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It was no surprise that Jack White performed The White Stripes’ “Seven Nation Army,” a sporting anthem, during his halftime set on Thursday (Nov. 27) at the Detroit Lions’ annual Thanksgiving Day Classic at Ford Field.
The real surprise came with a guest appearance by fellow Detroit icon Eminem, who co-executive produced the event alongside his manager, Paul Rosenberg.
The superstar rapper, decked out in a hoodie and custom-made Lions jacket, electrified the sold-out crowd by joining White and his band halfway through their seven-minute set for a mashup of Em’s “Till I Collapse” with the White Stripes’ “Hello Operator,” a pairing that was sandwiched between White’s “That’s How I’m Feeling” and “Seven Nation Army.”
It was a first-ever onstage meeting between the two Detroit music standard bearers. It came in the wake of the White Stripes’ induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame on Nov. 8, and also coincided with the 10th anniversary of the opening of White’s Third Man Records location in his hometown. Eminem was inducted into the Rock Hall in 2022.
White played a blue guitar for the occasion, while his rhythm section sported Lions attire. “I love you Detroit,” the rocker shouted as the performance came to a feedback-drenched conclusion. More than 400 Lions season ticket holders who volunteered to be part of the show rocked along in front of the stage.
Eminem and White — who each created special limited edition merchandise related to the game and halftime show — were well represented before the performance as well. The Ford Field PA blasted “Seven Nation Army” shortly before the Lions took the field, and White’s “Taking Me Back” during the time-out music in the first quarter. “Till I Collapse” was featured as hype music prior to kickoff.
The show marked the first event in a new three-year partnership between the Detroit Lions, Burbank-based Jesse Collins Entertainment — known for producing previous Super Bowl halftime shows — and Eminem and Paul Rosenberg. Eminem and Rosenberg also collaborated with the Collins organization on the June 2024 concert celebrating the opening of Michigan Central, which also featured a performance by White.
JCE executive VP Seth Dudowsky told Billboard that conversations about Eminem and Rosenberg joining the production team began near the start of the NFL season, and once on board White quickly became a focal point of the Thanksgiving halftime discussion.
“We talked about how do we put on a show that really represents the attributes and values of the city and are true to the Lions and true to what Eminem and Paul had established there,” Dudowsky said. “When you talk about those elements and those values, Jack White was a perfect artist to… represent rock ‘n’ roll and be on that stage and somebody who not only spans Detroit, but anybody who’s been in stadiums and at sports events has heard [‘Seven Nation Army’] at some point.”
The Lions also launched a new initiative with Feeding America with Thursday’s game.
Adding to the day’s hometown flavor was Grammy-winning gospel singer CeCe Winans, a Detroit native who flew in that morning from Nashville to perform the National Anthem.
“It’s an honor,” Winans told Billboard at Ford Field. “I grew up with seven brothers and a dad, so the Lions game was on every year. There were 10 of us so we couldn’t get all those tickets, so we watched on TV. To be able to be here to do the anthem is a lot of fun, and honor and amazing.”
The Lions game against NFC North division rival Green Bay Packers was the first of three NFL Thanksgiving Day games.
Trending on Billboard Cynthia Erivo opened the 2025 Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade with a breathtaking performance of “Feeling Good.” Standing on a small circular stage accompanied by a pianist, the 38-year-old Wicked: For Good star launched the annual New York City event on Thursday (Nov. 27) with a moving rendition of the classic song, made […]
Trending on Billboard HUNTR/X brought KPop Demon Hunters to the 2025 Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade. The fictional K-pop girl group — voiced by EJAE, Audrey Nuna and REI AMI — made its daytime television debut during the annual celebration in New York City on Thursday (Nov. 27). Accompanied by a giant balloon of the blue […]
Prosecutors charged three men Wednesday (Nov. 26) with murder in the death of 22-year-old Maria De La Rosa, who was shot over the weekend while sitting in a parked car in Los Angeles.
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De La Rosa, a Latin artist who performs under the name DELAROSA, was with two other people Saturday morning in the neighborhood of Northridge when three men came up to the car and demanded money, prosecutors said. Then, prosecutors said, they fired multiple rounds, hitting all three occupants.
De La Rosa later died at a hospital. The two other victims suffered critical injuries, prosecutors said.
“This was a ruthless and targeted attack that stole the life of a young woman and artist and inflicted profound lifelong trauma on her family and the two survivors,” LA County District Attorney Nathan Hochman said in a news release Wednesday.
A 27-year-old man was arrested the same day, and another 27-year-old man was arrested the next day. An arrest warrant has been issued for the third man, a 21-year-old. Attorneys for the first two could not be reached for comment.
All are from Northridge and were charged with one felony count of murder and two felony counts of attempted second-degree robbery.
DELAROSA has more than 40,000 followers on Instagram and released a single in August called, “No Me Llames,” which in English translates to “Don’t Call Me.” Under her most recent post on Instagram, many people acknowledged and commented on her death, including Jimmy Humilde, a founder of record label Rancho Humilde.
Her final Instagram post also teased new music. “Ocupada cocinando en el Stu 🎶👩🏻🍳no me llames 🪄🪞🐩 Ya es tiempo… GAME TIME BABY,” she wrote in Spanish, which translates to “Busy cookin in the Stu. don’t call me. It’s about that time.”
Trending on Billboard Training season’s not over just yet. Dua Lipa stars in the latest campaign for NBCUniversal as she hypes the women of Team USA ahead of the 2026 Milan Cortina Olympic Winter Games. The British pop star struts through a winter wonderland in the snowy streets of Milan and shows off her polyglot […]
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Mumford & Sons fans, rejoice. The band will return to BST Hyde Park next summer for a huge homecoming show, a decade since their last headline performance there.
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The trio will headline the event on July 4, joined by their friends, the U.S. alternative rock outfit The War On Drugs. Additional acts on the bill will be revealed at a later date.
Tickets will go on sale on Dec. 4 via BST Hyde Park’s official website, while an artist presale will take place earlier in the week for those signed up to the Mumford & Sons mailing list.
“Hyde Park is woven into our story, it’s where so many memories were made. Coming back a decade later, with all this new music, feels incredibly special,” the band said in a statement. “London is and always will be the band’s home. We can’t wait.”
AEG Presents CEO Jim King added: “Mumford & Sons’ last Hyde Park show was a milestone for BST. Having them return at this moment in their career is something we’re incredibly proud of.”
Mumford & Sons graced BST Hyde Park stage, which returns to London’s Hyde Park each year, back in 2015 in support of their third record Wilder Mind. Prior to that show, they had supported Arcade Fire and played alongside The Vaccines at previous iterations of the event.
For 2026, the band are set to join a stacked BST Hyde Park line-up, which kicks off with country supernova Garth Brooks playing his first U.K. show in nearly 30 years on June 27. The summer classic will also see headline sets from Maroon 5 (July 3), Pitbull and Kesha (July 10), and Lewis Capaldi (July 11 and 12).
In the meantime, Mumford & Sons are gearing up their winter U.K. arena tour, which commences with a show in Newcastle this weekend (Nov. 29). They’ll hit up Leeds, Glasgow, Manchester, Sheffield, Birmingham and Cardiff along the way, before rounding out the leg with a double header at The O2, London (Dec. 10-11). The band are slated to release their sixth studio album Prizefighter on Feb. 13, 2026 via Island Records. The record will feature collaborations with Hozier, Gracie Abrams, Chris Stapleton and Gigi Perez, and follows their U.K. chart-topper Rushmere, released this past March.
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While many of us are kicking back, feet up and chomping down on roast turkey with all the trimmings, Bunnie Xo is on a different type of mission this Thanksgiving.
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Bunnie is knuckling down to help women escaping domestic violence.
The podcaster and her team are providing Thanksgiving dinner and care packages for women in transitional housing at the Mary Parrish Center, in search of a fresh start, a safer life.
“Thanksgiving is about giving back. And that’s exactly what we’re doing today,” Bunnie tells Extra.
Bunnie tells Extra she knows from experience how tough it can be out there. “Going through a situation personally around 2013 to 2016 with my own domestic violence relationship has just made this mission for myself,” she remarks, “even more of wanting to give back and wanting to be there for the women and the children that are going through this because I know how hard it is to get out.”
Now happily married now to country star Jelly Roll, Bunnie hasn’t forgotten those harrowing days, which she recounts in her new book “Stripped Down.”
As Thanksgiving approaches, Bunnie shared a stark image of spousal abuse — a photo of her with a swollen black eye. The intention of posting the shocking photo, she says, is “that women could see like, ‘Okay, she’s been where I’m at and she gets it.’ I want somebody that I can relate to, and I hope that these women know that I have been exactly where they are and I just want to lift them up and just make them feel so good and loved and know that they’re doing the right thing.”
She adds, “I just want them to keep going. Don’t ever look back. Smash the rearview mirror.”
Just a week ago, Bunnie put up her hand and confessed to some past errors of her own, which could result in jail time. Speaking on her Dumb Blonde podcast, the host admitted that she has to turn herself in to serve time for unknowingly driving for years with a suspended license, those issues apparently tying back to a minor driving incident from half a decade ago.
“I got my lawyer on it, whatever,” she explained. “It looks like your girl is gonna have to go book herself in. If I do — you guys have seen all my past mug shots — I’m going in glammed the f–k up, baby, and I’m going to vlog it.”
Watch the full piece on Bunnie’s Thanksgiving mission below on Extra, now in its 32nd with host Derek Hough.
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Billboard News went straight to the rides with some of the coolest artists at Camp Flog Gnaw 2025. Hang out with Malcolm Todd, Paris Texas, AG Club, Alemeda, PARTYOF2 and Deb Never as they joined us on the ultimate CFG adventure. Get a taste of those limited-edition burgers, watch the gravity-defying rides, and check out the best festival fashion. Which ride was the wildest? Watch to find out!
Jerah Milligan:
Who are you excited to see?
Alemeda:
I literally told my team, “Once Geezer goes on, I’m out.”
Partyof2:
Definitely Doechii, and I gotta see my fashion icon, bro, A$AP Rocky.
AGClub:
Childish Gambino for me. I’m so used to seeing him, but I never seen him live. I loved his music for a long time, like. I’m tryna see T-Pain.
Jerah Milligan:
Yo, I’m ready for both. And you know he has so much joy when he performs. He’s about to be spinning and s–t.
Partyof2:
After this interview I’m gonna run and see Teezo. I saw him walking out of his trailer with a like a BBL thing goin’ on with a, with a surge, like, I don’t know what he’s about to do. I’m so interested to see that.
Jerah Milligan:
What’s up, folks? It’s your boy Jerah here. I’m at Camp Flog Gnaw. I’m hype. It’s my first time being here. We’re talking to artists, your favorite artists’ favorite artists. We’re going on rides. We getting snacks. I’mma win this bear right now and I’m super hype. Let’s go. Yeah, y’all got me out here at Camp Flog Gnaw. Y’all had a good year, two albums a week apart. What was the idea behind that?
Paris Texas:
Uh, you know, just moving different.That’s it, is just moving different, that’s all we wanna do.
Jerah Milligan:
Now let me ask y’all though, that’s two albums. That’s a lot of songs. Y’all got, like, your favorite child on one of the albums?
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The estate of Johnny Cash has brought a lawsuit accusing Coca-Cola of illegally hiring a tribute singer to mimic the country legend’s voice in a college football advertisement.
The federal court complaint, filed on Tuesday (Nov. 25) in Nashville, is the first high-profile case to be brought under Tennessee’s recently enacted ELVIS Act. Effective last summer, the novel statute expanded the state’s right of publicity to explicitly protect a person’s voice from nonconsensual exploitation.
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The John R. Cash Revocable Trust, which manages the estate of the singer who died in 2003, takes issue with a new song in a Coca-Cola commercial that’s been airing during college football games since August. The lawsuit claims the voice behind the jingle sounds “remarkably” similar to Cash’s signature bass-baritone — and that, in fact, it’s the voice of a professional Cash tribute performer named Shawn Barker.
“Stealing the voice of an artist is theft. It is theft of his integrity, identity and humanity,” wrote a lawyer for the Cash estate, Tim Warnock of Loeb & Loeb. “The trust brings this lawsuit to protect the voice of Johnny Cash — and to send a message that protects the voice of all of the artists whose music enriches our lives.”
According to the lawsuit, the Cash estate regularly licenses out the legendary performer’s intellectual property. For example, his songs “Ragged Old Flag” and “Personal Jesus” have both been featured in Super Bowl telecasts. But the estate says Coca-Cola “never even bothered to ask the trust for a license” before using a voice soundalike in its commercial.
“This case arises from Coca-Cola’s pirating Johnny Cash’s voice in a nationwide advertising campaign to enrich itself — without asking for permission or providing any compensation to the humble man and artist who created the goodwill from which Coca-Cola now profits,” reads the complaint.
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The estate is asking for a court injunction that would take the ad off screens, plus financial damages for Coca-Cola’s alleged violation of Cash’s rights of publicity under the ELVIS Act. Damages are also sought for supposed violations of a Tennessee consumer protection statute and a federal law against false endorsements.
Coca-Cola did not immediately return a request for comment on Wednesday (Nov. 26). A rep for Barker, who is not a defendant in the lawsuit, told Billboard the tribute singer’s team was “thrilled when we were approached to have Shawn sing vocals for this commercial.”
“Shawn Barker has been performing with his Cash tribute ‘The Man in Black: A Tribute to Johnny Cash’ for over two decades, touring the world sharing his love of Johnny Cash’s music and stories with fans both old and new,” added Barker’s manager, Joey Waterman.
This is the first major lawsuit to take advantage of Tennessee’s new voice protections under the ELVIS Act, short for the Ensuring Likeness Voice and Image Security Act of 2024. It’s worth noting, though, that there is no allegation of artificial intelligence-powered voice mimicking in the Coca-Cola commercial, which Tennessee lawmakers were vocal about curbing when they expanded the state’s right of publicity law last year.
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Rather, the Cash estate’s lawsuit follows in the footsteps of historic litigation brought by artists over sound-alike singers mimicking their voices. Bette Midler famously sued Ford over a series of commercials featuring impersonator vocals in the 1980s, winning a precedent-setting victory that established voices as protectable rights of publicity in California.
Midler’s case limited these enforcement rights to the commercial advertising context — that is, advertisements that use a celebrity’s likeness to make it appear they’re endorsing a product. This same limitation applies to most laws in the patchwork of state-level publicity rights throughout the United States. However, the newly minted ELVIS Act is different: It expands liability so that one can sue any individual for trampling their publicity rights in Tennessee.
The Cash estate’s Coca-Cola lawsuit stays in the traditional commercial lane. But now that the ELVIS Act is in effect, it’s possible we’ll see more novel right of publicity lawsuits brought over soundalikes in recorded songs.
Rick Astley waded into this area in 2023, before the ELVIS Act was passed, by suing Yung Gravy for mimicking his voice in the rapper’s breakout hit “Betty (Get Money).” That case, which sparked debate about the commercial limits of publicity rights, settled before a judge could rule on its merits.
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Singer-songwriter Jackson Browne is mourning the loss of his son Ethan, who died Nov. 25 at age 52.
On Wednesday (Nov. 26), the singer-songwriter revealed the death of his son in a Facebook post, writing, “It is with deep sorrow that we share that on the morning of November 25, 2025, Ethan Browne, the son of Jackson Browne and Phyllis Major, was found unresponsive in his home and has passed away. We ask for privacy and respect for the family during this difficult time. No further details are available at this moment.”
Ethan Browne was born Nov. 2, 1973. He was known as a model, musician and an actor, with roles in the films Raising Helen (alongside actress/singer Kate Hudson), Hackers, and the television series Birds of Prey. As a musician, Browne also teamed with Cat Colbert to form the duo Alain Zane. They released the 2022 album Right Before Your Eyes and issued songs including “CA State of Mind” and “Kite.”
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In 1974, just six months after he was born, Ethan appeared with his father on the cover of Rolling Stone magazine.
Phyllis Major and Jackson Browne were wed in 1975; the following year, Major died at age 30 due to an overdose. Jackson Browne wed Lynne Sweeney in 1981 and they welcomed son Ryan in 1982; the couple divorced in 1983.
Jackson Browne is an eight-time Grammy nominee, with his 1977 album Running on Empty earning an overall album of the year Grammy nomination (the soundtrack to Saturday Night Fever would take home the trophy). Among Browne’s other Grammy nominations over the years are nods for best Americana album (Downhill From Everywhere) and best rock vocal performance, male (for “Boulevard”). As a songwriter, he’s seen artists ranging from the Eagles to Nico record his songs.
In 2004, Browne was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame by Bruce Springsteen. Three years later, Browne was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame. His 1980 album Hold Out topped the all-genre Billboard 200 chart, while he also earned top five albums on that same chart with 1976’s The Pretender and 1977’s Running on Empty. He earned top 10s on the Billboard Hot 100 with 1972’s “Doctor My Eyes” and 1982’s “Somebody’s Baby.” The latter was recorded for the soundtrack of the 1982 film Fast Times at Ridgemont High.
