The Offspring’s ‘Let the Bad Times Roll’ Debuts at No. 1 on Billboard’s Alternative Albums Chart

The Offspring return to Billboard’s album charts with the band’s first studio effort in nearly a decade, as Let the Bad Times Roll debuts at No. 1 on the Alternative Albums chart (dated May 1). The set was released via Wabi Sabi/Concord on April 16 and earned 19,000 equivalent album units in the U.S. in the week ending April 22, according to MRC Data.

The Alternative Albums chart ranks the most popular alternative albums of the week in the U.S. based on multi-metric consumption as measured in equivalent album units. Units comprise album sales, track equivalent albums (TEA) and streaming equivalent albums (SEA). Each unit equals one album sale, or 10 individual tracks sold from an album, or 3,750 ad-supported or 1,250 paid/subscription on-demand official audio and video streams generated by songs from an album. For all chart news, follow @billboard and @billboardcharts on both Twitter and Instagram.

Of Let the Bad Time Roll’s 19,000 equivalent album units earned in the tracking week ending April 22, album sales comprise 17,000, SEA units comprise 2,000 (equaling 2.42 million on-demand streams of the album’s tracks) and TEA units comprise less than 1,000.

Let the Bad Times Roll is The Offspring’s 10th studio release and first since 2012’s Days Go By.

Let the Bad Times Roll is The Offspring’s first No. 1 on the 13-year-old Alternative Albums chart. The set also launches in the top 10 across multiple other Billboard tallies, including Top Album Sales, Top Rock Albums, Independent Albums, Vinyl Albums and Tastemaker Albums. On the Billboard 200 chart, the set starts at No. 27, marking the act’s ninth top 40-charting album – the entirely of their charting releases.

The new album includes the 2015 single “Coming For You,” which hit No. 1 on Mainstream Rock Airplay and No. 16 on Alternative Airplay. The album’s latest hit is its title track, which is climbing both Mainstream Rock Airplay (6-4 on the chart dated May 1) and Alternative Airplay (24-20).

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Here Are the Lyrics to Silk Sonic’s ‘Leave the Door Open’

Bruno Mars and Anderson .Paak’s first song as Silk Sonic, “Leave the Door Open,” earned them a Billboard Hot 100 No. 1 hit and a spot performing at the 2021 Grammys.

The single comes ahead of their full-length album, An Evening With Silk Sonic, which features funk legend and “special guest host” Bootsy Collins. The pair picked apart how they cooked up “a groove from scratch” to Apple Music’s Zane Lowe in an interview. “You guys are trying to figure out what’s going to work. What’s the math behind this that’s going to get everybody feeling good? What is it? Is it too heavy? Is it not heavy enough? And especially with this song, it’s a song that requires so much patience and delicate…,” .Paak said before Mars jumped in with the word, “Delicatessen.”

“Delicatessens. A lot of meat went into this song,” .Paak confirmed.

Check out the lyrics and music video below.

Say baby, say baby, say baby

What you doin’? (What you doin’?)
Where you at? (Where you at?)
Oh, you got plans? (You got plans?)
Don’t say that (shut yo’ trap)

I’m sippin’ wine (sip, sip)
In a robe (drip, drip)
I look too good (look too good)
To be alone (woo-hoo)

My house clean (house clean)
My pool warm (pool warm)
Just shaved (smooth like a newborn)

We should be dancing, romancing, in the east wing
And the west wing of this mansion, what’s happenin’?

I ain’t playin’ no games
Every word that I say
Is coming straight from the heart
So if you tryna lay in these arms

I’ma leave the door open
(I’ma leave the door open)
I’ma leave the door open, girl
(I’ma leave the door open, hopin’)

That you feel the way I feel
And you want me like I want you tonight, baby
Tell me that you’re coming through

Ooh, you’re so sweet (so sweet)
So tight (so tight)
I won’t bite (uh-huh)
Unless you like (unless you like)

If you smoke (what you smoke?)
I got the haze (purple haze)
And if you’re hungry, girl I got filets (woo-hoo)

Ooh, baby, don’t keep me (waiting)
There’s so much love we could be making (shamone)

I’m talking kissing
Cuddling
Rose petals in the bathtub, girl, lets jump in
It’s bubblin’

I ain’t playin’ no games
Every word that I say
Is coming straight from the heart
So if you’re tryna lay in these arms

I’ma leave the door open
(I’ma leave the door open)
I’ma leave the door open, girl, mmm
(I’ma leave the door open, hopin’)

That you feel the way I feel
And you want me like I want you tonight, baby
Tell me that you’re coming through
(C’mon girl)

La, la, la, la-la-la-la
I need you, baby

La, la, la, la-la-la-la
I got to see you, baby

La, la, la, la-la-la-la
Girl, I’m tryna give you this
Ah

Hey, hey
I’ma leave my door open, baby (I’ma leave the door open)

I’ma leave
I’ma leave my door open, girl
(I’ma leave the door open, hopin’)
And I’m hopin’
Hopin’ that you feel the way I feel
And you want me like I want you tonight, baby
Tell me that you’re coming through, woo

(La, la, la, la-la-la-la)
Tell me (tell me that you’re coming through)

Woo, woo-woo, woo, woo-woo, woo, woo-woo
Woo, woo-woo, woo, woo-woo, woo, woo-woo

(La, la, la, la-la-la-la) la, la, la, la-la
(Tell me that you’re coming through)

Girl, I’m here just waiting for you (ayy)
Come on over, I’ll adore you (I gotta know)
(La, la, la, la-la-la-la)
I’m waiting, waiting, waiting for you (tell me that you’re coming through)
Girl, I’m here just waiting for you
Come on over, I’ll adore you
(La, la, la, la-la-la-la)

Lyrics licensed & provided by LyricFind

Lyrics © BMG Rights Management, Warner Chappell Music, Inc.

Written by: Brandon Anderson, Christopher Brody Brown, Dernst Emile, Peter Hernandez

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Eric Church’s Scores Third No. 1 on Billboard’s Top Album Sales Chart With ‘Heart’

Eric Church’s Heart bows at No. 1 on Billboard’s Top Album Sales chart (dated May 1) with 40,000 copies sold in the U.S. in the week ending April 22, according to MRC Data. It marks Church’s third No. 1 on the tally, after The Outsiders (in 2014) and Chief (2011).

Heart leads a busy top 10, as six more albums debut in the region from Greta Van Fleet, The Offspring, Cannibal Corpse, Liquid Tension Experiment, Tom Petty and Young Thug.

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 MRC Data. Pure album sales were the measurement solely 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 Heart’s debut sales of 40,000, physical album sales comprise nearly 25,000 of that figure (13,000 CDs and 12,000 vinyl LPs) while digital album sales comprise a little under 16,000.

Heart is one of three new albums from Church, collectively referred to as Heart & Soul. Heart was released on April 16, the & album is available only to members of the artist’s Church Choir fan club, and Soul was released on April 23.

Rock group Greta Van Fleet sees its new studio album The Battle at Garden’s Gate debut at No. 2 on Top Album Sales with 39,000 copies sold. A sturdy 16,000 of that sum was on vinyl LP, and Battle also bows at No. 1 on the Vinyl Albums chart.

A pair of former No. 1s are next on Top Album Sales, as Taylor Swift’s Fearless (Taylor’s Version) falls 1-3 in its second week with 19,000 sold (down 89%) and Carrie Underwood’s My Savior is a non-mover at No. 4 with 18,000 sold (up 22%). The latter’s sales were helped by Underwood’s performance of songs from the album on the Academy of Country Music Awards (April 18 on CBS).

The Offspring return to Top Album Sales with the band’s first studio album since 2012, as Let the Bad Times Roll starts at No. 5 with 17,000 sold. The new release is the rock act’s seventh top 10, highest debut ever, and highest-charting album since Americana peaked at No. 2 on the Jan. 16, 1999 chart.

Metal band Cannibal Corpse notches its best sales week yet and first top 10 on Top Album Sales as Violence Unimagined arrives at No. 6 with 14,000 sold. The group’s previous best sales week came when 2012’s Torture sold 10,000 in its opening week. All told, Violence is the act’s seventh charting effort on Top Album Sales.

Cannibal Corpse made its Billboard chart debut in 1994 on the Heatseekers Albums chart with its fourth studio album, Bleeding, which peaked at No. 30. The group reached Top Album Sales for the first time with 1996’s Vile.

Rock supergroup Liquid Tension Experiment arrives at No. 7 on Top Album Sales with its third studio effort, LTE3, selling 9,000 copies. It’s the act’s first charting effort on Top Album Sales.

Tom Petty’s Finding Wildflowers (Alternate Versions) debuts at No. 8 on Top Album Sales with nearly 9,000 sold (with 5,000 of that sum on vinyl LP). The tracks on Finding Wildflowers were originally released as bonus material on the 2020 super deluxe CD and vinyl LP reissue of Petty’s 1994 album Wildflowers.

Rounding out the new top 10 on Top Album Sales are Ariana Grande’s former No. 1 Positions, which tumbles 2-9 with 8,000 (down 78% after its rush back up the list a week prior thanks to its vinyl release) and the Slime Language 2 album from Young Thug and his Young Stoner Life roster of artists. The latter starts at No. 10 with 6,000 sold.

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Downtown Lays Off Nashville Employees Following Concord Publishing Sale

Following Concord’s acquisition of Downtown Music’s 145,000-song publishing copyrights on Monday, Downtown has let go a number of its Nashville employees, including executive vp A&R Steve Markland, who was the highest ranking staffer in the office.

“As part of Downtown’s strategic shift towards music services, a limited number of job functions have been deemed redundant,” Downtown confirmed to Billboard in a statement. “Where possible, we are looking for opportunities to reassign impacted employees elsewhere within the organization or with other employers.”

Downtown declined to say how many employees were let go, though sources say it was the creative staffers involved in working with publishing the catalog sold to Concord.

Downtown’s statement goes on to add that the company has ended the lease on its Nashville office and is exploring “our options to support the needs of our ongoing business. We continue to employ Nashville-based executives at Downtown Music Services, Songtrust, and Songspace.”

Downtown only sold the portion of its publishing catalog that it had an ownership stake in and not the songs and catalogs where it serves as administrator, including those of John Lennon and Yoko Ono, Miles Davis, John Prine, the Wu-Tang Clan and others. The company will now focus on being a multi-faceted service organization for unsigned artists and songwriters, pledging a greater focus on its CD Baby, Songtrust, Fuga, Downtown Neighboring Rights, and DashGo business operations — into which it says it will reinvest profits from the copyright sale. In the first phase of the company’s realignment, DashGo and Downtown Music Publishing were rebranded Downtown Music Services.

‘Divesting our owned IP enables us to advance our position as the world’s leading music service provider, empower a rapidly expanding global creative class and, ultimately, is the most expedient way to help realize our vision of a more equitable music industry,” said Justin Kalifowitz, Downtown founder and CEO, in a statement about the sale on Monday.

Downtown will continue to manage global royalty collections for the copyrights sold to Concord through the end of 2021.

Concord’s U.S. publishing headquarters are in Nashville and the company will likely be staffing up following the acquisition. Sources tell Billboard that anyone laid off from Downtown can apply for new positions.

Markland did not respond to immediate request for comment.

Assistance on this story provided by Ed Christman.

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DJ Khaled Announces ‘Khaled Khaled’ Album Release Date

DJ Khaled announced Tuesday (April 27) that his 12th album Khaled Khaled will be released on Friday, April 30, via We the Best Music, Epic and Roc Nation.

“ALBUM 100% DONE! ITS TIME,” Khaled shared on his socials with the alarm-clock emoji. “I TOLD MY TEAM LETS PUSH THE BUTTON! #KHALEDKHALED THIS FRIDAY APRIL 30TH!”

He promised the album cover next and he delivered, sharing the art on Instagram. “This my name. This is my legacy. This my COVER. Time to bring MORE LIGHT,” Khaled captioned the post. “I have a gift for the world. I can’t wait to share it with you. Let’s talk tomorrow, are you available?? I couldn’t post any pictures of this gift I had to sign an NDA.” The cover art features Khaled alongside his two sons: Asahd and Aalam.

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DJ Khaled (real name Khaled Mohamed Khaled) jumped for joy (and into his pool) last week when two famous Justins — Justin Bieber and Justin Timberlake — tried FaceTiming him after submitting their vocals for the upcoming record.

On Monday, he announced Khaled Khaled was “99.1% DONE” in a one-minute clip featuring a choir singing behind him as he preached the good news about his forthcoming LP. “Khaled Khaled is coming. It’s special. I worked my whole career, I worked my whole life, and I’m just getting started,” he declared. “But to make this album… was… God’s hands all over it. Be great but be grateful. And remember, the light is love and God is love. When it’s dark, be the sun. I am Khaled Khaled, child of God.”

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He confirmed in the comments section of Meek Mill’s “#ZONE” Instagram picture from the recording studio that he received the rapper’s vocals as well. “Facts ! Vocals is in! KHALED KHALED coming [soon],” he wrote on Monday.

Last July, DJ Khaled sent two top 10 singles to the Billboard Hot 100 with the help of Drake: “Popstar,” which peaked at No. 3 on the chart, and “Greece,” which reached No. 8. “As people that are two music execs, two guys that make music, two guys that put out albums, two guys that are bosses and CEOS, we relate to each other in a great way meaning IT’S BIG,” he told Billboard in an interview last year. “If I come to Drake like, ‘Let’s do something,’ in his head, he’s already saying that ‘Khaled isn’t doing just anything.’ That’s how I look at Drake too, because everything he do is big.”

Khaled Khaled will be the follow-up project to Father of Asahd, which was released in 2019 and debuted at No. 2 on the Billboard 200. The song “Higher,” featuring John Legend and Nipsey Hussle, from the album earned DJ Khaled his first Grammy at the 2020 Grammy Awards for best rap/sung performance.

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