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TikTok is ready to ring in the new year! On Monday (Dec. 27), the social platform announced the lineup for TikTok New Year’s Eve livestream, including headlining performances by Charlie Puth, Kali Uchis and Rico Nasty.
“Celebrate the New Year with @KALIUCHIS, @charlieputh, @Rico_nastyy, host @Avgfashionblog and special guests as they say goodbye to 2021 and hello to 2022,” TikTok tweeted to reveal the Dec. 31 special.
The trio of musicians will be joined by TikTok creators Tyshon Lawrence, Cristian Dennis, Tracy Joseph, Billy and Scarlet May, while Courtney Parchman — otherwise known as Average Fashion Blogger to her nearly one million TikTok followers — will serve as the evening’s host. The livestream is set to kick off at 9 p.m. ET/6 p.m. PT on New Year’s Eve.
While Puth shared the progress with fans on his follow-up album to 2018’s Voicenotes as part of his new LG campaign last September, the singer more recently tested positive for COVID-19 earlier this month. At the time, he urged his followers to “be safe and careful” navigating the holidays amid the rapid spread of the omicron variant.
Uchis earned her first No. 1 hit atop Billboard’s Hot Latin Songs chart in March with “Telepatía,” thanks in large part to the Spanish-language single going viral on TikTok. Since then, the Colombian-American singer has also collaborated with the likes of SZA (“Fue Mejor”) and Ozuna (“Another Day in America.”)
In October, Nasty sat down with Billboard for an interview all about her latest single — the Flo Milli-assisted “Money” — touring, motherhood and more.
Check out TikTok’s New Year’s Eve announcement below.
Celebrate the New Year with @KALIUCHIS, @charlieputh, @Rico_nastyy, host @Avgfashionblog and special guests as they say goodbye to 2021 and hello to 2022 🎉 pic.twitter.com/yMDjat2U0a
— TikTok (@tiktok_us) December 27, 2021
As Rosé once said, “BLACKPINK is the revolution!” On Tuesday (Dec. 28), the New Zealand-Korean singer shared her cover of Cautious Clay‘s “Wildfire.”
The acoustic take, which the BLACKPINK member filmed in front of a stunningly vivid sunset, added to the collection of impressive covers she’s released throughout the year in the wake of her debut solo single “On the Ground.”
To celebrate, Billboard rounded up the K-pop idol’s five best cover performances from her streak this spring and summer on South Korean variety show Sea of Hope.
Often paired with fellow K-pop stars Onew (of SHINee) and Lee Su-hyun (of AKMU), Rosé showed off her wide and varied range of musical influences, performing everything from rock (The Killers‘ “Read My Mind”) and pop (Colbie Caillat and Jason Mraz‘s “Lucky”) to R&B (Alicia Keys‘ “If I Ain’t Got You”) and pop-punk (Paramore‘s “The Only Exception”).
Now, Billboard wants to know which cover performance you think made the BLACKPINK star shine the brightest. Were you as impressed as Mayer was by her “gorgeous” take on his beloved Continuum ballad? Were we the luckiest to witness her collab with Onew on Caillat and Mraz’s lovestruck 2008 duet? Did Rosé’s vocals on Keys’ fan favorite from her 2003 sophomore album blow you away? Or maybe you were taken aback by how well the singer translated Brandon Flowers and Co.’s 2006 hit into a delicate beachside ditty driven by keys.
Whichever of Rosé’s many covers this year you loved most, vote in Billboard‘s official poll below and let your voice be heard!
If all Mariah Carey wanted for Christmas is spending another week at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100, then she got it.
The Queen of Christmas toasted to her holiday staple “All I Want For Christmas Is You” spending another week atop the Hot 100 this week (chart dated Jan. 1, 2022) with a picture of her hot-tubbing in the snow-covered mountains while fully dressed in a lavish black gown.
“Feeling blessed and elated. Another week at #1 on the Hot 100! Thank you Lambily… ‘Love you till the end of time,’” she captioned the picture.
Feeling blessed and elated. Another week at #1 on the Hot 100! Thank you Lambily… “Love you till the end of time.” ❤️🦋🎄🐑🌈🙏🏽 pic.twitter.com/4kIdMgKoyM
— Mariah Carey (@MariahCarey) December 28, 2021
That marks the song’s seventh total week at No. 1, after “All I Want For Christmas Is You” spent three weeks at the top of the all-genre songs tally beginning in December 2019 and two more starting in December 2020, before it returned to the summit a week ago. In 2019, “Christmas” became MC’s 19th Hot 100 No. 1 hit, and she’s never forgotten it or let anyone else forget it.
In a recent video interview with Harper’s Bazaar, Mimi was asked how many No. 1 songs has she landed on the Hot 100 chart, and she correctly answered 19. But when someone from outside the camera’s view tried to correct her and say 18, the iconic hitmaker responded in her own defense, “No, no, no, dahling. It is 19…. I think I know how many No. 1s I’ve had on the Hot 100 chart because one of them was a holiday song, and it is ‘All I Want For Christmas Is You.’”
And while Christmas itself is over, “Christmas” is still the biggest song in the world, as it continues its chart-topping success on both the Billboard Global 200 and the Billboard Global Excl. U.S. charts (dated Jan. 1).
The vinyl releases of Bo Burnham’s Inside (The Songs) and Kid Cudi’s Man On the Moon III: The Chosen pushes both albums back onto Billboard’s Top Album Sales chart (dated Jan. 1, 2022) — and straight into the top five.
On the Top Album Sales chart, Inside (The Songs) re-enters at No. 3 (a new high, and its first week in the top 10) with 44,000 copies sold in the U.S. in the week ending Dec. 23 (up 15,220%; and easily the album’s best sales week). The album was released on vinyl and CD for the first time on Dec. 17. Of its 44,000 sold for the week, vinyl sales comprised 36,000; CD sales comprised 8,000 and digital download sales comprised a negligible sum.
Inside (The Songs) was initially released on June 10 as a digital download and via streaming services. It spent five weeks on Top Album Sales (the June 19 through July 17-dated charts) and then left the tally until it re-entered this week.
Meanwhile, Kid Cudi’s Man On the Moon III: The Chosen also scores a new high on Top Album Sales, as it re-enters at No. 4 (surpassing its previous high-water mark of No. 10) with 42,000 sold (up 4,359%; its best sales week). The Chosen dropped on vinyl LP for the first time on Dec. 17. Vinyl sales comprised 41,500 of the album’s sales for the week.
The Chosen was originally released on Dec. 11, 2020 as a digital album and via streaming services. Its CD edition arrived on June 18. It previously notched two nonconsecutive weeks on Top Album Sales (Dec. 26, 2020 and July 3, 2021-dated charts).
Inside (The Songs) and The Chosen have now sold 67,000 and 81,000 copies since their original release, across all of their available retail formats (physical and digital combined), in the U.S.
Ahead of both albums on Top Album Sales are Adele’s 30, which is steady at No. 1 for a fifth straight week, selling 180,000 copies (up 23%). Taylor Swift’s former leader, Red (Taylor’s Version), is a non-mover at No. 2 with 47,000 sold (up 40%).
On Billboard’s Vinyl Albums chart, which ranks the top-selling vinyl albums of the week, The Chosen and Inside (The Songs) debut at Nos. 2 and 3, respectively. Adele’s 30 remains at No. 1 for a fifth straight week on Vinyl Albums, with 59,000 copies sold on vinyl.
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 sole measurement 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.
NCT’s Universe: The 3rd Album, Neo Culture Technology debuts at No. 5 on Top Album Sales with 37,000 copies sold. It’s the second top 10 – and top five – effort for the ensemble, which previously hit No. 2 with Resonance, Pt. 1 (Oct. 31, 2020-dated chart). Like many K-pop releases, the CD edition of the album was issued in two collectible packages, each with randomized internal paper goods (such as photo cards, postcards and stickers). The album was only available on CD and as a digital download – and 99.5% of its sales came from its CDs. The digital album sold a negligible sum for the week.
Olivia Rodrigo’s former No. 1 Sour falls 4-6 with 33,000 sold (though up 21%), Billie Eilish’s chart-topping Happier Than Ever dips 5-7 with 26,000 (up 41%), TWICE’s Formula of Love: O+T=<3 jumps 21-8 with 24,000 (up 118%), Vince Guaraldi Trio’s A Charlie Brown Christmas slips 7-9 with 24,000 (up 40%) and The Beatles’ Let It Be descends 6-10 with 23,000 (up 34%).
Kane Brown has new music on the way in 2022, and the singer-songwriter gave fans an early listen to a new song, “Whiskey Sour,” which will release Jan. 14.
“I love getting to sing other people’s stories!” Brown captioned an Instagram video of himself singing the new track on Dec. 26.
The ballad marks one of Brown’s more traditional country-sounding releases, highlighting his smooth baritone over sparse, acoustic guitars. Meanwhile, the lyrics center on a story of a romance gone wrong.
While the first verse focuses on two young lovers hopeful about their future together, that relationship quickly fizzles, with Brown singing, “It only took a month or so to be someone you used to know.”
Longtime fans of Brown know he’s just as capable at delivering a traditional-leaning country song as he is at his more pop-fueled radio hits. Early on in his career, Brown started building his fanbase by recording cover renditions of hits from artists including Randy Travis and George Strait, before earning his own breakout hit “Used to Love You Sober.” During this year’s CMT Artists of the Year ceremony, Brown paid homage to one of his musical heroes, Travis, by performing his hit “Three Wooden Crosses.”
Brown has been hard at work on the followup to his 2018 full-length project Experiment, and his 2020 EP Mixtape, Vol. 1., which included his hit “Worldwide Beautiful.” That song earned Brown his first Academy of Country Music award, for video of the year.
During a recent interview with Apple Music’s Today’s Country Radio, Brown told Kelleigh Bannen that he pushed back the upcoming album’s release date.
“I’m not going to say when, but I did push my album back,” Brown said. “But I think I am going to release songs hopefully once every other month leading up to it.”
He also mentioned that the new album will again find Brown exploring new musical sounds and textures.
“None of them sound the same, which is another thing that I’ve been thinking about,” he said of the songs on the project. “I tried to go the old-school route, but then I got too old school … I like different music.”
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