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Daddy Yankee breaks the record for the most top 10s on the Latin Airplay chart, as “De Vuelta Pa’ La Vuelta,” his collaboration with Marc Anthony, lifts 11-8 on the Jan. 16 survey. Yankee breaks out of a tie with Enrique Iglesias and takes possession of the mark for the most top 10s since the chart began in 1994.
“De Vuelta” advances 11-8 assisted by an 11% boost in audience impressions, to 8 million, collected in the week ending Jan. 10, according to MRC Data.
Going down the list of the artists with at least 25 top 10s in the history of Latin Airplay, only one female acts secures a space, let’s take a look:
Most Top 10s, Latin Airplay
Daddy Yankee, 41
Enrique Iglesias, 40
J Balvin, 32
Shakira, 31
Ricky Martin, 27
Marc Anthony, 26
Marco Antonio Solis, 26
Ozuna, 26
Cristian Castro, 25
Wisin & Yandel, 25
“De Vuelta” has co-written by Yankee and Marc Anthony alongside Edgar ‘Edge’ Barrera, Elena Rosa, Rafael A. Pina Nieves and produced by longtime hit maker, Sergio George.
The salsa collab is Yankee’s 41st Latin Airplay top 10, dating back to his first top 10 hit “Lo Que Pasó, Pasó” in 2005. Marc Anthony, meanwhile, has logged 26 top 10s in four decades of chart history, 11 of which have hit No. 1.
Elsewhere, “De Vuelta” dips 13-14 on the all-metric Hot Latin Songs chart with declines in digital sales and streams. On Tropical Airplay, however, it remains at No. 1 for a third week.
Since testing positive for the coronavirus, Ellen DeGeneres has fully recovered, and is back to her regularly scheduled programming.
On Wednesday’s episode, the host returned to set of The Ellen DeGeneres Show to open up about her experience with COVID-19.
“Obviously there are a lot of negative things going on, so instead I’m gonna talk about something positive — my COVID test,” DeGeneres said.
Thanking those who reached out with kind words and support throughout her recovery, DeGeneres expressed her wish to have “hugged each and every one” of her fans.
“That would have been dangerous and illegal, probably,” the host joked.
The Ellen DeGeneres Show paused production in early December on the final day of the show’s “Twelve Days of Giveaways” seasonal event. As a result, DeGeneres invited the same audience back to the show who missed out on their gifts in December.
The host went on to recount the dramatic events on set the day she received her COVID-19 test result.
While sitting in hair and makeup, the 62-year-old remembered her assistant Craig walking in to inform her that she had tested positive.
“And then, everyone around me ran away,” DeGeneres said. “It’s funny, people just really get scared and they ran. Some have not come back since.”
Following the news, DeGeneres left the studio immediately, as her COVID safety team informed everyone who had been in contact with the virus.
When one of the show’s executive producers Andy Lassner heard the news, Ellen claimed that “he literally ran at full speed off the lot.”
Following the news, DeGeneres quarantined at home in a separate room from wife Portia de Rossi. In the first three days after contracting the virus, DeGeneres reported that she slept for 16 hours a day, waking up with back spasms on the fourth day. When the pain persisted, she was prescribed pain pills and muscle relaxers by her doctor.
“Jackpot,” she joked. “This thing is paying off.”
When the painkillers didn’t help, doctors finally put DeGeneres on a steroid pack, which ultimately eased along her recovery.
Following her experience with the virus, DeGeneres informed her audience that, although she wasn’t aware of this before, back pain is now a considerable symptom of COVID-19. She did not experience any other significant symptoms.
“I didn’t lose my sense of taste,” she recalled. “Although I did wear crocs with socks for a day, so you be the judge.”
Now fully recovered, the talk show host claimed she still has not determined the source from which she contracted the virus.
Watch the clip and see Ashley McBryde’s performance from the episode below.
This article was originally published by The Hollywood Reporter.
Billie Eilish and Khalid have a “lovely” reason to celebrate now that the music video for their 2018 collaboration has reached 1 billion views on YouTube.
In the cold and dark visual for their melodramatic ballad, which premiered April 26, 2018, the two young singers delicately waltz around each other in a glass box while wearing all-black outfits and a thick layer of silver chains. The then-16-year-old Eilish came up with the video concept to convey feeling hopelessly trapped with someone else. “Lovely” was featured on the accompanying soundtrack for the second season of Netflix’s 13 Reasons Why series, which Selena Gomez executive produced.
This marks Khalid’s first entry and Eilish’s second entry after the music video for “Bad Guy,” her Billboard Hot 100 No. 1 hit and Grammy winner, ushered her into the exclusive club two months ago. “AYYYEEEEE BAD GUY HIT A BILLI,” the pop superstar wrote on her Instagram Story at the time with a screenshot of the YouTube page.
Treat yourself to their “lovely” performance and add to their billion-and-counting tally below.
How much does it cost to pull off the Dubai-set “Bodak Yellow” video, the luxurious strip club in the “Money” clip or the star-studded “WAP” mansion? Cardi B shared all the music video budget secrets on Tuesday (Jan. 12) via Twitter.
It all started when the rapper shared a “fun fact” about her 2017 “Bodak Yellow” visual, revealing that it “cost me 15 thousand dollars,” before adding, “I was in Dubai and I said ….I gotta fly picture (videographer) out here …BOOM BOOM BANG ! Ya know the rest.”
When a fan thought that was “a lot” of money, Cardi shared that $15,000 is peanuts compared to the budget of her more high-profile videos. “Naaaa honey ….Money cost 400K ,Please me Cost 900K ,Wap Cost a M !” she wrote, adding that she didn’t remember how much the “Press” clip cost and that “Be Careful” was “probably like 200K.”
Cardi wasn’t just talking money, though. She also replied to fans who asked about her experience filming specific videos.
Though she looked like she was having a blast alongside Bad Bunny and J Balvin for the “I Like It” visual, the rapper admitted she was “was extremely annoyed that day. I was pregnant and hot and paparazzi was being so annoying and rude.”
Cardi did, however, love filming “La Modelo” with Ozuna. “We shot it In Jamaica,” she wrote. “The views was sooo beautiful. I know he spent a BAG !”
See all of Cardi B’s thoughts on “Taki Taki,” “Lick,” “Bartier Cardi” and more below.
Olivia Rodrigo got her “Drivers License,” but the event was hardly a celebration for the heartbroken singer, who unveiled her smash hit on Friday (Jan. 8).
The High School Musical: The Musical: The Series actress’ debut single grieves over an ex who has moved on, featuring the devastating lyrics, “And I just can’t imagine / How you could be so okay now that I’m gone / Guess you didn’t mean what you wrote in that song about me / ‘Cause you said forever, now I drive alone past your street.”
Theories of the song’s IRL story spread throughout social media, pointing to what may be Gen-Z’s version of the Nick Jonas/Miley Cyrus/Selena Gomez Disney Channel love triangle back in 2009.
It’s all a little confusing, and it’s all speculation, but Billboard is here to break down what fans are thinking “Drivers License” is about and why. Buckle up, and see below.
Who is involved?
Rodrigo, who is 17 years old, starred alongside 20-year-old Joshua Bassett on Disney+’s High School Musical: The Musical: The Series, and the two were rumored to be dating in real life.
What happened?
In August 2020 Bassett was seen having lunch with 21-year-old Sabrina Carpenter, a singer who rose to fame from her role as Maya on Disney Channel’s Girl Meets World. Sabrina’s sister, Sarah, was also in attendance.
On Halloween 2020, Bassett and Carpenter dressed up as Shark Boy and Lava Girl and made a TikTok about it, which proved that they are at least friends and sparked couple rumors (though they never confirmed).
Lyrical references to the situation?
TikTok user Kaiya Olsen broke down the subtleties of “Drivers License” after its release, first referencing the lyrics, “And you’re probably with that blonde girl / Who always made me doubt / She’s so much older than me / She’s everything I’m insecure about.”
Sabrina is 21 (four years older than Rodrigo) and blonde.
In an earlier version of the song, which Rodrigo posted on Instagram in July 2020, the lyric references a “brunette” girl. Fans began speculating if the change had to do with Bassett spending time with Carpenter.
Olsen then moved on to the opening lyrics: “I got my driver’s license last week / Just like we always talked about.”
In a resurfaced social media video from LeBlanc Updates on YouTube, Rodrigo recalled practicing driving in Bassett’s car before she got her license and the moment after the duo found out the song they co-wrote, “Just for a Moment,” would be used in High School Musical: The Musical: The Series. “We celebrated and we went to In-N-Out, and I couldn’t drive actually. I was 16, but I didn’t have my permit,” she said. “And so, he took me in his car, and we drove around the In-N-Out parking lot, and that was my first time driving.”
Finally, the chorus’ heartbreaking line, “Guess you didn’t mean what you wrote in that song about me,” had Internet sleuths looking for references to Rodrigo in Bassett’s previously released songs.
In July, Bassett released a sweet love song called “Anyone Else,” which features the lyrics, “How am I supposed to think about anything else? / How am I to go on keeping this to myself? / I am done pretending I want anyone else.” Fans immediately thought of Rodrigo.
Again, nothing is confirmed about 2021’s love triangle, so we’ll have to wait and see if Rodrigo, Bassett or Carpenter say anything about the speculation.
