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30 Mar 2023

Daisy Jones & The Six Release Surprise Double Single ‘Special Gift for Our Fans’

Daisy Jones & The Six aren’t done just because their Prime Video series is. Less than a week after the 10-episode show’s finale, the fictional-turned-real band inspired by Taylor Jenkins Reid’s bestselling novel dropped two surprise singles Thursday (March 30) as a “Special Gift for Our Fans.”

The double single includes previously unreleased tracks “It Was Always You,” sung by leading lady Riley Keough as frontwoman Daisy Jones, and a version of “Aurora” performed by the full band during a Saturday Night Live appearance in the Prime Video series. Both tracks debuted in the penultimate episode of Daisy Jones & The Six, which dropped Friday (March 24) after three weeks of episodes being released two or three at a time throughout the month of March.

“It’s been clear to all of us from the start, how passionate the fanbase is for Daisy Jones & The Six,” said Atlantic Records’ West Coast president Kevin Weaver in a statement. “Never was that more obvious than when the fans took to social media last week loudly campaigning for the releases of these 2 new songs that appeared in the series’ final episodes.”

The “Special Gift for Our Fans” release follows the band’s debut album Aurora, which became available for streaming one day before Daisy Jones & The Six premiered March 2. The record has since accumulated over 50 million times and debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard Soundtracks chart. Meanwhile, the full band — comprised of fictional characters Billy Dunne (Sam Claflin), Karen Sirko (Suki Waterhouse), Graham Dunne (Will Harrison), Eddie Roundtree (Josh Whitehouse) and Warren Rojas (Sebastian Chaon) in addition to Keough’s Daisy — became the first act from a scripted series to debut atop Billboard‘s Emerging Artists chart.

Listen to Daisy Jones & The Six’s surprise new singles below:

30 Mar 2023

A Timeline of Rosalia & Rauw Alejandro’s Relationship

After nearly four years together, superstar couple Rosalía and Rauw Alejandro announced their engagement on March 24 via their music video “Beso.” It was also the same day they dropped their first-ever joint project — the three-song EP RR.

After months of messaging each other on social media, the Spanish star and the Puerto Rican hitmaker officially met in person in 2019 at a Las Vegas hotel lounge during the Latin Grammys. It was love at first sight, the couple told Billboard for their cover story interview.

Since, the Rosalía and Alejandro have been each other’s biggest supporters on and off the stage. Before RR, the couple had subtly collaborated on previous projects. Rosalía sang backing vocals on “Dile a Él” from Rauw’s first album, Afrodisiaco (2020) as well as on “Corazón Despeinado” from Saturno (2022). Meanwhile, Alejandro co-wrote some lyrics for Rosalía’s “Chicken Teriyaki” from her Grammy and Latin Grammy-winning 2022 album, Motomami.

“In terms of collaborations, the big difference is you’re collaborating with the love of your life. At least, I am,” Alejandro shared with Billboard. Rosalía later added, “I’m lucky to be your partner, and I want to be there for you, sabes? And I feel you’re there for me, independent of the careers. For me, our relationship is first, and then there’s everything else. Of course my career is super important in my life, but at the same time, in my life, you’re my companion, and everything else comes second.”

Currently, Rosalía is on a 20-date festival tour, which kicked off at Lollapalooza Argentina on March 17 and includes shows at Coachella and Primavera Sound. Alejandro is on his ambitious 80-plus-date global arena tour, which kicked off March 4 in Tampa, Fla.

Read on for a complete timeline of Rosalía and Rauw Alejandro’s relationship.

30 Mar 2023

Ed Sheeran Leads February Boxscore Report With $50 Million Gross

While conditions slowly inch toward spring temperatures in the Western hemisphere, Oceania continues its stronghold over Billboard’s Boxscore charts as open-air stadium shows in Australia and New Zealand continue to deliver blockbuster numbers. After Elton John led in January, Ed Sheeran picks up the mantle with the highest grossing tour of February. According to figures reported to Billboard Boxscore, The Mathematics Tour grossed $50.6 million and sold 475,000 tickets throughout the short month.

Sheeran played three shows in New Zealand (one in Wellington and two in Auckland) and five in Australia (three in Brisbane and two in Sydney). The quintet of Australian shows drove much of his February business, earning more than $7 million per show, compared to about $4 million per night in New Zealand.

The Brisbane and Sydney runs earn Sheeran the top two positions on Top Boxscores, with a $19.2 million haul at Suncorp Stadium on Feb. 17-19, and a $18.9 million run at Accor Stadium on Feb. 24-25.

Top 30 Tours February 2023, Boxscore

Sheeran’s three-night stint at Suncorp Stadium isn’t just the biggest of the month, it’s the biggest reported boxscore in the venue’s history. The February shows pass U2 for the biggest gross, ($19.2 million for Sheeran; $11 million for U2 on Dec. 8-9, 2010) and himself for the biggest attendance.

Sheeran sold 173,000 tickets over three shows last month, eclipsing the 104,000 tickets in two shows in March 2018. Even taking an average per-night attendance, forgetting the fact that he had the horsepower to sell three stadium shows in Brisbane this time around, his 57,661 pace improves upon 2018’s 51,872.

The Divide Tour, Sheeran’s record-setting 2017-19 tour, played 18 shows in Oceania, all between March 2-April 1, 2018. Those earned a combined $82.6 million and sold just over 1 million tickets. With four Australian shows left to be reported, his regional run on the Mathematics Tour would need to average $8 million per show. That’s a tall order considering the February dates balanced out at $6.3 million, but the major market shows in Melbourne could help push him closer.

February marks Sheeran’s third month at No. 1, following June 2022 and April 2019. He matches The Rolling Stones and Trans-Siberian Orchestra, while trailing Bad Bunny (four) and Sir Elton John (seven). Those five acts have led Top Tours for 20 of the 32 monthly recaps since launching in February 2019. The other nine spread between BTS, P!nk and Post Malone with two apiece, plus Backstreet Boys, Coldplay, Grupo Firme, Paul McCartney, Spice Girls and Tool.

Top 30 Boxscores February 2023

Top 10 Promoters February 2023, Boxscores

Not only does Sheeran follow John on Top Tours and at Nos. 1-2 on Top Boxscores, the Oceania sweep continues with Red Hot Chili Peppers and Post Malone. Their co-headline run in Australia and New Zealand logs its second consecutive month at No. 2 on Top Tours with multiple top 10 placements on Top Boxscores.

The dynamic duo played five continental shows in February, spread between Sydney’s Accor Stadium (two shows), Melbourne’s Marvel Stadium (two) and Perth’s Optus Stadium (one). The Sydney and Melbourne engagements rank Nos. 4-5 on Top Boxscores, with Perth closely following at No. 7.

The Chili Peppers set a new kind of record of their own. Not only are the pop-funk-rockers at No. 2 on Top Tours, but follow at No. 6, unaccompanied by a co-headliner. The band played three dates on its own in Asia that grossed $12.1 million.

Though it’s rare for an act to chart twice in the same tracking period, it’s not completely unprecedented. On the 2018 year-end charts, Jay-Z was No. 3 alongside Beyonce for the On the Run II Tour, and at No. 25 for his solo headline dates.

Top 10 Venues 15,001+ February 2023, Boxscores

Top 10 Venues 10,001-15k, Boxscores

Two shows from Sheeran and another two from the Chili Peppers & Post combine to $32.4 million at Accor Stadium, enough to be the top-grossing venue of the month. With Suncorp Stadium at No. 2 and Marvel Stadium at No. 4, among venues with capacity of 15,001 or more, it is another consecutive win for Australia. Suncorp was No. 1 last month, with Sydney’s other marquee stadium, Allianz Stadium, at No. 2.

On the other side of the spectrum, geographically and in terms of size, Las Vegas headlines the 10,000-and-under range, with Dolby Live at No. 1 among venues 5,001-10k, and Resorts World Theatre among venues 5,000 or less. The former is lifted by residency shows from Bruno Mars and the Jonas Brothers and the latter by Luke Bryan and Katy Perry.

Mexico City’s Electric Daisy Carnival is No. 3 on Top Boxscores, with a three-day haul of $16.4 million. The EDM festival returned to Autodromo Hermanos Rodrigues from Feb. 24-26, playing host to 269,000 fans. A year further removed from COVID woes, its 2023 earnings are up 73% from last year’s $9.5 million, even improving upon pre-pandemic runs in 2020 ($12.2 million) and 2019 ($10.5 million).

It’s the second biggest festival gross in the entire franchise, trailing only a previous Orlando edition that earned $17.1 million at Camping World Stadium from Nov. 8-10, 2019.

Top Venues 5,001-10,000 February 2023, Boxscores

Top 10 Venues 5k or less February 2023, Boxscores

30 Mar 2023

Here’s Why Fans Think Kelly Clarkson Is Calling Out Her Ex in Her Cover of Gayle’s ‘ABCDEFU’

Kelly Clarkson was not playing around in her latest Kellyoke performance. The three-time Grammy winner sang a fiery cover of Gayle‘s viral hit “abcdefu” on The Kelly Clarkson Show Thursday (March 30), after which fans were quick to notice that she’d made a few pointed lyric changes — which they believe are directed at her ex-husband, Brandon Blackstock.

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Right from the start, Clarkson made the 2023 Grammy song of the year nominee her own, belting out tweaked lyrics as strobe lights and electric guitar raged behind her. “Forget you, and your dad, and the fact that you got half,” she sang, an immediate departure from the original words. “And my broken heart, turn that s–t into art.”

The “Stronger” singer later repeated those lines in place of the song’s chorus, which usually goes, “F–k you and your mom and your sister and your job/ And your broke a– car and that s–t you call art.”

The lyric change, particularly “the fact that you got half,” seemed indicative of Clarkson’s high profile 2022 divorce settlement with Blackstock, to whom she was married from 2013 to 2020 — at least, it did to fans, who also picked up on some extra passionate facial expressions and hand gestures the Voice coach added to the new Kellyoke cover. “The finger listing at the end, all the eyebrow raising…we see and hear you @kellyclarkson,” tweeted one fan in response to a video of the performance.

“Oh she real mad at Br*ndon!!” tweeted another.

“On the video’s YouTube page, more fans shared their belief that the singer was calling out her ex.

“‘the fact that you got half’ — yesss drag him!!!” wrote one viewer. “my broken heart, turn that bullsh*t into art — new album coming!”

“Kelly is putting Narvel and Brandon on some serious blast,” added another. Narvel is Blackstock’s dad, who is a producer and manager. The elder Blackstock was previously married to Reba McEntire for 26 years.

Billboard has reached out to Clarkson’s reps for comment.

Clarkson first filed to split from Brandon in June of 2020. In December of that year, she was granted primary custody of their two children, River and Remington. In March of 2022, the former couple finalized the terms of their divorce, with the American Idol alum agreeing to pay her ex $1.3 million in addition to monthly child support. 

Her flaming new Kellyoke cover comes just a few days after Clarkson announced her next album Chemistry, which doesn’t yet have a confirmed release date. The record will explore the complicated emotions she experienced in the wake of her breakup and her adjustment to life as a single mom, as well as the evolution of her past relationship.

“I was trying to find a word, it might be one of the songs on the album, but I was trying to find a word that really described the whole thing,” she said while announcing the project Sunday (March 26). “I didn’t want everybody to think I was just coming out with some ‘I’m angry,’ ‘I’m sad’ — just one or two emotions. This album is definitely the arc of an entire relationship.”

Watch Kelly Clarkson cover Gayle’s “abcdefu” on The Kelly Clarkson Show below:

30 Mar 2023

Warner Music Group Layoffs to Save $50M Annually

New Warner Music Group (WMG) CEO Robert Kyncl didn’t take much time to make an imprint on the company. On Wednesday (March 29), fewer than three months into Kyncl’s tenure, WMG announced it would lay off 270 employees, or 4% of its workforce.

The layoffs will save the company $22 million in fiscal year 2023 ending Sept. 30, 2023, and “$50 million on an annualized run-rate basis in fiscal year 2024,” according to an SEC filing released Wednesday. That’s equal to 4.2% of WMG’s adjusted earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization in the fiscal year ended Sept. 30, 2022.

Like many other companies, WMG is becoming more mindful of its resources as the music industry tries to extend an eight-year growth spurt. Prior to announcing the layoffs, WMG said a “financial transformation program,” to roll out in fiscal 2024, is expected to produce annual savings of “$35 million to $40 million once fully implemented,” CFO Eric Levin said on the company’s Feb. 9 earnings call. Universal Music Group’s Motown Records announced layoffs in February as the label was reintegrated under Capitol Music Group. Downtown Music Holdings, Spotify and SoundCloud have also reduced their headcounts in recent months.

WMG had “to make some hard choices in order to evolve” and position the company for “long-term success,” Kyncl wrote in a memo to employees. The cuts were thoughtful and purposeful, he added, not a “blanket cost-cutting exercise.” The layoffs “should be substantially completed by the end of the next fiscal quarter” ending June 30 and will result in cash expenditures of about $46 million by the end of fiscal 2024, according to the filing.

News of WMG’s layoffs didn’t sway investors, however. WMG’s share price rose just 0.6% to $32.63 on Wednesday despite the restructuring’s ability to improve its bottom line. Year-to-date, WMG’s share price has fallen 6.8% while overall stocks have broadly rebounded from a dismal 2022. The S&P 500 is up 4.9% and the tech-heavy Nasdaq composite is up 13.9%. The New York Stock Exchange composite is down 0.4%.

While WMG will reduce headcount in some areas, the company is also building for the future — with an eye on tech. Kyncl, who quickly hired ex-YouTube executive Ariel Bardin for the newly created role of president of technology, said in his memo that WMG would be “reallocating resources towards new skills for artist and songwriter development and new tech initiatives.”

WMG expects to expand its gross margin by 50 to 100 basis points — equal to one-half to one percentage point — in fiscal year 2023. Aside from cost cuts, the nature of the changing music business helps the bottom line. WMG’s margins improve as it sells less of “margin-declining” physical product and “high-margin growing” digital business accounts for a larger share of its total revenue, Levin said at the Deutsche Bank 31st Annual Media, Internet & Telecom Conference on Feb. 28.

“We still see solid margin growth in 2023” despite declining ad-supported streaming revenues, Levin added. “When we see ad-supported start to stabilize and hopefully rebound and grow, it may create an environment for very favorable margins.”

30 Mar 2023

NF Announces the Hope Tour With Special Guest Cordae

With NF gearing up for his fifth studio album, HOPE, slated for an April 7 release, the Michigan rapper is building anticipation for his upcoming effort by announcing his latest tour. 

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The massive 47-show trek will cross through North America, Canada, Europe and the U.K. Beginning July 12 at Schottenstein Center in Columbus, Ohio, NF’s North American leg will feature special guest Cordae as the two rappers will coast through the U.S. while making stops in cities including Boston, Philadelphia and Anaheim, Calif. After completing the U.S. and Canadian portion of their tour, NF will embark on his 16-date European leg, beginning Sept. 23 at the Fabrique in Milan.

Fans in the U.S. and Canada can now register for the Verified Fan system. Registration closes April 2 at 11:59 p.m. ET. General on-sale tickets will begin Friday, April 7, at 10 a.m. local time and can be purchased here. 

NF’s last body of work came in 2021 with Clouds (The Mixtape). The 11-track effort debuted at No. 3 on the Billboard 200 and included its Hot 100 hit “Clouds.” Before that, he netted two No. 1 Billboard 200 albums, including 2017’s Perception and 2019’s The Search. As for his upcoming effort, NF previously released several singles, including “HAPPY” and “MOTTO.” The project will also have features from Julia Michaels (“GONE”) and Cordae (“CAREFUL”).

Take a look at the dates for the HOPE TOUR below. 

U.S. + Canada tour dates:

  • Wed Jul 12 — Columbus, OH — Schottenstein Center *
  • Fri Jul 14 — Rosemont, IL — Allstate Arena
  • Sat Jul 15 — Minneapolis, MN — Target Center
  • Sun Jul 16 — Lincoln, NE — Pinnacle Bank Arena
  • Tue Jul 18 — Grand Rapids, MI — Van Andel Arena
  • Thu Jul 20 — Newark, NJ — Prudential Center
  • Fri Jul 21 — Boston, MA — Agganis Arena
  • Sat Jul 22 — Philadelphia, PA — The Liacouras Center
  • Mon Jul 24 — Greensboro, NC — Greensboro Coliseum Complex
  • Tue Jul 25 — Huntsville, AL — Propst Arena at the Von Braun Center
  • Wed Jul 26 — Nashville, TN — Bridgestone Arena
  • Fri Jul 28 — Orlando, FL — Addition Financial Arena ^
  • Sat Jul 29 — Duluth, GA — Gas South Arena
  • Mon Jul 31 — North Little Rock, AR — Simmons Bank Arena
  • Tue Aug 01 — Tulsa, OK — BOK Center
  • Wed Aug 02 — Fort Worth, TX — Dickies Arena
  • Fri Aug 04 — Glendale, AZ — Desert Diamond Arena
  • Sat Aug 05 — Anaheim, CA — Honda Center
  • Sun Aug 06 — San Francisco, CA — Bill Graham Civic Auditorium
  • Tue Aug 08 — Portland, OR — Veterans Memorial Coliseum
  • Wed Aug 09 — Seattle, WA — WAMU Theater
  • Fri Aug 11 — Salt Lake City, UT — Vivint Arena * 
  • Sat Aug 12 — Denver, CO — Ball Arena
  • Wed Aug 23 — Vancouver, BC — Rogers Arena
  • Fri Aug 25 — Calgary, AB — Scotiabank Saddledome
  • Sat Aug 26 — Edmonton, AB — Rogers Place
  • Sun Aug 27 — Saskatoon, SK — SaskTel Centre
  • Tue Aug 29 — Winnipeg, MB — Canada Life Centre
  • Fri Sep 01 — Toronto, ON — Scotiabank Arena
  • Sat Sep 02 — Ottawa, ON — Canadian Tire Centre
  • Sun Sep 03 — Laval, QC — Place Bell

^Without support from Cordae

Europe and U.K. tour dates:

  • Sat Sep 23 — Milan, Italy — Fabrique 
  • Sun Sep 24 — Zurich, Switzerland — Halle 622 
  • Tue Sep 26 — Vienna, Austria — Gasometer 
  • Wed Sep 27 — Munich, Germany — Zenith
  • Fri Sep 29 — Düsseldorf, Germany — Mitsubishi Electric Halle
  • Sat Sep 30 — Amsterdam, Netherlands — AFAS Live 
  • Sun Oct 1 — Paris, France — L’Olympia 
  • Tue Oct 3 — Frankfurt, Germany — Jahrhunderthalle
  • Thu Oct 5 — Hamburg, Germany — Sporthalle
  • Fri Oct 6 — Berlin, Germany — Max-Schmeling-Halle
  • Sun Oct 8 — Brussels, Belgium — Forest National 
  • Tue Oct 10 — Manchester, UK — O2 Victoria Warehouse 
  • Wed Oct 11 — Glasgow, UK — O2 Academy 
  • Thu Oct 12 — Dublin, Ireland — 3Olympia Theatre 
  • Sat Oct 14 — Cardiff, UK — Great Hall 
  • Sun Oct 15 — London, UK — Eventim Apollo 

30 Mar 2023

Kesha Warns: ‘Don’t Get Surprised If S–t Gets Ugly’ on Snippet of New Song, ‘Fine Line’

After previewing the trippy new track “Eat the Acid” earlier this month, Kesha posted a snippet of another new song on her Instagram Story on Thursday (March 30). And in keeping with the singer’s cards-on-the-table radical honesty songwriting vibe, it said the loud part out loud.

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The snippet of the whispery ballad “Fine Line” finds the singer wondering how she can keep toeing the line and hold her tongue amid the madness. “There’s a fine line I’ve been walking/ I’m trying to balance, it’s exhausting/ This is where you f—ers pushed me,” she sings over a faint keyboard.

The pace picks up as her ire rises, singing, “Don’t be surprised if s–t gets ugly/ All the doctors and lawyers that cut the tongue out of my mouth/ I’ve been hiding my anger, but b—h, look at me now/ I’m at the top of the mountain with a gun in my head/ Am I bigger than Jesus, or better off dead?”

The chorus plays off a familiar trope, with a Kesha, twist, of course. “There’s a fine line between genius and crazy/ There’s a fine line between broken and breaking/ Whole life trying to change what they’re saying about me/ Sick of walking that fine line.”

The singer also re-previewed a song she dropped a snippet of earlier this month, the appropriately spacey, trippy “Eat the Acid.” Over quick-picked acoustic guitars, she sings, “I searched for answers all my life/ Dead in the dark, I saw the light/ I am the one that I’ve been fighting the whole time/ Hate has the place in the divine.”

The track then ramps up with a choir of angelic voices and a thrumming beat as the chorus kicks in: “You said don’t ever eat the acid/ If you don’t want to be changed like you changed me/ You said all the edges got so jagged/ Now everything you saw then can’t be unseen.”

The singer — whose official website features the bold-letter tease “Kesha is coming” — also posted a cryptic video on Instagram on Thursday in which she stands in the desert with her arms outstretched as a haunting instrumental plays behind her with the message, “You never know that you need something to believe in when you know it all.”

A spokesperson for Kesha could not be reached for comment at press time in response to Billboard‘s question about whether the songs are slated for the follow-up to her fourth studio album, 2020’s High Road.

See Kesha’s post below.

30 Mar 2023

Marshall, Iconic Amp Company, Bought by Zound Industries

Marshall Amplification, known for furnishing amps to a who’s who of rock stars, is being acquired by the Swedish tech company Zound Industries, Zound announced on Thursday (March 30). Zound had previously licensed the Marshall name for more than a decade and helped spread it around the world through popular headphones and speakers.

The new combined company will be dubbed the Marshall Group. Zound’s press release trumpeted that “on day one, Marshall Group revenues will be over $360 million with double-digit profitability.”

“Combining our strengths and unique positioning… will fuel our ambition to create premium, innovative, products and experiences for musicians and music lovers around the world,” Zound CEO Jeremy de Maillard said in a statement. “Zound has proven itself as a global, fast growing, and progressive company. With the Marshall Group, we are set to accelerate our profitable growth in a $100 billion market.”

“I am proud that this deal has finally been completed,” added Konrad Bergström, founder and board member of Zound Industries until 2018. “The success that we have achieved with the Marshall brand over recent years is soon going to be seen as having been the warm-up to a new British-Swedish headline act that is going to shake the tech and music industries to their foundations.”

Jim Marshall and his son Terry created the first Marshall amp in 1962, and the gear was subsequently popularized by rockers like Jimi Hendrix and The Who. “We have always looked for ways to deliver the pioneering Marshall sound to music lovers of all backgrounds and music tastes across the world,” Terry Marshall said in a statement. “I’m confident that the Marshall Group will elevate this mission and spur the love for the Marshall brand.” 

The Marshall Family will be the largest shareholder of the Marshall Group, holding on to 24%.

Zound first started licensing the Marshall name back in 2010. “We brought the Marshall brand to over 90 countries through the headphones and the speakers,” de Maillard told The Verge. “So it became a much more known brand by the masses than it was before. Before it was the in-the-know, the musicians, people who were really into music who knew about the brand. But through this partnership, we’ve managed to touch a lot more people.”

“We’re very complementary to each other and this deal will enable us to bring together the full range of products and the entire consumer experience under one roof,” de Maillard added in a separate interview with Forbes. “It will allow us to be quicker with innovation and to have a deeper and more holistic connection with musicians and music lovers.”

30 Mar 2023

Chlöe Bailey Says Comparisons to Sister Halle ‘Piss Me Off’: ‘That Gets Under My Skin the Most’

It’s Chlöe x Halle, not Chlöe vs. Halle. While sitting down with Latto on the “Big Energy” rapper’s 777 Radio show Thursday (March 30), Chlöe Bailey opened up about feeling sick of people pitting her against her younger sister and bandmate.

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“Honestly, it really pisses me off,” the “Have Mercy” musician said. “I think out of everything, that’s the thing that gets under my skin the most, when people are comparing us because we are best friends, we’re sisters.”

“Sometimes we forget that we’re not twins and it’s like, don’t mess with my blood,” added Bailey, who presented Latto with the Powerhouse Award at the Billboard Women in Music Awards earlier this month. “Don’t mess with her. Sometimes I just have to brush it off because people only see what they want to make up, what they want to believe.”

Speaking of the Little Mermaid live action star, Bailey also spoke about her sister’s romance with rapper DDG. “I am so protective of my sister,” she told Latto. “But seeing how happy she is, I’m happy. I told him I had my eye on him.”

If rumors are to be believed, Halle isn’t the only Bailey sister with a man — though Chlöe remained tight-lipped about her rumored relationship with Quavo. “He’s a really nice guy,” was all she divulged about the Migos rapper, with whom she’ll costar in Peacock’s Praise This, despite all of Latto’s efforts to uncover more.

The Grownish star did, however, reveal that she has had love enter her life recently — whether or not Quavo is part of it — something that’s helped her create the music on her new album, In Pieces, out Friday (March 31). “I never went to high school,” she told Latto. “I was homeschooled for high school. So it’s like all the experiences, falling in love, falling out of love, breaking up, making up, all of that, I’m going through it now.”

“So it’s really been motivating the lyrics,” Bailey continued. “And when I’m angry, instead of crying or wanting to throw things, I just sit there and I write, and then I’m like, “OK, s–t.”

Watch Chlöe Bailey chat with Latto about Halle Bailey, Quavo and more on 777 Radio below:

30 Mar 2023

Miranda Lambert Addresses Whether She’d Be Interested in a ‘Yellowstone’ Role

Miranda Lambert is opening up about whether fans could someday see the reigning ACM entertainer of the year on the hit television series Yellowstone.

During her interview with Entertainment Tonight, it was noted that certain scenes from the series feature posters from Lambert’s 2009 Revolution album.

“My baby posters … I was, like, 19 in that picture,” Lambert pointed out.

Lambert’s fellow country artist Lainey Wilson has a recurring role on the series, portraying a musician named Abby, while the series also heavily features country music by artists including Wilson, Zach Bryan, Flatland Cavalry, Myron Elkins and Ryan Bingham. Meanwhile, Tim McGraw and Faith Hill starred in the Yellowstone prequel 1883.

Lambert didn’t completely rule out the possibility of appearing on the show.

“I’ve never been an actress, it’s not my favorite thing. If I can play myself, which I am today, that’s a little bit easier on me,” Lambert said.

At present, Lambert is gearing up for the April 25 release of her book Y’all Eat Yet? Welcome to the Pretty B*tchin’ Kitchen, written with author/journalist Holly Gleason.

If Lambert did ultimately choose to make a Yellowstone cameo, it would not be her first acting role. The 38-time ACM Awards winner previously appeared in a 2012 episode of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, where she portrayed an actress who claimed to have been assaulted by a television producer.