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The Kid LAROI and Justin Bieber’s “Stay” has hit another milestone, as the music video for the viral hit reached one billion YouTube views. The milestone marks the Australian singer-rapper’s first entry to the Billion Views Club and the Canadian superstar’s 12th as a lead, featured artist or collaborator. In the clip, which was released […]
With Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival just around the corner, things are heating up in Indio, Calif. Lady Gaga, Green Day, Travis Scott and Post Malone are headlining the main Coachella stage at the festival taking place over the next two weekends, April 11-13 and April 18-20. Missy Elliott, Benson Boone, LISA, GloRilla, Tyla, Artemas […]
When Poolside stepped onto the Ocean Stage at San Diego’s waterfront CRSSD festival on March 2, it was unlike any show the longstanding SoCal outfit had ever played. The performance marked Poolside’s first since frontman and co-founder Jeffrey Paradise lost his Altadena home and all of his possessions in the Los Angeles wildfires two months […]
Alma Joselin Holguín, a 48-year-old lawyer from the Dominican Republic, went to the Jet Set nightclub on Monday (April 7) with her husband to watch Rubby Pérez in concert. She details the venue’s ambiance inside and the exact moment its roof collapsed. Both Holguín and her husband survived the tragedy. Here’s her story, in her own words, exclusively on Billboard.
It was a very joyful night. Rubby Pérez gave his 100%; I had never seen him perform before, and I wanted to see him because he has several songs that remind me of my teenage years. It was my second time, after almost 30 years of not going to Jet Set, and my husband’s first. The club started filling up around 10:40 p.m., and at one point there were up to 700 people. The truth is, that night Rubby had the crowd happy, dancing, singing. Everyone was enjoying the moment, taking selfies. The crowd was very happy.
I didn’t see anything unusual from where we were sitting. We were opposite of the stage, near a bar by the entrance and about 35 meters from an emergency exit. In fact, they offered us a VIP table near the stage, and we declined to avoid the large groups of people. We were just enjoying the concert from where we were. We didn’t feel the need to go near the stage or onto the dance floor because it was too crowded.
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The orchestra started playing around 11:38 that night, and after an hour, it was all over. Around 12:40 a.m., I was one of the first people to call 911. I got through right away, and I said, “The roof of the Jet Set just fell. It’s crushing everyone. Send all the ambulances you can!”
All in all, we weren’t hysterical at the time.
Jet Set Club survivor, Alba Holguín and her husband, at the Rubby Pérez concert moments before roof collapse.
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I remember there was a deathly silence, like a void in the air. The ceiling collapsed with a single blow, the entire roof fell with the irons, with the lights, it collapsed with everything! It landed at the same level as where we were sitting. It fell almost at our feet. I remember the dust rising, I remember that silence, and then the people screaming. The only thing I thought at that moment was, “My God, the ceiling fell on people!”
We had to unblock the emergency exit because they had chairs and tables blocking it—when they moved all that, a group of about 30 people managed to get out with us. I had no feelings at that moment; it was a mechanical thing: protect ourselves, sort things out, and leave.
Today I feel tired and burdened because I slept very poorly. Emotionally, I feel a certain gratitude, a certain peace for being alive. Sadness for everything that’s happening. I’ve tried not to watch too much news so as not to expose myself further emotionally. Yesterday and today I went to work, trying to make more sense of the fact that my husband and I were blessed with a protection that we believe is divine, and we came out without a scratch, without anything.
We’re trying to carry on with life as normally as possible because at the end of the day, it’s like feeling like I have a mission in life. I was blessed with the opportunity to bear witness. I survived a tragedy, and it was because of God’s love, a divine protection.
Keri Hilson has expressed regret over dissing Beyoncé on 2009’s “Turnin Me On (Remix).” The R&B singer stopped by The Breakfast Club on Wednesday (April 9) when she clarified what exactly went down with the remix to her top 15 hit and reflected on how the detrimental situation impacted her career.
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“It’s a regret,” she said matter-of-factly. “But not in the way people think. That’s a song I actually didn’t write. Those are not my words.”
When Hilson flew in for the studio session with producer Polow Da Don, whom she was signed to in a joint venture with Timbaland through Interscope Records at the time, he already had her impending verse penned by another writer (Ester Dean).
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“Your vision cloudy if you think that you’re the best/ You can dance, she can sing/ But she need to move it to the left, left,” Hilson sings on the 2009 remix while referencing Beyoncé’s “Irreplaceable.”
“Automatically, I was like, ‘I’m not saying that,’” she said when she first heard the Bey-dissing verse. “That was my position. I’m an athlete. I am competitive. But I’m not nasty, I’m a finesse player. I don’t look at things like that.”
Hilson claims that Polow Da Don threatened to sabotage her career as her In A Perfect World.. debut album was yet to be released.
“I tried to fight him on it and I began writing my own,” she added. “But he — I want to be careful with the word I use — it was quite forceful… The mistake that I made was not continuing to fight. But I was in tears, I was crying, I was adamant that I did not want to do that.”
The “Knock You Down” singer continued: “My album wasn’t out yet, I was told it’s not coming out if you don’t do this. I was super young. I felt I had no choice. I’m still protecting everyone involved. I’ve been eating that for years.”
“Turnin Me On” featuring Lil Wayne reached No. 15 on the Billboard Hot 100 as her debut album peaked at No. 4 on the Billboard 200.
Ester Dean came forward and issued an apology on Wednesday (April 9) for penning Hilson’s verse on the “Turnin Me On” remix, which she called “childish.” She wrote: “I see how it hurt people, especially women, and I take full accountability.”
In 2021, Hilson had a weight lifted off her shoulders when the singer revealed that she had a positive conversation with Beyoncé surrounding the track and finally cleared the air.
“I feel like she understood what happened, what had transpired and there was a bit of healing in that moment when we met,” Hilson said to host Persia Nicole. “I take her as a very intuitive kind of soul, as am I. She’s amazing. I’ve always felt that way, that’s the truth of the matter, but no one will believe that.”
Hilson is entering a new era and coming off the release of her “Bae” single. Look for her We Need to Talk album to arrive on April 18.
Watch the Keri Hilson interview below. Talk of the Bey diss begins around the 25-minute mark.
What is Frank Ocean up to? The multi-hyphenate man of mystery recently sent fans into a tizzy with what the kids are calling his supposed finsta account (@kikiboyyyyyyy), which features a profile picture of Michael Jordan holding up three fingers that can be interpreted as Ocean hinting at his third album (and before you react, […]
Weezer bassist Scott Shriner’s wife Jillian Shriner, a.k.a. Jillian Lauren, was involved in a police shoot-out after an unrelated Los Angeles car chase, the Los Angeles Police Department confirmed Wednesday (April 9). A preliminary LAPD statement indicated that around 3:25 p.m. PT Tuesday, the California Highway Patrol requested backup for a hit-and-run incident, in which three […]
Over the course of his first three albums, Morgan Wallen has notched Billboard Hot 100 No. 1 hits and crafted projects with sprawling, 30-song-plus track lists. He’s notched hit collabs with Eric Church (“Man Made a Bar”), Post Malone (“I Had Some Help,” from Post’s F-1 Trillion album) and Ernest (“Cowgirls”). But he has yet to release a collaboration with a female artist.
That seems likely to change on his upcoming album, I’m the Problem, out May 16.
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On X, Wallen responded to a comment from Patrick R Thomes, who wrote, “@MorganWallen, please, please, PLEASE confirm ‘What I Want’ is a duet. You haven’t yet sang with any female artists on any of your first three albums, so PLEASE tell me this is the case.”
Wallen responded simply, “Indeed sir,” seeming to confirm there will be a collaboration with a woman artist on the project, though Wallen offered no other details. Fans swarmed the comments section, speculating on the possibility of a range of artists, including Lainey Wilson, Ella Langley and Megan Moroney. Another name mentioned was Miranda Lambert, with whom Wallen co-wrote the One Thing at a Time standout “Thought You Should Know.” The pair performed the song together as a duet for the first (and so far only) time at Wallen’s Knoxville, Tennessee, concert in September.
During a previous story with Billboard in 2023, Wallen said that though he hadn’t released a coed duet yet, he had made attempts at such a collaboration, saying, “I’ve reached out to a couple of people, and they’ve turned me down. … I just really want certain people, and I haven’t gotten the chance to do it yet. I’m going to keep trying to write songs for it or write with them.”
He also added at the time that he “would love” to write with more women artists and songwriters, but noted that he most often revisited his “little squad” of frequent co-writers “because I’ve just been slammed, and when I’m not on the road, I’m spending time with my son or hunting. I haven’t really wanted to branch out much just because I needed to keep myself sane.”
Indeed, the writers on some of the songs he’s already released from the upcoming album — “Love Somebody” and “Lies Lies Lies” — are many of his longtime collaborators, including HARDY, Hunter Phelps, ERNEST, Ashley Gorley and Ryan Vojtesak.
HANA‘s “ROSE” blasts in at No. 1 on the Billboard Japan Hot 100, on the chart released April 9.
HANA is the seven-member group born from the BMSG x Chanmina girl group audition No No Girls. The brand-new group’s major-label debut single launched with 12,870 downloads (No. 2 for the metric) and 8,781,853 streams (also No. 2), while topping video views and coming in at No. 17 for radio airplay. Also, HANA’s pre-debut song “Drop” jumped 68-29 as a result of this release.
Mrs. GREEN APPLE’s “Lilac” continues to hold at No. 2. The Oblivion Battery opener has charted for 52 consecutive weeks (a year), and marks its 37th week in the top 3. The three-man band’s new single “KUSUSHIKI,” the opening theme song for the anime series The Apothecary Diaries Season 2 Part 2 debuts at No. 6 on the Japan Hot 100 this week, ruling downloads and coming in at No. 14 for streaming and No. 4 for video. The hitmakers continue to make their presence felt, taking up half the top 10 this week — “Darling” at No. 5, “Que Sera Sera” at No. 8, “Soranji” at No. 10 — and charting 18 songs in the top 100.
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AKB48’s “Masaka no Confession” bows at No. 3. The 65th single by the long-running girl group celebrating its 20th anniversary sold 512,791 copies in its first week to rule physical sales and came in at No. 45 for radio.
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Sakanaction’s “Kaiju” drops a notch to No. 4. The previous record for longest consecutive run in the top 10 by the three-man, two-woman band led by frontman Ichiro Yamaguchi was seven weeks with “Shintakarajima,” and “Kaiju” has now tied this record. “Shintakarajima,” the band’s hit from 2019, has re-entered the Japan Hot 100 for the first time in about 4 years and 10 months, with streams up to 101% compared to the previous week, radio to 239%, and video to 104%.
The No. 1 song for the radio metric this week is BILLY BOO’s “Rhapsody,” featured as the ending theme song for the anime show The Dinner Table Detective, and the track debuts at No. 77 on the Japan Hot 100. Meanwhile, as songs about cherry blossoms continue to climb the charts, Aimyon’s “Sakura ga Furu Yoru wa” re-enters after a year with streams gaining by 111%, radio by 308%, karaoke by 107%, and video also showing increase from the week before.
The Billboard Japan Hot 100 combines physical and digital sales, audio streams, radio airplay, video views and karaoke data.
See the full Billboard Japan Hot 100 chart, tallying the week from Mar. 31 to April 6, here. For more on Japanese music and charts, visit Billboard Japan’s English X account.
Ava Max is leaning into the art of reverse psychology ahead of the release of her new music, which the singer cleverly teased via a fake petition posted online Wednesday (April 9).
The premise was simple: On her social media accounts, Max shared a photo of herself with her face half-painted in theatrical makeup along with a link to a website called “DontClickPlayOnAvaMax.com.” She also posted a picture of a roadside “Don’t Click Play on Ava Max” billboard.
Once on the site, visitors were shown a “Sign the Petition” button, which, upon being clicked, rather than taking people to an actual online petition, gave the option of listening to a snippet of Max’s new song via Apple Music, Spotify or email. On the unreleased track, the vocalist sings over an angelic swell of synths, “I don’t need nobody, I’m loving myself/ Tonight, it’s all about me, it’s good for my health/ I know how to please me, I don’t need no help/ Nobody can love me like I’m loving myself.”
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The unorthodox promotional tactic comes about two months after the dance-pop star dropped her latest single, “Lost Your Faith,” which followed October’s “1 Wish.” Max last dropped an album in 2023, with sophomore effort Diamonds & Dancefloors debuting at No. 34 on the Billboard 200 — only after its release was delayed due to the musician struggling with people leaking her music, a problem she recently said she’s facing again.
“ok yes I have a lot of demos I’ve written that are not finalized records, and I’d appreciate it if you stop leaking these records,” she wrote on her Instagram Story in January. “A lot of records I write do not ever see the light of day and I understand your frustration, but this is not right. I write a lot of records I wish I could put out … I will find out who did this. Like I usually do. So plz Stop.” A
She added at the time, “I’ve never posted about this since the leak of my second album prematurely. Plz respect my art so I can keep working on making the songs I wanna put out that make sense for my project, and who I am perfect for you.”
See Max’s “Don’t Click Play” campaign below.