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Not only will you not break Beyoncé‘s soul; you also won’t break her epic track record on the Billboard Hot 100.
This week, Queen B scores her 20th top 10 hit as a soloist on the Hot 100, as “Break My Soul” — from her upcoming album Renaissance — rises 15-7 in its first full tracking week. But before she started charting on her own, Beyoncé was making hits with Destiny’s Child, who have their own set of 10 top 10 hits on the Hot 100.
On the new Billboard Pop Shop Podcast, Katie & Keith are looking back on those 10 DC smashes that hit the chart’s upper region — including four No. 1s: “Bills, Bills, Bills,” “Say My Name,” “Independent Women Part I” and “Bootylicious.” Listen to the full episode below to take a walk down Beyoncé Memory Lane.
Also on the show, we’ve got chart news on Luke Combs leading a busy top 10 in the Billboard 200, as his new album joins three more new arrivals to the region, while Bad Bunny bounces back to No. 1 for a third nonconsecutive week. Plus, on the Hot 100, “As It Was” from Harry Styles returns to No. 1 while Lizzo, Doja Cat, Taylor Swift, Lil Nas X & YoungBoy Never Broke Again, and Eminem & Snoop Dogg make moves.
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 executive digital director, West Coast, Katie Atkinson and Billboard’s senior director of 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.)
Alan Menken is finally set to receive the Max Steiner Film Achievement Award at the Hollywood in Vienna gala on Sep. 24, more than 2-1/2 years after the award was first announced.
Menken was announced as the recipient on Feb. 29, 2020, just days before the COVID-19 pandemic put such gatherings on a very long hold. But now it’s back on: Stars from Broadway and the West End will pay tribute to the eight-time Academy Award winner at the 13th Hollywood in Vienna. The event will be held at the Vienna Concert Hall (Wiener Konzerthaus) over two nights — Sept. 23 for a concert and Sept. 24 for a concert and award ceremony where Menken will be presented with the award by the city of Vienna.
Adam Jacobs, who received a 2014 Grammy nod for best musical theater album for Aladdin, will perform, along with Trevor Dion Nicholas, Celinde Schoenmaker, Christine Allado and Bongiwe Happiness Malugna.
Disney+ will stream the gala event globally (alongside Austrian Broadcasting ORF) for the first time – a sign of how important Menken is to the Disney brand. In 2001 Menken was named a Disney Legend.
“I am truly honored to be receiving the prestigious Max Steiner Award this year,” Menken said in a statement (recycled from 2020 for understandable reasons). “And I feel humbled to have my name and work associated with the brilliant and legendary Max Steiner himself. The way his creative life moved from theater to film to the concert stage, even as his personal life moved him from Austria to England, and from Broadway to Hollywood, is an inspiration for all of us who follow in his footsteps nearly 50 years after his passing. And to receive this award in Vienna, the classical music capitol of the world, promises to make this one of the highlights of my life and career.”
Hollywood in Vienna was founded in 2007 by Sandra Tomek (Tomek Productions), who said in a statement: “Alan Menken wrote the melodies we listened to growing up from The Little Mermaid to Beauty and the Beast and Aladdin. And now our children listen to those melodies once again through Disney’s live-action adaptations of those films. Alan wrote melodies that are known around the globe and are beloved by generations.”
Menken amassed eight Oscars in a seven-year span (1989-95). He won best original score for The Little Mermaid, Beauty and the Beast, Aladdin and Pocahontas and best original song with songs from those same films (“Under the Sea,” “Beauty and the Beast,” “A Whole New World” and “Colors of the Wind,” respectively).
Menken’s tally of eight Academy Awards is more than any other living individual. It’s just one short of the record for a musician (living or dead). Alfred Newman won nine scoring Oscars.
In 2020, Menken became the 16th individual to become an EGOT. In addition to his eight Oscars, he has won 11 Grammys (including song of the year for “A Whole New World”), a Tony (best original score for Newsies) and a Daytime Emmy (outstanding original song in a children’s, young adult or animated program for a song from Rapunzel’s Tangled Adventure).
Menken was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 2008 and received that organization’s top award, the Johnny Mercer Award, in 2017.
Menken’s other awards include seven Golden Globes, the Olivier Award, the Outer Critics Circle Award and the Drama Desk Award.
The Max Steiner Film Music Award is presented annually by the City of Vienna to renowned film music composers. Past awardees include Gabriel Yared (2019), Hans Zimmer (2018), Danny Elfman (2017), Alexander Desplat (2016), James Newton Howard (2015), Randy Newman (2014), James Horner (2013), Lalo Schifrin (2012), Alan Silvestri (2011), Howard Shore (2010), and John Barry (2009).
Steiner scored such classics as King Kong, Gone with the Wind and Casablanca. The composer, who was born in Vienna, received Oscars for scoring Now, Voyager (1942) and Since You Went Away (1944). He died in 1971 at age 83.
Carlos Santana has taken ill during a concert Tuesday (July 5) evening in Michigan.
According to multiple reports from the scene, the guitar great collapsed onstage at Pine Knob Music Theatre (formerly DTE Energy Music Theatre), an outdoor amphitheater in Clarkston, some 40 miles northwest of Detroit.
Santana was “being treated as we speak,” tweeted Billboard’s Gary Graff, at approximately 10pm ET.
.@SantanaCarlos just collapsed onstage at @PineKnobMusic Being treated as I type
— Gary Graff (@GraffonMusic) July 6, 2022
Roop Raj, evening anchor and reporter at Fox2 Detroit, re-tweeted a photo of what appears to be Santana receiving medical attention. “Medical personnel on stage. Crowd asked to pray for him because of a ‘serious medical’ issue,” he writes.
#BREAKING: Carlos Santana just passed out on stage at @PineKnobMusic. Medical personnel on stage. Crowd asked to pray for him because of a “serious medical” issue. Pic via @LoriPinsonFOX2 pic.twitter.com/6VqHkBwVIT
— Roop Raj (@rooprajfox2) July 6, 2022
Graff tweeted an update at 10.37pm ET. “Carlos Santana taken offstage on stretcher 20 minutes after collapsing at Pine Knob Music No word on condition yet but he waved while being rolled off.”
Update: @SantanaCarlos taken offstage on stretcher 20 minutes after collapsing at @PineKnobMusic
No word on condition yet but he waved while being rolled off— Gary Graff (@GraffonMusic) July 6, 2022
The 74-year-old artist is on the road for his Miraculous Supernatural 2022 Tour: Santana + Earth, Wind & Fire, in support of his 26th and latest studio album, 2021’s Blessings and Miracles.
He’s scheduled to perform again Wednesday evening at The Pavilion at Star Lake (formerly the S&T Bank Music Park) in Burgettstown, PA.
Santana is fresh off a performance for CNN’s star-studded The 4th in America special.
More to come.
BLACKPINK announced Tuesday (July 5) that they’ll return with new music in August — and the K-pop superstars will mount a world tour by the end of the year.
A press release from YG Entertainment announced that the quartet — Jisoo, Jennie, Rosé and Lisa — are in the “final stages of recording a new album” and that their new music in August will kick off “a continuous large-scale project which will extend through the second half of the year.”
In addition, the release promised an international tour by the end of the year that would be the “largest world tour in the history of a K-pop girl group.”
“A lot of BLACKPINK-esque music has been prepared over a long period of time,” YG Entertainment says. “On top of new music and large-scale projects, BLACKPINK will also go on the largest world tour in the history of a K-pop girl group by the end of the year to expand their rapport with fans worldwide.”
The K-pop foursome released their first full-length album — simply titled THE ALBUM — via Interscope in October 2020. The project peaked at No. 2 on the Billboard 200 and spent two weeks at No. 1 on the Top Album Sales chart. BLACKPINK have landed seven songs on the Billboard Hot 100, including the top 20 hit “Ice Cream” with Selena Gomez and a pair of top 40s: “Sour Candy” with Lady Gaga and “How You Like That.”
Just last week, BLACKPINK became the first musical act to reach 75 million subscribers on YouTube. The group earned the title of most-subscribed artist on the platform in September 2021, when they surpassed the 65.5 million mark and took over the lead from Justin Bieber.
Back in 2019, before THE ALBUM was released, BLACKPINK were featured on the cover of Billboard magazine, where they laid out their plans for a U.S. takeover. “You don’t have to understand Korean to understand the music, the visuals, the vibe,” Jisoo told Billboard at the time. Looks like she was right.
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Patrons of a Manchester dive bar found themselves jamming along with Olivia Rodrigo this weekend.
The “Drivers License” star popped into Bunny Jackson’s for an impromptu performance of “Torn,” the pop song that became a hit for Natalie Imbruglia in 1997, with a band while in the U.K. city on her Sour Tour.
“I’m dead sober,” Rodrigo said Sunday night (July 3) before launching into the ’90s tune that was Imbruglia’s breakthrough single.
Several clips were uploaded to social media by crowd members who sang along and cheered her on at Bunny Jackson’s, who also shared videos of Rodrigo’s performance on Instagram Stories.
“Why yes Olivia Rodrigo, of course you can turn up at Bunny Jacksons on a bloody Sunday evening and play a song for a laugh before our 3rd set,” one person wrote on Twitter, later adding, “Mate, it was wild. They just showed up after playing the arena and her TM asked to jump on between our sets! They were all very lovely.”
Rodrigo’s Sour album recently became the longest-running debut album in the top 10 on the Billboard 200 chart this century. As of the July 2-dated chart, it’s spent 52 nonconsecutive weeks in the top 10.
Watch her sing “Torn” below. Rodrigo has just a couple dates left on her sold-out tour.
