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Trending on Billboard After going big and weird this year, “Weird Al” Yankovic is going even Bigger & Weirder again next year. In a cinematic Instagram video (watch below), the parody song superstar announced the dates for the next chapter of his ongoing tour on Monday morning (Nov. 17), which is slated to kick off […]
6ix9ine’s Florida home was reportedly the target of a home invasion on Sunday night (Nov. 16). According to TMZ, Tekashi’s mother was held against her will as four masked gunmen ransacked the residence while looking for keys to his cars and cash around the house. Police officers responded to a robbery-in-progress call at 6ix9ine’s home, […]
Trending on Billboard This is partner content. Billboard along with Live Music Summit presenting partner VENU awarded Khalid with the first Disruptor Award at this year’s event. After the summit, some of the industry’s top executives gathered for a Music & Money Dinner where they enjoyed food, custom cocktails, and a thought-provoking conversation lead by […]
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Five Finger Death Punch extends its record No. 1 streak on Billboard’s Mainstream Rock Airplay chart (dated Nov. 22), while BABYMETAL becomes the first Japanese act to top the survey.
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“The End,” Five Finger Death Punch’s latest radio single, featuring Japanese rockers BABYMETAL, ascends 2-1 to become the former’s 17th leader and 13th in a row, the lengthiest streak in the ranking’s history, which dates to 1981.
The run began in 2018 with “Sham Pain” and includes two leaders in 2025 alone, with “The End” preceded by the one-week reign of “I Refuse,” featuring Maria Brink, this July.
With 17 rulers, Five Finger Death Punch maintains its standing as the act with the third-most Mainstream Rock Airplay No. 1s.
Most No. 1s, Mainstream Rock Airplay:21, Shinedown19, Three Days Grace17, Five Finger Death Punch14, Foo Fighters14, Metallica13, Disturbed13, Godsmack13, Linkin Park13, Van Halen
“The End” was initially recorded for the Ivan Moody-led band’s 2022 album AfterLife and was redone for this year’s BEST OF (Volume 2) release, which introduced re-recordings of Five Finger Death Punch hits.
As for BABYMETAL, the band becomes the first act, lead or featured, from Japan to top Mainstream Rock Airplay. While it’s also the first act based on the Asia continent to rule the ranking, it has two colleagues in some regards; Asking Alexandria was originally formed in the United Arab Emirates before an early move to England, while System of a Down began in the United States but three of its four members were born abroad (Serj Tankian and John Dolmayan in Lebanon to Armenian parents, Shavo Odadjian in Armenia), while its fourth, Daron Malakian, was born in the U.S. to Armenian parents.
Concurrently, “The End” rises 19-17 on the all-rock-format, audience-based Rock & Alternative Airplay chart with 2.5 million audience impressions, up 16%, in the week ending Nov. 13, according to Luminate.
All Billboard charts dated Nov. 22 will update on Billboard.com tomorrow, Nov. 18.
Trending on Billboard Ariana Grande is going for a Saturday Night Live three-peat, with the sketch comedy series announcing Monday (Nov. 17) that she’ll soon be returning to 30 Rock for her third time helming an episode. Coming just over a year after the Wicked star last hosted SNL, the next Grande-led episode will air […]
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Ariana Grande had an important member of her real-life family to lean on for inspiration after joining the Focker clan: her late grandmother, who the pop star says has things in common with her Focker-in-Law character, Olivia.
While speaking to Variety on Sunday (Nov. 16) at the 2025 Governors Awards, Grande was asked to confirm rumors that she plays a “ballbuster” in Focker-in-Law. Hitting theaters next year, the film will serve as the fourth installation in the Meet the Parents saga.
“She is, she can be that way,” the singer-actress replied, laughing. “But she’s a really good girl.”
When asked whether she’s also a “ballbuster” in real life, Grande replied, “I’m Italian, so technically, yes, I’m like that.”
“My Nonna was a ball-buster,” she added affectionately.
Grande’s grandmother died at the age of 99 in June. She was a beloved figure in the Wicked star’s fanbase, and by guesting on her granddaughter’s Eternal Sunshine track “Ordinary Things,” Nonna became the senior-most artist to ever chart on the Billboard Hot 100.
Details of Focker-in-Law have largely been kept under wraps, but Grande will star alongside Ben Stiller, Robert De Niro, Owen Wilson, Teri Polo, Blythe Danner and Skyler Gisondo in the project. After filming wrapped in October, the R.E.M. Beauty founder gushed on Instagram, “these past few months have been so, so unimaginably special. i love my Fockers, and i love my Byrnes… so, so very much. i will miss this bunch terribly.”
Stiller has also previously praised Grande, telling Jimmy Fallon earlier in November, “It’s crazy how talented [she is] … She’s so great with comedy. She’s amazing in Wicked and she’s such a good singer, obviously, too.”
Focker-in-Law is one of several screen projects Grande has taken on since shifting her career to include more acting post-Wicked. She will also lend her voice to Jon M. Chu’s animated film adaptation of Dr. Seuss’ Oh, the Places You’ll Go!, and soon, she’ll make her debut in Ryan Murphy’s American Horror Story, reuniting with her “We Can’t Be Friends” music video leading man Evan Peters and former Scream Queens costar Emma Roberts.
Of AHS, Grande told Variety that she only knows “a little tiny bit” about what’s in store for season 13.
“I am coming into the world in a way that I don’t know much about yet,” she revealed. “But I think I’ll probably have a very tiny thing to do in it, but I’ll be grateful to be a part of it because I love everyone involved.”
Watch Grande chat about Focker-in-Law, her Nonna and AHS below.
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Nicki Minaj confirmed that she will be speaking at an upcoming event with U.S. Ambassador Mike Waltz about the alleged religious persecution of Christians in Nigeria.
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Time magazine correspondent Eric Cordellessa broke the news regarding Minaj and Waltz’s event slated for Tuesday (Nov. 18).
“U.S. envoy to the UN @michaelgwaltz and rap superstar @NICKIMINAJ will deliver remarks early this week on the persecution of Christians in Nigeria,” he wrote on Sunday (Nov. 16). “The unexpected collaboration was arranged by Trump advisor @AlexBruesewitz, who will also speak at the Tuesday event.”
Waltz called Minaj “arguably the greatest female recording artist” and a “principled individual” who has refused to “remain silent in the face of injustice.”
“I’m grateful she’s leveraging her massive platform to spotlight the atrocities against Christians in Nigeria,” he added. “And I look forward to standing with her as we discuss the steps the President and his administration are taking to end the persecution of our Christian brothers and sisters.”
The Young Money rapper responded to Waltz on X, explaining that she will “never stand down in the face of injustice.”
“Ambassador, I am so grateful to be entrusted with an opportunity of this magnitude,” she replied. “I do not take it for granted. It means more than you know. The Barbz & I will never stand down in the face of injustice. We’ve been given our influence by God. There must be a bigger purpose.”
Ambassador, I am so grateful to be entrusted with an opportunity of this magnitude. I do not take it for granted. It means more than you know. The Barbz & I will never stand down in the face of injustice. We’ve been given our influence by God. There must be a bigger purpose. 🎀 https://t.co/Mdh0nBWwm1— Nicki Minaj (@NICKIMINAJ) November 17, 2025
Earlier in November, Minaj responded to Trump’s comments regarding Christianity “facing an existential threat” in Nigeria.
“Reading this made me feel a deep sense of gratitude. We live in a country where we can freely worship God. No group should ever be persecuted for practicing their religion,” she wrote. “We don’t have to share the same beliefs in order for us to respect each other. Numerous countries all around the world are being affected by this horror & it’s dangerous to pretend we don’t notice. Thank you to The President & his team for taking this seriously. God bless every persecuted Christian. Let’s remember to lift them up in prayer.”
Reading this made me feel a deep sense of gratitude. We live in a country where we can freely worship God. No group should ever be persecuted for practicing their religion. We don’t have to share the same beliefs in order for us to respect each other. Numerous countries all… pic.twitter.com/2M5sPiviQu— Nicki Minaj (@NICKIMINAJ) November 1, 2025
Nigeria’s population of 220 million is split about evenly between Christians and Muslims. Trump previously said he planned to add the West African nation to the list of “Countries of Particular Concern” and has threatened to take military action against the nation.
“If the Nigerian Government continues to allow the killing of Christians, the U.S.A. will immediately stop all aid and assistance to Nigeria, and may very well go into that now disgraced country, ‘guns-a-blazing,’ to completely wipe out the Islamic Terrorists who are committing these horrible atrocities,” the president wrote on Truth Social.
A Nigerian presidential spokesman told The Associated Press that the U.S. can not “carry out any military operation” in Nigeria over the claims of religious persecution of Christians. Spokesman Daniel Bwala added that this is “Trump’s style of going forceful in order to force a sit-down and have a conversation.”
The Associated Press also found that location plays a heavier factor for murder victims rather than the individual’s religion in Nigeria. “There is no systematic, intentional attempt either by the Nigerian government or by any serious group to target a particular religion,” Information Minister Idris Muhammed told The Associated Press, while downplaying reports of religious persecution.
Similarly, over the weekend a group of prominent white Afrikaners in South Africa pushed back against what Trump has claimed is a “white genocide” in the majority black nation under the “Not in Our Name” banner. They refuted Trump’s repeated claims that the nation’s minority group is facing an “existential threat” as his administration has prioritized resettling white South Africans over refugees from other war-torn nations fleeing well-documented persecution and threats to their lives.
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Disney+ dropped the two-and-a-half minute trailer for the upcoming refresh of The Beatles Anthology series. The beloved documentary chronicling the formation, fame and frenzy surrounding the Fab Four — which was originally broadcast in 1995 in the U.S. and U.K. before being released on video — will make its streaming debut on the service beginning Nov. 26.
The first three episodes will drop that day, followed by parts 4-6 on Nov. 27 and episode 7-9 on Nov. 28. The series has been restored and expanded from eight to nine episodes, including a new ninth ep featuring what a release promised was, “illuminating and previously unreleased footage of Paul, George and Ringo during the creation of the original 1990s Anthology series and music project.”
The series follows John Lennon, Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr and George Harrison as they look back on the legendary band’s eight-year rise to global superstardom, with the Disney+ version slated to feature a new restoration of the footage and a sound mix overseen by the Apple Corps production team working in conjunction with director Peter Jackson’s Park Road Post crew in Wellington, New Zealand.
The trailer opens with the voice of Lennon describing the origins of the group. “I met Paul and said, ‘do you want to join me band?’… Then George joined. Then Ringo joined,” he says. What follows is a whirlwind tour through the group’s early years, with Ringo explaining, “We’ve heard it from everybody else, now you can hear it from us” as archival footage has Lennon lamenting, “the demand on us was tremendous.”
The clip then takes us from a series of high points, the group’s legendary Feb. 1964 Ed Sullivan appearance that launched a million bands to the first-ever major stadium rock show at New York’s Shea Stadium in 1965, which was followed by a second show at Shea that Starr completely forgot about. “I thought we only played there once,” Starr says. “How was it?”
The new ninth chapter finds the then living members — McCartney, Starr and Harrison — regrouping in 1995 to work on the first “new” Beatles song since the group’s split in April 1970, “Free as a Bird.” In addition to the original doc series, The Beatles Anthology project included a four-volume set of double albums (which also contained another “new” song “Real Love”) as well as 2000 coffee table book.
“Nothing will ever break the love we have for each other,” says Lennon, who was murdered by a crazed fan outside his New York apartment building on Dec. 8, 1980. “The Beatles exist without us,” adds Harrison, who died in 2001 of cancer at age 58.
Watch The Beatles Anthology trailer below.
Trending on Billboard Bella Hadid is keeping it one hundred about her love for Taylor Swift‘s biggest The Life of a Showgirl hit. In a recent TikTok, the model kneels on a sandy beach with a friend and does some of the viral choreography to “The Fate of Ophelia,” smiling as she mouths along to […]
Trending on Billboard The 26-year-old Australian man who charged at Ariana Grande in Singapore has been sentenced to time in jail, according to reports. After going viral last week for jumping the barricade at the Asian premiere of Wicked: For Good and grabbing ahold of the pop star, Johnson Wen will now spend nine days […]
