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SZA has a lot of powerful people in her corner, from Taylor Swift to Kendrick Lamar. While guesting on The Jennifer Hudson Show Friday (March 21), the “Saturn” singer revealed that she and the pop superstar have discussed collaborating as well as opened up about learning from the Compton rapper ahead of their Super Bowl performance and their upcoming Grand National Tour.
The topic of Swift first came up when host Jennifer Hudson pulled up a clip of the “Karma” artist and SZA posing together at the 2025 Grammys. “Every time she walks up to me or approaches me, I’m just like, ‘All right, this is happening, because that’s fully Taylor Swift,’” gushed the R&B hitmaker.
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“I think I mentioned that I would love to write with her and build some things together,” SZA continued. “I love her storytelling. She was open to it. I think she’s awesome. She’s so bossed up.”
SZA then took the chance to name some of her other favorite singer-songwriters who use their music as avenues for storytelling: Gracie Abrams, Lola Young, Doechii, Olivia Rodrigo and Chappell Roan.
The talk-show visit isn’t the first time the “Kill Bill” artist has praised Swift. In early 2023, when the former’s SOS and the latter’s Midnights albums were competing for a No. 1 spot on the Billboard 200, SZA clarified with a post on X that the competition was nothing but friendly, writing, “I don’t have beef w ANYONE especially not Taylor lmao I genuinely loved her album and the writing!”
Two years later, SZA is now gearing up to join Lamar on their joint tour, which kicks off April 19 in Minneapolis. The duo gave the world a taste of what to expect in February during Dot’s Super Bowl Halftime Show performance, which featured the “I Hate U” musician accompanying him on the field at New Orleans’ Caesars Superdome for two songs: “Luther” and “All the Stars.”
Ahead of the joint trek, SZA told Hudson that she’s “really excited to learn” from her longtime collaborator on the road. “I get to pick different tips and watch how he carries himself, how he emotes,” she said. “To watch him perform is to witness something magical.”
“One time he gave me the pointer of pretending to watch myself from above,” she continued. “He sees himself while he’s performing, and it actually changed a lot for me. It was weird, when I was watching myself from afar, I was like, ‘This not what I want to see, I want to see something different. I want to turn up.’ Then I just started, like, invoking a completely different energy and spirit within myself.”
Watch SZA discuss touring with Lamar and wanting to work with Swift below.
Selena Gomez figured it out five years ago. With Rare, her third solo studio album, the former Disney Channel breakthrough-turned multi hyphenate superstar distilled her skills as a recording artist into a slinky, sumptuous dance-pop record, full of self-empowering lyrics and midtempo earworms that understood precisely how to utilize her singular tone. Gomez earned the […]
The Jonas Brothers are hitting the road to celebrate two decades two decades of rocking together. The trio hit Good Morning America on Friday (March 21) to announce the first date of their 20th anniversary Jonas 20: Living the Dream Tour. “Our journey really began in New Jersey, it’s where we grew up,” Nick Jonas said during their GMA spot.
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Which is why, after playing malls and anywhere else they could find an audience back in their early days, Nick, Joe and Kevin will kick-off their upcoming tour at the venue they always dreamed of playing back in the day: MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, N.J. on August 10.
In an Instagram video after the GMA stop, Nick promised that the rest of the dates for the tour will be revealed on Sunday (March 23) at JONASCON in New Jersey, which will take place at the sprawling American Dream Mall just across the street from MetLife.
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The brothers are also celebrating today thanks to the release of their upbeat new pop single, “Love Me To Heaven,” on which they sing “Could give me everything, but it ain’t enough / You can’t put a price on the human touch / I could be down, but you love me to heaven / Turns out the Northern Lights don’t impress me much / Guess I’m just a fool for the human touch / I could be down, but you love me to Heaven.”
In addition to rolling out the tour dates, JONASCON will be an extravaganza of all things JoBro. It will feature live performances, DJ sets, Q&A panels, fan activations, pop-up surprises, retail takeovers, a Jonas trading post, trivia, games, immersive experiences, an interactive art installation, keynote event, karaoke, a Camp Rock bar, special guests, mini golf and exclusive merch. “From their early beginnings to global pop icons, JONASCON will honor the band’s incredible journey while also showing their appreciation to the fans who have been with them from the beginning,” a statement promised.
Check out the JoBros MetLife announcement below.
Sabrina Carpenter claims her fifth No. 1 on Billboard’s Pop Airplay chart as “Bed Chem” cozies up to the top spot on the radio ranking dated March 20.
The song, released on Island Records and promoted to radio by REPUBLIC, follows Carpenter’s “Taste,” which ruled Pop Airplay for six weeks in December-January; “Please Please Please” (two weeks, September); “Espresso” (three weeks, July); and “Feather” (one week, April).
With “Bed Chem,” “Taste,” “Please Please Please” and “Espresso” all from Carpenter’s 2024 album Short n’ Sweet, the set becomes the first to spin off at least four Pop Airplay No. 1s in nearly a decade — since Taylor Swift’s 1989 generated five in 2014-15. (Carpenter opened for 25 dates on Swift’s The Eras Tour in 2023-24.)
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Since the Pop Airplay chart originated in 1992, a select five albums have yielded four or more No. 1 singles each. Here’s a recap.
Albums With 4 or More No. 1s on Billboard’s Pop Airplay Chart:
Sabrina Carpenter, Short n’ Sweet, four: “Espresso,” “Please Please Please,” “Taste,” “Bed Chem” (2024-25)
Taylor Swift, 1989, five: “Shake It Off,” “Blank Space,” “Style,” “Bad Blood” (feat. Kendrick Lamar), “Wildest Dreams” (2014-15)
Katy Perry, Teenage Dream, six: “California Gurls” (feat. Snoop Dogg), “Teenage Dream,” “Firework,” “E.T.” (feat. Kanye West), “Last Friday Night (T.G.I.F.),” “The One That Got Away” (2010-12) (*The album’s The Complete Confection reissue generated an additional No. 1, “Wide Awake.”)
Lady Gaga, The Fame, four: “Just Dance” (feat. Colby O’Donis), “Poker Face,” “LoveGame,” “Paparazzi” (2009)
Justin Timberlake, FutureSex/LoveSounds, four: “SexyBack,” “My Love” (feat. T.I.), “What Goes Around…Comes Around,” “Summer Love” (2006-07)
“I called it Short n’ Sweet for multiple reasons,” Carpenter mused to Apple Music’s Zane Lowe ahead of the album’s release. “It was not because I’m vertically challenged [“5 feet, to be exact,” she confirms in “Taste”]. It was really, like, I thought about some of [my] relationships, and how some of them were the shortest I’ve ever had, and they affected me the most.”
Meanwhile, Carpenter has collected all her Pop Airplay No. 1s in her five most recent trips up the chart. She links the longest streak of leaders since Swift’s five from 1989 in 2014-15. The longest uninterrupted runs of No. 1s — six each — belong to Katy Perry with her haul from Teenage Dream, and Lady Gaga, whose four from The Fame were followed by two in 2010: “Bad Romance” and “Telephone” (featuring Beyoncé).
The Pop Airplay chart ranks songs by weekly plays on more than 150 mainstream top 40 radio stations monitored by Mediabase, with data provided to Billboard by Luminate.
All charts dated March 29 will update on Billboard.com Tuesday, March 25.
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Celine Dion has not yet fully re-emerged from her three-year battle with debilitating Stiff-Person Syndrome. The rare neurological disorder that caused the singer painful, uncontrolled muscle spasms that made it hard to move and were so intense that they sometimes broke ribs has kept Dion mostly off-the-radar since she announced her diagnosis in 2022.
But after a few recent high-profile gigs in which she dipped her toe back into performance, Dion looked fit and feisty this week in a video with her three sons, René-Charles, 24, and twins Nelson and Eddy, 14, from the golf course. In the clip, Dion rips what sounds like a killer tee shot as one of her boys yells “YES ma!” from off camera.
“You like that one?” Dion says enthusiastically, flipping up her driver to play some air guitar in celebration, shaking her hips and goofing off while displaying her nimble moves as the voice off camera assures her, “that one was so good!”
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“I had a beautiful day with my boys out on the course,” Dion wrote in the caption. “Getting back into the swing of things!! [heart emoji],” she added, along with the playful shout-out for feedback: “PS: @pgatour, how’s my swing?”
Dion’s battle with Stiff-Person Syndrome not only impacted her body, but also caused spasms in her vocal cords that she has said made if feel like “somebody is strangling you,” leading the singer to postpone all of her 2023 and 2024 tour dates. She began her slow re-emergence into the spotlight at last year’s opening ceremony for the Paris Summer Olympics, where she wowed crowds, followed by a surprise set at the City of Hope’s 2024 Sprit of Life Gala in October and a November appearance at the “1001 Seasons of ELIE SAAB” event in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
Last Saturday, she also marked International Stiff-Person Syndrome Awareness Day, sharing a clip in which she talked about the rare disorder. “I want to remind you: no matter what challenges or conditions you face, you are not alone. Please hold onto hope, because it will guide you through the hardest times,” Dion wrote alongside a clip of her discussing her Celine Dion Foundation’s $2 million gift last year to establish the Endowed Chair in Autoimmune Neurology at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus.
Check out Dion’s swing below.
What better way to celebrate the release of your love-drenched debut album as a couple than go on The Tonight Show to prove how good you are at lying to each other? Well, that’s exactly what Selena Gomez and Benny Blanco did on Thursday night (March 20) when they fêted their collab LP I Said I Love You First by playing a round of “True Confessions” with host Jimmy Fallon.
Spoiler alert: they are adorably bad at lying to one another.
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The couple had other business to discuss on the show, of course, including a re-telling of the tale of Blanco’s elaborate engagement plot, which Selena said she almost ruined because she was exhausted after a long day of work. Gomez, who wore a flattering, off-the-shoulder black velvet dress and heels, and Blanco, dressed in a bedazzled, ripped jeans and an equally sparkly pale purple short-sleeved shirt and black cowboy boots, said she had no idea that Blanco was going to propose back in December because the day it happened she was wiped from work.
“We had to do a lot of promo for the album, so I woke up and I was very confused on what was happening, where we were going, because it seemed kind of far,” Gomez said. “I’m kind of a little grumpy. I really am tired. This is too far. So then I tell him, ‘after this shoot I’m going to go hang out with my friends.’”
Blanco said that sent him into panic mode because getting engaged is the “craziest thing” in the world. “It’s like, right before you’re gonna tell someone you’re gonna be married to them forever, they’re like, ‘show me how good you can lie to me!’” Blanco joked. “It’s the hardest thing in the world!” Blanco said the cloak-and-dagger arrangement made for the “scariest week of my life.”
When Fallon predicted the music at the wedding would be “amazing,” Gomez said they are “definitely not planning exactly at this moment,” but that she will for sure leave the music portion of the big night to Grammy-nominated producer/songwriter Blanco.
The pair, of course, also talked about the album, which Gomez described as “an exploration of each other’s present, past and future. The music was very fun, but cathartic, because we got to know each other on a deeper level.”
Earlier in the episode during the lying game, Selena tried to convince Blanco and Fallon that one time her dog ran away on set and Paul Rudd found it. Blanco was immediately skeptical about the tale, asking what year it was, to which Gomez snapped, “what are you, Judge Judy?” Showing off his deep knowledge of Sel’s dog history, Blanco expertly poked holes in her story, leading the singer to complain, “He knows it’s a lie. I told you backstage I’m going to be terrible at this!”
Nobody fell for Fallon’s dumb claim that he almost ruined Stranger Things star Millie Bobby Brown’s last year by showing up uninvited, especially Blanco who asked, “Who is Millie Bobby Brown?” After proving his expert sleuthing skills, it was Blanco’s turn to lie, pretending he starred in a Burger King commercial as a kid. He put on a good face, but Gomez immediately wondered, “I dunno… why wouldn’t you have told me that?”
Watch Gomez and Blanco on The Tonight Show below.
When Jennie posted the long-awaited trailer announcing her debut solo album, Ruby, she was on a plane heading to London. “It’s hard for me to stay longer than a week in one city,” she confesses — while in the car en route to yet another flight (this time from Los Angeles back home to Seoul).
Jennie chose the commanding “Zen” to soundtrack the album’s January trailer, particularly highlighting the lyric “In the dark I grew,” a sentiment that echoes throughout Ruby. “To me, that song is the core of this album,” she says. “So it only felt right to begin this journey with it.”
The album, which is entirely in English and arrived March 7, was preceded by singles “Mantra”; “Love Hangover,” with Dominic Fike; and “ExtraL,” with Doechii; and its other features — including genre-spanning artists such as Dua Lipa, Childish Gambino and Kali Uchis — further illustrate Jennie’s wide-ranging taste and global appeal. As a jet-setting artist with a devoted worldwide fan base firmly in place thanks to her role in history-making K-pop act Blackpink, Jennie is determined to build upon that on her own. (She released Ruby on her independent label, OddAtelier, in partnership with Columbia.) “It feels like my power as a superhero,” Billboard‘s 2025 Women in Music Global Force says. “It drives me to put more great things out there and work hard.”
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You already have a global fan base thanks to Blackpink. How did that benefit you on your solo journey?
If anything, I’m reintroducing myself to the world with this album. I’m throwing myself out there as if this was the very first time — that’s the commitment that I told myself. So I don’t think it changes so much for me.
You’ve adopted the middle name of Ruby Jane. How did that inspire the album title?
I was contemplating until the very end. I didn’t name [the album] Ruby because it’s a part of my name. To me, Ruby speaks to me as the curtain call of a play, where I’m opening this new chapter of… I don’t want to say new life; life is life, but a different stage in my life and I’m welcoming everyone in. I don’t necessarily see Jennie, Ruby, Jane as three different alter egos of mine. That’s just who I am, all in one.
Annakiki dress.
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You released a lyric breakdown of “Love Hangover” in Korean. Why was that important for you to do?
I love the fact that I’m Korean, so I’m just showing my appreciation and giving back the love that [my Korean fans] give me, and I wanted them to understand my music and myself better since this is an all-English album. And I know that they want to be more interactive with me in both languages.
What lyrics on Ruby best sum up how this journey has felt for you?
There’s a song that speaks to me in that sense called “Starlight,” and I think it’s a beautifully written song about how I felt for all this time. It’s a personal song.
Dua Lipa is featured on “Handlebars.” Tell me about that friendship.
I’ve known Dua for a very long time now. I went to her first show in Korea. We’re already good friends, [but] it was our first time doing a song together. That itself was a new experience for us to see each other in a different way, and we just had a great time.
Jacquemus top, David Koma pants, AREA hat.
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Between you two, who do you think travels more?
Honestly, we both work hard.
Behind the scenes, you have a strong team of women helping run your label. Why was that important to you?
I consider it to be important to work with people that you share good energy with, and I naturally started to gravitate toward empowering women. I’m still working hard to become one of those women that I look up to myself.
This story appears in the March 22, 2025, issue of Billboard.
The Jonas Brothers have officially kicked off their 2025 with the release of their brand-new single, “Love Me To Heaven.”
The track arrived at midnight on Friday (March 21), serving as the trio’s first new release of the year, following previous collaborations with Marshmello and Rascal Flatts.
Released just ahead of their inaugural fan convention, JONASCON, taking place at New Jersey’s American Dream on Sunday (March 23), the song arrives as part of the band’s 20th anniversary celebrations. The upbeat pop tune, first performed during their anniversary show in Toronto last month, sees Nick, Joe, and Kevin lean into romantic euphoria.
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“Could give me everything, but it ain’t enough / You can’t put a price on the human touch / I could be down, but you love me to heaven / Turns out the Northern Lights don’t impress me much / Guess I’m just a fool for the human touch / I could be down, but you love me to Heaven,” they sing in the track’s soaring chorus.
The Jonas Brothers previously hinted that 2025 would bring a full slate of releases, including a live album, a holiday soundtrack, solo music, and a new Disney+ holiday movie titled Jonas Brothers Christmas Music.
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“Love Me To Heaven” marks the next step in what’s shaping up to be a major year for the band. With JONASCON promising live performances, Q&As, immersive fan experiences, karaoke, merch exclusives, and even a Camp Rock bar, the Jonas Brothers are going all-in to celebrate two decades of music and fandom.
Stream “Love Me To Heaven” now on all major platforms.
J-Hope has delivered his latest piece of art. The BTS superstar unveiled his newest single, “Mona Lisa,” on Friday (March 21). In a statement, the singer’s label, BIG HIT, described the new song as exuding his “smooth, laid-back charm… expand[ing] his musical spectrum, solidifying his status as one of the most dynamic and sought-after global […]