Month: August 2024

Every week, Billboard unveils the top 10 songs on the latest Hot 100 chart. The most recent rankings, for the chart dated August 31, are out now, so let’s run down who had this week’s biggest hits.

10. Teddy Swims — “Lose Control”

After leading for a week in March, Swims is starting to lose control of his top-10 status as “Lose Control” rounds out this week’s rank.

9. Sabrina Carpenter — “Please Please Please”

June was major for former No. 1 single “Please Please Please,” and Carpenter’s hit still doing fine in August as it hangs around the top 10.

8. Tommy Richman — “Million Dollar Baby”

In addition to sticking around in the top 10, “Million Dollar Baby” is No. 1 on the Hot R&B Songs chart for a 17th week.

7. Sabrina Carpenter — “Espresso”

“Espresso” experienced a bit of a caffeine crash this week, dipping from No. 4 to No. 7.

6. Chappell Roan — “Good Luck, Babe!”

Roan’s hit previously hit a high of No. 1, and after falling down to No. 7, it’s back at its personal best rank.

5. Billie Eilish — “Birds Of A Feather”

“Birds Of A Feather” previously topped out at No. 5, a spot it hangs onto this week.

4. Kendrick Lamar — “Not Like Us”

Lamar’s hit Drake diss is No. 1 on the Hot Rap Songs chart for a 15th week and the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs for a 13th week.

3. Lady Gaga and Bruno Mars — “Die With A Smile”

The biggest debut of the week goes to Gaga and Mars’ new collaboration, making it Mars’ 19th top-10 hit and Gaga’s 18th.

2. Post Malone — “I Had Some Help” Feat. Morgan Wallen

A day after Malone’s new album F-1 Trillion debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 albums chart, the hit Wallen collab is still nailing it on the Hot 100.

1. Shaboozey — “A Bar Song (Tipsy)”

Last week, “A Bar Song (Tipsy)” tied “I Had Some Help” for the longest chart-topping reign of 2024 so far. Well, Shaboozey is No. 1 again this week, so it’s now the longest-running No. 1 single of 2024 as of this week.

The Dallas Cowboys spent all of training camp and preseason without their top offensive weapon, as CeeDee Lamb held out seeking a new contract extension that would pay him like one of the NFL’s best receivers. Lamb had considerable leverage, as a year ago he led the NFL in receptions with 135 and racked up 1.749 yards and 12 touchdowns, accounting for more than a third of Dallas’ receiving production.

However, with Dak Prescott also waiting on a new contract and other top players like Micah Parsons needing a big payday soon, the Cowboys weren’t interested in moving quickly on Lamb’s deal — with Jerry Jones not helping matters by calling Lamb’s contract “not a priority.” As such, they got all the way through the final week of the preseason before working out a new deal with Lamb that guarantees him $100 million over a new 4-year deal that could be worth up to $136 million.

Lamb gets the top end money he was looking for, with a record-breaking $38 million signing bonus, and allowed the Cowboys to come to the realization they needed to get him paid and on the field to have a chance at reaching their lofty goals for the upcoming season. With Lamb’s deal done, all eyes will be on how Prescott performs this year and what happens with him next offseason, when he can test the free agency waters. He figures to command $50 million per year, but exactly how high his next contract goes will depend on whether he and the Cowboys can finally make some playoff noise.

Before there was A Quiet Place, there was A Loud Place known as New York City, filled with the sound of sirens and crowds all saying “Hey I’m walkin’ here!” In A Quiet Place: Day One, we learn the origins of the alien invasion that lead to A Quiet Place and all of that silence.

Day One tells the story of the initial chaos a year prior to the start of the first film, which starred John Krasinski and Emily Blunt. The prequel stars Lupita Nyong’o and Joseph Quinn as Sam and Eric, two stranger who band together during the invasion, along with a fluffy orange cat.

While working on the movie, Nyong’o overcame her fear of cats and even wound up adopting one thanks to her bond with the cat actors. “Paramount was kind enough to hire a cat trainer to meet me before I got to the production and helped me get over my fear, just through exposure and asking questions, [like] ‘Why is that cat rubbing himself on that furniture like that?’” she told Variety. “Very slowly, I was able to grow with courage and touch them and before long, I could hold them.”

The movie hit theaters in June, and now it’s heading to stream so you can watch Nyong’o fall in love with cats in real time. A Quiet Place: Day One will stream on Paramount+ on Tuesday, August 27th in the U.S. and Canada. Both A Quiet Place and A Quiet Place Part II are streaming on Paramount+ so you can crank out a whole quiet marathon before adopting your own cat.

Thor ditched his hammer for… drumsticks?

Ed Sheeran has been grinding out his headlining Mathematics Tour since April 2022, but he’s still finding ways to keep it fresh. On Saturday, August 24, Sheeran hit Arena Națională in Bucharest, Romania, and he brought a friend.

In a video posted by Ed Sheeran HQ, Sheeran is shown standing next to Chris Hemsworth backstage.

“Basically, what’s happened is Chris emailed me last December saying he’s doing a documentary on cognitive health and the benefits of learning [an] instrument,” the four-time Grammy winner explained. “He came to visit me, and he has learned drums. He’s coming on stage in front of 70,000 [people].”

Hemsworth chimed in, “I’ve been thinking about it a lot. It’ll be nice to put this one to bed.”

The video shows footage of Sheeran informing the crowd that they had unknowingly been treated to the drumming of Hemsworth “for the whole time” before performing “Thinking Out Loud.” Afterward, Sheeran complimented Hemsworth’s outing and presented him with a silver trophy — “a participation award” for “drumming excellence.”

In November 2022, Hemsworth opened up to Vanity Fair about discovering he possessed to copies of the APOE4 gene, which is linked to increased risk of Alzheimer’s, while Hemsworth was working on Limitless for National Geographic. Unfortunately, the aggregation machine grabbed hold and perpetuated misinformation that the 41-year-old Australian actor had been diagnosed with dementia, which Hemsworth addressed with Vanity Fair earlier this year.

“It really kind of pissed me off because it felt like I had been vulnerable with something personal and shared this,” Hemsworth told the publication. “No matter how much I said ‘This is not a death sentence,’ tthe story became that I have dementia and I’m reconsidering life and retiring and so on.”

Rather than retire, Hemsworth decided to learn an entirely new skill and, apparently, head up a documentary.

Ever since Ted Lasso season 3 wrapped up in May 2023, there’s been the question of whether that was the season or series finale. It’s beginning to look like the former: Variety reports that the soccer comedy is “heading towards a season 4 greenlight” after Warner Bros. Television picked up the options for stars Hannah Waddingham (Rebecca Welton), Brett Goldstein (Roy Kent), and Jeremy Swift (Leslie Higgins).

But what about the rest of the cast, including Ted Lasso himself, Jason Sudeikis? It’s likely he’ll be “involved in the revival in some capacity,” although maybe only as an executive producer. The status of Brendan Hunt (Coach Beard) and Juno Temple (Keeley Jones) is currently unknown, but it doesn’t sound like Phil Dunster (Jamie Tart) will be back due to scheduling conflicts with a pair of other series, Prime Video’s The Devil’s Hour and Apple’s Surface.

It’s important to note that Apple TV+ hasn’t officially announced a fourth season of Ted Lasso yet, but if it does happen, here’s what the cast reportedly looks like as of this moment:

In

Brett Goldstein
Jeremy Swift
Hannah Waddingham

Out

Phil Dunster

Maybe

Brendan Hunt
Jason Sudeikis
Juno Temple

Hunt previously told Entertainment Weekly that he and co-creators Jason Sudeikis, Bill Lawrence (who is awfully busy), and Joe Kelly always meant for Ted Lasso to last three seasons. “I think it would be pretty cool if, in the face of how much everyone likes this show, that we stick to our guns and really just do three seasons,” he said. “But even as committed to that idea as Jason may have been, none of us were prepared to the degree to which people love this show.” Without more Ted Lasso, the Funko Pop industry will crater!

Parachute pants are intrinsically tied to the history of hip-hop. The rise of these lightweight, flowy, ripstop nylon pants travels in a parallel track with the rise of rap music, being the chosen garment of NYC b-boys and b-girls in the early ‘80s and solidifying itself as the look of hip-hop by 1990 when M.C. Hammer dropped his infectious hit, “U Can’t Touch This.” Hell, you could make the argument that this website, UPROXX, might go under a different name if it wasn’t for parachute pants and the rich history of b-boys and b-girls (for those who don’t know, uprocking is a type of competitive street dance that originated in NYC in the ’80s).

Before streetwear was a marketable term and the dominating aesthetic of modern fashion, parachute pants were there, laying the groundwork. Simply put, streetwear in 2024, with its loose silhouettes, its comfort-focused fits, its perfect synthesis of fashion-forward ideas and utilitarian functionality, wouldn’t look the way it does without the parachute pants era of the 1980s.

As is always the case with fashion, trends are cyclical, and as a new generation of fashionistas has begun to embrace baggy fits comes the resurgence of the parachute pants, and Under Armour’s Unstoppable Collection, with its subtle modernization of the form, proves that they are looking better than ever.

From its origins with military paratroopers to the way breakdancers reshaped, repurposed, and reinvigorated the garment, parachute pants have had quite a fascinating ride. These two pieces from the UA Unstoppable Collection feel like a long-overdue victory lap for the pants that arguably started streetwear. But UA didn’t just bring back an old classic, they outfitted the parachute pants with the sort of forward-thinking approach to tech that makes the brand so beloved. Let’s talk about why they are some of our current favorites.

Women’s UA Unstoppable Ripstop Parachute Pants

Price: $100

The Women’s UA Unstoppable Ripstop Parachute Pants are very much designed with functionality and fashion in mind. The pants can be worn from the field to the street, offering four-way stretch material for mobility, and water-repelling UA Strom technology, but also combine a fashion-forward loose full cut with bungee adjustments at the waistband and bottom hem for a customized fit.

Pick up a pair of Women’s UA Unstoppable Ripstop Parachute Pants here.

Women’s Unstoppable Vent Parachute Pants

Price: $75.97 (Taupe Dusk)/ $100 (Black)

The Vent Parachute Pants feel like a more radical take on the design than the Ripstop version. The silhouette here is comfortably oversized, offering a more eye-catching shape that looks made for hip-hop dance choreography. The oversized fit is streamlined with bungee adjustments at the hem and an internal drawcord with an elastic waistband. We think the pants look best with the hem’s adjustment fully relaxed, giving you that shoe-shrouding look.

Because this is part of UA’s Unstoppable collection, you know you’ll be well-equipped with moisture-wicking, quick dry tech and four-way stretch material for ultimate mobility. Unlike the Ripstop version, the Vent features two colorway options, classic Black and an earthy Taupe Dusk variation.

Pick up a pair of Women’s UA Unstoppable Vent Parachute Pants here.

Drake came through with a surprise earlier this month when he unveiled 100gigs.org, a website that hosted a bunch of previously unreleased material from the rapper. It turns out that wasn’t a one-and-done thing, as Drake has just added a second wave of content to the site.

As Billboard notes, the site was updated on August 25. Among the new content is some Kanye West-related clips from OVO Fest in 2013. In one video, Drake says, “I’m the biggest Ye fan, period. Sometimes I feel like I can’t like it because I gotta go against it. But that sh*t tonight was almost therapeutic.”

Kanye also says in a clip, “Me and Hov wouldn’t have made Watch The Throne if this n**** wasn’t putting pressure on us like that. So I just want to pay my respect.”

There’s also a 2014 video of Drake talking with YG and Mustard, with Drake saying over the phone, “I’m ’bout to send you a verse I did on this beat that Mustard sent me for you. […] I’m just about to record the sh*t and I’ma send it to you. Just get Future to email it and I’ll send you the verse in 30 minutes. […] I’ma send you the sh*t and let’s turn up the summer, I’m ready.”

Times have certainly changed, as Mustard now has no interest in working with “strange guy” Drake.

We are just over a week away from the launch of NBA 2K25, and over the past week the team at 2K has been slowly trickling out their top 100 players in the game.

Player ratings are always a hot topic of discussion, especially in basketball where it can be extremely difficult to quantify what certain players do well. The stars are pretty easy to get a handle on, as are shooters, but the guys whose best attributes are things other than scoring the ball can be tricky for a video game to get right. We see that in the top 100 ratings for NBA 2K25, as bucket-getters tend to get a boost (see: Cam Thomas) whereas a swiss-army knife type defender (Jaden McDaniels) doesn’t get quite the same love.

In any case, the top 100 is here, just in time to give NBA fans something to argue over in the dog days of the offseason.

100. Jaden McDaniels (80)
99. Keegan Murray (80)
98. Dereck Lively II (81)
97. Jalen Duren (81)
96. Nic Claxton (81)
95. Daniel Gafford (81)
94. Nikola Vucevic (81)
93. Isaiah Hartenstein (81)
92. Naz Reid (81)
91. Miles Bridges (81)
90. D’Angelo Russell (81)
89. Devin Vassell (81)
88. Chris Paul (81)
87. Andrew Nembhard (81)
86. RJ Barrett (81)
85. Klay Thompson (81)
84. Brandon Miller (81)
83. Austin Reaves (81)
82. Anfernee Simons (81)
81. Mike Conley (81)

80. Immanuel Quickley (81)
79. Cam Thomas (81)
78. Coby White (81)
77. Jonas Valanciunas (82)
76. Ivica Zubac (82)
75. Darius Garland (82)
74. Jerami Grant (82)
73. Herbert Jones (82)
72. Jalen Suggs (82)
71. Alex Caruso (82)
70. Josh Hart (82)
69. DeAndre Ayton (83)
68. Desmond Bane (83)
67. Michael Porter Jr. (83)
66. Kyle Kuzma (83)
65. Draymond Green (83)
64. Tyler Herro (83)
63. Zach LaVine (83)
62. Myles Turner (84)
61. Aaron Gordon (84)

60. CJ McCollum (84)
59. Jarrett Allen (84)
58. James Harden (84)
57. Fred VanVleet (84)
56. Jalen Green (84)
55. OG Anunoby (84)
54. Mikal Bridges (84)
53. Khris Middleton (85)
52. Bradley Beal (85)
51. Rudy Gobert (85)
50. Alperen Sengun (85)
49. Brandon Ingram (85)
48. Julius Randle (85)
47. Scottie Barnes (85)
46. Evan Mobley (86)
45. Dejounte Murray (86)
44. Derrick White (86)
43. Franz Wagner (86)
42. Jalen Williams (86)
41. Cade Cunningham (86)

40. Lauri Markkanen (86)
39. Jaren Jackson Jr. (87)
38. Jamal Murray (87)
37. Kristaps Porzingis (87)
36. Chet Holmgren (87)
35. DeMar DeRozan (87)
34. Jrue Holiday (87)
33. LaMelo Ball (87)
32. Karl-Anthony Towns (88)
31. Pascal Siakam (88)
30. Zion Williamson (88)
29. Domantas Sabonis (88)
28. De’Aaron Fox (88)
27. Bam Adebayo (88)
26. Tyrese Maxey (89)
25. Trae Young (89)
24. Paul George (89)
23. Paolo Banchero (89)
22. Jimmy Butler (89)
21. Damian Lillard (89)

20. Ja Morant (90)
19. Tyrese Haliburton (90)
18. Victor Wembanyama (91)
17. Kawhi Leonard (92)
16. Kyrie Irving (92)
15. Jaylen Brown (92)
14. Donovan Mitchell (92)
13. Jalen Brunson (93)
12. Devin Booker (93)
11. Anthony Edwards (93)

10. Anthony Davis (94)
9. Kevin Durant (94)
8. Jayson Tatum (95)
7. Stephen Curry (95)
6. LeBron James (95)
5. Joel Embiid (96)
4. Shai Gilgeous-Alexander (96)
3. Giannis Antetokounmpo (97)
2. Luka Doncic (97)
1. Nikola Jokic (97)

Last week, Coldplay’s never-ending, world-beating Music Of The Spheres World Tour arrived in Vienna, Austria. Ernst Happel Stadion was also where Taylor Swift was supposed to perform three of her The Eras Tour concerts, but all three were canceled after Austrian officials arrested two men allegedly plotting to carry out a terrorist attack at the venue. Coldplay’s Chris Martin and opener Maggie Rogers covered Swift’s “Love Story” in Vienna.

Martin and Rogers double-dipped for their final show at Ernst Happel Stadion on Sunday, August 25. Rogers joined Martin for yet another Swift cover — this time, “The 1” from Folklore.

Someone named Neil on X (formerly Twitter) captured the moment with this video. Martin played the piano while harmonizing with Rogers, and what appeared to be two Coldplay-Swiftie crossover fans sat beside Martin.

Last Wednesday, August 21, Swift publicly addressed her canceled Vienna shows for the first time with a lengthy Instagram caption. She wrote, in part, that she had chosen to remain silent until she completed her European leg because “my priority was finishing our European tour safely.”

“Let me be very clear: I am not going to speak about something publicly if I think doing so might provoke those who would want to harm the fans who come to my shows,” Swift wrote.

Read her full statement here.

Netflix has released the first teaser trailer for one of the year’s most critically-admired films. Directed by Jacques Audiard, Emilia Pérez is a crime musical starring Zoe Saldaña as a lawyer in Mexico who is hire by a cartel leader (Karla Sofía Gascón) to help fake her death so that she can finally embrace her true gender identity. The film, which earned an 11-minute standing ovation when it premiered at the Cannes Film Festival, also stars Selena Gomez.

“I was very nervous because this is a project that is unlike anything I’ve ever done before,” the singer and Only Murders In The Building star told The Hollywood Reporter. “Even though I have such a small part, it’s such a big and special project that I feel so lucky that I was able to be a part of it. I felt better after the premiere, less nervous.”

You can watch the teaser above.

The female leads of Emilia Pérez — Karla Sofía Gascón, Adriana Paz, Zoe Saldaña, and Gomez — shared Best Actress at Cannes, with Gascón also becoming the first trans performer to win the award at the festival. “Women together — that’s something we wanted to honor when we made this award,” Barbie director and 2024 Cannes jury president Greta Gerwig said of the split honor. “Each of them is a standout, but together transcendent.”

Emilia Pérez comes to select theaters on November 1 and begins streaming on Netflix on November 13.