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XO/Republic The Weeknd rang in 2023 with some unexpected news: He now has the most-streamed song ever on Spotify. On New Year’s Eve, The Weeknd replied to a tweet informing him that Spotify’s Daily Global Chart had been updated to show that “Blinding Lights” had overtaken Ed Sheeran‘s “The Shape of You,” long the title holder. Surpassing Sheeran by 918,000 streams, […]
Kevin Mazur/Getty Images for Global Citizen Thanks to her 1994 smash holiday hit “All I Want for Christmas Is You,” Mariah Carey has extended her record-smashing reign over the Billboard Hot 100. Her song closed out 2022 as the final #1 song of the year — and the first chart-topper of 2023 by notching its fourth consecutive week at the […]
Courtesy XO Records The Weeknd reflected on his ultra busy 2022 and teased 2023 will be even greater. Taking to Instagram, the singer shared a collage of all the projects he took on over the past year. Among the many achievements he enjoyed in 2022, highlights included him releasing his Dawn FM album, his cameo on The Simpsons, launching his sold-out […]
ABC/Randy Holmes Armani White is set to ring in 2023 on ABC’s Dick Clark‘s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve with Ryan Seacrest and, while he’s excited for the main event, he predicts it’ll finally help his mom “understand” what he does for a living. “My mom doesn’t really understand my career,” he told ABC Audio during rehearsals for NYRE, adding with a laugh […]
Kevin Mazur/Getty Images for Global Citizen Mariah Carey is still processing her latest Billboard milestone. Thanks to her hit “All I Want for Christmas Is You” scoring another week at #1, she is now the first and only artist to lead the chart for 90 weeks. Mariah celebrated the new milestone on Instagram, writing, “I can’t even handle this news.. I’m […]
Columbia/Sony Music Entertainment The guy who co-wrote Mariah Carey‘s “All I Want for Christmas Is You” apparently has some issues with the way that she’s described the song’s origins and is sharing his version in a podcast. Speaking with the podcast Hot Takes & Deep Dives with Jess Rothschild, Walter Afanasieff — sometimes called Walter A — discusses his […]
Kevin Mazur/Getty Images for Global Citizen Mariah Carey‘s “All I Want for Christmas Is You” continued its reign atop the Billboard Hot 100 for an 11th week. The 1994 song has become a perennial #1 around the holidays, a trend that started in 2019. The outlet says the song returned to the top five in 2018 after Christmas music began […]