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Diddy broke his social media silence on Tuesday (Oct. 15) when he returned to Instagram to wish his daughter Love Sean Combs a happy birthday. Love Combs turned 2 on Tuesday, and Diddy’s account posted a slideshow of photos for the occasion, including from a photo shoot eating cake and hanging with her dad in […]
Fat Joe has lost nearly 200 pounds in recent years, and he’s shedding some light into how he transformed his body. Speaking to Us Weekly at the 2024 BET Hip Hop Awards, Joey Crack credited Ozempic along with dietary changes for his much slimmer figure. “Ozempic says you may only have two pieces of your […]
Snoop Dogg and Dr. Dre are looking to make their presence felt in the spirits industry once again with the launch of their Still G.I.N. alcohol. Inspired by 2001 hit “Still D.R.E.,” Still G.I.N. launched nationwide at select retailers on Tuesday (Oct. 15). The spirit boasts a “refined botanical blend that’s modern yet elegant, bursting […]
Coldplay have become the first British band to simultaneously top the album charts on both sides of the Atlantic since 2016.
The band’s 10th studio album Moon Music landed at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 and the Official Album Charts in the U.K. following its release on October 4.
By doing so, they are the first band to reach the summit since The 1975’s second album I Like It When You Sleep, For You Are So Beautiful Yet So Unaware Of It did the same in February 2016.
It is the fifth time that Coldplay have achieved the feat, having done so in 2005 with X&Y, Viva La Vida (2008), Mylo Xyloto (2011) and Ghost Stories (2014). Moon Music makes them the British artist – solo or group – with the most No. 1 albums on the Billboard 200 this century.
Since 2000, a handful of other British groups have done the same including Radiohead, The Beatles, One Direction, Mumford & Sons, Muse and Florence + The Machine.
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British solo acts have had more success, with Adele, Ed Sheeran, Paul McCartney, Harry Styles, Zayn, David Bowie and Susan Boyle all having done so since 2000.
In a statement, Coldplay’s manager Phil Harvey said: “In Moon Music, the band has made one of their very best albums and I’m really happy that it resonated with fans all around the world. Even after 26 years, Chris, Guy, Jonny and Will never cease to amaze me with their outstanding artistry and unceasing hard work. To achieve this success in the middle of a record-breaking stadium tour makes it all the more impressive.
“As well as my fantastic co-managers Mandi Frost and Arlene Moon and the band’s incredible team, I’d like to offer sincere thanks to Max Lousada, Julie Greenwald and her team at Atlantic, everyone at Parlophone, as well as our touring family at Live Nation, WME and SJM. We’re looking forward to a long album campaign – not least in the U.S., where the band will return next year for their third summer of sold-out stadium shows and where we look forward to working with Elliot Grainge and his new team.”
On the Billboard 200, dated Oct. 19, the band achieved 120,000 equivalent album units, 106,000 of which are in traditional album sales. It was the first No. 1 album on the Billboard 200 for the band in over 10 years, and became their 10th effort to reach the top 10.
The British act shifted 237,000 units in the U.K. to gain No. 1 on the Official Album Charts. Their opening week would prove the biggest opening week for a British act since Adele’s 30 was released in 2021.
The band are currently in the midst of their Music Of The Spheres global world tour, which was recently named by Billboard Boxscore as the biggest rock tour of all time having passed $1 billion at the box office.
After three successful years of her Reflection: The Las Vegas Residency, Carrie Underwood is set to wind down her residency next year, with the eight-time Grammy winner to take her final bow as part of the residency on the Resorts World Theatre stage with a trio of shows on April 9, 11 and 12, 2025. […]
Kelsea Ballerini has been in therapy since she was 12 years old, but she wasn’t always so open to the idea of working on her mental health.
The country superstar say down for a wide-ranging cover story for Women’s Health, where she revealed that she first went to therapy as mandated by the court after her parents’ divorce as a pre-teen. “I was young, and I was sad and confused, and I didn’t want to talk to a stranger that someone else was making me talk to,” she revealed of her hesitancy towards therapy, which continued a few years later when she was once again mandated to attend counseling after witnessing a shooting at her Knoxville high school. “Being a Virgo, being very strong-willed, especially when it comes to things that are tender, like mental health, I need to feel like it’s my decision.”
That’s why, when she turned 24, she decided to take her me tal health in her own hands and experience therapy the way she wanted to. “I’d been on the road for four years, and I was exhausted. I was married [Morgan Evans], and I was looking around at all my friends who have 9-to-5 jobs and still live in my hometown, and I was realizing I felt really removed, really different,” she recalled. “I was starting to have questions like, ‘What is driving me? Is missing Mom’s birthday worth it? Am I okay? And am I happy?’ I couldn’t answer these fundamental questions I should have been able to answer, so I got back into therapy, by my choice, and fell in love with it.”
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Ballerini added of a healing, day-long therapy session she experienced, “My therapist asked me to bring in letters, journals, and pictures from my childhood that are significant to me. I went in having no idea what I wanted to talk about. I just wanted to dig deeper. We started in the morning, and it lasted seven hours. [By the end], I was exhausted, but I had a better understanding of a lot of things. I had the time to really untangle them.”
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Now, she’s moving forward in a positive way. “I’m happy, and I’m in control of that happiness,” she says. “I feel grateful to have the people in my life that I do and to be able to put out a record on this level and play the rooms that I’ve always wanted to and also go home to my dogs.”
Ballerini is set to release her upcoming fifth studio album, Patterns, on Oct. 25.
Stevie Nicks returned to Saturday Night Live over the weekend, performing on the show for the first time in 41 years and playing two songs: starting with her latest song “The Lighthouse” and ending with the 1981 classic “Edge of Seventeen.” On the new Billboard Pop Shop Podcast, Katie and Keith are chatting about the […]
Lizzo‘s break didn’t last long. While participating in a panel at the Fortune Most Powerful Women Summit Monday (Oct. 14), the star shared that she’s not really taking a gap year as she works hard on her Yitty business and new music.
“‘Gap year’? Girl, who said ‘gap year’?” Lizzo began, laughing. (Spoiler alert: She did!) “I launched my company Yitty in 2022 at the same time as my album, Special … As soon as I stepped down home from tour — I may not be as public-facing — but I went straight to Yitty headquarters, and I’ve just been working, working, working. You may not see me, but I’ve been working.”
“It ain’t a gap year, it’s a grind year,” the “About Damn Time” musician noted.
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The panel comes less than two months after Lizzo shared footage of her trip to Bali and wrote, “I’m taking a gap year & protecting my peace.” The Grammy winner has been open about how her mental health has suffered in the aftermath of her ex-dancers filing a lawsuit against her over claims of sexual misconduct and hostile work conditions, all of which Lizzo has emphatically denied. While speaking at the Fortune event, she declined to speak on the matter twice: “This isn’t the space for it, we’re celebrating CEOs and powerful women.”
Lizzo has also been open about how she’s taken refuge in making music and working out, both of which she touched on during the summit. Of the former, she teased that she’s “very close” to being done with her fifth studio album — “I’m really really proud of the music I’ve written,” Lizzo added — and of the latter, explained that she’s leaning into body neutrality instead of body positivity.
“One inevitability we all have to face is that our bodies will change … it’s a beautiful thing,” she said of her recent fitness journey. “My body is nobody’s business, other than me, my doctor, my trainer and my man.”
Plus, the businesswoman joined numerous other artists in praising one of 2024’s biggest breakout stars: Chappell Roan. “I see a lot of parallels … we had the same kind of rise, and it was so quick,” Lizzo said of the “Good Luck, Babe!” musician. “I watch how she handles her relationship to public and fame. If I had one thing to say to her: Call your therapist. I wore my therapist out when I was becoming famous. I respect her a lot for how she handles herself.”
Little Simz, Elyanna and Tini each earn their first career entry on the Billboard Hot 100 (dated Oct. 19), thanks to their collaboration with Coldplay, “We Pray.”
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Released Aug. 23 as the second single from the band’s album Moon Music, the song (which also features Burna Boy) debuts at No. 87 with 8 million in airplay audience (up 11%), 3.3 million U.S. streams (up 103%) and 3,000 downloads sold (up 109%) in the Oct. 4-10 tracking week, according to Luminate.
Radio-wise, the song concurrently rises 16-15 on Adult Pop Airplay and 24-23 on Pop Airplay.
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The song’s gains are tied to the album’s release on Oct. 4, with Moon Music debuting at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 with 120,000 equivalent album units earned. The band earns its fifth No. 1 and first since Ghost Stories in 2014.
TikTok has also been a factor in the song’s growing profile. Multiple snippets of the track highlighting the artists featured on the song have broken through on the platform. There’s the “We Pray (Elyanna Version)” and “We Pray (Tini Version),” plus a “Blank Verse Version” that allows users to add their own verses (with all three posted to Coldplay’s official account).
Little Simz, from Islington, London, first appeared on Billboard’s charts in November 2017 via her feature on the Gorillaz song “Garage Palace.” The track debuted and peaked at No. 37 on the Hot Dance/Electronic Songs chart. She earned her first solo appearance in 2021 with her fourth studio album, Sometimes I Might Be Introvert. The set reached No. 33 on the Top Album Sales chart, plus No. 22 on Vinyl Albums. Across the pond, it peaked at No. 4 the Official U.K. Albums chart.
Little Simz has released four other albums: A Curious Tale of Trials + Persons (2015), Stillness In Wonderland (2016), Grey Area (2019) and No Thank You (2022). Outside of music, she starred in the Netflix drama series Top Boy.
Elyanna, a Palestinian-Chilean singer-songwriter from Nazareth, also reaches the Hot 100 for the first time thanks to “We Pray.” The song marks her first appearance on Billboard’s charts. Elyanna has been releasing music since 2019 and dropped her first full-length, Woledto, in April, via Universal Arabic Music. In February, she appeared on the cover of Billboard Arabia. “I’m on a Billboard cover, and we have a sold-out tour, and I have an album coming,” she told Billboard Arabia at the time. “It feels insane to me. I’m doing things I dreamt of my whole life.”
Elyanna also performed at Coachella in April, making history as the first artist at the festival to perform in Arabic.
Argentinian singer-actress-dancer Tini also arrives on the Hot 100 for the first time via “We Pray.” Tini (full name Tini Stoessel) is already a household name in Argentina, having begun her career as a child actress in the Disney Channel Latin American telenovela Violetta. She reprised the role for the series’ sequel film Tini: The Movie in 2016. She became the first Argentine act to sign with Hollywood Records in 2015. Since then, she’s released five studio albums: Tini (Martina Stoessel) (2016), Quiero Volver (2018), Tini Tini Tini (2020), Cupido (2023) and Un Mechón de Pelo in April.
Cupido reached No. 45 on Billboard’s Top Latin Albums chart. Tini has charted 41 songs on the Billboard Argentina Hot 100, including five No. 1s: “Miénteme,” with Maria Becerra; “Bar,” with L-Gante; “La Triple T”; “La_Original.mp3,” with Emilia; and “Pa.”
Elanna and Tini both performed “We Pray” with Coldplay on NBC’s Saturday Night Live on Oct. 5 when the band was the musical guest.
The Voice season 26 contestant Camryn Brooks provided living proof on Monday night (Oct. 14) that you should never give up on your dreams. Three years after washing out of season 21 after getting no chair turns, the California native made a triumphant return that elicited four chair turns.
After impressing the judges with her soaring cover of Maggie Rogers’ “Light On,” Brooks, 24, brought down the house and got Gwen Stefani out of her chair, inspiring the solo star and No Doubt singer to brag, “I was first!”
“I’m literally crying right now because this is like, absolutely unreal. I was a contestant on season 21 and I didn’t get any chair turns,” Brooks told coaches Snoop Dogg, Reba McEntire and Micael Bublé after her performance. “I didn’t ever envision I was going to get four so this is literally a dream come true.”
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McEntire, who praised Brooks’ “beautiful” voice, was elated by the redemption story, reminding viewers that the show’s judges often tell singers who don’t get a chair turn to “please come back.” Bublé also had high praise, adding that he hit his button because of FOMO, with Snoop giving the Mt. Shasta native props for her tone, composure and stage presence.
She and Bublé also bonded over their early gigs singing the National Anthem, though the Canadian crooner couldn’t get Brooks to join him on a chorus of his native “Oh Canada” as Snoop repeatedly trolled him for singing the “wrong” anthem. He got his own redemption, though, when Brooks noted that when she attended a performing arts school the only song she sang to earn money in competitions was Bublé’s rendition of Nina Simone’s “Feeling Good.”
Despite the mutual admiration, Brooks ended up going with Stefani, who said her new team member’s voice reminded was pleasantly reminiscent of her favorite 1970s singers. “There are so many singers that are good, but there’s certain ones that just like touch you because of their tone or just little taste things that they do,” Stefani said. “That’s what I was feeling from you. I would listen to that voice on a record. It’s round, it’s soothing, it would be really fun to work with you ‘cause I feel like we could pick some really cool songs and define who you are.”
Not for nothing, Brooks’ story was even wilder because after her no-turn 2021 audition she noted that her plans to finish school and start performing professionally were derailed when she was diagnosed with myocarditis, an inflammation of the heart muscle. “It was really scary because I couldn’t get out more than three words at a time,” she said. “The first thought that came to my mind was, ‘Am I going to be able to sing again?’ In that moment, you just think, ‘Am I gonna die? I’m too young to have this happen.’”
Though frightening, Brooks said the ailment really put into perspective what mattered to her and made her fight harder for her dreams. “I’m just so blessed to even be here,” she said.
New episodes of The Voice air Monday and Tuesday night at 8 p.m. ET/PT on NBC, and then stream on-demand via Peacock the next day.
Watch Brooks perform “Light On” below.
