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Justin Bieber Teases Coachella Performance With 'Speed Demon' Video
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Justin Bieber Teases Coachella Performance With ‘Speed Demon’ Video

by jummy84 September 22, 2025
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Justin Bieber has shared a black and white video for “Speed Demon.” The clip, shot and edited by Rory Kramer, was filmed at the Empire Polo Club in Indio, California, where Coachella takes place.

The singer teased his forthcoming headlining set at Coachella 2026 in a caption on Instagram, telling fans, “see u in april.” Bieber also shared photos of himself with his wife Hailey Bieber and their son Jack Blues Bieber at the venue.

“Speed Demon” comes off Bieber’s most recent release, Swag II, the follow-up to his July album Swag. The LP features 23 tracks and several collaborations, including with Lil B, Hurricane Chris, Eddie Benjamin, and Tems. Like Swag, Bieber announced the new LP a day before its arrival with a flurry of Instagram posts featuring billboards and other large-scale promotions of the album cover.

Swag was Bieber’s first album in four years. In the time since releasing 2021’s Justice, Bieber had been dealing with a series of career setbacks and health scares. He canceled his massive world tour in support of Justice following a Ramsay Hunt syndrome diagnosis, which left part of his face paralyzed. He also quietly parted ways with longtime manager Scooter Braun, who discovered Bieber on YouTube when the singer was quite young. Rumors have swirled about personal and financial tensions that led to the dissolution of their professional relationship.

Bieber was confirmed as one of the headliners of Coachella 2026 earlier this month. Rolling Stone learned the singer scored a seven-figure deal for the performance and worked “directly” with festival promoter Goldenvoice to negotiate the terms of his slot. Bieber’s Coachella set will mark his first performance in the United States since 2022’s Justice World Tour.

“It’s a groundbreaking move for a headliner, and it’s something he built entirely on his own,” a source close to Bieber tells Rolling Stone. “Between headlining Coachella and the success of Swag, it’s clear this is the start of an exciting new era for Justin — one where he’s fully in the driver’s seat.”

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While Bieber has joined previous Coachella performers for guest appearances, 2026 will mark his first solo slot. He joined Tems and WizKid for a rendition of “Essence” in 2024, and performed “Peaches” with Daniel Caesar in 2022. The pop icon also performed “Sorry” with Ariana Grande when she headlined the music festival in 2019.

Coachella is scheduled to take place in Indio, California, on April 10-12 and April 17-19. Additional headliners include Sabrina Carpenter, Karol G, and Anyma.

September 22, 2025 0 comments
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Demon Slayer Sets Box Office Record as Him, Big Bold Beautiful Journey Flop Overseas
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Demon Slayer Sets Box Office Record as Him, Big Bold Beautiful Journey Flop Overseas

by jummy84 September 21, 2025
written by jummy84

Two new Hollywood releases, Universal’s sports thriller “Him” and Sony’s romantic drama “A Big Bold Beautiful Journey,” were outright rejected by overseas audiences.

“A Big Bold Beautiful Journey,” starring Margot Robbie and Colin Farrell as strangers whose meet-cute takes them on the journey of a lifetime, flopped at the international box office with $4.5 million from 45 markets. Meanwhile the Jordan Peele-produced “Him,” a disturbing mind-bender about a football player with aspirations to be the greatest of all time, fumbled even harder with $400,000 from 25 territories. Both films were saddled with terrible reviews and disappointing audience scores.

“Him” at least started stronger at the domestic box office with $13.5 million, boosting the film’s global tally to $13.86 million. It carries a modest $27 million production budget. Justin Tipping directed “Him,” which stars Marlon Wayans as an aging quarterback who trains a young up-and coming football player (Tyriq Withers) to chilling consequences.

“Sports themes do not travel well overseas, and the sport in this film — American football — is uniquely American in its popularity,” says analyst David A. Gross of Franchise Entertainment Research. “But the picture cost a reasonable $27 million to make, so it can cover its costs on domestic business alone.”

“A Big Bold Beautiful Journey,” however, crumbled in its North America debut as well with $3.5 million for a worldwide haul of $8 million. The film has yet to release in major markets like France, Italy and South Korea.

“The film should do better in foreign markets, but the production cost was high — that’s a big number to recoup,” Gross adds of “A Big Bold Beautiful Journey.”

Luckily Sony is riding high with “Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba Infinity Castle,” which just became the highest-grossing anime film ever with $555 million globally. The film is backed by Sony-owned Crunchyroll in North America, the United Kingdom and Brazil, as well as Toho and Aniplex in Japan and other Asian markets. “Demon Slayer” topped overseas charts again with $36 million from markets where Sony’s Crunchyroll is handling the rollout. So far the film has earned a total of $451 million internationally and $104 million domestically. “Infinity Castle” is the first in planned three-film series about a boy who becomes a demon slayer to avenge his family and find a cure for his sister who was turned into a demon.

Universal, meanwhile, had slightly better luck overseas with “Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale,” which added $8.3 million from 35 markets in its second weekend of release. The film, a continuation of the popular TV show, has generated $27.9 million overseas and $31.6 million domestically to date, bringing its global total to $59.5 million. The studio says those ticket sales are above 2022’s “Downton Abbey: A New Era” at the same point in its predecessor’s theatrical run. Neither film could reach the box office heights of the first cinematic feature, 2019’s “Downton Abbey,” which became a huge hit to the tune of $194.6 million globally.

September 21, 2025 0 comments
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'Big Bold Beautiful Journey' Bombs; 'Demon Slayer' No. 1
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‘Big Bold Beautiful Journey’ Bombs; ‘Demon Slayer’ No. 1

by jummy84 September 21, 2025
written by jummy84

SUNDAY AM: The slow weekend belongs to the second frame of Sony/Crunchyroll’s Demon Slayer: Infinity Castle with $17.3M. Universal’s Him slowed down in its run to $13.5M for second place. One weekend, Sony is a rich man in Demon Slayer, and a poor man with A Big Bold Beautiful Journey which is crashing with $3.5M.

Demon Slayer spiked 62% in its second Saturday to $7.3M over its second Friday of $4.5M. Him went down on Saturday by -33% to $4.3M from a first Friday/previews of $6.4M. Critical reviews on Him and Big Bold Beautiful Journey were atrocious respectively at 29% and 37% with PostTrak on both movies in the low 60% range and 2 1/2 stars.

All titles look to be around $77.8M, which is down 48% from last weekend, yet only -4% off from a year ago when Beetlejuice Beetlejuice was still the thing in its third weekend with $25.9M and Paramount had the animated Transformers One which bowed to $24.6M.

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SATURDAY AM: After two weekends of overperforming, the September box office steps on the brakes, down -49% from last weekend to roughly $77M. Sony/Crunchyroll’s Demon Slayer: Infinity Castle and Universal/Monkeypaw’s Him are arguably in a dead heat with $15M-$16M apiece— it’s still too early to call which one is No. 1 even though Sony and Universal have relegated themselves to No. 1 and No. 2.

Infinity Castle is playing exactly like an anime movie, completely front-loaded, with a second weekend drop at -77%, but as we told you, the highest grossing anime movie at the domestic box office is expected to cross $100M today.

Him won Friday with $6.47M and a C- CinemaScore, with Rotten Tomatoes ratings at 28% Critics, 58% audience score. Universal is calling the Jordan Peele produced movie at $15M in second currently, with an anticipated drop on Sunday due to NFL games of -37% for the football horror movie.

Here’s the sad news of the weekend, and everyone saw this coming: Sony’s play for female moviegoers with the Margot Robbie and Colin Farrell star-studded romance drama, A Big Bold Beautiful Journey, is finding no road at the box office with $3.5M for the $50M studio acquisition in 6th place. The movie wasn’t developed or produced by Robbie’s LuckyChap. The Sony release is getting beaten by an animated movie and a horror film with a fresh face actor and 1990s comedian (Tyriq Withers and Marlon Wayans). Many sound the bell for original movies, which this project was, a hot title off The Black List, penned by Seth Reiss and directed by rising auteur Kogonada. However, what this shows is that star power alone attached to non-IP fare, can’t pull in moviegoers when its weighted down by poor critical reviews (this movie panned at 38% with great complaints over its pace), and not-so-hot audience scores with a 44% definite recommend and 2 1/2 stars on Screen Engine/Comscore’s PostTrak as well as a B- CinemaScore. Oy.

That said, I understand that the stars and everyone involved had a beautiful experience making the film. In the end the movie didn’t mirror what the script was.

By comparison, the specialty adult summer play, A24’s Materialists, with Dakota Johnson, Chris Evans and Pedro Pascal, looks like a blockbuster with an $11.3M domestic opening (and now $100M+ global gross for the net $20M movie). But that had better views at 79% certified fresh. Interestingly enough, Materialists and Big Bold Journey have the same audience exits of B- and mid 60% RT popcorn score.

To that point, some tell me that perhaps, Big Bold Beautiful Journey should have been positioned as a specialty play given its patina, versus a commercial mainstream romance movie. Luckily, the movie isn’t the lowest opening or wide break for either Robbie or Farrell. For Robbie, the movie is under the starts of such misfires Babylon ($3.6M) and Amsterdam ($6.4M) and for Farrell it’s under Seven Psychopaths ($4.2M opening) and above Voyagers ($1.4M).

Despite having a social media reach according to RelishMix at 266 million across TikTok, Instagram, X, Facebook, and YouTube, which is 57% ahead of other romance movies (but 21% behind the Sony-Wayfarer title It Ends With Us which hit over 377 million on social), there’s a bad stink on Big Bold Beautiful Journey with the analytics corp noticing mixed-to-negative comments.

Reports RelishMix, “Some viewers smell sentimentality and algorithmic gloss. Skeptics tag the vibe as trailer-deep with lines like ‘This feels like a trailer for a fake movie’ and point to tonal saccharine with ‘Touchy feely picture… emotional diabetes.’ Comparisons skew cautionary with Black Mirror and even AI commercial jokes, plus a few drive-by age and body takes dragging the cast. Receipts land with ‘What Black Mirror episode is this?’ and ‘Looks like an AI generated commercial.’”

Him is 51%/49% men-to-women with a low definite recommend of 41%, but it’s horror, which gives it more mojo than Big Bold Beautiful Journey. Diversity demos are 36% Black, 34% Caucasian, 20% Latino and Hispanic and 6% Asian American. Men over 25 repped 33% of ticket buyers with women over 25 at 31%, men under 25 at 19% and women under 25 at 17% for the R-rated title. PLFs, which are split with Demon Slayer, are driving 37% of the weekend. An even play throughout the country for Him with notable touchdowns in the West, South Central, South and East after a slew of spots since August on football. Best gross in the nation so far comes from AMC Universal’s Citywalk Hollywood (CA) with close to $32K.

Big Bold Beautiful Journey saw 59% women with 44% women over 25 (who gave the movie its best grades at 71% on PostTrak). It looks like some guys got pulled into this movie as +1s with the second most-attending demo being men over 25 at 32%. This is further underscored by the stats that close to 40% of the pic’s ticket buyers came with a spouse/partner/boyfriend or girlfriend. Diversity demos are 58% Caucasian, 25% Latino and Hispanic, 8% Asian American and 5% Black. A handful of PLFs which only represent 12% of the weekend, I understand with West, Midwest and Mountain regions being where the bulk of the business is. AMC Grove is the top grossing venue so far this weekend with just under $12K.

Saturday AM estimates:

  1. Demon Slayer…Infinity Castle (Sony) 3,342 (+27) theaters, Fri $4.5M (-86%), 3-day $16.3M (-77%), Total $103.7M/Wk 2
  2. Him (Uni) 3,168 theaters, Fri $6.47M, 3-day $15M/Wk 1
  3. The Conjuring: Last Rites (NL) 3,413 (-389) theaters, Fri $3.7M (-56%) 3-day $11.9M (-54%),Total $150.1M/Wk 3
  4. The Long Walk (LG) 2,845 theaters, Fri $1.84M (-61%) 3-day $6.3M (-46%), Total $22.7M/Wk 2
  5. Downton Abbey: Grand Finale (Focus) 3,711 (+17) theaters, Fri $1.94M (-78%), 3-day $6.1M(-66%), Total $31.4M/Wk 2
  6. A Big Bold Beautiful Journey (Sony) 3,330 theaters, Fri $1.4M, $3.5M/Wk 1
  7. The Senior (Angel) 2,405 theaters, Fri $1.25M, 3-day $2.5M/Wk 1
    A CinemaScore for the Michael Chiklis college football alum movie. Faith-based pull with 54% over 55, male-female is 50/50 with the pic playing best in the Mountain, Midwest, South Central and South. AMC Empire in NYC is the leading single-theater with just over $4K so far this weekend.
  8. Toy Story (re) (Dis) 2,340 (-35) theaters, Fri $350K (-68%), 3-day $1.75M (-49%), Total $229.4M lifetime/Wk 2
  9. Weapons (NL) 1,186 (-1124) theaters, Fri $380K (-55%), 3-day $1.2M (-56%) Total $149.6M/Wk 7
  10. Freakier Friday (Dis) 1,880 (-580) theaters, Fri $295K (-47%), 3-day $1.1M (-48%) Total $92.8M/Wk 7

FRIDAY AM: Universal and Monkeypaw’s football horror movie Him did $2 million from previews that began at 2 p.m. Thursday. That number is just above Lionsgate’s preview take on Stephen King’s The Long Walk ($1.3M) a week ago, and Blumhouse’s Speak No Evil ($1.3M) a year ago. Him, which stars Marlon Wayans, Julia Fox and Tyriq Withers, is expected to open in the mid-teen millions this weekend; The Long Walk opened to $11.7M, while Speak No Evil did $11.4M in its first frame.

Critics aren’t sticking around in the stands for Him at 30% on Rotten Tomatoes, and last night’s audience wasn’t impressed at 59%. Yikes. We’ll see where this goes. Him was made for a net $27M.

Sony/Crunchyroll’s Demon Slayer: Infinity Castle is expected to stand tall in its second weekend with a take between $14M-$21M. The movie will share Imax screens with Him but hold onto PLFs. Pic’s first week ends at $87.4M after a $2.6M Thursday, down 26%. It’s already the highest-grossing anime movie of all time at the domestic box office, having surpassed 1999’s Pokemon from Warner Bros ($85.7M). Next, Demon Slayer will conquer securing $100M stateside, again a first for anime movie in the U.S. and Canada.

Columbia Pictures’ Colin Farrell and Margot Robbie romance A Big Bold Beautiful Journey, is not huge in its previews with $400,000 from Thursday early shows that began at 4 p.m. at 2737 locations. Critics had no patience for this one at 40% on Rotten Tomatoes. No audience score. Sony sees the opening at $10M, others see it much lower.

Top five for the week:

1.) Demon Slayer: Infinity Castle (Sony) 3,315 theaters, Thur $2.6M (-29% from Wed), Week $87.4M/Wk 1

2.) Conjuring: Last Rites (NL) 3,802 theaters, Thurs $1.56M (-8%), Week $33.2M (-68%), Total $138.2M/Wk 2

3.) Downton Abbey: Grand Finale (Foc) 3,694 theaters, Thurs $1.38M (-16%), Week $25.3M/Wk 1

4.) Long Walk (LG) 2,845 theaters, Thurs $890K (-17%), Week $16.4M, Wk 1

5.) Toy Story 30th anniversary reissue (Dis) 2,375 theaters, Thurs $174K (-33%), Wk $4.4M, Lifetime cume $227.6M/Wk 1

September 21, 2025 0 comments
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Demon Slayer: Infinity Castle Defies Odds, Rakes In Rs 2 Crore On Day 8 Despite Jolly LLB 3's Release | Glamsham.com
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Demon Slayer: Infinity Castle Defies Odds, Rakes In Rs 2 Crore On Day 8 Despite Jolly LLB 3’s Release | Glamsham.com

by jummy84 September 20, 2025
written by jummy84

Demon Slayer: Infinity Castle swept the Indian box office away since its release on September 12. The newest anime installment in the much-loved franchise opened at an amazing ₹12.25 crore net, becoming the biggest-grossing anime film in India overnight. It has also beaten the lifetime collections of big hits Jujutsu Kaisen 0 and Suzume, creating a new benchmark for Japanese animation in India.

The film continued its strong momentum through the opening weekend, raking in ₹38.95 crore net. Although it witnessed a gradual decline during weekdays, Infinity Castle still managed a solid first-week total of ₹53.20 crore net. Directed by Haruo Sotozaki, the anime’s gripping storyline and loyal fanbase helped it maintain traction.

As it crossed its second weekend, the movie earned an estimated ₹2 crore net on the second Friday, taking the 8-day overall to ₹55.20 crore net. Though the collections are declining, there is hope for a turnaround over the weekend.

With competition from Bollywood’s Jolly LLB 3 featuring Akshay Kumar and Arshad Warsi, Demon Slayer can expect limited but consistent growth. If it maintains its present trajectory, trade analysts believe that it can achieve ₹80 crore net towards the end of its theatrical life — a great achievement for an anime title in India.

This success marks a turning point for Japanese anime in the Indian market. With such soaring reception, audiences can probably anticipate more theatrical releases from hit shows like One Piece, Chainsaw Man, and Jujutsu Kaisen in the future.

Day-wise Box Office Collection (India):

Day 1: ₹12.25 crore

Day 2: ₹13.05 crore

Day 3: ₹13.65 crore

Day 4: ₹4.00 crore

Day 5: ₹4.15 crore

Day 6: ₹3.45 crore

Day 7: ₹2.65 crore

Day 8: ₹2.00 crore (estimated)

Total: ₹55.20 crore net

September 20, 2025 0 comments
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'KPop Demon Hunters' Soundtrack Hits No. 1 on Billboard 200 Chart
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‘KPop Demon Hunters’ Soundtrack Hits No. 1 on Billboard 200 Chart

by jummy84 September 14, 2025
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The soundtrack to Netflix’s animated film KPop Demon Hunters hits No. 1 on the Billboard 200 albums chart for the first time, rising 2-1 on the chart dated Sept. 20, after seven nonconsecutive weeks in the runner-up slot. The set earned 128,000 equivalent album units in the United States in the week ending Sept. 11 (up 7%), according to Luminate, marking the album’s best week yet. The surge to No. 1 follows the album’s deluxe reissue on Sept. 5 with additional tracks, plus the wide release of its CD that day.

KPop Demon Hunters’ rise to No. 1 on the Billboard 200 was preceded by four top 10-charted hits on the Billboard Hot 100 songs chart — the most from a soundtrack in nearly 30 years, with the soundtrack the first ever with four simultaneous top 10s. Among those is the No. 1 “Golden” by HUNTR/X — the trio of EJAE, Audrey Nuna and REI AMI (the singing voices of the film’s characters Rumi, Mira and Zoey).

KPop Demon Hunters is the Billboard 200’s first No. 1 soundtrack in three-and-a-half years, since another animated film, Encanto, saw its companion album spend nine nonconsecutive weeks on top (Jan. 15-March 19, 2022).

Notably, as KPop Demon Hunters climbs to No. 1 in its 12th week on the chart, it completes the longest wait to reach No. 1 since Toby Keith’s 2008 release 35 Biggest Hits re-entered the chart at No. 1 on the Feb. 17, 2024-dated list, following his death that Feb. 5. The last album with a longer continuous climb to No. 1 than KPop Demon Hunters was The Kid LAROI’s F*ck Love, which jumped 26-1 in its 53rd consecutive chart week, on the Aug. 7, 2021, list. The latter vaulted to No. 1 following two reissues during that tracking week.

Meawhile, the last soundtrack to take a longer journey to No. 1 was O Brother, Where Art Thou?, which rose 2-1 in its 63rd continuous week on the chart, on the March 23, 2002-dated list. Its ascent to the top was aided by its Grammy Award win for album of the year at the 44th annual ceremony that Feb. 27.

Plus, KPop Demon Hunters spent seven nonconsecutive weeks at No. 2 on the Billboard 200 before reaching No. 1. That’s the longest wait an album endured in the runner-up spot before leading the Billboard 200 in nearly a half-century: In October-November 1977, Linda Ronstadt’s Simple Dreams logged nine weeks at No. 2 before topping the chart at last. (Stray Cats’ Built for Speed holds the record for the most weeks peaking at No. 2: 15 in 1982-83.)

Also in the top 10 of the latest Billboard 200: Justin Bieber’s SWAG vaults 17-4 following its deluxe expansion with 23 additional tracks, and sombr’s I Barely Know Her reaches the top 10 for the first time, rising 12-10 in its third week, following the artist’s performance on the MTV Video Music Awards (Sept. 7).

The Billboard 200 chart ranks the most popular albums of the week in the U.S. based on multi-metric consumption as measured in equivalent album units, compiled by Luminate. Units comprise album sales, track equivalent albums (TEA) and streaming equivalent albums (SEA). Each unit equals one album sale, or 10 individual tracks sold from an album, or 3,750 ad-supported or 1,250 paid/subscription on-demand official audio and video streams generated by songs from an album. The new Sept. 20, 2025-dated chart will be posted in full on Billboard‘s website on Sept. 16. For all chart news, follow @billboard and @billboardcharts on both X, formerly known as Twitter, and Instagram.

Of KPop Demon Hunters’ 128,000 equivalent album units earned in the latest tracking week, SEA units comprise 103,000 (up less than 1%, equaling 141.08 million on-demand official streams of the set’s tracks — it rises 2-1 on Top Streaming Albums for its first week on top), album sales comprise 23,000 (up 56%; it’s pushed down 3-4 on Top Album Sales) and TEA units comprise 2,000 (down 7%).

In the tracking week, the soundtrack got a boost from its deluxe reissue as a digital download and streaming album on Sept. 5 with 23 additional tracks. The additional cuts are mostly sing-along, instrumental and a cappella versions of the album’s hit songs. The album’s sales gain was aided by the wide release of its standard 12-track CD to brick-and-mortar retailers. It is available in five CD variants, each containing a poster and randomized photocard. A vinyl release for the project is expected Oct. 17.

KPop Demon Hunters premiered on June 20 in a limited theatrical release in the U.S. (in three movie theaters), and on Netflix, alongside its soundtrack. The film returned to theaters, this time nationwide, for a limited engagement on Aug. 23-24 as a sing-along version. The same sing-along version hit Netflix on Aug. 25.

In the tracking week ending Sept. 7, the animated film was No. 2 in its 12th week on Netflix’s Top 10 Movies in United States chart, with four of those weeks at No. 1. The movie now stands as the most popular original Netflix film to date.

KPop Demon Hunters is the seventh animated film soundtrack to reach No. 1 on the Billboard 200, since the list began publishing on a regular weekly basis in March 1956. It follows Encanto (nine weeks at No. 1, 2022), Frozen II (one week, 2019), Frozen (13, 2014), Jack Johnson’s Curious George (one, 2006), Pocahontas (one, 1995) and The Lion King (10, 1994-95).

KPop Demon Hunters ends a dry spell for soundtracks at No. 1 on the Billboard 200. It’s been three years and six months since Encanto spent its ninth and final week atop the list (dated March 19, 2022). That’s the longest the chart has gone without a soundtrack at No. 1 since the three-year and nearly eight-month gap between the second and final week at No. 1 for Armageddon (July 25, 1998) and the first of two weeks at No. 1 for O Brother, Where Art Thou? (March 23, 2002).

Back on the latest Billboard 200, Sabrina Carpenter’s Man’s Best Friend falls to No. 2 with 119,000 equivalent album units earned (down 68%) after debuting at No. 1 a week ago. Morgan Wallen’s chart-topping I’m the Problem is a non-mover at No. 3 with 98,000 (down 6%).

Justin Bieber’s SWAG surges 17-4 with 80,000 equivalent album units (up 223%) after it was surprise reissued in a deluxe edition as a digital download and streaming album on Sept. 5 with 23 additional tracks. The deluxe edition is dubbed SWAG II and contains the original SWAG album’s 21 tracks, along with an additional 23 bonus tracks. The original SWAG album was also a surprise affair, arriving on July 11 with little notice; it debuted at its No. 2 best. All versions of SWAG are combined for tracking and charting purposes.

SWAG also gets an assist from the release of the standard 21-track album’s release on CD and via two deluxe CD boxed sets (each containing a branded T-shirt and a copy of the standard SWAG album).

Alex Warren’s You’ll Be Alright, Kid is a non-mover at No. 5 on the Billboard 200 with 38,000 equivalent album units earned (up less than 1%). SZA’s chart-topping SOS climbs 9-6 (just over 33,000, down 2%), Wallen’s former leader One Thing at a Time dips 6-7 (33,000, down 6%), Stray Kids’ chart-topping KARMA falls 4-8 (32,000, down 49%), and Gunna’s The Last Wun falls 8-9 (31,000, down 10%).

Closing out the top 10 is sombr’s debut studio album I Barely Know Her, which rises 12-10 in its third week on the chart — and its first week in the top 10. The set earned 29,000 equivalent album units in the latest tracking week (up 5%). The rise comes after sombr performed a medley of the album’s “Back to Friends” and “12 to 12” on the MTV Video Music Awards broadcast on CBS on Sept. 7. Prior to the album’s ascent to the top 10, its singles “Back to Friends” and “Undressed” both hit the top 30 of the Hot 100 and the top 20 of the all-genre Streaming Songs chart.

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September 14, 2025 0 comments
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'KPop Demon Hunters' Singer and Songwriter EJAE On Writing 'Golden'
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‘KPop Demon Hunters’ Singer and Songwriter EJAE On Writing ‘Golden’

by jummy84 September 2, 2025
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Both “Golden” and “KPop Demon Hunters” have become a global phenomenon.

In a nutshell, “KPop Demon Hunters” dropped on Netflix in June, and it exploded. It’s the biggest movie ever to stream on the platform. Four songs from the film’s soundtrack sit on Billboard’s top 10, and the film landed the top spot at the domestic box office – a first for the streamer.

The film’s “I Want” song “Golden” sung by the fictional K-Pop girl band Huntr/X sits atop the Billboard Top 10 and is undeniably the song of the summer. Countless social media videos show parents playing the song on repeat for their children, and adults have no shame in sharing their sing-along moments for the world to see.

There’s no escaping “Golden.”

“KPop Demon Hunters” follows Huntr/X, the fictional K-pop girl group whose members double as demon hunters. When they’re not battling demons and saving the world, they’re lighting up the stage with catchy songs such as “Golden.” However, they face their toughest foe yet, the Saja Boys, a demon boy band who are out to steal Huntr/X’s fans and their souls. Through it all, Rumi, who is half-demon, has to face another demon, one of self-acceptance. Arden Cho, May Hong and Ji-young Yoo provide the speaking voices for Rumi, Mira and Zoey, respectively. EJAE, Rei Ami and Audrey Nuna provide the respective singing voices.

EJAE, a K-pop singer, is used to hearing her voice on demo tracks; hearing her voice and the songs played everywhere is taking getting used to. “Hearing it at H Mart on the radio. It’s weird,” she says.

The film’s popularity “hasn’t fully set in” for Cho. At a recent screening, she had a waitlist for her young nieces AND nephews. She understands its mass appeal regardless of age. Cho says, “It allows any human or person to feel like they can relate. It’s like they feel seen.”

The song is written by: EJAE, Mark Sonnenblick, IDO, 24, and TEDDY. IDO, 24, TEDDY, and Ian Eisendrath are the song’s producers.

In the movie, “Golden” sets up the idea of Rumi, Zoey and Mira working to protect the world from demons and seal the honmoon, a barrier separating demons from the real world.

The song blends both English and Korean seamlessly into its lyrics.

Speaking with Variety, EJAE said, “One of the biggest assets I brought to the movie, or when writing the songs, was being bilingual. It was important for our co-director, Maggie Kang, to have Korean in the lyrics, and I just love that it’s not just the verses; it was in the actual song too.”

She went on to say that cracking the actual song took a while. While they had a general idea of what the scene needed, the filmmakers gave a guideline: “It needed to have the word gold in it, and the feeling of what Rumi was going through.” It also needed to introduce the struggles of each member in the verses. She says, “It needed a pep talk and the idea that we can do this together.”

Thematically, it also needed to be empowering and follow the hero’s journey of feeling like an outsider.

In the song, Rumi’s vulnerabilities are revealed – “She’s incredibly hardworking and has that leadership. She puts her best foot forward, but she tries to hide her imperfections and flaws.”

EJAE admits the melody was one of the first things she came up with for the song. “That was the first thing that I came up with.” She confesses, “I actually wrote the melody on my way to the dentist.”

The idea of “gonna be Golden” lyrics came soon after. She took it to Sonnenblick and had mumbled those words to him on the rough takes. His reaction? “Oh my God!” EJAE says the inspiration continued, and they wrote it “super fast.”

EJAE didn’t just relate to Rumi’s struggles; she related to the words she wrote. As a former K-Pop trainee, that experience and pressure were something she tried to drop into the song’s bridge. Once she had that, she says the bridge too came together with ease. “Going through that experience helped a lot in writing and emoting the melody and lyrics.”

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Gorillaz Play Debut Album, Demon Days in Full: Watch Video
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by jummy84 September 1, 2025
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Gorillaz kicked off their four-night residency at London’s Copper Box Arena with back-to-back shows on Friday, August 29th, and Saturday, August 30th. The band performed their 2001 self-titled debut on the first night before reprising their Demon Days live show in its entirety the following evening.

The concerts coincide with the final week of the Gorillaz’s House of Kong 25th anniversary exhibition, which began on August 8th and runs through September 3rd. As promised, the group revisited the era for each album by recreating the original live show formats and visuals from each release.

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During the Friday show, Gorillaz celebrated their debut album by playing several songs from the project for the first time since 2002: “Man Research (Clapper),” “Sound Check (Gravity),” “Starshine,” and “Slow Country.”

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Meanwhile, the Demon Days gig saw them joined by De La Soul, Bootie Brown of The Pharcyde, and Michelle Ndegwa. The latter artist filled in for Neneh Cherry and Shaun Ryder’s parts on “Kids with Guns” and “DARE,” respectively.

Watch fan-shot footage of both nights below, followed by the full setlists.

Gorillaz will close out the run by playing Plastic Beach in full on September 2nd and then a “Mystery Show” on September 3rd. Get tickets to the remaining dates here.

While these are the only tour dates on Gorillaz’s 2025 schedule, they follow frontman Damon Albarn’s shift in focus back to the group after Blur’s 2023 reunion and his latest opera, The Magic Flute II: La Malédiction, which premiered in Paris this spring. He has also teased a new Gorillaz album set for release sometime this year.

Gorillaz Debut Album Setlist:

M1 A1
Re-Hash (with Miho Hatori) (First time live since 2018)
5/4 (with Miho Hatori)
Tomorrow Comes Today
New Genious (Brother) (with Miho Hatori)
Clint Eastwood
Man Research (Clapper) (with Miho Hatori) (First time live since 2002)
Punk (First time live since 2018)
Sound Check (Gravity) (First time live since 2002)
Double Bass (Live debut; with false start)
Rock the House (with false start)
19-2000 (with Miho Hatori) (Restarted after second verse)
Latin Simone (¿Qué Pasa Contigo?) (First verse and chorus in English, remainder in Spanish)
Starshine (First time live since 2002)
Slow Country (First time live since 2002)
Film Music (Played during intermission; ‘Gorilla ident’. New synth added on)

Encore:
Dracula
Ghost Train (Live debut; with false start)
Clint Eastwood (with Sweetie Irie) (Ed Case/Sweetie Irie Refix; Reprise)

Gorillaz Demon Days Setlist:

Intro (with Ben Castle) (First time played live instead of from tape)
Last Living Souls
Kids with Guns (with Michelle Ndegwa)
O Green World (Damon piano intro; false start)
Dirty Harry (with Bootie Brown and Lifted Up Community Choir Youth)
Feel Good Inc. (with De La Soul)
El Mañana
Every Planet We Reach Is Dead
November Has Come (First time live since 2010)
All Alone (with Skye Edwards) (First time live since 2006)
White Light
DARE (with Michelle Ndegwa and Rebecca)
Fire Coming Out of the Monkey’s Head
Don’t Get Lost in Heaven (with “Demon Days” choir intro; false start)
Demon Days (with London Community Gospel Choir)

Encore:
68 State
We Are Happy Landfill (Live debut)
Rockit
Hong Kong (with Qing Du)

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‘KPop Demon Hunters’ Is 2025's Longest Reigning Album
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‘KPop Demon Hunters’ Is 2025’s Longest Reigning Album

by jummy84 August 29, 2025
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It’s the most popular show of them all on Nexflix, and now KPop Demon Hunters can claim to be most popular album in Australia for 2025.

The soundtrack for KPop Demon Hunters clocks up seven consecutive weeks at the top of the ARIA Albums Chart, for the longest reign by any album for the year.

Over on the ARIA Singles Chart, soundtrack hit “Golden” retains top spot for the fifth straight a row, and is one of KPop Demon Hunters songs in the top 10.

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Earlier this week, Netflix announced the animated action/musical had accumulated more than 236 million views since its June 20 premiere, good enough to beat Red Notice and into first place on the streaming platform’s all-time rankings for English-language films.

Laufey leads the new arrivals on the ARIA Chart, published Friday, Aug. 29, as A Matter of Time clocks up a No. 2 debut, the classical-adjacent artist’s career best in Australia.

Deftones complete the podium with Private Music, their 10th studio album. It’s new at No. 3 for the alternative rock heavyweight’s sixth ARIA Top 20 appearance.

Meanwhile, Royel Otis enjoy a second consecutive top 10, as Hickey, their sophomore collection, opens its account at No. 5. That’s a career best for the Sydney duo of Royel Maddell and Otis Pavlovic, after the No. 10 peak for 2024’s Pratts & Pain, winner of four ARIA Awards, including best rock album and best group.

Hickey houses “Moody,” which last month reached No. 1 on Adult Alternative Airplay chart, their first leader on a Billboard chart. “Moody” bested the No. 2 peak of the indie-rock act’s cover of Sophie Ellis-Bextor’s “Murder on the Dancefloor,” which hit No. 2 on Alternative Airplay in July 2024.

Another act with an Australian connection, Stray Kids debut at No. 4 with Karma, for the K-pop boyband’s sixth top 10 appearance in Australia. That tally includes Maxident (No. 4 in 2022), 5-Star (No. 2 in 2023), Rock-Star (No. 2 in 2023), Ate (No. 2 in 2024) and Hop (No. 4 in 2024). Band mate Felix was born and raised in Sydney, while Bang Chan was born in Seoul but also grew up in Sydney.

US country artist Lainey Wilson lassos a new chart peak with Whirlwind, which enters at No. 8 following the release of a deluxe edition. Whirlwind reached No. 19 in August 2024.

Tyler, The Creator’s CHERRY BOMB blows up for a new chart peak of No. 10, eclipsing its best of No. 13 in 2015. Tyler is currently working his way across Australia and New Zealand on the domestic leg of his Chromakopia tour, produced by Frontier Touring, and on Friday opened the flagship GOLF store in Sydney.

Further down the list, British indie rock outfit Wolf Alice snag a No. 14 debut with Clearing, their fourth album, while Bleak Squad, the Melbourne-based “super group” comprising Mick Turner (Dirty Three, Mess Esque), Mick Harvey (Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, PJ Harvey, The Birthday Party), Adalita (Magic Dirt) and Marty Brown (Art of Fighting) are new at No. 40 with Strange Love, their first album.

Finally, the top debut on the ARIA Singles Chart belongs to Doja Cat, whose “Jealous Type” leaps in at No. 28. “Jealous Type” is Doja’s 16th top 50 hit as a solo or featured artist on the ARIA Chart, including “Paint The Town Red,” which logged 10 weeks at No. 1 in 2023.

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'KPop Demon Hunters' Gives Netflix First Box-Office Win
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‘KPop Demon Hunters’ Gives Netflix First Box-Office Win

by jummy84 August 24, 2025
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Netflix appears to have its first No. 1 box-office title in the streaming company’s 18-year history thanks to the sensation of KPop Demon Hunters.

Rival studios on Sunday (Aug. 24) estimated KPop Demon Hunters led all films over the weekend with $16-18 million in ticket sales. Distribution executives from three studios shared their estimates for the Netflix phenomenon on condition of anonymity because the streaming company has a policy of not reporting ticket sales.

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Following a dominating few weeks as one of the most popular Netflix releases ever, the streamer put the film into 1,750 theaters for sing-along screenings Saturday and Sunday. Studios are able to accurately estimate ticket sales for all releases on Sunday morning, though the uncommon nature of the KPop Demon Hunters release means a wider variance. Some estimates were as high as $20 million.

It amounted to a victory lap for KPop Demon Hunters, arguably the biggest hit of Hollywood’s summer, and an ironic success for Netflix, whose emphasis on streaming, not theatrical release, upended the movie industry. Another sore spot for Hollywood: The film was developed and produced by Sony Pictures, which sold it to Netflix.

Not all exhibitors went along. AMC, the largest theater chain in North America, declined to show the movie. But that didn’t stop Netflix from claiming the box-office title its more traditional competitors typically own.

David A. Gross, who runs the movie consulting firm FranchiseRe, called it “a completely unique two-day musical event.”

“It may turn out to be higher,” said Gross. “Theater owners are quick on their feet and can add capacity according to demand.”

The theatrical release, though limited, is out of the ordinary for the streaming giant, which has long stressed a commitment to subscriber releases. The movie debuted on the platform in late June and is currently Netflix’s most-watched animated original film.

The film centers on HUNTR/X, a K-pop superstar trio doubling as demon hunters. The members, Rumi (Arden Cho), Mira (May Hong) and Zooey (Ji-young Yoo), must protect their fans and face their biggest enemy yet: a rival boy band made up of demons in disguise.

Zach Cregger’s horror hit Weapons maintained strength in the box office during its third weekend, bringing in $15.6 million domestically. The buzzy horror movie has proved its staying power, raking in over $100 million globally since its release.

Disney’s Freakier Friday landed behind the horror movie once again, earning $9.2 million in North American theaters.

The two films are “real bright spots” as the box office heads into a “rather quiet finish” for the summer, said Paul Dergarabedian, senior media analyst for the data firm Comscore. Both films, which premiered simultaneously earlier this month, had a minimal 36% drop from last weekend.

“I think we have to look at the currency of the goodwill generated by people having these great summer moviegoing experiences,” Dergarabedian said. “We have to look at that as a more important metric than just the bottom-line dollars and cents.”

The Fantastic Four: First Steps earned $5.9 million domestically during its fifth weekend. The movie enjoyed a strong $118 million debut but has experienced a steady decline.

Newcomer Honey Don’t! opened in 1,317 North American theaters with a weekend gross estimate of $3 million, in line with expectations. The movie made it to the top 10, right above The Naked Gun.

The dark comedy stars Margaret Qualley as Honey O’Donahue, a small-town private investigator who investigates a slew of strange deaths tied to a church in Bakersfield, California.

Top 10 movies by domestic box office

With final domestic figures being released Monday, this list factors in the estimated ticket sales for Friday through Sunday at U.S. and Canadian theaters, according to Comscore:

1. Weapons, $15.6 million
2. Freakier Friday, $9.2 million
3. The Fantastic Four: First Steps, $5.9 million
4. The Bad Guys 2, $5.1 million
5. Nobody 2, $3.7 million
6. Superman, $3.4 million
7. Honey Don’t!, $3 million
8. The Naked Gun, $3 million
9. Jurassic World Rebirth, $2.1 million
10. Relay, $2 million

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What It's Like to Attend a 'KPop Demon Hunters' Sing-Along
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What It’s Like to Attend a ‘KPop Demon Hunters’ Sing-Along

by jummy84 August 24, 2025
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Now here’s a first: Two months after dropping “KPop Demon Hunters” on Netflix, the streamer is putting the animated hit in theaters — and not just the cursory Oscar-qualifying run its prestige titles get in New York and Los Angeles. This one is going wide, in more than 1,700 venues, for karaoke-captioned screenings in which audience participation is encouraged.

Dress up! Sing along! Give in to the catchy choreography … that’s how it’s done done done!

I’ve been on the Huntr/x train since the beginning and bought tickets to the first screening of the day at Los Angeles’ Alamo Drafthouse theater, where the house was packed with family audiences. They weren’t just in it for the songs either, but gleefully recited most of the dialogue, too. These kids knew the movie by heart, having watched it countless times at home, and now their parents were spending close to $100 to experience it on the big screen.

Next week, the one-of-a-kind cultural phenomenon — in which a trio of Korean pop stars use the positive energy their songs generate to keep soul-sucking ghouls at bay, until evil demons form a rival boy band to steal their fans — is set to become Netflix’s most-watched movie. Clearly, this exclusive two-day event was willed into existence by popular demand, just as any extension or encore Netflix agrees to would also be.

To the best of my knowledge, nobody was begging Netflix to release a sing-along version of Guillermo del Toro’s “Pinocchio” three years ago (much less “Emilia Pérez,” back when Netflix was treating that film like an Oscar frontrunner). And even though purists wanted to see Alfonso Cuarón’s “Roma” and Martin Scorsese’s “The Irishman” in theaters, those movies didn’t sell out nearly as quickly as “KPop Demon Hunters” shows did when Netflix announced its plan last week.

The film is all about fandom, and this unprecedented move from the streaming-first media company suggests that Netflix recognized that the film’s millions-strong audience were craving the collective experience that only cinemas can provide.

Maybe theaters aren’t quite as obsolete as Ted Sarandos would have us believe. Nor is this singular event likely to change how Netflix does business.

First, it’s important to understand what “KPop Demon Hunters” is. Produced by Sony Pictures Animation (the studio behind “Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse” and “The Mitchells vs. the Machines”), the cleverly executed, computer-animated feature looks every bit as slick as the latest releases from Pixar and DreamWorks … which is to say, it could’ve easily supported a big-screen release in the first place.

But that would’ve meant spending millions of marketing dollars, just to let audiences know of the movie’s existence, in a marketplace where opening weekend makes all the difference and films get chased off screen before they’ve had time to build a following. (That’s one reason Sony started selling its animated features to Netflix, which came to the rescue of “Wish Dragon,” from “KPop” co-director Chris Applehans, amid the pandemic.)

Netflix famously keeps streaming numbers to itself, but it’s safe to say that “KPop Demon Hunters” would not have been nearly the same phenom had it gone the traditional theatrical route. This way, the movie benefited from word of mouth, aggregating more viewers as early adopters told their friends to check it out. That’s a luxury streaming releases have. Rrremember “RRR,” the gonzo Tollywood movie that barely made a ripple in theaters, but gained a following on Netflix?

The best analogy here could be Disney’s animated “Encanto,” which did OK business in theaters (this was 2021, when windows were still compressed in response to the pandemic), but really took off when it hit Disney+ 30 days. Only then did the song “We Don’t Talk About Bruno” blow up with a very similar demographic.

Perhaps the late shows will draw a crowd of older fans, though I loved sitting through the movie with a room full of chatty kids, one of whom was named Zoey (like the eager-to-please Huntr/x rapper, who fights demons with a glowing three-pronged dagger). Zoey and her friends seemed tickled any time her name was spoken.

Back in June, before the film was released, I asked my friendly neighborhood Netflix reps if there was any way to see “KPop Demon Hunters” on the big screen. They declined. (I’d also hoped it might screen at the Annecy Animation Festival, which unspooled the week prior in France, but for some reason, they brought “Fixed” instead.) I can’t be alone in preferring to watch movies in a theater, although Netflix does their best to make that difficult for audiences.

In Los Angeles, that meant opening them at the Bay, the upscale Pacific Palisades theater that shuttered amid the wildfires earlier this year — quite the shlep to watch Zack Snyder’s “Rebel Moon” (clearly better on the big screen) or the latest Adam Sandler movie. Now they sprinkle them into art-houses around town, doing what feels like the bare minimum to meet contractual obligations and Academy Awards rules.

With “KPop Demon Hunters,” they opened in at least two dozen Los Angeles theaters, including major chains like Regal and Cinemark — more than doubling the number of screens the studio offered “Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery” in 2022. But the data-driven company also knew what they had in this case (what every studio wants): a sure thing.

At the moment, three of the film’s original songs — “Golden,” “Your Idol” and “Soda Pop” — sit among the top 10 of Billboard’s Hot 100 chart. And judging by the reaction in the room, “Takedown” (which TWICE sings over the end credits, and the audience couldn’t resist echoing) could soon join their ranks.

Netflix has a full slate of big-screen-worthy movies coming this fall, including Sundance marvel “Train Dreams,” Guillermo del Toro’s “Frankenstein” and Kathryn Bigelow’s “A House of Dynamite,” but however many millions “KPop Demon Hunters” earns this weekend, that doesn’t mean the streamer will rush to open those films wide.

To repeat this experiment, they’d need another proven success with a built-in audience willing to pay to rewatch a film they first saw on streaming. Netflix has the numbers to indicate what time of year certain movies are popular. Maybe a Christmas release of last year’s “Carry On” could work.

Or maybe this is a unicorn event for which we should simply be grateful: For two days only, nonsubscribers can see “KPop Demon Hunters,” surrounded by singing groupies whose enthusiasm willed the streaming phenomenon onto the big screen.

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