Juice WRLD & Marshmello Rule Hot 100 Songwriters & Producers Charts

Billboard’s First Stream serves as a handy guide to this Friday’s most essential releases — the key music that everyone will be talking about today, and that will be dominating playlists this weekend and beyond.

Juice WRLD passed away in December but his music lives on with the release of a new single “Smile”, the rapper’s first (and, sadly, only) collaboration with the Weeknd.

The Weeknd would make a diamond record…” he wrote, four months before he died in 2018.Posthumous releases are tricky things and getting them right is a balancing act. The best results are respectful of an artist’s legacy, and present themselves as creative interpretations rather than lost artefacts.

DEALSShirley Bassey has signed a new record deal with Universal Music’s Decca, with a new album set for release later this year. “My new album is a celebration of 70 years in showbiz”, she says.

The Weeknd teamed up with Juice WRLD on a collaboration before the rapper’s untimely death and now the song “Smile” has been released.

There hasn't been much to smile about in 2020, though a new collaboration between the late Juice WRLD and The Weeknd might change that.

The Weeknd has taken to social media to subtly hint at a forthcoming collaboration with the late Juice WRLD, due out on Thursday (August 6).The singer tweeted “XO + 999 Thursday Night” earlier today, with ‘XO’ representing himself and ‘999’ representing the late rapper – a number he used extensively as part of his brand.XO + 999 Thursday Night— The Weeknd (@theweeknd) August 4, 2020Fans on Twitter have also unearthed an old tweet of Juice WRLD’s from late last year, where he theorised that a

Rapper and singer The Kid LAROI has stayed in the spotlight over the past year, name-dropping TikTok star Addison Rae and releasing one Cole Bennett-directed music video after the other. Laroi was born in Australia, where he began rapping at the age of seven.

Even though Juice WRLD passed away in December of 2019, his estate has continued to find itself in legal battles. Hot New Hip Hop reported today, however, that one of his legal disputes have been forgotten.

Marshmello delivers.The Mellogang leader today (July 28) tweeted that he has "8 or 9 songs left" in response to a tweet requesting additional collaborations from the producer and late hip-hop artist Juice WRLD.The duo's first collab "Come & Go" dropped July 10 and is currently riding high on several Billboard charts. It debuted at No.

Chris Willman Music WriterThe Chicks, formerly the Dixie Chicks, have the top non-posthumous album of the week, with “Gaslighter,” the trio’s first album in 14 years, which bowed with 93,400 album units.But that only puts them at No. 3.

The band believes Juice WRLD’s "Lucid Dreams" contains "melodic elements" of one of their songs but felt uncomfortable suing the late rapper's mother.

Juice WRLD tallies his fourth week at No. 1 on the Billboard Artist 100 chart (dated Aug. 1), as his posthumous LP Legends Never Die logs its second frame atop the Billboard 200. The set holds at No. 1 with 162,000 equivalent album units, according to Ni

rap-rock is having a bit of a comeback right now. Distancing itself from the nu-metal scene of the early ‘00s, “glock-rock” (as it’s been dubbed) is seeing hip-hop stars revive the precarious crossover with thrilling results.

Legends Never Die.The set soars in at No.

Jordan Moreau Daisha Riley, a producer on “Good Morning America,” has died, co-host Michael Strahan announced to viewers on Tuesday morning. She was 35.“One of our stars, Daisha Riley, a young and talented producer, suddenly and unexpectedly passed away.

Juice WRLD and Marshmello’s “Come & Go” becomes the fourth song to debut at No. 1 on Billboard’s Streaming Songs chart in 2020, ruling the list dated July 25.“Come & Go” bows with 36.4 million U.S.

Juice WRLD and Marshmello's "Come & Go" debuts at No. 1 on Billboard's recently revamped Hot Rock & Alternative Songs chart and the newly launched Hot Alternative Songs survey, bowing atop both lists dated July 25."Come & Go" is the first song to debut at No.

producer Daisha Riley has died. She was 35.«One of our stars, Daisha Riley, a young and talented producer, suddenly and unexpectedly passed away,» co-host Michael Strahan shared with viewers on Tuesday.

Juice WRLD’s Legends Never Die, the first album from the artist following his death, is the No.1 album in the country. The album was released on July 10 and subsequently sold 497,000 equivalent album units, per Billboard.