A host of the stage, screen and sports stars will help celebrate Queen Elizabeth II’s 70 years on the British throne at a BBC Studios Productions-led live event at Buckingham Palace titled the Platinum Party in the Park.
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Fontaines D.C. soar straight to the summit on this week’s Official Albums Chart, claiming their first-ever UK Number 1 album with Skinty Fia.
The Dublin-born band, comprising Carlos O’Connell, Conor Curley, Conor Deegan III, Grian Chatten and Tom Coll, outsell their closest competition 2:1 to claim the top spot. Physical sales account for 87% of Skinty Fia’s total, seeing the group top this week’s Official Vinyl Albums Chart too.
Prior to this, Fontaines D.C. scored two Top 10 albums, with 2019’s Dogrel (9) and 2020 LP A Hero’s Death (2). See Fontaines D.C.’s full Official Charts history here.
Celebrating their Official Number 1 album, Fontaines D.C. tell : “We're touched by everyone's response to Skinty Fia, thank you to everyone who bought, streamed or downloaded it.”
Little Mix’s Between Us greatest hits collection enjoys a new peak of Number 3 this week, rising two places as the group perform their Confetti Tour nationwide. The record – Jade Thirlwall, Leigh-Anne Pinnock and Perrie Edwards’ final release before the band take an indefinite hiatus – originally peaked at Number 4 upon its release in November 2021. See Little Mix’s full Official Charts history.
Rounding off the Top 5, space rock outfit Spiritualized’s ninth studio album Everything Was Beautiful lands at Number 5, becoming the group’s ninth UK Top 40 album to date. The album also comes in at Number 2 on the Official Vinyl Albums Chart.
Elsewhere in the Top 10, Bronx-born rapper Pusha T scores his highest-charting UK album to date with It’s Almost Dry at Number 7. Prior to this, Pusha T reached Number 13 with 2018 release Daytona.
A remaster of Brian May’s 1998 album Another World – reissued as part of the Queen guitarist’s Gold Series – sees the
A host of the stage, screen and sports stars will help celebrate Queen Elizabeth II’s 70 years on the British throne at a BBC Studios Productions-led live event at Buckingham Palace titled the Platinum Party in the Park.
Eva Longoria is looking back at the first time she attended the Cannes Film Festival in 2005.
Billy Eichner is taking his brand of comedy from the streets to the theaters by co-writing and starring in the first-ever, R-rated gay rom-com from a major studio.
Variety.Guests who are able to score tickets to the extravaganza will have the chance to spin a replica of the colorful “Wheel of Fortune” disk.Fans will also solve puzzles on the tour’s game board to win a variety of cool prizes from $10,000 to trips to Paris and Hawaii.Audience members may also be randomly selected to win cash and gifts.Tickets for the show start at $29.50 with a pre-sale dropping on May 17 at 12 p.m. PT.
Carson Burton Cannes is bringing the metaverse to the film industry.The first-ever NFTCannes Summit will take place at this year’s Cannes Film Festival. This annual event is designed to connect leading minds from the media and entertainment industry to innovators, creators and investors in web3.Officially kicking off on May 23 at the Hotel du Cap-Eden-Roc, the summit is run by a coalition of groups, including production studio Electromagnetic Productions (EMP), global cryptocurrency financial management company Galaxy Interactive, NFT app OP3N, leading blockchain platform Avalanche and private investing platform Republic.
Carson Burton “Wheel of Fortune” is going on its first-ever live tour. “Wheel of Fortune Live!” is set to travel across North America for a tour of over 60 dates starting on September 8, offering fans a unique experience of the massively popular game show.The tour, which is produced by Right Angle Entertainment, marks a new partnership between Sony and Right Angle.
Samuel Goldwyn Films has acquired U.S. rights to the coming-of-age film C.R.A.Z.Y., which launched the career of the late Jean-Marc Vallée (Dallas Buyers Club), making the film accessible to U.S. audiences for the first time since its run on the festival circuit in 2005. The film will hit theaters on June 3rd, following promotional screenings at prominent LGBTQ+ film festivals across the country.
Jennifer Aniston gifted Ellen DeGeneres a “Hello” mat as her first-ever guest. Nineteen years later, a “Goodbye” mat may be more appropriate. On May 26th, the world will watch as Aniston joins DeGeneres on her stage for the last time, as her first, and final guest.
Celebrating differently. John Mulaney’s ex-wife Anna Marie Tendler just shaded Mother’s Day as Olivia Munn celebrated her first as a mother. Both Anna and Olivia made Instagram posts about how they felt about the holiday celebrating moms.
Róisín O debuts at Number 3 on the Official Irish Albums Chart with her second studio album Courageous.
Katrina Scott is breaking barriers for expectant mothers.
Kourtney and Khloe Kardashian have never been to the Met Gala before and they are rumored to be attending this year for the first time!
Wilson Chapman editorEpix’s four-part docuseries “Fall River” and Oxygen’s “Cold Justice” were among the key winners of CrimeCon’s first annual Clue Awards, announced on Saturday night at the Paris Las Vegas Hotel.The event took place during CrimeCon, a live event for true crime content creators, industry professionals and fans. Law & Crime network founder, NewsNation host and ABC chief legal analyst Dan Abrams hosted the ceremony.Winners of the awards were selected from a panel of over 30 true crime professionals, ranging from executives at NBC, iHeart Media and Spotify, to authors and podcast hosts.In the television categories, Epix received the award for best docuseries, for its Blumhouse Television and Pyramid Productions series “Fall River.” The series, which was directed and produced by James Buddy Day, ran in May 2021 and centered on a series of crimes in Fall River, Mass., where three young women were killed in 1979.
Rihanna is celebrating her first ‘National Heroes Day’ as an official hero of Barbados!
Fontaines D.C. have scored their first Number One album in the UK and Ireland with their third record, ‘Skinty Fia’.The album, which was released last week (April 22), follows the Dublin band’s previous two efforts – 2019’s ‘Dogrel’ and 2020’s ‘A Hero’s Death’ – landing in the Top 10.‘Skinty Fia’ outsold the band’s closest competition in the Official UK Albums Chart, Ed Sheeran’s ‘=’, two-to-one.
Rihanna is celebrating her first 'National Heroes Day' as an official hero of Barbados!The FENTY Beauty founder took to social media to ring in the special occasion, posting a gallery of photos from the Pride of Nationhood ceremony in November. «My very first #NationalHeroesDay as a National Hero of my country Barbados!
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