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Tyler, The Creator Warns ‘Don't Tap The Glass' On New Album
Tyler, the Creator Tyler, the Creator might be on tour in support of his 2024 album Chromakopia, but the Grammy-winning superstar hasn't let the busy schedule get in the way of creating new music. Just a few days ago, the Los Angeles-area native announced the impending release of his ninth studio album, Don't Tap the Glass; the LP is out now via Columbia Records. Tyler first teased that something was coming July 21 with cryptic posts on social media. On July 18, artwork featuring him and the album's title appeared outside his concert at Brooklyn's Barclays Center. The project's announcement arrived hours later. In the lead-up to the album's release, Tyler downplayed any hype around the project, including speculation that it would be a concept album. 'Y'all better get them expectations and hopes down,' he wrote on X. 'This ain't no concept nothing.' The 10-track project was born out of a desire to create a party album that people can dance to. He was satisfied with what he made after holding a listening event and seeing hundreds of people react exactly how he wanted them to. 'I asked some friends why they don't dance in public and some said because of the fear of being filmed. I thought, 'Damn, a natural form of expression and a certain connection they have with music is now a ghost.' It made me wonder how much of our human spirit got killed because of the fear of being a meme, all for having a good time,' he wrote on social media. 'This album was not made for sitting still. Dancing, driving, running—any type of movement is recommended to maybe understand the spirit of it.' Chromakopia: The World Tour continues its North American leg in Montreal on July 22 before continuing on to Australasia and Asia later this summer. The tour wraps up Sept. 21 in Quezon City, Philippines.
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3 days ago
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Tyler, the Creator Reveals New Album Drops Monday
Tyler, the Creator will release his next album, Don't Tap the Glass on Monday, July 21. On Friday night, during a Barclays Center show in Brooklyn, New York, the rapper shouted out the album title while performing. There was also an installation that recreated the album cover, featuring its title. More from The Hollywood Reporter Cash Cobain on Justin Bieber 'Swag' Collaboration: "We Were Just in There Being Free" Clearing the Way: Robin Kaye's Legacy as a Champion for Music Supervision Girl Group XG on Their Dynamite Coachella Debut and Sharing Their Love for Fans on "Million Places" He later confirmed the news of a new album with an Instagram post, which shows the release date on Saturday morning. Don't Tap the Glass is set to be Tyler's ninth studio album. In October 2024, he dropped Chromakopia, which featured Lil Wayne, Sexyy Red, Daniel Caesar, Doechii, GloRilla, LaToiya Williams, Lola Young, Santigold, Schoolboy Q and Teezo Touchdown. The Flower Boy singer released Chromakopia on a Monday, which means Don't Tap the Glass, from Columbia Records, is his second album in a row to do so, going against the industry standard midnight Friday drop. In a 2023 Nardwuar interview, Tyler explained why he was interested in releasing music early in the week. 'I think we should put music out again on Tuesdays instead of Fridays, for some reasons,' he said. 'My reasoning is, I know people think because of the weekend, they can listen to stuff and the streams go up. And the streaming people are like, 'Oh, the streams go up on the weekend!' But I think it's a lot of passive listening, at parties or people get the time to go to the gym, so they're not really listening.' Earlier this year, Tyler also wrapped filming on Josh Safdie's Marty Supreme. The film stars Timothée Chalamet, Gwyneth Paltrow and will be Tyler's feature film acting debut. It releases from A24 on Christmas Day. Best of The Hollywood Reporter From 'Party in the U.S.A.' to 'Born in the U.S.A.': 20 of America's Most Patriotic (and Un-Patriotic) Musical Offerings Most Anticipated Concert Tours of 2025: Beyoncé, Billie Eilish, Kendrick Lamar & SZA, Sabrina Carpenter and More Hollywood's Most Notable Deaths of 2025 Solve the daily Crossword
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5 days ago
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- Time Magazine
The Biggest Revelations in HBO's Billy Joel Documentary
Billy Joel, 76, who boasts 33 top 40 hits and five Grammy Awards, has had an expansive and exciting life, which comes into focus in a new documentary, And So It Goes. Directed by Susan Lacy and Jessica Levin, two-part HBO doc will put viewers in a Billy Joel state of mind. Named after Joel's favorite of his songs, it features all of the Long Island native's greatest hits—more than 110 of the 121 songs in his catalog—and highlights the songs that catapulted him to new heights in his career like 'Just the Way You Are,' 'Piano Man,' 'Captain Jack,' and 'We Didn't Start the Fire.' In addition to numerous family photos and home videos, viewers will see the rocker sitting for interviews at his home piano and rehearsing for his Madison Square Garden residency. There is never-before-seen footage of Joel playing 'Piano Man' at Columbia Records the day he signed with the label. His four wives, daughter Alexa, and half-brother Alex, a conductor, share family stories, while entertainment execs and musicians like Paul McCartney, Bruce Springsteen, and P!nk talk about Joel's impact on rock 'n' roll. 'He didn't actually see the film 'til it was finished, and we're really proud of that,' Lacy says. 'It's an independently-made film.' Here's a look at the most notable moments in And So It Goes. The women who inspired Billy Joel All three Billy Joel's ex-wives sit down for interviews in this doc series, and they speak highly of their relationships with him. And So It Goes features the first interview in 40 years with Joel's first wife, Elizabeth Weber, an early muse, who helped launch his career by picking 'Just the Way You Are' for one of his first albums The Stranger. It went on to win two Grammy Awards, and Paul McCartney says in the series that he has always wished that he had written that song. She worked as his manager until they parted ways in 1982, the same year he survived a motorcycle accident that shed light on his reckless behavior and drinking. 'I love Bill, I always will,' she says. 'We together were greater than the sum of the parts, and I am really proud of that.' His second wife, the model Christie Brinkley, made his music video for 'Uptown Girl' a hit, as she sashayed through a gas station while Joel, dressed as a gas station attendant, chased her. 'It was fun to have a whirlwind romance and certain aspects of that turn into music,' she says. They were one of the biggest celebrity couples of their time and were known for striking dramatic poses for the paparazzi. They had one daughter, Alexa Joel—who is also a singer—but Brinkley says Joel became difficult to live with because he didn't remember the things he did while he was drinking. His third wife, Katie Lee Biegel, a 23-year-old chef whom he married in 2004, got him to go to a Betty Ford rehab program after giving him an ultimatum. In the doc, she says their age difference ended up making them incompatible. She wanted to go out to all of the parties that Joel was invited to, and Joel wanted to stay home. 'I wanted to do all of the things together, but I guess that's where our age came into play,' she says. 'Also I think that there was always a little bit of resentment that I had pushed him to go to Betty Ford.' Joel has been married to Alexis Roderick, who worked at Morgan Stanley, since 2015. He was in retirement mode when they met, cooking salmon teriyaki for her when she got home from work. In the doc, he talks about playing the piano for Alexis as his way of wooing her, but she seemed unimpressed, and he was relieved that she was interested in him as a person versus him as a performer. They have two young children. 'After years of learning and personal growth, my kids have the most amazing version of him,' Alexis says. 'He has a history of very strong women being in his life,' says Levin, citing the fact that he was raised by a single mother and chose two women to direct And So It Goes. Billy Joel's search for his father Throughout the doc series And So It Goes, Joel talks about all of the time he spent trying to track down his father, Howard Joel, who walked out on his family in the 1950s. He found his father in Vienna in the early 1970s, when Joel was in his 20s. There, he also got to know his half-brother Alex, a classical music composer, who appears in And So It Goes. Howard Joel even joined Billy Joel on stage at a concert in Nuremberg, Germany, in 1995. Still, his father remained remote and distant. 'We never really made a strong connection,' Billy Joel says in And So It Goes. He describes his dad as 'the missing link' in his life. And yet, he forgave his father for not being present in his life. When he died in 2011, he 'kind of freaked out,' thinking, 'He's gone, and I'll never get to know him. I had no animosity towards him.' As Alexa Joel explains, 'It broke his heart a little bit that his father didn't come to him—he had to go to Vienna. He was always looking for that deeper connection.' However, she says he did find it through his brother Alex who is a conductor. In 2001, he recorded a classical album with pianist Hyung-Ki Joo as one way to pay tribute to his father's love of classical music. As the commentator, Howard Stern, says in And So It Goes, 'I think his drive comes from wanting to know his father through music.' Given his distant relationship with his own father, he has vowed to be a more involved father with the two young daughters he has through Alexis Roderick Joel. He's focused not on writing and recording at this stage in life, but on being the best dad he can be. As he puts it, 'These are things I missed. I want to make sure they don't miss it.' The stories behind Billy Joel classics 'Even for people who know the songs and sing along, they're gonna be like, 'Oh, okay. Now I know where Billy was in his life at that time, and why he was writing that song,' Levin says. As Joel describes his approach to song-writing, 'I don't dwell in a lot of metaphor and simile. I write like I talk.' He wrote send-ups of the music industry. He wrote 'Piano Man' when he was trying to make ends meet and playing piano at a bar called Executive Lounge in Los Angeles, and 'The Entertainer' was even more meta, about putting out 'Piano Man' and 'kvetching about having a hit record in the music business,' as Joel puts it. Many of Joel's songs are autobiographical. 'Vienna' is inspired by his journey to meet his dad in Vienna, Austria. 'New York State of Mind' is inspired by the red and gold-colored trees he saw on a bus trip en route to a rental house in the Hudson Valley. Thankfully, there was a piano in the house, and he says he 'ran upstairs to the piano, wrote this song probably within about an hour. It just came out.' Some of his most famous songs are about being head over heels in love. 'She's Got a Way' is about his love for his first wife, Elizabeth Weber, and 'The Longest Time' is about dating Christie Brinkley, while the song that the series is named after, 'And So It Goes,' is about relationships ending. 'True love isn't always floating on clouds and ecstasy. A lot of it is pain,' he says in the series. 'It's got a sour note in almost every chord…It's sort of like the end of a romance, no resolution, which is terrifying to consider. That's why I wrote it.' He wrote 'Lullabye (Goodnight, My Angel)' for his daughter, Alexa, so she'd know he would always be there for her. It's bittersweet for Alexa, who is moved that her father loved her so much to write a song about her, but it was also written at a time when his drinking was out of control, and his marriage to her mother, Christie Brinkley, was disintegrating. 'If there was a skeleton key to unlocking what's behind the songs, it would probably be my relationships with others,' Joel explains. 'Everything I write is influenced by someone else.' A little bit of trivia from the directors that's not in the doc: 'We Didn't Start the Fire,' which rattles off the names of newsmakers, was inspired by a conversation that Joel had with John Lennon's son Sean Lennon. As Lacy explains: 'Sean said, 'yeah, yeah, you guys are so lucky nothing had happened in your life. Look all the things that we have to deal with.' And Billy was like, 'Are you kidding me?'' Billy Joel today These days, Joel has a mansion in Florida, where he lives with his wife Alexis Roderick and their two young daughters. He loves to take out his boat Alexa, named after his first-born daughter. Boating is 'freedom,' he says, because 'you've left the land and you are on your own. You're navigating, you're controlling where you're going—so you've got to always be in control, and there's something exhilarating about that. I am in control. I am the captain of my ship, against all the forces of nature. It's a strong feeling, it's very powerful. It's healing.' In May 2025, the New York Times reported that he cancelled all of his upcoming concerts after being diagnosed with a brain disorder called normal pressure hydrocephalus, which affects his hearing, vision, and balance. He is currently recovering from a surgery and taking a break from performing. 'He's never forgotten where he comes from, and I think that's why people relate to him,' says Lacy. 'He has not forgotten that he comes from Hicksville, grew up in Levittown in a hardscrabble life, and it was a long, slow journey to the top for him.' Now he has had more time to reflect on his career, and And So It Goes is a product of that. 'I think music saved my life,' Joel says in the doc. 'It gave me a reason to live.' Alexa said her father would always say to her, 'if you do what you love, then you'll love what you do. That's really the secret to life. I think, for him, through all the sadness and all of the struggles that he went through, he was still doing what he loved and that's really what kept him going, kept the music coming.' Joel acknowledges he has his faults in And So It Goes, explaining, 'I've made a lot of mistakes in my life. I've grown from them. I've learned from them.' The series ends with him playing 'And So It Goes' on a Steinway and reflecting on how he still sees himself as a work in progress: 'I'm not finished. I'm as lost as everybody else. I'm still searching. I may not ever figure it all out, but I'm trying.'
Forbes
5 days ago
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- Forbes
Billy Joel Documentary Filmmakers on Exploring the Life and Music of the Piano Man
From the HBO documentary 'Billy Joel: And So It Goes.' There is a very touching moment near the end of Billy Joel: And So It Goes, a new two-part documentary about the famed musician that premieres on HBO this Friday. It shows Joel sitting behind his piano during his long-running 2014-2024 residency at New York's Madison Square Garden, about to perform his signature song 'Piano Man.' But just as he starts to hit the keys, the scene abruptly shifts to footage from 1973 of a 24-year-old Joel playing 'Piano Man' on his Columbia Records signing day. It's a fitting reverse bookend to an extraordinary life and career. 'I don't know what I would've been had I not been a musician,' Joel says in the film. 'I don't know where I would've been in this life if it had not been for the piano.' At a total of five hours, And So It Goes, directed by Susan Lacy and Jessica Levin, is truly the definitive documentary about Long Island's favorite son: from one of his earliest forays into music as a member of the mid-1960s group the Hassles; through his spectacular run as a hitmaker beginning in the late 1970s with such songs as 'Movin' Out,' 'Just the Way You Are,' 'My Life,' 'It's Still Rock and Roll to Me, 'Tell Her About It,' "We Didn't Start the Fire' and 'The River of Dreams'; to his present status as beloved pop culture icon who can still pack arenas. But the documentary, which previously screened at the Tribeca Film Festival last month, is not hagiography. It candidly addresses the challenging and difficult aspects of Joel's personal and professional life. Among them: his suicide attempt when he was a young man; his complicated relationship with his father, Howard; his near-fatal motorcycle accident in the early 1980s; and the breakup of his first three marriages, including his famous one to model Christie Brinkley. Billy Joel circa 1980. Through archival footage and, of course, his music, And So It Goes more than succeeds in addressing Joel's genius in tackling various musical genres and writing insightful yet relatable lyrics. In addition to Joel's participation, the documentary features interviews with his former and current bandmates and longtime associates; his ex-wives and current wife; and his family members, including his sister Judy and daughter Alexa. There's also commentary from such music luminaries as Bruce Springsteen, Paul McCartney, John Mellencamp, Don Henley, Garth Brooks, Sting, Pink and Nas. The arrival of the documentary is all the more poignant as Joel, 76, recently canceled his scheduled concert dates due to the health condition Normal Pressure Hydrocephalus (NPH). In this interview, which has been edited for length and clarity, directors Lacy and Levin discuss the origins of the film, what they learned about Joel along the way, and what they wanted to convey to fans and viewers about the Piano Man. How did the film come about? Susan Lacy: Well, it's such a very long story. I had approached [working on a Billy Joel doc] a long time ago when I created this series called American Masters. That didn't go anywhere. Then, probably about five years ago, I started talking to his management. They weren't quite ready for that yet. They wanted to tie this to the end of the [Madison Square Garden] residency, and they didn't know when that was going to be. Then I got a call from Sony asking about it, and then that didn't go anywhere. And then I got a call from Tom Hanks and Gary Goetzman's company, Playtone, and they asked me if I wanted to make a film about Billy Joel. And I said, 'What's in the water here? It's destiny. I'm going to make a film about Billy Joel.' HBO got excited about it. They've worked with both me and Playtone for a long time. So it came together in the end very quickly. Billy, I think, was encouraged by his management to do this. They felt it was the right time, finally, for this film to happen. At the time, I don't think anybody knew that the residency was going to end. That happened midway along making this film. It was a long process because it's a long film. Was there one particular revelation or aspect of Joel that you didn't know about until you started working on this film? Billy Joel, circa 1962. Lacy: I did not know about his Jewish history and the Holocaust story. I really didn't know about the classical music element of it. And those two elements are something that we shared. My mother was a classical pianist. We shared a Holocaust story. Our fathers came [to America] in the same year from Germany as Jewish immigrants. Both became American soldiers and went back to Germany. So there was a lot of that. And the fact that he's so not like his public persona — all those things were big surprises to me. I think Jessica knew his catalog a lot better than I did. Jessica, what do you feel about what you discovered about Joel through this film? Jessica Levin: I learned a tremendous amount by working on this project, even as somebody who was really a deep catalog fan. When you're a fan of Billy Joel, you already feel like you know him because he's such a relatable guy and his lyrics are so universal. OAKLAND, UNITED STATES - APRIL 09: Billy Joel performing at the Oakland Coliseum on April 09 1990 ... More (Photo by Clayton Call/Redferns) You listen to the songs, and you're like, "This is for me," and you put on your headphones, and you get lost in it. In the process of making the film, I learned how deeply autobiographical the music was. And that really cast an entirely new light on the catalog and even the songs that I knew well — having the understanding of what Billy was going through at that time, very much ripped from the pages of his life. That's what's so remarkable about Billy. He can write a song about anything and turn it into this incredible universal piece of songwriting that connects with so many people. I would say one funny revelation is I really didn't know about the Attila years at all [Joel's hard rock band from 1969]. I just could not in my mind figure out how Billy went from loving Led Zeppelin to becoming who he was on [the 1977 breakthrough album] The Stranger. Billy Joel and Wife Elizabeth Weber (Photo by Ron Galella/Ron Galella Collection via Getty Images) Part one of the documentary is particularly noteworthy for your interviews with Elizabeth Weber, Joel's first wife and former manager, who played a pivotal part in his career. It's not often discussed about until now. Lacy: It wasn't easy to get her to participate in this film, which is hard to believe because she's so good in the film. When she left Billy, she didn't mention his name for 40 years. Nobody even knew. I had to really convince her. She had been sort of maligned on social media a great deal. Nobody understood what she had done to make Billy Joel Billy Joel. It's really a feminist story in a lot of ways. We are two women who wanted to tell that story. So she was convinced to do it after many long conversations and dinners. And then we did four interviews. Levin: Billy trusted two women to tell his story. We are really proud of the way that we were able to unfold his inner emotional story side by side with the story of his artistic growth. I don't know what another two filmmakers would have done, but we knew that was important to us. He has a series of incredibly strong women who have been in his life: Elizabeth Weber, his mother and Christie Brinkley. Lacy: He has three daughters [Alexa, Della and Remy]. NEW YORK - APRIL 25: (L-R) Christie Brinkley, Alexa Ray Joel and Billy Joel attend the premiere of ... More "Last Play At Shea" during the 2010 Tribeca Film Festival at the Tribeca Performing Arts Centre on April 25, 2010 in New York City. (Photo byfor Tribeca Film Festival) Los Angeles, CA - February 04: (L-R) Alexis Roderick, Della Rose Joel, Billy Joel, and Remy Anne ... More Joel arrive on the Red Carpet at the Arena in Los Angeles, CA, Sunday, Feb. 4, 2024. (Allen J. Schaben / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images) Levin: And his current wife, Alexis, who's an absolute force of nature in and of herself. So I think it's really interesting that he said, "I'll trust you guys to tell." Obviously, it was based on a lot more than just the fact that we're women. I mean, Susan has an incredible track record, and we've been making films together for 25 years. So it's not like we're newbies. I do think it's interesting that he trusted women to tell his story. And we're really proud of that. We're also very proud of the fact that out of Billy's catalog of 121 songs, there are over 110 songs in this film. Lacy: It enabled us to basically score the film entirely with Billy's music, including the classical music and some instrumental variations based on melodies. To underscore what Jessica was saying about trusting women, he trusted a woman to manage him. He was accused of misogyny in some of his songs. And Elizabeth said, "I'm proof that that's not the case." I mean, nobody else was hiring women to manage rock bands at the time, and he trusted her to do that. Levin: And he poured out their entire story of their relationship in songs, from 'Just the Way You Are' and 'She's Got a Way' to 'Stiletto.' NEW YORK, NEW YORK - JULY 25: Billy Joel performs onstage during the last show of his residency at ... More Madison Square Garden on July 25, 2024 in New York City. (Photo by) What did you want to tell viewers and fans who will be watching this documentary about Joel's life and career? Lacy: From the very beginning, this film has got to satisfy the fans. But it also has to satisfy and provide revelations and surprises to people who were like, "Why Billy Joel?" And as I began to explore his music and read about him, I realized that there was a very, very deep and complex and interesting person beneath the public persona of this funny, straightforward kind of guy — that there were deep wells of emotion and vulnerability inside that man. So the idea was to understand the origins of these songs, which is Billy's way of expressing himself and dealing with his own history. And because of the sort of everyman aspect that he gives the impression of, he's telling everybody's story in a certain way. That's why everybody relates to him. But there's so much more beneath the surface of Billy than what people think about Billy. That was really the aim. And also to really delve into his musicality — he's a musical savant. And to understand where these songs came from, what inspired him, how he composed them, how much he drew on the wells of many different musical genres from Broadway, Tin Pan Alley, the American songbook, jazz, the oldies, and classical music — all of which is imbued in his albums, which reflect the various changes in his own life and what he was experiencing. So it was a big, complex task. And it's a Shakespearean tale of love, loss and woe. Billy Joel: And So It Goes, directed by Susan Lacy and Jessica Levin, premieres on HBO, Friday, July 18, at 8 p.m. ET/PT.
Yahoo
02-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Barbra Streisand Says Collab With Mariah Carey and Ariana Grande ‘Felt Inevitable'
Barbra Streisand has dropped a behind-the-scenes video highlighting her recent collaboration with Ariana Grande and Mariah Carey on the stirring track 'One Heart, One Voice.' The song appears on Streisand's newly released album The Secret of Life: Partners, Volume Two, out now via Columbia Records. More from Billboard Kelsea Ballerini Expands 2025 Australian Tour With New Dates Bob Vylan and Kneecap's Glastonbury Sets Under U.K. Police Investigation Jason Aldean Extends Full Throttle Tour to Australia and New Zealand for 2026 Streisand took to Instagram to reflect on the collaboration's emotional core, writing, 'When the idea of recording a song with Mariah and Ariana was first suggested, it felt inevitable that it would speak to female empowerment.' 'The lyrics 'we've got every right to make a choice' resonated with me. The song became a vehicle for three strong-willed women to join in voice and purpose. Thank you to both @mariahcarey and @arianagrande for lending their talent and sharing this special moment with me.' In the video, the legendary EGOT winner reflects on the team-up, saying, 'When the idea of recording a song with Mariah and Ariana was first suggested, it felt inevitable that it would address female empowerment,' Streisand shares. For Carey, who has often cited Streisand as a personal inspiration, the experience was both surreal and emotional. 'Ever since I was a little girl, I've loved Barbra,' Carey says. 'So when I got a chance to work with her on 'One Heart, One Voice,' it was a huge honor.' Grande, who grew up idolizing both Carey and Streisand, called the moment 'a dream come true.' She adds, 'Barbra has, quite literally, always been a part of my life. I went to go see Barbra with my mom, and we made it into the concert DVD somehow! We've come a long way from being in the audience to collaborating on the album.' The soaring ballad sees all three artists trading lines and harmonizing on a message of unity, resilience, and generational strength. The release marks a major moment for fans of powerhouse vocals and pop history alike, pairing three of the most influential and technically gifted singers of the last six decades. The Secret of Life: Partners, Volume Two is a follow-up to Streisand's 2014 Partners album, which debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 and featured duets with Stevie Wonder, John Legend, and Blake Shelton. The new collection continues that legacy, featuring collaborations with Paul McCartney, Josh Groban, Hozier, Laufey, and more. Streisand, one of the most decorated artists in entertainment history, has notched 11 No. 1 albums on the Billboard 200 (the most among women) and earned 10 Grammy wins, along with two Oscars, five Emmys, and countless other honors. Her duet partners on the track are no strangers to accolades either: Carey holds the record for the most No. 1 singles by a solo artist in Billboard Hot 100 history (19), while Grande boasts six No. 1 hits and remains one of the most streamed artists globally. 'One Heart, One Voice' marks the first time all three artists have appeared together on a single track. Best of Billboard Chart Rewind: In 1989, New Kids on the Block Were 'Hangin' Tough' at No. 1 Janet Jackson's Biggest Billboard Hot 100 Hits H.E.R. & Chris Brown 'Come Through' to No. 1 on Adult R&B Airplay Chart
