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Harry Styles made his cab driver do a double take during a recent drive to London.
A private pink taxi service owner named Paula shared on Instagram March 23 that she’d given the pop star a ride to the English capital without even realizing who her famous passenger was at first. Sharing a selfie she took with Styles after the fact, the driver wrote, “Picked up this young fella on my way home tonight.”
“We got chatting, and I said, ‘You really sound like Harry Styles,’” she added. “He said ‘That’s because I am Harry Styles.’ He was such a friendly young chap!”
In the snap, Paula leans out her driver’s-side window as the “Watermelon Sugar” singer — sporting a trim mustache, baseball cap and blue button-down — smiles politely at the camera. On Friday (March 28), Paula reshared the picture onto her Story and wrote, “I drove Harry Styles in One Direction all the way to LONDON.”
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Based on his serendipitous taxi ride, it seems that Styles is back in his home country after spending time in Japan earlier this month. The Grammy winner participated in the Tokyo marathon March 2, finishing in 6,010th place out of a group of more than 37,000 runners, and averaging about 7:47 per mile.
From Tokyo to London, Styles is all over the map, but one place he isn’t headed anytime soon is Las Vegas. At least, he isn’t setting up shop in Sin City for a 2025 residency at The Sphere, as was widely rumored up until March 13, when a rep for the venue shut down the speculation via a statement shared exclusively with Billboard.
“To set the record straight, there has never been plans for Harry Styles to perform at Sphere,” the spokesperson said at the time.
Styles hasn’t toured since 2023, when he closed out his global Love On Tour after two years on the road. His last album, Harry’s House, arrived in 2022. In addition to spawning 15-week Billboard Hot 100 No. 1 single “As It Was” and spending two weeks atop the Billboard 200, the LP won album of the year at the following year’s Grammys.
Billie Eilish just revealed which female rapper has her vote for GOAT status — and given the fact that the MC in question is widely regarded as the Queen of Rap, the “Bad Guy” singer’s answer probably won’t be a surprise.
In a Complex video posted Thursday (March 27), Eilish and best friend/influencer Quen Blackwell discussed their greatest-of-all-time picks for a variety of different subjects. When it came to best female rapper, the nine-time Grammy winner didn’t need to think twice.
“Nicki Minaj is like, obviously …,” Eilish said. “Nicki is GOAT, for sure.”
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The star also shared her GOAT life-anthem songs, revealing, “Honestly, I’ve been listening to a lot of old Gaga — like, ‘Poker Face,’ ‘G.U.Y.,’ ‘Alejandro’ — that is my s–t right now.”
As for her favorite album to cry to, Eilish selected Sufjan Stevens’ Carrie & Lowell. “‘Fourth of July,’ specifically on that album, is so upsetting,” she told Blackwell. “Deeply, deeply upsetting. And so beautiful and just so dark.”
And when it came to GOAT vocalists, the California native had a few different answers. “Off the top of my head, Ella Fitzgerald is, like, my favorite singer,” she said. “Or f–king Tori Kelly. I’ve actually been a Tori Kelly fan since I think I was 11.”
“Beyoncé, I mean, duh,” Eilish added. “That’s duh. [Her voice] is so perfect. Perfect. Unbelievable. I’ve never heard her sing, like, a flat note ever.”
Eilish is currently on a short break from her ongoing Hit Me Hard and Soft Tour, which kicked off in North America in the fall. Following a run of Australian dates earlier this year, the two-time Oscar winner will resume the trek April 23 in Sweden to kick off a European leg lasting through July.
Her third studio album, Hit Me Hard and Soft, dropped in May 2024. The project reached No. 2 on the Billboard 200 and spawned Billboard Hot 100 top 10 hits “Lunch” and “Birds of a Feather.”
Watch Eilish discuss her GOAT choices above.
Ariana Grande goes on quite the journey in her new Brighter Days Ahead short film, which arrived Friday morning (March 28), just hours after the release of the pop star’s deluxe Eternal Sunshine album. In the 26-minute visual co-directed by Grande and Christian Breslauer, the two-time Grammy winner sings selections from both the original Eternal […]
British singer Duffy has been off-the-radar for much of the past decade after revealing in 2020 that she was the victim of a terrifying assault and kidnapping in 2015. The Grammy winner took her latest tentative step back into the spotlight this week when she made a brief cameo in a TikTok video posted by […]
Dua Lipa is marking the fifth anniversary of her Grammy-winning sophomore album Future Nostalgia with a remix of one of its biggest hits, enlisting Australian pop star Troye Sivan for a brand-new version of “Physical.” Explore See latest videos, charts and news See latest videos, charts and news Released Friday (March 28), the reimagined track […]
Time to enjoy some Brighter Days Ahead. Ariana Grande unveiled the highly anticipated deluxe edition of her Billboard 200 chart-topping album, Eternal Sunshine, on Friday (March 28). Explore Explore See latest videos, charts and news See latest videos, charts and news The extended edition of the original 13-song project features six new tracks, including “Twilight […]
A little over a year ago, Ariana Grande made the pop world a little bit lighter with the release of Eternal Sunshine, her seventh studio album. Crafted in the afterglow of her divorce from realtor Dalton Gomez during the 2023 SAG-AFTRA strikes that paused Wicked production, Eternal Sunshine arrived atop the Billboard 200 (her sixth […]
Los Angeles-based alt-pop duo Magdalena Bay have paid tribute to David Bowie for their recent appearance on Like a Version, the long-running segment from Australian radio station triple j.
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Premiering on the morning of Friday, March 28 (Australian time), the pair – which comprises Mica Tenenbaum and Matthew Lewin – recorded their performance during a recent trip to Australia in early March. The two-song set saw them performing original track “Image” before focusing on Bowie’s 1980 single “Ashes to Ashes.”
First released as the lead single to Bowie’s 1980 album Scary Monsters (and Super Creeps), the single did not impact the Hot 100, though it gave Bowie his first U.K. chart-topper since 1969’s “Space Oddity.” The album, meanwhile, peaked at No. 12 on the Billboard 200 and was Bowie’s first in six years to top the chart in his home country.
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“It’s a great, kind of weird experimental pop song that I think we took a lot of inspiration from,” said Lewin in a post-performance interview. ”We’re always just kind of listening to it, it’s never really left our rotation of songs that we love,” added Tenenbaum.
“I drew a lot of influence from his ideas of being an artist and what it means to create art,” continued Tenenbaum. “I found [it] very inspiring as we were going into the creation of our latest album, Imaginal Disk.
“It’s tough, because when you love a song so much and you know what you love about it and then you also want make it your own a little bit, it’s like, ‘How much should you really mess with it?’”
Magdalena Bay’s cover was indeed preceded by a cut from latest album, Imaginal Disk, with second single “Image” also performed in the Like a Version studio. The track was voted in at No. 147 in triple j’s annual Hottest 100 countdown, and in December 2024 was chosen by Billboard staff as one of the 20 Pop Songs From 2024 That Deserved to Be Smashes.
Having first launched in 2004, the Like a Version series has gone from being a near-impromptu acoustic affair to featuring larger studio productions. Numerous artists have taken part over the past two decades, with the likes of Billie Eilish, Childish Gambino, Arctic Monkeys, and more reinventing classic tracks in the process.
The original Broadway cast recording of Maybe Happy Ending – led by Emmy Award and Golden Globe-winner Darren Criss and Helen J Shen – scores the year’s highest debut on Billboard’s Cast Albums chart, as the set enters at No. 5 on the list dated March 29. Maybe Happy Ending was released on March 14 […]
Miley Cyrus has upped her platinum records to 23. According to the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), her two hits, “Flowers” and “Used to Be Young,” have been certified 7x platinum and platinum, respectively. Explore Explore See latest videos, charts and news See latest videos, charts and news A platinum certification recognizes one million equivalent […]