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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 […]

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. […]

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

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

Leila CoboDon Omar, welcome to Billboard.

Leila CoboNow ‘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 OmarIn 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 CoboI remember

Don OmarBefore 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 CoboNow, 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 OmarThe 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 CoboWhich is…I’m going to guess! “Dale Don Dale.”

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

Watch the full interview !

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 […]

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 KellyThis is the Billboard Hot 100 Top 10 for the week dated January 20. Slipping to 10 is Morgan […]

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.

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.

Watch the full interview above!

It’s Friday, January 12th, and we’re running down the new music releases of the day. Ariana Grande is back with her new track “yes, and?,” Lil Nas X dropped his long-awaited track “J CHRIST,” 21 Savage has released a solo album titled “american dream” and more. Ivan Cornejo is Billboard’s newest cover star. Usher’s Apple […]

Laufey is Billboard’s newest cover star! Lil Nas X is responding to backlash for the use of religious imagery, celebrity lookalikes and more in his new video teaser for his track “J CHRIST.” Anderson .Paak’s Apple Music series ‘.Paak House Radio’ is back for season 2 and features guests like aespa, Saweetie and Victoria Monet. And more!

Tetris Kelly:Lil Nas X is pissing all kinds of people off, we get a first look at the Amy Winehouse biopic, Anderson .Paak has a ton of fun with aespa and Victoria Monet, we run down the top songs on TikTok, and Laufey is our Future of Jazz cover star. This is Billboard News. I’m Tetris Kelly, back on Thursday, January 11th and we continue our Future of Genre cover stars with Laufey.

Laufey:I knew I wanted the album to be called ‘Bewitched’ before I started writing any of the songs. I knew I wanted it to be a little bit more mature and I wanted it to be more confident. I think my first album was a little bit aloof, it’s very, you know, hopeless romantic. This second one, although it has elements of that, you know, I’ve experienced more with love. I’ve matured more. I think my writing has gotten better. Some of the references I put into my music, the classical references, especially, are so obvious that sometimes I get DMs or messages from my fans saying like, “Wait a minute, I was listening to Bach today and I found the beginning of ‘Everything I Know About Love.’” And I’m like, “Yep, you got it.” And I love that. I love spreading it in. I mean, I need to do a deep dive into the classical references in ‘Bewitched’ but there are so many. It feels very, very validating, especially in the category that I am in, you know, it’s all my heroes. It’s all legends, so getting to be a voice in that category is just incredible and especially with this album that I wrote at home, it’s just, it’s crazy. Taylor Swift was one of the first songwriters that I really, like songwriter artists, that I really resonated with. Every song while you’re listening, you can visually see what’s happening, and it turns into a little movie. And I think that’s something, though she has changed genres so many times, she’s always kept true to that. It’s always that Taylor Swift storytelling, that songwriting, that is the common denominator. That’s one thing I really want to do in my lifetime as a musician, and it’s inspired me greatly.

Tetris Kelly:For the full profile head to Billboard.com. We’ll have another cover story for you tomorrow.Watch the full video above!

Lesley Gore’s 1963 track “Misty” reaches No. 1 on the TikTok Billboard Top 50 chart as Sophie Ellis Baxter’s “Murder on the Dancefloor” lands in the top 10. Tetris Kelly:We’ve got a new leader on top of the chart, plus rap and a 2001 sleeper hit break into the top 10. Lesley Gore’s “Misty” hit […]