Miley Cyrus‘ No. 1 streak has been extended by another week. On Monday (March 27), the singer celebrated yet another week of her chart-topping smash “Flowers” spending its eighth total week at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 on Instagram.
“Flowers is #1 for an 8th week. Thank you for continuing to support this meaningful song. I love you all deeply,” she captioned two photos of herself in a black-and-white ombré dress, the second of which featured fashion designer Donatella Versace, who wrote in the comments, “I love you Miley!!! Congratulations on your 8th week at #1.”
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In addition to the celebratory post, Cyrus dropped another installment of her Endless Summer Vacation Backyard Sessions, this time giving fans a live rendition of the album track “Jaded.” The Disney Channel alum appears in a strappy white dress decorated in a large buckle and cutouts, and accessorized with angular black sunglasses, belting the emotive track with the help of background singers.
“Oh, isn’t it a shame that it ended like that?/ Said goodbye forever but you never unpacked/ We went to hell but we never came back,” the 30-year old sings on the bridge before launching into the track’s chorus. “I’m sorry that you’re jaded/ I could’ve taken you places/ You’re lonely now and I hate it/ I’m sorry that you’re jaded.”
“Jaded” is currently at No. 56 on the chart. Endless Summer Vacation, meanwhile, debuted at No. 3 on the Billboard 200, marking Cyrus’ 14th top 10 album of her career.
Watch the backyard session for “Jaded” in the video above.
Happy anniversary, dahhlings! As all members of the Lambily know, March 27 is the annual anniversary of Mariah Carey‘s birth.
And while the Songbird Supreme may classify herself as “eternally 12” — and refuses to use the term “birthday” or, you know, recognize the concept of time in general — we couldn’t let the day go by without honoring her legacy as one of the most iconic chart-toppers in Billboard history.
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To date, the Elusive Chanteuse has racked up a record-setting nineteen No. 1 hits on the Billboard Hot 100 — making her the solo artist with the most number ones and only one behind The Beatles’ high water mark of 20.
Of course, Carey’s latest, and some would argue greatest, No. 1 is “All I Want for Christmas Is You,” which reached the top of the tally for the first time in 2019 — a full 25 years after its initial release — and has since made its annual return to No. 1 every holiday season since.
However, ask any Lamb and they’ll tell you there’s so much more to Mariah’s songbook than Christmas music. Starting out at the dawn of the ’90s, the singer became instantly known for her iconic voice and notched adult-contemporary hits like “Vision of Love” and “Love Takes Time” as well as certified pop smashes like “Dreamlover,” “Fantasy” and “Always Be My Baby.”
Eventually, she spread her wings and found her artistic freedom with the release of 1997’s Butterfly, which became a blueprint for successfully melding R&B, hip-hop and pop with singles like “Honey” and “My All.” High-profile collabs with Jay-Z and Joe and 98 Degrees soon followed in the form of “Heartbreaker” and “Thank God I Found You,” but Mariah hit another level of artistic achievement and string of No. 1s with 2005’s The Emancipation of Mimi and its 2008 successor E=MC2.
Throughout the 2000s, the songwriter crafted the sound of the decade thanks to hits like “We Belong Together,” “Don’t Forget About Us” and “Touch My Body,” with the worldwide success of the former even barring its equally infectious follow-up “Shake It Off” from reaching the top of the chart.
To celebrate Mariah’s “anniversary,” vote for your favorite of her nineteen No. 1 hits below.
The snaps featured the couple’s two daughters, 6-year-old Dusty Rose and 4-year-old Gio Grace, playing around backstage and watching their dad perform, as well as gorgeous selfies of Prinsloo. One of the photos gave the tiniest peek at the duo’s newborn baby, in which the child’s feet are seen laying on his mother’s legs.
Neither Levine nor Prinsloo have publicly announced the baby’s sex or name. “It’s zoned defense, as they say. It’s awesome,” the musician previously told Ryan Seacrest of being a father of three during an recent appearance on On-Air With Ryan Seacrest. “I love the chaos. I embrace the chaos.”
The Victoria’s Secret model shared the news that she and the “Moves Like Jagger” singer were expecting back in September, when she posted a casual photo on Instagram showing off her baby bump. However, the exciting news was somewhat overshadowed by a texting scandal involving Levine last fall, in which Instagram model Sumner Stroh shared alleged flirtatious messages exchanged between her and the singer. Stroh claimed she and Levine saw each other for a year and that in June, Levine asked if it would be OK to name his baby “Sumner” if it was a boy — just a few days after it was confirmed that Prinsloo was pregnant with the couple’s third child.
Levine denied having an affair, but took responsibility for having “poor judgement in speaking with anyone other than my wife in ANY kind of flirtatious manner.”
Jung Kook is the latest K-pop star to team up with American fashion brand Calvin Klein, and naturally, BTS fans are freaking out.
The K-pop singer’s teaser of his partnership with the brand arrived on Monday (March 27) and featured him engaging in a few athletic endeavors. While fans will have to wait for the rest of Jung Kook’s Calvin Klein ad to arrive, the first look shows snippets of the BTS member wearing double denim — a jean jacket, denim pants and the brand’s signature white briefs — as he runs though a black-and-white space. His face was not fully revealed in the ad teaser, but his eyes, hair and smiley face finger tattoo gives him away in the video, which is captioned, “Same time tomorrow?”
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Reactions to the video were overwhelmingly positive, with ARMY members universally fawning over Jung Kook’s good looks in the advert. “Thanks, I have to call off work now because this made me forget how to breathe… y’all owe me a sick day… or more photos,” one fan tweeted, while another fan added, “JK! He is the epitome of cool! This will be a superb ad campaign! His duality of bad boy looks and adorable giggles & grin are sure to set ‘Calvin’s’ on fire!”
Jung Kook isn’t the first K-pop star to be featured in a Calvin Klein campaign: BLACKPINK’s Jennie got a featuring spot in an ad for the brand earlier this month.
See Jung Kook’s Calvin Klein teaser in the video below.
The Springfield Police Department is investigating where a false emergency originated from that said there were guns at an SPS facility.
Police responded to Kickapoo High School at around 1 p.m. Monday afternoon after the department received a text message that a shooting had occurred.
Officers quickly determined that the text message was a hoax.
Investigators say instances of fake calls and text are becoming more common, and have been referred to as “swatting”.
Similar calls and text messages were also reported to other law enforcement offices in the state and came just hours after the shooting at a Nashville, Tennessee elementary school that killed six.
A statement from Kickapoo High School regarding the incident can be found below:
Dear Kickapoo Staff and Families:
A false emergency call related to Kickapoo High School was received by emergency services today. In response, law enforcement has conducted an investigation onsite and concluded that it is a false alarm. There are many reports across the state and nation of false information being relayed to emergency responders, however it is too early to determine if there is a connection in this matter. That investigation will be ongoing.
We want our families and the community to be assured that everyone is safe at Kickapoo High School. This was a false alarm and we will proceed with our regular schedule.
It’s still four days away, but forecasters are monitoring for the potential of severe thunderstorms in the Ozarks on Friday.
The National Weather Service says what we know is the atmosphere will be conducive for thunderstorms and potential severe weather to close out the work week, but what we don’t know are the exact details of timing, locations and hazard types.
Areas along and east of Highway 65 are already under a level three “enhanced” risk for severe weather on Friday, with areas west of Springfield in a level two “slight” risk.
93-3 and A-M 560 KWTO will keep you up to date with the latest on the weather forecast as new updates come in and with any watches and warnings on Friday.
Jeremy Renner‘s reality docuseries Rennervations is coming to Disney+ on April 12, and ahead of the premiere, Billboard is sharing an exclusive clip in which the Hawkeye star shares how music has impacted his life.
Following a haunting piano cover of The Animals’ “House of the Rising Sun,” Renner is heard explaining over a piano melody, “Music has always been my first love. It’s a very personal thing for me, something that I fell into when I was younger to get me out of trouble. Becoming an adult, it still is. Any time I get overwhelmed with personal problems or my job, music is such a therapeutic outlet for me.”
He added that his decision to share his own music over the past few years was life changing. “In doing so, it opened my eyes and opened my heart,” he revealed. “It gave me a sense of belonging. Music unites people and that, to me, is exciting.”
Jeremy Renner, ‘Rennervations’
The series follows Renner in his hometown of Reno, Nevada, as well as three other cities — Chicago, Illinois; Cabo San Lucas, Mexico; and Rajasthan, India — where he works with a team of builders to identify decommissioned vehicles that can be rebuilt to serve a new purpose.
Rennervations comes just two months after a terrifying accident in which Renner’s 14,000-pound PistenBully snowplow ran him over on his Mt. Rose Highway-area property while he was trying to divert it away from his nephew while clearing the snow, leaving him with more than 30 broken bones.
Watch the exclusive Rennervations clip below, and sign up for Disney+ here.
Meanwhile, two acts notch their first Hot 100 top 10s: Coi Leray’s “Players” pushes 12-9 and Bailey Zimmerman’s “Rock and a Hard Place” rolls 11-10.
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The Hot 100 blends all-genre U.S. streaming (official audio and official video), radio airplay and sales data. All charts (dated April 1, 2023) will update on Billboard.com tomorrow (March 28). For all chart news, you can follow @billboard and @billboardcharts on both Twitter and Instagram.
“Flowers,” released on Smiley Miley/Columbia Records, drew 107.9 million radio airplay audience impressions (up 1%) and 24.7 million streams (down 12%) and sold 11,000 (down 26%) March 17-23, according to Luminate.
“Flowers” claims a sixth week at No. 1 on the Radio Songs chart and falls 2-4 on Streaming Songs and 2-7 on Digital Song Sales, after it ruled the rankings for four and five weeks, respectively.
The song, from Cyrus’ new album Endless Summer Vacation, debuted at No. 1 on the Hot 100 dated Jan. 28 and spent its first six weeks on the chart at the summit; it then ranked at No. 2 for two weeks and has since logged its latest two frames on top.
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Morgan Wallen’s “Last Night” holds at No. 2 on the Hot 100, two weeks after it hit No. 1, as it tops Streaming Songs for a third week (35.9 million, down 8%). It leads the Hot Country Songs chart, which uses the same methodology as the Hot 100, for a seventh week, as parent album One Thing at a Timecommands the Billboard 200 for a third frame.
SZA’s “Kill Bill” keeps at No. 3 on the Hot 100 after seven weeks at its No. 2 high. It tops the multi-metric Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs and Hot R&B Songs charts for a 14th frame each.
Metro Boomin, The Weeknd and 21 Savage’s “Creepin’ ” rises 5-4 on the Hot 100, after reaching No. 3; The Weeknd and Ariana Grande’s “Die for You” retreats 4-5, three weeks after it reigned; PinkPantheress and Ice Spice’s “Boy’s a Liar, Pt. 2” holds at No. 6, after hitting No. 3; and Taylor Swift’s “Anti-Hero” is steady at No. 7, following a personal-best eight weeks at No. 1 in November-January.
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Rema and Selena Gomez’s “Calm Down” is stationary at its No. 8 Hot 100 high and ascends to the Radio Songs top 10 (11-9; 49.6 million, up 12%). Rema achieves his first Radio Songs top 10, while Gomez earns her ninth, following “Lose You to Love Me” (No. 5, December 2019); “Back to You” (No. 5, October 2018); “It Ain’t Me,” with Kygo (No. 4, May 2017); “Hands to Myself” (No. 7, April 2016); “Same Old Love” (No. 3, January 2016); “Good for You,” featuring A$AP Rocky (No. 4, September 2015); “The Heart Wants What It Wants” (No. 9, February 2015); and “Come & Get It” (No. 6, July 2013).
The track concurrently tops the Billboard U.S. Afrobeats Songs chart for a milestone 30th week – extending the longest reign since the survey began almost a year ago (in partnership with music festival and global brand Afro Nation).
Coi Leray’s “Players” surges 12-9 on the Hot 100, with 58.5 million in airplay audience (up 11% – good for top Airplay Gainer honors), 10.5 million streams (up 3%) and 4,000 sold (up 5%).
Leray, who was born in Boston and raised in Hackensack, N.J. – and presented SZA as the 2023 Woman of the Year at the Billboard Women in Music celebration March 1 – posts her first Hot 100 top 10, following two top 40 entries: “Blick Blick!,” with Nicki Minaj (No. 37, April 2022), and “No More Parties,” featuring Lil Durk (No. 26, March 2021).
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“Players” samples Grandmaster Flash’s classic “The Message,” which hit No. 4 on Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs (and No. 62 on the Hot 100) in 1982. “I feel like this record was to connect the new with the old,” Leray recently told Billboard. “There’s a lot of older cats and OGs … and it just feels good to bring everybody together. Whether you’re 10, 2, 80 or 30, everyone’s bopping, and those are the moments I love.”
“Players” also tops the multi-metric Hot Rap Songs chart for a second week.
Rounding out the Hot 100’s top 10, Bailey Zimmerman’s “Rock and a Hard Place” lifts 11-10 – as with Leray, becoming his first top 10 among three top 40 hits – with 35.8 million in airplay audience (essentially even week-over-week), 15.3 million streams (up 3%) and 3,000 sold (up 9%).
The track hits the top 10 in its 41st week on the Hot 100 – rewriting the record for the longest climb to the top 10 for a song by a soloist in the chart’s history. Among all acts, only Glass Animals’ “Heat Waves” took longer, reaching the tier in its 42nd week in November 2021. Now in third place overall, Zach Bryan’s “Something in the Orange,” Nat King Cole’s “The Christmas Song (Merry Christmas to You)” (both this January) and Carrie Underwood’s “Before He Cheats” (2007) all completed 38-week trips to the top 10.
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As previously reported, “Rock and a Hard Place” becomes the Louisville, Ind., native’s second No. 1 on the Country Airplay chart, after “Fall in Love” led for a week in December. Notably (and unlike the far steadier climb for “Rock” on the Hot 100, where it was first driven most heavily by streaming), his three-month, three-week span between his first two Country Airplay leaders is the quickest for any act’s first two in nearly a quarter-century – since The Chicks took three months between “There’s Your Trouble” and “Wide Open Spaces” in August-November 1998.
“In my wildest dreams, I never thought I’d see my name or any of my songs on the Billboard charts, so the fact that I’ve now had two reach the No. 1 spot is mind-blowing,” Zimmerman says. “Thanks to everyone who has supported me and my music. I owe everything to y’all.”
Again, for all chart news, you can follow @billboard and @billboardcharts on both Twitter and Instagram and all charts (dated April 1), including the Hot 100 in its entirety, will refresh on Billboard.com tomorrow (March 28).
Luminate, the independent data provider to the Billboard charts, completes a thorough review of all data submissions used in compiling the weekly chart rankings. Luminate reviews and authenticates data. In partnership with Billboard, data deemed suspicious or unverifiable is removed, using established criteria, before final chart calculations are made and published.
Springfield Public Schools is asking for the public to vote for a new multi-million dollar bond issue to help with renovations and other measures for the district.
The district says the bond issue is similar to the one passed in 2019, which was recently used to renovate York Elementary.
The new bond is an estimated $220 million and would allow SPS to improve and upgrade security and safety measures, do repairs on several school facilities and construct new buildings for Reed Elementary and Pipkin Middle School.
The bond issue will not enact a tax rate increase on city residents.
