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Mariah Carey‘s Christmas festive classic ‘All I Want For Christmas Is You’, which has been slowly climbing up the charts during the holidays every year, has finally reached the summit of the US Billboard chart, 25 years after its initial release.

The song previously peaked at number three last year.

According to Billboard, the song reached the top via 45 million streams, 34 million radio plays and 27,000 digital sales in the past week alone.

This marks Carey’s 19th number one on the Billboard Hot 100 charts, her last being 2008’s “Touch My Body.” She also holds the record for the most cumulative weeks spent at number one on Billboard Hot 100 chart, with 80 weeks overall.

The achievement also extends her record of having the most number one songs on the chart by a solo artist. Only The Beatles has more number one hits than Carey, with 20.

The song’s achievements does not end there. Carey now has a number one hit every decade since the 1990s, joining joining Christina Aguilera, Britney Spears, and Usher. Should “All I Want for Christmas Is You” remain at the summer during Christ week, she will become the only artist in Billboard history to have a No. 1 hit in four consecutive decades.

.@MariahCarey's "All I Want For Christmas Is You" is officially No. 1 on the #Hot100 for the first time this week, 25 years after its release.

— Billboard Charts (@billboardcharts) December 16, 2019

The fourth annual Lollapalooza Paris has revealed a portion of its lineup today, including headliners Pearl Jam and Billie Eilish, along with Vampire Weekend, Khalid, Burna Boy, Haim, Rita Ora, Illenium, The Struts and many more. Additional artists will be announced early next year. More than 40 artists will perform on four stages at Hippodrome De Longchamp on July 18-19, 2020. Tickets are on sale now at www.lollaparis.com.

Launched by founder Perry Farrell in 1991 as a touring festival, Lollapalooza remains an innovator in festival culture more than 25 years later. Lollapalooza was the first festival to bring together artists from a wide range of musical genres on one bill, it was also the first to travel, the first to expand to multiple days, the first to introduce a second stage, the first to blend art and activism, the first to offset its carbon emissions, the first to put electronic dance music artists on the main stage, the first to create family friendly programming, the first to make its home in an urban city center and the first to expand internationally.

Lollapalooza has grown into an annual world-class festival in Chicago, as well as culturally rich countries including Chile, Brazil, Argentina, Germany, France and Sweden. Lollapalooza is one of the premier music festival destinations both for music fans in the United States and abroad. In celebration of the festival’s 25th Anniversary, Lollapalooza Chicago expanded to four days in 2016, and continues to host over 100,000 fans a day, featuring over 170 artists on 8 stages annually.

Lollapalooza Paris is produced by Perry Farrell, William Morris Endeavor Entertainment, C3 Presents and Live Nation France.

Today visionary recording artist, producer, songwriter, philanthropist, fashion designer, and entrepreneur, Pharrell Williams announced the music lineup for the second year of his acclaimed SOMETHING IN THE WATER, a multi-day music festival and cultural experience in his hometown of Virginia Beach.

A$AP Rocky, Baby Rose, Bae Worldwide, BANKS, Beck, Brittany Howard, Buddy, Chad Hugo, Chance the Rapper, Clipse, EarthGang, Foo Fighters, FriendsWithYou, Global Citizen, Gunna, H.E.R., Jaden Smith, Jozzy, JR, Kali Uchis, KAWS, KP The Great, LANY, Lauren Jauregui, Leon Bridges, Lil Tecca, Lil Tjay, Love Mansuy, Mahalia, Major Lazer, Mereba, Metro Boomin, Migos, Nelly, Nickelus F, Noodles, Pharrell & Friends, Playboi Carti, Pop Smoke, Pop-Up Church Service, Post Malone, Quinn XCII, Rema, Rico Nasty, Sabrina Claudio, Snoh Aalegra, SOSUPERSAM, Tank and the Bangas, The Head and the Heart, Tierra Whack, Trey Songz, Turnover, Tyler, the Creator, Usher, VENUS X, Wale and the Backyard Band, 070 Shake, 6LACK and 99 Neighbors will descend upon Virginia Beach Friday, April 24th through Sunday, April 26th to perform at the expanded festival, now with three beachfront stages. Additional names to be announced soon!!!

Tickets for SOMETHING IN THE WATER go on sale to the general public Saturday, December 14th at 12pm ET at SOMETHINGINTHEWATER.COM. The public on sale follows the sold out special “Locals Only” presale earlier this fall. SOMETHING IN THE WATER is produced by Live Nation and Redrock Entertainment Services.
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Making its grand return to downtown Atlanta since 2015, Shaky Boots Festival will take place at Central Park, May 8-9, 2020. A Southern country festival true to its roots with a modern edge, Shaky Boots will feature over 20 bands across two stages with no overlapping sets.

On Friday, Brandi Carlile, John Prine, Alison Krauss, Gary Allan, Tanya Tucker and more take the stage, while Dierks Bentley, Dwight Yoakam, Jamey Johnson, Morgan Wallen, Clint Black and more will close out the festival on Saturday! To check out the full lineup, visit www.shakyboots.com/lineup.

“I’m thrilled to be bringing back Shaky Boots Festival in 2020. I have always felt that Georgia needed a music festival that spans across the multiple genres embedded within Country music, and Shaky Boots aims to do just that. There will definitely be something for everyone,” says Shaky Boots founder, Tim Sweetwood.

In addition to two full days of music, fans can expect food options from the region with local Atlanta flavor as well as interactive on-site activities to explore in between sets from your favorite artists. Fans may also bring festival-compliant chairs to sit back, relax, and enjoy the music in a designated chair zone.
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The second annual Lollapalooza Stockholm has revealed its 2020 lineup which features Post Malone, Ellie Goulding, Zara Larsson performing on Friday, Pearl Jam, The Killers, and Anderson .Paak & The Free Nationals taking the stage on Saturday, while Kendrick Lamar, Camila Cabello, and Kacey Musgraves will close out the festival on Sunday.

The lineup features more than 55 artists including Galantis, Of Monsters and Men, Rival Sons, Rex Orange County and many more performing on four stages on June 26-28, 2020 at Gärdet, a beautiful park in the heart of Stockholm, Sweden. Tickets are on sale now at www.LollaStockholm.com.

Lollapalooza Stockholm is produced by Perry Farrell, WME, C3 Presents and Live Nation Sweden with their subsidiary company Luger.
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TrailBlazer Country Music and Camping Festival, formerly known as Taste of Country Music Festival, announced the megastar 2020 lineup for the eighth-annual event returning to Hunter, NY at Hunter Mountain Resort on June 12-14. Headliners Dierks Bentley, Luke Bryan and Thomas Rhett will take the main stage nestled just 100 miles North of New York City.

Additional artists including Kelsea Ballerini, Gabby Barrett, Blanco Brown, Clare Dunn, HARDY, Jon Langston, Dylan Scott, Matt Stell, Cole Swindell, The Cadillac Three, with more to be revealed in the coming weeks, will also perform at the picturesque and mountainous festival.

The 2020 edition of the festival joins Live Nation’s premiere family of country music festivals which includes Watershed in George, WA; Faster Horses in Brooklyn, MI; Seven Peaks in Buena Vista, CO and Tortuga Music Festival in Ft. Lauderdale. FL. Passes for TrailBlazer Festival go on-sale December 13 at 10am ET at TrailBlazerFest.com.

“We are beyond thrilled to welcome TrailBlazer into our family of world class Country music festivals in 2020,” said Brian O’Connell, President of Live Nation Country Touring. “Our team has been working for months getting to know this festival, and we are looking forward to showing the great Country music fans in New York what we have up our sleeves!”

Fans can look forward to an enhanced VIP festival experience at Trailblazer, a new glamping option and the addition of the festival’s second stage dubbed “Next From Nashville,” a platform established by Live Nation’s sister festivals and known for “shining the spotlight on new talent” (Rolling Stone) and propelling Nashville’s hottest acts. The “Next From Nashville” stage lineup will be announced in the coming months.

TrailBlazer Festival’s destination-worthy setting at Hunter Mountain Resort “showcases the commanding authority of the Catskill Mountains; lets music lovers bask in warm days and crisp nights; and reminds us all just how far the region’s artistic legacy extends” (Poughkeepsie Journal). Continuing to establish itself as a summer-staple “mecca” (The Journal News), fans traveling from all over can expect an abundance of onsite interactive activities, thoughtfully-selected food vendors, a lineup that offers the genre’s best entertainers and more in 2020.

4x Platinum, 6x Gold record selling rock juggernaut FIVE FINGER DEATH PUNCH have announced that they will kick off the 2nd leg of their current U.S. arena headline tour in April, featuring special guests Papa Roach, I Prevail, as well as highly acclaimed newcomer Ice Nine Kills.The tour is co-produced by FRANK PRODUCTIONS and LIVE NATION. See all dates below.

VIP presale, artist fanclub presale, and cyber monday presale begins today at 10:00 AM (local time). Citi is the official presale credit card of the tour. As such, Citi cardmembers will have access to purchase U.S. presale tickets beginning Tuesday, December 3rd at 10:00 AM (local time) until Thursday, December 5th at 10:00 PM through Citi’s Entertainment program. Local promoter venue and radio presales will kick off on Thursday, December 5th at 10:00 AM (local time). Tickets will go on-sale to the general public beginning Friday, December 6th at 10:00 AM (local time).

FIVE FINGER DEATH PUNCH are currently touring US arenas before heading to Europe right after the holidays for their nearly sold out European arena run with very special guests Megadeth and global breakout rock sensation Bad Wolves. Information on all tour dates including links to tickets and VIP packages can be found HERE.

Coinciding with the unveiling of their next massive tour, FIVE FINGER DEATH PUNCH have announced their long awaited eighth studio album, titled “F8”. The album will be released globally on February 28th, 2020 and is available for pre-order now.
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Today, seven-time GRAMMY® Award-winning singer/songwriter Alanis Morissette announced that she will be embarking on a 31-date North American tour which kicks off June 2nd, 2020 in Portland, OR. Produced by Live Nation, the tour will celebrate 25 years of JAGGED LITTLE PILL. It will hit cities like Los Angeles, New York, Toronto, and Chicago before wrapping in Nashville, TN on July 25th, 2020 an she’ll be playing all her biggest hits along the way. Alanis will be joined by special guest Garbage and also appearing Liz Phair.

Presales for the tour will begin on December 10 at 11 AM local time and tickets will go on sale to the general public beginning Friday, December 13th at 11 AM local time at LiveNation.com. VIP packages will be available starting with the presale. With each transaction, fans will receive an instant grat download of “Reasons I Drink” and a digital download of Alanis’ new album SUCH PRETTY FORKS IN THE ROAD, upon its release on May 1st. For tickets and more information, please visit https://alanis.com/.

Citi is the official presale credit card for the tour. As such, Citi cardmembers will have access to purchase U.S. presale tickets beginning Wednesday, December 11th at 11 AM local time until Thursday, December 12th at 12 PM local time through Citi’s Entertainment program. For complete presale details visit www.citientertainment.com.

Alanis also released her new song, “Reasons I Drink” today via Epiphany Music. Get it here! “Reasons I Drink” was co-written by Alanis and Michael Farrell (Morrissey, Macy Gray) and produced by Alex Hope (Troye Sivan, Ben Platt, Tove Lo). The track comes off Alanis’ highly anticipated ninth album, SUCH PRETTY FORKS IN THE ROAD, due out May 1st. This will be Alanis’ first original album since 2012’s HAVOC AND BRIGHT LIGHTS. On December 4th, catch Alanis’ debut television performance of “Reasons I Drink” on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon. Alanis is also being honored with the 2019 Billboard Women In Music Icon Award at their ceremony on December 12th in Los Angeles.
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