The Kid LAROI & Justin Bieber's 'Stay' Scores Sixth Week at No. 1 on Billboard Hot 100 - Billboard

"Stay," released on Raymond Braun/Columbia Records/Def Jam, drew 81.3 million radio airplay audience impressions (up 6%) and 26.7 million U.S. streams (down 2%) and sold 10,800 downloads (down 14%) in the week ending Sept. 23, according to MRC Data.

"Stay" adds a second week at No. 1 on the Radio Songs chart; dips 3-4 on Streaming Songs, where it has spent six weeks on top; and holds at No. 4 on Digital Song Sales, after reaching No. 3.

Meanwhile, as "Stay" tops the Hot 100 for a sixth week, it ties for the third-longest command for a song by two or more co-billed solo male leads over the chart's 63-year history. Here's an updated leaderboard of such No. 1s to reign for at least three weeks (and which excludes duos or groups known for regularly recording together, such as Daryl Hall & John Oates or Macklemore & Ryan Lewis; notably, Bieber and Paul McCartney each factor into two of the top four titles):

• 16 weeks at No. 1, "Despacito," Luis Fonsi & Daddy Yankee (feat. Justin Bieber), beginning May 27, 2017
• 7 weeks at No. 1, "Ebony and Ivory," Paul McCartney & Stevie Wonder, beginning May 15, 1982
• 6 weeks at No. 1, "Stay," The Kid LAROI & Justin Bieber, beginning Aug. 14, 2021
• 6 weeks at No. 1, "Say Say Say," Paul McCartney & Michael Jackson, beginning Dec. 10, 1983
• 4 weeks at No. 1, "Shake Ya Tailfeather," Nelly, P. Diddy & Murphy Lee, beginning Sept. 6, 2003
• 3 weeks at No. 1, "All for Love," Bryan Adams/Rod Stewart/Sting, beginning Jan. 22, 1994

Lil Nas X and Jack Harlow's "Industry Baby" rebounds to its No. 2 best on the Hot 100, from No. 6. The song is from Lil Nas X's new album Montero, which launches at No. 2 on the Billboard 200 with 126,000 equivalent album units. "Baby," which debuted at No. 2 on the Hot 100 dated Aug. 7, likewise jumps 6-2 on Streaming Songs, up 35% to 29.2 million streams, its second-best streaming week (after it opened with 40.6 million).

"Baby" also charges into the top 10 on Radio Songs (12-6; 46.7 million, up 19%), becoming Lil Nas X's third top 10 on the tally, after his breakthrough smash "Old Town Road," featuring Billy Ray Cyrus (No. 2, June 2019), and previous Montero single, "Montero (Call Me by Your Name)" (No. 3, this July). Harlow reaches the Radio Songs top 10 for the first time.

Plus, "Baby" returns for a fifth week atop both the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs and Hot Rap Songs charts, which use the same multi-metric methodology as the Hot 100.

(Additionally per the stat above, thanks to "Stay" and "Baby," tracks each by multiple co-billed lead solo males rank at Nos. 1 and 2 on the Hot 100 simultaneously for the first time in the chart's archives.)

Concurrently, "Montero" pushes back into the Hot 100's top 10 (13-9), after it led in its debut week (dated April 10; it has spent all 26 of its weeks on the chart in the top 40). It vaults 36-10 on Streaming Songs, up 57% to 16.2 million streams.

Rounding out Lil Nas X's trio of simultaneous Hot 100 top 10s, "Thats What I Want" roars onto the chart at No. 10, as it starts at No. 5 on Streaming Songs (24.2 million). The track arrives as his fifth Hot 100 top 10, and third to debut in the tier. It, along with "Baby," is being promoted to mainstream top 40 radio and debuts on the Pop Airplay chart at No. 34, while "Baby" rises 7-6.

Drake's "Way 2 Sexy" slips 2-3 on the Hot 100, after premiering at No. 1 on the Sept. 18 chart. Still, it posts a third week atop Streaming Songs (32.5 million, down 19%) and claims top Airplay Gainer honors on the Hot 100 for a second week, as it leaps 43-21 on Radio Songs (27.6 million, up 59%).

Ed Sheeran's "Bad Habits" backtracks 3-4 on the Hot 100, after reaching No. 2; Walker Hayes' "Fancy Like" keeps at its No. 5 high, while topping the multi-metric Hot Country Songs chart for an 11th week; and Olivia Rodrigo's "Good 4 U" rises 7-6 on the Hot 100, after it led in its first frame in May. "Good" also becomes Rodrigo's second No. 1 on the Adult Pop Airplay chart, after "Drivers License" reigned for four weeks in March and April.

Elsewhere in the Hot 100's top 10, Doja Cat's "Kiss Me More," featuring SZA, lifts 8-7 after hitting No. 3, and Drake's "Knife Talk," featuring 21 Savage and Project Pat, falls to No. 8 from its No. 4 peak.

Again, for all chart news, you can follow @billboard and @billboardcharts on both Twitter and Instagram and all charts (dated Oct. 2), including the Hot 100 in its entirety, will refresh on Billboard.com tomorrow (Sept. 28).

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Sunny Hostin And Ana Navarro Describe Their Fears And Fallout From False Positive Covid-19 Test That Had Them Abruptly Pulled From ‘The View’ - Deadline

The View co-hosts Sunny Hostin and Ana Navarro said on Monday that subsequent testing showed that they had a false positive Covid-19 results.

The initial positive test led to a chaotic situation live on the show on Friday as they were abruptly pulled from the show in advance of a guest appearance by Vice President Kamala Harris.

On Monday’s show, Hostin and Navarro, back in person on the set, also described the fallout from having the positive results revealed live on air, creating a moment that left the show scrambling and Harris forced to do the interview from elsewhere in the building.

“It was really uncomfortable for my results to be release publicly before I even knew what was going on, before they were verified, before I was tested again and again,” Hostin said. “And there were real life ramifications when things like that happen.”

She said that her husband, a surgeon, was in the operating room at the time and had to pulled out “because God forbid he’s operating on someone and he’s Covid positive.” She said that her child’s school also had to be notified, and her parents had to rush to be tested.

Hostin got emotional as she described the impact that the false positive test had on her personally. “These are the sorts of real-life things that were happening, and for me it was particularly triggering, because not too long ago I delivered the eulogy at my in-law’s funeral,” she said. “So you could imagine how I felt, thinking I could possibly be Covid positive, and my family could experience another loss, a loss that I don’t think my husband could handle. So I was relieved to say the least to find out that I was Covid negative, and I always was assured by the fact that I am fully vaccinated. And so even if I were Covid positive, I was convinced that I would likely be OK.”

Navarro said that she was “flabbergasted” to learn of the initial positive result.

“My first thought was, ‘Oh my God,’ because I have just spent the day with Kamala Harris’ sister, niece and brother in law, so I am thinking, ‘I’m Typhoid Mary and I’m going to wipe out the entire Harris family in one week. So I have to call them immediately, call your family because you don’t want them to find out from TV. Of course they had, and it shows you just how instant these days news travels.”

Brian Teta, executive producer of The View, said that they found out about the positive test results just moments before they came back from a commercial break, where they were to introduce Harris and have her in studio as a guest. It’s still unclear why the results came in during the show, but the show’s co-hosts talked of how they are tested regularly.

“All I could think of was that we had to keep the hosts safe, we had to keep the vice president safe. She could not walk out no matter what. And that led to some really awkward television that I would like to take back if I could.”

He apologized to Hostin and Navarro because “they were put in this positive where they had this information put out on television and then to make it worse, it turned out not to be true later on.”

“So it was unfortunate that mistakes were made but I can confidently say that we have very rigorous safety protocols, that everyone is regularly tested, and I am just so relieved that you guys are healthy, that everyone is healthy, and nobody was ever in danger,” he said.

Hostin and Navarro thanked viewers and friends for messages of support and concern, but they also said that they received negative responses.

Hostin said that “while I got a lot of love and support, and there is so much good in this world, some of the hatred that I got online and some of the folks that somehow got my phone number, and said some things to me, when you meet your maker, you’ll have to figure that would with that.”

Co-host Joy Behar then interjected, “Figure out what? What are they talking aout? People, get a life..”

Navarro, meanwhile, got a tweet from Donald Trump Jr., who wrote that “given the Ana Navarro news, I think this is a time to have a national conversation about Covid and obesity.”

She then addressed Trump Jr. directly.

“I know that when you are a dimwit, with no skill or talent or significant accomplishments, living off your father’s name and fame and fortune, you’ve got to draw attention to yourself. If you want to have a conversation about Covid and obesity, you could have had it last October, when your elderly, obese father had it. So it is a legitimate conversation to have, and fortunately for you, you have got somebody in your family who you can call and discuss it with. Because imagine having a father whose butt is the size of a studio apartment in New Jersey, you got the gall to pick on me?”

Behar said, “When people have nothing to say, they attack your looks.”

The co-hosts then invited Harris to come back to the show for full panel of questions.

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R. Kelly convicted of racketeering and sex trafficking by a federal jury in New York - CNN

New York (CNN)Jurors have found R&B singer R. Kelly guilty of racketeering, including acts of bribery and sexual exploitation of a child, along with separate charges of sex trafficking.

In this federal case in the Eastern District of New York, Kelly faced a total of nine counts -- one count of racketeering, with 14 underlying acts that included sexual exploitation of a child, kidnapping, bribery and sex trafficking charges, and also eight additional counts of violations of the Mann Act, a sex trafficking law.

Kelly was found guilty of nine counts -- one count of racketeering and eight counts of violating the Mann Act. Of the 14 underlying acts for the racketeering count, he needed to be found guilty of at least two to be convicted of that count. Jurors found prosecutors had proven all but two of the 14 underlying racketeering acts.

The jury, made up of seven men and five women, began deliberating Friday afternoon.

In all, Kelly could face decades in prison at sentencing, which is scheduled for May 4.

The verdict comes 13 years after Kelly, whose full name is Robert Sylvester Kelly, was acquitted of child pornography charges at an Illinois state trial.

An attorney for Kelly said they are considering filing an appeal and are disappointed in the verdict.

Trial began August 18

Fifty prosecution and defense witnesses took the stand during the five-week trial, including victims who were identified as "Jane Does" in Kelly's indictments. There were 45 prosecution witnesses.

Jane Doe 1 was the singer Aaliyah, who died in 2001.

Jurors heard from multiple witnesses who were present at her marriage to Kelly on August 31, 1994, when he was 27 and she was 15. Prosecutors showed copies of the couple's marriage license application, which listed Aaliyah's age as 18 at the time of their wedding, as well as their marriage license and marriage certification.

Kelly's former tour manager, Demetrius Smith, testified reluctantly that he bribed a worker at a welfare office in the Chicago area to create a welfare ID for Aaliyah.

"I made her (the welfare office worker) an offer and she took the money," Smith testified. "I gave her $500."

While the ID did not list Aaliyah's date of birth, an Illinois official testified September 15 that, generally, a person has to be at least 18 to obtain that particular type of ID.

Nathan Edmond, a minister who married the two, spoke publicly for the first time about the marriage while testifying September 1 said he met the couple the day he married them.

"I didn't think it was anybody special. I didn't understand it at all," Edmond testified.

Jurors also heard from a woman who identified herself only as Stephanie, who said she met Kelly at an event in Chicago in 1999 when she was 17, and that he eventually invited her to his studio.

"I remember him asking me my age," Stephanie testified. "When I said I was 17, he said it was fine."

Stephanie testified that Kelly sexually abused her when she was 17, and recorded them having sex. He paid for her travel to Florida to meet him on her 18th birthday and she stopped speaking with him shortly after the trip. She described fearing his angry outbursts, saying he would yell at her in public places.

A former radio intern who identified herself as Sonja testified September 9 that Kelly invited her to travel to Chicago to interview him at his studio in 2003 when she was 21 and that once she arrived, an employee put her in a room that Sonja quickly realized was "locked from the outside." She said she was kept in the room for several days, occasionally let out to go to the bathroom and shower.

"The door was locked. I wanted to get out," Sonja testified.

Sonja testified she lost consciousness after eating her first meal in days and saw Kelly adjusting his pants when she woke up. She testified that she believed he sexually assaulted her when she was unconscious.

"I was sexually assaulted," Sonja testified. "There was something in me that wasn't wanted."

Testimony about physical and sexual abuse

Another witness, Jerhonda Pace, testified she met R. Kelly when she went to watch his 2008 Illinois state trial on child pornography charges when she was in high school. She testified that he invited her to his home a year later, when she was 16, and that he sexually abused her.

"I told him I was 19," she testified. "I was 16."

But she testified that during their first sexual encounter, she told him her real age. Pace said Kelly told her she should "continue to tell everyone she was 19 and to act 21." She said Kelly took her virginity and that the two had a six-month sexual relationship that ended in early 2010.

Pace testified that during a fight, Kelly choked her "until I passed out." Pace testified that in 2017, she reported the incidents to law enforcement and turned over evidence including a T-shirt she said she wore the day Kelly choked her. Forensic experts testified at Kelly's trial the shirt was covered in semen that was a positive match for Kelly's DNA.

A woman who testified under the pseudonym Jane said she was Kelly's girlfriend for five years, defended him in an interview with CBS's Gayle King shortly before his arrest on federal charges, and continued to be by his side for months after his arrest.

Jane testified she met Kelly in April 2015 when she was a 17-year-old high school student and that he invited her to audition for him at a hotel in Florida. She testified that she told Kelly she was 18.

She said she began traveling to meet Kelly at shows he was performing around the country, and testified that Kelly told her he wanted to teach her "musical techniques to better me as a singer." Jane said she would reach out to Kelly's assistant to book travel, sharing her legal date of birth with him. She testified that Kelly began having sexual intercourse with her in May 2015.

"We had sex almost every day," she testified. "Every time we had sex, he would record it."

Jane testified that Kelly began recording them having sex when she was 17, using one of multiple iPads he carried with him in a backpack.

Jane testified that she became infected with herpes after having sex with Kelly. She also testified that, while 17, Kelly would regularly spank her, leaving bruises and making her skin tear. She testified the spankings led to beatings, and she said Kelly would hit her all over her body and once hit her with a shoe.

"I was trying to run from him and fight back but I was no match," Jane testified.

At the end of the summer of 2015 she told Kelly she would need to go back to Florida for her senior year of high school and confessed that she was 17.

Jane testified she became pregnant in 2017 and that Kelly pushed her to have an abortion.

A woman who identified herself as Faith testified she met Kelly at a San Antonio concert in 2017. She said Kelly handed her a piece of paper with his phone numbers and that they began texting, then talking.

She said Kelly flew her to New York for a show, came to her room early one morning and forced her hand onto his penis. Faith testified that Kelly recorded them having sex. When she asked him whether he was going to use a condom, he replied, "I don't need a condom." He did not tell her that he had herpes, Faith testified, and she said she was diagnosed with herpes shortly after their relationship ended in 2018.

Faith testified that during a trip to Dallas, she and a girlfriend named Joy were kept in a van while Kelly and others were in cigar bar for hours. When she needed to pee and felt like she was overheating, she said she tried to open the door but could not.

Kelly's legal problems are not over

Kelly still has legal battles after this trial. In the Northern District of Illinois, he faces more federal charges including child pornography and obstruction charges. He also faces criminal charges in Minnesota, for two counts of engaging in prostitution with a minor, and Illinois state charges for aggravated criminal sexual abuse.

He has pleaded not guilty to all charges and denies any wrongdoing.

The 13-count indictment released in July 2019 in the Northern District of Illinois accused Kelly of videotaping himself having sex with at least four girls younger than 18 beginning in 1998. A few years later, after Kelly learned that some of those videos were missing from his "collection," he and others began paying "hundreds of thousands of dollars" to several people to recover them, the indictment says.

Also in 2019, a grand jury in Cook County, Illinois, indicted Kelly on 10 counts of aggravated criminal sexual abuse involving four alleged victims, three of whom were listed as younger than 17.

That indictment was followed a few months later by another one from a Cook County grand jury on 11 counts ranging from aggravated criminal sexual assault and criminal sexual assault to aggravated criminal sexual abuse.

In August 2019, the Hennepin County Attorney's Office in Minnesota announced Kelly was charged with two counts of prostitution with a person under 18. According to the criminal complaint, a woman said the incident happened in 2001, when she was 17.

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SNL Loses Beck Bennett, Adds Featured Players Sarah Sherman, Aristotle Athari & James Austin Johnson - Gothamist

With Saturday Night Live's season 47 premiere coming up this weekend (October 2nd), the show has finally announced the full cast for the new season, which includes three new featured players and at least one surprising longtime exiting cast member. Sarah Sherman, Aristotle Athari & James Austin Johnson are joining the show, bringing the cast to a whopping 21 people, and Beck Bennett is leaving, along with Lauren Holt.

After eight seasons on the show, starting as a featured player in season 39 in 2013, Bennett announced his departure in an Instagram post: "Love you, SNL. Gonna miss you so much. Thank you for 8 years of remarkable people and incredible experiences that completely changed my life. I had so much fun."

In addition, Lauren Holt, who started as a featured player last season, will also not be returning. Two other previous featured players, Chloe Fineman and Bowen Yang, have been made full cast members.

Despite some indications at the end of last season that SNL heavyweights Cecily Strong, Aidy Bryant, Kate McKinnon, Pete Davidson, and Kenan Thompson might be considering leaving the show, they're all staying put, just like Lorne Michaels wanted.

Sherman, known online as Sarah Squirm, is already pretty well known for her use of body horror and technicolor DIY creations, as well as for work she's done with Adult Swim, Means TV, and her "unconventional and popular traveling freaky variety show, Helltrap Nightmare."

"SNL just made a HUGE mistake!!" she tweeted today.

You might recognize Aristotle Athari from Silicon Valley, where he played chair-pants wearing programmer Gabe in season six. He's also a successful stand-up comedian who was part of Hasan Minaj’s sketch group Goatface.

In addition to being a stand-up comedian, podcast host, and having a role on Better Call Saul, James Austin Johnson is best known for having perfected arguably the only good Trump impression in the world. "That’s the main thing I focus on, is that this is a rasping old man who is inches from death at any moment," he told Discourse about getting into the Trump headspace and finding the voice.

Season 47 kicks off on Saturday. The show previously announced the hosts for the first four episodes, kicking it off with Owen Wilson and musical guest Kacey Musgraves. Kim Kardashian West, Rami Malek, and Jason Sudeikis will host other episodes throughout October.

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Will Smith admits he and Jada Pinkett Smith aren't monogamous - Insider

• Will Smith spoke about his marriage to Jada Pinkett Smith in a new interview with GQ.
• He said they chose to be monogamous "for the large part of our relationship."
• Smith added that "marriage for us can't be a prison" and that the two had "trust and freedom."

Will Smith spoke candidly in a new interview about the decision he and Jada Pinkett Smith made at one point in their marriage not to practice monogamy.

"Jada never believed in conventional marriage ... Jada had family members that had an unconventional relationship," Smith, 53, said in an interview for the November cover of GQ. "So she grew up in a way that was very different than how I grew up.

"There were significant endless discussions about, what is relational perfection? What is the perfect way to interact as a couple?" Smith continued. "And for the large part of our relationship, monogamy was what we chose, not thinking of monogamy as the only relational perfection."

Smith and Pinkett Smith wed in December 1997 and later welcomed two children: a son, Jaden Smith, and a daughter, Willow Smith, born in 1998 and 2000. Throughout their marriage, they've been vocal about how their relationship has evolved and why they don't refer to each other as married anymore.

Pinkett Smith and Smith in May 2019.

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Smith and Pinkett Smith, a star of the 2017 movie "Girls Trip," have also revealed details of their relationship on "Red Table Talk," the Facebook Watch talk show hosted by Pinkett Smith.

In an episode released in July 2020, Pinkett Smith sat down with her husband for a frank conversation about her "entanglement" with the R&B singer August Alsina.

Pinkett Smith said she and Alsina had a relationship that began a few years earlier, when she and Smith were "going through a difficult time" and broke up. The actress said that she and Smith "were separated amicably" and that Alsina was "not a home-wrecker."

Toward the end of the episode, Smith said that he and Pinkett Smith had "really gotten to that new place of unconditional love." The stars also alluded to Smith having a relationship outside of their marriage but didn't elaborate.

"There's a real power in just knowing somebody's riding with you no matter what, and you really can't know that until you've gone through some stuff," Smith said, adding, "Imma get you back first, and then—"

"You gonna get me back?" Pinkett Smith said. "I think you got me back. I think we're good on that, OK?"

They laughed before Smith said, "OK, that's probably true."

Pinkett Smith and Smith in April 2016.

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In his new GQ interview, Smith said that while this unique dynamic had worked for them, he wouldn't recommend it for others.

"We have given each other trust and freedom, with the belief that everybody has to find their own way," he said. "And marriage for us can't be a prison. And I don't suggest our road for anybody. I don't suggest this road for anybody. But the experiences that the freedoms that we've given one another and the unconditional support, to me, is the highest definition of love."

Smith's interviewer, Wesley Lowery, wrote in his GQ profile that the actor "delicately explained" to him that Pinkett Smith wasn't "the only one engaging in other sexual relationships." Lowery said he sensed that Smith wanted to say more but decided against it when they spoke weeks later.

"It may seem hard to believe, but I would lose sleep over not giving you the answer that I know you could use," Smith told Lowery. "I want to help you, I want you to succeed, I want you to have a headline. But by the same token, I don't want to deal with the backlash of that in the world."

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James Bond star Lea Seydoux says Tom Cruise would win in a fight with Daniel Craig - Yahoo News

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• Lea Seydoux said Daniel Craig would lose in a fight against Tom Cruise.

• Seydoux has starred alongside both leading men who are known for performing their own stunts.

• Seydoux stars in the latest Bond movie, "No Time To Die."

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Lea Seydoux believes Daniel Craig, 53, would be no match for Tom Cruise, 59, in a fight, she revealed during an interview with Craig present to promote the new highly anticipated Bond film "No Time To Die."

Seydoux starred alongside Cruise in 2011's "Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol" - and she was asked to compare her experience working with Cruise to Craig on the James Bond as both are known for performing their own daring stunt.

"In a fight, who would win: Daniel Craig or Tom Cruise," Graham Norton asked Seydoux during an interview to which she laughed and replied: "Tom Cruise, of course."

Seydoux has played Madeleine Swann, the deadly companion to Craig's 007, in three James Bond films. Later during the interview on "The Grahame Norton show," Seydoux said that she returned to the franchise because there had been an improvement in the quality of the film's female roles.

Seydoux also discussed the impact "Fleabag" writer Phoebe Waller-Bridge, who was brought onto the film to rework the script, had on the final film.

"She wrote for us and Lashana [Lynch] as well and she's great," Seydoux said. "I love her I'm a huge fan, actually, but I saw her briefly on set and I wish I had more time with her."

Of Waller-Bridge, Craig added: "We didn't have enough time with her. She's very, very busy, so we got her for snippets and she came in and had a big influence on the script. She's one of the best around and she freed up a lot of things."

Seydoux - who is one of the most successful French actors of her generation - has discussed the evolution of female characters in the Bond franchise extensively during the press run for "No Time To Die."

During a recent interview with Sky News, Seydoux said she believed Bond is now less of a "misogynist."

"I think that this time the female characters have more depth and are stronger, but not only stronger because they are skilled and powerful, but also we want to have more interesting female characters - we want to relate to them," she said.

"It's the first time that a female character is coming back - we get to know her and we get to know Madeleine in 'No Time To Die,' so I think that in that sense, it's much more interesting."

"No Time To Die" opens in UK theaters on September 30. The film is Daniel Craig's last outing as 007.

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Rolling Stones pay tribute to Charlie Watts as they finally kick off US tour - CNN

(CNN)The Rolling Stones have marked their first concert without late drummer Charlie Watts with an emotional onstage tribute.

Mick Jagger, Keith Richards and Ronnie Wood honored their bandmate of nearly six decades as they finally kicked off their pandemic-delayed "No Filter" tour at The Dome at America's Center in St. Louis, Missouri on Sunday night.

The show opened to an empty stage with just a drum beat, as pictures and videos of Watts were projected on four huge screens.

When the group emerged, Jagger shared with a packed stadium that: "It was really quite emotional, seeing those pictures of Charlie up on the big screen."

A video tribute to Charlie Watts plays before the Rolling Stones perform in St. Louis, Missouri on Sunday.

Watts, who performed alongside Jagger, Richards and Wood for more than 50 years, died last month at the age of 80.

A spokesperson for the musician told CNN at the time that Watts had passed away peacefully in a London hospital, surrounded by his family, adding that he was "one of the greatest drummers of his generation."

It was previously announced that Watts wouldn't take part in the tour while he recovered from an unspecified medical procedure.

Jagger made it clear ahead of Sunday's concert that Watts' absence on stage would be felt.

"I must say though, at this point, it's a bit of a poignant night for us because it's our first tour in 59 years that we've done without our lovely Charlie Watts. And we all miss Charlie so much," he said in a video shared on Instagram.

"We miss him as a band, we miss him as a friend on and off the stage and we've got so many memories of Charlie -- and I'm sure some of you that have seen us before have got memories of Charlie as well.

"I hope you will remember him like we do, so we'd like to dedicate this show to Charlie."

The legendary British rock band's 13-date tour had been scheduled for May 2020 before the coronavirus restrictions caused it to be postponed.

The band are scheduled to make pit stops in, among others, Florida, Atlanta and Los Angeles before wrapping in Austin, Texas on November 20.

Touring musician and longtime Stones associate Steve Jordan will replace Watts on drums for the duration of the tour.

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