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19 Jan 2024

Selena Gomez’s ‘Wizards of Waverly Place’ Revival, Madonna Gets Sued By Fans & More | Billboard News

Selena Gomez is set to produce a ‘Wizards of Waverly Place’ revival with her former co-star David Henrie and return to her role as Alex Russo in the pilot episode. Madonna gets sued by fans because she allegedly started her concerts two hours later than advertised. Green Day, The Bleachers, and K-pop girl group IVE are some of the artists featured in this week’s Friday Music Guide, Julia Michaels talks about writing songs for Disney’s latest film ‘Wish’ and her approach to writing for other artists and Billboard gives a preview of Spotify’s Grammys Best New Artist Party and talked to nominees The War and Treaty.

Tetris Kelly
Madonna fans sue the queen, Spotify is throwing a party and we have a special guest. We hang out with Julia Michaels, talk about the ‘Wizards of Waverly Place’ comeback and have all your brand new music. Welcome to Billboard News. I’m not lying when I tell you today’s show is packed. The Grammys are around the corner and we have brand new music. Everybody’s favorite band is back. We welcome the return of rock legends Green Day with ‘Savior.’

Tetris Kelly
More new music coming throughout the show but I got a party to talk about and a very special guest joining us. Nobody does it like Spotify. Grammy week is approaching and one of the biggest events of the year is their Best New Artist party that always brings the biggest performers and the brightest talent with this year’s lineup on February 1 including performers like Jelly Roll, Victoria Monét and more. And speaking of the party, I have some very talented friends I haven’t hung out with in a while here to talk with us. Hey, War and Treaty, what’s going on? I am so excited to hear you guys are performing at this event. But I mean, I’ve been watching you guys grow, grow, grow and now Best New Artist at the Grammys. How are you feeling?

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19 Jan 2024

Country Duo The War and Treaty Talk Performing at Spotify’s Grammy Best New Artist Party, 2024 Emmys & More | Billboard News

Country duo The War and Treaty talk to Billboard News’ Tetris Kelly about performing at Spotify’s Grammy Best New Artist party, how they feel about their nomination, what it was like to perform at the 2024 Emmys with Charlie Puth and more!

Michael Trotter Jr
But to perform live at the party, like, let’s do it.

Tetris Kelly
Nobody does it like Spotify. Grammy week is approaching and one of the biggest events of the year is their Best New Artist party that always brings the biggest performers and the brightest talent with this year’s lineup on February 1, including performers like Jelly Roll, Victoria Monét and more. And speaking of the party, I have some very talented friends I haven’t hung out with in a while here to talk with us. Hey, War and Treaty what’s going on?

War and Treaty
Hey Tetris!

Tetris Kelly
I am so excited to hear you guys are performing at this event. But I mean, I’ve been watching you guys grow, grow, grow and now Best New Artist at the Grammys? How are you feeling?

Tanya Blount
This is insane. I mean, the whole journey has been one big, insane experience.

Michael Trotter Jr
It’s wild.

Tanya Blount
Yeah.

Tetris Kelly
I mean, where were you when you got the news?

Michael Trotter Jr
In the airport, we were literally sitting out in breakfast waiting on our flight. And I started immediately just crying. And Tanya was like who died who died

Tanya Blount
I asked who died, cause someone’s always dying. He always knows who’s dead before I do.

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18 Jan 2024

Taylor Swift Leads iHeartRadio Music Award Nods, Ariana Grande’s New Album & More | Billboard News

Taylor Swift leads the iHeartRadio Music Awards nominations with nine nods; Jelly Roll, 21 Savage and SZA are all close behind with eight nominations; and Olivia Rodrigo garnered seven. Ariana Grande reveals the title of her highly anticipated seventh album ‘Eternal Sunshine’ and she also dropped some album covers on Instagram along with the title announcement. 6arelyhuman tells us five things about him, Billboard takes a look at Green Day’s chart success ahead of the release of their 14th studio album ‘Saviors,’ and Flo Milli tops the TikTok Billboard Top 50 with her song “Never Lose Me.”

Tetris Kelly
BTS ARMY has to go to war while the boys are still in the military, Ariana drops deets on her new album, we find out what’s hot on TikTok as we talk about Green Day and hang out with 6arelyhuman.

Tetris Kelly
It’s Thursday January 18th. Welcome to Billboard News, I’m Tetris and awards season is in full swing. Today we talk iHeart. Taylor Swift leads the iHeartRadio Awards nominations this year as ARMY gets ready for battle with the Beyhive in some categories. Let’s break it down.

Tetris Kelly
We know she dominated radio and Taylor Swift received nine nods at this year’s iHeartRadio Awards, Jelly Roll, 21 Savage and SZA are close behind with eight nods each, while Olivia Rodrigo receives 7.

Tetris Kelly
In a show of girl power, all five nominees for pop artist of the year are women, including Doja Cat and Miley Cyrus. All five nominees for hip-hop artist of the year are men, including Future, 21 Savage, Drake and more. And BTS is nominated for fan army of the year against Harry Styles’ Harries, Beyoncé’s Beyhive and even more. The iHeartRadio Music Awards are set to air live from the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles on April 1 on Fox.

18 Jan 2024

Flo Milli Crowns TikTok Billboard Top 50 With ‘Never Lose Me’ | Billboard News

Flo Milli’s “Never Lose Me” jumps to the No. 1 spot on the TikTok Billboard Top 50 chart, posting Jan. 18.

Tetris Kelly:
Flo Milli claims the top spot while three new tracks break into the top 10.

Flo Milli’s “Never Lose Me” jumps to No. 1 after seven weeks on the TikTok Billboard Top 50 for the chart posting Jan. 18. Debuting at No. 8 is He Is We’s “I Wouldn’t Mind,” which has people and their pets moving.

Rounding out the top 10 is Cordelia with “Little Life” at No. 9, so that users can show off why they liked this little life, and Xavi’s “La Diabla” at No. 10, which has everyone lip-synching their hearts out.

Every Thursday, Billboard will bring you the verified list of the hottest songs on TikTok by monitoring music discovery and engagement on the platform in the United States. To find the TikTok Billboard Top 50 each week, users can simply go to any sound detail page and tap the top right button to access the charts page.

17 Jan 2024

Coachella Lineup Announced, Yung Miami Trades Shots With DJ Akademiks & More | Billboard News

Lana Del Rey, Tyler, The Creator and Doja Cat are announced as the headliners for 2024 Coachella along with the rest of the stacked lineup for the three-day festival. Drake postpones It’s All a Blur tour dates with J. Cole. Yung Miami trades shots with DJ Akademiks after he brought up Diddy’s sexual assault allegations. Selena Gomez throws a PJ-themed birthday party with new boyfriend Benny Blanco for her close friend Nicola Peltz Beckham. Odetari shares five things about himself. Kali Uchis tells the stories behind these photos and more.

Tetris Kelly
The Coachella lineup has arrived, Drake postpones his tour, Yung Miami has zero time for Akademiks, Selena Gomez gets cozy with boyfriend Benny Blanco, and we hang out with Kali Uchis and Odetari. It’s January 17th. I’m Tetris and this is Billboard News. It’s my favorite time of the year, and that is Coachella season. Let’s kick things off with what’s going down this year. Festival season is upon us and Coachella just announced their lineup. Let’s break it down. Doja Cat, Tyler, the Creator and Lana Del Rey will headline this year’s Coachella when everyone flocks to the desert the weekend of April 12th to the 14th and 19th to the 21st, but you know Coachella has a little something for everyone. For you Latin music lovers, there’s Peso Pluma and J Balvin. The K-pop stans have ATEEZ and LE SSERAFIM. And if you’re looking to see some killer dance moves, Tinashe, Tyla, Victoria Monét and Chlöe will all be shaking it in Indio. Lil Uzi Vert, Ice Spice and Lil Yachty are repping the rappers and Sabrina Carpenter and Reneé Rapp have pop covered.

Tetris Kelly
Reneé even joked on Twitter saying she used to do drugs here and now I’m still gonna do drugs here but play a set too. And everyone is hyped for the return of No Doubt. They posted a video on how it all came together.

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16 Jan 2024

Don Omar on the Growth of Reggaeton, His New ‘Back to Reggaeton’ Tour & More | Billboard News

Don Omar talks about his new ‘Back to Reggaeton’ Tour, his new EP of the same name, the growth of the Reggaeton genre over the course of his career, who he wants to bring out for his special guests for his new tour, how he’s influenced and mentored artists like Ñengo Flow, Farruko, Arcángel, Natti Natasha, Jhay Cortez and more!

Don Omar
Music has everything the future held in store for it. But it lost something, it lost the product that united it.

Don Omar
Hey what’s up, friends! I am Don Omar and you’re watching Billboard News.

Leila Cobo
Don Omar, welcome to Billboard.

Leila Cobo
Now ‘Back to Reggaeton’ is a big deal because it is not only ‘Back to Reggaeton’ for Don Omar, but it’s your first tour in 10 years, right?

Don Omar
In 10 years, ‘Back to Reggaeton’ is returning to the field of work, to tours. The last tour we did was with Daddy Yankee, the Insuperables tour.

Leila Cobo
I remember

Don Omar
Before that, we did the tour Meet the Orphans. We did the King of Kings tour too, but I’m super excited. Super excited I think this opportunity takes 25 years of music around the world.

Leila Cobo
Now, 25 years is a lot of time to fit into one night. How did you choose the tracklist? The setlist. Does it change every day?

Don Omar
The tour is going to demand two full hours of music, in order to go on this trip through time. From the first song the world knew and made a success in my career…

Leila Cobo
Which is…I’m going to guess! “Dale Don Dale.”

Don Omar
Well done. “Dale Don Dale” is one of my first songs and it’s a song I can’t stop playing in any show.

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16 Jan 2024

Three Grammy Performers Announced, Lil Nas X Addresses ‘J CHRIST’ Controversy & More | Billboard News

Lil Nas X is addressing his latest controversy with his new song “J CHRIST.” Billie Eilish, Olivia Rodrigo and Dua Lipa are announced as the first round of 2024 Grammy performers. The ‘Mean Girls’ movie has a big weekend at No. 1, raking in $28 million. Jack Harlow stays hot at No.1 on the Billboard Hot 100. Sexyy Red tells us five things about her and more!

Tetris Kelly
Lil Nas X addresses the “J CHRIST” drama, Dua Lipa is announced as a Grammy performer after an embarrassing moment with Billie Eilish, ‘Mean Girls’ dominates the box office. You got a new face in the top 10 of the Billboard Hot 100. We sit down with Don Omar and we learned five things about Sexyy Red. Welcome back to Billboard News. I hope you guys all enjoyed your long weekend. I’m Tetris Kelly, it’s Tuesday, January 16th. And let’s start things off by congratulating Elton John on achieving EGOT status after last night’s Emmys. He’s the 19th competitive EGOT winner, well deserved. But let’s kick things off with Lil Nas X. His music video for “J CHRIST” caused quite a stir and he’s addressing the drama.

Lil Nas X
This is not like to try to get everybody on my good side or what not. This is more so to clear my own head about my own decisions. I know. I know like you know, I messed up like…

Tetris Kelly 0:59
Lil Nas X is saying I’m sorry. The artist is experiencing backlash for his new music video “J CHRIST” and he’s saying he truly didn’t mean to offend.

Lil Nas X
And I can act unbothered all I want, but it’s definitely like taking a mental toll on me.

Tetris Kelly
Lil Nas X is back like “J CHRIST” if you didn’t know, but after his “Montero” video caused a similar backlash a few years back, he’s saying this isn’t the same thing.

Lil Nas X
I thought me clearly not being on the side of the devil in that video was the — I don’t know what it was like there was an understanding there that I’m not like trying to diss Christianity.

Tetris Kelly
Everybody will be waiting to see where “J CHRIST” lands on the Billboard Hot 100, but at least now when we hear the song we know exactly where Lil Nas X stands.

Lil Nas X
But I also didn’t mean to like mock. This wasn’t like a f* you to you people, f* you to the Christians like you know it wasn’t, it was not that.

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16 Jan 2024

Hot 100 Chart Reveal: Jan. 20 | Billboard News

Teddy Swims breaks into the top 10 with “Lose Control,” Tate McRae’ continues her hot streak on the chart with “Greedy,” does Jack Harlow continue his reign on top? Watch the video to find out.

Tetris Kelly
This is the Billboard Hot 100 Top 10 for the week dated January 20. Slipping to 10 is Morgan Wallen’s “Last Night.” While Doja Cat moves up a spot to 9. Teddy Swims makes a top 10 entrance at No. 8.

Tetris Kelly
Tyla’s “Water” stays locked at 7 as does SZA’s “Snooze” at 6. “Paint The Town Red” drops a spot to No. 5. And “I Remember Everything” moves up to 4.

Tetris Kelly
Tate McRae holds on to her No. 3 peak. As “Cruel Summer” stays at No. 2 and at No. 1 for a third week is Jack Harlow’s “Lovin On Me.”

12 Jan 2024

Kali Uchis Talks Keeping Her Pregnancy Private, New Music & More: ‘There’s So Much to Be Excited For’

When Kali Uchis picked the orchid as the title and theme of her new album Orquídeas, which arrived on Friday (Jan. 12), she didn’t know it was the flower of fertility. And then, later in her rollout, she found out she was pregnant with her first child, telling Billboard News, “It all came together perfectly.”

“The flower, for me, it always symbolized timelessness, femininity, luxury,” says the Colombian artist. “It has an eerie, mystical quality about it as well. It’s also the national flower of Colombia, so for me it all tied in.”

Orquídeas is Uchis’ fourth album and second Spanish-language full-length (she typically switches between English and Spanish on each project). Features include her friend Karol G (“Labios Mordidos”), plus Peso Pluma (“Igual Que Un Ángel”), Rauw Alejandro (“No Hay Ley Parte 2”) and the “unpredictable” pairing of City Girls’ JT alongside El Alfa (“Muñekita).

The Grammy winner debuted in 2018 with Isolation, followed by Sin Miedo (del Amor y Otros Demonios) in 2020 and last year’s Red Moon In Venus. She believes that Orquídeas, defined by its uptempo, high-energy productions, perfectly compliments those prior albums.

“I’m not a new artist anymore, I’m looking at my discography as a whole,” she says. “My next album that I’ve been working on that is also going to come out this year is all downtempo music. So being able to have to contrast, there’s so much within me that needs to be expressed and I never want to confine myself to anything.”

She confirms that forthcoming fifth album was written and recorded while pregnant, which is perhaps where the inspiration for a more soothing, lower energy release came from. And while she says “there’s so much to be excited for” about motherhood (she will soon welcome her first born with longtime partner Don Toliver), she also admits how hard it was to keep her pregnancy private, saying she still had a few shows and a red carpet appearance on her calendar — both of which made it harder to hide her growing baby bump.

Balancing her professional life with her private one has always been a priority to Uchis, who says she most looks up to Sade for how she walks that line. “It is such a fine line between trying to understand how much of ourselves are we really meant to share, or do we really feel comfortable sharing. And at the end of the day, I really thought it was strange that there is such an expectation on an artist to share their personal life,” says Uchis. “I try to remember that my music is supposed to be in the forefront, my private life and personal matters, I really don’t want that to be something that’s consuming or overshadowing my work.”

And as someone who puts their art first — and who has always embraced her bicultural upbringing along the way, having been born and raised in Virginia — Uchis has become a safe space for others who hope to do the same. “There’s a lot of artists who sing in Spanish who are English speakers primarily and they’ve come to me like, ‘You really make me want to make music in English too. I’ve always wanted to but my label doesn’t want me to do that because this or that is what sells for me,’” she says. “I think as an artist, what’s most important always is the thought of no limitations…I feel like everyone should be as free and creative as possible.”

Watch the full interview above.

12 Jan 2024

Kali Uchis Opens Up About Her Pregnancy, New Album ‘Orquídeas’ & More | Billboard News

Kali Uchis opens up about how she hid her pregnancy, new album Orquídeas, creating music in both English and Spanish, explains how the album title relates to her pregnancy and her Colombian heritage, her influenced by both American and Latin artists, working with Karol G, El Alfa and City Girls’ JT and more!

Kali Uchis:
It’s a spiritual language. It’s not about English or Spanish. It’s not about genre. It’s just really about expressing yourself as freely as you can. Hi, my name is Kali Uchis, and this is Billboard News

Lyndsey Havens:
Hey, I’m Lyndsey Havens here for Billboard News. And we’re here with a Grammy Award-winning artist Kali Uchis.

So we have two drops to talk about here and congratulations!

Kali Uchis:
Thank you.

Lyndsey Havens:
So excited for you. How have you been keeping this a secret? What’s been the hardest part of that?

Kali Uchis:
I had to do some shows and I was on a Times list, I had to do a red carpet. That was really hard.

Lyndsey Havens:
And then when the time does come, what are you most excited for about being a mom?

Kali Uchis:
I don’t know. There’s so much to be excited for, honestly. So yeah, it’s hard to say just one thing.

Lyndsey Havens:
You won’t know until it happens.

Kali Uchis:
Yeah, exactly.

Lyndsey Havens:
Your fourth album, Orquídeas, is now out. Congratulations. It’s all about the theme of the orchids that inspired this. How did you sort of land on that? And why was that flower like the proper embodiment?

Kali Uchis:
Yeah, I feel like the flower for me, it always symbolizes timelessness, femininity, luxury, has an eerie mystical quality about it as well. And it’s also the national flower of Colombia. So for me it all tied in, and then I didn’t find out that I was pregnant until later in my rollout, but actually it’s also the flower of fertility. So it actually all came together perfectly.

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