20 YEARS AGO ... 'Titanic' began its triumphant advance at the cinemas. For director James Cameron and the film studio 20th Century Fox, it was a risky undertaking, because the originally estimated US $ 150 million production costs and the time limits were far exceeded. To complete the film at all, a second major production company was brought aboard - Paramount Pictures. But the gigantic effort should pay off, 'Titanic' became the most suceessful film in history (till that date), showered with prizes, including 11 Oscar Awards. Embedded in the technically complex and brilliant story of the sinking of the RMS Titanic 1912 in the North Atlantic Ocean is the love story of Jack and Rose. Since the film plays on two time levels, the transience of human being forms to a central issue here, reinforced by the ship disaster. The many impressions and emotions bundle up in the phenomenal music of James Horner. He used largely orchestral elements and merged them with Celtic folklore, for which one originally wanted to commit Enya. Also this soundtrack broke records, with 27 million copies sold, it's the best-selling classic album of all time. And the only real song on this album, 'My Heart Will Go On', performed by Celine Dion, pulled along. Also released in January 1998, it became Celine's biggest hit, 15 weeks at number one on the Global Chart and the biggest smash in that year worldwide, decorated with three Grammy Awards.

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Billboard Report (excerpt)
Jason Aldean scores fourth no.1 on Billboard chart
Thuesday, April 24, 2018
by Keith Caulfield & Gary Trust, Los Angeles

Jason Aldean’s Rearview Town debuts at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 albums chart, securing the country star his fourth consecutive, chart-topping set and the first country No. 1 in

2018. Rearview Town, released on April 13 via Macon / Broken Bow Records, launches with 183,000 equivalent album units earned in the week ending April 19, according to Nielsen Music, of which 162,000 were in traditional album sales. The set starts with the biggest week in terms of overall units and album sales for any country title this year. Aldean is just the second country act to send four consecutive studio releases to the top. Rascal Flatt​s also claimed four No. 1 studio sets in a row between 2004 and 2009: Feels Like Today, Me and My Gang, Still Feels Good and Unstoppable. (Between Still and Unstoppable, the trio clocked a No. 6-peaking set with the best-of package Greatest Hits Volume 1.) Rearview Town is the first country album to lead the Billboard 200 in 2018, and the first since Luke Bryan’s What Makes You Country topped the Dec. 30, 2017-dated tally. At No. 2 on the new Billboard 200, Cardi B’s Invasion of Privacy moves down to the

runner-up slot after bowing at No. 1 a week earlier. The set earned 129,000 units in its second week, down 49 percent. Rock band Breaking Benjamin earn its fourth top 10 effort with Ember, as it debuts at No. 3 with 88,000 units (of which 80,000 were in traditional album sales). The band’s last release, 2015’s Dark Before Dawn, opened at No. 1 with 141,000 units (135,000 in album sales), securing the group its first leader on the list. (Like Rearview Town, Ember benefits from a ticket/album sale redemption offer.) The soundtrack to The Greatest Showman holds at No. 4 with 77,000 – but with a big 53 percent gain, as the album continues to benefit from the hit movie’s DVD and Blu-ray release on April 10. The former No. 1 album sold 54,000 copies in the latest tracking week – up 63 percent. Singer-songwriter John Prine logs his highest-charting album ever, and first top 10, as The Tree of Forgiveness bows at No. 5 with 54,000 units (53,000 in traditional album sales). The album is his first release album of his own new songs since 2005’s Fair and Square. The new set got a big boost from sales driven by a concert ticket/album sale redemption offer, which helps yield the two-time Grammy Award winner his best sales week since Nielsen Music began tracking sales in 1991. (Prine has been charting on the Billboard 200 since 1972.) The Weeknd’s My Dear Melancholy dips 3-6 with 44,000 units (down 14 percent.) XXXTENTACION’s ? slips 5-7 with 40,000 units (down 13 percent.) Migos’ Culture II falls 6-8 with 36,000 units (down 3 percent.) Black Panther: The Album descends 7-9 with 34,000 units (down 7 percent.) Pentatonix rounds out the new top 10 with the arrival of its latest release, PTX Presents: Top Pop, Vol. 1. The covers set launches at No. 10 with 34,000 units (29,000 in traditional album sales), which garners the vocal group its eighth top 10 effort. Like Aldean, Breaking Benjamin and Prine, PTX’s sales were also goosed by a concert ticket/album sale redemption offer. Drake's "Nice for What" leads the Billboard Hot 100 chart for a second week, following its debut at No. 1 a week earlier. As on the Hot 100, "Nice," released on Young Money / Cash Money / Republic Records, spends a second week at No. 1 on the Streaming Songs chart, down 2 percent to 59.3 million U.S. streams in the week ending April 19, according to Nielsen Music. It dips 1-2 on Digital Song Sales with 50,000 downloads sold, down 43 percent, in the week ending April 19, while surging 34-27 on the Radio Songs chart with 40 million in all-format airplay audience, up 33 percent, in the week ending April 22, good for the Hot 100's top Airplay Gainer award. Meanwhile, Drake boasts the Nos. 1 and 2 songs on the Hot 100 for a second week, as "God's Plan" logs a second frame at the runner-up spot after tallying its first 11 weeks at No. 1. Drake is the 16th act to rank at Nos. 1 and 2 simultaneously for multiple weeks, and the first since Justin Bieber, who did so for four frames in July 2017 as featured on Luis Fonsi and Daddy Yankee's "Despacito" and DJ Khaled's "I'm the One." "Plan" holds at No. 2 on Streaming Songs (44.2 million, down 7 percent) and No. 3 on Radio Songs (114 million, up 5 percent) and drops 3-5 on Digital Song Sales (31,000, down 13 percent). Bebe Rexha and Florida Georgia Line's "Meant to Be" keeps at No. 3 on the Hot 100 after reaching No. 2. It leads the Radio Songs chart for a third week (142 million, up 4 percent), Hot Country Songs for a 21st frame and the Adult Pop Songs airplay chart for a second week, while rising 2-1 on Country Airplay, where FGL earns its 12th leader and Rexha collects her first. Post Malone's "Psycho," featuring Ty Dolla $ign, is steady at No. 4 on the Hot 100, after debuting at its No. 2 high. Zedd, Maren Morris and Grey's "The Middle" hits the Hot 100's top five (6-5). Zedd notches his second top five hit and first as a lead act, following his featured turn on Ariana Grande's "Break Free" (No. 4, 2014). Airplay leads the way for "The Middle," which holds at its No. 2 high on Radio Songs (117 million, up 2 percent).  COMPLETE CHARTS