Kaelin's Entertainment Report: Weeknd Breaks Records & Chadwich Bosman Honored!

The Weeknd became the highest grossing tour by a solo male artist ever, the tour earned over $1 billion! The late actor Chadwich Boseman was honored on the Hollywood Walk of Fame!

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All right, Fred, you guessed a country singer, but it
was actually The Weekend who absolutely just shattered records with
his after Hours Till Dawn tour, allowing him to take
the throne as the top earning tour ever by a
solo mail artist.

Speaker 1 (00:44):
Wow.

Speaker 3 (00:44):
Yeah, So this is including figures for his upcoming twenty
twenty six dates across Mexico, Brazil, Europe and the UK.

Speaker 1 (00:51):
The tour has.

Speaker 3 (00:51):
Now sold more than seven point five million tickets and
grossed over one billion one billion dollars.

Speaker 1 (00:58):
That's wow, got choked up.

Speaker 3 (01:00):
That's a lot of money across one hundred and fifty
three states.

Speaker 1 (01:03):
A beat that moved me.

Speaker 3 (01:04):
I'll tell you right what I wouldn't give. The tour
launched in twenty twenty two. It does feel like he's
been on tour for years and he has, I guess,
made its way through North America twice, Europe, the UK,
Latin American, and Australia. In twenty twenty three, the Guinness
Book of World Records named the Weekend the most popular
artist in the world, while his single Blinding Lights went
Certified Diamond and was named the number one Billboard Hot

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one hundred song of all time, surpassing Chubby checkers nineteen
sixty hit The Twist.

Speaker 1 (01:32):
Oh yeah, the Twist.

Speaker 2 (01:33):
I uh, I'm not taking anything away from him, but
if your tourists been going on for three how does
that count?

Speaker 3 (01:39):
Right?

Speaker 2 (01:39):
Three year twour? Of course he's made a lot of money.
Like if Taylor Swift to it for three years, it
would be billions of dollars.

Speaker 3 (01:44):
Well she did, damn near she went because she ext
she kept extending. I mean not for three years, but
I think it.

Speaker 1 (01:50):
Was like eighteen months, wasn't it the tour?

Speaker 2 (01:52):
So it doesn't matter, But I mean, yeah, so I
could tour for ten years and then ye call it
the same name, and then if I had of all
the money and never made in radio light on the
highest paid, I.

Speaker 1 (02:03):
Guess, but I'm not hey.

Speaker 3 (02:05):
If he wants to do all that work and go
through North America twice, then.

Speaker 1 (02:08):
I guess he earned it because excellents to do that.

Speaker 2 (02:10):
If I had to pull the money at mid and radio,
if Ryan still made more breathing this morning, so nevermind,
right man, Just kidding.

Speaker 3 (02:16):
The only tours surpassing the weekend's achievement are Cold Plays
one point five billion dollar Music of Spears tours, Fears,
and Taylor Swift's two billion dollar Eras Tour, which I
know she did extend, but I don't think it's been
three years.

Speaker 1 (02:29):
I got to look it up. By the way.

Speaker 3 (02:31):
He also is donating over eight and a half million
to the Exo Humanitarian Fund and Global Citizen, with additional
proceeds from the the upcoming tour dates supporting the World
Food Program. Global Citizen and fans also had the opportunity
to get a pair of free tickets to each tour
date via Global Citizen if you're interested. The late Chadwick

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Boseman was honored with a posthumous star on the Hollywood
Walk of Fame yesterday and his widow, Simone Bozeman and
spoke to us, I guess about her legacy, his legacy
rather and what the honor does for it. So, as
you know, Chadwick made history with his portrayal as T'Challa
in Black Panther, with Simone speaking on how he blazed

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a trail for all future black superheroes. She said, he
made a space and now there can be more and
more and more. He set it up, He played the
role he was meant to play. The star, she says,
is a physical representation of all of the work that
he did and the life that he lived. And she said,
I'm extremely proud of him. His brother Derek was also
on hand with his Black Panther co stars Letitia Wright,

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Viola Davis, Michael B. Jordan. Derek said, just imagine having
a brother who's a movie star and people make songs
about him and they just love him. And he got
to be king, which is what our community needs. Our
community needs to see us being kings and queen's and
so it was really emotional. He passed away at just
forty three from colon cancer back in twenty twenty. If
you didn't know or you.

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Forgot, and it's finally here.

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I know it was between you and me, but it's true.
Who's the good Witch? Who's the who? You guys are
dressing in theme?

Speaker 3 (04:36):
Right?

Speaker 1 (04:37):
Oh yeah, I'll be the bad Witch. Okay, he's always
a good witch? Yeah right? You guys in green and pink,
I love it.

Speaker 3 (04:43):
Ye, you would love to be green paint all over
your body.

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So it is out just another Friday night for me.

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