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When Does The ‘Billboard’ Hot 100 Update?

Each week, Billboard releases the list of songs featured on the Hot 100 chart. The ranking is determined by combining data from both sales and streaming numbers of all songs, which is compiled by Luminate.

When Does The Billboard Hot 100 Update?

Typically, the Billboard Hot 100 chart changes every Tuesday morning — along with most of their charts in general. The website notes that if there is a holiday that falls on a Monday, the chart’s update might be delayed until Wednesday of that week. Or if there’s just any sort of issue that prompts it to be postponed.

Fans can find the Hot 100 under Billboard‘s Chart News section each week for an early glimpse, too, as stories tied to the updated chart are typically released on Monday afternoons. So, basically, you would know who would be at the top spots before it technically updates.

For those who have other specific questions about the Hot 100 chart, Billboard‘s website mentions either emailing, contacting their Chart Beat editors, or submitting questions to their reader mailbag. The information on that can be found here.

On this week’s Hot 100, Doja Cat’s “Paint The Town Red” returned to No. 1, followed by SZA’s “Snooze,” Luke Combs’ cover of “Fast Car,” Taylor Swift’s “Cruel Summer,” and Zach Bryan’s collab with Kacey Musgraves on “I Remember Everything.”

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Will There Be An ‘Ahsoka’ Season 2?

With the Ahsoka finale now streaming, the big question on Star Wars fans‘ minds is will there be a Season 2? As of this writing, neither Disney+ or Lucasfilm have confirmed a second season, but there are clues pointing towards it happening.

For starters, Episode 8 “The Jedi, The Witch, and The Warlord,” ends on a major cliffhanger. Granted, the events of Ahsoka will reportedly feed into a new theatrical movie from Dave Filoni, so the story could pick up there. However, Disney+ has notably been referring to Episode 8 as the “season finale” not “series finale” on its in-app banner image. Gizmodo also reported that official social media posts were fixed to make the “season finale” distinction after fans noticed they read “series finale.”

Meanwhile, Deadline reported the following in its Episode 8 recap:

Some fans have speculated that Dave Filoni’s stand-alone feature film — a culmination of his Disney+/Lucasfilm universe of The Mandalorian, Book of Boba Fett and Ahsoka, etc. — centers around Thrawn, and that is poised to be next. However, we hear that Ahsoka Season 2 is more of a reality in the conversation, though nothing is locked yet. Tonight there were no placards teasing that Ahsoka would return in the immediate future. Natch, the ending WGA strike and the ongoing actors strike has put off production for some time.

Rosario Dawson also teased Ahsoka Season 2 during a pre-strike interview with Empire.

“I’m absolutely putting it out into the universe,” Dawson said. “We’re joking about it, but I’m manifesting it because I feel like I helped Dave [Filoni, Star Wars mastermind and Ahsoka Tano’s co-creator] manifest this role. So I’m ready. I’m excited. I’m willing. I got my ice-packs ready to go for Season 2 and beyond! I would not be mad at that.”

Considering Disney+ is officially referring to Episode 8 as the “season finale,” and it ended with a cliffhanger, it’s probably a decent bet that Ahsoka Season 2 is in the works albeit potentially delayed by the recent strikes. That said, there has been some cost-cutting happening at Disney. Not even Marvel is safe, so maybe cross your fingers if you’re really hoping for more Ahsoka.

Ahsoka Season 1 is now streaming on Disney+.

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Who Will Perform On ‘Amazon Music Live’ Season 2?

In its second season, Amazon Music Live continues to bring quality performers to the stage. The live-streaming music performance show returned this September with performances from Ed Sheeran and Feid. The season will continue with an illustrious line-up of artists.

This Thursday (October 5), on the 2 Chainz-hosted show, Lil Durk will take the stage. Lil Durk has had a pretty big year, with the release of his album Almost Healed, which contained the J. Cole-assisted hit single, “All My Life.”

The following Thursday (October 12), prolific producer Metro Boomin is set to deliver a cinematic set. This year, Metro has produced on albums by Young Thug and Travis Scott. He also executive produced the Spider-Man: Across The Spider-Verse soundtrack. According to a press release, Metro will be joined by surprise guests, as he delivers renditions of some of his biggest songs as a credited producer.

On October 19, Mexican superstar Peso Pluma will perform, with rapper Latto closing out the month the following Thursday (October 26).

Fans can tune into Amazon Music Live on Thursday nights at 9 p.m. PDT via Prime Video and Amazon’s Twitch Channel.

Some of the artists mentioned here are Warner Music artists. Uproxx is an independent subsidiary of Warner Music Group.

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Why Was There An Emergency Alert Test?

Just a few minutes ago, an emergency alert probably appeared on your TV or cell phone, and it could also be heard on your radio if you’re still using those. Though the alert may have startled you, there’s nothing to be worried about as a result of it. Earlier this month, the Federal Emergency Management Agency announced that it would conduct an emergency alert test on October 4 at 2:20 pm EST by sending out an alert to every TV, radio, and cell phone in the United States. The test was done in coordination with the Federal Communication Commission. Now that the test is complete, you’re probably wondering why it had to be done.

Why Was There An Emergency Alert Test?

The purpose of this test is to ensure that the systems in place continue to be an effective means of warning the public about emergencies at a national level. Additional information was given in a message that arrived with the test, which you can read below:

THIS IS A TEST of the National Wireless Emergency Alert System. The purpose is to maintain and improve alert and warning capabilities at the federal, state, local, tribal and territorial levels and to evaluate the nation’s public alert and warning capabilities. No action is required by the public.

Additional Details: Wireless Emergency Alerts (WEAs) are short emergency messages from authorized federal, state, local, tribal and territorial public alerting authorities that can be broadcast from cell towers to any WEA-enabled mobile device in a locally targeted area. WEAs can be sent by state and local public safety officials, the National Weather Service, the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children and the FEMA Administrator or the President of the United States.

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Sexyy Red And Her Girls Show Off Their Assets In Their Car Wash-Themed ‘No Panties’ Video

Controversial interview responses aside, Sexyy Red is still one of the hottest names in rap right now. The St. Louis native was recently tapped to contribute the sexy single “No Panties” to the soundtrack for season two of Rap Sh!t after capitalizing in a big way on the success of her breakout hit “Pound Town.” She returns to her eyebrow-raising raunchy ways in the video for “No Panties,” running a variety of sex-themed businesses, including a massage parlor and a car wash.

Sexyy Red has been creating controversy almost since she first appeared on the scene with her Vanessa Carlton-sampling viral single “Ah Thousand Jugs.” When she released “Pound Town” and “Born By The River,” listeners on Twitter were quick to express as much exasperation with her ratchet ways as interest and appreciation for her over-the-top explicit content. And once Nicki Minaj joined the party on the “Pound Town” remix, not even Ben Shapiro could resist chiming to voice his distaste for her unapologetically racy raps.

But now, those Twitter fans she’s since won over are concerned after she praised Donald Trump, inaccurately crediting him for the stimulus checks that helped Americans weather the pandemic and pardoning rappers like Kodak Black and Lil Wayne despite ending a number of initiatives designed to counter racial inequality in the legal system. Hopefully, someone near her can explain the fault in her logic so we can all get back to enjoying the ratchet bops.

Check out the “No Panties” video above.

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Who Is Taylor Swift Signed To?

Taylor Swift has been in the news a ton lately. While she is currently on a break between dates of The Eras Tour, that hasn’t slowed her down. Swift is set to release her 1989 (Taylor’s Version) re-recording later this month — which might have people wondering what label she’s signed to.

Swift is currently signed to Republic Records at Universal Music Group, after getting a deal with them a few years ago. She has released everything from her 2019 album, Lover, until today with them. Her label deal also gives her complete ownership over her masters, leading her to re-record her first six original albums to gain control.

As a teenager, she first was part of Big Machine Records. However, things soured between her and label owner Scott Borchetta. When Swift left for UMG, she wanted to buy her early master copies as well, but the deal was reportedly rejected. Instead, they were sold to Scooter Braun — who then sold them to Shamrock Holdings as of 2020.

Upon hearing of Braun selling them, Swift revealed on social media that he would not consider her purchasing them without signing a NDA. “He would never even quote my team a price,” she wrote. “These master recordings were not for sale to me.”

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Tyga & YG’s ‘Hit Me When U Leave The Klub’ Is What A Joint Project Should Be

When Tyga and YG announced that they were teaming up for a joint project at Rolling Loud earlier this year, I admit I was eager. Hometown pride aside, YG and Tyga are two of artists left from the blog era who have consistently shown improvement on each project. Tyga’s last project, Legendary, was an overlooked gem in 2019, while I would take YG’s I Got Issues over the other, more highly touted album from a Compton rapper that dropped last year.

The reason is simple: They both know what they do well and they don’t try to do too much else. Truly, there is not enough of that “stay in your lane” mentality in rap music these days. It often feels like every new rapper wants to be a capital-A “Artist” or a rock star, and while diversions from the beats-and-rhymes tradition like Lil Yachty’s Let’s Start Here are fun and interesting in doses, there’s an elitism to those artists’ insistence they aren’t just rappers.

What, exactly, is wrong with being “just” a rapper? Rap music blew the ceiling off of pop culture, reshaping society in its image. It was the most dominant genre in popular music for longer than it was acknowledged for it. It changed the face of advertising, fashion, film, politics, television, and more. I get it; Drake and Kanye West are globally-recognized household names. But T.I. and Ludacris are doing just fine, thanks.

Which is why Hit Me When U Leave The Klub, the joint “playlist” from two of Compton’s longer-tenured second-generation hip-hop stars, is so valuable. It asserts — efficiently, at just 14 tracks, and effectively, with at least 11 of those tracks being certified bangers — that staying in your lane can be profitable and fulfilling too. Someone has to make the music that makes the clubs go up; it might as well be them.

Especially because that’s what they’ve done so effectively individually for so long. Both Tyga and YG took their time figuring what works for them, so why fix what isn’t broken? Both rappers’ breakout singles — “Coconut Juice” for Tyga and “Toot It And Boot It” for YG — belied their individual talents for making uptempo, ratchet dance anthems; both found their grooves in large part thanks to collaborations with Mustard, whose production supercharged their respective comeback hits and helped make them a fixture of radio in the last decade radio mattered.

Since then, both have seen their popularity rise and fall, but they’ve always bounced back; YG’s highest-charting single came in 2018 with “Big Bank,” a decade after his debut, while Tyga came roaring back in 2018 with “Taste.” Their 2019 collab “Go Loko” was, incidentally, the last time either went double platinum with a straight rap song since and likely laid the groundwork for their chemistry on Hit Me When U Leave The Klub. (YG went 3x platinum alongside Bay Area singer HER with “Slide” while Tyga’s Blxst collab “Chosen” was certified platinum — both R&B songs featuring rap verses.)

“Go Loko” is the baseline and the North Star for the musical direction on Hit Me, with most of the album following a similar formula of the stripped-down, post-hyphy club thump that has dominated the LA underground for the past decade or so, with boastful verses about money, sex, and the occasional gangland shootout. Wisely, they stay away from a bunch of the latter and stick to the more aspirational topics, with beats that rarely drop below 90 bpm. Again, if it works, it works, and they’ve long been aware of their strengths.

That isn’t to say they don’t try a few new things too. The main difference is a clear focus on writing; in the past, both boasted that they rarely put pen to paper when conceptualizing their songs. While this often resulted in a freewheeling aspect that really worked for their turn-up anthems, it also led to an unfortunate assumption among many rap fans that they couldn’t rap well. Hit Me dispels that notion with verses loaded with slick wordplay and clever turns of phrase that might surprise those who’d written them off at the nadir of their respective careers.

And while R&Bass experiments like “PARTy T1M3” and “Boachella” aren’t great, singles like “West Coast Weekend,” “Platinum,” and “Brand New” present Tyga and YG at their best, and the remaining tracks could all easily be singles themselves. Limiting the guest list to just three fellow rappers — Blxst, Busta Rhymes, and Lil Wayne — lets their chemistry shine, and they have plenty of it. No, there’s no salient social commentary aside from autobiographical accounts of life in inner-city LA and neither does much crooning, but again, this is a feature, not a bug. Sometimes, you just want to hear two of rap’s finest trade bars.

The recent wealth of collab projects bears this idea out. Personally, I’ve always loved rappers getting together for quick-hit albums and EPs that clearly stem from their chemistry and friendship (certainly, more than the endless array of diss records and “beef” that much of the fanbase seems to love), but the fact that they’ve always needed to feel like “events” has made them harder to enjoy. It’s hard to live up to Watch The Throne or What A Time To Be Alive (which barely lived up to itself). Hit Me When U Leave The Klub offers an example of the form that seems more sustainable and exciting. There’s a wealth of possibilities for further entries to the joint album canon — this one is a fantastic starting point.

Hit Me When U Leave The Klub is out now via Last Kings Music / 4Hunnid Records / EMPIRE.

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‘Naked Attraction’ Viewers Are Sharing Stories About People They Know Going On The Nude Dating Show

The current most popular series on Max isn’t The Sopranos, The Wire, or Enlightened (what a beautiful world that would be). It’s Naked Attraction, a British series where a clothed contestant decides which naked person they want to go on a date with. If only there was another way to see nudity…

Naked Attraction premiered on Britain’s Channel 4 in 2016 and has run for seven seasons, so there are hundreds of British people who have stood in the glass tubes, naked, hoping to be picked. Based on a Reddit thread from before the show debuted on Max, they enjoy talking about the experience.

User stevielfc76 asked, “Does anyone know anyone who has been on Naked Attraction?” Here are some of the more memorable responses:

Yep, a girl who worked with us (40 people in the company) went on, told everyone, and absolutely owned it. Was a bit of a shock, as I guess I’d always slightly judged people who went on but she made me rethink me prejudices. Nothing came of it for her but hell she took a chance.

Yes a friend of mine did. We got it up on the TV at our local and everyone watched it. From Fetlife I know he was into small dick humiliation so I’m assuming he went home, read the online comments and wanked himself into a coma.

A friend of mine went on it; I’ve not seen the episode as I watched a few of the first series and never bothered after that.

He was photographer at my wedding. Apparently it came up in conversation during the wedding breakfast and another mate of mine who was on the same table excused herself for a few mins, found the episode online, watched his reveal, and then came back. She continued flirting with him so presumably she was impressed with what she saw!

A really obnoxious guy who used to drink at my local. He also bragged about it. Obviously it didn’t take long for screenshots to get passed round all the regulars/ staff. He was so up himself he really did appear to be immune to ridicule. Fascinating.

My girlfriend worked with a guy for a short time who was on one episode, he was an arrogant twat. He drove a stupid car around that looked like some thing out of Ali G. He was fairly open about the whole thing. His boss at the time would tell everyone to watch the episode. She was in a sex club and wasn’t exactly shy about it at work either. She managed to “accidentally” send a picture of her vagina to a work WhatsApp group among other things.

Yes, but I’ve not watched it, but of the people I know who did watch his episode they said they weren’t surprised he was willing to go given the equipment he has haha

I know of someone who I’m friends on Facebook with (same job, different company in an incestuous industry with lots of mutual friends) that was on it. He had a smaller member and they zoomed in on it for about 15 seconds while discussing how it was ok to be smaller.

He occasionally posts about it on Facebook and doesn’t seem to be bothered by it.

A guy from my secondary school was on there. I always thought he was kinda hot in a “mysterious way”, but hadn’t seen him since I went onto college.

Was kinda intrigued to see what he looked like naked, and when finally he went nude I actually didn’t really think much – it was a bit if an anti climax. But not in the way of “he didnt look good naked”, more like I was no longer the 16yo who giggled at slight nudity and I’m now a 31yo woman who has seen plenty of it. Wasn’t a big deal, and I actually was impressed with his bravery.

Nice dong tho.

I was hoping that story would end in marriage. Alas.

(Via Reddit)

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Producer Kevin Wright On ‘Loki’ And This Challenging Second Season

Despite the marketing trying to forget Jonathan Majors is a big part of this second season of Loki, everyone involved in the production is acutely aware and, to Kevin Wright’s credit, didn’t shy away from discussing the situation. Honestly, with the lack of really any statement on the matter from Marvel, I was fully expecting to be told Wright wouldn’t be discussing the situation and be asked not to bring it up, which would force me to politely not agree to that and probably canceling the interview altogether. And again, to their credit, none of that happened.

And this second season is a lot of fun as Loki (Tom Hiddleston) and Mobius (Owen Wilson) enlist the help of Ouroboros (Ke Huy Quan) to track down a variant of the evil Kang, Victor Timely (Majors) before he’s found by Ravonna Renslayer (Gugu Mbatha-Raw) or Sylvie (Sophia Di Martino), who both want to find him for very different reasons. (It’s all a bit more complicated than that because this is a pretty complicated show that kind of dines out on the joke about how a lot of it doesn’t make a whole lot of sense, adding to its charm.

Ahead, Wright takes us through this second season and what he wanted to accomplish for the character of Loki and how he convinced new Oscar winner Ke Huy Quan to join the cast. And yes he addresses Majors and how this situation affects Wright as a producer and if there was any talk at all of replacing Majors in this role.

I enjoy how dense the plot is, but the attitude of the TVC is still, “Oh, another day at the office.”

Yeah, look, I’m a details guy. I love shows and movies that just really feel like they are packed dense with information. That you could pause any frame, and that there is a story in there. And I think all of our filmmakers and department heads really enjoy that, too. So it’s just fun world-building…

Does it work without Owen Wilson deadpanning though?

No, and that’s the thing. It’s like you write that character completely straight, and he is going to bring some kind of incredible charm and turn to that character that you could never put onto the page.

There’s a great scene with Ke Huy Quan’s Ouroboros where Loki is talking to him while jumping back and forth in time, in both time periods. And present-day Ouroboros is getting new memories in real time.

That was an “a-ha” moment. We always have moments, we had them in season one with some of Michael Waldron’s early drafts. And then with Eric Martin on this season, the real a-ha moments. And Eric’s first draft of that introduction is very, very close to what’s on-screen. And it was one of those moments where we all just went, “That’s how we do this.” That’s how we’re going to proceed with our time travel this season.

I think when you see it on the page, that was like, all right, we knew we wanted to do time loops. We knew we wanted to literally do the snake-eating-its-own-tail kind of storytelling structure this season. And it’s a big, fun sci-fi concept. But it also made sense. It was easily digestible. And that’s always our guiding light on this show: intrigue and simplicity, versus confusion and homework. Once it becomes confusing and homework, no good. We’ve got to simplify something or figure out how to land it. But it was just there in that first pass.

And this is the part that you’ve probably had to take PR classes about before you started doing interviews. Jonathan Majors has a trial that starts this month. And I know there’s no way you don’t know this is going to pop up in every review. And I’m not asking you to comment on an upcoming trial. But as a producer, how does this affect you?

Yeah, I think what you said is right. We don’t know what that will all be. But what I can say is the show that is on-screen, that will be, going out, is the show that we wanted to make. Victor Timely was always a big part of that. The story that is there is what was written, what was shot. This is maybe the first Marvel movie or show with zero additional photography. So I think we feel strongly about what the story is, what the performances are. And we’re happy with it, and it’s what the show is. And what happened afterwards, none of us really know. And we’ll see.

Was there any thought, even a quick discussion, about making a change and re-shooting his part? Now that I’ve seen it, he’s in it a lot so I’m guessing that wasn’t possible.

No. And I think it’s because we had shot the show. We made the show. And there’s nothing really to act on at this moment.

Ke Huy Quan is wonderful. When did he get cast?

It happened super quick. Everything, Everywhere, All at Once was playing in LA and New York. It hadn’t gone nationwide yet. And it hadn’t gone global yet. I think it was in that week it was about to go out across America. We got a call on a Thursday evening from Sarah Finn, our casting director. We were in London. We were prepping the show. We were probably starting shooting in two or three months at that point. She said, “I can make you a list for potential OBs, but I think you guys should meet Ke. I think it should be Ke, and you have to act very quickly.”

Did you have other people in mind before he was brought up?

No, not yet. When everyone’s in the writer’s room, things are talked about. I think we knew we wanted probably some kind of comedic vent to it, which could’ve opened up a lot of possibilities. And that was a Thursday night. On Friday, myself, we set up a Zoom. We pitched Ke the show. We pitched him the character. We sent him that first introduction scene.

How did that Zoom pitch go with him? How do you even explain this character?

I would love to go back and see what it was, because I had COVID at the time as well. So I was like, out of it. But he seemed really excited and we made an offer over that weekend. And then that Monday we called in the big guns. And we had Kevin Feige call him and basically say, “Ke, we want you to do this. Will you join the family? Can you come to London?” And he’s kind of on record saying this, he already loved Marvel. He loved Loki, season one. He had already decided he was doing this. And two months later he was in London, helping us develop the character and dig into the script. But it happened really quick. And then obviously the Oscars and everything came afterwards. But he fit right in. He fit right into the team. And I’m sure that was intimidating for him, to come into a team that already had such a great rapport.

How tough is it with just the character of Loki himself at this point? We’ve watched him for 12 years now. He’s the hero of this show, but I feel you put moments in to remind people of the bad things he did. Like when he casually references taking New York City hostage.

Yeah. And this version of Loki is not far removed from that. That Avengers thing that he’s joking about, that happened for him weeks ago.

Right, this version of him just got caught.

But the serious answer to that too though is so much of this season, from season one and now into this one, is about identity. It’s about growth. It’s about what’s your place in the universe? Can you become the best version of yourself? And the exciting path with this variant of Loki – and that we’ve been following for, by the time this ends, almost 12 hours of storytelling – we still have not seen the best version of this guy. And I mean the one that’s fulfilling his potential, which maybe explains when he uses magic in the movies, he’s using it for duplicitous means. He’s using it for mischief.

Now it’s like, we wanted to send him down the path of can you be the best version of yourself? What does that look like? And the idea, can you even become the best version of yourself if you’re not acknowledging your past and where you came from and what you are? And so those reminders coming in, they’re fun, they’re flippant. But they also hopefully are serving, or will have a cumulative effect, of building to this larger story arc that he’s going on.

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Paramore’s New Remix Album ‘Re: This Is Why’ Has Julien Baker, Wet Leg, And Even Zane Lowe On The Stacked Tracklist

Paramore is releasing a new remixed version of their recent This Is Why, album, this time titled Re: This Is Why. The band brought on some outside artists to either provide classical reinterpretations of songs, or rewrite/rework others.

Fans had been waiting for the tracklist, which consists of musicians like Julien Baker, Foals, Wet Leg, and even Apple Music’s famous interviewer, Zane Lowe.

“We’ve long wanted to recognize the connection we have with some of the artists who’ve influenced us as a band and/or who have cited our band as an influence,” Paramore shared with the social media announcement. “It’s incredible to hear all our worlds colliding.”

Continue scrolling for Paramore’s Re: This Is Why tracklist.

1. “This Is Why” (Re: Foals)
2. “The News” (Re: The Linda Lindas)
3. “Running Out Of Time” (Re: Panda Bear)
4. “Running Out Of Time” (Re: Zane Lowe)
5. “C’est Comme Ça” (Re: Wet Leg)
6. “Big Man, Little Dignity” (Re: Domi and JD Beck)
7. “You First” (Re: Remi Wolf)
8. “Figure 8” (Re: Bartees Strange)
9. “Liar” (Re: Romy)
10. “Crave” (Re: Claud)
11. “Thick Skull” (Re: Julien Baker)
12. “Sanity” (demo)

Re: This Is Why is out 10/6 via Atlantic. Find more information here.

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