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Sunnier days are upon us, and SZA wants to make sure your shade game is on point. The “Kill Bill” singer teamed up with Quay Australia to pick out some of her favorite sunglasses for spring, she revealed Wednesday (May 2) on Instagram.
“Did a little edit thingy with by besties at Quay eyewear,” she captioned a video modeling sunglasses from the collection of styles ranging from $65-$110. The SZA edit includes limited-edition sunglasses.
The Grammy winner opened up about the collaboration in an interview with Nylon. “I just picked what I would generally wear,” she said of choosing her favorite styles. “My mom always told me that wearing sunglasses blocks people from seeing your energy and from connecting with you. I didn’t grow up wearing a lot of them, but now they’re so fun. I’m learning how to accessorize them, how to add them to my personality. I tried to basically pick ones I would generally wear.”
Her favorite Quay sunnies are the On Set visor sunglasses. “They’re so cute. I [also] feel like a classic Inspector Gadget, like a slim, black pair, that’s another great shape where I feel it’s fire for day and night. You can go formal, to secretive, to secret agent, to also sexy. It’s divine.”
SZA will have plenty of chances to show off her favorite Quay shades. After taking her SOS Tour to Australia and New Zealand last month, SZA is back Stateside to take the stage at Sol Blume Music Festival in Sacramento, Calif., on May 5.
She’s also billed to co-headline Jack Harlow’s Gazebo Festival held later this month, Governors Ball next month and Lollapalooza in August. Get tickets here.
Shop the SZA x Quay edit below.
Aptly given its title, Sia’s “Unstoppable” becomes the first song in nearly a quarter-century to spend 100 weeks on Billboard’s Adult Contemporary chart.
The track hits triple-digits on the list dated May 11, where it holds at No. 4. It notched 12 weeks at No. 1, nonconsecutively, between charts dated Nov. 12, 2022, and March 18, 2023.
Below is a look at the select four songs to have logged at least 100 weeks on Adult Contemporary over the chart’s history, which dates to July 1961.
Notably, three are by Australian acts: Above Sia’s song, the top two are by pop duo Savage Garden. (LeAnn Rimes, also on the list below, is from Jackson, Miss.)
Most Weeks on Adult Contemporary Chart:
- 124, “I Knew I Loved You,” Savage Garden (No. 1 for 17 weeks, beginning Dec. 25, 1999)
- 123, “Truly Madly Deeply,” Savage Garden (No. 1, 11 weeks, beginning April 11, 1998)
- 104, “I Need You,” LeAnn Rimes (No. 2 peak, Oct. 7, 2000)
- 100, “Unstoppable,” Sia (No. 1, 12 weeks, beginning Nov. 12, 2022)
through the chart dated May 11, 2024
Rules regarding the removal of songs from Adult Contemporary due to their age have varied over the years. On average, titles began having longer stays once the survey adopted electronically monitored Luminate data in July 1993. Check out Billboard’s charts legend for more details.
Meanwhile, the longevity of “Truly Madly Deeply” helped spark its No. 1 status on Billboard’s Greatest of All Time Adult Contemporary Songs chart.
“Unstoppable” has charted in the top five of Adult Contemporary for a record 84 weeks, all consecutively since the ranking dated Oct. 8, 2022. Taylor Swift’s “Anti-Hero” follows with a likewise active run of 66 weeks in the top five, placing at No. 5 on the latest list. (The latter hadn’t yet been released when “Unstoppable” started its top five stay; it arrived on Swift’s album Midnights that Oct. 21.)
Mirroring its lengthy chart run, “Unstoppable” has a winding history, as it was originally released on Sia’s 2016 LP This Is Acting. It was used in promos for Major League Baseball’s 2016 postseason and in a Lancôme Idôle commercial, starring Zendaya, in 2019. It subsequently became prominent on TikTok and soundtracked a Samsung Galaxy ad.
Radio promotion followed, at last, in 2022, and the song entered the Adult Contemporary chart dated that June 18. “We started talking about it [that] January. The question was, ‘How are we going to do this?’ ” Erik Olesen of Crush Music told Billboard of the airplay campaign. Complicating the push, Sia’s most recent material has been released on Atlantic Records and “Unstoppable” was originally on RCA Records, and later moved to Sony Music’s catalog division under the Legacy label. However, “both RCA and Legacy were very supportive and were all about us going for this,” Olesen said.
In its favor, “Unstoppable” was among other older songs cutting through in 2022. As it built at radio, Kate Bush took off with her 1985 classic “Running Up That Hill (A Deal With God),” spurred by its synch in Netflix’s Stranger Things. Noted Olesen, “At least ‘Unstoppable’ was 30 years younger!”
As momentum continued to build for the song, Olesen “asked several format captains at different radio chains both domestically and internationally to put it into their callout research. After a couple of weeks, it started to raise its hand and had huge familiarity. One of the most important ingredients for radio is familiarity.”
Since its release, “Unstoppable” has drawn 2.8 billion in airplay audience among reporters to Billboard‘s all-format Radio Songs chart. It has also run up totals of 438.1 million official streams and 494,000 sold in the U.S.
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Concurrent with her new chart achievement, Sia’s new album, Reasonable Woman – her first proper LP since This Is Acting – was released today (May 3).
All Billboard charts dated May 11 will update on Billboard.com Tuesday, May 7.
It’s Friday, May 3rd, and we have lots of new music to get through. Kendrick Lamar hits back at Drake again this week with a second diss track, “6:16 in LA.” The track comes out days after releasing “euphoria.” Dua Lipa released her new album ‘Radical Optimism,’ and she shares the meaning of it and more when she dropped by the studio. Sia drops the new album ‘Reasonable Woman’ after five years since her last album and WILLOW released her highly anticipated album ‘emphathogen.’ We give you a behind the scenes look at WILLOW’s private concert. We sat down with Rapsody, and she shares How It Went Down behind the creation of her latest single “3:AM” with Erykah Badu. J Balvin & Imagine Dragons just launched their new single “Eyes Closed,” Mckenna Grace releases “Gentleman” and more.
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The Kendrick and Drake beef continues. We’re talking to Dua Lipa. We take you inside WILLOW’s album release party, and Rapsody shows us How It Went Down. It’s Friday, May 3rd, but before you enter the streets, let’s get into this entertainment news, starting with your Friday Music Guide. Dua Lipa is injecting us with some ‘Radical Optimism’ and it’s gonna make you move. More bops later in the show but now your top story. The Kendrick Lamar and Drake beef just won’t end after K.Dot fired off a second explosive track, we’re breaking down some of the top moments. It keeps on going. After so much back and forth like Drake’s “Push Ups” and the just released “euphoria” from Lamar, most fans have crowned their winner, but Kendrick’s gun was still loaded he dropped “6:16 in LA” with some pretty lethal bars towards Drizzy. The Internet is really latching on to the section about OVO. Kendrick at this point seems to be giving advice to Drake, making the Toronto rapper question if his own team even has his back. After Kendrick’s one-two punch is the beef over? Or are we expecting another track from Drake outside of a questionable IG post? Let us know your pick. Sia is back with ‘Reasonable Woman’ and the album’s got all the good stuff you’d expect from her. She’s even recruited the queen Chaka Khan. Dua Lipa might be one of the sweetest people I’ve ever sat down with.
Keep watching to learn more!
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The 150th Kentucky Derby is coming up this weekend, and Kentucky native Wynonna Judd is set to sing the national anthem.
“I am so proud to represent my home state, taking part in one of the most storied and iconic traditions,” the country legend said in a statement. “The Kentucky Derby is something I look forward to every year and being able to perform this year makes the momentous event even more special.”
The first leg of the Triple Crown renowned for the often wild fashions sported by attendees will be taking over Louisville’s Churchill Downs for the annual tradition. If you want to watch the Kentucky Derby live, you can do catch the Derby on TV or stream it on your computer, phone and other compatible devices.
Catch the main event on Saturday (May 4) 6:57 p.m. ET on NBC and Peacock. Earlier races will start at 10:30 a.m. ET. For online viewers, NBC is available to stream on DirecTV, Peacock, Sling TV, Hulu with Live TV and Fubo. Most of the services offer a free trial that you can use to watch the Kentucky Derby free online (stream internationally on ExpressVPN).
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Need a drink to pair with your watch party? Woodford Reserve is the Presenting Sponsor of the Kentucky Derby and just released its 2024 commemorative Derby bottle.
Created by Kentucky artist Wylie Caudill, the bottle commemorates the 150th anniversary of the Kentucky Derby and depicts a racing thoroughbred horse on the front. The limited-edition Kentucky Derby bottle of Woodford Reserve Bourbon retails for $50 and is available to order online at ReserveBar.com.
Ashley Cooke notches her first top 10 on Billboard’s Country Airplay chart as “Your Place” rises from No. 11 to No. 9 on the list dated May 11. It advanced by 5% to 17.9 million audience impressions April 26-May 2, according to Luminate.
The song is the 26-year-old Parkland, Fla., native’s second Country Airplay entry and first on her own. She co-wrote it with Jordan Minton and Mark Trussell, and Jimmy Robbins produced it. Her rookie entry, “Never Til Now,” with Brett Young, reached No. 49 in December 2022.
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Cooke’s current single is from her LP Shot in the Dark, which arrived at its No. 14 best on Billboard’s Heatseekers Albums chart in August 2023. She had a hand in writing 20 of the set’s 24 tracks.
Notably, “Your Place” marks the first initial top 10 for a female artist, with no billed collaborators, on Country Airplay in almost a year, since Megan Moroney’s “Tennessee Orange” hit No. 4 last June. Before that, the last woman to earn a first top 10 on her own was Tenille Arts with “Somebody Like That,” which reached No. 3 in May 2021.
Hunt Ties His Best
Sam Hunt’s “Outskirts” dominates Country Airplay for a career-best tying third week (29.1 million, down 8%). His 10th No. 1, and second multi-week leader, equals the three-week command of his 2017 crossover smash “Body Like a Back Road.”
Shaboozey Raises ‘Bar’
Shaboozey makes his Country Airplay debut as “A Bar Song (Tipsy)” enters at No. 53 with 993,000 in reach (up 740%). The song, which interpolates J-Kwon’s 2004 hip-hop classic “Tipsy,” combined to make history on the May 4-dated multimetric Hot Country Songs chart: As it hit No. 1, Shaboozey dethroned Beyoncé’s “Texas Hold ‘Em,” marking the first time that two Black artists have led back-to-back since the survey became an all-encompassing genre ranking in 1958.
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