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Forbes
03-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Forbes
Lady Gaga's Decade-Old Single Debuts On Multiple Billboard Charts
Lady Gaga's Coachella performance revives 'Judas,' which debuts on Billboard's global charts over a ... More decade after release, driven by renewed interest and streaming. INDIO, CALIFORNIA - APRIL 11: (FOR EDITORIAL USE ONLY) (EXCLUSIVE ACCESS) Lady Gaga performs at the Coachella Stage during the 2025 Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival at Empire Polo Club on April 11, 2025 in Indio, California. (Photo byfor Coachella) After headlining both weekends of Coachella, Lady Gaga experienced substantial gains on streaming platforms and in terms of pure sales of her songs and albums. The singer first saw her music climbing on Spotify and iTunes, and then later, on the Billboard charts, following weekend one of the event. She returned for the second weekend and once again promoted not only her new album Mayhem to the massive crowd, but also highlighted some older tunes – the classics that made her a superstar. Following the second weekend of the music festival, Gaga once again enjoys a significant growth on a number of charts. Her back-to-back performances have helped earn her another global hit — not with something brand new or even a tune featured on her latest full-length, but rather a single she dropped well over a decade ago. 'Judas' is Gaga's sole new hit on Billboard's worldwide rankings this frame. It opens at No. 147 on the Billboard Global Excl. U.S. and kicks off its run on the Billboard Global 200 at No. 195, narrowly managing to sneak onto the latter tally. The difference between the similarly-named rosters is that the Billboard Global Excl. U.S., as its name suggests, omits all sales and streaming data from America in an effort to reflect what the rest of the planet is listening to. Gaga has claimed nearly the same number of hits on both tallies. 'Judas' is her eighteenth placement on the Billboard Global Excl. U.S., and she has now scored nineteen wins on the Billboard Global 200. As it arrives, 'Judas' becomes Gaga's lowest-peaking track on the Billboard Global 200, a distinction previously held by 'Don't Call Tonight' from her latest full-length, which topped out at No. 183. 'Judas' is her second-lowest performer on the Billboard Global Excl. U.S., narrowly beating 'Bad Romance' by just two spaces, as that Grammy-winning cut stalled at No. 149. 'Judas' was released as the second single from Gaga's Born This Way, her sophomore full-length, which arrived in May 2011. The promotional cut dropped just a few weeks prior, following the title track, which became another huge smash for the singer. A heavy electro banger, the track divided listeners. Some enjoyed its thumping beat, while others were concerned by its religious iconography and themes. Despite some controversy, it became a top 10 hit in numerous nations, including the U.S., where it peaked at No. 10 on the Hot 100, giving Gaga another placement inside that competitive tier.
Russia Today
21-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Russia Today
Kiev gay club mocks Christian ceremony on Easter Sunday (VIDEO)
A stage act at a gay club in Ukraine's capital Kiev on Easter Sunday featured a mock Christian ritual, according to a video said to have been filmed at the event. Easter, which commemorates the resurrection of Jesus, is being celebrated by both Orthodox and Western Christians this year on April 20. The clip, which was shared by Ukrainian Telegram channels on Monday, captured performers on stage at the Portum gay club making a mockery of Asperges, the rite of sprinkling the congregation with holy water. A drag queen with fake breasts was filmed sprinkling water from a large bowl on cheering party-goers with 'Judas' by US pop star Lady Gaga playing in the background. Footage of the performance upset many Ukrainians, quickly gaining thousands of angry emoji reactions. One of the commentators branded the stage events 'a sick theater,' while another called upon God to take mercy on the entertainers. 18+Украина, Киев , 20 апреля 2025Вечеринка на Пасху в киевском гей-клубе «Портум»😳 On Good Friday, April 18, an LGBTQ film festival, Sunny Bunny, opened in Kiev, outraging many local Christians and some politicians. It is running during Easter Week and is scheduled to conclude on Friday. Last weekend, the police detained multiple people after protesters from a right-wing group, Prava Molod, clashed with police outside the event at the Zhovten movie theater. Ukrainian MP Aleksey Goncharenko branded the LGBTQ film festival 'a provocation against Ukrainian traditions, faith, and the frontline soldiers who have died with a prayer on their lips.' However, the organizers of the event have defended it, arguing that 'Ukraine is a secular state where people of different faiths and beliefs live side by side. In a secular country, a variety of events, from theater to cinema, take place on any given holiday, and Sunny Bunny is just one of them.' The LGBTQ movement has been trying to raise its profile in Ukraine amid the conflict with Russia, with the activists framing it as a statement of defiance. These groups have also launched fundraisers to purchase drones for Kiev's armed forces and encouraged supporters to contribute. Russia banned 'LGBT propaganda' in 2022 and last year designated the LGBT movement as a terrorist organization.
Yahoo
28-03-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Fozzy celebrates 25 years with concert in Springfield, MO
SPRINGFIELD, Mo. — Heavy metal band Fozzy will be hitting Springfield on their current tour. According to a Facebook post from The Riff, Fozzy will be on stage at The Riff on Thursday, April 17 at 7:00 p.m. Fozzy is celebrating their 25th anniversary with a tour across the U.S. Fozzy will be joined with special guests Lilac and The Nocturnal Affair. Tickets can be purchased here. The event is a part of Q102's Queen City Concerts Series. Fozzy's frontman—professional wrestler, actor and podcaster—Chris Jericho, is joined by Rich Ward, Billy Grey, PJ Farley, and Grant Brooks to form one of the most successful rock acts in the world today. Fozzy's website stated, 'With five consecutive TOP 20 singles, Fozzy is steadily becoming one of the most successful bands on Modern Rock Radio, with their breakthrough massive smash song 'Judas' achieving Gold Record status of 500,000 units sold in February of 2022!' Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
Telegraph
18-02-2025
- Business
- Telegraph
Heiress's parents secretly gave her £27m inheritance to ex-SAS husband
A wealthy businesswoman branded 'Judas' amid a family inheritance row was cut out of the will by her parents who secretly gave £27 million to her SAS ex-husband. Maria-Christina Copinger-Symes – who once managed Michael Hutchence's rock band INXS – is part of the Australian Perez de la Sala dynasty that made its £550 million fortune in shipping. The 54-year-old married British SAS hero, Major James Copinger-Symes, 57, in 1998 and the couple lived with their four children in Chelsea, London. They separated in 2022 with Ms Copinger-Symes agreeing to a court order to pay her former husband about £1.2 million – leaving her with between £2.5 million and £5 million from their joint fortune. But she has now successfully overturned the order after discovering that her estranged parents Bobby and Felicite Perez de la Sala sided with her ex-husband, branding her a 'Judas' and secretly giving him about £27.6 million of family money, while cutting her out. In a ruling at the Central Family Court, Judge Edward Hess ordered that the financial fallout of the divorce be reconsidered, with Ms Copinger-Symes demanding that her former spouse pay her about £14 million. The judge said: 'This is very much an exception to the normal rule that 'blood is thicker than water''. The court heard Ms Copinger-Symes is the daughter of a branch of the Australian de la Sala shipping family, with her parents owning a slice of the family fortune worth around £300 million. Ms Copinger-Symes now has lucrative business interests, including owning high-end scent and candle company Lilou et Loic. The dynasty has had multiple conflicts over the years. Ms Copinger-Symes fell out with her parents in a dispute that became so bitter that she was banned from attending her father's funeral when he died in 2022. The wider family had also been riven by a years-long court fight over their fortune. One side, headed by Ms Copinger-Symes' parents, were disputing the family wealth with her uncle Ernest. Felicite and Bobby won the case. In his ruling, Judge Hess said: 'Bobby and Felicite decided by late 2017 to withdraw all financial and emotional support for the wife. They both swore statutory declarations explaining why the wife did not feature in their respective wills.' The family argument began when Ms Copinger-Symes kept $500,000 (£396,000) from her parents 'for herself' instead of using the money to pay school fees. A 'huge row' also erupted over ownership of a family home in London in which Ms Copinger-Symes 'appear[ed] to have behaved in a hostile way to other family members', the judge said. The fallout was so acrimonious that her parents pursued 'expensive and ultimately successful litigation' against her daughter after 2017. The judge said that when Ms Copinger-Symes sided with her uncle Ernest against her parents amid the wider dynastic feud, she was labelled a 'Judas' for doing so. By contrast, the judge said, the de la Sala family's relationship with the husband was completely different. 'The family not only liked and got on well with him, but they also regarded him as having been absolutely loyal to them in the dispute with Ernest and they took his side against the wife on the divorce issues,' the judge said. 'It is common ground that the consequence of these matters was that the financial remedies proceedings between the wife and the husband were conducted against the background of the wife's very wealthy family having very negative feelings about her and very positive feelings about the husband. 'For all practical purposes, he had completely taken over her and subsumed her position as a member of the de la Sala family. This is very much an exception to the normal rule that 'blood is thicker than water'.' Ms Copinger-Symes reportedly failed to pay up after the order in March 2022, leading her former husband to 'become impatient' in December of the same year and go back to court. However, that move led to the revelation in court in 2023 that, post-settlement, Major Copinger-Symes had 'come into substantial wealth … and was, all of a sudden, a very wealthy man'. 'In due course, it emerged that the wealth had largely come from gifts totalling US$34,777,180 made by the wife's mother/parents,' said the judge. 'Perhaps it should not have done, but this information came as a horrible shock to the wife.' Ruling in favour of the wife on grounds of 'material non-disclosure', the judge said the evidence suggested the husband must have known of the financial gift before he signed the divorce settlement. 'There was a good deal of documentary evidence of the husband looking at a large number of expensive properties in Val D'Isere, London, Portugal and France from late 2020 and throughout 2021 and into early 2022,' he added. 'He variously explained that he was just a dreamer who liked looking at properties he had no intention of buying or that he would have borrowed money to make up the difference.' 'Had the husband genuinely not known anything about the likely arrival of gifts until 5 July 2022 then the case might have looked very different,' he added, going on to dismiss a bid by Ms Copinger-Symes' mother to reclaim the gifts to keep the money herself. The case will now return to the Family Court in regards to Ms Copinger-Symes' claim for £14 million.
