Paramount/Skydance’s Top Gun: Maverick has buzzed yet another box office milestone, this time flying past $800M globally. The worldwide cume through Thursday is $806.4M, including $422.2M domestic and $384.2M from the international box office.
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According to today’s , look set to knock off the top of the this Sunday.
and ’ latest album, , has taken an early lead over last week’s Number 1, , which has fallen into second place. If manage to maintain their lead, it will give the comedy duo their highest charting album to date and first UK Number 1.
However, the news won’t come as a surprise to who, earlier this week, claimed that his band will eclipse former chart toppers , and .
"I do love , I love the , and , but our album is better than all of those,” the actor told . "In a hundred years' time, no-one will remember or the rest, but the shining beacon of - they're going to start religions after us!"
Salford-born singer/songwriter is poised to debut on the at Number 3 with her first album, , while ’s slides two places to Number 4. complete this week’s Top 5 with their long awaited new studio album, , looking set to score the recently reformed Scottish / American rockers their fifth Top 10 album.
New releasesIn addition to (1), (3) and (5), there are six other new entries in this week’s . Self-styled ‘dream pop’ duo are on course for their first Top 40 album with on course to chart at Number 7. The cast of hit US TV show are new in at Number 15 with, which features covers of tracks by , , and among others.
Former lead singer is on course for his third solo Top 40 album with , ’s latest Greatest Hits compilation, , is at Number 25, and are new in at Number 35 with . Watch an interview with frontwoman , drummer and guitarist below:
And finally , the band fronted by guitar virtuoso , are set to score their eighteenth Top 40 album with (36).
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Paramount/Skydance’s Top Gun: Maverick has buzzed yet another box office milestone, this time flying past $800M globally. The worldwide cume through Thursday is $806.4M, including $422.2M domestic and $384.2M from the international box office.
She first charted with Number 1 single Wuthering Heights back in 1978 and, while she's had an undeniably-illustrious career ever since, Kate Bush has never before experienced mainstream popularity quite like this.
The Eurovision Broadcasting Union has announced that the 2023 Eurovision Song Contest will not be held in Ukraine after Kalush Orchestra’s win last month. Kalush Orchestra, rose up the leaderboard with their track Stefania, just weeks after the nation was invaded by Russia, and went on to become champions.
EXCLUSIVE: Range Media Partners has signed multi-hyphenate artist Ashley Walters (Top Boy) for representation.
LF SYSTEM top this week's Official Trending Chart with Afraid to Feel.
Fans tuning in to watch the annual Soccer Aid charity match for UNICEF were eagerly anticipating Liam Payne's pre-match interview. Liam, who is captain of England in the England vs World XI game on ITV, were wondering what his accent would be after his famous chat from the Oscars earler this year.
Following its unprecedented viral success after featuring heavily in the latest series of Netflix show Stranger Things, Kate Bush’s 1985 track Running Up That Hill jumps six places to Number 2 this week.
The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has announced a ‘day of action’ this month which will focus on encouraging people of State Pension age to check eligibility for a benefit worth on average, £1,900 each year but could be worth more than £3,000 in financial support and additional discounts.
Menudo: Forever Young,” the HBO Max docuseries about the titular Latin American boy band, has been released.Directed by filmmakers Angel Manuel Soto and Kristofer Ríos, the four-part docuseries follows the rise of Menudo, a Puerto Rican musical group formed in 1977 by producer Edgardo Díaz that became one of the most popular boy bands in history, selling 20 million records worldwide during the 1980s. The series chronicles the group’s meteoric rise in the ’80s, and the fall it suffered during the ’90s, after sexual abuse allegations against Díaz surfaced.
Two British soldiers captured whilst fighting in Ukraine have been 'sentenced to death' and are now set to face a firing squad it has been reported.
Though the mighty ’sself-claimed ‘swords of rock’ looked strong in Wednesday’s , reigning album titleholders slowly clawed their way back to retain their position at the top of the today with . and aka ,took an early lead over , but finishes the week in a very respectable second place, giving the comedy rock duo their highest charting album to date in the UK. Their previous highest placing came courtesy of 2006’s (10). In a rock premonition earlier this week, musician and comedy actor Black claimed that his band will eclipse former chart toppers , and .
is today crowned the first number one artist in the UK’s brand new , with her smash hit .
Charlie Amter As the war in Ukraine rages on, recently marking a grim 100-day milestone, some of the country’s music stars are banding together to raise funds abroad in an effort to aid their countrymen, and women, still fighting in the east of the now war-torn nation.Ivan Dorn, one of Ukraine’s most eclectic and best-known music names, just finished a string of European tour dates and he now will be joined by Ukrainian artists The Hardkiss, ONUKA, and Artem Pivovarov in a small American “Stand Up For Ukraine” tour this summer. The trek is set to begin in Miami later this month, with shows to follow next month in Chicago, New York, San Francisco, Los Angeles and Seattle.For Dorn, the gigs are a chance to play for Ukrainian fans currently living in the United States, as well as for liberal Russian expatriates and curious Americans who are sympathetic to Ukraine’s current predicament.
Harry Styles’ Harry’s House is currently on track to return to Number 1 on the Official Albums Chart for a second non-consecutive week.
Refresh for latest…: Paramount/Skydance’s Top Gun: Maverick, as projected yesterday, has flown past $500M worldwide, with $548.6M through its first two frames. The offshore weekend is estimated at $81.7M, an incredible hold of -20%, to lift the international box office cume to $257M in 64 markets. This does not include big Tom Cruise hub Korea which rolls out on June 23 (nor are China and Russia in the mix).
Queen’s Greatest Hits has reached the landmark milestone of 1,000 weeks on the Official Album Chart.
The Batman makes its debut at Number 1 on the UK’s Official Film Chart.
Ed Sheeran has ascended to the top of the Official Trending Chart with his latest single, 2step.
Rebecca Rubin Film and Media ReporterTom Cruise’s star-spangled blockbuster “Top Gun: Maverick” capped off Memorial Day weekend with a box office debut for record books. The sequel, which sees Cruise return to the cockpit after 36 years, collected $156 million in its first four days of release.Those ticket sales were enough to overtake Disney’s “Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End,” which launched with $153 million over the long weekend in 2007, as the biggest Memorial Day debut in history.Paramount and Skydance had originally expected “Top Gun: Maverick” to finish the long weekend with $151 million, but the film had a better-than-expected turnout on Sunday, pushing the three-day haul to $126 million.
Harry Styles earns the Official Irish Chart Double this week following the release of his third solo album, Harry’s House.