It’s easy for me to do a comedic, silly guy or whatever, so I’ve never really gotten those roles because I don’t think that’s in my DNA. But if I was to get to choose something cool that I haven’t done, it would be probably a badass tough cop role, or James Bond, or something like that. I’ve gotten to do such amazing things in my crazy career.
I’ve already had everything I could ever want, times 10. Nicola Dove/MGM/Danjaq/Courtesy Everett Collection And I think it’s really important to do that because if you just care about how you look, it’s not going to be interesting to watch. Dare to suck was something I learned very early and that stuck with me. If you can laugh at yourself, and dare to be a fool, and strike out, as long as you swing the bat, then go for it. I like to find the joke in things, and if you can laugh at yourself, then I think that’s the key to life. You’ve got to play the fool sometimes-at least, for me. It’s like school: you graduate, then you go out into the world and think, “Why didn’t they ever teach me any of this shit?”ĭare to suck. There are so many other things, but that was the first thing where I was like, “Whoa, why didn’t I learn this in acting school?” You think they’d tell you. You realize how much lighting, focus and all of that is so important, and that helped a lot with Red Rocket, because Sean hired a lot of first-time actors, and I remembered knowing how they felt, walking onto a set and being really intimidated. I remember learning a lot of technical things that I thought were very important, mostly hit your mark and stay on your mark. You can go to acting class all you want, but when you get to set, that’s where you really learn a lot. 1, 2018-dated tally.How Denis Villeneuve, Mary Parent And The Cast Crafted 'Dune' To Lead The Charge For Cinema's Reawakening A24/Courtesy Everett Collection After signing with Republic, he hit the Billboard 200 chart with his debut EP, Sunset Season, which debuted and peaked at No. The 21-year-old singer-songwriter signed to Republic Records in 2018 after finding YouTube success with his original music and personal vlogs.
Of that sum, 37,000 were in album sales (assisted by a concert/ticket album sale redemption offer with his tour late last year, and merchandise/album bundles).
5 on the Billboard 200 chart with 49,000 equivalent album units earned. 4 with 51,000 units (down 26%).Ĭonan Gray’s debut full-length album, Kid Krow, flies in at No. 3 with 60,000 equivalent album units (down 22%), while Bad Bunny’s YHLQMDLG dips from No. The set earned 115,000 equivalent album units (down 53%). 17, 2016-dated chart).īack on the new Billboard 200, as noted above, Lil Uzi Vert’s Eternal Atake falls to No. It beats The Weeknd’s own Starboy, which launched with 175.2 million clicks (Dec.
Watch Christine and the Queens Cover The Weeknd's 'Blinding Lights'īiggest Streaming Week Ever for an R&B Album: With 220.7 million on-demand streams registered for After Hours’ songs in its first week, the album logs the largest streaming week ever for an R&B effort. After Hours also lands the biggest week for an R&B album by a male artist since the chart began ranking album by equivalent album units in December 2014. The last R&B set to score a bigger week was Beyoncé’s Lemonade, which blasted in at No. 1 on the Top Album Sales chart, The Weeknd’s fourth leader on that tally.īiggest Week for an R&B Album in Nearly Four Years: After Hours’ big debut of 444,000 units is the largest week posted by an R&B album in nearly four years. ( Map didn’t have a ticket/album offer, nor any merchandise/album bundles – though it was released in four elaborate collectible CD packages.)Īfter Hours also starts at No. The largest sales week of 2020 remains the debut of BTS’ Map of the Soul: 7, with 347,000 sold in its first week. Those sales were driven largely by by a concert ticket/album sale redemption offer with The Weeknd’s upcoming tour (scheduled to launch in June), as well as more than 80 different merchandise/album bundles sold through The Weeknd’s official website. Every Song Ranked on The Weeknd's 'After Hours': Critic's PicksĢ020’s Second-Biggest Sales Week: Album sales powered 62% of After Hours’ first week: 275,000 of 444,000 units.