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Yahoo
17-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Morgan Wallen's ‘I'm the Problem' Spends First Two Months at No. 1 on Billboard 200
Morgan Wallen's I'm the Problem has spent its first two months on the Billboard 200 at No. 1 as the set holds atop the chart dated July 19, earning 151,000 equivalent album units in the United States in the week ending July 10 (down 12%). The album opened at No. 1 on the May 31 chart. Cumulatively, Wallen's three No. 1 albums (I'm the Problem, One Thing at a Time and Dangerous: The Double Album) have spent a total of 37 weeks at No. 1 on the Billboard 200. That sum ties him with Harry Belafonte and Drake for the fifth-most weeks at No. 1 among male artists in the history of the Billboard 200 (since it began publishing on a regular, weekly basis in March 1956). Among the gents, the leaders are: Elvis Presley (67 weeks), Garth Brooks (52), Michael Jackson (51), Elton John (39), Belafonte, Drake and Wallen (37 each). Among all artists, The Beatles have the most weeks at No. 1, with 132 across 19 No. 1 albums. More from Billboard 'KPop Demon Hunters' Soundtrack Surges to No. 2 on Billboard 200 'Been Busy': Tame Impala Teases New Music With Social Media Update Doja Cat, Tems, J Balvin & Coldplay Join Forces for Unifying FIFA Club World Cup Final Halftime Show Performance Also in the top 10 of the latest Billboard 200, the KPop Demon Hunters soundtrack hits a new peak, climbing 3-2 in its third week on the chart. Meanwhile, Toby Keith's chart-topping 35 Biggest Hits surges 43-9 in the wake of streaming gains generated by Independence Day festivities. The Billboard 200 chart ranks the most popular albums of the week in the U.S. based on multi-metric consumption as measured in equivalent album units, compiled by Luminate. Units comprise album sales, track equivalent albums (TEA) and streaming equivalent albums (SEA). Each unit equals one album sale, or 10 individual tracks sold from an album, or 3,750 ad-supported or 1,250 paid/subscription on-demand official audio and video streams generated by songs from an album. The new July 19, 2025-dated chart will be posted in full on Billboard's website on July 15. For all chart news, follow @billboard and @billboardcharts on both X, formerly known as Twitter, and Instagram. Of I'm the Problem's 151,000 equivalent album units earned in the week ending July 10, SEA units comprise 143,500 (down 12%, equaling 188.69 million on-demand official streams of the set's songs — it leads Top Streaming Albums for an eighth week), album sales comprise 6,500 (down 12% — it rises 11-5 on Top Album Sales) and TEA units comprise 1,000 (down 23%). The KPop Demon Hunters soundtrack climbs 3-2 — a new peak — in its third week, earning 75,000 equivalent album units (up 21%). It's the first soundtrack to debut in the top 10 on the Billboard 200 and then see unit increases in its second and third weeks since the Guardians of the Galaxy, Vol. 2: Awesome Mix Vol. 2 album in 2017. In the 2020s, only four soundtracks have reached the top two on the Billboard 200: KPop Demon Hunters, Wicked (which debuted and peaked at No. 2 in 2024), Barbie (also No. 2 debut and peak, in 2023) and Encanto (nine weeks at No. 1 in 2022). Of the KPop Demon Hunters soundtrack's 75,000 units earned in its third week, SEA units comprise 70,000 (up 24%, equaling 96.33 million on-demand official streams of the set's songs — it holds at No. 2 on Top Streaming Albums), album sales comprise 4,000 (down 6% — it rises 21-9 on Top Album Sales) and TEA units comprise 1,000 (up 6%). As the KPop Demon Hunters soundtrack racked up 96.33 million streams for its songs in its third week, it scores the biggest streaming week for a soundtrack in more three years. The last soundtrack to post a bigger streaming figure was Encanto, on the March 12, 2022-dated chart, when it rang up 101.16 million streams for its songs in its eighth week at No. 1 on the Billboard 200. KPop Demon Hunters premiered on June 20 in a limited theatrical release in the U.S., and on Netflix, alongside its soundtrack. In the tracking week ending July 6, KPop Demon Hunters held at No. 2 in its third week on Netflix's Top 10 Movies in United States chart. Wallen's former leader One Thing at a Time climbs 6-3 on the latest Billboard 200 (with 39,000 equivalent album units earned; down 2%); SZA's chart-topping SOS rises 7-4 (36,000; down 7%); Sabrina Carpenter's former No. 1 Short n' Sweet bumps 9-5 (35,000; up 6%); Wallen's chart-topping Dangerous: The Double Album ascends 11-6 (29,000; down 4%); Bad Bunny's former No. 1 Debí Tirar Más Fotos jumps 16-7 (nearly 29,000; up 3%); and Karol G's Tropicoqueta falls 5-8 (just under 29,000; down 29%). Toby Keith's 35 Biggest Hits returns to the top 10, rallying 43-9 with 26,000 equivalent album units earned (up 56%) following streaming gains generated by Independence Day celebrations. The album, released in 2008, hit No. 1 on the Feb. 17, 2024-dated chart in the wake of Keith's death that Feb. 5. Of 35 Biggest Hits' 26,000 units earned, SEA units comprise 24,000 (up 59%, equaling 32.93 million on-demand official streams of the set's songs — it jumps 43-11 on Top Streaming Albums). The rest of the album's 2,000 units were generated by album sales and TEA units. About one-third of the album's streams for the week were generated by Keith's 2002 No. 1 Hot Country Songs hit 'Courtesy of the Red, White and Blue (The Angry American),' which was also his most-streamed song of the week. Closing out the top 10 of the latest Billboard 200 is PARTYNEXTDOOR and Drake's former No. 1 $ome $exy $ongs 4 U, rising 17-10 with 26,000 equivalent album units earned (down 5%). Luminate, the independent data provider to the Billboard charts, completes a thorough review of all data submissions used in compiling the weekly chart rankings. Luminate reviews and authenticates data. In partnership with Billboard, data deemed suspicious or unverifiable is removed, using established criteria, before final chart calculations are made and published. 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 Solve the daily Crossword
BBC News
16-07-2025
- Business
- BBC News
Jersey Airport departure lounge overhaul to begin
A major redesign of Jersey Airport's departure lounge is set to begin next of Jersey said the project would include the addition of more food and retail shops, dedicated quiet zones, a family space and views over the plans come ahead of the opening of a new exclusive lounge area on Friday which people can pay £28 to use for 90 first phase of the departure lounge refurbishment is set to start in August, with the main construction work expected to take 14 months to complete, Ports of Jersey added. Other changes being made within the project include the removal of the airport's disruption desk, which was where passengers could get advice about delayed or cancelled back office areas are also set to be cleared out to create temporary walkways for when the main construction phase of Jersey said an area called the Sunflower Room would also be created for passengers who need a break from the noise and lights of the building. Ports of Jersey chief executive Matt Thomas said the project was a "big step" for the added: "As with any project of this scale there will be some disruption as we build a much more welcoming, efficient, and unmistakably Jersey space for travellers."We really appreciate everyone's patience and look forward to delivering something the whole island can feel proud of."The exclusive lounge is being placed on the upstairs atrium and will be run by Number One, a company who run similar facilities at other who use the lounge will be offered complimentary food and drinks, Wi-Fi and a TV sports area.
Irish Examiner
15-07-2025
- General
- Irish Examiner
Julie Jay: Want to finish your dinner when eating out with kids? Screens are often the answer
As an elder millennial, my only true religion is brunch. I love nothing more than paying €15 for eggs on toast and pretending to be impressed with a fancy flat-white when I am secretly as happy at home with my instant stuff. This coffee will be consumed from a mug with so many chips that it is effectively a petri dish at this point. Such is my grá for eating out that I have spent the guts of a mortgage deposit on hipster cafés down through the years. I will most certainly be the old woman who lived in a choux pastry. Sadly, though, my eating out has been seriously curtailed by the arrival of children, because it always ends in mayhem. From the outset, let me just say that I don't blame my kids for their inability to sit through a dinner in a restaurant. Because we don't do it often, I have yet to perfect a formula that will see us all eating a meal in peace, and because I lack the confidence in a happy outcome, we don't do it. However, when we attempt to dine out, the problem is only made worse by their lack of experience, and so the cycle continues until the children are old enough to vote. I have no shame in admitting that before having kids, I would silently judge parents who tucked into their meal while their child was immersed in an iPad. Now, I totally get it. The truth is, the screens are often a necessary tool in facilitating everyone being able to swallow their dinner without risking an unchewed vol-au-vent getting lodged in a parent's oesophagus. Of course, meals in restaurants and pubs have been attempted previously to this summer, but due to us being away from home the last couple of weeks, never have we been forced to use cutlery that wasn't our own with such frequency. With Number One full of beans and Number Two in the full throes of toddlerdom, meals out have been even more chaotic than usual. Most attempts at dining in restaurants end in me feeling utterly defeated and over-tipping to the point of near personal bankruptcy to compensate for having had to run around after a two-year-old or chase my four-year-old around the hotel foyer. It doesn't help that the kids' menu offers only plain pasta with a side of plain pasta. At home, Number One loves cheese, vegetables, and sauce, but when out and about, you'd be forgiven for thinking that he believes a 'pea' is just something you do in a bathroom after a big drink. It was ever so slightly disappointing watching other kids tuck into adventurous things from the adults' menu like tofu curry and deep-fried Camembert. At the same time, Number One voiced his disgust at his pasta arriving in the wrong shape (apparently, penne is your only man). Number Two, thankfully, gobbles up anything placed in front of him, specifically what Number One refuses. Unfortunately, he is also at that stage where he considers himself too big for the high chair but too small to attend a Junior Cert disco — an awkward phase that will last only another 12 years and has resulted in him sitting on my lap for most meals. This was fine, save for the fact he also proceeded to scoff most of my dinner, which is just as well, as it is never too late for Mammy to get a summer body. At every meal out, the two boys flanked me, and my head was going from left to right as if I were a celebrity spectator at a Wimbledon semi-final, with similar bewilderment as to what exactly was going on. On multiple occasions, Number One disappeared under the table as if he were anticipating an earthquake, with me eventually deciding to leave him down there for the duration of the meal, because nothing says 100% Irish like offering a slew of payoffs for good behaviour under the table (literally). Like most things, the more you do it, the better you get at it. I've tried everything to get the kids to sit quietly for a meal, from colouring to cars and games, but I've no choice but to accept that screens are a must for meals out. The iPads have been ordered so yesterday's disastrous breakfast in Mayo will hopefully be avoided in future. (To the waiter who served us, I'm sure we have made you question why you didn't say no to the summer job and head off to San Diego with the rest of your mates, and for that I can only apologise, and over-tip.) It feels like a failure, somehow, to accept that we need iPads to make it through dinner, but quite frankly, I am too defeated to care. This week, I voiced my concern to my mother, telling her how inept I felt in restaurants when the kids started to kick off and how my main course was stone cold by the time I got round to eating it. She insisted that anytime we were brought anywhere, as kids, we were impeccably behaved. It's even more evidence, as if needed, that as parents, we have a unique ability to repress memories and replace them with unicorns and marshmallows as the years go by. Which is why, when my own children are grown and ask how they behaved in restaurants, I will be giving them a five-star review all the way, and over-tipping waiters in the interim to buy their silence.
Irish Examiner
08-07-2025
- Climate
- Irish Examiner
Julie Jay: I'd choose Bundoran over Benidorm, even on days when rain is biblical
We are in Bundoran with extended family for the week. As we landed in Donegal, we listened to the radio, which informed us that there had been record temperatures in Spain. At least, I think that's what they were saying; it was so hard to hear over the torrential downpour that made driving conditions fairly dicey. One positive that came from lockdown (and, God knows, there were very few) is that we all fell in love with staycationing, and I can't see myself heading abroad with the children again anytime soon. As long-term readers of this column will know, we did brave 'the continent' for a holiday when I was pregnant with Number Two. I spent the week running around chasing after Number One as if I were in a Benny Hill film, and with gestational diabetes in full swing, the all-inclusive hotel buffet felt like a sick joke. As it happens, we're having a great time in Bundoran, so much so that I might never need a passport for a holiday again. We have got two days without any rain at all, which is basically the Irish equivalent of a heatwave, and Donegal might well have given Death Valley, Nevada, a run for its money as the hottest place on Earth if it weren't for the last two days of Biblical rain. It was so wet at one point that I had to purchase a waterproof Peppa Pig poncho to wear as extra protection, as my first raincoat proved insufficient to stave off a drenched knickers. That said, nothing says 'Irish holiday' like a soggy bum. The 1980s and 1990s were officially back as we tinkered with buckets and spades, went to the amusements, and even played the cardgame Snap, which kept family members entertained for all of three minutes, despite my attempts to keep the fun going (I can never accept the party is over — it's a problem). There is something endlessly comforting in regressing to a lifestyle similar to an Enid Blyton novel, knowing that nobody is being turfed off to boarding school against their will at the end of the summer holidays. Of course, it wasn't all slabs of cherry cake and jolly hockey sticks. There were terrible directions from my husband, who is riding shotgun during the holiday, and plenty of tears when Mammy tried to enforce some semblance of a bedtime routine on the first evening in Donegal. In my defence, Daddy did have an early morning the next day, so my motivations were pure. The house we were staying in was perfect for the five children and their adults; it was very high spec, with ceilings that my 6ft-plus husband couldn't even touch, making him a very happy camper. (At home, his skull is always brushing a lampshade, as we live in a very small house, or, as a real estate agent might describe it, 'quaint'). Speaking of happy campers, Number One is sleeping on an air mattress, and I managed to convince him that this technically constituted 'camping'. I'm hoping this might satisfy his desire to camp outside, which is the stuff of my nightmares, having once pitched a tent at Electric Picnic and woken up with somebody urinating outside, inches from my head. After a few days on the north-west coast, I can categorically say I would choose Bundoran over Benidorm, if only because my threats to 'sit into the car and drive home if you don't stop' are slightly more believable given that we actually have a car as a visual reminder that Mammy isn't messing around. I'm sure we will one day venture abroad for a holiday again. When we do, there are so many things I will do differently: I will pay extra for a normal departure time, check the airport we are flying out of before booking, and not even dream of heading anywhere again without strapping a package of Barry's teabags to my husband's person or sewing them into the lining of our suitcase. The major plus of going abroad is obviously the weather, but given that we are a family of snowmen, I don't think we can expect to go much more than a slightly pinker shade of blue in sunny conditions. The closest we came to a family tan this week was when Number One discovered my bronzer on the third day of the holiday. Despite a few scrubs, he is still pretty shimmery, which on the plus side makes him pretty easy to locate in the Bundoran arcade, where he is the only child who glistens by the slot machines. The days have been pretty idyllic, bar anytime our toddler is awake and indoors (the contents of every cabinet are a potential trip to Letterkenny University Hospital because they are packed with choking hazards galore. The toddler phase in non-babyproofed Airbnb kitchens is not for the faint of heart). Yesterday, we made it to the beach, and, at the end of the day, wrapped in a shark towel and eating pizza, flanked by his two older cousins, Number One whispered to me that this was 'The best day ever'. He then proceeded to make a break for the car park, as he is a perpetual flight risk, even on his own home turf. It's another reason I would choose Bundoran over Benidorm every time: Sideways rain beats a 46-degree heatwave any day of the week. If for no other reason, running in the rain always looks far more dramatic, especially when wearing a Peppa Pig poncho.
Business Recorder
04-07-2025
- Sport
- Business Recorder
Kartal wins nine games in a row to claim biggest win of her life
LONDON: Britain's Sonay Kartal surged into the fourth round of Wimbledon for the first time on Friday with a remarkable turnaround performance against French qualifier Diane Parry as she won nine games in a row to come from 4-1 down to triumph 6-4 6-2. Parry, who hammered 12th seed Diana Shnaider in the last round, was in control early on but the Briton eventually got to grips with the challenge and, roared on by a partisan Number One court crowd, began an unstoppable comeback that secured the first set and put her 4-0 up in the second. Parry's spirit seemed to have disappeared along with her accuracy and the 23-year-old battling Briton took full advantage with a relentless forehand fusillade to claim the biggest victory of her injury-hit career. 'I think everyone saw that I started off pretty nervous – it's definitely the biggest and most meaningful stage that I've played on,' Kartal said. 'I've got a lot of people here and I really wanted to do them proud and do myself proud.' When Kartal upset 20th seed Jelena Ostapenko in the first round on Monday it launched a great day for Britain with an Open Era record seven players advancing, and another three on Tuesday. Djokovic passes Muller test to reach Wimbledon second round Four days later only her and Emma Raducanu and Cameron Norrie remain, and the former US Open champion and regular junior rival of Kartal's faces a huge challenge to also progress to the fourth when she faces world number one Aryna Sabalenka later. For a while it did not look as if Kartal would have a chance of making a first Grand Slam last 16 appearance as Parry made a composed and confident start. The Frenchwoman's low, skiddy backhand slice proved really challenging for the diminutive Briton and she was looking in command at 4-1 up. Parry then saved three break points in the sixth game, only for Kartal to succeed on a fourth and that proved the turning point of the entire match. With the crowd loving the fightback she looked visibly lifted and more mobile and set about a remarkable run of games, hitting harder and deeper and forcing Parry into ever-more desperate defence. In a flash she had claimed the set and was 4-0 up in the second and, even though Parry eventually stemmed the flow, it was merely a delay in proceedings. Kartal has enjoyed a great year and will now move into the world's top 50, saying consistency has been the key. 'I was doing a lot of good things on the practice court and I was playing with a lot of freedom and I always trusted that eventually it would transfer onto the match court,' she said. 'With every match, every week that I'm playing the bigger events, I'm growing more confident as a player and as a person.'
