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18 Mar 2024

Billboard Hot 100 Top 10 Countdown For March 23rd | Billboard News

New entries enter the Hot 100 top 10 with Drake and Ariana Grande, Benson Boone and Teddy Swims hit new highs and we crown a new No. 1. This is the Billboard Hot 100 top 10 for the week dated March 23rd.

Tetris Kelly
With Ariana Grande’s new album out and monster tracks from Beyoncé and Teddy Swims, who’s going to end up on top? This is the Billboard Hot 100 for the week dated March 23rd.

Back in the top 10 is “Yes, And?”.

Zach and Kacey slip two spots to No. 9 as Tate McRae falls to No. 8.

4Batz and Drake blast from No. 61 to No. 7.

Beyoncé is down to No. 6.

“Lovin’ On Me” is in at No. 5.

Ye and friends fall from No. 1 to No. 4.

“Beautiful Things” is up a spot to No. 3.

While Teddy Swims stays locked in at No. 2.

And with the release of Eternal Sunshine, Ariana Grande grabs her ninth No. 1 with “We Can’t Be Friends.”

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15 Mar 2024

Reneé Rapp Honored at GLAAD, New Music From *NSYNC, Cardi B & More | Billboard News

It’s Friday, March 15th and there’s a ton of new music to run through. Justin Timberlake’s new album “Everything I Thought It Was” is finally here and *NSYNC is featured on a track. Cardi B keeps giving us new music. The rapper released her new song “Enough (Miami)” and is featured on Flo Milli’s “Never Lose Me” remix with SZA. Meghan Trainer dropped a new collab with T-Pain, titled “Been Like This” and more. Ye took over Rolling Loud LA with his ‘Vultures’ listening party and had a few special guests. Reneé Rapp and Oprah were honored at the GLAAD Awards and more!

Tetris Kelly
We take you inside Ye’s Rolling Loud set, catch up with YK Osiris, Billboard brings you to the GLAAD Media Award. We’re backstage with Karol G and Maren Morris and run down all the hottest new track it’s Friday, March 15. This is Billboard News, I’m Tetris and this has been the best week ever. We have so much to get through today. But let’s get this thing jumped off with brand new music. Justin Timberlake return is here and he’s brought the boys of *NSYNC with him.

Chris Kirkpatrick
You know, I wrote this song and as soon as as soon as I played it, he goes this is a *NSYNC song. It’s just basically an ode to the fans and to each other.

Tetris Kelly
And so very many new tracks today, so we will be giving you more, but let’s talk about Rolling Loud. We’ll be there all weekend and last night one of the most elusive artists of our time kicked things off. And King of Rolling Loud Ye was, he took over LA’s Rolling Loud night one with his’Vultures’ listening party and tons of special guests. We take you there in Billboard’s All Access.

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15 Mar 2024

Maren Morris On Why It’s Important To Take Care Of Yourself | Billboard Women In Music 2024

Maren Morris says she would have told her younger self to take care of herself and “to take a break” backstage at Billboard’s Women In Music 2024.

Maren Morris
Some advice I would give to my younger self would be, give yourself a break and know that it’s okay that not everything happens to you at all at once. It’s, sometimes it’s not your turn. And sometimes it’s someone else’s. And the next one you might get or maybe the next one. I think for we’re in such a rat race of constantly like accumulating successes and medals and wins and stats and streams and views. I feel like it’s really tough to take it back here and realize why your seven year old self fell in love doing this in the first place. And you know, you’re the one that cares about this the most so I mean, not your mom, not your manager, not your co writers like you are the one that cares the most about it. And so you have to take care of the vessel that holds all of that and so, give yourself a break.

15 Mar 2024

Karol G Talks Creating Her Music Videos, Life on Tour & More | Billboard Women In Music 2024

Our Woman of The Year, Karol G, opens up about being a night owl, what life on tour is like, talks through her creative process and more backstage at 2024 Billboard’s Women In Music.

Karol G:
Hey everyone, this is Karol G and here are five things that you don’t know about me, musically.

Okay, one, I have my phone full of voice notes like really strange about me talking about videos, strategies, things that I want to do, a lot of voice notes about music. I record myself like singing and doing the instrumentals and doing like everything with my voice so those are like really crazy to hear, but they’re really good.

Okay, number two! I love to write stories for videos that maybe I will never do. I have like a bunch of stories of videos that I will love to do and I think I find the right songs for every story of videos that I have.

Number three, my most creative moment in life is like maybe after 2 am, in the morning, until 6 am in the morning. I’m a really nighty person, night person. I don’t know, nighty?

I am a night person. My ideas and my creativity usually comes at night. I don’t sleep
very well because of this.

Number four. My days. A Karol G show day is a very heavy day. I have a lot of things to do. I am not able to get on stage if I don’t do sound check, I have to stretch so I can go out there and crush it without injuring anything, I have to prepare my voice so I can sing well and get all dressed up. So a show day is a day of full of work.

And number five is that this is the first time a Latina has won Women of the Year. I am very excited. I’m very excited and that is something that you don’t know about me and now you know!

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15 Mar 2024

YK Osiris Gets Real About His Relationship Status, Talks Upcoming Collabs & More | Billboard News

Up-and-coming R&B singer YK Osiris talks about his new single “Time Goes By,” why he wanted to perform the song live, when the music video is coming out, his first EP, his upcoming collabs with DeJ Loaf and Tyga, his upcoming singles “Woozy” and “Soul Ties,” gets real about where his relationship status is, how he feels about being an independent artist now and more!

Catrise J
Well, everyone he’s not a rapper.

YK Osiris
No I’m not a rapper, I wish I can rap though. Can you rap?

Catrise J
You know if you ever need a feature…

YK Osiris
What’s up, it’s your boy YK Osiris and you’re watching Billboard News

Catrise J
Hey everyone its your girl Catrise J here with Billboard News and we got YK Osiris in the building. How are you doing?

YK Osiris
Doing good, how you doing?

Catrise J
I’m good, I’m blessed that you’re here.

YK Osiris
I’m blessed that I’m here.

Catrise J
You have some exciting news for us, something coming soon. What do you have to share?

YK Osiris
EP coming out.

Catrise J
I’m very excited, what is there to come? What’s the title of the EP?

YK Osiris
So I got a couple of features on there. The name still trying to title it’s, yeah, I’m trying to really piece it together but I know for sure it’s coming soon.

Catrise J
That’s so exciting. So I want to talk about the evolution of your sound and your music. What is this new you?

YK Osiris
It’s elevated, like this I feel new, I feel great like, I just I feel like this I’m back in the music space in the studio every day making crazy music. I just put out “Time Go By.” I’m just loving this space that I’m in right now loving myself, loving my art, surrounding myself with the right people, so I’m loving it.

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14 Mar 2024

*NSYNC Reunited, Dua Lipa Announces New Album, Cardi B Loses A Tooth & More | Billboard News

*NSYNC reunited at Justin Timberlake’s one-night-only show in Los Angeles. The group performed a few hits and their new track ‘Paradise’ which will be featured on Timberlake’s upcoming album ‘Everything I Thought It Was.’ Dua Lipa announced that her new album ‘Radical Optimism’ will be out May 3rd. Lil Nas X is set to collaborate with Skaiwater. Cardi B accidentally loses a veneer after taking a bite out of a bagel. And more!

Tetris Kelly
JT reunited *NSYNC on tour and Billboard was on the scene. Dua announces an album, Lil Nas X gains a collab and Cardi loses a tooth. We’re backstage with Katy Perry and Kylie Minogue. We run down the TikTok Billboard Top 50. We sit down with Morat.

Tetris Kelly
Happy Thursday friends I’m Tetris Kelly for Billboard News. It’s March 14th, and I still cannot believe what I witnessed last night at Justin Timberlake’s concert. You know Billboard is giving you all the access.

Chris Kirkpatrick
It was us singing and we’ve done that together. And we just fall right back into it when we’re together.

Tetris Kelly
*NSYNC is back and we can’t believe it doesn’t in the boys took over the Wiltern last night and we take you there and Billboard All Access

Tetris Kelly
It was Justin Timberlake’s one night only concert at the Wiltern and he dipped into new tracks from his new album and his classic hits.

Tetris Kelly
And the crowd went crazy when he invited R&B Star Coco Jones to join him on stage for “ICU.”

Tetris Kelly
And then our lives were changed forever. Justin reunited all the guys of *NSYNC and they did “Bye Bye Bye.”

Tetris Kelly
and “It’s Gonna Be Me.” And debuted their brand new track “Paradise” that will be featured on his album.

Watch the full video above!

14 Mar 2024

Crowded House’s Neil Finn on New Single ‘Oh Hi’ & Its Joyous Videos

Crowded House‘s new single, the perky “Oh Hi,” is an ode to the possibility in children, the band’s co-founder and leader, Neil Finn, tells Billboard’s Behind the Setlist podcast. 

Finn’s lyrics — they begin with “Every child is a mystic, having visions of a new dawn” — were inspired by his experience with the nonprofit organization So They Can, which provides education for thousands of children in East Africa. “It’s sort of about the joy of observing children, being part of their story, creating a good environment for them, then actually getting a lot back [in return] from that,” he says.

The band released an official charity video for “Oh Hi” that features children from one of those schools, Aberdare Ranges School, dancing and singing along to the song. It’s one of 51 schools supported by So They Can in Kenya and Tanzania. The organization aims to support 500 schools and 400,000 students, the video’s YouTube page explains, and hopes to get 1 million people to donate $1 per month.

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“Oh Hi” also has a traditional, official video that’s quirky and equally joyous as the charity video. The video captures an anonymous child — with Finn’s singing head attached to his body — strutting and dancing around a New York City neighborhood. Finn got the idea watching his grandson’s “uncoordinated” dancing style. “It occurred to me that no adult would dance like that,” he says. “So there would be some good humor…to pop my head on [him].” 

Because Crowded House members reside across the globe, “Oh Hi” and the rest of Gravity Stairs (out May 31 through BMG) was recorded over the last few years during sessions fit into the band’s touring schedule. Bass player Nick Seymour lives on the west coast of Ireland. Finn’s son Elroy, the band’s drummer, lives in London. Guitarist and other son Liam Finn and keyboardist Mitchell Froom live in Los Angeles. Finn himself resides in his home country of New Zealand. “We’re testing the theory of how far apart you can be in a band and still be really united,” he says. 

In February, “Oh Hi” was transformed for a live performance, backed by an orchestra and background singers, on BBC 2’s Piano Room show. Rather than perform as a full band, only Finn and Seymour performed — with Finn on piano — to better complement the orchestra and the arrangement prepared by friend Victoria Kelly.

“It’s live and we only got to run through the thing with two rehearsals,” he says of the BBC 2 taping. “So you’re on the edge of your seat. But there was something really beautiful about it and I think it turned out well. Any song should be able to be redefined. That song is destined to be redefined quite a few times because I’m sure when we get on stage it’s going to be another transition.” 

Listen to the entire interview with Neil in the embedded player below or listen at Spotify, Apple Podcasts, iHeart or Amazon Music. 

14 Mar 2024

Kylie Minogue Gives Her Best Advice to Her Younger Self | Billboard Women In Music 2024

Australian pop star Kylie Minogue emphasizes the importance of one’s own uniqueness when giving advice to her younger self backstage at Billboard’s Women In Music 2024.

Kylie Minogue
Some advice I would give my younger self would be that there is one you. You may want to be a better you. I think you need to accept the you that is not ideal or doesn’t, you know, live up to your expectations all the time. We are all one of a kind and we are works in progress.

14 Mar 2024

AMEX Vice President Mary Ellen Jelenek Presenting Impact Award to Young Miko & More | Billboard Women in Music 2024

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14 Mar 2024

Ye & Ty Dolla $ign’s ‘Carnival’ Spends Second Week Atop TikTok Billboard Top 50 | Billboard News

Concurrent with its rise to No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100, “Carnival,” from Ye (formerly known as Kanye West) and Ty Dolla $ign, and featuring Rich the Kid and Playboi Carti, spends its second week at No. 1 on the TikTok Billboard Top 50 posting March 14th.

Tetris Kelly:
“Carnival” holds the top spot, while a bunch of new tracks debut in the top 10. Ye and Ty Dollar $ign spend a second weekend at No. 1 on the TikTok Billboard Top 50 for the chart posting March 14.

The rest of the top five is full of familiar tracks: Bryson Tiller’s “Whatever She Wants” lands at No. 8 because it’s been used for any and every trend. Cardi B’s first track in a while, “Like What (Freestyle),” debuts at No. 10.

Every Thursday, Billboard will bring you the verified list of the hottest songs on tick tock by monitoring music discovery and engagement on the platform in the United States. To find the TikTok Billboard Top 50 each week, users can simply go to any sound detail page and tap the top right button to access the charts page.