Burger King teams up with Billboard for ‘Billboard En Vivo’ featuring performances from Camilo and Gale.
Month: September 2022
BLACKPINK‘s “Shut Down” scores a second week at No. 1 on Billboard‘s Hot Trending Songs chart (dated Oct. 1), powered by Twitter, boosted by the release of its new LP ‘Born Pink’.
Few artists exemplify global stardom as completely as Maluma, who will launch his new record label, Royalty Records, at Billboard Latin Music Week, in addition to presenting new music, business ventures and branding releases.
At Billboard Latin Music Week on Wednesday (Sept. 28), Ivy Queen candidly discussed her career, her songwriting and her struggles as the only woman in a genre dominated by men and her new music.
Moderated by Leila Cobo, vp/Latin industry lead, Billboard, see the best takeaways from the Icon Q&A with the Queen of Reggaeton.
On Fashion: “It’s always been important for me. When I started in the industry, everyone criticized my long nails, they called me Freddy Krueger, Edward Scissorhands. Now everyone has them long and I have them short. It was hard to find my identity. I dressed very tomboyish, to feel comfortable in a male-dominated industry. When we grow older, we appreciate our curves more. It was a very drastic change.
On Finding Her Sound: “My own style is made to defend women. It took me time to define my sound. I’ve always loved the reggae movement and everything that was being done in Panama but then I fell in love with rap music because it’s poetry. I can express what I feel.”
On “Te He Querido, Te He Llorado”: “I’ve always been very open and I’ve always sang to love. This song touched my life and the ones of who have deeply fallen in love. It was an overcoming process. Instead of doing something physical to my ex, I grabbed a pen and wrote the song. Music has showed me how to ventilate my feelings and go to bank to get my royalties.”
On Her Empowering Lyrics: “I get inspired by real things and tragedies that women can’t voice. It’s for those women who are going through a crisis in a toxic relationship and can’t see it. My music is based on the reality of many women.”
On Authenticity: “Feel comfortable with who you are, your punchlines, your lyrics. Whoever tells you differently, it’s because they can’t comprehend it. People in the industry said my look and voice were very masculine. But in the end, it was my biggest blessing. I asked for advice in the wrong but you have to give it your all.”
Coinciding with National Hispanic Heritage Month, Billboard Latin Music Week includes workshops and panels featuring artists such as Christina Aguilera, Romeo Santos, Camilo, Nicky Jam, Wisin y Yandel, Maluma, Chayanne, Ivy Queen, Grupo Firme, Bizarrap, Blessd, Grupo Firme and many more.
The event also includes superstar concerts, intimate showcases, and new music premieres by Bizarrap, Elena Rose, Justin Quiles, Mariah Angeliq, and BRESH, who will throw the ultimate closing party at Oasis, in Miami’s Wynwood.
For 30 years, Billboard Latin Music Week has been the longest-running and biggest Latin music industry gathering in the world. It will also dovetail with the 2022 Billboard Latin Music Awards on Sept. 29, in Miami.
The Billboard Latin Music Awards will broadcast live on Telemundo, and will also broadcast simultaneously on the Spanish entertainment cable network, Universo, and throughout Latin America and the Caribbean on Telemundo Internacional.
The queen of reggaetón talks candidly about her career, her songwriting, her struggles as the only woman in a genre dominated by men and her new music.
Billboard cover stars Grupo Firme joined reggaeton star Nicky Jam for a live taping of his The Rockstar Show on Wednesday (Sept. 28) at Billboard Latin Music Week in Miami.
For a second consecutive year, Jam brought The Rockstar Show — now in its second season — to Latin Music Week, where the “El Perdón” singer spoke to the Mexican norteño group about their history-making music, upcoming projects and craziest anecdotes while on tour.
At one point, and as is tradition for Firme, the band and Nicky Jam took a tequila shot and even offered audience members a shot — a few volunteered, of course. “They had told me to expect this when I interviewed Grupo Firme,” Jam joked.
For 30 years, Billboard Latin Music Week has been the longest-running and biggest Latin music industry gathering in the world. It will also dovetail with the 2022 Billboard Latin Music Awards on Sept. 29, in Miami. The Billboard Latin Music Awards will broadcast live on Telemundo, and will also broadcast simultaneously on the Spanish entertainment cable network, Universo, and throughout Latin America and the Caribbean on Telemundo Internacional.
Latin Music Week will take place from Sept. 26 to Oct. 1 with star-studded panels. Additionally, a lineup of events that includes superstar concerts, intimate showcases and new music premieres by Bizarrap, Elena Rose, Camilo and Mariah Angeliq. BRESH will throw the ultimate closing party at Oasis, in Miami’s artistic neighborhood of Wynwood.
Below, five things we learned from The Rockstar Show with Nicky Jam featuring Grupo Firme’s members Eduin and Jhonny Abraham:
A Grupo Firme-Nicky Jam collab is coming
Nicky Jam was the first to bring up the subject, saying he wanted to collaborate with them. “We have a surprise for you all, we’re in talks with Nicky to do something together,” Firme’s frontman Eduin says.
Grupo Firme spent their first big check on …
While some shared that with their first check they threw wild parties, bought a motorcycle or took their significant other shopping, Eduin said, “a lot of people laugh at me but with the first paycheck, I bought equipment for the band. I invested in us.”
A Grupo Firme series on the way?
When Nicky Jam asked Firme if they were planning on starring in a film, Eduin shared that there are planning to a produce a candid series with documented footage from their soldo-out stadium tour in the U.S.
What it felt like to sing in front of 300,000 people in Mexico City’s Zocalo
“We never dreamed of doing something this big,” Eduin said. “I remember we used to hope one day we could fill Las Pulgas, a nightclub in Tijuana where we’re from, but never that something like this could happen. Our manager and my partner, Isael Gutiérrez, has many crazy ideas and they’ve worked.”
Craziest anecdote
During trip to Las Vegas where Eduin went to support his friend and championship-winning boxer, Canelo Álvarez, he felt he was in an episode of The Walking Dead while he was visiting a casino. “We were on our way to an after part but because we got there early, we started playing cards. Then someone I know offered me a gummy, and I don’t smoke, I only drink, but when I took that gummy, I got really high. I started picturing things like that 100 people were chasing me and then I just started running away. Safe to say, I never made it to the after party.”
In a release Wednesday, the Nixa City Council has announced the appointment of two interim members.
The meeting occurred on September 26, with Matt Ogden and Seth Balogh to be were nominated to fill seats vacated by Amy Hoogstraet and Justin Orf.
Hoogstraet and Orf both resigned their seats.
Both Ogden and Balogh were immediately approved by a unanimous vote and began voting on measures during the meeting.
The two new city council members will remain in their seats until the upcoming April election.
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El Fantasma captures his fourth No. 1 on Billboard’s Regional Mexican Airplay chart as “El Soldado Caído” takes over atop the Oct. 1-dated list.
“El Soldado” jumps 3-1 and sends Los Rieleros del Norte’s “Cuéntame” to No. 2 after one week atop the list. The former earns the Greatest Gainer honors of the week thanks to its 32% increase in audience impressions, to 6.5 million, in the U.S. in the week ending Sept. 25, according to Luminate.
El Fantasma’s new No. 1, released July 1st via Afinarte, arrives a year after the Mexican scored his third leader through a collaboration with Pepe Aguilar: “Tus Desprecios” ruled for one week in Sept. 2021.
Plus, with “El Soldado’s” coronation on Regional Mexican Airplay, Afinarte adds a new No. 1 to its scoreboard on the 27-year-old list. It’s the label’s first champ in almost a year since it took over atop with Los Dos Carnales’ “Yo Soy Rico” for one week in Nov. 2021.
Here’s a recap of Afinarte’s champs on Regional Mexican Airplay:
Dec. 27, 2014, “Levantando Polvadera,” Voz De Mando, (7 weeks At No.1)
June 1, 2019, “Encantadora,” El Fantasma, (4 weeks At No.1)
Sept. 5, 2020, “El Envidioso,” Los Dos Carnales
Aug. 14, 2021, “Soy Buen Amigo,” El Fantasma,
Nov. 20, 2021, “Yo Soy Rico,” Los Dos Carnales
Oct. 1, “Soldado Caído,” El Fantasma
Elsewhere. “El Soldado” pushes to the top 10 on the all-genre Latin Airplay chart, with a 13-9 climb — El Fantasma’s seventh top 10 there.
Kelly Clarkson went all the way country on Wednesday’s (Sept. 28) episode of The Kelly Clarkson Show by covering Jo Dee Messina‘s “Bye Bye” for Kellyoke.
Wearing a sky-blue dress covered in a sunny yellow floral print, the talk-show host stayed true to the sound of the 1998 country classic as she sang, “Bye bye, love, I’ll catch you later/ Got a lead foot down on my accelerator/ And the rear-view mirror torn off/ ‘Cause I ain’t never lookin’ back, and that’s a fact/ I’ve tried all I can imagine/ I’ve begged and pleaded in true lover’s fashion/ I’ve got pride, I’m takin’ it for a ride/ Bye bye, bye bye, my baby, bye bye.”
Released as the lead single from her sophomore album I’m Alright, the anthemic song earned Messina her first-ever No. 1 on Billboard‘s Hot Country Songs chart and also peaked at No. 43 on the Billboard Hot 100. Over the next seven years, the singer added five more country chart-toppers to her tally, including fellow I’m Alright singles “Stand Beside Me” and the title track.
Clarkson, meanwhile, has covered everything from Faith Hill’s “Breathe” and Destiny Child’s “Survivor” to “Ring My Bell” by Anita Ward and “When You Wish Upon a Star” with Cynthia Erivo as her recent Kellyoke picks. She also recently collaborated with Kelsea Ballerini and Carly Pearce on album cut “You’re Drunk, Go Home” from the former’s brand-new studio set Subject to Change.
Watch Clarkson’s performance of “Bye Bye” below.
Madison Square Garden may have just spent 15 consecutive sold-out shows as Harry’s House, but on Tuesday night (Sept. 27), Ben Platt turned the famous Manhattan arena into his “Childhood Bedroom.” Yes, that was the track the Broadway star used to kick off the New York City stop of his long-awaited Reverie Tour.
It’s been more than a year since the Dear Evan Hansen star released his sophomore album, Reverie, and almost exactly three years to the day since he was last on tour in NYC, filming his show at Radio City Music Hall for his 2020 Netflix concert special. And his joy at being back on stage was palpable.
“New York City is the greatest city on Earth, but you all know this. And it has been a huge honor to play each and every venue that I’ve had the privilege to play. So now to be at Madison Square Garden just feels deeply unreal and like it’s not happening, but it is!” he said as the crowd erupted into applause.
“Performing is, just, so much a part of who I am and it has been since I was, like, five years old. It’s part of my humanity, and so to not be able to do it for the last three years has just been a challenge,” he added later in his set. ”And I’ve felt I lost some of that love for what I do and that confidence in myself and I’ve been waiting to get back on stage, and so I’m so grateful that you came and let me do that again.”
For ninety minutes, Platt kept the audience rapt with his sky-high vocal prowess, quirky theater kid-turned-unlikely pop star persona, spectacular covers and even an added dash or two of Broadway magic. Billboard was on the scene to round up all the best moments from the show.
Aly & AJ’s Opening Set
Before Platt made his grand entrance, Aly & AJ warmed up the crowd with an impressive eight-song set highlighting their 2021 album, A Touch of the Beat Gets You Up on Your Feet Gets You Out and Then Into the Sun. Running through tracks like “Slow Dancing,” “Don’t Need Nothing” and “Break Yourself,” the sisters’ lithe voices intertwined gorgeously, particularly on fan favorite album opener “Pretty Places.” They premiered a brand-new, as-yet-untitled track off their in-the-works fifth studio effort, and no Aly & AJ set in the year 2022 would have been complete without their mid-’00s banger “Potential Breakup Song,” which the siblings smartly used as their big finale number, explicit lyrics included.
The Wizard and Ben
With Broadway just blocks away, Platt’s show would have felt incomplete without any reference to his theater roots. And while the Tony winner has included a gender-swapped cover of “She Used to Be Mine” from Waitress at every stop on the tour, he offered the New York crowd an extra treat by also tackling Wicked’s “The Wizard and I.” “This is a role that I’ll never get to play, but I’ve always dreamed of playing. Let’s do it,” he said before gleefully stepping into Elphaba’s shoes and belting the modern classic all the way to Shiz and back.
I Wanna Dance With Somebody
Early in the show, Platt opened up about his relationship with longtime boyfriend (and fellow Dear Evan Hansen alum) Noah Galvin while introducing Reverie single “Happy to Be Sad.” But in the most adorable moment of the evening, the couple’s love was on full display as Galvin later crashed the stage during the appropriately titled album cut “Dance with You.”
“If I’m gonna dance/ I wanna dance with you/ Put your hand in my hand/ Turn me around the room/ If there’s gonna be dancing/ Hey! Then I wanna dance with you,” Platt crooned as Galvin twirled around with him in a tight embrace before firmly planting a kiss on his boyfriend. “I don’t know who that man was that stormed the stage,” Platt joked after finishing the number. “Someone get security — good kisser though!”
You Can Go Your Own Way
Immediately following Galvin’s sweet surprise, Platt invited Aly & AJ back to the stage for a magnetic cover of Fleetwood Mac’s “Go Your Own Way.” With the former Disney Channel stars providing backup vocals, the trio injected the Rumours classic with plenty of attitude, mesmerizing harmonies and a full-blown instrumental break featuring Aly & AJ on dueling guitars.
Baby, He Was Born This Way
Of all the moments of thunderous applause throughout the show — and there were several — none got quite as big of a reaction from the crowd as Platt’s high-flying cover of Lady Gaga’s “Yoü and I.” First recruited by Mother Monster to record the country-rock foot-stomper for the tenth anniversary re–release of Born This Way last year, Platt admitted he just had to perform it when he heard Gaga hadn’t put it on the setlist for the Chromatica Ball.
Kicking his feet up to star the number reclined on a piano, the singer got the chance to flaunt his very best riffs, runs and vocal acrobatics — at one point even doing so while lying prone on the stage — and truly earn the standing ovation that followed.
Platt’s Reverie Tour will next hit Boston, Atlantic City and Orlando before wrapping up Oct. 7 at the Hard Rock Live in Hollywood, Fla.