Lil Baby‘s album My Turn came out in 2020, but it’s still hanging around on the Billboard chart — and setting records in the process.
My Turn has now spent 85 weeks in the top 10 of Billboard‘s Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart. That’s the longest any album has stayed in that top tier of the chart since it began back in 1965.
My Turn breaks the previous record set by Post Malone‘s album Hollywood’s Bleeding, which lasted 84 weeks in the top 10 between 2019 and 2021.
Overall, My Turn has been on the chart for 106 weeks, six of them at number one, and has spun off five top-10 hits on the Hot &RB/Hip-Hop Songs chart, including “Woah,” “Heatin Up,” featuring Gunna, and “The Bigger Picture.”
Currently, My Turn is at number eight on the chart.
Royal Blood has premiered a new single called “Honeybrains.”
The track, which is available now via digital outlets, arrives less than a year after the U.K. duo dropped their latest album, Typhoons, last April.
In releasing the tune, Royal Blood says, “Instead of sitting on new music, waiting for it to grow old, we thought it’d be fun to let you in on what we’ve been working on over the past few weeks before we head out on our biggest tour so far!”
That tour kicks off this Saturday with a run of U.K. and European dates, followed by a U.S. leg that launches in April.
Kel Mitchell knows that reboots are hot right now and is wondering what that means for Good Burger.
ABC Audio caught up with the comedian recently at 90s Con in Hartford, Connecticut, and discussed a modern remake of the beloved 1997 film. If Mitchell had it his way, he’d want a darker re-imagining.
Citing the grittier versions of Fresh Prince of Bel Air and the Archie comics, he remarked, “A darker version of Good Burger will be very interesting. I would love to see that.” He took note of the Fresh Prince reboot, Bel-Air, commenting, “That was really, really, really deep. They showed a dramatic side. So a dramatic side of Good Burger would be funny.”
Mitchell flirted with the possibility of bringing on horror master Jordan Peele to put a twisted spin on the Nickelodeon film, saying, “That would be great! A Jordan Peele Good Burger? I love it.”
The 43-year-old actor said he and his co-star Keenan Thompson “always talked about” doing a reboot, but admitted that they don’t have any say whether or not a dark version of the comedy will ever come to be. “It’s in the fans hands,” he explained. “Hit up Paramount!…Let them know.”
Lori Beth Denberg, another Good Burger alum, agreed that a reboot is overdue, and proposed a project focusing on the son of Mitchell’s character, Ed.
When asked about the idea of the show taking a more sinister route, Denberg mused over the possibility of her character, Connie, being not-so-nice. “If it’s very dark, maybe I’d be mysterious and in the shadows, but you’d still know it’s me because of my crazy voice,” she posed. “Maybe I murdered someone. Or maybe I didn’t! We’ll have to see.”
Normani bares her soul on her new track, “Fair,” which she says captures a vulnerability never before seen in her music.
Speaking to Apple Music’s Zane Lowe, the former Fifth Harmony singer explained, “I always told myself that I owed it to me to put out something that I really believe in.” Citing her start in the music industry, Normani says “Fair” is “scary, but freeing,” because “This is me being vulnerable, and really captures a true and raw point in my experience that I wanted to share.”
“Fair” is about the pain of watching an old love moving on and struggling to do the same. Normani said the track “captured me in the moment as I was experiencing. In real time. I was going through it emotionally that, that day, I wasn’t sure if I could even really pick myself up to go to the studio.”
Normani is thankful she made it to the recording booth. “It’s therapy for me,” she elaborated, because the song was “written by all females.” The “Dancing with a Stranger” singer says she was able to share her heartache with a larger community: “We really all went through the same experience. So it was a lot easier for the lyrics to just come out. It was like floodgates. I’m so proud of how it was written.”
Normani is also proud of her journey, and reflected on starting in the industry when she was 15, where all her mistakes were magnified because she was in the spotlight. She said that taught her, “Not everybody you’re going to please, but you’re good.”
“Like I said, 15 versus 25, I needed to go through some stuff to give the most authentic version of myself, which my fans deserve, but I deserve,” she said.
The ORS #4 collection, which can be pre-ordered now, will be available in both CD and vinyl formats. It features 1980’s folk- and country-influenced Hawks & Doves, 1981’s hard-rocking Crazy Horse collaboration Re•ac•tor, 1988’s foray into big-band blues This Note’s for You, and the aforementioned Eldorado, a five-track EP from 1989 that previously was only released in Japan and Australia.
Eldorado includes two songs, “Cocaine Eyes” and “Heavy Love,” that have never appeared on any other album. If you pre-order the box set, you receive an immediate download of “Cocaine Eyes.” The track also is available to purchase now as a digital single and via streaming services.
Hawks & Doves, Re•ac•tor and This Note’s for You reached $30, #27 and #61, respectively, on the Billboard 200. The Re•ac•tor song “Southern Pacific” peaked at #22 on Billboard‘s Top Rock Tracks tally, while This Note’s for You‘s title track and “Ten Workin’ Men” landed at #19 and #6 on the same chart.
The CD version of ORS #4 will be sold via all retailers, while the vinyl package will be available at independent record stores and at the Greedy Hand Store at Neil’s official website, NeilYoungArchives.com. All those who purchase ORS #4 box sets at the Greedy Hand Store will receive a free hi-res digital download of the collection from the Neil Young Archives’ Xstream Store.
Here’s the Hawks & Doves track list:
“Little Wing”
“The Old Homestead”
“Lost in Space”
“Captain Kennedy”
“Stayin’ Power”
“Coastline”
“Union Man”
“Comin’ Apart at Every Nail”
“Hawks & Doves”
Here’s the Re•ac•tor track list:
“Opera Star”
“Surfer Joe and Moe the Sleaze”
“T-Bone”
“Get Back on It”
“Southern Pacific”
“Motor City”
“Rapid Transit”
“Shots”
Here’s the This Note’s for You track list:
“Ten Men Workin'”
“This Note’s for You”
“Coupe de Ville”
“Life in the City”
“Twilight”
“Married Man”
“Sunny Inside”
“Can’t Believe Your Lyin'”
“Hey Hey”
“One Thing”
Jennifer Lopez shared a behind-the-scenes look at one of the biggest moments of her current movie rom-com, Marry Me — the one when she returns to Bastian, played by Maluma, to perform their romantic ballad.
The video was shared Friday on her Facebook, which shows Jennifer walking into Madison Square Garden while the movie crew is hard at work giving the venue a movie makeover, from arranging flowing curtains to setting up the sparking backdrop. The clip shows just how much work was put into filming the brief, but impactful scene.
Other footage shows Jennifer rehearsing with Maluma on stage so they could get the shot just right. The “On the Floor” singer previously revealed Maluma was doing an actual concert at the venue when filming the movie and it was decided she would crash it to film Marry Me — so the audience in the movie was composed of real fans and not extras.
The scene was one of the movie’s climaxes, where Jennifer’s character, Kat, earns her first Grammy nomination and accepts the invite from her cheating ex, Bastian, to celebrate the honor at his concert in Madison Square Garden.
Marry Me, also starring Owen Wilson, arrives on DVD and Blu-ray on Tuesday, March 29. It is also streaming on Peacock premium, where it currently claims the title as the streaming service’s most-streamed day-and-date title.
Travis Barker is taking a break from his many, many music projects to help celebrate Hollywood’s biggest night.
The Blink-182 drummer is set to perform during this year’s Oscars. He’ll be joined by a band that includes music director Adam Blackstone, percussionist and frequent Prince collaborator Sheila E., and pianist Robert Glasper.
We can only hope that Barker’s performance leads to a collaboration with Billie Eilish and Radiohead‘s Jonny Greenwood, who are nominated this year for the Best Original Song and Best Original Score Oscars, respectively.
The 2022 Oscars ceremony airs live Sunday, March 27, at 8 p.m. ET on ABC.
Eve is over the moon about her newborn son, Wilde Wolf, whom she welcomed last month. In a new video clip posted on her Instagram Story on Friday, she shared a brand-new look at her baby and showed off just how smitten she is.
Using a filter that displayed multi-colored hearts that had “love” written in the middle, the “Let Me Blow Ya Mind” rapper filmed herself sitting while little Wilde is snoozing contentedly on her chest. “Wilde, my precious baby,” she coos over to the infant, who is fast asleep with his mouth wide open. “This is heaven. This is heaven right here!”
Eve, 43, previously announced the arrival of her newborn on Instagram, writing, “Our Beautiful boy was born Feb 1st 2022. Wilde Wolf Fife Alexander Somers Cooper. Words can’t describe this feeling.”
Star Wars films director J.J. Abrams and his Bad Robot Productions company are joining forces with Netflix to develop a scripted series about U2, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
The as-yet-untitled show will be written by Anthony McCarten, whose credits include the screenplays of a string of successful biographical films, including the Queen biopic Bohemian Rhapsody, plus Darkest Hour, The Theory of Everything and The Two Popes. He received Oscar nominations for Best Adapted Screenplay for the latter two.
According to The Hollywood Reporter, U2 is expected to sanction the new series and to be involved in the production, which reportedly is in the early stages of development.
Most details about the show are currently being kept secret.
U2, of course, are probably the most famous rock band ever to emerge from Ireland. The group formed in Dublin in 1976, when all four members — singer Bono, guitarist The Edge, drummer Larry Mullin Jr. and bassist Adam Clayton — were all in high school. The group was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2005, and continue to be among the most popular touring acts in the world.
If it’s summer, then there’s gotta be a James Taylor tour.
From April to May, Taylor and his All-Star Band will be on tour in Canada with special guest Jackson Browne, but he’s just announced 20 new U.S. summer shows that will simply be “An Evening With” James and the band.
The shows kick off June 21 in Columbia, South Carolina, and are scheduled to wrap up July 30 in Las Vegas. On August 20, James will be a special guest for famed Lenox, Massachusetts, venue Tanglewood’s 90th Birthday Celebration of legendary film composer John Williams, along with Branford Marsalis and Yo-Yo Ma.
The JamesTaylor.com presale for the new dates start March 22 at 10 a.m. local time. You can access it by creating a free account at James’ website. Tickets go on sale to the general public on March 25 at 10 a.m. local time.
Taylor’s most recent album is 2020’s American Standard.
