Trae Young scored 41 points — his fifth game with 40-plus points this season — to lead the Atlanta Hawks to a 124-116 win over the visiting Cleveland Cavaliers on Tuesday night. Young was 13-for-22 from the floor, including 4-of-7 from long distance. He also went 11-for-13 from the foul line and had nine assists. […]
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Tyus Jones scored 27 points and the visiting Memphis Grizzlies won their sixth consecutive game by defeating the New Orleans Pelicans 121-109 on Tuesday night. The Grizzlies overcame the absence of Ja Morant (ankle) to win for the ninth time in 10 games. Jaren Jackson Jr. scored 23 points, Brandon Clarke scored 18, Steven Adams […]
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BTS will be holding the South Korean leg of their ‘Permission to Dance On Stage’ tour next month.
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In a statement posted to the fan community app Weverse earlier today (February 16), Big Hit Music announced that the septet will be performing at the Jamsil Olympic Stadium on March 10, 12 and 13. The upcoming shows will mark the group’s first in-person concerts in South Korea after two and a half years, following their ‘Love Yourself: Speak Yourself (The Final)’ world tour in October 2019.
Notably, their March 10 and 13 shows will be streamed online simultaneously, while their March 12 show will be available for “live viewing” in theaters worldwide. Ticketing details for both the in-person, online and theater live streaming shows will be announced in a separate Weverse post, according to the agency.
Big Hit Music also noted that the septet’s upcoming shows are subject to rescheduling or cancellation “depending on the social distancing level”. Tickets will be fully refunded in the event of a cancellation, while advance announcements will be made in the event of a change in the concert schedule.
Last year, the septet marked their return to in-person performances with ‘Permission To Dance On Stage’ in Los Angeles, California. The group held a short residency at the SoFi Stadium on November 27 and 28, and December 1 and 2, 2021.
Their Los Angeles show went on to become the biggest single venue concert engagement by any act in almost a decade. According to Billboard, the Los Angeles leg of their ‘Permission To Dance On Stage’ concert series sold 214,000 tickets and grossed US$33.3million (£25million).
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Jaylen Brown had 29 points and eight rebounds, Jayson Tatum added 28 points and 12 rebounds and the Boston Celtics blitzed the host Philadelphia 76ers 135-87 on Tuesday. Aaron Nesmith contributed 18 points, Grant Williams scored 12 and Derrick White had 11 for the red-hot Celtics, who won their ninth game in a row. The […]
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Luka Doncic had 21 points, 10 rebounds and six assists, helping the Dallas Mavericks rally past the host Miami Heat, 107-99, on Tuesday night. Miami consistently double-teamed Doncic, who shot 5 of 19 from the floor. However, the Mavs made two huge three-pointers in the final two minutes, by Jalen Brunson and by Maxi Kleber. […]
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You’ve seen the music video and heard the song (let’s face it – everyone has). Now, the world can prepare for the “Baby Shark” movie.
Currently in development, Paramount+ has slated the Baby Shark feature-length film for 2023, co-produced by Nickelodeon Animation and the Pinkfong Company.
Cue millions of tiny screams.
Baby Shark either strikes fear in your heart, or puts a bounce in your step, but there’s no doubt it’s the apex-predator in the ocean of videos that is YouTube.
Just last week, the “Baby Shark Dance” music video set a YouTube record, swimming its way to 10 billion views on the streaming platform, establishing it as it the most-viewed clip in the history of the site, according to creators The Pinkfong Co.
The catchier-than-a-cold song surpassed Luis Fonsi and Daddy Yankee’s “Despacito” as the most-watched video on the Alphabet-owned service back in November 2020, and has now raced ahead by more than 2.3 billion views.
The Baby Shark family is expanding. Separately, Baby Shark’s Big Show! — the animated preschool series co-produced with Nickelodeon Animation Studio — is approved for a second season, according to The Hollywood Reporter, while a sequel to Netflix’s sing-along special Pinkfong and Baby Shark’s Space Adventure is said to be in the planning stages.
The forthcoming Baby Shark film was confirmed Tuesday (Feb. 15) at the ViacomCBS Investors Event, along with the announcement of three new Spongebob Squarepants movies, animated Transformers and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles films, and more.
Los Tigres del Norte, Julieta Venegas, Café Tacvba, Zoé, Sin Bandera, Juanes, Banda El Recodo, among many other Latin acts, are set to headline the first-ever edition of Bésame Mucho taking place Saturday, Dec. 3 at Los Angeles’ Dodger Stadium.
The festival’s head-turning, multigenerational lineup, which features pop, regional Mexican, merengue, cumbia and rock artists, was unveiled on Tuesday (Feb. 15). According to the Need Pastel-designed flyer, the Tropicália and La Tocada-organized event will be a one-day festival with three separate stages: Rockero stage, Las Clásicas (The Classics) stage and Te Gusta El Pop? (You Like Pop?) stage.
The fest will also feature sets by Bronco, Banda Machos, Caifanes, Enanitos Verdes, Panteón Rococó, Los Ángeles Azules, Sonora Dinamita, Kabah, Fey and Aleks Syntek with additional headliners to be announced later this year.
Giving music fans When We Were Young vibes featuring a packed lineup, the logistics of how the festival will pan out throughout the day are yet to be outlined by its producers. But just hours after the event was announced, Latin music fans took to social media to comment on the nostalgia-provoking lineup while also confirming their attendance to a festival that’s 10 months away. “I’m there,” someone tweeted. “The lineup is absolutely insane,” another Twitter user wrote.
Bésame Mucho joins a number of new Latinx-centered festivals announced for this year, and set to take place across the country. In Chicago, two new reggaeton festivals will take place in the Midwest city for the first time ever: Sueños in May and Más Flow in July. Those multi-day events will respectively feature headliners such as J Balvin, Wisin Y Yandel, Ozuna, Ivy Queen and Don Omar.
Tickets for the Bésame Mucho festival will go on sale Friday, Feb. 18 at 5pm ET. General admission tickets will start at $199.99 with VIP tickets starting at $324.99. Visit besamemuchofestival.com for more information.
Australian songwriter Hatchie has shared the title track of her forthcoming album, ‘Giving The World Away’.
The new single sees Hatchie meditate on treating oneself kindly through periods of self-doubt and deprecation, above lush, reverb-heavy instrumentation. In a press release, Hatchie – real name Harriette Pilbeam – said ‘Giving The World Away’ was written about “being gentle with yourself in the throes of depression”.
A colourful, psychedelic lyric video was also released to accompany the song, about which Pilbeam added: “We made a simple lyric video with analogue effects to let the lyrics of the song speak for themselves.”
Watch the accompanying video for ‘Giving The World Away’ below:
‘Giving The World Away’, Pilbeam’s second full-length album under the Hatchie moniker, is due for release on April 22 via Secretly Canadian/Ivy League Records, following her 2019 debut album ‘Keepsake’.
“There’s more to me than just writing songs about being in love or being heartbroken — there’s a bigger picture than that,” Pilbeam said of the forthcoming record upon its announcement.
“This album really just feels like the beginning to me and scratching the surface – and even though it’s my third release as Hatchie, I feel like I’m rebooting from scratch.”
Along with its title track, the singer-songwriter has released two other singles from the album so far, ‘Quicksand’ and ‘This Enchanted’, which marked Pilbeam’s first single in two years.
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Death Row Records will be “an NFT label” and the first major record company to operate in the metaverse, according to its new owner Snoop Dogg, who dropped the news during a Clubhouse chat on Tuesday (Feb. 15).
“We will be putting out artists through the metaverse,” said the rapper, who added, “Just like [Death Row] broke the industry when we was the first independent to be major, I want to be the first major in the metaverse.”
Snoop Dogg revealed the news during a conversation hosted by Clubhouse creator Will Weinbach, who created a room titled “I’m Not Leaving This Room Until Snoop Dogg Joins” on Monday, a day after the rapper performed at the Super Bowl Halftime Show. Snoop Dogg joined the room 14 hours later.
Snoop Dogg’s purchase of Death Row Records from the Blackstone-controlled MNRK Music Group (formerly eOne Music) was announced on Feb. 9. Terms of the deal were not disclosed, though a source told Billboard that the agreement on the use of the Death Row brand – including the label’s IP, trademark, name and logo – had been finalized, while the purchase of the Death Row recording catalog was expected to close soon.
This is far from Snoop Dogg’s first foray into NFTs and the metaverse. In March 2021, the rapper announced he would be releasing his first NFT collection, “A Journey with the Dogg,” on Crypto.com. In September, he claimed he was the user behind the Twitter account @CozomoMedici, which garnered significant interest due to its owner’s well-documented speculation in the NFT space and ownership of hundreds of NFTs. He additionally owns virtual real estate in the Sandbox gaming metaverse, which is slated to drop the Snoop Dogg-inspired NFT/playable avatar collection “The Doggies” this month.
Following his announcement of the Death Row acquisition, Snoop Dogg revealed that he would be making his new album, B.O.D.R. (Bacc on Death Row), available via blockchain in partnership with blockchain gaming platform Gala Games. The album can be purchased in the form of “Stash Box” NFTs, each of which contains one of 17 songs off B.O.D.R. and goes for $5,000 apiece (there were 16,093 out of 25,000 Stash Boxes remaining at the time of publishing). Gala has claimed that holders of the Stash Boxes will receive “exclusive drops,” including films, comics, images and unique concert opportunities. “Think of the Snoop Dogg Stash Box as a lifetime membership to an elite club,” states a recent post on Gala Games’ official blog.
When the 2022 Oscar nominations were unveiled last week, a lot of fans were surprised that Lady Gaga‘s buzzy performance in House of Gucci didn’t make the cut. And their confusion didn’t come out of nowhere: Gaga’s turn as Patrizia Reggiani in the Ridley Scott-directed film had already garnered her acting nominations with the Screen Actors Guild, the BAFTAs, the Critics’ Choice Awards, the Golden Globes and even a win for best actress from the New York Film Critics Circle.
But Gaga is hardly the first female pop star to be overlooked by the Academy (her 2019 double-nomination for lead actress and best original song for A Star Is Born notwithstanding). The snub brought to mind Jennifer Lopez‘s omission from the 2020 Oscar nods, when she was thought to be a strong contender for her performance as a veteran exotic dancer in Hustlers. Oh, and there’s another female musician whose name was left on the cutting-room floor just this year: Haim‘s Alana Haim was a possible best supporting actress nominee for her debut film role in Paul Thomas Anderson’s Licorice Pizza.
On the latest Billboard Pop Shop Podcast, Katie & Keith (with an expert assist from Billboard awards editor Paul Grein!) are digging into the history of our favorite pop divas being passed over by the Oscars.
Also on the show, we’ve got chart news about how the music of Encanto continues to hold firm atop both the Billboard 200 albums chart and on the Billboard Hot 100 songs chart, and how Nicki Minaj and Lil Baby blast straight in at No. 2 on the Hot 100 with their collaborative single “Do We Have a Problem?”
The Billboard Pop Shop Podcast is your one-stop shop for all things pop on Billboard‘s weekly charts. You can always count on a lively discussion about the latest pop news, fun chart stats and stories, new music, and guest interviews with music stars and folks from the world of pop. Casual pop fans and chart junkies can hear Billboard‘s executive digital director, West Coast, Katie Atkinson and senior director of Billboard charts Keith Caulfield every week on the podcast, which can be streamed on Billboard.com or downloaded in Apple Podcasts or your favorite podcast provider. (Click here to listen to the previous edition of the show on Billboard.com.)
British singer Olly Alexander’s solo project Years & Years dropped a brand-new remix of “Starstruck” on Tuesday night (Feb. 15), joined by rising J-pop singer-songwriter SIRUP.
The release of the new remix comes on the heels of Years & Years’ latest album Night Call debuting at No. 1 on the Official UK Albums Chart, becoming Alexander’s second chart-topping set.
“Starstruck (SIRUP Remix)” adds the 34-year-old J-pop artist’s uniquely groovy style of rap and vocals over Alexander’s feel-good vibes. The It’s a Sin star shares how the collaboration came about: “I heard a song SIRUP made with another British artist, Joe Hertz, called ‘MAIGO.’ I loved that song, and thought his style would really suit ‘Starstruck,’ because he does a lot of dance music with some soul and R&B in it.
“He’s got a lot of personality in his voice!” he adds. “In ‘Starstruck’ there’s a lot of ad-libs and noises, so I thought SIRUP would be a great fit if he were up for it. I’m really happy that he was, because he added so much cool stuff! I can’t wait to perform it together. It’ll be really fun. Next time I’m in Japan, we’re gonna do it.”
SIRUP had always been a massive fan of Years & Years. “I love Years & Years so much that I’ve even covered their song ‘Desire’ before,” says the rapper/music producer. “So I really enjoyed working with him! I think Olly’s vocals have some soul and R&B elements that are similar to mine, and it was fun to put my own voice over his. I’m positive that his delightful vibes will cheer anyone up! I can’t wait for everyone to listen to this song, and I want them to just be happy and not think about anything else while listening to it. I’m really looking forward to performing this with him one day!”
Years & Years continues to push boundaries by challenging notions of identity and sexuality in pop music. The act has had three successful albums to date and earned five Brit Award nominations, surpassed 4.4 billion global streams, and performed in various major festivals and venues including Glastonbury’s Pyramid Stage to The O2. Last holiday season alone, Alexander hosted The Big New Years & Years Eve Party concert special on BBC1 — with guest appearances by past collaborators Kylie Minogue and Pet Shop Boys — and starred in the Christmas Day special of The Great British Bake Off alongside the cast from the record-breaking, award-winning Channel 4 drama series It’s a Sin.
SIRUP is Japan’s fastest rising star in the independent music scene. His modern, edgy, innovative style combined with straightforward, piercingly honest lyrics transcends genres and breaks down barriers. His previous EPs and albums have all reached No. 1 on Apple Music’s R&B chart, and his music has garnered over 300 million global streams. He supported Tom Misch’s 2019 Japan tour and performed with Corinne Bailey Rae, BJ the Chicago Kid and Yuna at one of Japan’s largest festivals, Green Room Fes. This year, SIRUP was selected as the first Japanese artist to participate in the Apple Music Home Session, a global project that began in the wake of the pandemic featuring artists such as Romy from The XX, Kylie Minogue, Years & Years, Ellie Goulding, Arlo Parks, slowthai, and London Grammar.
Listen to the “Starstruck (SIRUP Remix)” here and watch the lyric video below.
MANILA, Philippines—Alaska has announced that it will be leaving the PBA after an incredible legacy in the league where it played for more than three decades. The Aces will play out their final conference in the ongoing 2021-22 PBA Governors’ Cup, team governor Richard Bachmann said on Wednesday. One of the league’s most domineering franchises, […]
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