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Friday, December 2, 2022

Taylor Swift's 'Midnights' Earns Fourth Week Atop Billboard 200

Taylor Swift's Midnights holds at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 albums chart dated December 3, earning the top spot for a fourth non-consecutive week.

According to Luminate, Midnights earned 177,000 equivalent album units in the U.S. in the tracking week ending November 24. That was down 13% from a week earlier.

Of Midnights' 177,000 equivalent album units earned in the tracking week, SEA units comprise 118,000 (down 16%, equaling 155.8 million on-demand official streams of the set's tracks), album sales comprise 57,000 (down 4%) and SEA units comprise 2,000 (down 49%).

Drake and 21 Savage's Her Loss stays at No. 2 on the list. Bad Bunny's Un Verano Sin Ti is steady at No. 3, Lil Baby's It's Only Me also remains stationary at No. 4, while Morgan Wallen's Dangerous: The Double Album has advanced 6-5. All four albums had previously hit the top spot on the chart.

(Photo: Beth Garrabrant)

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Future Drops Travis Scott-Directed '712PM' Video

Future recently dropped a new video for "712PM" that was directed by Travis Scott.

The video shows Future driving in a Maybach with a gorgeous looking model. The rapper starts rapping inside a club wearing a fur coat.

"712PM" is the opening track of Future's most recent album, I Never Liked You, the rapper's ninth studio album that released on April 29, 2022. The album also featured guest appearances from Kanye West, Gunna, Young Thug, Drake, Tems, EST Gee, and Kodak Black.

The video follows previously released I Never Liked You videos "Worst Day," "Wait For U," "Puffin on Zootiez," "Holy Ghost," "Love You Better" and "Massaging Me."

This isn't the first time Future has collaborated with Scott. In September, Scott had served as the creative director for Future's "LOVE YOU BETTER" performance on "Jimmy Fallon Live!"

(Photo: Frank Schwichtenberg)

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Mariah Carey's 'All I Want For Christmas Is You' Tops Billboard's Holiday 100

Mariah Carey's "All I Want for Christmas Is You" has topped of Billboard's returning Holiday 100 songs chart dated December 3.

The Christmas hit rules the Holiday 100 for the 52nd week in the chart's history. The song has dominated all but five weeks since the chart was launched in 2011.

Justin Bieber's "Mistletoe," Pentatonix's "Little Drummer Boy" and "Mary, Did You Know?" and Ariana Grande's "Santa Tell Me" are the other Holiday 100 chart toppers.

"All I Want for Christmas Is You" also topped all three Holiday 100 component charts - Holiday Streaming Songs, Holiday Airplay, and Holiday Digital Song Sales - in the latest surveys, according to Luminate.

"All I Want for Christmas Is You" is also ranked No. 1 on Billboard's Greatest of All Time Holiday 100 Songs chart.

A track from Carey's 1994 album Merry Christmas, "All I Want for Christmas Is You" is an uptempo love song that includes bell chimes, backing vocals and synthesizers.

The song has become a Christmas standard and continues to surge in popularity each holiday season.

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Primavera Sound 2023 To Feature Kendrick Lamar, Blur, Halsey, Depeche Mode & More

The Primavera Sound Festival, scheduled to take place in June 2023, will feature Kendrick Lamar, Blur, Halsey, Depeche Mode and several other acts.

The festival will take place in Barcelona at Cudad del Rock in Arganda Del Rey from June 1-3 and at the Parc Del Forum in Madrid from June 8-10.

There will also be sets from Rosalia, Ghost, Darkside, Le Tigre, Turnstile, Sparks, Pusha T, Baby Keem, Skrillex, Bad Religion, The Mars Volta, Bad Gyal, Maneskin, St. Vince, the War on Drugs and many more.

In addition, the Pet Shop Boys will play Wednesday's (May 31) free show with Jake Bugg, Confidence Man and La Paloma, along with several other acts. Festival organizers announced earlier this year that Barcelona and Madrid will "mirror" each other on consecutive summer weekends.

"Look for yourself in the Primavera Sound 2023 line-up. and find yourself," organizers said in a statement. "Because we assure you that you are there."

They added, "After twenty editions, the festival is the mirror in which the community that will come from near and far to Barcelona and for the first time to Madrid next June looks at itself and recognizes itself, but after everything it has experienced, this reflection goes in two directions, marking the richest musical itinerary we can think of: Primavera Sound also looks for and finds itself in its own audience."

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