Bulletin YOUR DAILY ENTERTAINMENT NEWS UPDATE MAY 3, 2021 Page 1 of 28 INSIDE The Weeknd & Ariana Grande’s • Moneybagg Yo Earns First No. 1 ‘Save Your Tears’ Soars to No. 1 Album on Billboard 200 Chart With on Billboard Hot 100 ‘A Gangsta’s Pain’ • Square Finalizes BY GARY TRUST Tidal Acquisition he Weeknd and Ariana Grande’s “Save all versions combined, drew 30.4 million U.S. streams • Recording Academy Your Tears” bounds from No. 6 to No. 1 (up 111%) and sold 18,000 downloads (up 265%) in Votes to End Grammy Nomination for its first week atop the Billboard Hot the week ending April 29, according to MRC Data, as Review Committees 100 songs chart. The track, originally re- it wins the Hot 100’s top Streaming and Sales Gainer Tleased solely by The Weeknd on his 2020 album After awards. It also attracted 67.3 million radio airplay au- • What New Hours, reigns following the first week of tracking for dience impressions (up 5%) in the week ending May 2. Grammy Rules Mean for Latin its remix with Grande. The track blasts 19-1 on the Digital Song Music & The Latin The song marks the sixth Hot 100 No. 1 each for Sales chart and 17-2 on Streaming Songs and holds at Grammys: Analysis The Weeknd and Grande (the latter of whom is cred- No. 2 on Radio Songs. Grande adds her eighth Digital ited on the track on the chart for the first time, as the Song Sales No. 1 and The Weeknd scores his sixth. • Warner Music Invests in Wave new version drew the majority of the title’s overall The Weeknd’s sixth Hot 100 No. 1: Here’s a recap to Create Virtual activity in the tracking week). of The Weeknd’s six Hot 100 No. 1s. Music Experiences The Hot 100 blends all-genre U.S. streaming (of- “Can’t Feel My Face,” three weeks at No. 1, begin- ficial audio and official video), radio airplay and sales ning Aug. 22, 2015 • Twitter Spaces Launches Wide, data. All charts (dated May 8) will update on Bill- “The Hills,” six weeks, Oct. 3, 2015 With Ticketing board.com tomorrow (May 4). For all chart news, you “Starboy,” feat. Daft Punk, one week, Jan. 7, 2017 Coming Soon can follow @billboard and @billboardcharts on both “Heartless,” one week, Dec. 14, 2019 Twitter and Instagram. “Blinding Lights,” four weeks, April 4, 2020 • Broadway Can Reopen on May “Save Your Tears,” released on XO/Republic Records, “Save Your Tears,” with Ariana Grande, one week (to- 19, New York Gov. is the 1,123rd No. 1 in the Hot 100’s 62-year history. date), May 8, 2021 Andrew Cuomo Says Streams, sales & airplay: Following the April 23 Albums with three No. 1s: With “Heartless,” “Blind- release of its remix with Grande, “Save Your Tears,” (continued) 250 SPEAKERS FREE FESTIVAL REGISTER TODAY TIMBALAND MERCK MERCURIADIS NILE RODGERS CHRIS BLACKWELL BUFFY SAINTE-MARIE DEBRA RATHWELL Award-Winning Record GRAMMY®-Winning Founder, Singer, Songwriter CEO/Founder ® EVP, Global Touring & Producer, Rapper, DJ, Composer, Producer, Island Records Oscar -Winning Composer Singer, and Songwriter Hipgnosis Songs Ltd. Arranger and Guitarist Talent, AEG Presents 2021 NOEL SCHAJRIS 20TH ANNIVERSARY TRIBUTE Latin Grammy winner, singer, songwriter and pianist Noel CONTACTS Schajris, has sold more than 25 million records and 1 million tickets since his first solo album 20 years ago, some Joe Maimone of his songs and albums had been appeared at the 201.301.5933 | [email protected] Billboard’s top ten charts. He has earned international Lee Ann Photoglo success with the legendary duet Sin Bandera where he 615.376.7931 | [email protected] and Leonel Garcia created some of the biggest hits in Spanish music history. Cynthia Mellow 615.352,0265 | [email protected] His music videos have more than 700 million views and his social media includes 9.5 million followers from more than Marcia Olival 15 countries. As a recording artist, he has sung duets with 786.586.4901 | [email protected] John Legend, Brian Mcknight, Luis Fonsi, and Reik, just to Ryan O’Donnell name a few. +447843437176 | [email protected] In 2020 he released the unique web www.NoelSchajris.fan which includes an online store, a fan subscription service and online shows . Mr. Schajris is considered to be one of the most important and celebrated artists in Latin music. ISSUE DATE 5/15 | AD CLOSE 5/5 | MATERIALS DUE 5/6 Page 3 of 28 IN BRIEF ing Lights” and “Save Your Tears” all origi- generated three No. 1s credited only to Adele, don, Ontario) and The Weeknd (Toronto), nally released on The Weeknd’s album After Bieber and Drake, respectively. whom Drake, of course, helped introduce, Hours, the set is the first to spin off three Albums with three No. 1s … in 3 distinct each led for the first time in 2015. Hot 100 No. 1s since Drake’s Scorpion, which years: Much rarer, After Hours’ three Hot Ariana Grande’s sixth Hot 100 No. yielded the leaders “God’s Plan,” “Nice for 100 No. 1s have led in three distinct years: 1: Like The Weeknd, Grande notches her What” and “In My Feelings” in 2018. “Heartless” in 2019, “Blinding Lights” in sixth Hot 100 leader. Here’s a recap. Released in March 2020, After Hours is the 2020 and now “Save Your Tears” in 2021. “Thank U Next,” seven weeks at No. 1, first album released in the ‘20s to generate a Only one other album has achieved the beginning Nov. 17, 2018 trio of Hot 100 leaders. Six albums released honor: Janet Jackson’s Rhythm Nation 1814. “7 Rings,” eight weeks, Feb. 2, 2019 in the ‘10s each produced at least three, When “Love Will Never Do (Without You),” “Stuck With U,” with Justin Bieber, one including Scorpion. Katy Perry’s Teenage the seventh single from Jackson’s 1989 set, week, May 23, 2020 Dream, from 2010, became the first, reeling hit No. 1 on the Hot 100 dated Jan. 19, 1991, “Rain on Me,” with Lady Gaga, one week, off a record-tying five in 2010-11: “California Paul Grein noted its historic nature in that June 6, 2020 Gurls,” featuring Snoop Dogg; the title track; issue’s Chart Beat column: “It makes Rhythm “Positions,” one week, Nov. 7, 2020 “Firework”; “E.T.,” featuring Kanye West; and Nation the first album to spawn No. 1 hits in “Save Your Tears,” with The Weeknd, one “Last Friday Night (T.G.I.F.)” three calendar years. ‘Miss You Much’ topped week (to-date), May 8, 2021 The other sets released in the ‘10s the chart in 1989 (and) ‘Escapade’ and ‘Black (Notably, “Save Your Tears” is Grande’s first with three Hot 100 No. 1s each: Rihan- Cat’ scored in 1990.” Hot 100 No. 1 that didn’t debut in the top spot. na’s Loud (“What’s My Name?,” featur- Most No. 1s by Canadians: As The She is the only artist with as many as five No. ing Drake, “Only Girl (In the World)” and Weeknd adds his sixth Hot 100 No. 1, he 1 debuts on the chart, as well as the only act “S&M,” featuring Britney Spears, 2010-11); moves closer to the record for the most whose first five leaders entered at the summit, Adele’s 21 (“Rolling in the Deep,” “Some- among Canadians, whose leaderboard has a streak that, thus, ends this week.) one Like You” and “Set Fire to the Rain,” been overhauled in recent years. Just duet: Grande’s latest Hot 100 leader 2011-12); Taylor Swift’s 1989 (“Shake It Off,” Here is an updated rundown of Canadian makes her own history, as she becomes the “Blank Space” and “Bad Blood,” featur- artists with the most Hot 100 No. 1s: first woman with three No. 1 duets (count- ing Kendrick Lamar, 2014-15); and Justin 8, Drake ing songs by two soloists, both in lead roles, Bieber’s Purpose (“What Do You Mean?,” 7, Justin Bieber not known for regularly recording together). “Sorry” and “Love Yourself,” 2015-16). 6, The Weeknd “Save Your Tears,” with The Weeknd, fol- Of the seven albums above, After 4, Bryan Adams lows “Rain on Me,” with Lady Gaga, and Hours is the fourth with three or more 4, Celine Dion “Stuck With U,” with Justin Bieber. Hot 100 No. 1s thanks to a remix of a 3, Nelly Furtado Overall, Grande joins the elite company single adding another artist, joining Teenage 2, Paul Anka of a Beatle, as only one other act has led Dream (“E.T.”), Loud (“S&M”) and 1989 (“Bad Drake, from Toronto, achieved his first the Hot 100 with three co-billed duets Blood”). 21, Purpose and Scorpion each Hot 100 No. 1 in 2010, while Bieber (Lon- with other soloists: Paul McCartney, with AUTHORITATIVE INTELLIGENCE. DELIVERED DIGITALLY. CLICK HERE FOR FREE DELIVERY DIGITAL NEWSLETTERS 2021 PRIDE On June 5th, Billboard will publish its 3rd annual CONTACTS Pride issue honoring culturally moving and Joe Maimone influential people who have contributed to the 201.301.5933 | [email protected] community’s history and its current landscape. 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