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Someone pour Shaboozey up a double shot of whiskey, because he’s continuing to dominate the charts with “A Bar Song (Tipsy),” seven months after its release. The smash hit is at No. 1 for a 17th total week atop the Billboard Hot 100. Over the chart’s 66-year history, the song is now the longest-leading No. 1 […]
Three weeks after Liam Payne‘s shocking death, the Jonas Brothers appeared to pay tribute by performing One Direction’s “Night Changes” at the siblings’ concert in Highland, Calif., on Sunday night (Nov. 11).
Standing in a line onstage at Yaamava’ Theater, Nick, Joe and Kevin gave the song a delicate touch — the “Jealous” singer sharing lead vocals with the DNCE frontman while strumming dual electric guitars with the eldest Jonas brother. “We’re only gettin’ older, baby/ And I’ve been thinkin’ about it lately/ Does it ever drive you crazy/ Just how fast the night changes?” the trio sing as the crowd joined in.
At the end of the tune, Nick sang part of the last line — “It’ll never change….” — before pointing to the audience to finish it for him. “… for me and you,” fans delivered before applauding.
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The moment was inevitably full of unspoken emotions, as it comes as many in the music world — and certainly those who were close to Payne — continue to process the loss of the “Strip That Down” musician. On Oct. 16, the ex-boy band star fell to his death from the third-story balcony of his hotel in Buenos Aires, with toxicology reports later determining that he had “alcohol, cocaine and prescription antidepressants” in his system when he died.
Police are still investigating the events that transpired leading up to the fall and detained three people in connection to the case this month. They were charged with abandonment of a person followed by death and the supply and facilitation of narcotics, according to the National Criminal and Correctional Prosecutor, but one of them — 24-year-old waiter Braian Nahuel Paiz, who claims to have partied with the star the night of his death — recently publicly denied that he’d given Payne drugs.
Payne is survived by a son, Bear, whom he shares with ex Cheryl Cole. Many of the X Factor alum’s friends and family posted messages of grief in the days following his death, including all four of his former One Direction bandmates: Harry Styles, Niall Horan, Zayn Malik and Louis Tomlinson. In a separate full-band statement, the foursome wrote, “We are completely devastated … We will take some time to grieve and process the loss of our brother, who we loved dearly. The memories we shared with him will be treasured forever.”
Watch the Jonas Brothers cover “Night Changes” below.
Machine Gun Kelly and Megan Fox’s family is about to get bigger. On Monday (Nov. 11), the actress surprised followers with the announcement that she’s pregnant with her first baby with the rapper-turned rocker — almost exactly a year after she opened up about suffering a miscarriage with her partner.
In a characteristically gothic photo posted to Fox’s Instagram, the Jennifer’s Body star poses naked, covered head-to-toe in black liquid while cradling her belly. She also shared a black-and-white snap of her positive pregnancy test.
“nothing is ever really lost. welcome back 👼🏼❤️” Fox captioned the shots, tagging MGK so that his name appears right over her belly when on taps on the photo.
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Billboard has reached out to the stars’ reps for comment.
While their baby on the way will be their first together, Fox and Kelly are already parents to children from previous relationships. The “My Ex’s Best Friend” musician welcomed daughter Casie with ex Emma Cannon in 2009, while the Transformers alum shares sons Noah, Bodhi and Journey with ex-husband Brian Austin Green.
MGK and Fox first started dating in 2020. In January 2022, they got engaged, but sparked breakup rumors in February 2023 when the actress posted a seemingly pointed Beyoncé lyric to Instagram — “You can taste the dishonesty/ it’s all over your breath.” She later clarified, “There has been no third party interference in this relationship of any kind.”
In March of this year, Fox confirmed that their engagement had been called off. “I think, as of now, I don’t have a comment on the status of the relationship, per se,” she told Call Her Daddy‘s Alex Cooper at the time. “What I can say is [he] is what I refer to as being my ‘twin soul’ and there will always be a tether to him, no matter what.”
Fox also previously opened up about experiencing a pregnancy loss amid her relationship with MGK in November 2023, a painful topic she explored in her poetry book, Pretty Boys Are Poisonous. “I want to hold your hand / hear your laugh,” she wrote in the book. “But now / I have to say / goodbye.”
“I’ve never been through anything like that in my life,” Fox reflected on the passages to Good Morning America at the time. “I have three kids, so it was very difficult for both of us and it sent us on a very wild journey together and separately…trying to navigate, ‘What does this mean?’ and ‘Why did this happen?’” she recalled.
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Blake Shelton and Yellowstone creator Taylor Sheridan are teaming up for a new singing competition series. CBS announced the series, with the working title The Road, for fall 2025 on Monday (Nov. 11).
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The series puts a different spin on the typical talent competition setup, with singers joining a yet-to-be-announced headlining artist on tour, and performing as opening acts in venues throughout the country. The singers will compete to win local fanbases to secure a spot in the next city and remain on the tour.
The series aims to offer viewers a backstage pass into the life of a touring artist, with access to the behind-the-scenes workings of the music industry, as viewers see what happens with rising artists pile into a tour bus and contend with a grueling schedule as they chase their musical ambitions.
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Shelton and Sheridan are both executive producers on the series, as well as Lee Metzger and David Glasser.
“I’m a big fan of Taylor’s incredible work, and I’m excited to team with him and my long-time collaborator, Lee, on The Road,” said Shelton in a statement. “I know a thing or two about singing competitions and what it’s like to chase a music dream and live life on tour. I’m looking forward to discovering new talent and giving them this platform.”
“There is a revolution taking place in country music. Building a platform with Blake for the next leaders of that revolution is an incredibly exciting venture,” Sheridan added. “No more shiny floors and studio audiences. This is where the rubber meets the road – literally. Get in the van, go to the next town and win the crowd. Do it enough, and you become the next leader. Simple as that.”
Shelton previously spent 23 seasons as a coach on the hit singing competition series The Voice and starred in the series Barmageddon, in addition to his ongoing career as a 29-time Billboard Country Airplay chart-topping country artist. Shelton recently teamed with Post Malone for the three-week No. 1 Country Airplay hit “Pour Me a Drink.” Sheridan, in addition to his work on Yellowstone, is known for shows such as 1883 (featuring country artists Tim McGraw and Faith Hill), 1923, Mayor of Kingstown and The Last Cowboy.
The Road is produced by MTV Entertainment Studios, Glasser’s 101 Studios with Shelton and Metzger’s Lucky Horseshoe Productions (Shelton and Metzger serve as executive producers for Lucky Horseshoe Productions). Metzger previously worked with Shelton on both The Voice and Barmageddon.
“This project has been a true labor of love that Taylor, Blake, Lee and I have been talking about for some time now,” Glasser said. “I can’t thank CBS enough for supporting us on this journey to bring an incredible project to audiences everywhere.”
“Blake and I have been working together a long time and now joining forces with Taylor and David is literally the kind of team you dream about to bring something of this scale to country music fans,” added Metzger.
Jason Sudeikis is now an honorary member of Public Enemy — and the same could be said about Flavor Flav regarding the Backstreet Boys.
At this year’s Thundergong! charity concert in Kansas City Saturday (Nov. 9) — an event hosted by the Ted Lasso star to benefit Steps of Faith — the rapper wowed the crowd with a smooth performance of “I Want It That Way” as well as teamed up with Sudeikis for an on-point performance of the hip-hop group’s “Bring the Noise.” In one video from the night posted by Flav Monday (Nov. 11), he and a group of friends take the stage to sing the 1999 smash.
Bopping up and down to the beat, the hip-hop star intently sings the boy band’s iconic lyrics: “Tell me why/ Ain’t nothin’ but a heartache/ Tell me why/ Ain’t nothing but a mistake.”
In other clips from the show, Flav and Sudeikis wear matching snapbacks on stage while bopping up and down to the intense beat of Public Enemy’s 1991 track. With the rapper getting the crowd fired up, Sudeikis impressively nailed every single lyric, spitting, “Never badder than bad cause the brother is madder than mad/ At the fact that’s corrupt as a senator/ Soul on a roll, but you treat it like soap on a rope/ ‘Cause the beats and the lines are so dope.”
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“TURN IT UP,,, cuz we BROUGHT THE NOISE,!!! WOOWWW,” Flav wrote, sharing a video of the duet on Instagram. “Jason Sudeikis got down like that and was absolutely incredible,!!”
The next day, Flav and the comedian attended the Kansas City Chiefs game at Arrowhead Stadium — as did the hip-hop star’s friend Taylor Swift.
This year’s Thundergong! featured a number of other notable performances, including Weird Al Yankovic and Will Forte singing Chappell Roan’s “Hot to Go” for the crowd — choreography and all. At another point in the evening, Sudeikis and his kids — son Otis and daughter Daisy, whom he shares with former partner actress Olivia Wilde — joined him onstage to help scream the background vocals of Billie Eilish’s “Happier Than Ever,” most of which the We’re the Millers star performed as a passionate solo.
Every year, Thundergong! raises money for Steps of Faith’s mission to provide for amputees in need of prosthetic care. Sudeikis — who organizes and hosts the annual event with the charity’s founder Billy Brimblecom Jr. — told Billboard in 2021 that he recruits many of his real-life friends to serve as guest performers each year: “Working at [Saturday Night Live] for 10 years, we had everybody coming through … What we’re looking for is someone we’re super excited about as fans, but also has like a vibe of our friends … It’s something you try to be discerning about because you want people coming in with the right heart space.”
Watch Flavor Flav perform “I Want It That Way” and rap with Sudeikis below.
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Lance Bass is one of the many boyband members and associates featured in the upcoming Larger Than Life: Reign of the Boybands documentary, which dives deep into the genre’s history and influence. In a new clip shared exclusively with Billboard on Monday (Nov. 11), the *NSYNC star shares a glimpse of how often a young […]
Karol G gave a lengthy response Monday (Nov. 11) to the criticism her new song “+57” — featuring J Balvin, Feid, Maluma and other Colombian acts — as it faces backlash over lyrics that some have construed as sexualizing minors.
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Her post comes four days after dropping the reggaetón track, which brought together Colombia’s biggest hitmakers, also including Ryan Castro, Blessd and newcomer DFZM. Produced by Ovy on the Drums — Karol’s longtime producer — and co-written by Keityn, the song, even before it dropped, was being labeled as a new anthem for Colombia.
But shortly after it was released on Thursday (Nov. 7), the song’s lyrics received criticism online, with some people pointing out its over sexualization of minors. (In one line, they mention a woman who’s been a “mamacita,” or “hot mama,” since she was 14 years old.) Rolling Stone En Español published a column titled “The Disaster of +’57′” and the Instituto Colombiano de Bienestar Familiar (ICBF) issued a statement saying that the song “reinforces the sexualization of children in our country” and that it “does not contribute to our fight against commercial sexual exploitation of children and adolescents.”
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Karol wrote in her Instagram Stories that as artists, they are exposed to public opinion and that the song’s lyrics were taken out of context. She began her message by pointing out that she has always been grateful for her fans’ support and those who “know my project, the intentions of my work and the causes close to my heart, those that move me, that I am passionate about and for which I work every day with love and responsibility,” she continued. “I do care about my people and I am a person that every day I look for ways to get involved in projects where I myself can extend my blessing and impact in a positive way the lives of many people.
“As artists, we are exposed to public opinion, and to the individual interpretations of people who like us and people who differ with what we do. I feel a lot of frustration for the misinformation that has been given, about the false posts that I have supposedly made and deleted from twitter, an account that I have not used for more than six months. In this case, unfortunately, the lyrics of a song, with which I sought to celebrate the union between artists and put to shine my people … were taken out of context. None of the things said in the song have the direction they have been given, nor was it said from that perspective but I listen, I take responsibility and I realize that I still have a lot to learn. I feel very affected and I apologize from the bottom of my heart,” she added. It’s worth noting that Karol doesn’t sing the line about the “14 year old,” but rather some of the men on the track, yet she’s the one apologizing.
Feid, Balvin and Ovy on the Drums have all reposted Karol’s post in solidarity. “Queen, we are with you,” Balvin wrote. “You have given us so many wins that this doesn’t take away from your greatness, we’re here unconditionally.”
Karol ended her post once again thanking her fans for “their unconditional love and support.” She concluded, “I value it very much, and the artists who participated with me in the song, I keep in my heart the beautiful energy with which we worked that day.”
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