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Game knows game. Weezer and Oasis are solid proof. Oasis, the record-smashing Britpop heavyweights who set the record with the U.K.’s fastest-selling album (with 1997’s Be Here Now) and saw all seven of their studio albums reach the summit on the national chart, took time out to praise Weezer and its frontman Rivers Cuomo. Liam Gallagher in 2005 called Cuomo his “favorite rock star,” rare kudos for the famously surly singer. Explore See latest videos, charts and news The love goes in both directions. “We think very highly of them as well,” Weezer’s Brian Bell tells Rolling Stone Australia. The Weezer rhythm guitarist, keyboardist, backing vocalist, and occasional lead vocalist,  recounted a moment at a rehearsal space in London during the ’90s. The American indie band was taking time out in a common area when Liam strutted past and shouted, “Buddy Holly. Top tune, mate!” “That kind of respect and accolade from someone that you revere,” Bell enthuses, “is the best thing you could possibly hear from somebody. Those kind of things matter by somebody you revere. So whatever he thinks of us, we think highly of them as well. If they think lowly of us, we still think highly of them.” Bell has bought tickets for Oasis’ Live ’25 Tour date at Rose Bowl Stadium next month, having briefly entertained the idea of seeing the Brits play in Scotland to experience the “cultural phenomenon” in full. Oasis isn’t the only beloved ’90s band hitting the road this year. Weezer have live dates across the Americas through November, then the indie rockers head down under for a headline stint on the Good Things festival tour, which visits Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane in early December. “We’re doing great. We’re kind of having a renaissance in a way. It’s an exciting time for us creatively and in the band,” Bell explains over a Zoom call. “We’ve never got along so well, and everybody’s very happy. So it’s a good time.” That excitement might explain the band’s impressively productive spell during the pandemic, during which Weezer released six albums, including the Van Weezer project and the four album saga, Seasons. And an unexpected lift came last year, when Weezer’s self-titled collection (also known as the Blue Album) marched into Billboard 200 chart, at No. 87, following its 30th-anniversary deluxe reissue. Even a mysterious Weezer film is said to be in development. Cuomo got tongues wagging at Coachella earlier in the year, when he told the audience, “we’ve been busy making the Weezer movie back in L.A. the last couple weeks.” Bell admits “it’s possible” that new music could be premiered on international stages this year. “Anything’s likely,” he says. “We’ll play hits and things that people want to hear, but we also want to really enjoy the experience as well.” There’s “one song” he says the band has been brewing, which could make a setlist for a show near you. “It’s a great time to be alive for us.” Source link

Sting is being sued by his former Police bandmates Andy Summers and Stewart Copeland over alleged missing royalties for their signature song “Every Breath You Take,” according to reports published by the Los Angeles Times and other titles. Explore See latest videos, charts and news Summers and Copeland filed their lawsuit in London High Court, in which they claim they were never properly credited as songwriters on “Every Breath You Take,” their biggest hit in the U.S. The pair also claim they never received royalties for their contributions to it. Sting (real name: Gordon Matthew Sumner) and his publishing company, Magnetic Publishing, are listed as defendants in the suit. Released in 1983, “Every Breath You Take” went all the way to No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, the band’s first and only leader on the chart, and won a brace of Grammy Awards, for song of the year and best pop performance by a duo or group with vocals. The evergreen number grew wings when Summers’ arpeggio was sampled on Puff Daddy and Faith Evans’ Notorious B.I.G. tribute from 1997, “I’ll Be Missing You.” In 2023, Puff Daddy went on the record as saying he pays Sting $5,000 every day for the use of that sample, a comment he later walked back. In 2022, Sting sold his entire song catalog from his early days in The Police through his solo career to the Universal Music Publishing Group, a business decision that reunites his music publishing rights with his master recordings. While terms of that deal were not disclosed, Billboard previously reported that Sting had been shopping a music asset bundle that produced an annual royalty income stream of about $12-$13 million and was looking at a roughly $360 million payday. With their bleach-blonde hair, tight performances, and collection of radio friendly hits, including “Roxanne,” “Message In A Bottle”, “Walking On The Moon”, “Don’t Stand So Close To Me”, “Every Little Thing She Does,” “King Of Pain” and more, The Police were arguably the biggest band in the world, certainly for an album cycle or two. In the UK, the band landed five consecutive No. 1s on the Official UK Albums Chart. The bandmates went their separate ways after completing the 1984 world tour in support of the Synchronicity album, before reuniting briefly in 1986 for a rerecording in “Don’t Stand So Close To Me,” which appeared on a greatest hits collection. The former bandmates settled their differences to mount a 2007–2008 world tour, marking the 30th anniversary of their formation. Sting is booked to perform at QPAC’s Glasshouse Theatre in Brisbane next year, where he will present his musical The Last Ship. Source link

Longtime best friends Taylor Swift and Selena Gomez have shared a lot over the years — and now they get to share their engagement journeys. On Wednesday (Aug. 27) — the day after Swift and NFL star Travis Kelce shared that they’re getting married following two years of dating — Gomez shared the news on her Instagram Stories with the message: “When bestie gets engaged 🥰.” Gomez herself is also engaged, sharing the news back in December that she and pop producer Benny Blanco are getting married. “forever begins now..,” Gomez captioned the Instagram announcement, with Swift responding in the comments: “Yes I will be the flower girl.” In a second Instagram Stories post on Wednesday night, Gomez also shared a fan-made meme from X user @solelynostalgia. The meme shows a quote-tweet of a 2009 post from Swift, in which she wrote to Gomez: “Real love still happens sometimes. It’s not just something we make up when we’re nine. I have to believe that. You do too.” Above that nearly two-decade-old tweet, a message reads, “16 years later,” above side-by-side images of Swift and Gomez’s engagement photos. While they haven’t shared a wedding date, Gomez and Blanco’s nuptials are rumored to be coming very soon, with the girls trip the singer/actress was on this past weekend reported to be her bachelorette party. Swift and Gomez have been friends since 2008 — the year before Taylor’s sweet Twitter message about love. Their friendship started when they were both dating Jonas Brothers (Taylor dated Joe while Selena dated Nick), and Gomez said after their respective breakups: “I like to say the best thing we got out of those relationships was each other.” Get weekly rundowns straight to your inbox Sign Up Source link

Will Flavor Flav go from King Swiftie to Reverend Swiftie? After Tuesday’s news that Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce are engaged, the Public Enemy hype man is sharing his well-wishes for his favorite pop star in a new video message. “Flavor Flav right here in the building, a.k.a. King Swiftie,” Flav begins his video, posted Wednesday (Aug. 27) by TMZ. “I want to congratulate my girl Taylor Swift on her engagement to my boy Travis Kelce. Hey yo, check this out: I knew this was gonna happen. I could not wait for the day to happen, you know what I’m saying? Now my girl Taylor is engaged to my boy. I’m stoked!” Beyond Flav’s excitement for his pals, he also has a generous offer for the newly engaged couple.i “I can’t wait for the wedding. Not only that, but when y’all get married, let your boy Flavor Flav be the officiator,” he volunteers. “I would love to officiate the wedding, you know what I’m saying? But most of all, congratulations, Taylor and Travis. May God bless you all with the longest, [most] prosperous marriage ever, you hear me? I’m happy for you both. King Swiftie in the building, giving you all of my blessings. Taylor Swift, you got the gift.” Flavor Flav has been a vocal member of the Swifties fanbase since attending the Detroit stop of Swift’s blockbuster Eras Tour in 2023. He attended several Eras concerts after that and was often spotted trading friendship bracelets with fellow fans. Watch Flav’s message for Swift and Kelce here. Get weekly rundowns straight to your inbox Sign Up Source link

The Ye documentary In Whose Name? has released an explosive trailer, featuring appearances from Drake, Kim Kardashian and Elon Musk. Directed by Nico Ballesteros, the doc follows Ye (formerly Kanye West) from about 2018 until 2024 and is completely shot on an iPhone. The trailer jumps around from West’s deteriorating relationship with then-wife Kim Kardashian — who filed for divorce in 2021 — to his failed 2020 presidential run and Sunday Service performances. “The best thing about being an artist who’s bipolar is anything you do and say is an art piece,” Ye says in the clip. Explore See latest videos, charts and news The doc pulls the curtain back on Ye to give fans an authentic look at the method to his madness in recent years and what makes him one of the most polarizing artists of the 21st century. There are plenty of celebrity cameos, including studio sessions with Drake, Pharrell and Swizz Beatz. West is also shown walking out with Playboi Carti and Marilyn Manson at the Donda 2 listening party in Miami and delves into his relationship with his children. “Should I have blown up the Gap sh–? Should I have blown up the Adidas sh–? But the answer is yes,” he says, referencing his split with the companies following his antisemitic remarks in 2022. In Whose Name? will be released in about 1,000 theaters across the U.S. on Sept. 19 for a limited time. Tickets can be purchased on the doc’s website. “A documentary six years in the making,” a press release for the film reads. “3,000 hours of footage refined to one story about the world’s most polarizing living artist.” Watch the In Whose Name? trailer below. Get weekly rundowns straight to your inbox Sign Up Source link

Mariah Carey revealed all the songs that will be featured on her upcoming 16th studio album Here for It All on Wednesday (Aug. 27). The 11-track project includes two collaborations: “Play This Song” with Anderson .Paak and “Jesus I Do” with The Clark Sisters. .Paak also co-wrote the LP’s first single, “Type Dangerous,” and performed it alongside the elusive chanteuse and Rakim at the 2025 BET Awards in June, when MC won her first BET Award: the Ultimate Icon Award. “It was awesome to be able to work on her project. She’s amazing to work with, a great writer, great producer. So much fun. We had a lot of fun,” .Paak told Billboard‘s Tetris Kelly. “That was one of the last records we did in the studio, and it came together like so quick. She’s a big hip-hop head, so I wanted to try to find something that we could continue the lineage of her mixing the old with the new. And I think we got it with this one.” Carey is set to receive the Video Vanguard Award at the 2025 MTV Video Music Awards on Sept. 7, when she’ll also perform a career-spanning medley of hits on the show. Here for It All is due Sept. 26 via gamma. Following “Type Dangerous,” Carey released “Sugar Sweet,” featuring Shenseea and Kehlani, as the second single. It reached the top 20 of Hot R&B Songs. Both singles have gained traction on radio, with Mimi earning her first No. 1 on Adult R&B Airplay in almost 19 years with “Type Dangerous” and “Sugar Sweet” hitting No. 31 on R&B/Hip-Hop Airplay. See the Here For It All tracklist below. Get weekly rundowns straight to your inbox Sign Up Source link

According to meteorologist Adam Krueger’s professional opinion, love is definitely in the air following Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce‘s engagement. Ahead of his latest viral forecast, the Los Angeles weatherman received a bombardment of requests from Swifties that he incorporate the pop star’s 2008 smash “Love Story” into his next report. Considering the fact that Swift announced her engagement to the Kansas City Chiefs tight end on Tuesday, it’s not hard to guess why. Rising to the challenge, Krueger — who is known for paying tribute to various hit songs in his forecast — snuck several different “Love Story” lyrics into his on-air appearance, clips of which he posted to Instagram on Wednesday (Aug. 27). “I close my eyes and the flashback starts, I’m standing there on a balcony in summer air — sweaty,” he said when giving an update on the area’s heat. “That’s how hot it was.” “With heavy rain and strong winds — like Romeo, who was throwing pebbles — with a little bit of small hail coming down,” he continued, gesturing to a storm pattern on his screen. “All there’s left to do is run through the temperatures now.” It was kismet that Krueger also had tropical storm “Juliette” to report on. Playing on the lyric, “And my daddy said, ‘Stay away from Juliet,’” he warned that those who are nearby the dangerous weather event should “Stay away” from Juliette as much as possible. It’s not the first time the anchor — whose other recent weather-report themes have included KATSEYE, Kendrick Lamar and Eminem — has paid tribute to Swift. In January 2024, he devoted a forecast to her hit single “Karma,” similar to a Welsh meteorologist who gave a Swift-themed forecast that June to celebrate the Eras Tour coming to Wales. What makes Krueger’s latest address particularly impressive, though, is how quickly he turned it around. The presenter posted his video just one day after Swift and Kelce shared their big news by posting photos of the athlete down on one knee and the 14-time Grammy winner showing off her massive diamond ring, writing, “Your English teacher and your gym teacher are getting married.” Watch Krueger’s “Love Story” forecast below. Source link

Suge Knight believes Drake has been showing off a fake Death Row Records chain, which was never in 2Pac’s possession. On Tuesday, The Art of Dialogue podcast made a call to Knight, who remains behind bars in California serving a 28-year prison sentence. The Death Row founder says it was his idea to create a label chain, and claims he gave the first pendant to Snoop Dogg, who eventually switched it out for a dog paw. “When I came up with the idea to make the Death Row chain, one, it had never been done before,” he said. “Two, it was like wearing a, you know, it was like having your flag, your rag. You can’t tuck it, It means something.” Explore See latest videos, charts and news After bailing 2Pac out of jail in 1995, Knight promised the late rapper would be getting his own Death Row Records chain. However, Pac wanted the original that Suge rocked around his burly neck. “He’s like, ‘Sh–, you my big bro. Let me wear yours, that’s more important. I don’t want a first one, I want to wear the one you got,’” he recalled. Knight went on to call out Drake for wearing what he says is a “fake” chain and instructed him to go after whatever jeweler ripped him off for selling him what he thought was Pac’s chain. “That’s not 2Pac’s chain. It’s not a Death Row chain,” he claimed. “Whoever sold you that chain, Drake, you need to go beat his motherf—ing a–.” Over the weekend, Drake posted a photo of 2Pac’s All Eyez on Me cover art and then a photo of the blinged-out Death Row Records pendant, which people assumed was the one Pac had on for the album cover photo shoot. The back of the pendant is inscribed with: “All Eyez on YOU 1996.” Back in 2023, Drake became the owner of a gold, ruby and diamond crown ring previously owned by 2Pac and worn to the 1996 MTV Video Music Awards. Sotheby’s later confirmed that Drizzy purchased the ring for $1.1 million. Watch Suge’s interview below. Source link

Eden Muñoz notches his fifth consecutive No. 1 on Billboard’s Regional Mexican Airplay chart, and ninth overall, as “Lejos Estamos Mejor” lifts 2-1 on the ranking dated Aug. 30. It marks the singer-songwriter’s third straight No. 1 in 2025. Explore See latest videos, charts and news “A No. 1 on Billboard, along with this great song, is definitely a big career achievement,” Muñoz tells Billboard. “I’m happy because we can say that ‘Lejos Estamos Mejor’ has come to stay in the hearts of our people. Grateful to God, the team, and all those who connected with the song.” “Lejos Estamos Mejor” is the title track and second song from Muñoz’s Lejos Estamos Mejor EP (released via Sony Music Latin), after “Mi Primer Día Sin Ti” crowned Regional Mexican Airplay for one week in May. “Lejos” rises to No. 1 with 8.1 million audience impressions earned in the United States in the tracking week of Aug. 15-21, according to Luminate. For its coronation, the song surged 17% in impressions compared the prior week. With his new success, Muñoz secures a place among the most successful soloists of the 2020s, matching El Fantasma with nine crowns each. Here is that list of standout solo singers with the most No. 1s on Regional Mexican Airplay this decade: 14, Alejandro Fernández10, Christian Nodal9, Carin León9, Eden Munoz9, El Fantasma Elsewhere, Muñoz inches closer to the summit of the overall Latin Airplay chart, as the song rockets 7-2. Along with his 2024 duet with Yuridia, “Mi Eterno Amor Secreto,” this marks his highest position to date. Get weekly rundowns straight to your inbox Sign Up Source link

BOYNEXTDOOR scores its first-ever No. 1 on the Billboard Japan Hot 100, debuting atop the chart released Aug. 27 with “Count to Love.”  The track is off the K-pop boy band’s second Japan single “BOYLIFE.” The CD version dropped Aug. 20 following its digital release two days earlier. The song topped physical sales with 431,795 copies sold, significantly surpassing the first-week sales of the band’s previous single “AND,” while also coming in at No. 5 for radio airplay, No. 37 for video views, No. 32 for downloads, and No. 52 for streaming. Mrs. GREEN APPLE’s “Summer Shadow” holds at No. 2, where it bowed last week. This is the three-man band’s fifth new song of a five-month consecutive release streak for the second year running, and is being featured in Kirin Beverage’s Gogo no Kocha commercials. Streaming and downloads for the track are down, but radio airplay gained by approximately 2.3 times the week before. The prolific hitmakers have two other songs charting in the top 10: “KUSUSHIKI” at No. 9 and “Lilac” at No. 10. Explore See latest videos, charts and news HANA’s “Blue Jeans” also stays at No. 3. The song has held the top spot for streaming ever since its debut for six week straight, and while it slipped to No. 2 for video last week, it returns to No. 1 on the current chart. CD sales have also gained approx. 1.8 times week-over-week, from 1,400 copies to 2,533 copies. Sales have continued to climb following the first fan meeting for the seven-member girl group on Aug. 19 and 20.  There were three other debuts in the top 10 this week, with KID PHENOMENON’s “Sparkle Summer”at No. 4, SWEET STEADY’s “YAKIMOCHI” at No. 5, and Lienel’s “Chozetsu SUMMER de baka ni nare” at No. 7.  Elsewhere on the Japan Hot 100, HUNTR/X’s “Golden,” the global hit being featured in the Netflix film K-pop Demon Hunters, breaks into the top 30 at last, landing at No. 25. This track, currently dominating the Billboard charts including the Hot 100 and Global 200, also gained in streaming (up to 114% from the week before) and downloads (108%) in Japan as well. Since its July 30 debut on the Japan Hot 100, it has steadily climbed 71-50-41-31-25. 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. 18 to 24, here. For more on Japanese music and charts, visit Billboard Japan’s English X account. Source link