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)
'Beerbongs & Bentleys' spends third week at no.1
Thuesday, May 22, 2018
by Keith Caulfield & Gary Trust, Los Angeles

For the third week in a row, Post Malone’s beerbongs & bentleys sits atop the Billboard 200 chart dated May 26, as the album earned 147,000 equivalent album units in the week

ending May 17 (down 24 percent), according to Nielsen Music. The set is only the second album to notch three total weeks at No. 1 in 2018 (following Black Panther: The Album, which logged its three frames on top non-consecutively) and scores the longest streak at No. 1 since Taylor Swift’s reputation linked together three consecutive weeks at No. 1 (Dec. 2-16, 2017) of its four total nonconsecutive No. 1 frames. Post Malone’s beerbongs is still largely powered by streams, as it collected 122,000 in SEA units (down 24 percent), while the remainder of its total for the week is comprised of 18,000 in traditional album sales (down 24 percent) and TEA units (down 16 percent). At No. 2, P!nk’s Beautiful Trauma -- as expected -- comes roaring back up the Billboard 200 with an 83-2 vault (139,000 units; up 1,715 percent). The former No. 1 zooms up the list thanks to big sales (135,000; up 3,197 percent) mostly generated by a concert ticket / album sale redemption

offer with the next leg of her U.S. tour that went on sale May 11. Thanks to Beautiful Trauma’s big leap, it logs the largest positional jump into the top two in over 20 years. Radiohead’s In Rainbows last posted a bigger vault into the top two, when it ran from No. 156 to No. 1 on the Jan. 19, 2008-dated list. (The set had a large gain on the list owed to a premature debut a week prior, spurred by eager retailers that began selling the set before its official street date.) Rapper Playboi Carti earns his best week yet, as his surprise release Die Lit debuts at No. 3 with 61,000 units. The album starts with a smashing 55,000 SEA units, with only 5,000 in traditional album sales and a scant 1,000 in TEA units. Die Lit garners the artist his highest charting set yet -- and first top 10 -- surpassing the No. 12 debut and peak of his self-titled 2017 release. Pop singer-songwriter Charlie Puth nabs his highest charting album, as his second full-length studio effort Voicenotes launches at No. 4 with 58,000 units (mostly powered by traditional album sales: 39,000 copies sold). Voicenotes passes Puth’s previous peak on the list, when his debut full-length, 2016’s Nine Track Mind, topped out at No. 6 in its first week (65,000 units earned), Voicenotes is Puth’s third set to chart, as he also logged an entry with his introductory EP, Some Kind of Love, which reached No. 27 in 2015. Back on the new Billboard 200 chart, the soundtrack to The Greatest Showman climbs 7-5 (a little more than 53,000 units; up 3 percent), J. Cole’s KOD dips 2-6 (53,000; down 22 percent) and Cardi B’s Invasion of Privacy slips 4-7 (just under 53,000; down 15 percent). Arctic Monkeys arrive with their third top 10 album, as Tranquility Base Hotel + Casino debuts at No. 8 with 47,000 units (37,000 in traditional album sales). It’s the alt-rock group’s first album since 2013’s AM, which reached No. 6. The act also collected a top 10 with 2007’s Favourite Worst Nightmare, which peaked at No. 7. In total, Tranquility lands Arctic Monkeys their sixth consecutive top 40 effort (their entirety of charting titles) since the band arrived on list in 2006 with the No. 24-peaking Whatever People Say I Am, That’s What I’m Not. Black Panther: The Album holds steady at No. 9 on the new Billboard 200 with 33,000 units (up 12 percent). Closing out the top 10 is rapper Tee Grizzley’s debut studio album Activated, which arrives at No. 10 with 33,000 units (with 26,000 of that in SEA units). The set boasts a guest list that includes Lil Yachty, Chris Brown, Jeezy and Moneybagg Yo. Childish Gambino's "This Is America" crowns the Billboard Hot 100 chart for a second week. Also for a second frame, the song heads up a top four consisting entirely of rap hits, a feat that, until the past two weeks, had not occurred in consecutive frames in 15 years. "America," released on mcDJ / Wolf + Rothstein / RCA (as Childish Gambino's first RCA single) is the first Hot 100 leader for actor-director Donald Glover's musical alter ego, who premiered the song as the musical guest on the May 5 episode of NBC's Saturday Night Live (as Glover hosted); the song and its socially-conscious video were released simultaneously around midnight ET Sunday, May 6. Following its first seven-day tracking period of streaming and sales, "America" tops the Streaming Songs chart for a second week, up 7 percent to 69.6 million U.S. streams in the week ending May 17, according to Nielsen Music. It also takes over atop the subscription services-based On-Demand Streaming Songs chart, rising 3-1 with 26.7 million on-demand audio streams, up 27 percent, in the week ending May 17. "America" leads the Digital Song Sales survey for a second frame, with a 36 percent decline to 50,000 downloads sold in the week ending May 17, while advancing below the Radio Songs chart, up 77 percent to 16.7 million in all-format airplay audience in the week ending May 20. Drake's "Nice for What," which ruled the Hot 100 for its first four weeks on the chart, dating to its No. 1 debut, spends a second week at No. 2. It keeps at No. 2 on Streaming Songs (42 million, down 8 percent), rebounds 4-3 on Digital Song Sales (25,000, down 8 percent) and pushes 8-6 on Radio Songs (77.1 million, up 6 percent). Drake also holds at No. 3 on the Hot 100 with "God's Plan," which launched at No. 1 and spent 11 weeks at the summit prior to "Nice."  COMPLETE CHARTS