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Yahoo
3 days ago
- Business
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Will Morgan Wallen's Hot 100 Deluge Prevent Teddy Swims From Setting an All-Time Chart Record?
The Contenders is a midweek column that looks at artists aiming for the top of the Billboard charts, and the strategies behind their efforts. This week, for the upcoming Billboard Hot 100 dated May 31, we look at the chances of 'Lose Control' to set a record for chart endurance – if it can fend off a swarm of new Morgan Wallen chart hits, one of which may debut at No. 1. Teddy Swims, 'Lose Control' (Warner): It's been a staggering 91 weeks and counting on the Hot 100 for Teddy Swims' crossover soul ballad 'Lose Control.' Since the song debuted on the chart in August of 2023 (!!), it's topped both the weekly chart (in March 2024) and the year-end Hot 100 (for all 2024), won a pair of Billboard Music Awards, and even been succeeded by another pair of top 40 hits in 'The Door' and 'Bad Dreams.' But all the while, 'Lose Control' has lingered on the chart, scarcely losing momentum – and this week (on the chart dated May 24), spends a record-extending 62nd week inside the top 10, holding at No. 7. More from Billboard Bow Wow Reveals Beats He Passed On - Including Rick Ross, Drake & French Montana's 'Stay Schemin' SZA Says She's 'Actually So Shocked' by the 'Bullying' Megan Thee Stallion Is Facing in Tory Lanez Shooting Case Karol G Lands First No. 1 on Hot Latin Pop Songs Chart With 'Milagros' This week also sees 'Lose Control' tie Glass Animals' 'Heat Waves' for the longest total stay on the entire chart – and given its still-lofty position, it would seem a near-foregone conclusion that it would go on to break that mark next frame with a 92nd week. Complicating things, however, is the man who's been most unmissable on the Billboard charts this decade: country superstar Morgan Wallen, whose new album I'm the Problem was released on Friday (May 16). Seven tracks from the album already appear on the Hot 100 this week – five of them in the top 25 – but the set's full 37-track drop could add as many as 30 extra songs to the mix, some of them likely quite high. Could the new Wallen swarm really push 'Lose Control' all the way off the chart? Well, it only would have to push it out of the top 25 – since the song has already spent over a year on the chart, Billboard's rules about recurrent entries on the Hot 100 mean that it would drop off the listing entirely if it dropped to No. 26 or lower. But since 'Control' is still No. 7 this week, that would still take a mighty showing from Wallen's latest – likely requiring about half the 37-track album to outperform it on the chart next week. A tall ask, and with the relatively steady radio and streaming support for 'Lose Control,' it might not end up having too much of a Problem with Wallen after all. Morgan Wallen, 'Just in Case,' 'What I Want' (with Tate McRae), 'I'm the Problem' (Mercury/Big Loud/Republic): Even if he doesn't crowd Teddy Swims out of the Hot 100 top 25 next week, Wallen should launch his fair share of entries into the top 10 – including a couple that may be contending for No. 1. 'Just in Case,' which debuted at No. 3 in April and sits at No. 11 this week, may be the frontrunner, as it has roosted at No. 2 on both Spotify's Daily Top Songs USA and Apple Music's real-time chart for most of the week following I'm the Problem's release — and is also growing significantly in radio play, as Wallen's latest single being promoted to country radio was up to 9.4 million in airplay audience for the first four days of this tracking week (May 16-19), according to Luminate, after debuting at No. 47 on the most recent Radio Songs listing. It should receive some serious competition from albummate 'What I Want,' however – Wallen's duet with Tate McRae, marking the first time he's sung with a female artist on an officially released track. While the brand-new collab is unsurprisingly slower-going on radio in its first week, it also is the lone song ranking above 'Just in Case' on both Spotify and Apple Music this week. If it debuts in the Hot 100's top two, it will mark the highest-ranking hit of Tate McRae's career – with 'Greedy' holding her previous high-water mark with its No. 3 peak in early 2024. Also not to be counted out: the I'm the Problem title track, which is currently the highest-charting of Wallen's eight Hot 100 entries, rating at No. 6 in its 15th week on the chart (after debuting at No. 2 back in February). The song also ranks in the top five on both the aforementioned DSP charts, while remaining Wallen's top-performing song on radio – likely topping Country Airplay for a sixth week next frame, and holding in the top 15 on the all-format Radio Songs ranking. Kendrick Lamar & SZA, 'Luther' (pgLang/Interscope/ICLG) & Alex Warren, 'Ordinary' (Atlantic): The two songs that have been duking it out for No. 1 on the Hot 100 the past couple weeks – with 'Luther' thus far reigning victorious – will likely find themselves on the undercard for the Hot 100 title fight next week following the waterfall of Wallen entries. However, as those I'm the Problem songs inevitably recede some in week two, Alex Warren and Kendrick Lamar & SZA could be back in the main event the week after. In the meantime, 'Ordinary' should continue to close the all-important airplay gap, as it is up 21% in radio audience for the first four days of the tracking week (May 16-19) to 20.9 million, while 'Luther' is down 3% to 35 million. 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
Yahoo
6 days ago
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Elisabeth Moss Explains Why She First Passed On ‘Handmaid's Tale' Role: 'It Seems Insane Now'
With The Handmaid's Tale coming to an end, Elisabeth Moss is reflecting on her time in Gilead over the past nine years. The 2x Golden Globe winner said she's 'so glad I did' take the role of June Osborne after originally passing on the part in the Hulu series adaptation of Margaret Atwood's 1985 novel, which concludes its sixth and final season on May 27. More from Deadline 'The Testaments' Creator Bruce Miller Gives Updates On 'The Handmaid's Tale' Sequel Series & Explains Why The Gilead Viewers Encounter Will Feel Like 'Exactly The Opposite World' 'The Handmaid's Tale' Stars Elisabeth Moss, Bradley Whitford & Yvonne Strahovski, EP Yahlin Chang Say Final Season Shows Results Of June's Positive Influence – Contenders TV Everything We Know About 'The Testaments,' Sequel Series To 'The Handmaid's Tale' So Far 'Thank God that worked out the right way,' said Moss on The Jennifer Hudson Show, explaining that she was hesitant to commit to another series right after her eight-season run on Mad Men (2007-'15). Moss added, 'I wasn't quite sure if I was ready to make that commitment again, so I actually passed the first time they offered it to me. I know, it seems insane now. I'm so glad I've corrected that. And then they came back, and they very nicely offered it again, blah, blah, blah. Then the thing that clinched it was … they leaked it to me—obviously on purpose—who they were going to offer it to if I didn't take it, and I was like, 'Over my dead body.' 'It was the thing that made realize that I needed to do it. I couldn't stand the idea of anyone else playing that role, you know what I mean?' she explained. 'That was the thing that made me realize how badly I wanted to do it.' Set in the dystopian society of Gilead, The Handmaid's Tale follows June (aka Offred) as she's forced to reproduce with a high-ranking commander, all while secretly plotting to overthrow the totalitarian government and reunite with the daughter who was taken from her. As of last month, series creator Bruce Miller is in the casting phase of the upcoming sequel series The Testaments, based on Atwood's 2019 followup book. Best of Deadline 'Poker Face' Season 2 Guest Stars: From Katie Holmes To Simon Hellberg Everything We Know About Amazon's 'Verity' Movie So Far Everything We Know About 'The Testaments,' Sequel Series To 'The Handmaid's Tale' So Far
Yahoo
01-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Sean 'Diddy' Combs Admits Rejecting Feds' Sex Trafficking Plea Deal Just Before Trial; Jury Selection Begins Next Week
Days before jury selection is set to start in Sean 'Diddy' Combs' sex trafficking trial, a federal judge today sought confirmation from the Bad Boys Records founder that prosecutors put forth a plea deal and that he rebuffed it 'Yes, I did,' a glasses wearing Combs said in court in Manhattan Thursday before Judge Arun Subramanian. Offering a reduction in time served if Combs took the deal and entered a guilty plea, the agreement put before the 'All About the Benjamins' performer seems to have been on the table in the last few weeks More from Deadline As Sean Combs Faces Trial, 'The Fall Of Diddy' Uncovers Alleged Shocking Pattern Of Abuse - Contenders TV: Documentary, Unscripted & Variety Sean "Diddy" Combs Fails To Have Cassie Ventura 2016 Hotel Beating Footage Excluded From Sex Trafficking Trial; Rejected Plea Deal Revealed Shannon Sharpe To Be Benched By ESPN's 'First Take' Amid Rape Lawsuit, $10M Settlement Offer Beyond that, no details are known about the written offer. Unsurprisingly, the U.S. Attorney's office for the Southern District of New York are keeping it that way. In the legal ether for months, the plea deal was made public in an almost casual manner by an assistant U.S. attorney at an April 25 hearing. Looking at likely life behind bars if found guilty on the racketeering, sex trafficking, transportation to engage in prostitution and more, the not guiltily pleading 55-year-old Combs (a.k.a .inmate 37452-054) has been held in one of the more low-key units of Brooklyn's Metropolitan Detention Center since he was arrest last September. A defendant not just in this criminal case, but in dozens and dozens of civil cases alleging assaults and abuse, Diddy has always sworn he is innocent, and all the interactions were consensual. A major element in Combs' rejection of the plea deal appears to be he truly wants his day in court to prove his innocence and beat the charges, well-placed sources tell us. The rest of today's hearing dealt with jury selection questionnaires and procedure, including what will and will not happen in open court Determined to keep the sometimes-wayward case on track, Judge Subramanian once again made it clear to Combs, prosecutors and the defense Thursday that he wants jury selection to begin on May 5. A panel needs to be seated for opening statements on May 12 in the Manhattan courtroom, the judge has insisted. At the end of the less than one hour hearing Judge Subramanian told everyone he looked forward to seeing them on Monday morning. Of course, a spanner in the works of that could be the quickly settled ($30 million) assault and abuse suit and more from Victim-1, a.k.a former Combs girlfriend Cassie Ventura Unlike many such high-profile cases and the other accusations against Combs, there is visual evidence of the violence and attacks Ventura says she endure from Diddy for years. Judge Subramanian ruled last week that 2016 LA hotel security footage of the couple, that CNN aired last spring, will be shown to the jury. The video, which Combs apologized for on social media when it became public, shows a half-naked Combs chasing an escaping Ventura down a corridor hitting and kicking her and dragging her back to his room where allegedly one of his so-called freak offs was happening. Having deleted his seemingly forced Instagram apology now, Combs and his lawyers have tried almost every trick in the book to undermine or dispute the footage – footage that Combs almost immediately bought for $50,000 the day after the apparent attack occurred Add to that, among four victims id'd by the feds, Ventura has said she will testify in open court in this trial under her own name. Prosecutors allege that Combs and his aides coerced Ventura, other women and men into marathon debauched sexual encounters called 'freak-offs.' The sessions included male and female prostitutes, drug use, threats of violence and imprisonment in the hotel rooms where the acts were staged and videotaped. At asserted today, direct questioning of about 150 jury candidates starts on Monday morning. Judge Subramanian intends to bring each prospect into his courtroom, one at a time, to ask them about their backgrounds and potential biases, with none of the other jury candidates present. The judge called it 'sequestered questioning,' designed to protect juror privacy around sensitive personal matters in a case dealing with sex trafficking. Prospective jurors will also be allowed to answer some questions in sidebar conferences with the judge and lawyers, out of earshot of reporters, if they consider the information to be too personal to discuss in open court, the judge said. If all goes as scheduled, it will take three days of sequestered questioning to whittle the field down to 45 jury and alternate candidates, who will then undergo voir dire questioning on bias, etc by the lawyers for both sides. The aim is to seat the 12 jurors and handful of alternates who will hear the case beginning the following week. Emphasizing that 'time is of the essence,' Judge Subramanian today wondered aloud whether they can stay on schedule if sequestered questioning leads to a lot of breaks in the action for privacy sidebars. No one in court Thursday could promise him it wouldn't be an issue. In what will likely be major tenet of the soon to expand Marc Agnifilo- and Teny Geragos-led legal team's approach against SDNY, the defense has repeatedly complained the feds are using 'racist' laws against Combs and seeking to 'police non-conforming sexual activity.' Back on February 24, the defense took a swipe at 'unconstitutionally broad' search warrants that had been used on Combs as part of spring 2024 raids of his Los Angeles and Miami homes, devices, digital storage and more. After coming up short over and over in bail and keeping certain evidence out of the case, this week saw a small but significant notch in the defense's belt. One time mini-mogul Combs received permission on Wednesday from the court to wear 'non-prison clothing' during his six-week estimated trial. To that, the April 30 order say that starting next week, the past and present Sean John owner is allowed 'up to five button down shirts, up to five pairs of pants, up to five sweaters, up to five pairs of socks, and up to two pairs of shoes without laces to wear to court.' No mention of hair dye, so the prospective jurors will see Combs with the white hair he has had since being arrested last September. Unlike almost all the past hearings in this case, no blood members of Combs' family appeared to be in court Thursday offering their support. A self-declared 'godbrother' was there and Combs waved to him from the defense table. Best of Deadline Everything We Know About 'Nine Perfect Strangers' Season 2 So Far 2025-26 Awards Season Calendar: Dates For Tonys, Emmys, Oscars & More 'Ginny & Georgia' Season 3: Everything We Know So Far
Yahoo
26-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Seth Meyers Warns Emmy Voters Not To Turn ‘Late Night's ‘Corrections' Into '‘The Wire' Of Short-Form Digital Content' – Contenders TV: Docs, Unscripted & Variety
HBO's The Wire never won an Emmy, was only nominated twice in the writing categories and never received a single nod in any of the major categories including acting. Seth Meyers wants Emmy voters not to make another mistake like that when it comes to Corrections, the digital shortform spinoff of his NBC talk show Late Night with Seth Meyers. More from Deadline Deadline's Contenders Television Streaming Site Launches Deadline's Contenders Television: Documentary, Unscripted & Variety Ready For Liftoff As Sean Combs Faces Trial, 'The Fall Of Diddy' Uncovers Alleged Shocking Pattern Of Abuse - Contenders TV: Documentary, Unscripted & Variety Corrections has been nominated three times in the Outstanding Short Form Comedy, Drama or Variety Series category, losing out to Carpool Karoake: The Series and Only Murders in the Building: One Killer Question and not even being nominated the year Meyers' friend Tim Robinson won with I Think You Should Leave. 'It's a f*cking lock. I know you're not supposed to say this, but I think there's a real risk for Emmy voters,' Meyers joked during his panel at Deadline's Contenders TV Documentary, Unscripted & Variety. 'For Late Night, it's an honor to be nominated, but Corrections should definitely win, and if you don't vote for it, there's this chance that 20 years from now, it's like The Wire, where people are like, 'You know that never won an Emmy?' Am I saying that Corrections is The Wire of shortform digital content? Yeah, and I think anybody who watches both would say the same.' RELATED: Joking aside, Late Night with Seth Meyers also has a very reasonable chance to be Emmy-nominated in the main Outstanding Talk Series category. Meyers spoke about addressing President Trump's rebuke of him, after the Commander-in-Chief called him 'Marble Mouth Meyers' and setting the tone for late-night comedy in these unsettling political times as well as reminiscing about bringing Keith Richards water during SNL50 and how pleased his wife was when The New York Times ran a headline that read: 'Seth Meyers Isn't As Nice As You Think He Is.' Meyers added that he wanted this iteration of the show, compared to the 2016 iteration, to feel less 'dark' and more 'joyful.' 'Obviously the burden of this administration is heavier on a lot of other people more than it is on us, so it's one foot in front of the other' he said. 'We did have to reassess our approach. We knew that if we were tonally the exact same that we'd been in 2016, it would feel almost like a television show that was doing repeats when they should be doing live shows. We put a lot of talk into the tone. The whole world is trying to come [to terms with it] — not the whole world, obviously, I think there's plenty of people who think this is going grandly, but not that sort of full fist-shaking resistance out of the gate, which felt like what 2016 had, because everybody had been caught flat-footed by the outcome of that election.' Check back Monday for the panel video. Best of Deadline Everything We Know About The 'Hunger Games: Sunrise On The Reaping' Movie So Far Everything We Know About Netflix's 'The Thursday Murder Club' So Far TV Show Book Adaptations Arriving In 2025 So Far
BBC News
25-03-2025
- Entertainment
- BBC News
Gladiators: Everything we know about the final
We're getting close to the biggest moment of the Gladiators series... the grand as the Contenders smash, whack and sprint their way towards the finish line, there's still a few hurdles to go if they want to lift the least the mighty Gladiators who's made it to the final so far? When will we get to see who's crowned champion? And which Gladiators will they have to face off against along the way?Read on to find out... Who is in the Gladiators 2025 final? After the first semi-final, two Contenders emerged victorious after five tough events. First into the final was Amanda, a gym owner from Warrington, who secured an 18-point Powerball record, putting her at the top of the Fury said that she was "in awe - that's the best Contender I've ever come across in Powerball, so much credit for that."Following her into the final was gymnast Joe F from have to wait until the next episode to find out who Joe and Amanda will face in the final, but it's between Mus and Nathan, and Zavia and Aneila. When is the next Gladiators semi-final? Sadly, Gladiators fans will have to wait just a little longer to find out who the other finalists will second semi-final won't be on Saturday 29 March, as BBC One are showing the FA Cup quarter-final at 5pm match is between Brighton & Hove Albion and Nottingham Forest, who'll be battling to get into a semi-final of their own!The Gladiators semi-final is expected to be on the following Saturday, which is 5 April. Which Gladiators will be in the 2025 final? We'll have to wait and see who features in the final, but we know for sure that some Gladiators won't be has been out of the series since the final heats after an injury, and so will be resting and has also missed the series due to injury, but has instead been playing tricks on his fellow Gladiators as part of CBBC show Epic season has seen new recruits Cyclone and Hammer join the Gladiators. When is the Gladiators 2025 final? If the semi-final goes ahead on Saturday 5 April, and the last episode final follows a week later, then the Gladiators 2025 grand final would be shown on Saturday 12 April, but that hasn't been confirmed yet, so watch this a big day for fans of Saturday night TV, as the first episode of the new season of Doctor Who is due to be released on the same Ncuti Gatwa returning as the Doctor, joined by Varada Sethu in the role of new companion Belinda Chandra, it looks to be another epic voyage through time and space.
