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Luke Bryan has heard the jokes before. So when Jennifer Hudson asked him about their mutual friend and fellow country singer Blake Shelton on her syndicated talk show on Friday (April 18), American Idol judge Bryan had to first issue her a stern warning.
“I could recommend you not be his buddy,” Bryan said after Hudson gushed about her pal and former judge on The Voice. “I could steer you in other directions,” Bryan added, before giving up the bit and saying he was just kidding.
“Is it true that sometimes people get y’all mixed up,” she asked. “It is very true really,” Bryan began saying as Hudson threw up two handsome side-by-side images of the men on the screen behind her, noting that the confusion might be coming about because both country stars are “so lovable.”
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“Well, I like that, but I’m a little mad at how Blake’s eyes look so purty right there… I gotta get me some blue eye… things,” Bryan laughed before telling a story about a time he and his 14-year-old son Tate stopped to get some snacks for the boat before going on a fishing trip. “So Tate’s over there buying his Sweet Tarts and all that stuff and the guy behind the counter is like, ‘You’re Blake Shelton.’ And I said, ‘really?’ And he said, ‘I know it, you’re Blake, you’re Blake.’ And he goes, ‘Are you Blake?’”
Bryan said he assured the man he wasn’t the “Purple Irises” singer, then asked what made him think he was. “He goes, ‘well, you’re just Blake Shelton’s doppelganger.’ And he kept going on and there were several people in the line and my son’s sitting there watching this go down,” Bryan said. “And he goes, “‘Well, there’s no way you’re Blake, because Blake wouldn’t be here shopping at this gas station.’”
So, Bryan gathered up his purchases and got ready to leave as the man looked at him and added, “‘Could you imagine having Blake Shelton’s money?’ You know, I didn’t want to go into it that I have more money than Blake…” Bryan also said that people in the little town where he lives and goes fishing know he’s around there a lot and that they probably let the cashier know afterwards that he’d misidentified the singer.
“But my son just had a blast with it,” Bryan said. “Because your children are always watching how you handle the good part of fame, and some of the other stuff of fame. So a couple days later we were at a restaurant and this guy walks up and he looks at Tate and he goes, ‘Well how old are you little buddy?’ And Tate’s like, ’12.’ And the guy walks off and I’m like, ‘Tate, why did you tell the guy you’re 12? You’re 14.’ And he goes, ‘that guy don’t need to know everything about me.’”
Watch Bryan on the Jennifer Hudson Show below.
Most of the time, Jelly Roll has a happy wife, happy life. But when he does this one thing, Bunnie XO definitely isn’t having it.
While guesting on The Jennifer Hudson Show Friday (April 18) alongside American Idol judge Luke Bryan, the “Son of a Sinner” singer revealed that a certain bad habit of his drives his spouse crazy. “I feel bad for her,” Jelly began.
“I have this problem I do where I leave a trail of clothes from the front door to the shower,” he continued, laughing, as people in Hudson’s audience groaned. “Everybody’s like, ‘We hate you.’ I just heard women shake their fists at me. I know — I’ve been trying to break this habit, y’all! It annoys her to no end.”
The revelation is far from the first time Jelly and Bunnie have been open about the ins and outs of their relationship. The musician and podcaster are currently trying to expand their family through IVF treatments — a challenging process on which Bunnie in particular has been keeping fans updated — and in March, the Dumb Blonde podcast shared something about her husband that’s been driving her wild in a good way: his chest hair.
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For the “Drunk on You” crooner’s part, he says wife Caroline Boyer can’t stand when he snores — much less when he leaves dirty spoons lying directly on tables in their home. Bryan — who’s a judge alongside Carrie Underwood and Lionel Richie on this season of Idol, meanwhile Jelly is the show’s first-ever judge in residence — also joined the “Need a Favor” musician in confessing to Hudson their most embarrassing onstage moments.
“I pooped myself one time,” Jelly said frankly. “I did, I’m sorry. I was coughing, and it was all there … I’m so sorry, I just watched this crowd go from loving me to just completely out. I overshared again.”
For the record, Jelly isn’t the only star who’s done so. Joe Jonas has also shared that he once put a little more trust than he should have in what he thought was just gas passing through during a concert — and on Hudson’s talk show, Bryan joked, “My problem is I didn’t really get embarrassed by it when I did it,” sending Jelly into fits of laughter.
Watch Jelly and Bryan open up to Jennifer Hudson below:
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Stevie Nicks is working on her first new solo album in 14 years. The legendary Fleetwood Mac singer and solo star shared the news during her induction into the Pollstar Hall of Fame on Wednesday (April 16). “I’m actually making a record right now,” Nicks said in her induction speech.
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“I call it the ghost record. It just really kinda happened in the last couple of weeks because of, you know, the fires,” she said in seeming reference to the devastating Los Angeles wildfires earlier this year, during which she was displaced. “I was sitting in a hotel for 92 days, and at some point during that last part of the 92 days, I said, ‘You know what? I feel like I’m on the road, but there’s no shows. I’m just sitting here by myself because everybody else is at the house, doing all the remediations and everything, and it’s just me, sitting here.’ And I thought, ‘You need to go back to work.’ And I did.”
Nicks, who was inducted by longtime friend and former producer Jimmy Iovine, said she’s already written seven songs for the album, a follow-up to her seventh solo LP, 2011’s In Your Dreams. She described them as “autobiographical, real stories where I’m not pulling any punches for probably the first time in my life. They are not airy-fairy songs that you are wondering who they’re about but you don’t really get it. They’re real stories of memories of mine, of fantastic men!”
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Nicks, 76, recently announced a run of summer and fall solo shows she’ll embark on in between stadium gigs with old friend Billy Joel. The tour will kick off on Aug. 12 in Boston and include shows in Toronto, Saint Paul, MN, Cincinnati, Columbus, Tampa, Phoenix and Las Vegas before winding down in Oklahoma City on Oct. 15.
The news about new music comes seven months after Nicks dropped the moving single “The Lighthouse,” a women’s empowerment anthem inspired by the Supreme Court’s overturning of the landmark Roe v. Wade abortion ruling.
Watch Nicks discuss the album below.
Def Leppard and Mötley Crüe are teaming up for a hard rock destination festival in Riviera Maya, Mexico this winter. The legendary hard rock groups will set up shop from November 7-9 for the Rock the Tides fest, which will also include sets from Poison singer and solo performer Bret Michaels, Extreme, the Struts, Buckcherry, […]
The New Pornographers have “immediately” severed ties with drummer Joe Seiders after the longtime member of the rock collective was arrested in Palm Desert, CA for possession of child pornography.
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According to a press release from the Riverside Sheriff’s office, Seiders was arrested after officers were dispatched to investigate a report of suspicious activity on April 7 at a Chick-Fil-A restaurant, where an 11-year-old boy told officers that an unknown man had recorded him on a cell phone while he was using the bathroom. Two days later, police said an employee at the same restaurant reported that the man was seen entering and exiting the restroom with juvenile males.
“Believing the male was the suspect from the previous incident, law enforcement was contacted. Upon arrival, deputies located the suspect, identified as 44-year-old Joseph Seiders of Palm Desert, and took him into custody,” read the release. After an investigation, officers served search warrants on Seiders’ residence, vehicle and cell phone, where they reportedly found evidence implicating Seiders in both incidents and “additional crimes,” which they said included possessing child pornography.
Seiders was booked into the John Benoit Detention Center in Indio, CA for possession of child pornography, annoying/molesting a child, invasion of privacy, and attempted invasion of privacy. At press time a spokesperson for the band had not returned Billboard‘s request for additional information on the incident.
In a statement on Instagram, the band wrote, “Everyone in the band is absolutely shocked, horrified and devastated by the news of the charges against Joe Seiders — and we have immediately severed all ties with him. Our hearts go out to everyone who has been impacted by his actions.”
Seiders joined the Canadian indie power pop supergroup — which formed in Vancouver in 1997 — in 2014, joining charter members singer Neko Case, singer/guitarist Carl Newman and bassist John Collins. He appeared on their 2017 album Whiteout Conditions, as well as 2019’s In the Morse Code of Brake Lights and 2023’s Continue as a Guest, as well as their recent single “Ballad of the Last Payphone.” The drummer is being held at the Larry D. Smith Correctional Facility with bail set at $1 million and is scheduled to make his first appearance in court on Tuesday (April 22).
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Lady Gaga is seeing renewed success on Australia’s charts this week, as her latest album Mayhem rockets back into the ARIA Top 10 following her much-talked-about Coachella appearance and the ongoing rollout of her Australian stadium tour.
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Mayhem climbs from No. 14 to No. 6 on the ARIA Albums Chart, boosted by the pop icon’s high-energy set at Coachella and a surge in demand tied to her recently announced Aussie tour dates. The album originally debuted at No. 1 last month, and this latest jump marks its fourth week in the chart’s upper echelon.
Earlier this month, Gaga announced her return to Australia with The Mayhem Ball, her first tour of the country in more than a decade—and her first stadium dates Down Under. After quickly selling out her initial shows in Melbourne, Brisbane and Sydney, a second Melbourne and Sydney date was added on April 16 due to overwhelming demand. The five-date run kicks off Dec. 5 at Marvel Stadium in Melbourne and wraps Dec. 13 at Accor Stadium in Sydney.
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The tour promotion, paired with Gaga’s Coachella performance and social media buzz, has sparked renewed interest in the Mayhem project. The album, led by the global No. 1 single “Die With a Smile” (with Bruno Mars), has spent multiple weeks in the Top 10 worldwide, including a 15-week reign atop the Billboard Global 200.
Gaga’s resurgence on the ARIA chart comes amid a strong week for Aussie acts: hip-hop trio Bliss n Eso debut at No. 1 with The Moon (The Light Side)—their fourth chart-topper—while Australian Idol winner Marshall Hamburger lands at No. 50 with The Idol Collection, marking the first time since 2009 that an Idol champ has entered the Top 50 upon season close.
Meanwhile, on the ARIA Singles Chart, Alex Warren notches a fourth consecutive week at No. 1 with viral hit “Ordinary,” and Gaga and Mars’ “Die With a Smile” rebounds into the Top 5, climbing from No. 9 to No. 4.
With Mayhem back in the Top 10 and her Australian stadium shows selling fast, Gaga’s momentum in the region is only continuing to build, with a final tour date added to Sydney earlier this week.
Lana Del Rey fans have received a fresh taste of her new era, with “Bluebird” arriving as the latest preview of her forthcoming record.
Dropping just a week after “Henry, Come On” gave fans their first insight of what to expect from Del Rey’s self-described “country” record, “Bluebird” has ostensibly further confirmed that her sonic shift won’t be one steeped in the standard trappings of a country record.
Much like its predecessor, “Bluebird” is another soaring piece of emotional introspection from Del Rey, as she pairs softly-plucked acoustic guitars with stirring strings and her trademark reverb-laden vocals. Written alongside Luke Laird, and featuring production from Drew Erickson, it’s a dream team of country and folk at play, and provides further indication that Del Rey’s upcoming record is set to be another high point of her career.
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Currently, however, it’s unclear just when that new record will arrive – or what fans will be specifically asking for at record stores. Initially teased under the name Lasso in early 2024 and given a September release date, the 13-track record was later given a fresh moniker by way of The Right Person Will Stay and an updated release date of May 10.
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Following the release of “Henry, Come On,” Del Rey has since told fans her forthcoming 10th album is once again subject to a sense of mystery. “You know it’s not going to come on time, right?” she explained on April 11. “Should I even tell you that the name changed again? Should I tell you that now, while you’re so happy that you even have a song? Yeah, maybe I’ll wait.”
A late album is nothing new for the beloved singer, as her three most recent projects — Did You Know That There’s a Tunnel Under Ocean Blvd, Chemtrails Over the Country Club and Blue Banisters — were all delayed for various reasons.
Del Rey is currently scheduled to perform at Stagecoach on April 25, with a series of dates slated to follow across the U.K. throughout June and July. She’ll return to the U.S. in the summer for a performance at Iowa’s Hinterland Music Festival on Aug. 3.
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Tommy Richman and Sexyy Red are “Actin Up” together on the new remix that dropped on Friday (April 18).
“Bend it over, shake that a–, show that print/ Clean a– bi—, smell good, I ain’t got no scent/ Everybody lookin’, I’m the baddest in this b—h/ Got some booty shorts on, coochie fat, I’m feelin’ thick,” she raps on her verse.
Richman originally released “Actin Up” in February via Brent Faiyaz‘s ISO Supremacy and Pulse Records. “Actin Up,” which employs a steel drum pattern similar to that of Soulja Boy’s 2007 pop-rap smash “Crank That,” arrived months after his debut studio album, COYOTE. The 11-track project included the Billboard Hot 100 No. 2 hit “Million Dollar Baby” and “Devil Is a Lie,” which hit No. 2 on Rhythmic Airplay.
“This is a big record, but this s–t doesn’t define me,” he told Billboard about “Million Dollar Baby” in his Chartbreaker interview last June. “I’m using this as ‘We’re here. We arrived.’ Not as ‘We made it!’ This is the start of a run.”
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The Woodbridge-based artist is currently on the Coyote Tour, with a handful of upcoming international stops left in Berlin, Amsterdam, Brussels, Paris and London.
On the other hand, Redd has released a handful of singles this year, from “Fat Juicy & Wet” with Bruno Mars, “YN” with PlaqueBoyMax, BabyChiefDoit, LAZER DIM 700 and Baby Kia, and “Hoochie Coochie.” The St. Louis rapper rang in her 27th birthday earlier this week with Justin Bieber, her “WHATCHU KNO ABOUT ME” collaborator GloRilla and more at The Players Club.
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Davido released his fifth studio album, 5ive, on Friday (April 18) via Davido Music Worldwide, RCA Records and Sony Music UK. The 17-track project includes previously released singles “Awuke” with YG Marley, “Funds,” featuring Odumodublvck and Chike, and “Be There Still,” and it includes more collaborations with Victoria Monét (“Offa Me”), Shenseea and 450 (“R&B”), […]