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Yahoo
23-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Producer Spotlight: Carl Bown Tops Producer Charts Thanks to Breakout Sleep Token Album
Billboard's Producer Spotlight series highlights creatives currently charting on Billboard's producer rankings. Whether they are new to the industry or have been churning out hit after hit, the intention is to showcase where they are now, and their work that's having a chart impact. Longtime hard rock producer Carl Bown scores a career milestone on Billboard's latest charts (dated May 24), thanks to his work on Sleep Token's breakout album, Even in Arcadia. More from Billboard Tory Lanez Is Being Transferred to a New Prison After Being Stabbed, His Dad Says Aaron Paul Opens Up About Tracking Down Tour Managers to Get Bands to Perform in His Living Room Ye Claims He's 'Done With Antisemitism': 'Forgive Me for the Pain I've Caused' The band reaches unprecedented heights this week, as the album debuts at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 with 127,000 equivalent album units earned in the U.S. in its first week, according to Luminate. Concurrently, all 10 tracks from the album land on the Billboard Hot 100, making Sleep Token the first hard rock act in history to chart as many as 10 songs simultaneously in a single week. Here's a full breakdown of Sleep Token's entries on the Hot 100: No. 56, 'Dangerous' (debut) No. 57, 'Caramel' (re-entry; peaked at No. 34) No. 58, 'Emergence' (re-entry; peaked at No. 57) No. 61, 'Even in Arcadia' (debut) No. 66, 'Look to Windward' (debut) No. 70, 'Past Self' (debut) No. 72, 'Damocles' (re-entry; peaked at No. 47) No. 75, 'Gethsemane' (debut) No. 77, 'Provider' (debut) No. 100, 'Infinite Baths' (debut) Bown is credited as the sole producer on all 10 tracks, propelling him to No. 1 on Billboard's Hot 100 Producers chart for the first time in his career. He also claims the top spot on Rock Producers, Alternative Producers, Hard Rock Producers, and Rock & Alternative Producers. Bown, a veteran of the U.K. hard rock scene, has been a go-to producer for many of the genre's biggest names. He's also worked with Bullet for My Valentine, Bring Me the Horizon, While She Sleeps, Gunship, Pendulum and Trivium, among others. Before teaming up with Sleep Token, Bown had only appeared on Billboard's song charts with four singles by Bullet for My Valentine: 'You Want a Battle? (Here's a War)': No. 37 on Mainstream Rock Airplay, No. 46 on Hot Rock & Alternative Songs (2015) 'Don't Need You': No. 49 on Hot Rock & Alternative Songs (2016) 'Knives': No. 16 on Hot Hard Rock Songs, No. 39 Mainstream Rock Airplay (2021) 'Shatter': No. 24 on Hot Hard Rock Songs (2021) Based in Manchester, U.K., Bown is also the founder and owner of Treehouse Studios in Chesterfield, a popular recording hub for many of the records he's helmed. Meanwhile, two of Sleep Token's members, Vessel I and Vessel II, also achieve a notable feat. They rank at Nos. 1 and 2 on Billboard's Hot 100 Songwriters chart, respectively. Known for their anonymity, the cloaked and masked artists have remained publicly unidentified. Vessel I is credited as a writer on all 10 of the band's Hot 100 entries, while Vessel II is credited on eight. Billboard launched its songwriters and producers charts in June 2019, including those for individual genres. The charts are based on total points accrued by a songwriter and producer, respectively, for each attributed song that appears on their respective 'Hot' or 'Top' chart. As with Billboard's yearly recaps, multiple writers or producers split points for each song equally (and the dividing of points will lead to occasional ties on rankings). The full Songwriters and Producers charts, plus those for other genres, can be found on Best of Billboard Chart Rewind: In 1989, New Kids on the Block Were 'Hangin' Tough' at No. 1 Four Decades of 'Madonna': A Look Back at the Queen of Pop's Debut Album on the Charts Chart Rewind: In 1990, Madonna Was in 'Vogue' Atop the Hot 100
CBS News
17-04-2025
- CBS News
How AI is using facial recognition to help bring lost pets home
A new artificial intelligence-based technology is helping thousands of pet owners reunite with their lost animals, addressing a persistent problem that affects millions of American families each year. The national database called Love Lost, operated by the nonprofit Petco Love, has already helped reconnect 100,000 owners with their lost pets since its launch in 2021. "In the sheltering system, it's about 20 percent of lost pets will be reunited, which is simply not enough," said Susanne Kogut, president of Petco Love. Michael Bown experienced this firsthand when his pitbull-mix, Millie, escaped during a walk in lower Manhattan after slipping out of her collar. "Because she's a rescue dog, she's very anxious," Bown said. "The only thing I was thinking is, she's trying to find me, and she doesn't know where I am." While Bown rushed home to search, his mother uploaded Millie's photo to the Love Lost database. Within 14 hours, they received a call that changed everything. Millie had run 10 miles north to Harlem, where she was struck by a car before being transported an additional 15 miles to a veterinary hospital in Paramus, New Jersey. The hospital had also uploaded Millie's picture to the same free platform, which is run by donations. The technology works by identifying unique features of each animal — from eye shape and whisker length to unusual markings and tail curvature. The AI system collects up to 512 data points per pet, using machine learning to search for matching animals. A key advantage of the system is its ability to recognize pets even when their appearance changes dramatically after getting lost. The database also pulls lost pet reports from social media posts to increase the odds of a successful match. "People used to put flyers on a telephone pole. Now we have that one virtual telephone pole in the system," Kogut said. "Everyone put the flyers there and we're going to send these pets home!" More than 3,000 animal shelters nationwide now participate in the program, which is funded entirely by donations. The nonprofit advises pet owners to be cautious of potential scams when using the service. They recommend being wary of anyone requesting money to return a lost pet and suggest limiting communications to the site's secure platform. Two months after her ordeal and while recovering from a broken leg, Millie is back with Bown and adjusting well to life at home. "She likes to say 'hi' to every single dog that we see on the walk, regardless of if they want to say 'hi' to her," Bown said. "But she's doing really well."
Axios
09-04-2025
- Business
- Axios
What we know about who pays for tariffs
When President Trump imposed tariffs on China during his first term, U.S. importers paid the price, that we know (now). Exactly how those costs were passed on to U.S. consumers, though, is surprisingly less clear. Why it matters: The key question for anyone in the U.S. who buys stuff — i.e., all of us — is who pays for Trump's latest tariff increases. The answer is probably everyone. "U.S. consumers will likely bear the brunt of higher tariffs," writes Michael Arone, an investment strategist at State Street, in a note Tuesday. Exactly how that works? TBD. The big picture: Americans and the entire global economy will effectively be living through a real-time economics experiment, because the sheer size and scale of the tariffs going into effect Wednesday has never been seen before. It's possible that some products simply won't be available at all — in the U.S. we can't pre-order the new Nintendo Switch, for example. Some automakers are pausing exports. Catch up fast: During Trump 1.0., when tariffs on China were put in place, economists had a natural experiment in pricing to chew on. There had been theories that perhaps exporters would lower prices on goods going to the U.S. to accommodate the increases. That didn't happen, according to the research done at the time, says Chad Bown, a senior fellow at the Peterson Institute who specializes in trade. Basically everyone studying this found that the importer pays, he says. Where it stands: Probably the best of that work was from a paper by researchers at Harvard, University of Chicago, the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston and the IMF, he says. They looked at government data on import prices, and found that importers paid nearly 95% of the tariff cost, and exporters paid the rest. U.S. exporters also ponied up. They wound up cutting prices on goods hit by retaliatory tariffs — mainly commodity agricultural products — purchased by China. That's hardly the end-game, though. The harder part of the question: "How much can importers then pass along to their different points in the supply chain?" says Bown. Someone who imports widgets for car parts might raise prices levied on the parts manufacturer, who might raise prices levied on the auto assembly company, which would pass that along to dealers, who would jack up up sticker prices. Along the way, some of these companies could shrink margins and absorb some costs, while others might exert pressure to keep prices down. Between the lines: During Trump 1.0, companies scrambled to figure out workarounds, like importing from different countries or front-loading inventory, in the hopes things were temporary. They also were able to lobby for exemptions. Trump's tariffs this time are different, as Axios' Neil Irwin explained. They're on everything, everywhere, all at once. The other side: The paper Bown points to looked at prices at two big-box retailers and found that they didn't raise prices very much after tariffs were imposed during the first Trump administration . Retailers were able to source from different countries and stockpile inventory. It's possible they even ate some costs. The White House cited that paper when unveiling tariffs last week. Yes, but: One of its co-authors wrote this week that the administration "got it wrong." Their research also stops early in 2020. At the time, the authors wrote that they expected eventually retailers would be pressured to raise prices. But they never got a chance to look into it. The pandemic happened; inflation ended up skyrocketing in the U.S., and there hasn't been much research to unpack whether tariffs played a role. The bottom line: "This is my challenge to all the economists out there who stopped writing about this, could you rerun your model please?" Bown says. For the record: "The flood of foreign countries reaching out to the White House with concessions demonstrates the unique leverage that the United States, the world's largest and best economy, has in trade negotiations," Kush Desai, a White House spokesman said in an email.
