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“I said, they NEVER take the country out me!” Beyoncé bellowed in the misty night sky on Thursday (May 22) — repeating a lyric from “Formation” for emphasis, and also presenting the main idea of her sprawling Cowboy Carter tour, which made its way to New Jersey’s MetLife Stadium for the first of a five-night […]
Alex Warren is breaking generational chains with some help from Jelly Roll. On Thursday (May 22), the two singers released their new collaboration, “Bloodline.” The country-fied single finds the TikTok sensation-turned-pop singer ruminating over the ties that bind, as he sings, “Take that pain, pass it down like photos on the wall/ Momma said, ‘Your […]
Donald Trump has taken to social media to accuse Beyoncé, Bruce Springsteen and more for participating in an “illegal election scam” during Kamala Harris’ 2024 presidential campaign. Keep watching the video to see what the president had to say about the celebrities who participated in Kamala’s campaign. What do you think of Donald Trump’s accusations? […]
Something Beautiful…in the woods? Miley Cyrus opened up in a new interview on Wednesday (May 21) about how she scrapped an overly ambitious plan for her new album thanks to some advice from Harrison Ford. Speaking to Zane Lowe for Apple Music, the superstar explained that her original idea for the project involved performing shows […]
Forrest Frank has been a fairly consistent presence on the Top Gabb Music Songs chart in 2025, notching multiple entries on the monthly 25-position ranking.
But something Frank had not yet accomplished was a No. 1 on the tally — that is, until now, as “Your Way’s Better” tops the April 2025 survey.
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Billboard has partnered with Gabb Wireless, a phone company for kids and teens, to present a monthly chart tracking on-demand streams via its Gabb Music platform. Gabb Music offers a vast catalog of songs, all of which are selected by the Gabb team to include only kid- and teen-appropriate content. Gabb Music streams are not currently factored into any other Billboard charts.
“Your Way’s Better” was initially released in October 2024, but has achieved virality in recent weeks, just ahead of the debut of Frank’s latest solo album, Child of God II, which debuted at No. 12 on the Billboard 200 dated May 24.
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It marks the first new No. 1 on the monthly Top Gabb Music Songs chart since Bruno Mars and Lady Gaga’s “Die With a Smile” took over on the January 2025 list and ruled for the last three months.
Frank’s previous best rank on the chart had come in the previous month, when “Nothing Else,” featuring Thomas Rhett, debuted at No. 7. “Nothing Else” is one of four Frank songs on the latest tally; in addition to the lead of “Your Way’s Better,” he also appears via the re-entry of “Drop!” at No. 17 and the debut of “Up!,” with Connor Price, at No. 25.
“Your Way’s Better” debuted at No. 72 on the Billboard Hot 100 dated May 3 and has achieved a peak of No. 61 so far. It also spends its first week at No. 1 on the Hot Christian Songs tally dated May 24. (Frank’s catalog comprises the only Christian songs to make the ranking so far.)
The previous Top Gabb Music Songs No. 1, “Die With a Smile,” drops to No. 4, also passed by Benson Boone’s “Sorry I’m Here for Someone Else” (which holds at No. 2) and ROSE and Mars’ “APT.” (No. 3, up one position).
In all, three songs debut in the chart’s top 10, the most in one month since the ranking’s inception in October 2024. Following “Your Way’s Better,” there’s Alex Warren’s “Ordinary,” which starts at No. 6, and Chappell Roan’s “Pink Pony Club” at No. 8. Both songs are currently within the top 10 of the Hot 100 as well, “Ordinary” reaching a best of No. 2 on the May 10 list and Roan having peaked at No. 4 (April 26).
See the full top 25 below.
Top Gabb Music Songs
“Your Way’s Better,” Forrest Frank (debut)
“Sorry I’m Here for Someone Else,” Benson Boone (=)
“APT.,” ROSE & Bruno Mars (+1)
“Die With a Smile,” Lady Gaga & Bruno Mars (-3)
“Beautiful Things,” Benson Boone (-2)
“Ordinary,” Alex Warren (debut)
“Love Somebody,” Morgan Wallen (+9)
“Pink Pony Club,” Chappell Roan (debut)
“God’s Plan,” Drake (-4)
“Slow It Down,” Benson Boone (-1)
“Stargazing,” Myles Smith (+1)
“Face 2 Face,” Juice WRLD (-1)
“Deja Vu,” Olivia Rodrigo (-7)
“Butterfly Effect,” Travis Scott (-4)
“Ain’t No Love in Oklahoma,” Luke Combs (=)
“Stressed Out,” Twenty One Pilots (+7)
“Drop!,” Forrest Frank (re-entry)
“Please Please Please,” Sabrina Carpenter (-4)
“Nothing Else,” Forrest Frank feat. Thomas Rhett (-12)
“Pink Skies,” Zach Bryan (re-entry)
“Thick of It,” KSI feat. Trippie Redd (-8)
“Heat Waves,” Glass Animals (-4)
“Too Sweet,” Hozier (-4)
“Let You Down,” NF (-3)
“Up!,” Forrest Frank & Connor Price (debut)
DROPS FROM MARCH 2025: “Golden Hour,” JVKE; “Abracadabra,” Lady Gaga; “Run It,” Jelly Roll; “Bones,” Imagine Dragons; “Saturn,” SZA; “Hope,” NF
Miley Cyrus just gave fans a new look into the world of Something Beautiful, with the pop star unveiling her visual album film’s official trailer — featuring a snippet of an unreleased song — on Thursday (May 22). Posted three weeks ahead of the movie’s theatrical release, the trailer opens with Cyrus cloaked in a […]
It would’ve been a big-enough weekend for Morgan Wallen simply from the release of his fourth album Friday’s (May 16) I’m the Problem — his third album this decade to consist of 30+ tracks, this time with six of them already ranking as pre-release Billboard Hot 100 top 10 hits. But the biggest star in […]
Miley Cyrus is just over a week away from releasing her next album, Something Beautiful. But before she does, she’s reflecting on all the steps she needed to take to get to this moment, from taking control of her sobriety to winning a Grammy for her smash hit “Flowers.”
In an interview with Apple Music 1’s Zane Lowe posted Wednesday (May 21), the pop star opened up about how cutting out substances didn’t just change her life for the better, but ultimately paved the way for her to find unprecedented success with her Endless Summer Vacation album. “I’ve learned this about myself over the years,” she told Lowe. “The sobriety is like, that’s like my God. I need it, I live for it. I mean that it’s changed my entire life.”
Cyrus also got candid about how her attempt at sobriety around the time of her 2020 album Plastic Hearts went awry. “I know I needed to fall one more time,” she explained. “I just, I had to. It just never would have happened this way. I just never would have been sitting here. There were times in that section … I’m not proud of them. Definitely not my best moments, not some of my best work, any of that. But it all led me to writing ‘Flowers,’ which then was some sort of key right into the lock of all healing.”
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Released in 2023 as the lead single from Endless Summer Vacation, “Flowers” spent eight weeks atop the Hot 100 — completely blowing past the run of Cyrus’ only other No. 1 single so far, “Wrecking Ball,” which remained at the chart’s summit for three weeks in 2013. The self-love anthem would go on to win the Hannah Montana alum her first-ever Grammys — best pop solo performance and record of the year — at the 2024 ceremony.
In her interview with Lowe, Cyrus said that earning the Recording Academy recognition was just as “healing” as writing and releasing the song had been. “I think somewhere inside of me, I needed maybe to hold a trophy and just feel for a moment that I have something that I can hold in my hands that feels like a true achievement,” she explained. “And so at the Grammys, that’s why I went, it was actually for healing.”
The moment was particularly fateful as Cyrus says she originally wasn’t even going to go to the Grammys. In addition to suffering from extreme performance anxiety at the time, she also confided in Lowe that she was afraid to acknowledge to herself at the time just how much she wanted to win.
“There was somewhere that I was avoiding this, the fact that it did matter to me somewhere,” she shared. “And so once I received my Grammy, I was like, look, when you Google me, it says ‘Miley Cyrus, a Grammy Award-winning artist.’”
Pretty soon, Google will also say that Cyrus has released nine albums, with Something Beautiful set to drop on May 30. Led by singles “More to Lose,” “End of the World,” “Prelude” and its title track, the LP doubles as a visual album, with its accompanying film hitting theaters for one night only in June.
Two days prior to her Apple Music interview, the “We Can’t Stop” vocalist also unveiled the Something Beautiful tracklist, featuring collaborations with Brittany Howard and Naomi Campbell.
Watch Cyrus’ full Zane Lowe interview below.
It’s hard to imagine how anyone could follow up the success and cultural dominance of Charli xcx‘s Brat. But in a new interview, the British pop star said that she’s sidestepping that concern altogether.
Speaking to Culted at the Cannes International Film Festival, Charli opened up about the “pressure” to top her critically acclaimed sixth studio album in a piece published Tuesday (May 20). “I don’t really feel the pressure to create another record like Brat, because when I was making it, even though I really believed in it and totally knew what I wanted to do with it, I had no idea how it would be received,” she began.
“I was really doing it for myself and marketing it in the way I wanted to for myself, but I had no clue that people would kind of connect to it in the way that they did,” she continued. “So yeah, I don’t really feel the pressure, because I feel that you can never really do the same thing twice, and my next record will probably be a flop which I’m down for to be honest.”
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Released in June 2024, Brat reached No. 3 on the Billboard 200 — Charli’s highest career peak on the chart to date. From its meme-fueling lime-green cover to its moment at the center of the 2024 United States presidential race, the album made the “Apple” singer a bona fide pop A-lister after spending years as a smaller cult-favorite artist.
Now, Charli has been focused on touring the album — she wrapped four sold-out nights at Barclay’s Center in Brooklyn, N.Y., earlier in May — and onscreen opportunities, including a movie she conceptualized for A24 called The Moment. Almost a year after Brat‘s release, she’s also been enjoying a resurgence of one of her older songs: “Party 4 U,” which has taken off on TikTok five years after it was released on 2020’s How I’m Feeling Now.
“It takes me back to the time of the pandemic, really, because that’s when I was recording the vocals,” she told Culted of the track, for which she recently dropped a music video. “It actually started a while before that — the initial idea. But we kind of never — I never really took it anywhere. So, yeah, now when I think of the song, I just think back to five years ago and how different the world was then. We were all inside. No one was hanging out. You know, it was kind of lonely.”
Michael Bublé will headline the City of Hope’s 2025 Spirit of Life gala on Wednesday Oct. 15. The event will be held at the Pacific Design Center in West Hollywood, Calif. As previously announced, the event will honor Tom Corson, co-chairman and COO of Warner Records, as the Music, Film and Entertainment Industry [MFEI] group’s 2025 Spirit of Life honoree.
“Like so many people, my family has been personally affected by cancer, and I know how important it is to have hope — and real answers,” Bublé said in a statement. “City of Hope is doing the work that changes lives, and I am thrilled to be part of this night honoring Tom and supporting the incredibly important groundbreaking work of this wonderful cause.”
Bublé’s oldest son was diagnosed with hepatoblastoma, a rare form of liver cancer that primarily affects young children, in 2016. The singer canceled a planned tour to spend time with his son during chemotherapy and radiotherapy. Bublé’s son has fully recovered.
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“This is about making a difference that lasts,” Corson added. “Cancer has touched all of our lives. What City of Hope is doing — fast-tracking research, delivering leading-edge care, and supporting survivors beyond the hospital — is nothing short of extraordinary. I’m proud to stand with this community to help move it forward.”
The music industry’s relationship with City of Hope spans five decades, beginning with Mo Ostin in 1973 and echoed today by the continued support of Warner Records and the broader artistic community.
“Aside from the Grammys, there are very few nights when the entire music industry gathers in one place — and this is one of them,” said Alissa Pollack, executive vice president of global music marketing at iHeartMedia and president of City of Hope’s MFEI board. “But unlike an awards show, this night is about something bigger than all of us: saving lives. I’m incredibly grateful to Tom Corson and Michael Bublé for using their platforms to support City of Hope’s mission. Their leadership makes this moment possible — and meaningful.”
“There’s nothing more powerful than this industry using its influence to help save lives,” said Evan Lamberg, president of Universal Music Publishing Group North America and chair of City of Hope’s MFEI board. “What makes the Spirit of Life Celebration so special is that it reminds us why we do this — not just to make music, but to make an impact. Supporting City of Hope means we’re helping push forward the research, care and compassion that cancer patients urgently need.”
Bublé, signed to Warner’s Reprise label, has amassed four No. 1 albums on the Billboard 200: Call Me Irresponsible (2007), Crazy Love (2009), Christmas (2011) and To Be Loved (2013). He has won five Grammys for best traditional pop vocal album, the second-highest tally of wins in the history of that category, topped only by the late Tony Bennett, with 14.
For more information about the Spirit of Life campaign or to get involved, contact mfeievents@coh.org.
