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Yahoo
23-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
MOLIY & Silent Addy's ‘Shake It to the Max' Hits No. 1 on the U.S. Afrobeats Songs Chart
The Billboard U.S. Afrobeats Songs chart welcomes a new No. 1 – and first new leader of 2025 – as MOLIY, Silent Addy, Skillibeng and Shenseea's 'Shake It to the Max (FLY)' remix rises from the runner-up spot to rule the list dated May 17. With its ascent, 'Shake It to the Max' unseats Tyla's 'Push 2 Start' from the summit after the latter's domination for 20 consecutive frames. As 'Push 2 Start' began its run on the final chart of 2024 (Dec. 28), it was, until this week, the only song to reign on U.S. Afrobeats Songs this year. More from Billboard New Around the World: Amaarae, Moliy & Kali Uchis Cash In on Global Charts Andy Bell Confirms His Place in Reunited Oasis Lineup Snoop Dogg Drops 'Iz It a Crime' Album Featuring Sexyy Red, Wiz Khalifa & Pharrell: Stream It Now 'Shake It to the Max' was first released in November 2024 with MOLIY and producer Silent Addy as credited artists on the track. The song generated momentum through social media after its remix dropped in March, which added Skillibeng and Shenseea to the tune, and sparked a viral dance challenge. (All versions are combined into one listing for data reporting and chart rankings.) For its coronation on the sales and streaming-based U.S. Afrobeats Songs chart, 'Shake It to the Max' registered 2.9 million official U.S. streams and 500 sales downloads in the tracking week of May 2-8, according to Luminate. Thanks to the new champ, all four artists achieve a first No. 1 on the U.S. Afrobeats Songs chart. MOLIY and Silent Addy realize the feat with their maiden entries on the list, while Skillibeng and Shenseea each top the chart on their third visit. Skillibeng previously earned a No. 3 best in April 2024 for 'Jump' with Tyla and Gunna; Shenseea, as a featured act on Fireboy DML and Chris Brown's 'Diana,' previously reached a No. 17 peak. In addition to its viral success, the song is making inroads in the U.S. radio landscape. The single jumps 33-26 in its third week on the Rhythmic Airplay chart with a 48% jump in plays for the tracking week compared with the week prior, and debuts at No. 34 on Mainstream R&B/Hip-Hop Airplay (up 53%). Stateside gains mirror the song's wide international appeal. It improves on both the Billboard Global 200 (136-111 and Billboard Global Excl. U.S. charts (95-81), while the song's original version tops the U.K.'s Official Afrobeats Chart for a seventh consecutive week. 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
Hindustan Times
26-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Hindustan Times
Is that Shedeur Sanders and Shenseea? Alleged party video sparks dating rumors
The Cleveland Browns selected quarterback Shedeur Sanders in the fifth round of the 2025 NFL Draft on Saturday, picking him 144th overall after a trade with the Philadelphia Eagles. Sanders had unexpectedly slid past the first three rounds of the draft. Amid the draft drama, a video allegedly showing Sanders partying with Jamaican singer Shenseea surfaced online, quickly sparking dating rumors. Although has not independently verified the video's authenticity, the clip was enough to send social media into a frenzy, with fans speculating about a possible romance between the two. 'Shedeur got Shenseea boy already won,' one person wrote on X. Another wrote, 'Shenseea and Shedeur???? I did not see that on my list....' A third person commented, 'Shedeur Sanders is with Shenseea, in my eyes he already got drafted to the right team and he already got a ring with no snaps.' Another person wrote, 'Bro had Shenseea at has draft day party and they didn't draft him. Smfh. I'd make every NFL team that passed on me PAY for the rest of my career.' This isn't the first time Sanders has made headlines for his personal life. In 2023, he was romantically linked to 'Euphoria' actress Storm Reid after the pair attended a red carpet event together. Shedeur Sanders began his college football career at Jackson State, where he played under his father, NFL Hall of Famer Deion Sanders. He was then transferred to Colorado. In 2024, he was named a Second Team All-American and the Big 12 Offensive Player of the Year. On Saturday, Sander was picked by the Cleveland Browns. He is the second QB the Browns selected in the 2025 draft, joining Oregon's Dillon Gabriel. "We felt like he was a good solid prospect at the most important position." Browns Executive Vice President and General Manager Andrew Berry said after Sanders' pick. "We view him as a highly accurate pocket passer who does a good job of taking care of the excited to work with him."
New York Times
31-01-2025
- Entertainment
- New York Times
The Weeknd's Gloomy but Glittering Pop, and 9 More New Songs
Every Friday, pop critics for The New York Times weigh in on the week's most notable new tracks. Listen to the Playlist on Spotify here (or find our profile: nytimes) and at Apple Music here, and sign up for The Amplifier, a twice-weekly guide to new and old songs. The Weeknd's quest for the ultimate combination of pop formula and self-destructive misery continues in 'Cry for Me' from his new album, 'Hurry Up Tomorrow.' The song is a suicide note left as a voice message: 'I can see myself and I'm not breathing,' he sings. 'At least you'll play a song when I'm gone.' There's a trap beat, minor-key synthesizers, bits of distorted guitar and pitch-shifted vocals, spanning genres but still sounding oh so alone. 'Gimme some room to breathe — I just need some space from you,' the Jamaican singer Shenseea tells a far too possessive partner in 'Puni Police.' The production by Di Genius has sirens cruising behind a crisp dancehall beat while Shenseea sings and raps about someone who's suspicious enough to track her 'location, AirTaggin' on my purse.' It's counterproductive, of course: 'You can't stop me from cheat if I want cheat,' she warns. The K-pop star Jennie, from Blackpink, coos, 'I swore I'd never do it again — until you came over,' with a sly tone that mixes a lot of satisfaction with just a tinge of regret. Her partner, Dominic Fike, raps about how he's ducking his responsibilities as a 'baby father.' But the easy swagger of the beat and the cushiony backup vocals suggest that the hookups will continue. In 2009, before hyperpop had a name, Sleigh Bells — the duo of Alexis Krauss and Derek Miller — were already slamming together power-chord riffs, drum-machine eruptions, synthesizer swoops, perky pop melodies and arena-sized choruses in explosive, catchy non sequiturs. 'Wanna Start a Band?' deploys all those devices, and more, for a song that couples sonic ambushes with a touch of well-earned nostalgia: 'Come and blow the world away / Talk about the good old days,' Krauss sings, in a brief interlude of gentleness. 'Take it apart and build it again,' sing the songwriters and vocalists in Momma, Allegra Weingarten and Etta Friedman. What they've rebuilt in this track is the layered guitars, effects and voices of 1990s rock, from bands like the Breeders, Dinosaur Jr. and Pixies: multitracking, distortion, echo-delays, reversed riffs, all of them stacked and restacked. The song exults in an infidelity that's also a reunion: 'Do you think she knows we're back together?' It equates a musical revival with a rekindled romance. Will Oldham, who records as Bonnie 'Prince' Billy, calmly ponders mortality in 'Turned to Dust (Rolling On)' from a new album full of grizzled, philosophical songs, 'The Purple Bird.' Recorded with seasoned Nashville sideman, the countryish, organ-infused march 'Turned to Dust,' notes, 'It won't be long till we're gone' and observes, 'When I see the things that man can do / It makes this poor heart break.' The song takes comfort in simple perseverance, in rolling on, but the shakiness in Oldham's voice leaves room for doubts. Alison Krauss has reconvened her string-centered band, Union Station, for their first album together since 2011; 'Arcadia' is due in March. 'Looks like the End of the Road,' written by Jeremy Lister, is a mournful farewell to 'the world that I know,' a waltz carrying lyrics of misfortune and betrayal. The bitterness is only heightened by the purity of Krauss's voice, answered by Jerry Douglas's measured, melodic slide-guitar solos. The polymorphous English band Black Country, New Road has been through major upheavals. Its lead singer, Isaac Wood, abruptly left the group days before the release of its 2022 album, 'Ants From Up There,' so the band introduced brand-new material on its subsequent tour. The violinist and guitarist Georgia Ellery takes lead vocals on 'Besties,' which fast-forwards through meters, keys and styles — Baroque harpsichord, march, waltz, music-hall bounce, jazzy dissonances — as Ellery sings about fluctuating relationships, songwriting, TikTok and persistent need: 'I know I want something more.' Lucrecia Dalt brings her skills as a soundtrack composer to her songs, conjuring spaces and moods with her sound designs. In 'Cosa Rara' ('Strange Thing'), she sings in Spanish about 'the rhythm of desire' over percussion that evokes Afro-Colombian traditions and samples that emerge from shadowy places. At the end, the song downshifts to half speed and takes on some dub echoes as none other than the art-rocker David Sylvian, who was in the new wave band Japan, recites a somber coda: 'I'm vulnerable and I know it / Is that door locked?' The Congolese musician Jupiter Bokondji and his band, Jupiter & Okwess, bring echoes of funk, psychedelia and salsa to their unmistakably African rock. 'Les Bons Comptes' ('The Good Accounts') — a song denouncing deadbeats from the new album 'Ekoya' — goes bounding ahead with wiry guitar hooks, a parade of lead vocals and a groove that could go on much longer.
