Thanks to his Dua Lipa collabo, “Cold Heart,” any barriers keeping Elton John from returning to the pop charts have melted away.
As Billboard notes, the mash-up of three past Elton songs created by dance duo Pnau has entered Billboard’s Pop Airplay chart at number 39. This is the first time Elton’s appeared on that chart since January of 1998, with his song “Something About the Way You Look Tonight.”
If you’re having a hard time imagining how long ago that was, Billboard has put it into perspective: Two artists who are currently on top of the Pop Airplay chart weren’t even born in 1998. The Kid LAROI and Olivia Rodrigo were both born in 2003.
In addition, 74-year-old Elton has now set a record for having the longest span of songs on the Pop Airplay chart. He appeared on the very first one, back in October of 1992, so now his span is a month shy of 29 years.
As previously reported, “Cold Heart” will be part of The Lockdown Sessions, an upcoming album by Elton featuring collaborations he recorded during the pandemic. It features him working with everyone from Lil Nas X to Stevie Nicks to Charlie Puth.
Netflix has unveiled the trailer for its upcoming action comedy Red Notice, starring Ryan Reynolds, Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson, and Gal Gadot.
The snippet is sumptuously shot, spanning locations in Europe as Johnson’s John Hartley, the FBI’s top profiler, hunts two fugitives on the list that shares the movie’s title: Reynolds plays con man Booth, and Gadot is a notorious, unnamed art thief. “Now that you’ve been tagged with Red Notices, I’m the only one who can bring you in,” Hartley states.
Johnson previously starred with Gadot in the fifth Fast & Furious installment, and with Reynolds in the F&F spin-off Hobbs & Shaw. Ryan and Dwayne’s bantering here matches the rapid-fire chatter they shared in that film.
“Where’d you get that jacket?” Booth asks Hartley, who has a gun trained on him. “It’s a statement piece. Somewhere there’s a very nude cow saying, ‘Worth it.'”
The pair form an unlikely alliance to catch Gadot’s thief, with Reynolds literally choking on the word “teamwork”: “It just feels weird in my mouth,” he quips.
“We’re work wives,” Reynolds’ Booth tells Gadot later in the trailer.
“Not work wives,” Johnson corrects.
“Sister wives?” Reynolds counters.
“We’re not any kind of wives!” Hartley snaps.
For her part, Gadot is devastating, wearing a red gown and at one point she takes them both down, leaving the men handcuffed together.
“This is gonna end with you in handcuffs,” Johnson tells Gadot as they stand nearly cheek-to-cheek.
“Promises, promises,” she purrs.
Red Notice was supposed to debut in theaters for Universal Pictures, but Netflix scooped up distribution rights in 2019.
Reynolds posted the trailer, noting, “Life doesn’t always imitate art, but I’d wear a tux and do karate with
@TheRock and @GalGadot everyday if I could.”
Halloween is fast approaching, which means it’s almost time to crawl onto the couch, mummify yourself in a blanket, unwrap a king-size candy bar and prepare for Freeform’s annual 31 Nights of Halloween.
This year’s lineup of spooky movies was released Wednesday, and it’s packed with classics, fan favorites and some new faces.
Joining the roster this year will be the premiere of Maleficent: Mistress of Evil, The Huntsman: Winter’s War, Jaws, Fright Night, Men in Black II and many others.
However, it’s not 31 Nights of Halloween without the staples, with Casper kicking off the inaugural event at 2:30 p.m. ET on Friday, October 1. Other must-have classics that will keep viewers up at night will be Hocus Pocus, The Nightmare Before Christmas, The Craft, Halloweentown, The Addams Family and Ghostbusters.
Multiple movies and Halloween-centric episodes from Family Guy, The Simpsons and others will play every day until Halloween, with Ghostbusters capping off another year of spooks and frights.
You can view the full schedule on Freeform’s website.
In addition, Los Angeles residents will be able to enjoy an additional fright fest when Freeform takes over Heritage Square Museum from October 1 to the 5 for Freeform’s Halloween Road, “a bewitching bash full of mischief and mayhem” where fans can enjoy an “immersive outdoor walk-thru experience” through the worlds of Hocus Pocus, Tim Burton‘s The Nightmare Before Christmas, Ghostbusters and The Addams Family.
Tickets for the spooktacular event are currently sold out.
Freeform is owned by Disney, parent company of ABC News.
Kanye West survives being engulfed in flames in his new “Come to Life” video, which he dropped Thursday.
The clip captures one of the most memorable scenes from his Donda listening event at Solder Field in his hometown of Chicago on August 26.
Yeezy is sitting in a replica of his childhood home when fire suddenly erupts throughout the structure. He walks out on the stage, completely on fire. Then the video flips to his estranged wife, Kim Kardashian, walking slowly in a long white gown and a veil, as wedding music plays. Kanye emerges, fire-free and apparently unscathed, to greet her. Their four children are also in attendance: daughters North, 8, and Chicago, 3, plus sons Saint, 5½, and Psalm, 2.
Kim’s sister, Khloe Kardashian, reacted to the scene, tweeting, “Damn…I’ve never seen anything this sick!!!!!”
As previously reported, despite West claiming that Def Jam released Donda without his permission, the album shattered an Apple Music record within its first day of release. Billboard reports that fans streamed Ye’s 10th studio effort a whopping 60 million times over the course of 24 hours. In addition, the rapper overtook the top 20 spots in Apple’s Daily Top 100 Global songs chart. This milestone officially makes the “Stronger” rapper the service’s most-streamed artist.
In addition, Donda debuted atop the streamer’s albums charts in 152 countries.
The studio effort also made a splash on Spotify, racking up 94 million global streams in its first 24 hours of release, becoming the album with the second-best debut in the streaming service’s history.
In two weeks’ time, Bring Me the Horizon will be bringing you new music.
The U.K. outfit is set to drop a fresh single titled “Die4U” on September 16. In announcing the song’s arrival, Oli Sykes and company cryptically teased, “CLub H3LLh0Le OpeNS.”
“Die4U” will be the first new Horizon track since the band’s 2020 EP, Post Human: Survival Horror, which features collaborations with Yungblud, Evanescence‘s Amy Lee, BABYMETAL and Nova Twins.
You’ll also be able to hear Bring Me the Horizon on Rage Against the Machine guitarist Tom Morello‘s upcoming solo album The Atlas Underground Fire, due out October 15. They’re featured on a song called “Let’s Get the Party Started,” which we can only hope is a cover of the Pink song.
(NEW YORK) — Harrowing stories of survival and rescues are surfacing after a rain-drenched night of deadly storms in the northeastern United States.
The remnants of Hurricane Ida brought historic floods and damaging tornadoes across the region on Wednesday and caused 22 fatalities in areas where the storm hit. Although the death toll is expected to rise as the damage is surveyed, scores of people were also saved or spared.
The New York City Fire Department “rescued hundreds of people citywide during the storm,” removing them from trapped cars and flooded subway stations, FDNY spokesman Frank Dwyer told ABC News.
One FDNY water rescue crew saved a family of six who became trapped in their Brooklyn home as floodwaters rose in the basement overnight. The husband and wife, who have four young children, spoke to New York City ABC station WABC about the ordeal.
“When the water came through our walls, it trapped me,” the husband recalled. “So my wife is at the bottom of the stairs, trying to scream to me to get out, and I didn’t know what to do. I was trapped.”
“Thankfully, our fire department was amazing and they came and they rescued us,” the wife added, fighting back tears. “It was so scary.”
Footage from Mullica Hill, New Jersey, showed where a tornado ripped through the area, obliterating homes and scattering debris across green lawns.
Speaking to Philadelphia ABC station WPVI, Troy Bonnenberg said he and his children took cover in the basement of their house in Mullica Hill on Wednesday night. When they emerged unharmed minutes later, the back half of their home was gone and their belongings were scattered throughout the neighborhood.
But Bonnenberg’s neighbor across the street bore the brunt of the storm. The house was destroyed and aluminium sliding, roofing, furniture and children’s toys were all piled atop the family’s car, according to WPVI.
In Passaic City, New Jersey, Mayor Hector Lora was on scene with local authorities and rescue crews amid the pouring rain as he urged residents to stay indoors.
“We have too many areas where the flooding has gotten so bad, the cars are stuck and we have bodies under water,” Lora said in a Facebook Live video on Wednesday night. “We are now retrieving bodies.”
The power of the storms were also felt in Pennsylvania’s Montgomery County. Mike Zajack of Maple Glen, a small suburb of Philadelphia, recalled how his house shook as the rain beat down outside.
“I couldn’t even hear myself think,” Zajac told WPVI. “I see branches start to get carried by the wind past my house, the chair on our front porch got flipped and it was nuts.”
ABC News’ Alexandra Faul and Aaron Katerksy contributed to this report.
On top of everything else Britney Spears is going through, it’s good to know that at least she won’t face any charges over that incident with her housekeeper last month.
According to The Hollywood Reporter, the Ventura County District Attorney’s Office announced Wednesday that no charges would be filed due to “insufficient evidence” that a crime had occurred. Britney’s housekeeper claimed that Britney had slapped a phone out of the housekeeper’s hand following an argument over the medical care of Britney’s dog. The housekeeper alleged that her phone was damaged in the incident.
The Misdemeanor Unit Supervisor in the Ventura County Sheriff’s Office decided not to file charges after reviewing the case. In a statement to the Hollywood Reporter, Britney’s attorney, Mathew Rosengart, said, “If this involved Jane Doe rather than Britney Spears it would not have been pursued or covered at all.”
“Sadly, it is apparent that some have learned nothing from the past, and we sincerely hope the media and others will be more respectful of Ms. Spears in the future,” Rosengart added.
Pink Floyd will release a remixed and updated standalone version of their 1987 studio album A Momentary Lapse of Reason in multiple high-res formats in October.
The new mix was created by Pink Floyd guitarist David Gilmour and studio engineer Andy Jackson in 2019 for the band’s expansive The Later Years box set. The tracks were updated with previously unused keyboard performances by the late Rick Wright and new drum tracks from Nick Mason.
The album, which you can pre-order now, will be released on CD, as a CD/DVD or CD/Blu-ray set, as a two-LP half-speed-mastered package, and via digital formats with stereo and 5.1 mixes. The record also will made available for the first time in the immersive Sony 360 Reality Audio format, as well as in Dolby Audio and UHD.
The physical versions of A Momentary Lapse of Reason will arrive on October 29, while the digital versions are due out October 19.
Discussing the new mix, Gilmour explains, “Some years after we had recorded the album, we came to the conclusion that we should update it to make it more timeless, featuring more of the traditional instruments that we liked and that we were more used to playing…We also looked for and found some previously unused keyboard parts of Rick’s which helped us to come up with a new vibe, a new feeling for the album.”
The DVD and Blu-ray feature such bonus content as music videos, a short making-of documentary, audio of three 1987 live performances and more.
Pink Floyd has released a special version of the “Learning to Fly” video, featuring the 2019 mix of the song. If you watch the clip on YouTube while wearing headphones, it’ll simulate the 360 Reality Audio experience.
CMA Summer Jam airs Thursday night, September 2, on ABC. The three-hour TV special was filmed during two star-studded nights, on July 27 and 28, at Nashville’s Ascend Amphitheater, with plenty of stunning collaborations.
Luke Bryan teamed up with Cole Swindell to perform Cole’s recent No. 1 hit, “Single Saturday Night,” while Carrie Underwood performed two songs, “Guitars Cadillacs” and “A Thousand Miles from Nowhere,” with Dwight Yoakam. BRELAND and HARDY joined Dierks Bentley to sing “Beers on Me.” Dierks also returned to sing one of the stand-out performances of the night, “Midnight Rider,” with both Brothers Osborne and Miranda Lambert.
Good friends Florida Georgia Line and Thomas Rhett sang “Round Here,” and Blake Shelton and Gwen Stefani earned a rousing standing ovation for their “Happy Anywhere” duet.
Other performances of the night included Luke Combs, Lainey Wilson, Carly Pearce, Darius Rucker and Mickey Guyton.
Blake Shelton is clearly madly in love with his new bride, Gwen Stefani, nearly two months after tying the knot with her. Blake, who started dating the No Doubt singer in 2015, says being husband and wife has made their relationship stronger than ever.
“Married life so far is … it’s incredible,” Blake reflects. “I mean, it’s everything that it already was, which was awesome. She just can’t get away from me now.”
Blake and Gwen got married on July 3 on his Oklahoma ranch, with The Voice host Carson Daly officiating the ceremony.
Both Blake and Gwen will appear on CMA Summer Jam. The show, which includes performances by Carrie Underwood, Luke Bryan, Brothers Osborne, Miranda Lambert, Luke Combs and more, will air Thursday night, September 2, at 8:00 p.m. ET on ABC.
