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Across genres, a new crop of producers has broken out in recent years (some as recently as this past one). Some have quickly established themselves as go-to hit-makers; others are talented newbies who’ve just gotten their first tastes of success. But regardless of experience level, these producers — selected based on their histories on the Billboard Hot 100 and Billboard’s Hot 100 producers chart, along with placements on other charts — are helping to define music’s future.
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Young but already established hit-makers, their big Hot 100 breakthroughs occurred within the past five years
Rob Bisel
The primary producer on SZA’s SOS, he’s charted 13 songs on the Hot 100 (12 by SZA, including “Kill Bill”); he’s also engineered big hits by Doja Cat, Harry Styles, Kendrick Lamar and Tyler, The Creator.
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Nik D
Debuted on the Hot 100 in 2019 with Travis Scott’s No. 1 “Highest in the Room”; returned with hits by Drake and Metro Boomin before co-producing Jack Harlow’s No. 1 “Lovin on Me.”
Jacob Durrett
Produced on seven Hot 100-charting songs — six of them by Morgan Wallen, including Durrett’s debut entry, the top 10 hit “Wasted on You” — all since 2021.
Omer Fedi
Has placed 23 songs on the Hot 100 since his chart debut in June 2020, including four No. 1s: 24kGoldn’s “Mood,” Lil Nas X’s “Montero (Call Me by Your Name),” The Kid LAROI and Justin Bieber’s “Stay” and Sam Smith and Kim Petras’ “Unholy.”
The Kid LAROI (left) and Omer Fedi
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Charlie Handsome
Of the 54 Hot 100-charting songs he’s produced or co-produced, 23 are by Post Malone and eight are by Morgan Wallen; seven reached the top 10; and two (Jack Harlow’s “First Class” and Post and Wallen’s “I Had Some Help”) reached No. 1.
Jasper Harris
Since 2019, has charted 17 songs on the Hot 100 as a producer, including his first two top 10s in 2022: Jack Harlow’s “First Class” and Post Malone and Doja Cat’s “I Like You (A Happier Song).”
Jasper Harris (left) and Lil Nas X
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Blake Slatkin
Produced on 12 Hot 100-charting songs since 2020, including four No. 1s: “Mood,” “Stay,” “Unholy” and Lizzo’s “About Damn Time.” 2024 credits include Charli XCX, Omar Apollo and Wallows.
Leon Thomas III
Produced on SZA’s “Snooze,” plus Hot 100-charting hits by Drake, Jack Harlow and Ye/Ty Dolla $ign; he’s also worked on songs with Post Malone, Ariana Grande and Giveon.
Ty Dolla $ign (left) and Leon Thomas III attend Affinity Nightlife presents “Music Is Love | Love is Music” Grammys after party at Academy LA on Feb. 04, 2024 in Los Angeles, California.
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After some time in the production world, they recently broke through to the charts’ top tier
Evan Blair
Cracked the Hot 100 with Nessa Barrett’s “I Hope Ur Miserable Until Ur Dead” (2021), then moved up the chart with Dove Cameron’s No. 16-peaking “Boyfriend” (2022); earlier this year, reached No. 2 with Benson Boone’s “Beautiful Things.”
BNYX
Charted 13 songs on the Hot 100 as a producer, all since 2022. Four hit the top 10: Drake’s “Search & Rescue” and “IDGAF” and Travis Scott’s “K-Pop” and “Meltdown”; has also worked with Lil Tecca, Lil Uzi Vert and Yeat.
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Jason Renaud
A.G. Cook
His first Hot 100 production credit was on Beyoncé’s “All Up in Your Mind” in 2022; this year, he returned with four Charli XCX tracks — “360,” “Girl, so confusing,” “Apple” and “Talk talk,” with Troye Sivan — which all hit the top 10 of Hot Dance/Electronic Songs.
Ernesto “Neto” Fernandez
One of the biggest current regional Mexican producers. First charted on the Hot 100 in February 2023 with Peso Pluma & Natanael Cano’s “PRC” and followed that with the No. 4-peaking “Ella Baila Sola” (the highest-charting regional Mexican song ever). He’s charted 19 total songs by Peso Pluma on the Hot 100, plus three by Xavi and one by Junior H.
Teo Halm
Has charted three songs on the Hot 100 as producer, all in 2022: Omar Apollo’s “Evergreen” and SZA’s “Notice Me” and “Open Arms.” Co-wrote Drake’s “Fair Trade,” which reached No. 3.
Sean Momberger
Produced on two recent No. 1s — Jack Harlow’s “Lovin on Me” and Kendrick Lamar’s “Not Like Us” — after making his first Hot 100 appearance in 2018 with Chris Brown’s “Tempo” and returning with Gunna and Future’s “Too Easy” (2021) and Lil Baby’s “Everything” (2022).
Sean Momberger at the Spotify Best New Artist Party held at Paramount Studios on February 1, 2024 in Los Angeles, California.
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Nova Wav
The veteran female duo produced on Beyoncé’s “Cuff It,” which spent 35 weeks on the Hot 100 (reaching No. 6) and became her longest-charting song as lead artist, as well as on Bey’s “Jolene” from Cowboy Carter, which reached No. 7 earlier this year.
La Paciencia
The close Bad Bunny collaborator has charted 21 songs on the Hot 100 since June 2023, all by the Puerto Rican superstar, including two top 10s: “Where She Goes” (No. 8) and “Monaco” (No. 5).
RIOTUSA
Ice Spice’s right-hand producer charted six songs with her on the Hot 100, all since February 2023, including her two top 10s, “Princess Diana” (No. 4) and “Barbie World” (No. 7).
Austin Shawn
Produced all seven of Bailey Zimmerman’s Hot 100 entries, including the No. 10-peaking “Rock and a Hard Place” in 2023.
Gabe Simon
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Gabe Simon
First charted on the Hot 100 in 2022 with Jessie Murph’s “Pray” (No. 95) — then followed up with seven Noah Kahan hits, including “Stick Season” (No. 9), “Dial Drunk” and “Northern Attitude.” (The latter two made the top 40 and also topped the Triple A radio chart.) Earned two more Hot 100 top 40 entries this year with Koe Wetzel’s “Sweet Dreams” and Wetzel and Jessie Murph’s “High Road.”
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Grant Boutin
Charted for the first time in September 2023 with Tate McRae’s “Greedy” (which went to No. 3 on the Hot 100 and spent eight weeks atop Pop Airplay) and then with her “Run for the Hills.” He’s also worked with Meghan Trainor and Tomorrow X Together.
Sean Cook
Paul Russell’s inescapable “Lil Boo Thang” (No. 14 on the Hot 100) marked his first producer credit on the charts; he made a strong follow-up co-producing Shaboozey’s Hot 100 No. 1 “A Bar Song (Tipsy).”
Sean Cook
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Dave Hamelin
Charted for the first time on the Hot 100 this year with five songs from Beyoncé’s Cowboy Carter: “16 Carriages,” “Just for Fun,” “II Hands II Heaven,” “Tyrant” and “Amen.”
Hoskins
Charted for the first time on the Hot 100 with Post Malone and Morgan Wallen’s No. 1 “I Had Some Help” and co-produced Post’s F-1 Trillion single “Guy for That” with Luke Combs (a No. 17 peak); previously had only produced one other charting song, Khalid’s “Present” (which spent a week on Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs in 2021).
Gerreaux Katana
Broke onto the charts and reached No. 15 with ascendant rapper Flo Milli’s “Never Lose Me.”
Florian Ongonga
Charted for the first time in July 2023 with three Gunna songs, including the No. 4-peaking “fukumean”; also produced Gunna’s “Prada Dem” featuring Offset, which reached No. 15 on Hot Rap Songs.
Tommy Richman’s Crew (Kavi, Mannyvelli, Jonah Roy, Sparkheem and Max Vossberg)
The breakout star’s creative inner circle all charted for the first time with their work on his Hot 100 topper “Million Dollar Baby;” Kavi, Roy and Vossberg followed that up with “Devil Is a Lie,” which peaked at No. 32.
Frank Rio
The go-to producer for Ivan Cornejo, he has produced on 16 Hot Latin Songs entries (including three top 10s) by the young singer-songwriter.
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Jack Rochon
Three songs from Beyoncé’s Cowboy Carter became his Hot 100 entrée: “II Hands II Heaven,” “Protector” and “Jolene.” He’s also worked with 6LACK, H.E.R. and Kehlani.
Nevin Sastry and Shaboozey
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Nevin Sastry
Charted for the first time co-producing Shaboozey’s Hot 100 No. 1 “A Bar Song (Tipsy)”; also worked on the artist’s “My Fault” and “Drink Don’t Need No Mix,” which reached Hot Country Songs’ top 50.
This article appears in the Oct. 5 issue of Billboard.
Karma is the guy on the Chiefs, coming straight over to Taylor Swift‘s box suite to celebrate after lasting yet another week undefeated in the NFL. Moments after Kansas City won 26-13 against the New Orleans Saints Monday (Oct. 7), Travis Kelce joined his superstar girlfriend in her viewing area at Arrowhead Stadium for a […]
In his new memoir, Deryck Whibley of Sum 41 accuses his band’s former manager Greig Nori of sexual abuse and grooming.
As revealed Tuesday (Oct. 8) in the newly published pages of Walking Disaster: My Life Through Heaven and Hell, the now-44-year-old rocker was 16 when Nori — then 34 — allegedly began abusing the musician. According to snippets of the book shared by the Los Angeles Times, the now-61-year-old Treble Charger band member was a personal hero of Whibley’s before he became a songwriting mentor and manager to Sum 41, after which the alleged sexual misconduct began, with Whibley claiming that when he was 18, Nori cornered him in a bathroom stall at a rave and “passionately” kissing him.
Over time, Whibley alleges in his book that Nori manipulated him by calling the younger musician homophobic if he didn’t reciprocate. Whibley also writes that Nori said he “owed” his then-manager for his career, and alleged that Nori pressured him into continuing the relationship because “so many of my rock star idols were queer.”
“Greig had one requirement to be our manager — he wanted total control,” Whibley writes in Walking Disaster, according to the LA Times. “We couldn’t talk to anyone but him, because the music business is ‘full of snakes and liars’ and he was the only person we could trust.”
Billboard was not able to reach Nori at press time. Multiple publications, however, have reported that Nori did not reply to requests for comment.
“I always thought that I would take this to my grave and I wouldn’t say anything,” Whibley told Rolling Stone. “As I started getting into the book, I felt like, ‘How could I not be honest?’”
Whibley still hasn’t told his bandmates about the alleged abuse, according to the LA Times. In March, Sum 41 dropped its eighth and final album, Heaven :x: Hell, after which the band spent much of this year on a farewell tour. In January, the group is slated to play Scotiabank Arena in Toronto, marking its final show ever.
Nori hasn’t been in the picture since 2005, when Sum 41 fired him at Whibley’s urging, according to the LA Times. Without disclosing anything about his personal experiences with Nori at the time, the frontman eventually persuaded his bandmates to part ways with their manager by citing Nori’s alleged professional failings, from fumbling opportunities for the group to being unreachable and showing up to important events under the influence of ecstasy.
Whibley went on to marry Avril Lavigne, who was one of the first to tell him, “That’s abuse! [Nori] sexually abused you,” the “Landmines” singer writes in Walking Disaster, according to the LA Times.
After the couple divorced in 2009, Whibley wed Ariana Cooper, to whom he’s been married for 10 years. Cooper had the same reaction as the “Complicated” musician, Whibley says.
Even so, it wasn’t until Whibley turned 35 — one year older than Nori was when he allegedly began abusing Whibley — that the Sum 41 guitarist finally started to understand what he’d been through. “It all became so clear,” Whibley told L.A. Times. “Then about a year later, the Me Too thing started happening. I started hearing stories of grooming, and it all started to make sense.”
If you or someone you know has experienced sexual abuse, call the National Sexual Assault Hotline at 800-656-4673 for confidential help 24/7.
Beloved 1980s pop group the Motels have been forced to cancel the remaining dates on their 2024 U.S. tour after singer Martha Davis revealed that she is in the midst of a second battle against breast cancer. In a statement released on Tuesday (Oct. 8), the 73-year-old vocalist said that a pair of planned November […]
We all know that women have been dominating the music scene in the past year, but get this: 10 of the 11 artists with the most nominations for the 2024 MTV EMAs are women. The only man who cracked the leaderboard is Kendrick Lamar, with four nods.
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Taylor Swift leads with seven nods, including best artist, best video, best pop and biggest fans. Ariana Grande, Billie Eilish, Charli XCX and Sabrina Carpenter each scored five nominations. Closely following with four nods each are Ayra Starr, Beyoncé, Lamar, LISA, plus first-time nominees Chappell Roan and Tyla.
These nominees also demonstrate the globalization of pop music. Charli XCX hails from England; Starr from Nigeria; LISA from Thailand (though she is best known as a member of a South Korean girl group, BLACKPINK); and Tyla from South Africa.
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The show is set to be broadcast live on Sunday, Nov. 10, from Co-op Live in Manchester, U.K. Last year’s ceremony was set for Nov. 5 in Paris, but was canceled two weeks before the show due to the Israel–Hamas war, becoming the first EMAs to be canceled in its 30-year history.
Nineteen nominees have the chance to score their first ever MTV EMA at this year’s show, including Kehlani and Tinashe in the best R&B category, Disclosure and Fred Again.. for best electronic, Fontaines D.C. for best alternative, The Last Dinner Party for best new and BTS’ Jimin for best K-pop, which marks his first nomination as a solo artist.
Fans can vote for their favorites on the EMAs website from now until 00:00 CET on Nov. 6.
The winner in the best video category will be chosen by MTV. The nominees are Grande’s “We Can’t Be Friends (Wait for Your Love),” Charli XCX’s “360,” Eminem’s “Houdini,” Lamar’s “Not Like Us,” LISA featuring Rosalía’s “New Woman” and Swift featuring Post Malone’s “Fortnight.”
Fans from 23 regions around the world can also vote for their favorite artists in the best regional act categories. These categories reflect the territories in which MTV operates.The biggest fans category will be voted for at a later date on social via @MTVEMA.
The 2024 MTV EMAs will broadcast at 9 p.m. GMT Sunday, Nov. 10, on MTV UK, Channel 5 and Pluto TV, and will be available on demand on Paramount+ from Nov. 12. Tickets will be on sale at a later date.
Bruce Gillmer and Richard Godfrey are executive producers for the 2024 MTV EMAs. Debbie Phillips and Chloe Mason are producers.
This will be the eighth time the EMAs have been held in the U.K. The show has been in London three times, and in Liverpool, England; Edinburgh, Scotland; Belfast, Northern Ireland; and Glasgow, Scotland once each.
Here’s the full list of 2024 MTV EMA nominations.
Best song
Ariana Grande – “We Can’t Be Friends (Wait for Your Love)”
Benson Boone – “Beautiful Things”
Beyoncé – “Texas Hold ‘Em”
Billie Eilish – “Birds of a Feather”
Chappell Roan – “Good Luck, Babe!”
Sabrina Carpenter – “Espresso”
Best video
Ariana Grande – “We Can’t Be Friends (Wait for Your Love)”
Charli XCS – “360”
Eminem – “Houdini”
Kendrick Lamar – “Not Like Us”
LISA feat. Rosalía – “New Woman”
Taylor Swift feat. Post Malone – “Fortnight”
Best artist
Beyoncé
Billie Eilish
Post Malone
Raye
Sabrina Carpenter
Taylor Swift
Best collaboration
Charli XCX & Billie Eilish – “Guess” feat. Billie Eilish
Future, Metro Boomin & Kendrick Lamar – “Like That”
Lady Gaga, Bruno Mars – “Die With a Smile”
LISA feat. Rosalía – “New Woman”
Peso Pluma, Anitta – “Bellakeo”
Taylor Swift ft. Post Malone – “Fortnight”
Best new
Ayra Starr
Benson Boone
Chappell Roan
LE SSERAFIM
Teddy Swims
The Last Dinner Party
Tyla
Best pop
Ariana Grande
Billie Eilish
Camila Cabello
Charli XCX
Dua Lipa
Sabrina Carpenter
Taylor Swift
Best Afrobeats
Asake
Ayra Starr
Burna Boy
Rema
Tems
Tyla
Best rock
Bon Jovi
Coldplay
Green Day
Kings of Leon
Lenny Kravitz
Liam Gallagher
The Killers
Best Latin
Anitta
Bad Bunny
Karol G
Peso Pluma
Rauw Alejandro
Shakira
Best K-pop
Jimin
Jung Kook
LE SSERAFIM
LISA
NewJeans
Stray Kids
Best alternative
Fontaines D.C.
Hozier
Imagine Dragons
Lana Del Rey
Twenty One Pilots
Yungblud
Best electronic
Calvin Harris
David Guetta
Disclosure
DJ Snake
Fred Again..
Swedish House Mafia
Best hip-hop
Central Cee
Eminem
Kendrick Lamar
Megan Thee Stallion
Nicki Minaj
Travis Scott
Best R&B
Kehlani
SZA
Tinashe
Tyla
Usher
Victoria Monét
Best live
Adele
Coldplay
Doja Cat
Raye
Taylor Swift
Travis Scott
Best push
Ayra Starr
Chappell Roan
Coco Jones
Flyana Boss
Jessie Murph
Laufey
LE SSERAFIM
Mark Ambor
Shaboozey
Teddy Swims
The Warning
Victoria Monét
Biggest fans
Anitta
Ariana Grande
Beyoncé
Billie Eilish
Chappell Roan
Charli xcx
Katy Perry
LISA
Nicki Minaj
Sabrina Carpenter
Shawn Mendes
Taylor Swift
Best U.K. & Ireland act
Central Cee
Charli XCX
Chase & Status
Dua Lipa
Hozier
Raye
A$AP Rocky and Rihanna have two kids together — sons RZA and Riot — but the Harlem rapper knew she was the one since they connected when they were just emerging stars.
Rocky detailed his special connection with RiRi and gushed about the mother of his children while gracing the cover of W Magazine on Tuesday (Oct. 8), which was shot by Rihanna.
“I knew from when we were younger,” he said of when he knew the nine-time Grammy winner — whom he called his “perfect person” in his Billboard cover story — was the one to be the mother of his kids. “We both did, I think. So it was only right when we got older. We just kind of reconnected.”
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The “Fashion Killa” rapper also recalled a time when he was kicked out of a nightclub, and Rihanna came outside and stuck up for him to the staff to let him get inside. Rocky added that they began dating prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, around “2019, 2020.”
“It’s a lot of history between us. I was kicked out of this nightclub,” he said. “They wasn’t giving me no access to it. This is when I’m just starting out, so nobody knows me. I was with Matthew Williams and Virgil. I was getting into it with the bouncers, and she came out. We just locked eyes. She didn’t even know us, but she was like, ‘Yo! Why y’all not letting him in? What’s wrong with you?! Let that man in!’”
A portion of the interview was conducted across the street from Rocky’s NYC apartment, where the late creative Virgil Abloh shot the “Fashion Killa” music video in 2012. Rocky shared, “This is very special because this is the first place she fell in love with me.”
RZA was born in 2022, and Riot followed the next year. The A$AP Mob frontman credited having his mom and Rihanna’s parents around to help them. “I’m so happy that I at least still got one parent,” he stated. “If I didn’t have the support of our [his and Rihanna’s] parents, I don’t know what we would be doing.”
Rocky has been busy on the music side as well as he prepares for the release of his anticipated Don’t Be Dumb, which was delayed until the fall. He’s charted a trio of singles to the Billboard Hot 100 with “Hijack,” (No. 89) “Tailor Swif” (No. 84) and the J. Cole-assisted “Ruby Rosary” (No. 85).
Rihanna Photographs A$AP Rocky for the Cover of W Magazine Vol. 5 | The Originals Issue
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Chris Martin and Coldplay are going back to the start. The group announced yet another extension of their record-setting Music of the Spheres tour on Tuesday morning (Oct. 8) via a set of summer 2025 North American shows that will kick off more than three years after the tour first touched down in the U.S. and Canada on May 6, 2022; it officially launched in San José, Costa Rica in March 2022.
The 10 newly added gigs will include Coldplay’s debut stadium performances in Stanford, CA, El Paso, Denver, Las Vegas, Nashville and Madison, WI; in fact, the latter gig will mark the first music event at the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Camp Randall Stadium since a 1997 Rolling Stones gig. The band will also have the honor of being one of the first bands to perform at Toronto’s newest venue, the 50,000-capacity Rogers Stadium, set to open in June 2025.
After launching on May 31 at Stanford Stadium, the tour will hit Las Vegas, Denver, El Paso, Toronto, Foxborough, MA, Madison and Nashville before winding down on July 26 at Miami’s Hard Rock Stadium.
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Fans can sign up for an artist presale now through Thursday (Oct. 10) at 10 a.m. ET here; artist presale begins on Friday (Oct. 11) at 9 a.m. local time, with a general onsale launching on Friday at noon local time here. The group will also offer up a limited number of affordable $20 Infinity tickets for every show at noon local time on Nov. 22, with a two-ticket limit per purchaser.
According to a release, since the tour’s launch it has sold more than 10 million tickets across shows in Europe, North America, Latin America, Asia, Australia and New Zealand, making it the most-attended tour by a group of all time. Support acts for the 2025 shows have not yet been announced.
In the meantime, the Spheres tour will visit Australia again in late October and early November before moving on to Abu Dhabi and Mumbai, India in January 2025, followed by Hong Kong and Seoul in April. The band also announced an update on their extensive sustainability initiatives on the tour, which they said has produced 59% less CO2e emissions on a show-by-show basis to date than their 2016-2017 stadium tour, exceeding their original target of 50% reductions. They also noted that more than nine million trees have been planted around the world as part of the tour’s green efforts, with another million to be planted before year’s end.
Last week, Coldplay released its 10th album, Moon Music, which features the singles “We Pray” and “feelslikefallinginlove.”
Check out the Music of the Spheres 2025 North American dates below:
May 31 — Stanford, CA @ Stanford Stadium
June 6 — Las Vegas, NV @ Allegiant Stadium
June 10 — Denver, CO @ Empower Field at Mile High
June 13 — El Paso, TX @ Sun Bowl Stadium
July 7 — Toronto, ON @ Rogers Stadium
July 8 — Toronto, ON @ Rogers Stadium
July 15 — Foxborough, MA @ Gillette Stadium
July 19 — Madison, WI @ Camp Randall Stadium
July 22 — Nashville, TN @ Nissan Stadium
July 26 — Miami, FL @ Hard Rock Stadium
What was Kamala Harris made for? Billie Eilish thinks the Oval Office.
Just a few weeks after endorsing the VP for president in 2024, the 22-year-old superstar was candid about her thoughts on the fast-approaching general election in a Vogue cover story published Tuesday (Oct. 8). “A lot of my fans are going to be able to vote for the first time,” Eilish told the publication. “So I’m like, ‘Do you like freedom?’”
“First female president? Would be really amazing,” the nine-time Grammy winner continued of Harris. “I would love to feel safe as a woman in my country.”
Eilish first joined the election discourse in September, when she and her older brother, producer Finneas, filmed a video together emphatically endorsing the Democratic ticket. “We are voting for Kamala Harris and Tim Walz because they are fighting to protect our reproductive freedom, our planet and our democracy,” she said at the time. “Vote like your life depends on it — because it does.”
In posting the video to her social media accounts, the “Lunch” singer became just one of many stars to throw support behind Harris ahead of Election Day on Nov. 5. Taylor Swift, Megan Thee Stallion, Cardi B, John Legend, Ariana Grande, Barbra Streisand, Carole King, Bon Iver, Pink and more have all also joined the cause over the past few months, while artists such as Ye, Kid Rock, Jason Aldean and Sexyy Red have backed Republican opponent Donald Trump.
“I mean, this is the most important election of our time, maybe,” Eilish told Vogue, adding that she’s a “really big fan of women’s rights and women’s reproductive rights and social justice and gun laws.”
“It’s so easy to be like, ‘I don’t want to think about it,’” she continued. “I have that same kind of feeling: I’m one person, I can’t make any change. But the truth is, we can all make change. And I have this platform and I’m going to use it.”
See Eilish’s Vogue cover and photos from the shoot below.
Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band are headed to the city. Specifically the Boss’ new touring doc, Road Diary: Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band, will become the latest rock doc to be showcased in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Screening Series next week when the movie will be shown at […]
GloRilla and Yung Miami lead the way as the crop of performers slated to hit the stage for this year’s iteration of the BET Hip-Hop Awards. 310babii, 2 Chainz, Big Boogie, Bossman DLow, E-40, Juicy J, Roscoe Dash, Soulja Boy, and Trina will also be in the star-studded lineup.
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Fat Joe will host the annual ceremony for the third consecutive year, but with a caveat: instead of taking place at its usual stomping grounds in Atlanta, the BET Hip-Hop Awards will be at Drai’s Nightclub.
“Joe Crack is back for the three-peat, night night baby,” Fat Joe said in a statement last month. “It’s been a dream to host the BET Hip Hop Awards the past few years, and I’m looking forward to taking things to the next level in Las Vegas. We’re going to be in a new city and location, but the excitement and entertainment at the awards will be even bigger than ever.”
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From an award perspective, Megan Thee Stallion leads the way with 12 nominations, followed by Kendrick Lamar with 11 nods and Drake with eight. Nicki Minaj, GloRilla, Cardi B, and Metro Boomin each have seven. Future and Scott are close behind with six. Scott, in addition to his nominations, will be honored with the prestigious “I Am Hip Hop Award.” This recognition underscores his “creative genius, cultural contributions, and incredible talent, which have catapulted him to the top of the game as one of the most innovative forces in music and popular culture,” says BET in a press release.
The show, set to tape this Tuesday (Oct. 8), will air on BET one week later, on Tuesday, Oct. 15, at 8 p.m. ET/PT.
