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Ahead of Sebastián Yatra’s performance at Viña del Mar, the singer sits down with Billboard to share the inspiration behind his upcoming single, “La Pelirroja,” reveals a new album is coming this year, his friendship with Carlos Vives, performing on Broadway and more! Leila Cobo:Hi, Sebas. Sebastián Yatra:Hi, Leila. How are you? It’s been many […]
Drake has officially tied the record of having 14 No. 1 albums on the Billboard 200 with his latest album with PARTYNEXTDOOR on ‘$ome $exy $ongs 4 U.’ Keep watching to see how the three have achieved this feat, and who has the most No. 1s on the Billboard 200! Who do you think will […]
Madison Beer, Kali Uchis, Summer Walker, Tanner Adell and more join Jennie, aespa, Gracie Abrams at the 2025 Billboard Women in Music. Keep watching to see who else is part of the lineup for this year! Narrator: This year, get ready for the biggest Billboard Women in Music. It’s all happening live March 29 at […]
In today’s episode of ‘Billboard Unfiltered,’ Billboard staffers Kyle Denis, Damien Scott, Carl Lamarre and Trevor Anderson break down Drake tying with Taylor Swift & Jay-Z on the Billboard 200 with ‘$ome $exy $ongs 4 U,’ if MCs should take J.Cole seriously, Ye sharing an alleged DM of The Game DMing Tina Knowles, Rolling Stone’s worst song on Michael Jackson’s ‘Thriller,’ the 15 up and coming hip-hop, African & R&B artists to watch in 2025 and more!
Carl Lamarre:
Yo yo. What’s going on, y’all, welcome to a fresh episode of Billboard Unfiltered, gentlemen!
Kyle Denis:
Yo yo.
Carl Lamarre:
What it do, what it do, what it do, what it do? How y’all feeling?
Trevor Anderson:
You a little high today?
Carl Lamarre:
I’m on my high horse.
Trevor Anderson:
Clearly!
Damien Scott:
We all know why.
Carl Lamarre:
We all know why!
Kyle Denis:
A high horse? Uh-oh, why?
Carl Lamarre:
The reason why-
Kyle Denis:
Something happened?
Carl Lamarre:
Huh?
Kyle Denis:
Something happened?
Carl Lamarre:
Something monumental will happen.
Kyle Denis:
Oh, put me on. What happened?
Trevor Anderson:
Monumental?
Carl Lamarre:
Potentially, I’m not gonna say historic, but we’re on the doors of something, well, on the steps of some history-making sh–. I gotta say we’re gonna start this off with brother Aubrey Graham notched-
Damien Scott:
Surprise, surprise.
Carl Lamarre:
Notched number 14.
Trevor Anderson:
Come on, notch?
Carl Lamarre:
Notch. Come on. I took some advanced classes back in the day. Brother Aubrey and PARTYNEXTDOOR notched a No. 1 album on the Billboard 200, ‘$ome $exy $ongs 4 U.’ 246,000 album equivalent units, marking number 14 for Mr. Aubrey Graham, tying him with Jay-Z and Taylor Swift for the most No. 1s for soloists still trailing, of course, The Beatles with 19.
Kyle Denis;
Come on.
Trevor Anderson:
Hey, they got the AI song a few years ago, a lil AI album.
Carl Lamarre:
Still got some work to do. But you know, first off, of course, Mr. PARTYNEXTDOOR, shout out to PARTY getting his first No. 1 album.
Kyle Denis:
Absolutely.
Damien Scott:
This is his biggest first week, right?
Carl Lamarre:
Biggest first week.
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To launch the new series Billboard Live, Isaiah Falls exclusively performs “Diva,” “Butterflies” and an unreleased track. He also sits down with Billboard’s Tetris Kelly to chat about the inspiration behind his music and more!
Isaiah Falls:How are y’all doing? My name is Isaiah Falls, and we’re at Billboard Live. I’m here with The lovers, Luxury Lane, and we’re going to perform a few songs for y’all, so let’s get it.
Isaiah Falls:[Sings “Diva”]
It’s big love over here baby. Shout-out to all my lovers out there. If you know this s–t, vibe with me. We good? Y’all chillin’, that s–t felt amazing man. So my name is Isaiah Falls, and we’re here at Billboard Live. Big shout-out to Billboard. Thank y’all for having us for real. We gon’ get into this next song, it’s one of my favorite songs to perform. This song right here is called “Butterflies.” Man, big shout-out to my sister, Joyce Wright, she couldn’t be here today, but we gon’ rock out, so y’all ready? Let’s vibe.
Isaiah Falls:[Sings “Butterflies”]
Tetris Kelly:What’s up, man? Thank you for bringing the swag to Billboard, man. If i could just have, like, an ounce of that, I would be doing pretty good.
I appreciate that, man. Thank you, brother, I appreciate it for real.
But let’s talk about your swag in general. Listening to your music and watching your performance like in “Diva,” you say, “You know i’m not ashamed to love my b—h.” How are you with that in life and in music?
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The All-American Rejects took off like a rocket in the 2000s, reaching No. 25 with its 2003, self-titled debut album and No. 6 with 2005’s Move Along, which sent the pop-punk singalong “Dirty Little Secret” to No. 4 on the Billboard Hot 100. Then came the 2010s. As is typical with bands that find success in a particular musical era, The All-American Rejects’ popularity faded.
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“I think any band that sticks together for this long kind of goes through one of those periods,” Nick Wheeler tells Billboard’s Behind the Setlist podcast. “I grew up on Def Leppard and Bon Jovi, and I remember bands like that had a hard time in the 1990s. Our version of that was the 2010s. We put out a few songs in that in that era. We did a couple tours in that era. But nobody gave a s–t. And that’s fine. We were very lucky to go on that decade-long ride.”
The When We Were Young festival in Las Vegas in 2022 was a turning point for the band. After years spent playing state fairs and theme parks — “It wasn’t fulfilling,” says Wheeler — When We Were Young, which capitalized on nostalgia for emo and punk bands from the ’00s, let The All-American Rejects know there was still immense interest in the band. “On stage, we had so much fun with each other,” he says. “The crowd actually gave a s—t. I wasn’t just a bunch of people eating hot dogs.”
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That led the band to take a leap of faith and set up, as Wheeler describes it, “an actual tour in real venues where people have to pay to show up.” The quartet wasn’t sure anybody would come. “It might be a complete disaster,” he says.
But the band was energized from their experience at When We Were Young and was looking forward to touring with acts they had befriended earlier in their career. “We’re just gonna have fun, and we’re gonna play some real shows for maybe five people,” Wheeler jokes.
Dubbed the Wet Hot All-American Summer Tour, the first All-American Rejects tour in a decade covered the continental U.S. and featured rotating support from The Get Up Kids, New Found Glory, Motion City Soundtrack and The Starting Line. “It ended up being the most successful tour of our entire career,” says Wheeler. “Never would have guessed. Certainly did not expect it.”
The following year, The All-American Rejects toured heavily in the U.S. and made their first trip to South America to perform on the I Wanna Be tour with such bands as Simple Plan and A Day to Remember. At the end of 2024, the band recorded a cover of the 1997 Harvey Danger song “Flagpole Sitta” and released it through Spin Records. The band is now “inspired and creating new music,” says Wheeler. “It’s kind of been this little baby-step snowball that was set in motion two and a half years [ago].”
Listen to the entire interview with The All-American Rejects’ Nick Wheeler in the embedded Spotify player below, or go to Spotify, Apple Podcasts, iHeart, Amazon Music, Podbean or Everand.
Argentine pop princess and Billboard cover star Emilia is ready to take over the world. She sits down with Billboard to share her journey from humble beginnings to taking over Argentina, how being part of Rombai helped her solo career, the impact of ‘.mp3,’ her relationship with Duki, “Perdonarte ¿Para Qué?” with Los Angeles Azules becoming her first No. 1 on the U.S. Billboard charts, her preparations for her upcoming tour in Spain and more!
Emilia:
Before going on stage, to give me security and confidence, I tell myself, “I’m Rihanna, I’m Rihanna.” And I don’t know who told me, someone from my team, said now you need to say, “I’m Emilia, I’m Emilia, believe it.”
Jessica Roiz:
Emilia, I loved when you were doing the photo shoot. You came out empowered, confident, really secure. Have you always been like that? Or did it take you a while to get to that person?
Emilia:
I feel like I’ve always been hard-headed, always bossy, but I think security was being worked on over time.
Jessica Roiz:
I also loved when you were being styled and when we were at the photo shoot that you had a playlist with a lot of female rappers, you also had a lot of Y2K, Britney Spears, Beyoncé, Shakira. Talk to me about that playlist and why you like to listen to it?
Emilia:
Well, it’s music that I grew up with, a lot of them, because they inspire me, and when I listen to their music I get in a good mood, it boosts my self-esteem, it makes me happy, it makes my whole team dance, I dance. It creates a beautiful energy in the place and love comes out.
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Billboard is relaunching our ‘Billboard Live’ series that’s full of exclusive, intimate performances with up and coming talent that are the next big thing in music. The first episode goes live tomorrow, 2/25 at 1PM PST/4PM EST. Who do you think our first guest is? Drop your guesses in the comments below! Tetris Kelly: Billboard […]
Rihanna hasn’t released a new album since 2016’s Anti, and just as fans might have been giving up hope that we would ever get a new project, the superstar is pulling back the curtain in a new interview. Explore Explore See latest videos, charts and news See latest videos, charts and news On the latest […]
FLO is getting ready to go on tour in America for the first time, and the girl group spills how they’re preparing for their tour, working on Access All Areas, collaborating with GloRilla and Missy Elliott, touring with Kehlani and more! Will you be going to FLO’s tour? Let us know in the comments! Kyle […]