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John Mayer Returns to No. 1 on Adult Alternative Airplay Chart With ‘Last Train Home’

John Mayer Returns to No. 1 on Adult Alternative Airplay Chart With ‘Last Train Home’

John Mayer leads Billboard’s Adult Alternative Airplay chart for the first time since 2009, as “Last Train Home” rolls to No. 1 on the ranking dated Aug. 21. “Train” is Mayer’s seventh Adult Alternative Airplay No. 1. He logged his first six in the 2000s, starting with his breakthrough hit “No Such Thing” in 2001.

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Sam Hunt Pleads Guilty to DUI Charges, Will Spend 48 Hours in ‘Alternate Sentencing Facility’

Sam Hunt Pleads Guilty to DUI Charges, Will Spend 48 Hours in ‘Alternate Sentencing Facility’

Sam Hunt has pleaded guilty to misdemeanor driving under the influence charges in Tennessee’s Davidson County Circuit Court,  stemming from a 2019 DUI arrest in Nashville. Hunt pleaded guilty on two counts of DUI Wednesday (Aug. 18) and will spend 48 hours in the “alternate sentencing facility” DUI Education Centers, according to The Tennessean. The

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The Weeknd’s ‘Thursday’ Mixtape Lands on Streaming Services for 10th Anniversary

The Weeknd’s ‘Thursday’ Mixtape Lands on Streaming Services for 10th Anniversary

On Wednesday (Aug. 18), The Weeknd released his second mixtape Thursday on streaming services in honor of its 10th anniversary. The Canadian-Ethiopian superstar shared a video — soundtracked by Thursday’s title track — of multicolored balloons flooding outside of a door on his Instagram Story, which revealed that the original version of the nine-track tape was now available on

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Barbra Streisand Makes Chart History With ‘Release Me 2′ Billboard 200 Debut

Barbra Streisand Makes Chart History With ‘Release Me 2′ Billboard 200 Debut

Barbra Streisand adds another chapter to her storied Billboard chart career, as her latest album, Release Me 2, debuts at No. 15 on the Billboard 200 chart (dated Aug. 21). With the debut, she becomes the only woman with new top 20 — or even top 40 — albums in every decade from the 1960s

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Melvin Crispell III Tops Gospel Airplay Chart With Song Written by His Dad Nearly 30 Years Ago

Melvin Crispell III Tops Gospel Airplay Chart With Song Written by His Dad Nearly 30 Years Ago

Melvin Crispell III scores his first No. 1 on Billboard’s Gospel Airplay chart (dated Aug. 21) as his debut single, “Wonderful Is Your Name,” ascends to No. 1 in its 28th week on the list. In the tracking week ending Aug. 15, the song gained by 17% in plays, according to MRC Data. “Wonderful” was

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How Risky Are Concerts? We Asked an Infectious Disease Expert

How Risky Are Concerts? We Asked an Infectious Disease Expert

For a year and a half during the pandemic, concerts seemed more dangerous than just about any other setting. Then came vaccines, and shows trickled back, from Madison Square Garden to Red Rocks Amphitheatre — until the fast-spreading delta variant ripped through a Netherlands festival, leading to 1,000 infections, and the Foo Fighters postponed a show after a

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Maroon 5 Will Be First Major US Act to Perform in Canada After Border Reopening

Maroon 5 Will Be First Major US Act to Perform in Canada After Border Reopening

Maroon 5 will keep a scheduled Sept. 2 date at Budweiser Stage in Toronto after the land border between Canada and the U.S. reopened last week to fully vaccinated Americans and permanent residents, Billboard has learned. After being closed to non-essential travelers since March 18, 2020, the newly re-opened border means U.S. acts can finally

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Carrie Underwood Faces Backlash For Liking Tweet Rejecting Nashville School Mask Mandates

Carrie Underwood Faces Backlash For Liking Tweet Rejecting Nashville School Mask Mandates

Carrie Underwood is facing backlash for liking a tweet by a conservative podcaster who spoke out against mask mandates for schoolchildren at a Nashville School Board meeting. In the tweets video, conservative podcaster Matt Walsh lashed out at authorities for what he said was their decision that kids should “go to school all day every

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Garth Brooks Cancels Next Five Stadium Shows Citing COVID-19 Concerns: ‘We Are Still in the Fight’

Garth Brooks Cancels Next Five Stadium Shows Citing COVID-19 Concerns: ‘We Are Still in the Fight’

Citing concerns about the surge in COVID-19 cases across the country, Garth Brooks has canceled the next five cities on his stadium tour a month after he had returned to the road. The five concert locations being canceled are Paul Brown Stadium in Cincinnati (Sept. 18), Bank of America Stadium in Charlotte (Sept. 25), M&T Bank

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