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Alejandro Sanz is back in the top 10 on a Billboard U.S. chart thanks to “Hoy No Me Siento Bien,” his first team-up with Grupo Frontera. The song, which climbs 12-7 on the Latin Pop Airplay chart (dated Feb. 15), becomes the Spaniard’s first visit to the upper region since 2020.
“Hoy No Me Siento Bien,” released Jan. 24 on Sony Music Latin, climbs to No. 7 after a robust 51% gain in plays for the tracking week ending Feb. 6, according to Luminate. That increase translates to 2.7 million audience impressions in the U.S. in its second week on the chart.
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“This is not a song, this is a statement,” shared Sanz on his Instagram account, as he announced the Frontera collab on Jan. 24. The song, produced by Grammy and Latin Grammy winner Edgar Barrera, fuses Sanz’s characteristic pop and Frontera’s cumbia folk.
Sanz last scored a top 10 on Latin Pop Airplay through “For Sale,” with Carlos Vives in 2020, reaching a No. 5 high then. In between, he’s placed three other songs, among those, “Muero,” with Kany García, nearly missed the upper region, landing at No. 11 in 2022.
Frontera grabs its first top 10 on its first try. The group joined the Latin pop radio ranking last week, when “Hoy No Me Siento Bien” debuted at No. 12 on the chart dated Feb. 8.
Sanz, one of Latin pop’s earliest hitmakers, adds a 25th career top 10. The Spaniard first reached the upper region the with the No. 9-peaking “La Fuerza del Corazón” in 1995. He has since placed at least one top 10 on Latin Pop Airplay in every decade. Six out of those landed at the summit, including his featured role in Shakira’s “La Tortura,” which dominated for 10 weeks, tying with Juane’s “La Camisa Negra” for the longest-leading song in 2005.
Continued reception across Latin pop radio stations, takes “Hoy No Me Siento Bien” to a No. 43 debut on the overall Latin Airplay chart, Sanz’s first visit since “Muero,” with Kany García, in 2022.
“Hoy No Me Siento Bien” will appear on Sanz’s 15th studio project. It follows first single, “Palmeras En El Jardín,” a No. 13 high on Latin Pop Airplay (Dec. 2024).
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For a minute there it seemed like Wiz Khalifa was dropping off new visuals every week for a year straight and while the man has been MIA for a while now, he returns with some new work dedicated to his favorite lady, Mary Jane.
Dropping off some new visuals to his “Roll It Up Freestyle,” Wiz uses a collage of videos that show him traveling from one country to another to turn up at clubs, shows and hotel suites. That man really seems to know how to enjoy himself wherever he goes. We just wonder what he does when he touches down in countries where weed may not be legal.
Back in the states, Jacquees and Dej Loaf know a thing or two about having a good time too and in their clip to “Favorite One,” the duo hit the club to enjoy eachother’s company after chopping it up on a talk show hosted by… Bow Wow?! He might be angling for his own show or something here.
Check out the rest of today’s drops including work from Nino Man, Key Glock, and more.
WIZ KHALIFA – “ROLL IT UP FREESTYLE”
JACQUEES & DEJ LOAF – “FAVORITE ONE”
NINO MAN – “FEEL BETTER”
KEY GLOCK – “3AM IN TOKEYO”
YUNG4EVR – “BRING IT BACK”
B.G. – “WASHHAPN”
KLANMANFLAV – “BIG OLE KLANMAN”
BIC FIZZEL – “BORN WINNER”
Kendrick Lamar‘s Super Bowl LIX Halftime Show is officially the most-watched halftime show performance of all time, Roc Nation, Apple Music and the NFL announced on Tuesday (Feb. 11). “We’ve broken the record again! The most watched Apple Music Halftime show EVER, with 133.5 Million viewers,” the companies wrote on Instagram. Lamar’s halftime show performance drew a […]
Even though Kendrick Lamar has five No. 1s on the Billboard Hot 100 among 88 hits on the chart, there were still viewers who tuned in to the 2025 Super Bowl halftime show seemingly unaware of the depth of the rapper’s decade-plus catalog. So Lamar was smart to lean into his releases of 2024 — […]
Lyor Cohen, YouTube’s global head of music and the former president at Def Jam Recordings, head of Warner Music Group’s recorded music division and founder of 300 Entertainment, has penned an urgent open letter to Ye — formerly known as Kanye West — imploring him to stop using antisemitic rhetoric and other actions following a […]
The comma in the title of Bon Iver‘s three-track October EP Sable, was always there for a reason. And on Tuesday (Feb. 11), the musician born Justin Vernon finally revealed what it was, announcing new album Fable — a counterpart project that’ll serve as the direct follow-up to the original release, featuring collaborations with Danielle Haim, Dijon and Flock of Dimes.
Arriving April 11 via Jagjaguwar, Sable, Fable will serve as Bon Iver’s first proper album since 2019’s I, I, which debuted at No. 26 on the Billboard 200. Described in a release as a “love story set to lush, radiant pop music,” the new project “begins with the vulnerable unburdening” of the Sable EP, before giving way “to a new nine-song saga in which one person becomes two, darkness turns to salmon-colored beauty, and sadness transforms to unbridled joy.”
“Where Sable, is a sparse and solitary reckoning with a pain that long-defined the past, Fable looks towards a vibrant future filled with light, purpose and possibility: a partner, new memories, perhaps a family,” the description continues.
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Dijon and Flock of Dimes will join Vernon on a song called “Day One,” while the HAIM band member’s voice will appear on a duet called “If Only I Could Wait.” The rest of the track list includes titles such as “Things Behind Things Behind Things,” “Speyside,” “Awards Season,” “Short Story,” “Everything Is Peaceful Love,” “Walk Home,” “From,” “I’ll Be There,” “There’s a Rhythm” and “Au Revoir.”
The Wisconsin native also shared the album’s minimalistic cover via Instagram on Tuesday. The geometric artwork simply features a salmon background with a black title in the center. In a concept photo also on Bon Iver’s account, Vernon is dressed in the exact shade of pink standing in a lush natural landscape, while four people covered head-to-toe in black pose around him.
But while fans will have to wait until spring to get their hands on Sable, Fable — which is available to preorder — the project’s lead single, “Everything Is Peaceful Love.” Described as “the portrait of a man overwhelmed with happiness upon meeting the one he will fall in love with,” the track will drop on Valentine’s Day (Feb. 14) alongside a music video by John Wilson.
Five days later, Vernon will share more about Sable, Fable at On Air Fest in Brooklyn, New York, during a conversation with author Krista Tippett. Ticket information is available on the event’s website.
See Bon Iver’s announcement below.
Cam’ron finally explained why Lil Wayne and Juelz Santana‘s long lost collab album I Can’t Feel My Face never saw the light of day.
During a recent episode of his YouTube show Talk With Flee, Cam’ron talked about the rumors about him being the reason why Lil Wayne and Juelz Santana never dropped their much-hyped project. “So, Juelz and Lil Wayne had a project,” he began. “Def Jam is under Universal, which Lil Wayne was signed to. When they wanted to put this project out, Universal told Def Jam, ‘Well, Lil Wayne still didn’t give us his album yet, so if y’all wanna put this project out, we’re taking 95 percent and Def Jam, y’all can take 5 percent.’”
Cam continued by explaining that the business side of things didn’t make sense and said he wasn’t to blame for the deal eventually falling apart. “Shout to Steve Gawley, he’s now the head lawyer for Universal, at the time he was the lawyer for Def Jam, and we still good to this day. Now go find Steve Gawley and ask him that,” he said. “N—as don’t know Steve Gawley; n—as just wanna blame Cam. We had a joint venture deal with Def Jam, so if that project came out, that means Def Jam would get 2 and a half percent of the album and me and Juelz would get 2 and a half percent of the album. And they said, ‘Cam, we love you and all that, but we’re not doing that.’”
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He added: “Why would I wanna stop making money? My whole thing was to make Juelz a star, to make Juelz rich. However it played out in the end, it played out towards the end. But Juelz said it: ‘Cam gonna make me a star, he’s gonna make me a million.’ We both did what we said we was gonna do. Why would I wanna stop that?”
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There are unofficial versions of the fabled project floating around the Internet made by entrepreneurial mixtape and DVD salesmen from a time when you could buy burned copies of music on a CD from a guy in a barbershop or from a kid at your school. The album was supposed to be released around 2006 after Wayne dropped Tha Carter II and Juelz dropped his sophomore LP What the Game’s Been Missing!
Wayne talked about releasing the project as an album instead of a mixtape with MTV News back in 2006. “It’s a mixtape, but we just sat down and listened to it and noticed that we didn’t use no outside beats,” Wayne said while on the set of his video for “Shooter.” “We used all produced beats. We can go album with this. Look out for it, we are deciding [whether to release it as an official LP].”
You can watch the full episode below.
Ye (formerly Kanye West) is facing a lawsuit from a former employee who says the rapper compared himself to Hitler and threatened her because she is Jewish.
The case, filed Tuesday (Feb. 11) in Los Angeles court, claims he subjected the unnamed woman to “antisemitic vitriol,” including texting her “Hail Hitler” and calling her “ugly” and a “bitch.” And the woman says she was “swiftly terminated” when she complained.
“Ye carried out a calculated campaign to threaten and psychologically torment Jewish people around him, specifically plaintiff,” the woman’s lawyers wrote. “There can be little doubt that Ye treats those around him, especially Jewish people and women, much worse than just a bully. He is a self-proclaimed ‘Nazi’.”
The Jane Doe accuses Ye and his Yeezy LLC of religious and gender discrimination, wrongful termination, breach of contract, and a variety of other legal wrongdoing.
The new lawsuit, one of many filed by former employees against Ye, came days after he went on an offensive tirade on X (formerly Twitter) that included antisemitic comments (“I’m a Nazi” and praise for Adolf Hitler) as well as a bizarre demand to free Sean “Diddy” Combs, who is currently in custody awaiting trial on sex crime charges. On Sunday, Ye ran a TV ad during the Super Bowl that directed viewers to an online store where they could purchase a shirt emblazoned with a swastika.
It was hardly the first time the rapper has made such statements. After a string of similar antisemitic rhetoric and other erratic behavior in October 2022, the star lost much of what was a once-formidable business empire, including fashion partnerships with Adidas, The Gap and Balenciaga, as well as his representation by Creative Artists Agency and many of his lawyers.
In Tuesday’s lawsuit, the Jane Doe plaintiff says she was hired at Ye’s Yeezy LLC as a marketing specialist in December 2023, shortly before he issued an apology (written in Hebrew) for those earlier antisemitic statements. But she says the apologetic sentiment was “short lived.”
A month later, amid renewed controversy over the cover art of his Vultures Vol. 1, the woman claims she suggested that Ye issue a statement condemning Nazism. When the message was relayed to the star himself, he allegedly responded with a text message (included in the lawsuit) reading “I Am A Nazi.”
“This not only deeply offended Doe but the loud and proud antisemitism also made her feel endangered,” her attorneys wrote.
Months later, the rapper allegedly texted her and another Jewish employee “What the fuck is everyone here getting paid?” In another screenshotted text, he allegedly followed up: “Welcome to the first day of working for Hitler.”
The abuse allegedly escalated from there, the lawsuit says, including a series of texts in June 2024 in which Ye allegedly said “Shut the f— up b—-” called her “ugly as f—” and texted “Hail Hitler.” Later, he also allegedly texted, “You what’s left after I said deathcon” — a message that Jane Doe says was intended to reference his previous antisemitic rants and meant as a threat based on her religion.
Just hours after she complained about the text messages to her manager, the lawsuit says she was sent an email from an attorney representing Yeezy terminating her employment.
A spokesman for Ye did not immediately return a request for comment on Tuesday (Feb. 11).
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Paramount Global’s Viacom is calling out Zeus Network for allegedly stealing the vibe of its hit show Wild ‘N Out with their new game show Bad vs. Wild, hosted by Nick Cannon. Viacom says the show is straight-up copying their popular MTV series, especially with how it’s set up. Bad vs. Wild brings together cast members and hosts from other Zeus shows like Baddies, Joseline’s Cabaret, and Aunt Tea Podcast, with special guests joining the fun.
The concept of the show revolves around settling “pre-existing beefs” by splitting the participants into two teams, “Bad” and “Wild,” who then face off in different games. At the end of the episode, a big-name artist performs, which feels just like Wild ‘N Out. And of course, Nick Cannon is hosting and executive producing, just like he does with Wild ‘N Out.
The similarities are pretty obvious. Both shows mix comedy and competition, and both bring on famous musical guests to cap it off. Viacom’s lawsuit points out how Bad vs. Wild follows the same formula that made Wild ‘N Out so successful, claiming that Zeus is profiting off a format Viacom created. With Nick Cannon at the helm of both shows, it’s clear Viacom feels like Zeus is stepping on their toes and taking something that belongs to them.
More news to come as the story develops.
The pop-punk princess is making her Warped Tour debut at last. As announced Tuesday (Feb. 11), Avril Lavigne will perform at one of three stops on the iconic traveling rock show — which is set to make a comeback in 2025 after six years off the road — for the first time in her career. […]
