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In a new trailer for Paramount+’s new film Dear Santa, Post Malone dances with the devil — literally.
The two-minute teaser released Thursday (Nov. 7) opens with a young boy named Liam (played by Robert Timothy Smith) addressing a letter to Santa. However, as the narrator explains, he’s a “crappy speller” and accidentally writes “To: Satan” instead. Once summoned, the devil — played by a bearded Jack Black with pointy horns — promises to grant Liam three wishes.
But there’s a catch. “By the way, after you make your wishes I’m taking your soul,” Black tells his new companion. “Let me show you a few of the things I can do for you.”
One of those things, apparently, is getting Liam into the backstage area of a Post Malone concert, where the “Psycho” musician — seemingly under Black’s spell — greets the young fan like an old friend before inviting both Liam and Satan to join him on stage during the show. In addition to shots of Posty hamming it up for the crowd with the two main characters showing off their lasso dance moves, Black also introduces the little boy to gambling at a casino, making “snow angels” in a pile of cash and playing beer pong.
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Dear Santa is set to premiere on Paramount+ Nov. 25. The cast also features Keegan-Michael Key, Brianne Howey, Hayes MacArthur, P.J. Byrne, Jaden Carson Baker and Kai Cech.
The movie isn’t the first onscreen project Posty has lent his star power to, with the 10-time Grammy nominee previously appearing in Road House, Wrath of Man and Spenser Confidential. Earlier this year, he also made a cameo in Jennifer Lopez’s This Is Me… Now: A Love Story.
The star’s latest film will arrive just a few months after his most recent album, F-1 Trillion, which debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200. He’s also fresh off of a video of the year win at the 2024 VMAs thanks to his part in Taylor Swift’s visual for their “Fortnight” duet, which spent two weeks at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100.
Watch the Dear Santa trailer featuring Post Malone below.
BLACKPINK‘s ROSÉ was almost taken down by the spicy wings on Hot Ones, but not before she could deliver a final message to someone very important in her life — her dog Hank.
Appearing on an episode posted Thursday (Nov. 7), the singer found her body turning against her as the series’ famously intense hot sauces got increasingly spicy. Her nose started running, she couldn’t help but let out several screams of anguish and she furiously struggled to quell the pain with ice cream and ice cubes before joking that the wings were “going to kill me.”
After coming to that realization, ROSÉ looked into the camera and shared some heartfelt “last words” with her beloved canine, whom, she explained earlier in the video, was named after actor Tom Hanks. “Hank, I love you so much,” she said as off-camera violins swelled and a photo of the dog appeared onscreen. “I hope I survive this, but if I don’t ever see you again, I love you — just know that.”
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Of course, the New Zealand native did make it out of the Sean Evans-hosted series alive, but not before admitting: “This is hurting my ego … I thought I’d be better.” Elsewhere in the clip, ROSÉ spoke about her “raw and honest” upcoming debut solo album rosie and explained what unites her and BLACKPINK bandmates JENNIE, JISOO and LISA.
“The one thing that’s so strong about BLACKPINK is the fact that each one of us, we want such big things for ourselves and we work so hard everyday,” she said on the latter subject. “I’ve never seen someone that’s just like, ‘I just want to rest.’ Even if we’ve said that before, I don’t think anyone means that. BLACKPINK is really hardworking.”
Ahead of rosie‘s Dec. 6 release date, ROSÉ and Bruno Mars dropped a single titled “APT.” in October. The track has since spent two weeks at No. 1 on the Billboard Global 200 and peaked at No. 8 on the Billboard Hot 100.
As the star explained to Evans, “APT.” was inspired by a Korean drinking game of the same name. “It’s one of many drinking games, but that seemed to be the one that all my friends in the studio were like vibing to,” ROSÉ said on Hot Ones. “I was like, ‘Huh, this is interesting’ … I was really lucky enough to have Bruno jump on it. Craziest experience of my life.”
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After the 2024 presidential race was called for Donald Trump on Wednesday (Nov. 6), plenty of people flocked to social media looking for catharsis. One such person was singer-songwriter Maren Morris, who decided to give those people something to listen to. In a post to her Instagram Stories on Wednesday night, the “Push Me Over” […]
TOMORROW X TOGETHER dropped the colorful video for the English-language version of their latest single, “Over the Moon (Our Sanctuary ver.),” on Thursday (Nov. 7). In it, the six-member K-pop boy band embark on a road trip — under the full moon, naturally — with SOOBIN, YEONJUN, BEOMGYU, TAEHYUN, and HUENINGKAI spreading love and good […]
Yeah Yeah Yeahs’ “Maps” tops the TikTok Billboard Top 50 for a fifth week, while social media stars A.J. & Big Justice snag their first top 10 on a Billboard chart with “We Bring the Boom!” on the Nov. 9-dated ranking.
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The TikTok Billboard Top 50 is a weekly ranking of the most popular songs on TikTok in the United States based on creations, video views and user engagement. The latest chart reflects activity from Oct. 28-Nov. 3. Activity on TikTok is not included in Billboard charts except for the TikTok Billboard Top 50.
“Maps” leads Alphaville’s “Forever Young” and Akon’s “Akon’s Beautiful Day” at Nos. 1-3, respectively, maintaining a hold on the top three that’s persisted for the past three weeks (while the top two has remained intact for even longer, a four-week run).
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The rest of the chart’s top 10, however, sees movement – including TikTok stars’ A.J. & Big Justice’s “We Bring the Boom!,” which jumps 15-7 in its second week on the tally. The father-and-son duo’s catchphrase-addled theme song was uploaded to streaming services in early July, with remixes adding new verses from affiliated stars like The Rizzler coming last month.
It’s the latter that drives the lion’s share of the activity for “We Bring the Boom!,” with a dance trend highlighting The Rizzler’s verse among the most-engaged-with uploads in recent weeks. A.J. & Big Justice’s original dance to the song also continues to trend on the platform.
In the tracking week ending Oct. 31, “We Bring the Boom!” earned 434,000 official U.S. streams, a boost of 33%, according to Luminate.
Ahead of “We Bring the Boom!,” The Cramps’ “Goo Goo Muck” leaps into the top five of the chart for the first time, lifting 9-4. The 1981 track from the band’s album Psychedelic Jungle sports a yearly gain around Halloween these days, particularly after its synch in the 2022 Netflix series Wednesday, but this year it scores additional prominence thanks to a trend where a creator is running from a serial killer or some sort of danger, only to turn back around (and often beginning to disrobe) when learning that their pursuer is attractive.
“Goo Goo Muck” earned 1.9 million streams in the week ending Oct. 31, with its gain of 126% also attributable to general Halloweentime jumps.
Two songs debut within the top 10, led by 21 Savage and Metro Boomin’s “Runnin,” which debuts at No. 5. The Savage Mode II track, released in 2020, benefits from a photo collage-based trend involving misdirection (example: “he didn’t like my red hair, so I went brown,” but the user choosing a new significant other who has brown hair).
“Runnin” is up 4% in the Oct. 25-31 tracking week to 2.7 million streams. It debuted and peaked at No. 9 on the Billboard Hot 100 in October 2020.
A brand new song in Tyler, the Creator’s “Like Him” joins “Runnin” in the TikTok Billboard Top 50’s top 10, debuting at No. 6. It’s one of 14 new songs from the rapper’s album Chromakopia released Oct. 28, with “Sticky” also joining it on the latest survey at No. 50.
“Like Him” is driven by a TikTok trend featuring edits showing often complicated relationships between children and their parents, fictional or otherwise, while others use the tune to make comparisons between athletes past and present.
The Lola Young-featuring song debuts at No. 45 on the Hot 100, as previously reported, via 12.4 million streams in its first four days of availability.
And while the latest TikTok Billboard Top 50 is inundated with Halloween-themed material (Crystal Knives and Lex Allen’s “Spooky, Scary Skeletons” ranks at No. 11, while The Party Cats’ “This Is Halloween” cover shows up at No. 25, some users got a head start on the Christmas season, as Mariah Carey’s “All I Want for Christmas Is You” bows at No. 17, followed by Wham!’s “Last Christmas” at No. 48. Carey’s holiday standard reigned for two weeks last year, while “Last Christmas” peaked at No. 2.
See the full TikTok Billboard Top 50 here. You can also tune in each Friday to SiriusXM’s TikTok Radio (channel 4) to hear the premiere of the chart’s top 10 countdown at 3 p.m. ET, with reruns heard throughout the week.
Young Thug has a new lease on life after being released from jail last week on a plea deal, and he’s thankful for attorneys like his lawyer Brian Steel.
Thugger made a virtual special guest appearance over FaceTime during Steel’s Emory Law School class lecture on Wednesday (Nov. 6), where he was preaching the importance of defense attorneys, as videos online show.
“We had a situation that was daunting towards my life and I think that the justice system could be bad,” Thug said to the group of students while reflecting on his 700-plus-day stint behind bars. “You know, sometimes it could be bad, and you gotta always look at it, like, they’re there to put us in prison and you guys are here to keep us from prison.”
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The 33-year-old Atlanta rapper then made the case for the aspiring legal experts to become defense attorneys rather than working as prosecutors.
“I think you guys should become lawyers,” he suggested. “I think it’s very important to help people out of the situations they’re in the best you can. I mean, what side do you wanna be on? You wanna put people in prison for mistakes? Because everybody makes mistakes — we’re human.”
Thugger added: “And everybody in this classroom, you always need to know that you want one mistake away. Anything you need from me, I’m here always. We need y’all.”
Thug got a belly laugh out of the class while hyping up Steel as “the best person possible” and claimed that defense attorneys are doing a version of “God’s work.”
Young Thug — born Jeffery Williams — reached a plea deal on Oct. 31, and was released with no more time to be served, but will be on probation for the next 15 years.
“I know you’re talented, and if you choose to continue to rap, you need to try to use your influence to let kids know that is not the way to go and that there are ways out of poverty besides hooking up with the powerful guy at the end of the street selling drugs,” Judge Paige Reese Whitaker said to Thug.
Thugger ended up serving more than two years in jail after repeatedly being denied bond since his arrest in May 2022. The YSL RICO case became Georgia’s longest-running criminal trial ever, and isn’t finished yet, with two co-defendants still on trial.
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Halle Bailey says she’s “extremely upset” after DDG and their son Halo made what she says was an “unapproved” appearance on Kai Cenat’s livestream Wednesday night (Nov. 6).
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The Little Mermaid actress voiced her frustrations on X about unknowingly having her almost 1-year-old son in front of millions of eyeballs on Kai’s stream.
“Hi everyone,” she began. “Just so you know I am out of town and I don’t approve of my baby being on a stream tonight. I wasn’t told or notified and I am extremely upset to have my baby in front of millions of people. I am his mother and protector and saddened I wasn’t notified especially when I am out of town.”
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Per Essence, Bailey added in a separate tweet that she was going through “severe postpartum” and wrote, “Nobody knows what somebody is going through until they snap.”
Footage of Halo’s appearance quickly went viral along with Bailey’s tweets. Cenat showered DDG and Halle’s son with plenty of gifts to take home.
Bailey later deactivated her X account.
Billboard has reached out to reps for Bailey and DDG.
DDG and Bailey went public with their relationship in January 2022, and Halle gave birth to Halo in late 2023. The couple announced their split in October when DDG posted a message to his Instagram Story that he and Halle would be going separate ways.
“After much reflection and heartfelt conversations, Halle and I have decided to go our separate ways,” he wrote at the time. “This decision was not easy, but we believe it’s the best path forward for both of us. I cherish the time we’ve spent together and the love we’ve shared.
DDG continued, “Despite the changes in our relationship, our love for each other remains deep and true. We are still best friends and adore each other. As we focus on our individual journeys and our roles as co-parents, we cherish the bond we’ve build and the beautiful moments we’ve shared.”
Halle opened up about her battle with “severe” postpartum depression as a new mother in April. She posted to Snapchat at the time, “I have severe, severe postpartum [depression], and I don’t know if any new moms can relate, but it’s to the point where it’s really bad, and it’s hard for me to be separated from my baby for more than 30 minutes at a time before I start to kind of freak out.”
Cardi B has very little patience left to test following the 2024 election.
After the results of this week’s election declared that Donald Trump will once again return to the White House as president of the United States, the 32-year-old rapper — who had ridden hard for his opponent, Kamala Harris — issued a warning to the Republican victor’s supporters on X Wednesday (Nov. 6). “Listen, I’mma let y’all know this right now,” she began, filming herself while walking through a Target parking lot.
“So you know, Trumpettes, y’all won, I know y’all happy,” Cardi continued. “Ain’t nobody acting like they’re the losers. However, y’all need to leave me the f–k alone. Because I got one more f–king cigarette in me before I start lighting your asses up. Aight?”
“And that’s word to the United States of motherf–king America,” the Grammy winner added.
Cardi’s message is only the latest post she’s made since Trump won the presidency, with the star also sharing a heartfelt message to Harris on social media Wednesday. “No matter what they’ve said to bring you down or belittle your run for presidency they can never say you didn’t run your race with honesty and with integrity!” she wrote. “This may not mean much but I am so proud of you! No one has ever made me change my mind and you did!”
The “WAP” artist is part of a large group of stars who have shared reactions to Trump’s victory, her post coming amid other disheartened messages from Ariana Grande, Selena Gomez, Bette Midler, Ethel Cain and more. As votes for the twice-impeached president-elect poured in Tuesday night (Nov. 5), Cardi also wrote on Instagram Stories, “I hate y’all bad.”
The Whipshots founder was outspoken in her support for Harris even before the former prosecutor took over the Democratic ticket from President Joe Biden, telling followers on Instagram Live over the summer, “They should’ve passed the torch to Kamala.” After the VP entered the race, Cardi frequently supported the politician on social media and in interviews before speaking at one of Harris’ final rallies in Milwaukee.
“Like Kamala Harris, I’ve been the underdog, underestimated, and had my success belittled,” she said at the Nov. 1 event. “I didn’t have faith in any candidates until she joined and spoke the words I wanted to hear about the future of this country.”
On Wednesday (Nov. 6), Harris conceded the election to Trump with a speech at her alma mater, Howard University. She told the the tearful crowd, “Sometimes the fight takes a while — that doesn’t mean we won’t win,” and reminded supporters that “this is not a time to throw up our hands — this is a time to roll up our sleeves.”
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Nearly a month after his shocking death following a fall from a third-story hotel balcony, Liam Payne‘s body has been released to his family in order to repatriate his remains to the singer’s native U.K. for burial. According to Reuters, an unnamed senior cemetery source in Buenos Aires told the news service that Payne’s body […]
