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A$AP Rocky is enjoying life as a father of three, and being a girl dad for the first time after Rihanna gave birth to Rocki Irish Mayers in September.
Rocky, who was honored with the Fashion Icon Award at the CFDA Fashion Awards on Monday night (Nov. 3), chatted with Extra’s Mona Kosar Abdi on the red carpet about his new bundle of joy. “Yo, being a girl dad is amazing,” Rocky said with a smile. “I mean, check me out — I’m glowing.”
The Harlem native also spoke with Entertainment Tonight, who reminded Rocky that Rihanna actually won this exact award 11 years prior in 2014, making Rocky and RiRi the first couple to win. “It means a lot, 11 is my lucky number. Eleven years later, look at us,” he said.
Rihanna walked the carpet with her boo, and Rocky continued to rave about his baby girl: “Rocki is cuter than ever. She’s my baby twin, so it’s amazing. I’m happy to be a girl dad at this point.”
It was a busy night at the “Oscars of fashion” on Monday, which saw Teyana Taylor play host of the CFDA Fashion Awards. Condé Nast chief content officer Anna Wintour presented Rocky with his Fashion Icon Award.
“[Rocky’s] joining us here tonight two months after the birth of his third child named Rocki. Seeing A$AP Rocky, the devoted father, makes it clear how much family means to him and now we are all welcoming him into ours,” she said, per the Associated Press.
2025 has been a wild ride for Rocky, even without the release of his long-awaited Don’t Be Dumb album. He was found not guilty in his felony shooting case involving former associate A$AP Relli in February.
Rocky and RiRi welcomed Rocki into the world in September, as their daughter joins big brothers RZA and Riot.
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Trending on Billboard The Prep & Landing story continues this holiday season, picking up with a brand-new animated special about elite elf duo Wayne and Lanny in Prep & Landing: The Snowball Protocol, and Billboard Family is exclusively premiering the tinsel-topped trailer below. The fourth special in the Emmy-winning franchise — and the first in […]
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Kehlani makes her top 10 debut with “Folded,” while Justin Bieber’s “Daisies” and Olivia Dean’s “Man I Need” continue to rise. Billboard‘s chart experts break down the new contender and whether Mariah Carey will come flying in to No. 1 anytime soon. We also took to the streets of L.A. and asked fans what they thought about the top 10 for this week.
Tetris Kelly: The battle between “Golden” and Taylor Swift stays tight as a new contender enters the top 10. It’s time, well, according to Mariah Carey and KATSEYE, but maybe not quite yet on the charts. More on that moment a little bit later. But for now, let’s jump into the top 10. This is the Billboard Hot 100 top 10 for the week dated Nov. 8. Still at 10 is Leon Thomas with “Mutt.”
Guest 1: So, “Mutt,” man, I feel like it’s so, like, relatable to our culture. I love it. It’s got, like, a lot of flavor in it. And the women, I love the women. So it gets you, you know, it gets you in there.
Tetris Kelly: Morgan also stays at No. 9.
Guest 2: I mean, I live in Texas, so everyone’s obsessed with Morgan Wallen. I kind of stay away from what everyone’s obsessed with.
Guest 3: I don’t listen to him. I’ve never been a country girl, but I know he’s big. I don’t actually think I’ve ever listened to a single song by him.
Guest 4: I never even heard of him. You wilding because I don’t know Morgan.
Tetris Kelly: “Elizabeth Taylor” falls to eight.
Guest 4: Music swiftly goes right by me. Oh, hey, she cute. Though, I bet if I heard it, I probably would like it, though.
Tetris Kelly: So not a lot of movement in the bottom of the chart, but I am happy to see Leon Thomas still hanging in there. How we feeling about the chart this week, guys?
Delisa Shannon: I mean, y’all know this, I love me some Leon Thomas, so to see him holding on, I mean, it’s just truly a testament to really pushing a song. I think that’s what we’ve seen time and time again on these charts, where we see a song that not only that the artist is really strong behind, but their fandom is really strong behind.
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Andrew Cuomo is not trying to answer any questions about President Donald Trump’s reluctant ringing endorsement.
Democratic Socialist Zohran Mamdani is on the verge of shaking up the political landscape in NYC, and even has the Supreme MAGA Lord, and bum from Queens, Donald Trump, so spooked that he’s throwing his support behind Andrew Cuomo, his one-time nemesis during his first awful term as POTUS.
Cuomo is running as an Independent after Mamdani easily secured the Democratic nomination in the primary, which eventually led to current Mayor/socialite Eric Adams’ dropping out of the race and also throwing his support behind Cuomo, in hopes of stopping Mamdani from becoming Mayor, which is looking like a futile effort because polls still show Mamdani ahead.
Ahead of Tuesday’s election, Cuomo called into Hot 97’s Ebro In The Morning show to make his last pitch to New Yorkers who are probably still on the fence about voting for either him or Mamdani. Still, it turned out to be a disaster after Ebro Darden asked the former New York Governor about Trump endorsing him.
“Your boy was just on ’60 Minutes,’ Cuomo, saying you’re his guy,” Darden told Cuomo.
Cuomo responded, “No.”
Ebro pressed him again, “Trump said you’re his candidate! If he had to pick a bad Democrat or a… communist, he’s picking you!”
Several seconds of silence followed, with Peter Rosenberg finally saying he thinks Cuomo ditched the interview, adding that he heard a “click,” suggesting the Mayoral hopeful hung up on them.
Andrew Cuomo Isn’t Making A Great Case For Himself
This latest woeful interview followed his other flop on MSNBC, where he mixed up the two Black hosts after claiming “diversity is a weakness.”
Bruh.
We hope y’all are out there exercising your right to vote. So far, there has been a record turnout for early voting in NYC.
You can see more reactions to Cuomo’s latest interview and other moments leading up to election day below.
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Bad Bunny, Karol G, CA7RIEL & Paco Amoroso, Fuerza Regida, Marco Antonio Solís, and Chuwi have been added to the 2025 Latin Grammy Awards lineup, The Latin Recording Academy announced on Tuesday (Nov. 4).
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The new wave of performers join previously confirmed artists Pepe Aguilar, Aitana, Rauw Alejandro, Edgar Barrera, Ivan Cornejo, DannyLux, Gloria Estefan, Joaquina, Kakalo, Carín León, Liniker, Morat, Christian Nodal, Los Tigres del Norte, Nathy Peluso, Elena Rose, Alejandro Sanz, Grupo Frontera, Kacey Musgraves, Carlos Santana and the 2025 Person of the Year, Raphael.
Bad Bunny leads this year’s nominations, receiving 12 nods including for album of the year with Debí Tirar Más Fotos and double mentions in record of the year and song of the year, with “Baile Inolvidable” and “DTMF.” The Puerto Rican artist is closely followed by Mexican hitmaker Edgar Barrera and Argentine duo CA7RIEL & Paco Amoroso, each with 10 nominations.
In addition to Raphael being honored as the 2025 Person of the Year, The Latin Recording Academy’s special awards recipients this year include Afro-Peruvian artist Susana Baca, Spanish rock icon Enrique Bunbury, Brazilian musician Ivan Lins and Mexican vocal trio Pandora. Meanwhile, Puerto Rican tropical star Olga Tañón will be honored with the Lifetime Achievement Award and Eric Schilling with the Trustees Award.
The 26th Annual Latin Grammy Awards will be broadcast live at 8 p.m. ET/PT on Nov. 13 from Las Vegas via TelevisaUnivision platforms. Prior to the live broadcast, the Latin Grammy Premiere, a non-televised event where the majority of winners are announced, will take place.
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Spotify reported double-digit quarterly revenue and subscriber growth on Tuesday, as its podcast, audiobooks and video offerings helped bring in users and offset a slowdown in the streamer’s advertising revenue growth.
On a call with investors and analysts, CEO/Founder Daniel Ek and Gustav Söderström and Alex Norström, who will succeed Ek as co-CEOs in January, discussed the company’s third quarter earnings. They laid out financial targets for the rest of the year, predicted improvement in advertising revenue in 2026 and announced a partnership with Netflix for video podcasts.
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Here is a breakdown of the highlights from the call.
Growth Targets
Spotify expects to add 32 million net new users, including 8 million net new subscribers, by the end of the year to bring its total number of monthly average users to 745 million. (That compares to 713 million in the third quarter.) An increase in paying users is expected to help Spotify grow its total fourth quarter revenue to 4.5 billion euros ($5.1 billion), up from 4.3 billion euros ($5 billion) in the third quarter. The company said to expect its gross margin to improve to 32.9% on a favorable comparison to margins a year ago, and projected that operating income would rise to 620 million euros ($710 million) from 582 million euros ($682 million).
Expanded Spotify Free Offering
Spotify rolled out global updates for free users during the quarter that executives said make it easier to listen, connect and share music by allowing free users to search and play any song, including songs other users shared with them. Analysts questioned these moves during the call, but Spotify’s executives defended them, saying they help grow the number of prospective users in the funnel that Spotify can convert to paying subscribers.
“The global rollout of our enhanced free experience was a key contributor [to] bringing millions of new listeners into the Spotify ecosystem,” said Norström. “It’s having a huge impact on engagement and retention, which we know is the key leading indicator of even more growth and even more conversion.”
Execs pointed to other product enhancements being rolled out for paying users, like Spotify’s new partnership with Netflix, which will license 16 video podcasts, as evidence of its video growth ambitions. Spotify also rolled out a version of its app for Apple TV, something it had previously avoided because of the cost, Gustav Söderström said. Spotify was able to use AI to speed up and more affordably create the app, which he said will contribute to the company’s ubiquity strategy by increasing retention and usage across platforms.
Ads Still Struggling
Ad sales growth slowed to just 7% in the third quarter from over 30% in the year-ago quarter on a foreign exchange neutral basis. Earlier this year, Spotify executives acknowledged the company was falling behind on meeting internal targets for ad revenue growth.
“In quarter two [we] said that we’re a little bit behind and we need more time, but we do see really good progress on the programmatic side,” said Spotify chief financial officer Christian Luiga, adding that the company expects ad revenue from programmatic to eventually compensate for direct sales. “That inflection point is a little bit further out. We’re expecting the growth that we want in the second half of 2026.”
They signed Amazon and Yahoo as new advertisers in the third quarter.
Young Bleed, once a member of Master P’s No Limit Records collective, has died after suffering a medical event last week. There were premature reports of Young Bleed’s passing, but his son and recording artist Ty’Gee Ramon shared a post on social media confirming the loss of the Baton Rouge rapper.
Ty’Gee Ramon, who is Young Bleed’s eldest child, took to his Instagram page to not only honor his father movingly but also to clear up all the chatter surrounding his passing. According to Ramon, his father did suffer from high blood pressure but was not dealing with any notable health issues.
Throughout the video, Ramon showed impeccable poise in talking about his father. Ramon revealed that his father suffered a brain aneurysm after attending an afterparty connected to the recent Cash Money Records and No Limit Records VERZUZ celebration. Ramon also thanked all of those who had positive thoughts for the family and were rooting for a recovery.
Ramon, like his father, is a rapper signed to Bleed’s Trap Door Entertainment label.
Young Bleed started his career in the late 1990s and was eventually signed to Priority Records with the help of Master P’s No Limit Records machine. His debut album, My Balls and My Word, was released in 1998 and eventually went gold. Bleed’s last album, Signs N’ Wonders, was released on his Trap Door Entertainment imprint in 2020.
To the family, friends, and fans of Young Bleed, Hip-Hop Wired sends our deepest condolences.
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Trending on Billboard Halsey might be welcoming fans back to the badlands, but that doesn’t mean people are allowed to have bad manners at their shows. At the Nov. 3 show in Boston, a man in the audience interrupted the singer as she was speaking by telling her to “stop talking and play,” something Halsey […]
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Max Chambers charged into the Knockout Round on The Voice on Monday night (Nov. 3) and proceeded to blow the coaches away with his high-energy, preternaturally soulful cover of Stevie Wonder’s 1972 classic “Don’t You Worry ‘Bout a Thing.” The 14-year-old Shreveport, Louisiana student came in to do battle with fellow Team Bublé member Max Cooper III, who also held his own with a cover of Djo’s “End of Beginning.”
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But Chambers’ poised, powerful performance had Snoop Dogg jumping out of his seat, howling and singing along, as the teen swung and smiled his way through the soul-funk jam with such ease, confidence and swagger that he earned the show’s first-ever Mic Drop award.
The new wrinkle introduced for season 28 of the show — there are no more steals or saves left in the knockout rounds — allows each coach to select one of their acts for the honor bestowed on a performance that is simply undeniable. Even better, after the Droppers are chosen, fans at home get to vote on which one of them will represent the show at the Jan. 1 Rose Parade; voting for the Mic Drop winner will take place on the Nov. 24th episode.
“Max, for my money, is a frontrunner to win The Voice this year,” said coach Bublé. “He could be the youngest winner in Voice history. I really think that Max Chambers could be the reason I am a three-peat winner.” After hitting his Mic Drop button, Bublé added, “I was so excited. I felt like I was doing millions of people a favor. I do hope you’ll vote for him because I do feel he deserves to be there.”
Snoop’s praise climbed even higher. “Precious lord, take my hand, lead me on and let me stand! I got to take my glasses off!…A star is born, man,” the Doggfather enthused.
So far, Team Reba’s Aubrey Nicole, Team Niall’s Ava Nat and Team Snoop’s Ralph Edwards have all won their Knockout rounds so far and are moving on to the playoffs. The Voice airs on Monday night at 8 p.m. ET on NBC and streams the next day on Peacock.
Watch Chambers’ performance below.
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After People announced Wicked star Jonathan Bailey as its 2025 Sexiest Man Alive, the world seemed to have one overwhelming reaction: “We couldn’t be happier, thank goodness.”
That reaction spilled over to Bailey’s Wicked castmates, who appeared in a video on the film’s social media accounts celebrating their Fiyero nabbing the coveted title. In the clip, stars Cynthia Erivo, Ariana Grande, Jeff Goldblum, Bowen Yang, Ethan Slater, Marissa Bode and director Jon M. Chu all appeared wearing sweatshirts emblazoned with steamy photos from their fellow actor’s cover shoot for the magazine.
Each castmate offered their congratulations to Bailey, while occasionally throwing in a few jokes. “He’s the sexiest man not only on this planet, but in the solar system, in the universe, in any multiverse,” Goldblum said in the clip while showing off his sweatshirt emblazoned with Bailey’s face.
Yang jumped in, appreciating his photo of Bailey in a black jumpsuit hoisting himself up on a set of gymnastic rings. “Looks best in a singlet while doing gymnastics,” he quipped. Bode simply added, “Clearly, look at those abs.”
But the cast also sent sweet messages to Bailey, with Grande praising the actor’s interior as equally sexy, calling him “the kindest and the most brilliant and beautiful inside as well.” Erivo concurred, adding that “now the world knows what I’ve known all along.”
Erivo also celebrated with a comment on the actor and People‘s joint announcement post on Instagram. “YEEEEESSSSSSS!!!!! Now the world knows what I’ve known all along 😏,” she gushed. “I LOVE YOU! CONGRATULATIONS!!!”
Bailey’s selection was not only celebrated, but also historic. On the magazine’s 40th anniversary of its Sexiest Man Alive issue, Bailey becomes the first openly gay man to receive the title. In his cover story, Bailey spoke about his work on The Shameless Fund, a charity he founded to help fund non-profits fighting back against anti-LGBTQ+ laws around the world. “There’s so many people that want to do brilliant stuff who feel like they can’t, and I know the LGBT sector is under immense threat at the moment,” he said. “So it’s been amazing to meet people who have the expertise and see potential that I could have only dreamed of.”
Check out the Wicked cast’s reaction to Bailey’s new title below:
