Billboard calculated the incomes of the five highest-paid musicians in the world in 2020. Queen are on the top with $48.7 million of total income, followed by Taylor Swift with $41.4 million, Billie Eilish with $32.8 million, BTS with $31.5 million, and finally Post Malone with $29.7 million.
Post Malone took home nine 2020 Billboard Music Awards last night, including the top artist prize. Billie Eilish seems to have been on the scene for ages now, but it's actually last year that she came to the music world big-time, so the Best new artist award went to her. Killer Mike took the first-ever Change Maker Award. Check out all the nominees and winners here. CoS argues the telecast ceremony was a "mess", especially Post Malone's performance, who forgot how to lip-sync.
Post Malone is about to donate $1 million to a number of charities supporting front-line workers, education initiatives, homelessness help, mental health work, and he wants his fans to decide which organizations exactly, Billboard reports. He’s using the celebrity fan platform Community to round up the responses and decide where to send the $1 million, purportedly from his own personal funds. Last week he performed s Nirvana tribute show, raising over $800,000 for the United Nations Foundation’s COVID-19 Solidarity Response Fund.
Post Malone’s Nirvana tribute livestream on YouTube last weekend raised more than $500,000 for coronavirus relief, CNN reports. Google matched $2 for each $1 donation. The event raised $500,000, including Google's match. Over $4.3 million has been raised in total for the United Nations Foundation's Covid-19 Solidarity Response Fund for The World Health Organization.
In Super Bowl commercials it was mostly beers, sodas, snacks, and cars, and - rappers. H.E.R. and Missy Elliot linked up with Pepsi singing their version of Rolling Stones' 'Paint It Black'; Post Malone starred in two Bud Light commercials, Lil Nas X and Sam Elliott are dancing cowboys as Billy Ray Cyrus plays his guitar in a Doritos Cool Ranch commercial; LeBron James is the face of the new GMC Hummer EV; MC Hammer ironically stars in a new commercial for Cheetos singing his popular line “Can’t touch this”; The Roots were featured in a commercial alongside Jimmy Fallon in a funny spot.
Ed Sheeran’s ‘Shape Of You’ is the most played song on Spotify with 2.3 billion streams, earning the singer just over £7 million. Drake's ‘One Dance’ is the second most streamed song with over 1.7 billion plays and £6 million in profits, and Post Malone’s ‘Rockstar’ came third with 1.7 billion streams and £5.8 million in royalties. Four of Sheeran's tracks make the top 100 most streamed on Spotify - collectively 'Shape of You', 'Thinking Out Loud', 'Perfect' and 'Photograph' have had 6.1 billion plays, and earned an estimated £21 million. On average, Spotify pays artists an estimated £0.0034p for every stream on the platform.
Last year's phenomenon Billie Eilish had the biggest-selling album of last year in the USA with 'When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go?' selling in 2.5 million total album-equivalent units in 2019, 400,000 more units than any other album.
Lizzo is nominated in all of the big four categories -- record of the year ('Truth Hurts'), album of the year ('Cuz I Love You (Deluxe)'), song of the year ('Truth Hurts') and best new artist. Following closely behind are both Billie Eilish and Lil Nas X, who each have six nominations, with Eilish also […]
Post Malone comes back to the top of Billboard 200 chart with his album 'Hollywood's Bleeding', for a fifth nonconsecutive week, a feat that hasn't been accomplished in over a year. 'Scorpion' by Drake was the last album to land at No. 1 for five weeks, however, it was all consecutive. 'Hollywood's Bleeding' earned 78,000 […]
Post Malone’s 'Hollywood’s Bleeding' earned 93,000 equivalent album units in the U.S. last week, and becomes the first album released in 2019 to score four weeks at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 chart. 'Hollywood’s Bleeding' spent its first three No. 1 weeks at the end of September, and beginning of October. The last album […]
Post Malone last week sold another 149,000 equivalent album units of his latest album, 'Hollywood's Bleeding', which earned him a third consecutive week at #1 on Billboard 200 charts. Post Malone's latest is the only project to rule the Billboard 200 for three straight weeks in 2019. A Boogie wit da Hoodie's 'Hoodie SZN' and […]
American rapper Post Malone climbed the top of Billboard 200 chart chart with his third studio album 'Hollywood’s Bleeding'. His newest LP had the second-biggest opening week of 2019 with a total of 489,000 equivalent album units. Of that total unit sum, 200,000 were in album sales, while TEA units were 11,000 and SEA units […]
Eight nominees in the category Album of the year: H.E.R. - 'H.E.R.', Brandi Carlile - 'By the Way, I Forgive You', Drake - 'Scorpion', Various Artists - 'Black Panther: The Album', Kacey Musgraves - 'Golden Hour', Post Malone - 'Beerbongs & Bentleys, Cardi B - 'Invasion of Privacy' and Janelle Monáe - 'Dirty Computer'. Grammy.com has full list of nominees.
