibrantes y representativas del Perú. Muy pronto, la pantalla de América Televisión se iluminará con los colores, los sonidos y las emociones de Ayacucho. Porque esta no es solo una temporada más: es un tributo a la tierra que sigue cantando al país entero. Source link

He’s an iconic heavy metal singer, both with Iron Maiden and on his own. He’s a commercially licensed pilot whose air exploits are documented on film (2009’s Iron Maiden: Flight 666). He’s hosted award-winning radio shows, published books and graphic novels, and been part of beer brands. But Bruce Dickinson is nonplussed when all of these accomplishments are placed before him. “Yeah, it kinda crept up on me,” Dickinson tells Billboard via Zoom from France. This Friday (Aug. 22), he kicks off a North American tour in Anaheim, Calif., supporting 2024’s The Mandrake Project and following this year’s More Balls to Picasso, a fresh reimagining of Dickinson’s second solo album, Balls to Picasso, which came out in 1994. “When I did Mandrake I looked back at all this stuff I’ve done and I went, ‘I’m actually proud of all this stuff. It’s really good!’” he continues with a laugh. “I tend to discount stuff that I’ve done once I’ve done it. I don’t revisit it. Maiden’s the same way. The artist in me wants to move on, move on, move on and keep pushing, but sometimes it’s just nice to sit back, roll in it all and go, ‘This is really cool.’ It’s great to discover I’m a fan of the stuff I did — isn’t that weird?’” The Mandrake Project, Dickinson’s first solo outing in 19 years, is a continuing conceptual fantasy piece that’s allowed Dickinson to combine a few of his creative ambitions. In addition to the music — 10 songs on the album, all by Dickinson and six with producer Roy Z — it’s slated to be a 12-volume comic book series, written by Dickinson with Tony Lee for Z2 comics, illustrated by Staz Johnson. The first four issues are out and have been packaged together, with the other eight in progress and another album of Mandrake-inspired music set to start recording early next year. “Mandrake, the story, is constantly unfolding and constantly teaching me things about writing,” Dickinson explains. “Episodes five, six and seven are scripted and we’re in the middle of the artwork for that now, getting those done. It’s a long process. It’s a really fascinating process as well. It’s not like a book. It’s not like a film. It really is a complete hybrid art form. So I’m aiming high here; the holy grail in all this is sort of the Watchmen-type comic. And if I even get halfway there, I’ll be very happy.” Dickinson took Mandrake to the stage last year, mostly in Europe, between legs of Iron Maiden’s successful The Future Past World Tour. He plans to add more of the album’s songs into the North American shows (as well as a side trip to The Town festival on Sept. 7 in Sao Paulo), mixing them with songs from his other solo albums and perhaps something from the Maiden catalog (he included part of “Alexandar the Great” in Europe). He’s been working on some fresh visuals, too, and promises a re-set of the stage from what he did before. “We have a reasonably varied repertoire,” Dickinson says, “because the band is so flexible, and because it’s not like a Maiden tour where we’re locked into that set with the show and the lights and everything. With this (solo tour) we can vary it. We can say, ‘Hey, what do we fancy doing tonight? Let’s do this one as an encore’ and so on. It’s fun. It’s nice to have the flexibility of being a little bit random.” More Mandrake music to accompany future volumes of the comic is in motion as well, according to Dickinson, who plans to take his touring band into the studio during January with producer Brendan Duffey, who also worked on More Balls to Picasso. “In April we convened and had a massive, collective brain dump in the studio and came up with 18 song demos, maybe two or three that are connected to (Mandrake),” he says. “Now we’re refining the demos.” Writing for Mandrake, he explains, is like “having a conversation in your head with a thing you’ve already written. In a way you’re interviewing the character you’ve created by saying, ‘Why are you like this? Tell me about yourself, and I’m gonna write a song about you.’ Very interesting.” A Mandrake movie might seem like a logical future project as well, but Dickinson cautions fans not to hold their breath. “I’m not even gonna think about that,” he explains. “I’m involved in writing the story and getting it to episode 12 and a conclusion. At that point we can sit back and look and everything. I think a lot of people rush into (a film). It’s a huge commitment making a film or a TV series. So I want to finish the story the way I want it before anybody else tries to get their hands on it.” He also laughs out loud at the notion of a Mandrake stage musical before offering a firm “no.” Dickinson is also ready to continue Maiden’s Run For Your Lives World Tour, which ran through Europe this summer and featured Simon Dawson, bassist Steve Harris’ bandmate in British Lion, taking the place of the retired Nicko McBrain. More concerts will be taking place during 2026, though dates have not yet been announced, and Dickinson is looking forward to continuing his creative juggle. “This new tour of ours, which will be coming Stateside, is the most incredible thing we’ve ever done, and people will be blown away by it,” he says. “This tour has been revelatory, really, in how much fun we’re having on stage. It’s evident in everybody’s playing, and, for what it’s worth, all the reviews and things are off the charts. You can never make everybody happy, but by and large, it’s doing great. We can only guess how great it’s doing in people’s hearts and minds from the reactions we get every night, which are amazing.” Dickinson’s upcoming The Mandrake Project tour dates are

Welcome to Billboard Pro’s Trending Up newsletter, where we take a closer look at the songs, artists, curiosities and trends that have caught the music industry’s attention. Some have come out of nowhere, others have taken months to catch on, and all of them could become ubiquitous in the blink of a TikTok clip.  Explore See latest videos, charts and news This week: Taylor Swift’s announcement of her upcoming 12th album leads to streaming gains across her catalog, Cardi B helps a Jay-Z fan favorite find new life, a 20-year-old metal cut goes viral for bizarre reasons and more. The Streams of a Showgirl: Taylor Swift’s Catalog Booms Following Album Announcement Not only did Taylor Swift announce her 12th studio album, The Life of a Showgirl, last week, but she did so in a way that became a multi-day news cycle — first teasing a new era and appearance on her boyfriend Travis Kelce’s New Heights podcast on Monday (Aug. 10), then revealing later that day that the podcast interview would include plenty of information about her new album, and then unveiling all of the Showgirl details in a wide-ranging discussion on Wednesday (Aug. 12), with those meme-able moments and potential Easter eggs powering Swifties through the end of last week. Although fans will have to wait until Oct. 3 for Swift’s new album, they didn’t have to wait to stream her back catalog, which enjoyed a sizable streaming boost in the midst of the excitement. From Aug. 12-14, Swift’s catalog earned nearly 110 million official U.S. on-demand streams, according to Luminate; that total marked a 57% bump from the three-day period right before the New Heights podcast tease (70 million streams from Aug. 8-10). Meanwhile, one Swift song has been resurgent for a non-Showgirl reason: “False God,” from 2019’s Lover, was featured in the Aug. 13 episode of the hit Amazon Prime series The Summer I Turned Pretty. The song earned 1.2 million streams from Aug. 13-15, up a whopping 383% from the previous weekend (250,000 streams). – JASON LIPSHUTZ Cardi B’s New ‘Imaginary Playerz’ Single Spurs Notable Gains for Jay-Z Gem It References  Cardi B is keeping her Am I the Drama? album campaign rolling, and for her latest single she looked to fellow New York hip-hop icon, Jay-Z. For “Imaginary Playerz,” Cardi sampled Jay’s “Imaginary Players,” a Prestige-produced fan-favorite from 1997’s In My Lifetime, Vol. 1. Though Cardi’s track, which dropped on Aug. 15, envisions Jay’s original from a female perspective, her new single still spurred streaming gains for Hov’s classic.  According to Luminate, Cardi’s track pulled over 3.8 million official on-demand U.S. streams in its first four days of release (Aug. 15-18). During that same period, Jay’s “Imaginary Players” earned over 427,000 official streams, marking a whopping 313% increase from the 103,000 official streams it collected the weekend prior (Aug. 8-11).  Jay’s original was never an official single, but the “Imaginary Players” legacy lives on through Cardi’s latest tease of her long-awaited sophomore studio album. — KYLE DENIS ‘Freaky Friday’ Sequel Bumps Songs From Original & New Movies It was a sequel fans had waited over 20 years for: Freakier Friday debuted in theaters on Aug. 8, as the follow-up to 2003’s Freaky Friday, starring Jamie Lee Curits and Lindsay Lohan (itself a remake of the 1978 original with Jodie Foster and Barbara Harris). The movie is off to a respectable box office start, and has also resulted in major streaming gains for the songs featured in the movie — in which Pink Slip, Anna (Lohan)’s band from the original movie reunites — as well as for Pink Slip classics from the ‘03 original.  The Freakier Friday soundtrack drew 879,000 official U.S. on-demand streams in total for the week ending Aug. 14 following the film’s release, according to Luminate — a gain of 153% over the prior week. That’s led by nearly 586,000 streams for Pink Slip’s re-recorded “Take Me Away,” nearly triple its tally the previous week. And there was enough enthusiasm left for peak Pink Slip from the new movie that the group’s “Ultimate” from Freaky also saw a spike, rising 74% to 229,000 streams for the week. (You can find the full story of all these songs in our Pink Slip reunion oral history here.) – ANDREW UNTERBERGER Viral ‘Milkaholic’ TikTok Trend Revives 20-Year-Old Metal Song  Between Sleep Token and Ghost topping the Billboard 200 earlier this year and a Pierce the Veil deep cut going viral, hard rock and metal are having notable moments in 2025. U.K. hardcore band Her Words Kill is the latest act to benefit from this wave, thanks to its fast-rising hit, “Sir, This Is a Cutthroat Fashion.” Originally released on 2005’s Load My Revolver, Baby LP, “Cutthroat Fashion” has found new life as the primary song for a new “milkaholic” TikTok trend, inspired by Tom & Jerry.  In essence, TikTok users take shots of milk, intending to evoke the feeling of hitting rock bottom and nursing one’s alcoholism after a particularly rough day. User @noahnestell kicked off the trend with a Jul. 31 post set to “Cutthroat Fashion” and focusing on the lyrics, “Better pack your tears into a suitcase/ And run away with my heart.” As the trend evolved, users swapped out milk for other non-alcoholic beverages such as Yakult and matcha. The sound attached to user @noahnestell’s original video has garnered over 253,600 posts, while the official “Cutthroat Fashion” sound boasts just under 250 posts.  According to Luminate, “Cutthroat Fashion” earned just over 7,000 official on-demand U.S. streams during the week of July 18-24. That figure leapt 869% to nearly 70,000 official streams the following week (July 25-31), which included the day user @noahnestell shared his video. By the week of Aug. 1-7, “Cutthroat Fashion” grew a further 586% to over 476,000 official streams, and one week later (Aug. 8-14), the streaming activity jumped another 65% to over 790,000 official on-demand U.S. streams. — KD Source link

Number_i blasts in at No. 1 on the Billboard Japan Hot 100 with “U.M.A.,” on the chart released Aug. 20. “U.M.A.” is the lead single off the trio’s second full-length album No.II, set for release Sept. 22. The track topped downloads (40,207 units), radio airplay and video views, and came in at No. 21 for streaming. Number_i logs its fourth No. 1 hit on the Japan Hot 100, following “GOAT,” “INZM,” and “GOD_i.” The boy band performed at Head in the Clouds Los Angeles 2025 on June 1 and daily streaming numbers for the group in the U.S. increased by 126% compared to the previous week (May 25), according to Luminate. Mrs. GREEN APPLE’s “Summer Shadow” debuts at No. 2. The three-man band’s latest single dropped digitally on Aug. 11 and is currently being featured in Kirin Beverage’s Gogo no Kocha commercials. The track launches at No. 2 for downloads (19,882 units) and streaming, No. 5 for radio, and No. 3 for video. Explore See latest videos, charts and news HANA’s “Blue Jeans” follows at No. 3. The track holds at No. 1 for streaming for the fifth straight week, while maintaining momentum in sales (No. 21), downloads (No. 12), and radio (No. 10). AKB48’s “Oh my pumpkin!” bows at No. 4. The long-running girl group’s 66th single commemorates its 20th anniversary and features four former members, including Atsuko Maeda, as well as seven members from overseas sister groups. The CD launched with 526,581 copies and hits No. 1 on Billboard Japan’s Top Singles Sales chart. 53 singles by AKB48 have consecutively launched atop this chart since the release of its 14th single “RIVER” in 2009 — the most by any act — and the group breaks its own record this week. AiNA THE END’s “On The Way” moves 13-5 to break into the top 10. The opener for the anime show Dandadan Season 2 saw a 138% increase in streaming from the previous week, coming in at No. 7 for the metric, while hitting No. 6 for downloads, No. 28 for radio, and No. 5 for videos. The single is also reaching listeners outside of Japan, with approximately 58% of streams coming from Japan, 7% from the U.S., and 35% from other countries and regions. Last year during the same period, about 89% of AiNA THE END’s songs were being listened to domestically, per Luminate, so it appears “On The Way” is spurring the artist’s global expansion. The Billboard Japan Hot 100 combines physical and digital sales, audio streams, radio airplay, video views and karaoke data. See the full Billboard Japan Hot 100 chart, tallying the week from Aug. 11 to 17, here. For more on Japanese music and charts, visit Billboard Japan’s English X account. Source link

Seven months after its first step onto Billboard’s Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart, Leon Thomas‘ “Mutt” is the top dog. “Mutt,” released on EZMNY/Motown/ICLG climbs 2-1 to crown the list dated Aug. 24, securing Thomas his first No. 1 as an artist, after six prior entries as a producer and 13 as a songwriter. For its coronation week on the multi-metric Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart, “Mutt” registered 8.9 million official streams, 1,000 sales downloads and 49.3 million audience impressions in the United States for the tracking week of Aug. 8-14, according to Luminate. Streams and sales totals were down 4% and 15%, respectively, from the prior tracking week, while radio audience impressions improved 8%, enough to secure the week’s Airplay Gainer distinction. “That’s crazy,” Thomas tells Billboard via video on the song’s achievement. “Back in the day, I used to have on my wall, like, a vision board and I had No. 1 on Billboard on my wall. So that’s bucket list right there. That’s a big deal.” “Mutt” took the scenic route to its triumph, needing 31 weeks to reach top spot. The climb ties for the sixth-longest trek of 1104 No. 1s. To recap the lengthiest waits to the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs summit: Weeks to No. 1, Song, Artist, Date Reached No. 143, “Step in the Name of Love,” R. Kelly; Dec. 6, 200336, “Die for You,” The Weeknd & Ariana Grande; March 11, 202335, “All of Me,” John Legend; May 17, 201432, “Needed Me,” Rihanna; Sept. 24, 201632, “Go Crazy,” Chris Brown & Young Thug; Dec. 6, 202031, “You,” Lloyd feat. Lil Wayne; Feb. 17, 200731, “Mutt,” Leon Thomas; Aug. 23, 2025 In addition to its Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs victory, “Mutt” cruises to an 18th week at No. 1 on the Hot R&B Songs chart and climbs 20-17 on the all-genre Billboard Hot 100, where it reached a No. 12 best in June. “Mutt,” from Thomas’ album of the same name, gives its creator a triple win as a performer, a co-producer and a co-writer, earning his first Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs No. 1 in each capacity. As a producer and writer, Thomas’ prior best result came via SZA’s “Snooze,” which peaked at No. 2 on the chart for 13 nonconsecutive weeks in September 2023 – February 2024. Elsewhere, “Mutt” refuses to surrender its radio stranglehold in the R&B/hip-hop realm, posting a ninth week at No. 1 on the plays-based Mainstream R&B/Hip-Hop Airplay chart (up 1% for the week) and sixth frame in charge of the audience-based R&B/Hip-Hop Airplay ranking (also up 1%). Source link

Ninajirachi knew she was writing music about a deep relationship, but she was also aware that her songs weren’t about a romantic interest, or a friend, a parent or a pet. Eventually, she realized they were about her laptop. Explore See latest videos, charts and news And why not, given how much time the Australian producer has spent with the effectively sentient machine, a constant companion that connected her to a world of music then made it possible for her to make her own? “No one in the world knows me better,” she sings on her cheekily but tellingly titled track “I Want to F–k My Computer.” The song is a centerpiece of I Love My Computer, the debut Ninajirachi album released on Aug. 8 via NLV Records. Much like its maker, the 12-track project is smart, stylish and ebullient, with a bit of edge and a lot of observations on living and loving in our computer world. With the album, the 26-year-old Australian producer/songwriter/singer steps further into a spotlight she’s been carving out for years with her musical releases, her Dark Crystal party series that happen in Australia and increasingly big and continent-spanning shows in Australia, Asia, Europe and North America. These include a turn on the EDC Las Vegas mainstage during her debut at the festival this past May and a recent three-show run supporting one of her musical heroes, Porter Robinson, on his Australia tour this past February. Her own biggest U.S. tour to dates starts on Sept. 5, with six of the 17 shows already sold out. “I don’t feel like I entirely fit in in the EDM world,” she says. “I don’t entirely fit in in the Australian dance thing, so I’m happy to just do my thing and whoever likes it can come and check it out.” The name Ninajirachi has been in the dance world zeitgeist since the artist was a highschooler named Nina Wilson in Gosford, New South Wales, a town with approximately 4,800 residents – a population smaller than some of the crowds she’d eventually play for. It was in her bedroom in Gosford that she discovered electronic music over the internet, falling for artists like Robinson, Flume and more during the EDM golden age. “I feel really excited to be alive at the time of internet music that feels like it’s everywhere,” she says. She began uploading her productions to SoundCloud when she was 16, with one of the tracks catching the attention of taste-making Australian radio host, DJ and label owner Nina Las Vegas, who put Ninajirachi’s “Pure Luck” into heavy rotation on the country’s influential radio station Triple J. Ninajirachi was a 2016 and 2017 finalist in Triple J’s Unearthed High competition, which sought out the best talent among Australian high schoolers. The two Ninas eventually met IRL when Las Vegas was speaking on a panel and Ninajirachi was in the audience. “She said hello to me, but I didn’t know if it was because she was really saying hello to me or just being polite to this girl who was ogling her,” Ninajirachi says now. It was the former. Nina Las Vegas later sent a message saying they should meet for coffee and make music together. “I went to her apartment, and we made a song that ended up being on her EP, and we just kept doing sessions and having coffees,” Ninajirachi says. “I’d made my first EP, and I was showing it to her, and she was like, ‘Oh, do you want me to put it out?’ I was like, ‘Yes, that would be crazy cool.” This project, Lapland, came out in 2019, with all of Ninajirachi’s subsequent releases also dropping via NLV Records. In 2019, Ninajirachi signed with Matt Downey of Seven20 for management. “It’s like a small team, and NLV Records is independent, so it’s usually just me, Matt, Nina and [visual collaborator] Aria [Zarzycki] in a group chat, like ‘AHHH!’” she jokes of the general pace of things. While the subsequent years contained many career building blocks (including a 2023 collab with ISOxo on his excellent kidsgonemad! album) Ninajirachi says she really felt the momentum shift this past March after a run of Australian headlining sets. She played her then unreleased single “All I Am” during each of these shows, which created a subsequent surge of support for the track when it dropped on February 25. The song now has nearly two million streams on Spotify alone, marking her biggest release on the streamer to date. This momentum was buoyed by Ninajirachi’s slot on the lineups for Australia’s touring festival Laneway, which she played all four editions of in Sydney, Melbourne, Perth and Adelaide this past February. Charli xcx was the festival’s headliner, with Ninajirachi feeling that Charli fans “might just like my music.” The same was true when she’d played the three shows supporting Robinson, a move that not only satisfied her teenage self, but exposed her to likeminded fans. “I found that even some of his fans outside of Australia have discovered my music just from me being on the poster, which is really cool.” she says. “His fans are so loyal, and they seem to get into whatever he shows them.” The momentum all lead up to the release of I Love My Computer earlier this month, with the project marking a creative cohesion of sounds and concepts for the producer. “I didn’t want to just make a bunch of music and slap a title on it and call that my first album,” Ninajirachi says. “I love albums, and my favorite albums feel like they have a big visual identity and so much great world-building and lore and you can make an elevator pitch about what they’re about. I just didn’t feel like I had an idea for an album, until I made this one.” This idea is simultaneously personal and universal, as Ninajirachi uses the music to explore her own musical awakening via the songs and scenes she found on the internet, speaking to

Bad Omens debut at No. 1 on Billboard’s Hot Hard Rock Songs chart dated Aug. 23 with “Specter,” snagging the Richmond, Va., band its second ruler on the multimetric survey. “Specter” bows with 3.5 million official U.S. streams, 644,000 radio audience impressions and 3,000 sold in the week ending Aug. 14, according to Luminate. The song was released Aug. 8 at 8 p.m. ET, making for nearly a full seven-day first tracking week. Related The song’s download count sends it to a No. 1 debut on Hard Rock Digital Song Sales as well, marking the band’s third leader, following “Just Pretend: in 2022-23 and “V.A.N.,” with Poppy, in 2024. “Specter” additionally starts at No. 16 on Hard Rock Streaming Songs and is bubbling under both the Mainstream Rock Airplay and Alternative Airplay charts. “Just Pretend” became Bad Omens’ previous No. 1 on Hot Hard Rock Songs, leading for a chart-record 51 weeks in 2022-24 (after the ranking began in 2020). In between reigns, the band earned a pair of No. 2-peaking songs in “The Death of Peace of Mind” (2023) and “V.A.N.” (2024). “Specter” marks Bad Omens’ first debut at No. 1 on the tally. Concurrently, “Specter” opens at No. 19 on Hot Rock & Alternative Songs, the group’s best start, surpassing the No. 30 beginning of “Just Pretend.” It’s also No. 16 on the Hot 100’s Bubbling Under chart, Bad Omens’ first appearance there. “Specter” is currently a standalone single. Bad Omens’ most recent full-length, The Death of Peace of Mind, debuted and peaked at No. 11 on Top Hard Rock Albums in 2022 and has earned 834,000 equivalent album units to date. Daily newsletters straight to your inbox Sign Up Source link

BTS fans have permission to dance all the way to their nearest McDonald’s, which has unveiled a new set of adorable Happy Meal toys inspired by the seven-piece boy band. As announced Tuesday (Aug. 19), the fast-food chain will start rolling out new TinyTAN Happy Meals — which will each come with miniature toys modeled after RM, V, Jung Kook, Jin, Suga, Jimin and J-Hope — in just a few weeks. Each of the iconic red boxes will contain two of the figurines, meaning ARMY could theoretically assemble the whole band with as few as four McDonald’s orders. “You asked and we delivered,” the company wrote in a release. “This September, McDonald’s is teaming up with TinyTAN to launch the TinyTAN Happy Meal. On September 3, this group of lovable characters inspired by the seven members of BTS are heading to the Golden Arches with magical moments like never before!” The K-pop stars are just the latest inspirations for McDonald’s toys, which have been a quintessential part of its kids’ meals for decades. Recently, the chain has paired its Happy Meals with Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle x Hello Kitty, Minecraft and Crocs trinkets. The timing of its BTS-themed meals, however, couldn’t be better. After spending more than two years apart to work on solo music and complete South Korean military requirements, the septet has finally reunited and plans to come back with a new album and tour next year. “All seven of us will begin working closely together on new music,” the bandmates said in a joint statement in July. “Since it will be a group album, it will reflect each member’s thoughts and ideas. We’re approaching the album with the same mindset we had when we first started.” In the meantime, ARMY can catch up with the Bangtan Boys at McDonald’s locations all over the world. Get weekly rundowns straight to your inbox Sign Up Source link

Hoy, miércoles 20 de agosto, seguimos en el Ecomuseo de Valle del Ayuntamiento de Cabuérniga con el III Homenaje de la Sociedad Cántabra de Escritores a Augusto González de Linares. 📚✨ Hoy hemos disfrutado de la conferencia sobre «Mujer y Ciencia en la Edad de Plata» y ya tenemos algunas fotos del evento para compartir con vosotros. 📸 👉 El video de la jornada lo subiremos un poco más tarde, así que estad atentos. Y recordad que mañana jueves 21 tendremos la conferencia final sobre «Escritores ilustres de Cabuérniga». ¡No os lo perdáis! #Cabuérniga #HomenajeEscritores #CulturaCantabria #augustogonzálezdelinares Source