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Breach, the new album from Twenty One Pilots, tops this week’s fan-voted music poll. Music fans voted in a poll published Friday (Sept. 12) on Billboard, choosing the alt-rock duo’s latest LP as their favorite new release of the past week. Listeners gravitated toward Breach in a week that also saw new releases streaming in from Drake feat. Yeat & Julia Wolf, Ed Sheeran, JADE, Kali Uchis feat. Ravyn Lenae and more. An overwhelming majority of voters made the new Twenty One Pilots album their top choice, with the set bringing in 75% of the vote. Explore See latest videos, charts and news The latest studio album from Twenty One Pilots — aka Tyler Joseph and Josh Dun — was led by first single “The Contract” and second single “Drum Show,” and released in full via Fueled by Ramen on Sept. 12 along with a music video for the pair’s newest single, “City Walls.” Breach picks up on a narrative arc that began with 2015’s Blurryface and continued on 2018’s Trench, 2021’s Scaled and Icy and 2024’s Clancy. Twenty One Pilots kick off their fall Clancy Tour: Breach 2025 later this week. The run begins in Cincinnati, Ohio, on Sept. 18 and wraps on Oct. 26 in Los Angeles. Find a complete list of tour dates on their official website. Among the new releases trailing behind Breach this week are JADE’s new album That’s Showbiz Baby!, with 20% of the vote, and Ed Sheeran’s Play, with 2% of the vote. See the final results of this week’s poll below. Get weekly rundowns straight to your inbox Sign Up Source link

The 2025 Emmy Awards “In Memoriam” segment remembered the television industry talents who passed away over the past year with a poignant musical performance by Vince Gill and Lainey Wilson. Explore See latest videos, charts and news Gill and Wilson brought a duet of Gill’s “Go Rest High on That Mountain” to the Emmys stage in Los Angeles, Calif., Sunday night (Sept. 14). The country vocalists harmonized on the chorus and traded lead on the song’s verses. The tribute performance went on as the Emmys screen showed late performers and creatives including John Amos, Loni Anderson, Alan Bergman, Valerie Mahaffey, Julian McMahom, Quincy Jones, David Lynch, Ozzy Osbourne, Maggie Smith, Michelle Trachtenberg, Malcolm-Jamal Warner, George Wendt and more. “Go Rest High on That Mountain,” originally released in 1995 and the winner of two Grammys in 1996, marks its 30th anniversary this year with the release of an extended version of the song. Gill wrote “Go Rest High on That Mountain” following the death of Keith Whitley in 1989, and the death of his brother Bob in 1993. Sunday’s “In Memoriam” performance at the 77th annual Emmy Awards — which were hosted by comedian Nate Bargatze and broadcast on CBS — included a third verse not heard on the original recording of “Go Rest High on That Mountain”: “You’re safely home in the arms of Jesus/ Eternal life my brother’s found/ The day will come I know I’ll see him/ In that sacred place, on that holy ground,” Gill sang. Gill first performed the song with its additional verse in 2019 at Nashville’s Ryman Auditorium with wife Amy Grant, later explaining that he’d “always felt like something was missing.” The third verse is on Gill’s new recording of “Go Rest High on That Mountain” was released this week, just ahead of the Emmys. Get weekly rundowns straight to your inbox Sign Up Source link

SNL50: The Anniversary Special won outstanding variety special (live) at the 2025 Primetime Emmys, beating an exceptionally high-powered field of nominees — The Apple Music Super Bowl LIX Halftime Show Starring Kendrick Lamar, Beyoncé Bowl, SNL50: The Homecoming Concert and The Oscars. The awards were held on Sunday (Sept. 14) at the Ovation Theater at L.A. Live. Comedian Nate Bargatze served as host. Lorne Michaels, the show’s longtime executive producer, accepted the award by saying, “I won this award for the first time 50 years ago, in 1975. I was younger and I had a lot of dreams — and not one of those dreams was that I’d still be doing the same show for the next 50 years, however here we are. I want to thank NBC and Comcast for their support. The show was two years in the making.” [Editor’s Note: Michaels first won 49 years ago, in 1976.] This was the 106th Primetime Emmy that SNL has won in competition, combining the flagship series and anniversary specials. That’s nearly twice as many Emmys as the runner-up show in total Emmy wins, Game of Thrones, with 59 awards. (SNL’s total does not count Hall of Fame citations to the show and its first-season cast.) This was the third SNL anniversary special to win a top program Emmy. Saturday Night Live: The 25th Anniversary Special won outstanding variety, music or comedy special in 2000. The Saturday Night Live 40th Anniversary Special won outstanding variety special in 2015. It’s rare for a special based on a regular TV program to win a top program Emmy. Three “Carpool Karaoke” specials based on the popular segment on The Late Late Show Starring James Corden won outstanding variety special (pre-recorded) from 2016 to 2019. In addition, five “Carpool Karaoke” specials won outstanding short-form program awards. The West Wing Documentary Special won outstanding special class program in 2002. Live in Front of a Studio Audience: Norman Lear’s All in the Family and The Jeffersons won outstanding variety special (live) in 2019. A similar special, Live in Front of a Studio Audience: All in the Family and Good Times, won in the same category the following year. Lorne Michaels was executive producer of SNL50: The Anniversary Special; it was his 24th Primetime Emmy (not counting his induction into the TV Hall of Fame in 1999). Though she lost in the highest-profile variety category, Beyoncé won her first Primetime Emmy for Beyoncé Bowl prior to the main telecast — a juried award for outstanding costumes for variety, nonfiction or reality programming. Likewise, though Kendrick Lamar lost in the highest-profile variety category, he won at the Creative Arts Emmys for outstanding music direction. He won in tandem with Tony Russell. SNL50: The Anniversary Special featured several musical performances. Paul Simon and Sabrina Carpenter performed Simon & Garfunkel’s “Homeward Bound” as a cold open. Other performances were Miley Cyrus and Brittany Howard teaming on the Prince song “Nothing Compares 2 U” (a song also famously recorded by Sinéad O’Connor), Adam Sandler playing “50 Years” (which received an Emmy nod for outstanding music and lyrics at last weekend’s Creative Arts Emmys), Lil Wayne and The Roots performing a hip-hop medley, and Paul McCartney performing the prized closing sequence from The Beatles’ 1969 masterwork Abbey Road. Though the anniversary special won eight awards, SNL lost outstanding scripted variety series to Last Week Tonight With John Oliver for the third year in a row. John Oliver’s program has won an outstanding series award for 10 consecutive years. It won outstanding variety talk series for seven years before being moved to its current category, where it has won for three straight years. Source link

Hermeto Pascoal, the eccentric and prolific Brazilian multi-instrumentalist, composer and arranger known affectionately as “The Sorcerer of Sounds” and “The Mad Genius,” has died. He was 89. Explore See latest videos, charts and news “With serenity and love, we announce that Hermeto Pascoal has passed on to the spiritual realm, surrounded by family and fellow musicians,” his family and team said in a statement late Saturday (Sept. 13) on Instagram. The statement did not provide a cause of death or say where he had died. Pascoal was an instantly recognizable figure with his mane of white hair and thick beard. He created music that defied fixed labels and blended jazz, samba, Brazilian popular music (MPB), bossa nova, chorinho and forro. An accomplished pianist, accordionist and flautist, Pascoal also used more unconventional objects to produce sounds, including pints of beer, dolls, body parts, tea cups, and — perhaps most famously — live pigs. On his 1977 album Slaves Mass, Pascoal squeezed a piglet to make it squeal for the opening of a track. A photo of him with the animal in his arms appeared on its back cover. Born on June 22, 1936, in Alagoas, a state in Brazil’s poor northeast, his albino condition allowed him to escape working in the fields under the harsh sun. He taught himself to play his father’s accordion instead. At age 14, Pascoal moved with his family to the port city of Recife, where he continued to develop his skills and performed on local radio stations. He later headed to Rio de Janeiro and Sao Paulo. During the 1960s, he worked with drummer and percussionist Airto Moreira, who took Pascoal on tour to the U.S., where he met Miles Davis. Pascoal played on Davis’ 1971 album Live-Evil. The meeting with Miles kickstarted an international career that continued well into Pascoal’s 80s.“I was born music; I haven’t done anything without music,” he told Brazilian newspaper Folha de S.Paulo in 2024. “What I write on a toilet bowl is as important as what I write on any paper, because music is sacred.” As noted by the Barbican, a London venue where Pascoal was due to play in November, the artist was known as an “iconic Brazilian composer” who created more than 10,000 compositions. Tributes for Pascoal poured in after the announcement of his death. “Brazilian music and culture owe a great deal to Hermeto Pascoal,” President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva of Brazil said Saturday on X. Pascoal’s “talent and tireless creativity (…) earned him international acclaim and influenced generations of musicians around the world,” he added. Caetano Veloso said on Instagram that Pascoal is “one of the highest points in the history of music in Brazil.” Pascoal leaves behind six children. Source link

With the KPop Demon Hunters soundtrack reaching No. 1 on the Billboard 200 (dated Sept. 20) after seven nonconsecutive weeks at No. 2, it completes the longest wait an album has endured in the runner-up spot before hitting No. 1 in nearly a half-century. Explore See latest videos, charts and news The last No. 1 album to wait as long or longer at No. 2 before ascending to the top was Linda Ronstadt’s Simple Dreams in late 1977. The set debuted at No. 43 on the chart dated Sept. 24 of that year and then spent its next nine weeks locked at No. 2 (Oct. 1-Nov. 26) before finally hitting No. 1 on the Dec. 3 chart. For all nine weeks Simple Dreams was at No. 2 on the Billboard 200 before hitting No. 1, it was blocked from the top by Fleetwood Mac’s monster hit Rumours, which spent a total of 31 nonconsecutive weeks at No. 1 in 1977-78. The Simple Dreams album launched four top 40-charted hits on the Billboard Hot 100, including two top 10s. Its first single, “Blue Bayou,” hit No. 3, and was followed by “It’s So Easy” (No. 5), “Poor Poor Pitiful Me” (No. 31) and “Tumbling Dice” (No. 32). “Blue Bayou” also scored Ronstadt a pair of Grammy Award nominations, for record of the year (her only career nomination in the category) and best pop vocal performance, female. Simple Dreams marked Ronstadt’s second of three No. 1s and spent five total weeks at No. 1, all consecutive (Dec. 3-31), the most weeks atop the list of her leaders. Heart Like a Wheel and Living in the USA each spent one week on top, in 1975 and 1978, respectively. In Between Simple Dreams and KPop Demon Hunters, two albums spent nearly as lengthy a time at No. 2 before hitting No. 1 — and they were both by the same act. Celine Dion’s Falling Into You and Let’s Talk About Love both spent five weeks at No. 2 before climbing to No. 1, in 1996 and 1998, respectively. On the Oct. 5, 1996 chart, Falling Into You rose 4-1, after having spent five nonconsecutive weeks at No. 2. Falling Into You became Dion’s first of five leaders and spent three nonconsecutive weeks on top. Before it hit No. 1, Falling Into You was blocked from the top by Alanis Morissette’s Jagged Little Pill for four of its weeks at No. 2 and Pearl Jam’s No Code for one week. Dion’s next album, Let’s Talk About Love, also had five nonconsecutive weeks in the runner-up position before hitting No. 1. It climbed 2-1 on the Jan. 17, 1998, chart. Before it reached No. 1, Let’s Talk About Love was blocked from the top by Metallica’s ReLoad for one week and Garth Brooks’ Sevens for four weeks. Let’s Talk About Love had great timing when it reached No. 1 for its one and only week atop the list. The week it hit No. 1, the Titanic soundtrack (which shared a song with Let’s Talk About Love in Dion’s “My Heart Will Go On”) sailed 31-11. The next week, on the Jan. 24 chart, Titanic steamed 11-1, for its first of 16 weeks (all consecutive) at No. 1 (Jan. 24-May 9). For 12 of those weeks, Let’s Talk About Love was No. 2 behind Titanic. With all this talk of albums spending a long time at No. 2 before reaching No. 1, one might be wondering what album holds the record for the most weeks at No. 2 without going to No. 1. The answer is Stray Cats’ Built for Speed, which spent 15 weeks at its No. 2 peak in 1982-83. It was blocked from No. 1 by Men at Work’s Business as Usual (13 weeks) and Michael Jackson’s Thriller (two weeks). It’s free Billboard charts month! Through Sept. 30, subscribers to Billboard’s Chart Beat newsletter, emailed each Friday, can unlock access to Billboard’s weekly and historical charts, artist chart histories and all Chart Beat stories simply by visiting the newly redesigned Billboard.com through any story link in the newsletter. Not a Chart Beat subscriber? Sign up for free here. Source link

Bobby Hart, a key part of the the Monkees’ multimedia empire who teamed with Tommy Boyce on such hits as “Last Train to Clarksville” and “I’m Not Your Steppin’ Stone,” has died. He was 86. Explore See latest videos, charts and news Hart died at his home in Los Angeles, according to his friend and co-author Glenn Ballantyne. He had been in poor health since breaking his hip last year. Boyce and Hart were a prolific and successful team in the mid-1960s, especially for the Monkees, the made-for-television group promoted by Don Kirshner. They wrote the Monkees’ theme song, with its opening shot, “Here we come, walkin’ down the street,” and its enduring chant, “Hey, hey, we’re the Monkees,” and their first No. 1 hit, “Last Train to Clarksville.” The Monkees’ eponymous, million-selling debut album included six songs from Boyce and Hart, who also served as producers and used their own backing musicians, the Candy Store Prophets, as session players. “I always credit them not only with writing many of our biggest hits, but, as producers, being instrumental in creating the unique Monkee sound we all know and love,” the Monkees’ Micky Dolenz wrote in a foreword to Hart’s memoir, Psychedelic Bubblegum, published in 2015. As Boyce and Hart grew in fame and the Monkees took more control of their work, they pursued their own careers, releasing the albums Test Patterns and I Wonder What She’s Doing Tonite and appearing on such sitcoms as I Dream of Jeannie and Bewitched. They also were politically active. They campaigned for Robert F. Kennedy when he ran for president in 1968 and wrote the brassy “L.U.V. (Let Us Vote)” in support of the 26th Amendment, which in 1971 lowered the voting age from 21 to 18. Their other songs included the Monkees’ melancholy “I Wanna Be Free” and the theme to the daytime soap opera Days of Our Lives. They were covered by everyone from Dean Martin (“Little Lovely One”) to the Sex Pistols (“I’m Not Your Steppin’ Stone”). In the 1970s and ‘80s, Hart managed several hits with other collaborators and even contributed material to another TV act, the Partridge Family. He worked with Austin Roberts on “Over You,” an Oscar-nominated ballad performed by Betty Buckley in “Tender Mercies,” and with Dick Eastman on “My Secret (Didja Gitit Yet?)” for New Edition. He and Bryce toured with Dolenz and fellow Monkee Davy Jones in the ‘70s, put out the album Dolenz, Jones, Boyce & Hart and received renewed attention when the Monkees enjoyed a comeback in the 1980s. Boyce, who died in 1994, and Hart were the subjects of a 2014 documentary The Guys Who Wrote ‘Em. Hart was married twice, most recently to singer Mary Ann Hart, and had two children from his first marriage. He was a minister’s son, born Robert Luke Harshman in Phoenix, Arizona. In his memoir, he remembered himself as a shy kid with a “strong desire to distinguish” himself, as he wrote in Psychedelic Bubblegum. Music was the answer. By high school, he had learned piano, guitar and the Hammond B-3 organ. He also started his own amateur radio station, eventually adding a console, turntables and microphones. After graduating from high school and serving in the Army reserves, he settled in Los Angeles in the late 1950s, hoping first to become a disc jockey, but soon working as a songwriter and session musician. His name shortened to Bobby Hart, he toured as a member of Teddy Randazzo and the Dazzlers, and with Randazzo and Bobby Weinstein wrote “Hurt So Bad,” a hit for Little Anthony and the Imperials later covered by Linda Ronstadt. He also befriended Boyce, a singer and songwriter from Charlottesville, Virginia, with a “very unusual personality, spontaneous and extroverted, yet very cool at the same time.” Boyce and Hart helped write the top 10 hit “Come a Little Bit Closer” for Jay and the Americans and were a strong enough combination that Kirshner recruited them for his Screen Gems songwriting factory: They were assigned to the Monkees. Asked to come up with songs for a quartet openly modeled on the Beatles, they devised a twangy guitar line similar to the one for “Paperback Writer” and wrote “Last Train to Clarksville,” a chart topper in 1966. When Kirshner suggested a song with a girl’s name in the title, they turned out “Valleri” and reached the top 5. For the show’s theme song, a stroll outside was enough. “Boyce began strumming his guitar and I joined in by snapping my fingers & making noises with my mouth that simulated an open & closed hi-hat cymbal,” Hart wrote in his memoir. “We had created the perfect recipe for inspiration and started singing about just what we were doing: ‘Walkin’ down the street.’” Source link

With 16 shows already under his belt for the North America leg of his Breezy Bowl XX Tour, Chris Brown landed in Los Angeles Saturday night (Sept. 13) for the first of a two-date stand at SoFi Stadium. And during the two-time Grammy winner’s 2 ½-hour set, Brown proved once more what a consummate artist/performer he’s become as he celebrates 20 years in music with his legion of fans. Explore See latest videos, charts and news From the moment Brown rose up onstage to a standing ovation — buttressed by resounding cheers and shout-outs — to when he triumphantly exited alongside his team of masterful dancers, he kept the audience engaged the entire time. As noted by Billboard and in other media coverage since the tour’s U.S. leg kicked off on July 30 in Miami, Brown’s show is comprised of four acts complemented by various video segments, album cover images and photo flashbacks: Rise, Fall (during which Brown is seen on video addressing his legal issues over the years), Fantasy and Legacy. The most moving montage came towards the show’s end, in which Brown is seen interacting with his three children. During each of the acts, an indefatigable Brown performs key songs associated with those time periods in his career. Drawing from an estimable catalog of 50+ hits and fan faves, the set list ranges from “Run It!” (his first Hot 100 No. 1 in 2005), “Gimme That” and “Ayo” to “Deuces,” “She Ain’t You,” “Kiss Kiss” and other points in between. Among the songs garnering raves and raucous sing-alongs from Saturday night’s audience were “Loyal,” “She Ain’t You,” “Under the Influence,” “Yeah 3x,” “No Guidance” and “Sensational.” Brown’s agile tenor-to-falsetto vocals remain just as supple as his still superlative dancing skills. He was in constant motion throughout the show: whirling, twirling and twisting in tandem with maneuvering fleet-footed, endlessly smooth moves that defy the eyes — reminiscent of Michael Jackson, whose Bad album image was featured on one of the T-shirts that Brown wore during his performance. Just as fluid were the moves being made by his team of female and male dancers, who helped maintain the evening’s high energy level. As did the rabid fans who packed SoFi Stadium from its rafters to the ground floor. Their excitement and pre-show anticipation were palpable prior to the 8:25 p.m. start time. Long lines of fans stretched in front of the merch booth, while others cruised throughout the stadium to their seats and elsewhere in the venue wearing T-shirts emblazoned with Brown’s visage. Also adding to the anticipation: a giant balloon rendering of Brown stationed alongside the stage. On either side of the stage were giant video screens which gave everyone in the venue a bird’s-eye view of Brown and his crew. Brown made engaging his fans a top priority, playing both the main stage but also working his way up and down a catwalk that midway along stretched into two long side extensions for him and his dancers to do their thing. At one point during the Fantasy act, Brown donned a harness and flew high over the crowd to perform on a platform located at the other end of the venue. Admirably holding their own — and demonstrating how they’ve leveled up over the course of their own careers — were opening acts Summer Walker and Bryson Tiller. Also playing a key role was DJ Fresh, whose pre-show appearance set the tone for the evening as he took fans down memory lane with tracks by Mariah Carey, Michael Jackson, Too $hort and Selena while simultaneously pumping up anticipation with the query, “Where are my day-one Chris Brown fans?” Acknowledging his fans before leaving the stage at 10:55 p.m., Brown said, in part, and to more cheers, “California, I just want to thank you all. I call this my home too. You’ve always come out and showed your support. I’m just really appreciative and thankful for everybody in this building tonight … I love you all so much.” The one clear takeaway after the show: 20 years later, Chris Brown is still having fun — and has no intention of slowing down. Marking Brown’s first stadium tour, Breezy Bowl XX kicked off in Europe in early June and wrapped its international leg in Paris in July. After launching its North American leg in Miami on July 30, Breezy Bowl concludes its two-night stand in Los Angeles Sunday, Sept. 14, then heads to San Diego (Sept. 17) and other stops, including Denver (Sept. 24), Atlanta (Oct. 3) and Washington, D.C. (Oct. 8), before closing in Memphis (Oct. 18). Source link

Travis Kelce is sharing a few more details about his engagement to Taylor Swift. In a pre-game interview ahead of the Kansas City Chiefs vs. Philadelphia Eagles matchup on Sunday (Sept. 14), the NFL star sat down with NFL on FOX to open up about the moment he popped the big question to the pop superstar. “The palms were definitely sweating,” the Chiefs tight end told sportscaster Erin Andrews in a clip shared on Instagram. “I’m an emotional guy, so there were a few tears here and there. It’s been an exciting ride up to this day, and I can’t wait to spend the rest of my life with her.” While Kelce kept most of the details private, he added that he’d let Swift “tell that story.” The highly anticipated game at Arrowhead Stadium in Kansas City, Missouri, marks a Super Bowl LIX rematch between the Chiefs and the Eagles. It was unclear whether Swift will be in attendance to cheer on her fiancé from the stands as of press time. Kelce’s pre-game interview comes just weeks after he and Swift announced their engagement in late August, sharing photos on Instagram of the athlete proposing on one knee in a rose-filled garden. “Your English teacher and your gym teacher are getting married,” they captioned the post. The couple’s engagement follows nearly two years of dating. Fans first caught wind of Kelce’s crush on Swift during a 2023 episode of the New Heights podcast, which he co-hosts with his brother, Jason Kelce. At the time, he shared his disappointment over not being able to give Swift a friendship bracelet with his phone number during one of her Eras Tour stops in Kansas City. Now, as the couple looks ahead to wedding planning, both stars are also gearing up for major milestones in their respective careers. Kelce launched his 13th NFL season earlier this month, while Swift is preparing to release her 12th album, The Life of a Showgirl, on Oct. 3. Watch Kelce’s full pre-game interview on NFL on FOX below. Get weekly rundowns straight to your inbox Sign Up Source link

The soundtrack to Netflix’s animated film KPop Demon Hunters hits No. 1 on the Billboard 200 albums chart for the first time, rising 2-1 on the chart dated Sept. 20, after seven nonconsecutive weeks in the runner-up slot. The set earned 128,000 equivalent album units in the United States in the week ending Sept. 11 (up 7%), according to Luminate, marking the album’s best week yet. The surge to No. 1 follows the album’s deluxe reissue on Sept. 5 with additional tracks, plus the wide release of its CD that day. KPop Demon Hunters’ rise to No. 1 on the Billboard 200 was preceded by four top 10-charted hits on the Billboard Hot 100 songs chart — the most from a soundtrack in nearly 30 years, with the soundtrack the first ever with four simultaneous top 10s. Among those is the No. 1 “Golden” by HUNTR/X — the trio of EJAE, Audrey Nuna and REI AMI (the singing voices of the film’s characters Rumi, Mira and Zoey). KPop Demon Hunters is the Billboard 200’s first No. 1 soundtrack in three-and-a-half years, since another animated film, Encanto, saw its companion album spend nine nonconsecutive weeks on top (Jan. 15-March 19, 2022). Notably, as KPop Demon Hunters climbs to No. 1 in its 12th week on the chart, it completes the longest wait to reach No. 1 since Toby Keith’s 2008 release 35 Biggest Hits re-entered the chart at No. 1 on the Feb. 17, 2024-dated list, following his death that Feb. 5. The last album with a longer continuous climb to No. 1 than KPop Demon Hunters was The Kid LAROI’s F*ck Love, which jumped 26-1 in its 53rd consecutive chart week, on the Aug. 7, 2021, list. The latter vaulted to No. 1 following two reissues during that tracking week. Meawhile, the last soundtrack to take a longer journey to No. 1 was O Brother, Where Art Thou?, which rose 2-1 in its 63rd continuous week on the chart, on the March 23, 2002-dated list. Its ascent to the top was aided by its Grammy Award win for album of the year at the 44th annual ceremony that Feb. 27. Plus, KPop Demon Hunters spent seven nonconsecutive weeks at No. 2 on the Billboard 200 before reaching No. 1. That’s the longest wait an album endured in the runner-up spot before leading the Billboard 200 in nearly a half-century: In October-November 1977, Linda Ronstadt’s Simple Dreams logged nine weeks at No. 2 before topping the chart at last. (Stray Cats’ Built for Speed holds the record for the most weeks peaking at No. 2: 15 in 1982-83.) Also in the top 10 of the latest Billboard 200: Justin Bieber’s SWAG vaults 17-4 following its deluxe expansion with 23 additional tracks, and sombr’s I Barely Know Her reaches the top 10 for the first time, rising 12-10 in its third week, following the artist’s performance on the MTV Video Music Awards (Sept. 7). The Billboard 200 chart ranks the most popular albums of the week in the U.S. based on multi-metric consumption as measured in equivalent album units, compiled by Luminate. Units comprise album sales, track equivalent albums (TEA) and streaming equivalent albums (SEA). Each unit equals one album sale, or 10 individual tracks sold from an album, or 3,750 ad-supported or 1,250 paid/subscription on-demand official audio and video streams generated by songs from an album. The new Sept. 20, 2025-dated chart will be posted in full on Billboard‘s website on Sept. 16. For all chart news, follow @billboard and @billboardcharts on both X, formerly known as Twitter, and Instagram. Of KPop Demon Hunters’ 128,000 equivalent album units earned in the latest tracking week, SEA units comprise 103,000 (up less than 1%, equaling 141.08 million on-demand official streams of the set’s tracks — it rises 2-1 on Top Streaming Albums for its first week on top), album sales comprise 23,000 (up 56%; it’s pushed down 3-4 on Top Album Sales) and TEA units comprise 2,000 (down 7%). In the tracking week, the soundtrack got a boost from its deluxe reissue as a digital download and streaming album on Sept. 5 with 23 additional tracks. The additional cuts are mostly sing-along, instrumental and a cappella versions of the album’s hit songs. The album’s sales gain was aided by the wide release of its standard 12-track CD to brick-and-mortar retailers. It is available in five CD variants, each containing a poster and randomized photocard. A vinyl release for the project is expected Oct. 17. KPop Demon Hunters premiered on June 20 in a limited theatrical release in the U.S. (in three movie theaters), and on Netflix, alongside its soundtrack. The film returned to theaters, this time nationwide, for a limited engagement on Aug. 23-24 as a sing-along version. The same sing-along version hit Netflix on Aug. 25. In the tracking week ending Sept. 7, the animated film was No. 2 in its 12th week on Netflix’s Top 10 Movies in United States chart, with four of those weeks at No. 1. The movie now stands as the most popular original Netflix film to date. KPop Demon Hunters is the seventh animated film soundtrack to reach No. 1 on the Billboard 200, since the list began publishing on a regular weekly basis in March 1956. It follows Encanto (nine weeks at No. 1, 2022), Frozen II (one week, 2019), Frozen (13, 2014), Jack Johnson’s Curious George (one, 2006), Pocahontas (one, 1995) and The Lion King (10, 1994-95). KPop Demon Hunters ends a dry spell for soundtracks at No. 1 on the Billboard 200. It’s been three years and six months since Encanto spent its ninth and final week atop the list (dated March 19, 2022). That’s the longest the chart has gone without a soundtrack at No. 1 since the three-year and nearly eight-month gap between the second and final week at No. 1 for Armageddon (July 25, 1998) and the first of two weeks at No. 1 for O Brother, Where Art Thou?

Morgan Wallen took a heartfelt moment during his recent concert in Canada to honor Erika Kirk, the grieving widow of conservative activist Charlie Kirk. Performing at Edmonton’s Commonwealth Stadium on Friday (Sept. 12), the 32-year-old country superstar paused midway through the show to share an emotional message. Just days earlier, Erika’s husband had been assassinated during a public speaking event in Utah. “I’m not gonna say a whole bunch on this, but this song right here has been hitting me harder in the last couple days,” Wallen said in fan-captured footage. “I just wanted to let Erika Kirk know that me and my family are sending prayers her way.” Wallen then dedicated his song “I’m a Little Crazy” — which reached No. 17 on the Billboard Hot chart in April 2025 — to the Kirk family, inviting the crowd to join in and sing along. Charlie Kirk, 31, was a popular conservative activist and the co-founder of Turning Point USA. He was shot on Sept. 10 during a Q&A session at a “The American Comeback Tour” event hosted by the organization at Utah Valley University in Orem, Utah. He was later pronounced dead. Kirk is survived by his wife, Erika, and their two young children. The suspected gunman, Tyler Robinson, was taken into custody the following day. Wallen wasn’t the only artist to honor Kirk over the weekend. That same evening, Coldplay frontman Chris Martin addressed fans at the band’s Wembley Stadium show in London, asking the audience to “send love anywhere you want to send it in the world,” including to “Charlie Kirk’s family.” Numerous other music artists — including Sheryl Crow, Jason Aldean, Kane Brown, Breland, Lauren Alaina, Gavin Adcock, Parker McCollum, CeCe Winans, and Michael W. Smith — also shared tributes and reactions on social media in response to Kirk’s death. A public memorial service for Kirk is scheduled for Sept. 21 at State Farm Stadium in Glendale, Arizona, home of the NFL’s Arizona Cardinals. Source link