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Zach Bryan again captures the No. 1 on Billboard’s Top TV Songs chart, powered by Tunefind (a Songtradr company), as “Oklahoma Smokeshow” rules the February 2025 list following a synch in CBS’ Tracker.
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Rankings for the Top TV Songs chart are based on song and show data provided by Tunefind and ranked using a formula blending that data with sales and streaming information tracked by Luminate during the corresponding period of February 2025.
Bryan boasts a previous ruler on Top TV Songs via the November 2022 ranking with “Something in the Orange” from Fire Country, also a CBS property.
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This time, Bryan’s “Oklahoma Smokeshow,” a No. 72-peaking song on the Billboard Hot 100 from 2022’s American Heartbreak, pops up in the Feb. 23 episode of Tracker (the 10th episode of season two), begetting 18 million official on-demand U.S. streams and 1,000 downloads in February 2025 in the process, according to Luminate.
Bryan leads the latest Top TV Songs ranking over a slew of songs from the third season of Showtime’s Yellowjackets, whose first two episodes premiered on Feb. 16, followed by episode three on Feb. 23.
Candlebox’s “Far Behind” leads the charge, debuting at No. 2 thanks to 7.2 million streams and 1,000 downloads in February after an appearance in the second episode, while Bush’s “Glycerine” follows at No. 3 (5.9 million streams, 1,000 downloads) following its synch in the premiere.
The ’90s flavor doesn’t extend to the rest of Yellowjackets’ charting songs, though. The series also represents the 1980s with Tiffany’s cover of “I Think We’re Alone Now” (No. 8; 2.7 million streams, 1,000 downloads) and the ‘70s with Cat Stevens’ “Morning Has Broken” (No. 10; 1.3 million streams, 1,000 downloads).
Of the group, “I Think We’re Alone Now” was a two-week No. 1 on the Hot 100 in 1987, though all four reached the top 30.
See the full top 10 of the Top TV Songs chart, also featuring music from Fire Country, Cobra Kai, Suits LA, School Spirits and The White Lotus, below.
Rank, Song, Artist, Show (Network)
“Oklahoma Smokeshow,” Zach Bryan, Tracker (CBS)
“Far Behind,” Candlebox, Yellowjackets (Showtime)
“Glycerine,” Bush, Yellowjacket (Showtime)
“Nobody Knows,” The Lumineers (cover), Fire Country (CBS)
“Silent Lucidity,” Queensryche, Cobra Kai (Netflix)
“Daylight,” Shinedown, Suits LA (NBC)
“Let’s Dance,” David Bowie, School Spirits (Paramount+)
“I Think We’re Alone Now,” Tiffany, Yellowjackets (Showtime)
“Maria Tambien,” Khruangbin, The White Lotus (HBO)
“Morning Has Broken,” Cat Stevens, Yellowjackets (Showtime)
Metro Boomin, Machine Gun Kelly and others will help bring the party to WWE‘s WrestleMania weekend with WrestleMania After Dark, a brand-new late-night event series set to take over LIV and LIV Beach at Fontainebleau Las Vegas. In partnership with entertainment group Medium Rare, WWE announced on Tuesday (March 25) that it’d be bringing its […]
Cazzu’s “Con Otra” has topped Billboard’s latest new Latin music poll published on Friday, March 21. In support of the weekly New Music Latin roundup and playlist, curated by Billboard Latin and Billboard Español editors, music fans voted for the Argentine artist’s new track as their favorite music release of the week. Explore Explore See […]
Miley Cyrus promised to deliver Something Beautiful with her new visual album. Now, fans get to judge for themselves with the first taste of what’s to come. On Tuesday (March 25), Cyrus dropped the first trailer for her recently announced visual album. Throughout the clip, fans hear snippets of new music, with Cyrus’ updated rock-meets-pop […]
The 2022 Academy Awards served as the ultimate rollercoaster ride of emotions for Will Smith, who won best actor honors for his role in King Richard, but also delivered the infamous slap across host Chris Rock’s face on stage for jokes made about his wife, Jada Pinkett-Smith.
The actor-rapper received a 10-year ban from the Oscars, and had the option to appeal. The Associated Press caught up with Smith on Monday (March 24), during which he reflected on his actions and explained how he’s planning to move forward.
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“I am looking to be the best human I can possibly be, and I’m gonna take what I get with that,” the 56-year-old said.
Smith has since resigned from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and has been apologetic to Rock for slapping him onstage following a G.I. Jane joke about Pinkett-Smith.
“I would like to publicly apologize to you, Chris,” Smith wrote in 2022. “I was out of line and I was wrong. I am embarrassed and my actions were not indicative of the man I want to be.”
Rock hasn’t been open to speaking with Smith yet, but didn’t rule out returning as host for the Oscars at some point in the future.
“You never know. This is what I would say, the most miserable people on earth are people that can’t forgive,” the comedian said earlier in March. “And not just people, you have to forgive yourself sometimes, too. So, hey, you never know.”
On the music side, Smith is returning with his first album in 20 years, Based On a True Story. The LP arrives on Friday (March 28), and he’ll be hitting the road this summer for a tour across Europe and the U.K.
“A well opened up inside of me, a well of understanding of art and pain … all kinds of things that I didn’t even know were in there,” Smith told Billboard in January of his rejuvenated hunger for music. “Then after the Oscars, that spiritual investigation continued and a whole world woke up inside that I didn’t even know was there.”
Watch Will Smith talk about his Oscar ban below.
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Will Smith is more than likely never going to live down the infamous Oscars moment in 2022 when he approached host Chris Rock and delivered a slap heard around the world. In the years since, Will Smith has refocused on his acting craft and continued introspection, and in a new interview, he talks about that journey ahead of his new studio album.
Will Smith sat down with the Associated Press to discuss his upcoming fifth studio album, Based On A True Story, his creative aims for the year, and so much more. The article opens up with Smith, 56, explaining the focus and aims of the album while also using the project as a way of sharing with the world his path and the way ahead after the controversial Oscars moment when he slapped Chris Rock in 2022.
“I’ve taken the last couple of years to really do a deep dive on the parts of me that may or may not been in that level of certainty and asking those deep scary internal questions,” Smith explains.
Smith added, “It really is the result of my initial self-examination. Every song is about some part of myself that I discovered or wanted to explore, something I wanted to share. It’s the most full musical offering that I’ve ever created.”
Of course, the topic of Smith’s 10-year ban from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences could not be avoided, and he’s clearly shown remorse by way of apologizing to Rock via an open letter and video, which appears to still have gone unanswered in many respects. When asked if he would appeal the academy’s ban, Smith gave an answer that illustrates that he’s hoping to move on beyond the slap heard around the world.
“I am looking to be the best human I can possibly be, and I’m gonna take what I get with that,” Smith said.
Will Smith’s Based On A True Story drops this Friday (March 28) and is said to be the first of three albums the Philadelphia native intends to drop this year. He is also working on several film and television projects, including a sequel to the superhero action film, Hancock.
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Garbage announced the dates for their first U.S. tour in nearly a decade on Tuesday (March 25). The 31-city Happy Endings run is slated to kick off on Sept. 3 at the Hard Rock Cafe in Orlando and hit Atlanta, Nashville, Cleveland, Detroit, Philadelphia, Boston, Brooklyn, Pittsburgh, Toronto, Chicago, Minneapolis, Dallas, Denver, Seattle, Vancouver and San Francisco before winding down on Nov. 2 at the Van Burn in Phoenix.
The fall tour will follow the upcoming release of the band’s eighth studio album, Let All That We Imagine Be the Light, which will drop on May 30. Tickets for the tour will go on sale on April 4 here. Singer Shirley Manson said in a statement last month that the follow-up to 2021’s No Gods No Masters will flip that LP’s rage into a more optimistic outlook.
“Our last album was extremely forthright. Born out of frustration and outrage – it had a kind of scorched earth, pissed off quality to it,” Manson said. “With this new record however, I felt a compulsion to reach for a different kind of energy. A more constructive one. I had this vision of us coming up out of the underground with searchlights as we moved towards the future.”
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She added, “Searching for life, searching for love, searching for all the good things in the world that seem so thin on the ground right now. That was the over-riding idea during the making of this record for me – that when things feel dark, it’s best to try to seek out that which is light, that which feels loving and good.”
The band that also features original members producer/drummer Butch Vig and guitarist/keyboardists Duke Erikson and Steve Marker recently wrapped a South American tour and have a pair of dates in Mexico in early April. They were forced to cancel the rest of their 2024 dates in August after Manson required “surgery and rehabilitation” for an undisclosed injury she suffered on tour in Europe earlier in the year.
Check out the tour promo poster and full list of Happy Endings Tour dates below.
Sept. 3 — Orlando, FL @ Hard Rock CaféSept. 5 — Pompano Beach, FL @ Pompano Beach AmphitheatreSept. 6 — St Petersburg, FL @ Jannus LiveSept. 8 — Atlanta, GA @ The EasternSept. 10 — Nashville, TN @ The PinnacleSept. 12 — Cleveland, OH @ Agora TheatreSept. 13 — Detroit, MI @ Masonic Cathedral TheatreSept. 16 — Philadelphia, PA @ Franklin Music HallSept. 17 — Washington, DC @ The AnthemSept. 18 — Boston, MA @ RoadrunnerSept. 20 — Brooklyn, NY @ Brooklyn ParamountSept. 23 — Pittsburgh, PA @ Stage AESept. 24 — Toronto, ON @ HistorySept. 29 — Chicago, IL @ The Salt ShedSept. 30 — Newport, KY @ MegaCorp PavilionOct. 1 — Columbus, OH @ KEMBA Live!Oct. 3 — Madison, WI @ The SylveeOct. 4 — Minneapolis, MN @ First AvenueOct. 6 — Kansas City, MO @ Midland TheatreOct. 7 — Dallas, TX @ The Bomb FactoryOct. 12 — Denver, CO @ The Mission BallroomOct. 15 — Seattle, WA @ Paramount TheatreOct. 18 — Spokane, WA @ Knitting Factory SpokaneOct. 20 — Vancouver, BC @ OrpheumOct. 21 — Portland, OR @ McMenamins Crystal BallroomOct. 23 — Saratoga, CA @ The Mountain WineryOct. 24 — San Francisco, CA @ The WarfieldOct. 26 — Reno, NV @ Silver Legacy Resort CasinoOct. 29 — Salt Lake City, UT @ Rockwell at The ComplexOct. 31 — Las Vegas, NV @ The Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas – The ChelseaNov. 2 — Phoenix, AZ @ The Van Buren
Jeff Goldblum is on the verge of releasing his fourth album, Still Blooming. The actor-musician reveals how he nabbed Ariana Grande, Cynthia Erivo and Scarlett Johansson to take part on his album, teases what’s to come in Wicked: For Good, talks about playing the piano for in the White House, dabbling in scatting and more!
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Lyndsey Havens:You’re releasing your fourth album.
Yes, ma’am.
Still Blooming, coming in April. Tell me a bit about this project. When did you start working on it? What inspired it?
It’s our fourth album with the great Decca-
Yes.
label and Verve. But this one, as we continued and found ourselves at Scott Gilman studio, The Hobby Shop, we said, “Let’s make some more music, and let’s get some more singers to do, like we had on our other three, half of the tracks.” So on this one, we got half kind of instrumentals, and we’ll talk about all the tracks, if you like, and half singers, so let’s do more of that. And we found ourselves in the studio and doing it for heaven’s sakes because we had good ideas that we were excited about. And we’ve got merchandise coming out with a, you know, that has something to do with that. And the singers to whom I referred we’ll talk about, you know, how about that?
Yes, we will talk about that.
Because maybe they don’t even know yet, but you do, you listened to it.
I know, yeah, some pretty big names. Before we get into the features, I need to ask the obvious questions. You’ve had quite a life and career, but do you feel as though you are still blooming?
Well, like the record title suggests, refers to, yeah.
How nice.
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Fuerza Regida is on a mission to reconnect with its ancestral heritage — and they’re doing it the best way they know how, via Mexican music. The group’s upcoming album, 111XPANTIA, which Billboard Español is announcing exclusively on Tuesday (March 25), will be an exploration of the band’s roots, according to frontman Jesús “JOP” Ortiz Paz. The album is set for release on May 2.
The title — pronounced “ixpantia” — comes from the Náhuatl language, a dialect of the Aztecs, symbolizing “manifest,” JOP explains to Billboard Español. “Before I even knew what the word ‘manifest’ meant, I always believed in it,” he adds. “I’d tell myself, ‘I’m going to do this in the future.’ Even as a little kid, I was sure I was going to be something in life. Maybe not an artist, but something. It’s the law of attraction, a testament.”
With 111XPANTIA, Fuerza Regida is on a quest to continue applying this philosophy and turn “every song” into future “bangers.” The San Bernardino, Calif., hitmakers have consistently achieved with their 13 hits on the all-genre Billboard Hot 100 and 63 on Hot Latin Songs to date. The group’s most recent single, “Por Esos Ojos,” released in February, peaked at No. 5 on the Hot Latin Songs chart.
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The artist adds that while they created around 40 songs in the process of making this album, they narrowed down to 12, assuring that every song is a “focus track.”
111XPANTIA will be released via Rancho Humilde/Street Mob Records/Sony Music Latin. It also will be available in physical format, both CD and vinyl.
“This album represents my whole life,” JOP says. “Since I was a 5-year-old kid, I’d see Corvettes in the hood — there were no Lambos — and tell my mom, ‘I’m going to buy that car,’ or I’d look at a big house and say, ‘Mama, I’m going to buy you that house when I get older,’” adding that the meaning of this upcoming release is “to prove something beyond doubt through the power of the mind.”
And those dreams have undeniably materialized. For the June 2023 Billboard Español cover story, the group pulled up in three luxury cars, including a graphite off-roader Lamborghini Urus and a white Chevrolet Corvette. Most recently, Fuerza Regida acquired a new building to house its record label, Street Mob Records — which won the Billboard Latin Music Award 2024 for publisher of the year — in San Bernardino County.
The cover artwork, co-designed by KidSuper’s Colm Dillane, features an eye, a symbol deeply tied to the album’s themes. “The eye means the same thing — ixpantia, 111, manifest — to make your dreams come true,” he explains.
“This is the first album that has so much story to it, so much connection to it. Everything means something. Nothing está allí de oquis,” JOP says, emphasizing that everything is intentional. “Once you get into it, 111XPANTIA, you’re going to start tripping, what it means to be on the next level,” he adds, stating that “everything’s back to the roots” stylistically. “This is the most important album of my career. This is the one that brings all of that together.”
See the cover for 111XPANTIA below:
Fuerza Regida
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A federal judge has dismissed civil racketeering accusations and other claims filed against Sean “Diddy” Combs by former collaborator Rodney “Lil Rod” Jones, though he also allowed parts of the music producer’s sexual abuse lawsuit to move forward.
In a decision issued Monday, Judge J. Paul Oetken ruled that Jones could not sue Diddy and others under the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act – the federal “RICO” law often used against the Mafia and the same statute prosecutors are citing in their criminal case against Combs.
The judge said Jones hadn’t shown that the alleged illegal “enterprise” operated by Diddy – the kind of illicit operation outlawed by RICO – had directly caused the star to renege on paying Jones for his work Combs’ Love Album.
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“The court cannot identify any such causal link,” Oetken wrote. “Defendants’ alleged sex, drug, and gun trafficking activities — the vast majority of the predicate acts pleaded in the operative complaint — did not foreseeably or naturally preclude defendants from honoring their recording contract with Jones.”
Monday’s ruling dismissed the RICO charge against Combs, his chief of staff Kristina Khorram and his businesses. The judge also dismissed Jones’ breach of contract claim and several claims emotional distress, finding them legally deficient.
But Oetken allowed several other key accusations to proceed, including sex trafficking, sexual assault and the claim that Combs is liable for an alleged assault perpetrated by others at his house. Those claims will now proceed into more litigation and toward an eventual trial.
Reps for the defendants and an attorney for Jones did not immediately return a request for comment. Combs has repeatedly denied all allegations of wrongdoing; Khorram denied the accusations to CNN last week, saying she “never condoned or aided and abetted the sexual assault of anyone.”
Jones sued Combs in March 2024, accusing the rapper of assaulting him while he was working as a producer on the Love Album. But the case went far beyond that, also leveling sweeping allegations about a vast RICO conspiracy involving numerous others, including not just Khorram but also Universal Music Group and CEO Lucian Grainge.
After UMG and Grainge said they would seek penalties over those “recklessly false” allegations, Jones’ attorney Tyrone Blackburn conceded that there had been “no legal basis” for filing them and asked to have them “withdrawn immediately.”
In Monday’s decision, Oetken sharply criticized Blackburn, saying he found the lawyer’s conduct in the case “unsettling.” He noted that court filings had been filled with “insults, misstatements, and exaggerations,” and said Blackburn had leveled “schoolyard taunts” at opposing lawyers.
In one incident, the judge said Blackburn had referenced the criminal case before saying Combs and his companies were “presumed guilty of being a RICO criminal organization” – an obvious inversion of the bedrock “innocent until proven guilty” standard at the heart of American criminal law.
“That any licensed member of the bar would espouse such an absurd understanding of the law is not just disturbing, but shocking,” the judge wrote Monday. “While the court will not hold Blackburn’s antics against Jones at this point, it warns Blackburn that further misconduct may lead to sanctions or to referral for discipline.”
Jones’ lawsuit is just one of dozens filed against Combs over the past year accusing him of serious sexual abuse and other wrongdoing. He’s also facing a criminal trial in May on federal RICO and sex trafficking charges; if convicted, he’s looking at a potential life prison sentence.