Watch Darren Criss Make His Late-Night Performance Debut With ‘Runnin’ Around’ on ‘Corden’

Darren Criss made his late-night television performance debut Tuesday night on The Late Late Show With James Corden with “Runnin’ Around.”

He “got one hell of a gang together” for the first-ever performance of the song (originally titled “F*kn Around”), featuring Este Haim of HAIM (bass), The Pocket Queen (drums), frequent collaborator and San Fermin frontwoman Charlene Kaye (guitar) and the song’s co-writer CJ Baran (keys).

The super troupe breathed new life into the dirty bass-driven anthem, which is the first of a “series of character-driven singles” Criss announced in March, that kisses off the toxic people one can’t seem to stay away from.

“I love you @darrencriss and I’m so proud to usher in this era of STANKY DGAF ROCKSTAR back to back with you,” Kaye tweeted on Wednesday (April 14). The Pocket Queen also praised the Glee star for tapping her for a “fantastic energetic set.” “Darren, thank you for your support. Thank you for the shout out.Thank you for deciding to manifest this amazing moment and give me a call. Always my pleasure,” she wrote on Instagram.

Watch Criss’ “Runnin’ Around” performance below.

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Demi Lovato’s Eating Disorder Comedy Pilot Gets NBC Order

Demi Lovato’s comedy series about a group of people with eating disorders is getting a pilot order at NBC.

The singer-actress is set to star and executive produce the project, titled Hungry, which follows “friends who belong to a food issues group and help each other as they look for love, success and the perfect thing in the fridge that’s going to make it all better.

“Other executive producers on the single-camera comedy include Sean Hayes, Todd Milliner, Scooter Braun, Scott Manson and James Shin.

Lovato has been open about having an eating disorder herself in the past. “I was compulsively overeating when I was 8 years old,” she told ABC News in 2011. “So, I guess, for the past 10 years I’ve had a really unhealthy relationship with food.”

Lovato has also said that when she was working on Camp Rock as a teenage Disney Channel star, she was bullied about her weight by her classmates, which in turn led to bulimia. “I was performing concerts on an empty stomach,” she said. “I was losing my voice from purging.”

If the project is greenlit to series, it will mark Lovato’s first regular TV role since she starred in Disney Channel’s 2009 series Sonny With a Chance.

The news comes on the heels of NBC’s streaming service Peacock ordering another mental health-pegged title, a drama titled Expiration Date, starring Will Forte as a man who wants to commit suicide.

NBC also ordered another single-cam comedy pilot, Somewhere Out There, billed as “a romantic comedy about two set-in-their-ways adults who are challenged by very unexpected strangers to become the best versions of themselves in order to find love and possibly each other.”

The project is based on the Spanish format Pequenas Coincidencias created by Javier Veiga. Executive producers include Josh Siegal, Dylan Morgan, Matt Hubbard, Emiliano Calemzuk and Veiga.

This article originally appeared in THR.com.

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Demi Lovato’s ‘Dancing With the Devil…’ Debuts at No. 1 on Billboard’s Top Album Sales Chart

Demi Lovato’s Dancing With the Devil… The Art of Starting Over debuts at No. 1 on Billboard’s Top Album Sales chart (dated April 17). The set was released on April 2 via Island/Republic and sold 38,000 copies in the U.S. in the week ending April 8, according to MRC Data.

Dancing is Lovato’s second No. 1 on Top Album Sales, and seventh consecutive top five-charting effort – the entirety of her charting albums. She previously topped the tally in 2009 with Here We Go Again.

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 Dancing’s debut sales of 38,000, physical album sales comprise 25,000 of that figure (all in CD sales) while digital album sales comprise 13,000. Sales of Dancing got help from the availability of a Target-exclusive CD edition of the set with two bonus tracks, a signed CD sold via Lovato’s official website, multiple CD cover variants and a deluxe edition with bonus tracks available through digital retailers.

Carrie Underwood’s My Savior falls 1-2 in its second week on Top Album Sales, selling 31,000 copies (down 55%). After two weeks on sale, My Savior is the fifth-biggest selling album of 2021, with 99,000 copies sold through April 8. The year’s top-seller is Morgan Wallen’s Dangerous: The Double Album, with 215,000 copies sold.

Sturgill Simpson’s Cuttin’ Grass, Vol. 2: The Cowboy Arms Sessions re-enters Top Album Sales at No. 3 with 18,000 copies sold (up 14,758%), following the album’s release on CD and vinyl on April 2. Cuttin’ Grass, Vol. 2 is Simpson’s second album of bluegrass covers of his own material, following 2020’s Cuttin’ Grass, Vol. 1: The Butcher Shoppe Sessions. The new album was initially released on digital retail and streaming services last year and previously spent one week on the tally, debuting and peaking at No. 48 on the Dec. 26, 2020-dated chart from download sales only (6,000 sold in its first week).

Of Cuttin’ Grass, Vol. 2’s nearly 18,000 sold in the latest tracking frame, a little over 14,000 comprise vinyl LPs, 3,000 comprise CDs and less than 1,000 comprise digital albums. Its sturdy vinyl sales figure lands the album at No. 1 on the Vinyl Albums chart. The set also enters at No. 1 on Tastemaker Albums, which ranks the top-selling albums of the week at independent and small chain record stores. Cuttin’ Grass, Vol. 2 sold nearly 10,000 copies through those retailers across all formats.

Shakey Graves’ Roll the Bones X debuts at No. 4 on Top Album Sales with 7,000 copies sold, securing the singer his first top 10 effort. The set is a reissue of the singer’s 2011 album Roll the Bones (which did not chart), bolstered with 15 previously unreleased recordings.

A trio of former No. 1s are next up on the list, as Harry Styles’ Fine Line rises 14-5 with 7,000 sold (up 35% after a boost in vinyl LP sales), Lana Del Rey’s Chemtrails Over the Country Club climbs 7-6 with 6,500 (down 29%) and Billie Eilish’s When We All Fall Asleep Where Do We Go? pushes 9-7 with just over 6,000 (up less than 1%).

Godspeed You! Black Emperor scores its first top 10 on Top Album Sales, as the act’s latest studio effort, G_d’s Pee at State’s End! bows at No. 8 with 6,000 copies sold. The album was strongly supported by vinyl LP sales, with 3,500 copies sold via the format.

Rounding out the latest top 10 on Top Album Sales is Bob Marley and The Wailers’ Legend: The Best Of… (19-9 with nearly 6,000 sold; up 26% thanks to a surge in vinyl sales) and Justin Bieber’s Justice (5-10 with 5,500 sold; down 43%).

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Taylor Swift Turns ‘Fearless’ Castoffs Into an EP of Gems With ‘From the Vault’ 6-Pack

We already knew Fearless was a classic project — after all, Taylor Swift won album of the year at the Grammys for her sophomore set — but what we didn’t know until this week was how many great songs were left on the cutting-room floor back when it was released in 2008.

Along with her new re-recording of the album, dubbed Fearless (Taylor’s Version), Swifties also got six never-before-released “From the Vault” songs. “You All Over Me,” featuring Maren Morris, and the rumor-mill-igniting “Mr. Perfectly Fine” came out first, and then the other four came out with the re-recording on Friday: “We Were Happy” (which includes Keith Urban background vocals); “That’s When,” featuring Urban; “Don’t You”; and “Bye Bye Baby.”

On the latest Billboard Pop Shop Podcast, we take a close listen to the six-pack of “new” songs — and you can listen along with us here:

Also on the show, we’ve got chart news on how “Leave the Door Open,” the debut song from Silk Sonic — the duo of Bruno Mars and Anderson .Paak — jumps to No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100. Plus, how Justin Bieber’s Justice becomes his first multi-week No. 1 album on the Billboard 200 since 2010 and how Demi Lovato notches her highest-charting album since 2015 on the Billboard 200 with the debut of her latest release, Dancing With the Devil … The Art of Starting Over.

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 deputy editor, digital, 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.)

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Mick Jagger & Dave Grohl Drop ‘Eazy Sleazy’ Collab About COVID-19 Pandemic & Anti-Vaxxers

Mick Jagger teamed up with Dave Grohl to release a surprise song about coming out of the pandemic.

The Rolling Stones singer and the Foo Fighters frontman put out “Eazy Sleazy” on Tuesday (April 13) (see the video and full lyrics below). It’s a sort of COVID-19 rock anthem that manages to touch on lockdown, Zoom calls, masks, anti-vaxxers and more, all while celebrating a return to freedom and “a garden of earthly delights.”

“I wanted to share this song that I wrote about coming out of lockdown, with some much needed optimism – thank you to Dave Grohl for jumping on drums, bass and guitar, it was a lot of fun working with you on this-hope you all enjoy Eazy Sleazy!” the 77-year-old Jagger wrote on Twitter.

Here’s the result:

See the lyrics below.

WE TOOK IT ON THE CHIN THE NUMBERS WERE SO GRIM BOSSED AROUND BY PRICKS
STIFFEN UPPER LIPS
PACING IN THE YARD
YOU’RE TRYING TO TAKE THE MICK
YOU MUST THINK I’M REALLY THICK

LOOKING AT THE GRAPHS WITH A MAGNIFYING GLASS
CANCEL ALL THE TOURS FOOTBALLS FAKE APPLAUSE
NO MORE TRAVEL BROCHURES
VIRTUAL PREMIERES
I’VE GOT NOTHING LEFT TO WEAR

LOOKING OUT FROM THESE PRISON WALLS
YOU GOT TO ROB PETER IF YOU’RE PAYING PAUL
BUT ITS EASY EASY EVERYTHING’S GONNA GET REALLY FREAKY
ALRIGHT ON THE NIGHT
SOON IT’LL BE BE A MEMORY YOU’RE TRYING TO REMEMBER TO FORGET

THAT’S A PRETTY MASK
BUT NEVER TAKE A CHANCE TIK TOK STUPID DANCE
TOOK A SAMBA CLASS I LANDED ON MY ASS
TRYING TO WRITE A TUNE YOU BETTER HOOK ME UP TO ZOOM
SEE MY PONCEY BOOKS TEACH MYSELF TO COOK
WAY TOO MUCH TV IT’S LOBOTOMISING ME
THINK I’VE PUT ON WEIGHT
ILL HAVE ANOTHER DRINK THEN I’LL CLEAN THE KITCHEN SINK

WE ESCAPED FROM THE PRISON WALLS
OPEN THE WINDOWS AND OPEN THE DOORS
BUT IT’S EASY EASY
EVERYTHING’S GONNA GET REALLY FREAKY
ALRIGHT ON THE NIGHT
IT’S GONNA BE A GARDEN OF EARTHLY DELIGHTS
EASY SLEAZY IT’S GONNA BE SMOOTH AND GREASY
YEAH EASY BELIEVE ME
IT’LL ONLY BE A MEMORY YOU’RE TRYING TO REMEMBER
TO FORGET

SHOOTING THE VACCINE BILL GATES IS IN MY BLOODSTREAM
IT’S MIND CONTROL
THE EARTH IS FLAT AND COLD IT’S NEVER WARMING UP
THE ARCTIC’S TURNED TO SLUSH
THE SECOND COMINGS LATE
THERE’S ALIENS IN THE DEEP STATE

WE’LL ESCAPE FROM THESE PRISON WALLS
NOW WERE OUT OF THESE PRISON WALLS
YOU GOTTA PAY PETER IF YOU’RE ROBBING PAUL
BUT IT’S EASY EASY
EVERYTHING’S GONNA BE REALLY FREAKY
ALRIGHT ON THE NIGHT
WE’RE ALL HEADED BACK TO PARADISE
YEAH EASY BELIEVE ME
IT’LL BE A MEMORY YOU’RE TRYING TO REMEMBER TO FORGET
EASY CHEESY EVERYONE SING PLEASE PLEASE ME
IT’LL BE A MEMORY YOU’RE TRYING TO REMEMBER TO FORGET

This article originally appeared on The Hollywood Reporter.

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