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Daniela Avanzini & Her KATSEYE Mates Earn First No. 1 on Billboard 200 with “WILD”

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Daniela Avanzini is celebrating a wild debut.

The 22-year-old Cuban-American singer and her KATSEYE group mates have landed their first No. 1 album on the Billboard 200 as WILD debuts atop the list dated August 29.

Daniela Avanzini, KATSEYEThe set earned 170,000 equivalent album units in the United States in the week ending August 20, according to Luminate.

 WILD marks the group’s second top 10-charted effort, following the No. 4-peaking Beautiful Chaos in 2025.

WILD is the fourth No. 1 album by an all-woman group this decade. It follows TWICE’s With YOU-th (2025),NewJeans’ 2nd EP Get Up (2023) and BLACKPINK’s Born Pink (2022).

Before Born Pink, the last No. 1 album by an all-woman group was Danity Kane’s Welcome to the Dollhouse in 2008.

WILD also lands KATSEYE its biggest week by equivalent album units earned, and by pure album sales (145,000). Further, WILD tallies the largest week by units for an all-woman group since the Billboard 200 began ranking by units in December 2015.

 WILD additionally has the largest pure album sales week for an all-woman group in more than three years, since TWICE’s Ready To Be: 12th Mini Album debuted with 146,000 (March 25, 2023).

Of WILD’s 170,000 first-week equivalent album units, album sales comprise 145,000 (it debuts at No. 1 on the Top Album Sales chart), SEA units comprise 24,500 (equaling 26.95 million on-demand official streams of the set’s songs; it debuts at No. 19 on Top Streaming Albums) and TEA units comprise about 500.

WILD’s album sales were largely driven by its availability across more than 30 CD and vinyl variants (all containing collectible items such as photocards, with some items randomized, including signed editions; some editions also contain bonus tracks).

WILD was preceded by a pair of Billboard Hot 100-charting cuts: “Pinky Up” (No. 28 peak in April) and “Animal” (No. 24 on the August 8 chart).

The Billboard 200 chart ranks the most popular albums of the week in the U.S. based on multi-metric consumption as measured in equivalent album units, compiled by Luminate. Units comprise album sales, track equivalent albums (TEA) and streaming equivalent albums (SEA). Each unit equals one album sale, or 10 individual tracks sold from an album, or 2,500 ad-supported or 1,000 paid/subscription on-demand official audio and video streams generated by songs from an album.

Cruz Attached to Star in Todd Solondz’s New Project “Love Child”

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Penélope Cruz is getting ready for Child’s play…

The 42-year-old Spanish actress is attached to star in Todd Solondz’s new project Love Child.

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Cruz would star opposite Edgar Ramírez, who starred in the Roberto Duran boxing biopic Hands of Stone.

Solondz, the man behind Wiener Dog and Welcome To The Dollhouse, writes and directs the project, which is described as a dark and hilarious twist on the classic Oedipal theme.

The story follows 11-year-old Junior, a delusional aspiring Broadway star with an inappropriate obsession with his mother Immaculada. After orchestrating an accident that nearly kills his abusive father, he encourages Nacho, the handsome man living in the family’s guesthouse, to court his mother and become his new dad. But when the two fall in love, Junior becomes so jealous that he is no longer the subject of his mother’s attention that he hatches a plan to frame Nacho for his father’s murder.

The film is currently in pre-production.

Cruz recently joined the cast of Kenneth Branagh’s Murder On The Orient Express, based on Agatha Christie’s beloved murder mystery novel. She’ll join an ensemble cast including Michael Peña, Johnny Depp, Michelle Pfeiffer, Manuel Garcia-Rulfo and Judi Dench. She’s also in Escobar with husband Javier Bardem in a film that examines the love affair between drug lord Pablo Escobar and Colombian journalist Virginia Vallejo.

Ramirez recently starred alongside Emily Blunt in The Girl On The Train, adapted from Paula Hawkins’ bestselling book, and Gold with Matthew McConaughey, the adventure mining story. He’s also got a role in Netflix’s sci-fi pic Bright with Will Smith and Noomi Rapace.

Fimbres and Her Danity Kane Members Reuniting at the MTV VMAs…

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Aundrea Fimbres is planning to make a return to the music scene with a band…

The 30-year-old Mexican American singer will reunite with her former Danity Kane members to make an appearance at the MTV Video Music Awards on Sunday.

Danity Kane

“DANITY KANE is officially BACK! @danitykane #vmas2013 #Rage,” fellow member Aubrey O’Day tweeted along with the group’s new promo photo.

There’s no official word on whether Fimbres and her fellow all-girl group mates Shannon Bex, O’Day and Dawn Richard will perform at the awards show. Fifth member D. Woods will not be joining them.

Danity Kane officially announced their return with a new promo picture posted to their website at midnight on Sunday, August 25. The girls also confirmed their appearance at the 2013 MTV VMAs as well.

Fimbres, Bex, O’Day and Richard were hand-selected to form Danity Kane by Sean Combs during the third season of MTV’s Making the Band back in 2005.

The group released their self-titled debut album in 2006 and notched two hits, “Show Stopper” and “Ride for You.”

The girls’ second album, Welcome to the Dollhouse, was released in 2008 and gave them another hit single, “Damaged.”

Danity Kane would go on to become the first female group in Billboard history to have their first two albums open at the top of the charts.

The group’s break up was confirmed in January 2009.