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Nick Cannon shared an adorable father-daughter moment on Instagram with his new baby Onyx Ice Cole Cannon. The picture shows Cannon snuggled up with the newborn, both asleep on the couch.
“All in a days work!!” Cannon wrote in the black-and-white photo’s caption. “Onyx has the right idea! It’s a wrap! Meditation and Rejuvenation aligns the Spirit!”
Onyx is the Masked Singer host’s ninth child. He shares the baby, born on Sept. 14, with model Lanisha Cole. “Once again, today I am in awe of the Devine Feminine!” Cannon wrote in an Instagram post announcing Onyx’s birth. “God has given me and @MissLanishaCole the privilege of hosting an Angel here on earth. I vow to protect, provide, guide and love this child to the best of my abilities.”
Since Onyx was born, Cannon shared news of the birth of his 10th child, Rise Messiah Cannon, last week. Rise is Cannon’s third child with model Brittany Bell.
While many found the father-daughter bonding with Onyx adorable, some commenters had a few things to say about the size of Cannon’s family. The comedian has fathered three children this year with three different women.
“It’s amazing that you love all these children. But you need to stop,” said one Instagram user. “There is NO way you can give all of these children the time they deserve with their Dad. Common now…enough is enough.”
Some took a more comical approach, pointing out how many Christmas gifts Cannon will have to give out this year. “You gotta visit a lot of houses for Christmas St. NICK so yea rest up,” said another.
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There’s a new kid on the block. Google Pixel 7, the latest phone from the Google Pixel lineup, was introduced during the Made by Google event on Thursday (Oct. 6).
Pixel 7 is larger and faster than its predecessor. As the “most powerful Google phone yet,” Pixel 7 retails for $599 ($899 for Pixel 7 Pro) and features Google Tensor G2, an enhanced processor, custom-built with Google AI.
The phone is equipped with a 6.3-inch QHD display screen, a pro-triple rear camera system and a refined design encased in a 100 percent recycled aluminum frame (available in matte or polished aluminum). Pixel 7 pro has a 6.7-inch display screen, compared to the Pixel 7’s 6.3-inch screen. Pixel 7 and Pixel 7 Pro features IP68 dust and water protection (Pixel 6 is IP67) and will include a built-in VPN powered by Google One, for added protection.
Pixel 7 and 7 Pro feature face unlock capabilities, along with the fingerprint unlock found in Pixel 6. All three phones are equipped with a Titan M2 Security chip.
Other features include up to 12GB of RAM, motion mode, macro focus, fast charging, and a 24-hour battery (up to 72 hours with Extreme Battery Saver). Pixel 7 and Pixel 7 Pro will be released on Oct. 13, but you can pre-order the phones at the Google store and Best Buy, in addition to AT&T, Verizon, and T-Mobile. Get a $100 gift card when you pre-order Pixel 7 at Amazon.
Besides Pixel 7 and Pixel 7 Pro, Google’s product lineup included the Pixel Watch ($349.99) and the Nest Wifi Pro ($399.99), both of which are available for pre-order. The Pixel Tablet won’t be out until next year, but it could end up giving Apple iPad some hefty competition. Pixel Tablet has Tensor G2’s advanced image processing and machine learning, plus video calling, photo editing, hands-free help via Google Assistant, and other favored Pixel phone features.
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5 Seconds of Summer score their fifth No. 1 on Billboard’s Top Album Sales chart (dated Oct. 8), as the band’s new studio effort, 5SOS5, arrives atop the tally. The set sold 36,000 copies in the U.S. in the week ending Sept. 29, according to Luminate. All five of the quartet’s full-length studio albums have hit No. 1 on Top Album Sales.
Also in the top 10 of the new Top Album Sales chart: anniversary reissues of Alice in Chains’ Dirt, Marina and The Diamonds’ Electra Heart and Phoebe Bridgers’ Stranger in the Alps all re-enter the list thanks to strong vinyl sales, while Kelsea Ballerini’s new album Subject to Change opens at No. 6.
Billboard’s Top Album Sales chart ranks the top-selling albums of the week based only on traditional album sales. The chart’s history dates back to May 25, 1991, the first week Billboard began tabulating charts with electronically monitored piece count information from SoundScan, now Luminate. Pure album sales were the sole measurement utilized by the Billboard 200 albums chart through the list dated Dec. 6, 2014, after which that chart switched to a methodology that blends album sales with track equivalent album units and streaming equivalent album units. For all chart news, follow @billboard and @billboardcharts on both Twitter and Instagram.
Of 5SOS5‘s 36,000 copies sold in its first week, physical sales comprise 30,000 (13,000 on vinyl; 16,500 on CD; and 500 on cassette) and digital downloads comprise 6,000. The set’s sales were bolstered by its availability across six vinyl variants, which combined to give the band its best sales week on wax. CDs still led the sales charge overall, thanks to multiple versions available in collectible packaging (including alternative cover art for each of the four band members) and deluxe boxed sets.
BLACKPINK’s Born Pink falls to No. 2 with 26,000 copies sold (down 65%) in its second week.
Alice in Chains’ Dirt re-enters Top Album Sales at a new high of No. 3 (23,000 sold; up 4,947%) following the set’s 30th-anniversary remastered reissue on Sept. 23.
The album, first released in 1992, bounds back onto the list for the first time since 1994. It logs its highest rank on the chart, surpassing its initial No. 6 debut and original peak on the Oct. 17, 1992-dated chart.
Dirt’s re-entry is largely powered by sales of its double vinyl album, with 22,500 sold across its three available pressings (a widely available standard black LP, a red-colored variant exclusive to Walmart and an orange-colored LP exclusively sold through the band’s webstore). That vinyl sum – the band’s largest since Luminate began tracking sales in 1991 – is also enough to see the album debut at No. 1 on the Vinyl Albums chart.
NCT 127’s 2 Baddies descends from No. 2 to No. 4 in its second week with 13,000 copies sold (down 77%).
Marina and The Diamonds’ Electra Heart re-enters Top Album Sales at No. 5 with 10,500 sold (up 9,480%), marking the 10-year-old set’s first visit to the top 10. It’s back on the list following a 10th anniversary expanded reissue on magenta-colored vinyl (Sept. 23). Effectively all of it sales were on vinyl LP, easily the act’s best week on vinyl, aiding its debut at No. 3 on Vinyl Albums.
Kelsea Ballerini’s new studio album Subject to Change debuts at No. 6 with 9,500 sold – marking the singer’s third top 10 on the tally.
Phoebe Bridgers’ debut studio album, Stranger in the Alps, released in 2017, re-enters Top Album Sales at No. 7 (8,500 sold; up 520%) after its fifth anniversary reissue on colored vinyl (Sept. 23). It’s the first time the album has been in the top 10. Of that sales sum, vinyl comprises 8,000, yielding at No. 4 debut on the Vinyl Albums chart.
Rounding out the top 10 of Top Album Sales is a trio of former No. 1s: TWICE’s Between 1&2: 11th Mini Album rises 9-8 (8,500; down 18%), Ozzy Osbourne’s Patient Number 9 falls 5-9 (8,000; down 44%) and Harry Styles’ Harry’s House climbs 15-10 (6,500; up 18%).
In the week ending Sept. 29, there were 1.655 million albums sold in the U.S. (down 5.2% compared to the previous week). Of that sum, physical albums (CDs, vinyl LPs, cassettes, etc.) comprised 1.318 million (down 4.5%) and digital albums comprised 338,000 (down 7.5%).
There were 617,000 CD albums sold in the week ending Sept. 29 (down 12.4% week-over-week) and 689,000 vinyl albums sold (up 4.3%). Year-to-date CD album sales stand at 25.434 million (down 7.9% compared to the same time frame a year ago) and year-to-date vinyl album sales total 28.552 million (up 0.9%).
Overall year-to-date album sales total 69.597 million (down 7.9% compared to the same year-to-date time frame a year ago). Year-to-date physical album sales stand at 54.378 million (down 3.3%) and digital album sales total 15.219 million (down 21.1%).
Saturday Night Live has a fun lineup coming up this weekend (Oct. 8), with actor Brendan Gleeson making his hosting debut, and Willow taking the stage as musical guest.
In a new promo for the episode shared on Thursday (Oct. 6), the duo stand alongside SNL cast member Chloe Fineman, who gushed over Gleeson’s role in 2021’s Macbeth, in which he played King Duncan. The actor warned that it’s bad luck to say “Macbeth” in a theater, and both Willow and Fineman ignore him before a light falls from the ceiling behind them.
“That’s probably a coincidence,” Fineman quickly says.
Later on in the promo, the SNL comedian shares that an Irish accent is her favorite part about Ireland. Willow notes that her favorite part about the country is the music, while Gleeson, who is Irish himself, says he prefers an “Irish goodbye.”
Fineman, who didn’t know what the term meant, soon realizes that she is left alone onstage, and that “Irish goodbye” means leaving a situation without bidding any farewells.
Willow’s first time on the SNL stage was during season 47 as a guest of Camila Cabello, when the pair performed their collaboration “Pyschofreak” off the former Fifth Harmony member’s latest solo effort Familia.
“I’m honestly really, really surprised that I’m going to be on SNL twice in one year, five months apart,” she told Apple Music 1’s Zane Lowe. “That’s crazy. I’m really excited. I’m nervous obviously, because being with Camila [Cabello], really, really good friend of mine. There’s that feeling of comfortability there where you can look across the stage and be like, ‘Girl, we’re in this together. We’re doing this.’ I’m not baring my soul alone on the stage. But now it’s going to be me baring my soul alone on the stage, and I’m just so grateful and so excited, but also s——g my pants slightly.”
Willow’s new album <COPINGMECHANISM> is out Oct. 7. Watch the SNL promo below, and catch the full episode on Saturday (Oct. 8) at 11:30 p.m. ET on NBC.
In a new interview, Katy Perry said she knew Dua Lipa was the “it girl” early in her career.
“I remember going in to watch her play at the Hollywood Palladium,” Perry tells Rolling Stone. “It’s so funny, I left work early. It was the first season of me doing American Idol. I was like, ‘I really need to get out of here by 7 because I’m going to see this new artist Dua Lipa play at the Palladium,’ and my co-judge Luke Bryan was like, ‘Who’s that?’ I was like, ‘Don’t worry, you’ll know her name.’”
Perry expressed empathizing with the rising star because of her own experience as a woman in the industry coming up. Perry has been very vocal about stan culture pitting women artists against one another.
“I love new female artists,” said Perry. “I know the really intense challenges and the pressure and all that stuff. I just feel for them so much.”
Perry also shared the inspiration behind her campy Las Vegas residency in the new interview. The show, filled with over-the-top costumes and larger-than-life sets, drew upon the fantasy of Alice in Wonderland.
“You don’t have to take mushrooms to feel like you’re on mushrooms when you watch this show. Believe me,” Perry says. “It’s got all the nostalgia factor, but it is wrapped up in this Alice in Wonderland mushroom trip animated story of finding true love and self-love.”
Read Perry’s full interview on Rolling Stone.
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TREASURE is welcoming a new era with one of the catchiest K-pop singles of the year.
The boy band’s new EP The Second Step: Chapter Two follows up The Second Step: Chapter One from February that delivered the group’s best showing on Billboard‘s Global charts so far: lead single “JikJin” hit No. 110 on the Global 200, while B-side “Darari” also entered the chart at No. 169 after a surge of viral activity.
Co-written and co-produced by TREASURE members Choi Hyunsuk, Yoshi and Haruto, the latest single “Hello” is crafted around surging synthesizers that follow the guys through moments of jock-jam dance breakdowns to stylish rap sections. The chorus’ repetitious lines (“I’m like, ‘Hello, hello, hello, where you’ve been all my life?’” and “Yeah, I’m looking, I’m looking, I’m looking for you”) give TREASURE a handful of undeniable hooks and make the song an easy earworm.
The accompanying video shows the boy band embracing bright and colorful sets emphasizing the TikTok-ready choreography. At one point, the members hold signs for “hello” in various languages like Japanese, Spanish, Chinese, German and Indonesian, speaking to K-pop’s global audience today.
“Hello” and the new The Second Step: Chapter Two mark the latest release from TREASURE with a slew of unique particulars for the album. The five-track EP includes songs performed by different sub-groups of TREASURE members with the rock-rap joint “VolKno” performed by Hyunsuk, Yoshi and Haruto, while Asahi and Haruto teamed up on the rock track “Thank You.” The Second Step: Chapter Two also marks the first time TREAUSRE is performing as a 10-member outfit as members Bang Yedam and Mashiho are taking time off from the group to pursue their studies and focus on their health, respectively.
Say “Hello” to TREASURE below:
Irish actor Brandan Gleeson announced his upcoming takeover of Saturday Night Live this weekend in a hilarious promo video posted on Wednesday (Oct. 5) In the clip, Gleeson confesses the real him is in fact, not a thespian, but something a bit more edgy.
“Most people know me as an actor,” said Gleeson. “But the real me is a skater.”
The Banshees of Inisherin actor followed the proclamation up with a demonstration of his skills. The promo video goes on to show Gleeson carelessly riding around the SNL set on a skateboard while landing kickflips and toppling over a staff member’s cue cards. It was a display worthy of Thrasher Magazine, or it would be if Gleeson didn’t trash the skate magazine soon after.
“Thrasher Mag can kiss my a–,” proclaimed Gleeson. He did all this while evading studio 8H’s resident security guard. “Up yours, copper,” Gleeson exclaimed while continuing his antics. He then proceeded to spray-paint the SNL studio’s “No Skateboarding” sign, solidifying his rebel status.
Gleeson’s edgy skater persona was unfortunately tackled to the ground soon after. Still, he lived to skate again. The promo was filmed with an unconventional fish-eye lens, often used to film skate footage, and fitting for Gleeson, who’s supposedly been a longtime member of the skate scene.
The episode slated to air this Saturday will also feature Willow as a musical guest. This will be Willow’s second time this year as a guest act on the show. Earlier, she performed “Psychofreak” with Camila Cabello.
Watch the promo below.
