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With the vinyl release of his eighth studio album, Call Me if You Get Lost,Tyler, the Creator has found himself back on top of the charts.
According to Billboard, the 16-track project, which won Best Rap Album at the 2022 Grammy Awards, jumped from number 120 to number one on the Billboard 200 this past weekend, marking the album’s second nonconsecutive week at the top spot.
The vinyl, which was announced and released on April 6 via Tyler, the Creator’s Twitter, sold 49,500 copies, making it the largest sales week for a hip-hop album on vinyl or for a solo male album on vinyl, according to data resource organization Luminate, as reported by Billboard.
The 31-year-old megastar also gained another record-breaking title recently, when his CMIYGL tour sold a total 389,000 tickets, earning him $32.6 million. The tour, which sold out 32 North American arenas, surpassed both J. Cole‘s The Off-Season tour and The Millennium Tour 2021, making it the highest-grossing hip-hop tour, post-pandemic.
After his final tour stop in Washington earlier this month, Tyler posted a thank-you message on Twitter, saying, “happy you enjoyed the tour. was fun. thank you.”
Former Daily Show host Jon Stewart was feted in Washington, D.C. Sunday night by a host of celebrities, there to pay tribute as he accepted the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor.
It was the first presentation of the award since 2019, when Dave Chappelle received it. The comic was among those who showed up to honor Stewart, saying of his stewardship of The Daily Show after 9/11, “The news was off the chain and Jon was the only voice that helped people decipher that madness.”
In accepting the prize, Stewart noted, “There’s a lot of talk about what’s going to happen to comedy — you know, ‘the Slap’ — and will comedy survive in this new moment? Comedy survives in every moment.”
Referencing his bust of Twain, Stewart added, “This man’s decapitated visage is a reminder that what we have is fragile and precious.”
Stewart also said of using comedy to speak truth to power, “The real threat is not the fragility of audiences” or “the pronoun police,” but rather, “the fragility of leaders.”
Others who took part in the ceremony included Jimmy Kimmel and former Daily Show correspondent Olivia Munn, there with her partner, comedian John Mulaney. Kim Kardashian and Pete Davidson were also there, with Pete also serving as one of the night’s guest speakers.
Other Daily Show vets, including Samantha Bee and Stephen Colbert also spoke; the latter appeared remotely thanks to his recent COVID-19 diagnosis.
Gary Clark Jr. acted as the award ceremony’s house band, and Stewart’s fellow Garden Stater Bruce Springsteen joined the blues musician for “Come Together.” Springsteen also played an acoustic version of “Born to Run,” according to accounts.
An edited version of the awards ceremony will air June 21 at 9 p.m. on PBS.
Jake Owen has a busy summer ahead of him: he’s embarking on a 34-city headlining tour that will take him to cities across the country May through October.
The trek begins on May 5 in Ohio at Hobart Arena, followed by a pre-Kentucky Derby performance at Old Forester’s Paristown Hall in Louisville on May 6.
Along the way, he’ll make stops at the famous Billy Bob’s Texas in Fort Worth and several festivals, including Country Stampede on July 15, Faster Horses on July 22, Watershed Festival on July 31 and more. The tour wraps on October 1 in Georgia with a performance at City of Buford Fall Concert. Visit his official website for a full list of dates.
“Looking forward to getting back out there, bringing smiles and happiness and some new tunes. The world needs more of that,” Jake shares.
While his current single, “Best Thing Since Backroads,” is climbing the charts, the Florida native has also been sharing new music on socials, and is set to drop another new track, “1×1,” on Friday.
Lynch & Campbell onstage in 1979; Gary Gershoff/Getty Images
Founding Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers guitarist Mike Campbell and his current band, The Dirty Knobs, now have a very familiar face behind the drum kit: original Heartbreakers drummer Stan Lynch.
On Facebook, Campbell explained that Matt Laug, the drummer for The Dirty Knobs, has “a commitment touring in Italy through the end of June,” so Lynch will be filling in for him on all the band’s shows through a June 26 show in Aspen, Colorado.
Lynch’s first gigs with the band took place over the weekend in Boulder and Denver, Colorado. Their next show is April 28 in Houston. Laug will rejoin the band in July.
Campbell describes Lynch as “an old friend who I love dearly,” adding, “We’ve had the best time reconnecting.”
Lynch was a member of the Heartbreakers until he left in 1994; he was replaced by Steve Ferrone. He reunited with the Heartbreakers for their induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2002.
In addition to the Heartbreakers, Lynch, who is also a songwriter and producer, contributed to albums by The Eagles, Bob Dylan, Stevie Nicks, John Mellencamp, Jackson Browne, Toto, Warren Zevon and many other artists.
Lynch & Campbell onstage in 1979; Gary Gershoff/Getty Images
Founding Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers guitarist Mike Campbell and his current band, The Dirty Knobs, now have a very familiar face behind the drum kit: Founding Heartbreakers drummer Stan Lynch.
On Facebook, Campbell explained that Matt Laug, the drummer for The Dirty Knobs, has “a commitment touring in Italy through the end of June,” so Lynch will be filling in for him on all the band’s shows through a June 26 show in Aspen, CO.
Lynch’s first gigs with the band took place over the weekend in Boulder and Denver, CO. Their next show is April 28 in Houston. Laug will rejoin the band in July.
Campbell describes Lynch as “an old friend who I love dearly,” adding, “We’ve had the best time reconnecting.”
Lynch was a member of the Heartbreakers until he left in 1994; he was replaced by Steve Ferrone. He reunited with the Heartbreakers for their induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2002.
In addition to the Heartbreakers, Lynch, who is also a songwriter and producer, contributed to albums by The Eagles, Bob Dylan, Stevie Nicks, John Mellencamp, Jackson Browne, Toto, Warren Zevon and many other artists.
(HONG KONG) — A new COVID-19 outbreak in Beijing is raising fears that China’s capital could be sent into a hard lockdown, like the one in Shanghai that’s entering a fifth week.
Beijing residents are stocking up and clearing shelves, despite authorities telling residents there are enough supplies to go around.
About 3.5 million residents in Beijing’s affluent Chaoyang district, which includes the central business district, will have to undergo mandatory mass testing three times this week to contain a spike in cases, with 70 infections reported citywide there since Friday.
China’s daily cases rose 4% to 20,194 on Monday, most of them in Shanghai. The city has now recorded 506,000 infections since the start of March.
Chinese President Xi Jinping, who has put his personal stamp on China’s “Zero Covid” strategy, defended his government’s approach as recently as last Thursday, when he delivered a keynote speech via video to the Boao Forum for Asia, China’s answer to the Davos forum.
“Safety and health are the prerequisite for human development and progress. For humanity to clinch the final victory against the Covid-19 pandemic, more hard efforts are needed,” he said.
The Chinese leader has made it clear before that he wants to keep the capital city COVID-free. A lockdown in Beijing would add political strain to a strategy of which the economic and social costs are growing by the day.
Chinese stocks dropped to the lowest levels in two years Monday over fears of more curbs to the nation’s capital.
Beijing’s Communist Party Secretary Cai Qi was quoted in Beijing Daily newspaper on Sunday as saying, “Important pandemic measures cannot be left waiting till the next day … all at-risk sites and individuals involved in these cases must be checked that day.”
Chinese health official Pang Xinghuo said on Sunday that cases have been spreading undetected in the city for about a week.
Health workers in Shanghai put up green metal barriers this weekend in some areas where cases are detected. In a notice circulated on Chinese social media, the epidemic control office for the Pudong New Area in Shanghai Authorities referred to this method as “hard isolation,” which is meant to provide a physical barrier between areas with different risk factors and keep the roads clear.
Shanghai reported 51 more deaths on Monday, prompting another round of mass testing for residents in the next few days.
Authorities had hoped to ease restrictions once social transmission was significantly reduced, but the measures have remained strict for most residents in the financial hub.
(NEW YORK) — Russian President Vladimir Putin’s “special military operation” into neighboring Ukraine began on Feb. 24, with Russian forces invading from Belarus, to the north, and Russia, to the east. Ukrainian troops have offered “stiff resistance,” according to U.S. officials.
The Russian military has now launched a full-scale ground offensive in eastern Ukraine’s disputed Donbas region, as it attempts to capture the strategic port city of Mariupol and secure a coastal corridor to the Moscow-annexed Crimean Peninsula.
Here’s how the news is developing. All times Eastern:
Apr 25, 9:25 am
Biden announces nominee for ambassador to Ukraine
President Joe Biden is nominating Bridget Brink to serve as U.S. ambassador to Ukraine, he announced Monday.
Brink is currently the U.S. ambassador to the Slovak Republic and previously served as senior adviser and deputy assistant secretary in the State Department’s Bureau of European and Eurasian Affairs.
“Brink spent her twenty-five-year career in the Foreign Service focused on advancing U.S. policy in Europe and Eurasia,” Biden’s statement said.
Apr 25, 6:13 am
Blinken says Russia ‘already failed’ to achieve war goals
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Monday said Russian had “already failed” to achieve its stated goals in Ukraine.
“In terms of Russia’s war aims, Russia has already failed,” Blinken told reporters in Poland, near the Ukrainian border. “And Ukraine has already succeeded because the principal aim that President Putin brought to this, in his own words, was to fully subsume Ukraine, back into Russia to take away its sovereignty and independence. And that has not happened and clearly will not happen.”
Blinken and U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin met on Sunday with Ukrainian officials in Kyiv, the capital, becoming the highest-level U.S. officials to visit the war-torn country since Russia invaded in February.
Topics discussed during their three-hour meeting included defense assistance, further sanctions on Russia and financial support for Ukraine, according to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenksyy’s office.
“We appreciate the unprecedented assistance of the United States to Ukraine,” Zelenskyy said, according to his office. “I would like to thank President Biden personally and on behalf of the entire Ukrainian people for his leadership in supporting Ukraine, for his personal clear position.”
He added, “To thank all the American people, as well as the Congress for their bicameral and bipartisan support. We see it. We feel it.”
Apr 25, 1:03 am
US to provide $322M in additional aid, diplomats to return to Ukraine, officials tell Zelenskyy
The United States will provide Ukraine with $322 million in new aid and some diplomats will return to the war-torn country, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken and U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin told Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in Kyiv on Sunday.
Blinken told Zelenskyy the U.S. would begin returning its diplomats to Ukraine this week, according to the senior State Dept. official. The U.S. will reopen offices in Lviv in western Ukraine, with diplomats traveling there from Poland each day, with the goal to “have our diplomats return to our embassy in Kyiv as soon as possible.”
President Joe Biden will also formally nominate Bridget Brink, currently serving as U.S. ambassador to Slovakia, to serve as the U.S. ambassador to Ukraine, according to the senior State Dept. official.
Among the new assistance announced last week, the first of the new Howitzers have arrived in Ukraine, Austin told Zelenskyy, a senior defense official told ABC News.
-ABC News’ Conor Finnegan
Apr 24, 5:23 pm
US secretary of state, defense chief meeting with Zelenskyy in Kyiv
An advisor to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said that U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken and U.S. Defense Chief Lloyd Austin are meeting with Ukraine’s leader on Sunday in Kyiv.
The adviser, Oleksii Arestovich, said in an interview on Ukrainian TV late Sunday that the talks are going on “right now.”
-ABC News’ Jason Volack
Apr 24, 5:08 pm
More than 2.9M people have fled Ukraine to Poland
More than 2.9 million people have fled Ukraine and sought refuge in Poland since the Russian invasion began in February, the Polish Border Guard said on Sunday.
In recent days, however, the number of people crossing the border into Poland has fallen, while the number of refugees going back into Ukraine has risen, according to the border guard.
On Saturday, about 21,100 people entered Ukraine from Poland, while 15,100 fled to Poland from Ukraine, the agency said on Twitter.
Post Malone‘s new album, twelve carat toothache, doesn’t have an official release date yet, but when it drops, it’ll be pretty star-studded.
In addition to the lead single “One Right Now,” featuring The Weeknd, Posty revealed in an Instagram Story over the weekend that other guests on the album include Doja Cat, The Kid LAROI, Roddy Ricch and Robin Pecknold of the indie band Fleet Foxes.
As Billboard reports, in the Instagram Story, which was captured by fans, Post said the song with Doja is called “Happy,” and described the “Say So” singer as “the most incredible and beautiful and most talented,” adding, “I’m so blessed and so honored to be able to have worked with her.”
The song with LAROI is called “Wasting Angels,” and Post called the Australian rapper “the most beautiful man,” adding, “I’m so grateful that he was a part of this record.
Posty also shared the Roddy Ricch collab, “Cooped Up,” as well as “Love/Hate Letter to Alcohol,” the track with Robin Pecknold, whom Posty called “The most beautiful…vocalist, the most epic…guy.”
twelve carat toothache, the follow-up to the 2019 number-one album Hollywood’s Bleeding, is due in May, according to one of Post Malone’s managers.
Emily in Paris co-star William Abadie reveals the show will start filming its third season in June. “We’re fully in pre-production and I think we’re supposed to head to Paris early in June, so I’m foreseeing a little bit of that soon to come,” he told Us Weeklyat the New York Academy of Arts Tribeca Ball on Wednesday. Season two ended with a major cliffhanger, with Lily Collins‘ Emily torn between staying in Paris or moving home to Chicago…
Jim Hartz, who hosted NBC’s Today show with Barbara Walters in the mid-1970s, died April 17 in Fairfax County, Virginia of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, his wife, Alexandra Dickson Hartz, announced in a statement obtained by Deadline. He was 82. Hartz joined Today and covered President Richard M. Nixon’s resignation, the end of the Vietnam War, and the American Bicentennial during his two years as a part of the morning show…
Ahead of Sunday’s season one finale, Epix has renewed the sci-fi horror series From, starring Lost alum Harold Perrineau, for a 10-episode second season, the premium cable channel announced on Sunday. The series centers on a town in middle America that “traps all those who enter.” Perrineau plays Boyd Stevens, a sheriff who helps keep the town together while he also searches for “a way to escape this seemingly inescapable nightmare.” Production kicks off this summer…
The animated family film The Bad Guys scored an estimated $24 million to top the North American box office over the weekend The film — featuring the voices of Sam Rockwell, Marc Maron, Zazie Beetz, Craig Robinson and Awkwafina — also grabbed an estimated $63.1 million overseas, for a worldwide total of $87.1 million.
Sonic the Hedgehog 2 held on to second place with an estimated $15.2 million in its third week of release. Internationally, where it opened a week earlier, the live action-CGI animated sequel to 2020’s Sonic the Hedgehog has earned $142 million so far, bringing its current global tally to $287.8 million.
That left last week’s box office champ, Fantastic Beats: The Secrets of Dumbledore, in third place.It delivered an estimated $14 million to bring its two-week North American total to $67.1 million. Overseas, Fantastic Beasts 3 has grossed $213.2 million, bringing its worldwide tally to $280.3 million.
The Northman — starring Alexander Skarsgård, Nicole Kidman, Anya Taylor-Joy, Ethan Hawke and Willem Dafoe — and the Nicolas Cage meta comedy The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent, took fourth and fifth place, respectively, earning an estimated $12 million and $7.2 million.
