We’ve hit the Big Apple, baby! For the rest of the week you can view idobi’s motion billboard on the Nasdaq building in Times Square. It’s a stunning animation featuring all three of our stations. It’s pretty wild to have a billboard in THE Times Square.
Last night marked a milestone for the Billboard Music Awards as they celebrated their 30th anniversary, and Demi Lovato did not come to play. But it seems that Billboard and NBC were not quite ready for what she had to offer.
After a record-breaking 19 weeks in the number one spot on Billboard’s Hot 100 Lil Nas X’s “Old Town Road” was finally ousted by Billie Eilish’s “Bad Guy”. Lil Nas X isn’t mad about it though, in a tweet he said: “congratulations to billie eilish!! u deserve this!!”. “Old Town Road” broke the record of the longest-running number 1 song previously held for 16 weeks by Mariah Carey’s “One Sweet Day”. Billy Ray Cyrus, who’s featured on “Old Town Road”, also congratulated Billie on twitter saying: “Congratulations @billieeilish Well deserved. Your persistence paid off. Thanks everybody. It was a hell… Read more »
An extraordinarily well written film about messed up people who redeem themselves in the worst possible ways for all the right reasons.
Hayley Williams will receive Billboard’s first Trailblazer Award at their 9th annual Women In Music Award Ceremony this December. Williams was also named one of idobi’s Leading Ladies of Alternative.
The Wonder Years sold 19,673 copies of their new record The Greatest Generation in its first week, landing them at #20 on the Billboard Top 200.
It’s all about The Power of Madonna this week on the Billboard 200 albums chart where the soundtrack from last week’s Madonna-themed episode of Fox TV’s “Glee” debuts at No. 1 with 98,000 copies sold according to Nielsen SoundScan.
Despite some big-name detractors, “We are the World: 25 for Haiti” debuts at No. 2 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart just days after the all-star charity single premiered during the televised opening of the Vancouver Winter Olympics.
“Change will come,” Patrick Stump sings on “(Coffee’s for Closers),” a typically excitable cut from the new Fall Out Boy album. Considering that the Chicago band’s original plan to release “Folie a Deux” on Election Day, that lyric was likely intended as a tip of the hoodie to Barack Obama Now it plays more like an acknowledgement of the evolution of FOB’s sound, which since 2005’s breakthrough ” From Under the Cork Tree ” has taken on new complexities without losing the fist-pumping qualities that made Stump and his bandmates mall-punk superstars. “Folie” is easily the group’s most adventurous outing… Read more »
The 9:30 Club just hit the trifecta, winning the top three national awards for nightclubs in as many months. The latest: the 9:30 Club has been named Nightclub of the Year by the POLLSTAR Concert Industry Awards. POLLSTAR, the industry’s leading concert trade publication, honored the 9:30 Club for its professionalism, achievements and abilities. The Pollstar Concert Industry Awards are determined through a vote of U.S. and international music business professionals. “The 9:30 Club is all about the people who work there. It would really be nothing without them. I can’t thank them enough,” said Seth Hurwitz, chairman… Read more »
