She posted a childhood photograph of her and JR. The siblings are seen smiling while her brother is sitting in a chair and she stands next to him. “I pray you’re somewhere so safe & comfortable,” she tweeted last Thursday. […]
The parents of Tyre Sampson, the 14-year-old who died at an Orlando amusement park, were awarded $310 million by a jury on Thursday. They won their case against Funtime, the Austrian manufacturer of the ride.
A Jacksonville, Florida, couple filed a lawsuit against Walmart on Wednesday, claiming the retailer falsely accused them of stealing children’s clothing from a store in October.
Luigi Mangione, a 26-year-old Ivy League graduate, has been arrested and charged in connection with the murder of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson. After being arrested yesterday at a McDonald’s restaurant in Altoona, Pennsylvania, he was charged with murder, second-degree criminal possession of a weapon, second-degree possession of a forged document and third-degree criminal possession of a firearm. He is currently incarcerated as law enforcement is investigating a motive.
Fortnite players may soon receive more than $72 million in refunds after the Federal Trade Commission discovered the video game’s maker, Epic Games, had “tricked” customers into unwanted purchases.
Nikki Giovanni, the acclaimed poet, author, professor and activist, died Monday following a third cancer diagnosis. She was 81.
Jack White has shared details of a new U.K. and European tour, set to kick off in Feb. 2025. Find a full list of dates below.
The run of shows follow the soloist and former White Stripes member’s surprise sixth studio LP No Name, which hit No. 33 on the Official U.K. Albums Chart and No. 108 on the Billboard 200 upon release in August.
The tour will commence at Paris’ La Cigale theatre on Feb. 21, before taking moving on to venues in Utrecht, London, Birmingham and Glasgow over the following two weeks. The dates will wrap up with a show at the latter’s Barrowland Ballroom on March 3.
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Details of a special fan presale will be shared with those signed up for White’s newsletter, while remaining tickets will go live at 10 a.m (GMT) on Thursday (Dec. 12). Further ticket sale information can be found via the 49-year-old’s official website.
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Shortly after No Name was unveiled, White played a string of surprise club and bar show in southern U.S. states. Taking to social media on Aug. 13, the songwriter and guitarist posted a statement about how these intimate shows were part of a wider unconventional campaign in support of the album.
“People keep saying that these are ‘Pop up shows’ we’ve been playing, well, you can call them whatever you want, but we are on tour right now,” he said at the time. “Lots of love and rock and roll to you all and you are blessed for giving that love to others, we hope that we see you out on the road soon, if not let’s get coffee and a slice of pie sometime? Music is sacred.”
The newly announced U.K. and European gigs will form part of a larger world tour through spring 2025 that includes more U.S. dates as well as concerts in Australia, New Zealand and Japan.
Jack White U.K. and European 2025 tour dates:Feb. 21 – Paris, France @ La CigaleFeb. 22 – Paris, France @ Le TrianonFeb. 23 – Paris, France @ Le TrianonFeb. 25 – Utrecht, the Netherlands @ TivoliVredenburg (Ronda)Feb. 26 – Utrecht, the Netherlands @ TivoliVredenburg (Ronda)Feb. 28 – London, England @ TroxyMarch 1 – London, England @ TroxyMarch 2 – Birmingham, England @ O2 AcademyMarch 3 – Glasgow, Scotland @ Barrowland Ballroom
Limitless Live has announced its return to London’s Roundhouse for its fourth consecutive year on May 4, 2025.
The event — billed as the U.K.’s largest free live music show with social purpose at its core — seeks to inspire young people from underrepresented backgrounds across the capital. All tickets will be free of charge and will be distributed through youth charities and community organizations. Further details can be found via the Roundhouse website.
Limitless Live 2025 will be headlined by grime MC and rapper Ghetts, who released his fourth studio album On Purpose, With Purpose, through Warner Records in February. The record peaked at No. 29 on the Official U.K. Albums Chart, and went on to receive a nomination for the prestigious Mercury Prize in September.
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Also on the line-up are hip-hop duo Young T & Bugsey, and singer/songwriter Nafe Smallz, with further acts to be announced next year. Limitless Live will partner with KFC and Viagogo to provide free transport for young attendees wishing to travel to the event from other cities across the U.K., including Manchester, Birmingham, Liverpool and Leeds.
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Previous iterations of Limitless Live have included six-time BRIT Award winner RAYE, as well as Stefflon Don, Krept & Konan, Unknown T, and Ms Banks. Over the years, its founder, Tolu Farinto, has offered 12-month internships to a portion of attendees, alongside helping other ticket-holders to secure work placements at Universal Music’s London office.Speaking in a press release earlier this year, Farinto said: “Limitless Live continues to be a beacon of light representing a continued commitment to supporting the aspirations and wellbeing of young people, ensuring that as we navigate a cost of living crisis, underrepresented young people still have access to live music and the best acts in the U.K.”
The legendary Bing Crosby is back in the top 10 on the Billboard 200 albums chart for the first time in nearly 64 years, as his new holiday compilation Ultimate Christmas climbs 18-9 on the chart dated Dec. 14.
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The entertainer, who died in 1977, was last in the top 10 on the Billboard 200 with his classic Merry Christmas album, which ranked at No. 9 on the Dec. 31, 1960-dated chart. It had previously spent a week at No. 1 on Jan. 6, 1958-dated chart.
Merry Christmas became the second holiday album to top the Billboard 200, following its launch as a regularly published weekly chart in March 1956. Elvis Presley’s Elvis’ Christmas Album was the first chart-topping holiday set, as it topped the chart for three weeks in December 1957, moved aside for Crosby for a week and then returned to No. 1 for one more week in January 1958.
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Ultimate Christmas is available as 14-song standard album, an expanded 28-song edition, and a deluxe 58-song version. All versions of the album contain such classic Holiday 100-charting tunes from Crosby as “White Christmas” (featuring The Ken Darby Singers and John Scott Trotter and His Orchestra), “It’s Beginning To Look a Lot Like Christmas,” “Do You Hear What I Hear?,” “Mele Kalikimaka” (with The Andrews Sisters) and “Silent Night” (featuring John Scott Trotter and His Orchestra and Max Terr’s Mixed Chorus).
In the tracking week ending Dec. 5, as reflected on the Dec. 14-dated Billboard 200 chart, Ultimate Christmas earned 50,000 equivalent album units in the week ending (up 59%). Of that sum, SEA units comprise 46,000 (up 62%; equaling 61.37 million on-demand official streams of the set’s tracks; it jumps 16-6 on Top Streaming Albums).
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 Dec. 14, 2024-dated chart will be posted in full on Billboard’s website on Tuesday, Dec. 10. For all chart news, follow @billboard and @billboardcharts on both X, formerly known as Twitter, and Instagram.
A suspect has been arrested in the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson. Joseph Kenny, who serves as New York City police department’s chief of detectives, announced on Monday that officials arrested 26-year-old Luigi Mangione in Altoona, Pennsylvania while he was eating at a McDonald’s restaurant and an employee identified him.
“He was sitting there eating,” Kenny said at Monday’s press conference, The Guardian reported.
CNN reports that a two-page document from Luigi Mangione was found, which included the lines:“These parasites had it coming. I do apologize for any strife and trauma, but it had to be done.” pic.twitter.com/v5d07Q6hRs— Pop Base (@PopBase) December 9, 2024
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