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Trending on Billboard Sombr’s “Back To Friends” enters the top 10 10 of the Billboard Hot 100, while “Mutt” and Olivia Dean’s “Man I Need” keep on climbing up. Can “Ordinary” or “Golden” retake No. 1? Tetris Kelly: This is the Billboard Hot 100 Top 10 for the week dated November 22. Sombr makes it […]
Taylor Swift’s “The Fate of Ophelia” tops the Billboard Hot 100 for a sixth week, encompassing its entire run on the chart so far. Of the superstar’s 13 career Hot 100 No. 1s, “The Fate of Ophelia” is her third to have led for at least six weeks. It joins “Anti-Hero” (eight weeks, beginning Nov. […]
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There are few moments that disrupted the news cycle in 2025 more than Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce‘s engagement announcement, with the internet freaking out for days on end after the fact — and that’s exactly why The Cambridge Dictionary chose the term it did to represent this year in the history books.
As recently announced, the organization’s 2025 Word of the Year is “parasocial,” thanks in part to the overwhelming emotional response online to Tayvis’ big news in August, largely from people who’ve never met either the pop star or the Kansas City Chiefs tight end. The site defines the term as an adjective “involving or relating to a connection that someone feels between themselves and a famous person they do not know.”
“Global coverage of the way in which Taylor Swift announced her engagement to Travis Kelce caused lookups of parasocial to surge as the media dissected fans’ reactions,” the Cambridge Dictionary explained of its 2025 selection. “Posts by fans say ‘I’m not being parasocial about it’ and talk about ‘a Swiftie being parasocial for 10 minutes straight.’”
Other factors that informed the choice were the wave of concern in 2025 about eerily personal artificial intelligence chatbots as well as one viral fan’s reaction to a YouTube streamer by the name of IShowSpeed breaking up with his girlfriend in June.
Indeed, there were many fan displays of cheers and tears on Aug. 26, 2025, when Swift and Kelce shared photos of the proposal on Instagram. “Your English teacher and your gym teacher are getting married,” they captioned the post, which received more than 14 million “likes” on Instagram within one hour.
For many longtime Swifties, it was impossible not to have a deep emotional reaction to the news. For nearly two decades, they’d been listening to the 14-time Grammy winner sing in detail about her trials and tribulations with love, making her real-life fairytale ending — such as the one she sang about in 2008 on smash hit “Love Story” — feel extra special, parasocialism be damned.
“I AM SO HAPPY FOR MY CLOSE AND PERSONAL FRIEND TAYLOR SWIFT,” one fan wrote shortly after the couple’s post, sharing a gif of a little girl screaming.
“the way my phone was blowing up you’d think I was the one who got engaged,” someone else added at the time.
The Cambridge Dictionary has been choosing a Word of the Year since 2015. In 2024, the institution selected “manifest,” which followed “hallucinate” the year prior.
Also in 2025, “pseudonymization” and “memeify” were on the shortlist for the Word of the Year title.
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Late legend Frank Sinatra’s presence on Billboard’s charts stretches from the first national ranking in 1940 to today, 85 years later.
Sinatra debuts at No. 26 on the Adult Contemporary chart (dated Nov. 22) with Pentatonix on “I’ve Got My Love to Keep Me Warm.” The song drew 282,000 in audience from plays on 18 stations Nov. 7-13, according to Luminate.
The carol is from Pentatonix’s new album, Christmas in the City, which debuted as the vocal group’s 11th top 10 on the Top Holiday Albums chart earlier in November.
“We met someone with the estate, and the Sinatras had to give their blessing, and we are beyond honored,” the group’s Scott Hoying recently told iHeartRadio’s Ellen K of the team-up with Sinatra, who died in 1998. “They blessed us with his sweet voice and we got to release an unheard vocal, and it’s wild if you listen to it. You can hear the papers ruffling and the bleed of the orchestra from the other room. It was really, really powerful and magical, amazing.”
Added Pentatonix’s Kirstin Maldonado, “I feel like we went back in time and were those singers with him in that booth that we were inspired by. To have our names next to Frank Sinatra is just, like, that’s iconic. It’s such an honor.”
Sinatra bookends Billboard chart archives, as he sang on the first No. 1 — “I’ll Never Smile Again,” billed as by Tommy Dorsey — on the first nationwide sales chart, the National List of Best Selling Retail Records, published in the July 27, 1940, issue.
Meanwhile, the Chairman of the Board appears on Adult Contemporary (or any current-based Billboard radio chart) for the first time since Sept. 29, 1984. He lands his highest rank since May 31, 1980, when his revered “Theme From New York, New York” hit No. 10, becoming his 20th top 10. He boasts the longest span of making the tally (more than 64 years and four months), as he placed on the inaugural edition dated July 17, 1961.
Holiday music continues to grant Sinatra new chart honors. In December 2023, his take on “Jingle Bells” hit No. 16 on the Billboard Hot 100, marking his first appearance in the top 20 since 1967. Plus, last holiday season, Ultimate Christmas became his 33rd top 10 album on the Billboard 200, extending his record for the most among male soloists.
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HarbourView Equity Partners and Grammy Award-winning artist and producer Hit-Boy have joined forces in an exclusive partnership. Following the conclusion of Hit-Boy’s 18-year publishing agreement with Universal Music Publishing Group, the new alliance finds HarbourView collaborating on forthcoming titles written by Hit-Boy. Transaction terms were not disclosed.
In announcing the news, HarbourView founder and CEO Sherrese Clarke stated, “At HarbourView, we are committed to investing in the creators who shape culture and are actively moving it forward. Hit-Boy’s work has defined a generation of music, blending innovation with impact in a way few others have. We’re honored to partner with him and proud to help preserve, celebrate and continue his extraordinary legacy.”
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“This next chapter of my career is about ownership, being innovative and my creative freedom,” added Hit-Boy. “HarbourView will be a forward-thinking partner and that is exactly what I want when making decisions about my catalog and my future.”
Hit-Boy’s extensive catalog, amassed over nearly 20 years, encompasses collaborations ranging from Kendrick Lamar and Nicki Minaj to Ariana Grande and Doechii. Among the producer’s biggest hits are Jay-Z and Kanye West’s “N***as In Paris,” Travis Scott’s “Sicko Mode” with Drake, Beyoncé’s “Flawless” and the late Nipsey Hussle’s “Racks in the Middle.”
Three-time Grammy winner Hit-Boy also executive produced Nas’ Grammy-winning King’s Disease as well as the rap icon’s Magic Trilogy. His two other Grammy wins were for best rap song (“N***as In Paris”) and best rap performance (for his guest feature alongside Roddy Ricch on Hussle’s “Racks in the Middle”).
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As an artist, Hit-Boy’s most recent album is Goldfish with fellow producer The Alchemist. The project is complemented by a short film directed by Abteen Bagheri and executive produced by Hit-Boy, who also stars in the short with The Alchemist. Others featured in the film include Danny Trejo, Rory Culkin and rappers Big Hit, Conway the Machine and Lefty Gunplay.
HarbourView Equity Partners was established in 2021. Specializing in the sports, media and entertainment arenas, the investment firm’s music portfolio includes artists and producers such as Kelly Clarkson, T-Pain, Rodney “Darkchild” Jerkins, Luis Fonsi, Fleetwood Mac’s Christine McVie, Wiz Khalifa and Kane Brown, among others.
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Elon Musk has hit back at Billie Eilish after the singer slammed the world’s richest man last week in an infographic suggesting how the Tesla CEO could use his historically massive wealth to do some charitable good. Borrowing a page from his former DOGE boss Donald Trump’s book of sexist insults targeting women’s intelligence, Musk posted a message responding to Eilish’s graphic, saying, “She’s not the sharpest tool in the shed.”
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Eilish’s post came amid news last week that Musk, 54, could soon become the world’s first-ever trillionaire. The 23-year-old “Bury a Friend” singer has had America’s wealth gap on her mind lately, including at WSJ Magazine‘s 2025 Innovator Awards last month, where late night host Stephen Colbert presented her with the honor, noting that she has raised more than $11.5 million for organizations addressing food insecurity and climate change through her Hit Me Hard and Soft tour.
Eilish then proceeded to lay down the gauntlet for American billionaires — including Meta boss Mark Zuckerberg (net worth $228 billion), who was in the room — suggesting that perhaps they could use some of their cash to help others in need. “I’d say if you have money, it would be great to use it for good things and give it to some people that need it,” Eilish said. “Love you all, but there’s a few people in here that have a lot more money than me. If you are a billionaire, why are you a billionaire? No hate, but give your money away, shorties.”
But it was what she said last week about Musk that appeared to get under his skin. Eilish posted the series of infographics suggesting the world of good that Elon could do with his money, including spending $40 billion every year to end hunger by 2030 or provide universal safe clean water for the planet for the next seven years with for $140 billion, save all 10,443 critically endangered species by spending $1-$2 billion annually to bring them all down to endangered status, or rebuild war-ravaged Gaza and the occupied West Bank for $53.2 billion.
Eilish doubled-down on her suggestion last Thursday (Nov. 13), specifically slamming Musk in her Instagram Story, calling him a, “f–king pathetic p–sy b–ch coward.” Billie’s remarks came after a shareholder vote paved the way for Musk — already the world’s richest man with a net worth of $465 billion — to rake in $1 trillion in Tesla stock if he delivers on specific performance goals over the next decade.
While Musk reportedly donated nearly $1.9 billion shares of Tesla to unnamed charities in 2022 — as well as $5.7 billion worth of shares in 2021 — a March 2024 New York Times story said that unlike fellow billionaire Bill Gates, who has used his massive wealth to improve health care across Africa, Musk’s philanthropy has “been haphazard and largely self-serving, making him eligible for enormous tax breaks and helping his businesses.” The paper reported that Musk has seeded his charity with tax-deductible donations of more than $7 billion in stock since 2020, noting that the foundation housing the money has “failed in recent years to give away the bare minimum required by law to justify the tax break.”
In addition, according to the Times, the foundation has not hired any staff, with the billions in its coffers overseen by a board consisting of Musk and two volunteers, one of whom devoted the equivalent of six minutes per week working on its charitable works. A Times analysis also found that the Musk Foundation’s giving in 2021 and 2022, the latest years for which the full data was available at the time, about half of the donations had some link to Musk, one of his employees or one of his businesses.
At press time a spokesperson for Eilish had not returned Billboard‘s request for comment on Musk’s post.
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Trending on Billboard Chappell Roan might be a midwest princess, but Mexico City just stole her heart. In a new post on Instagram, the pop star reflected on headlining the Corona Capital festival over the weekend and revealed that — despite feeling anxious ahead of the show — the city welcomed her with open arms. […]
Trending on Billboard Two hands on the steering wheel, because Tate McRae’s sports car is about to drop off a four-pack of brand-new songs. The pop star revealed the track list for her upcoming So Close to What deluxe edition on Monday (Nov. 17), which is set to arrive later this week. In addition to […]
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Charli xcx reaches new heights — and not the wuthering kind — in the music video for her new song, “Chains of Love,” pulling off a number of gravity-defying stunts from way high up.
The monochromatic visual posted Monday (Nov. 17) finds Charli in a white dress and boots, dancing atop a large white dining table in a luxurious hall. Flipping her hair and writhing around in pain and ecstasy, the singer dodges plates and cutlery that fly at her face while battling mysterious, paranormal forces that throw her around. At one point, the long table tips over, forcing her to hang on for dear life while suspended many feet in the air.
“Shattering like glass/ Yes, they’re breaking up my heart/ The chains of love are cruel,” she sings. “I shouldn’t feel like a prisoner/ My face is turning blue/ I can’t breathe without you here.”
Following “House,” “Chains of Love” marks the second song and video Charli has created for Emerald Fennell’s Wuthering Heights film adaptation. Sharing a clip of the new visual on Instagram, the musician gushed of the partnership, “I’m here so permanently…”
Charli’s work on Wuthering Heights will eventually culminate in a full concept album of the same name, which will drop one day before the film’s premiere on Valentine’s Day next year. The adaptation stars Jacob Elordi as Heathcliff and Margot Robbie as Catherine, the two star-crossed lovers from Emily Brontë’s classic gothic romance.
“Chains of Love” dropped a few days prior to its musical video and soundtracked the first proper trailer for Fennell’s film.
In a recent post on Substack, Charli explained that she’s been loving immersing herself in the world of Wuthering Heights as a musical release, rather than focusing at all on topping the success of her 2024 breakout album Brat. “I wanted to dive into persona, into a world that felt undeniably raw, wild, sexual, gothic, British, tortured and full of actual real sentences, punctuation and grammar,” she wrote. “Without a cigarette or a pair of sunglasses in sight, it was all totally other from the life I was currently living.”
“This collection of songs is an album, and sure, my name’s on the credits, but is it a Charli xcx album?” she added at the time. “I don’t even know. Nor do I really care to find out.”
Watch Charli’s new music video for “Chains of Love” above.
So, they knelt to the ground and pulled out a ring. Now it’s time to pick some music.
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