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Tommy Richman’s debut album is almost here. The “Million Dollar Baby” rapper-singer announced on Monday (Aug. 26) that Coyote will hit streaming services on Sept. 27.
Richman posted a trailer for Coyote on Monday (Aug. 26), in which he revealed the anticipated LP’s release date. “Welcome to the desert. Coyote, my debut album. 9/27,” he captioned the clip.
The trailer features an actual coyote walking on a Wile E. Coyote-themed desert set, and the camera pans to Richman, who is seated in front of a mirror wiping the clown makeup off his face, which plays off his 2022 Alligator project’s cover art.
Fans and Richman’s peers hopped into his comment section after learning about the announcement. “The World Ready Bro, Get’m,” DJ Paul wrote.
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A fan added: “This gunna be so special!”
Richman exploded onto the mainstream scene with his “Million Dollar Baby,” which became inescapable upon its arrival in April. The track is the longest running No. 1 on the TikTok Billboard Top 50 chart to date.
“Baby” also topped the Pop Airplay chart dated Aug. 31, and spent time at the apex of the Hot R&B Songs chart — for 16 weeks through the Aug. 24 tally, Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs (three, May-June), Billboard Global Excl. U.S. chart (three, May-June); the Billboard Global 200 (two, June); and Streaming Songs (one week, May).
“This is a big record, but this doesn’t define me,” the Virginia native told Billboard in June. “I’m using this as, ‘We’re here. We arrived.’ Not as, ‘We made it!’ This is the start of a run.”
“Million Dollar Baby” peaked at No. 2 on the Billboard Hot 100 and has tallied 773 million spins in radio audience, 559 million official on-demand U.S. streams and 77,000 units sold from its release through Aug. 15, per Luminate.
He followed up “Baby” with “Devil Is a Lie” in June, which peaked at No. 32 on the Billboard Hot 100. Coyote is set to arrive on Sept. 27 via ISO Supremacy and PULSE Records.
Watch the trailer below.
The War and Treaty’s Tanya Blount was once a Bad Boys Records artist, and is expressing her thoughts about the allegations about the label’s founder, Sean “Diddy” Combs, that have risen in the years since.
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Blount was signed to the label in the 1990s, though her album with the company was never released. “Puffy was interesting because being with him was like — we didn’t see this Puffy that people are talking about now,” she recalled during a new episode of Bunnie XO’s Dumb Blonde podcast. “We never saw him drink, we never saw him smoke. I never saw that guy. Being around him was like school because you were literally learning while training.”
She added, “Everything has good and bad. I’m really appalled with the stuff I’m hearing about now. I had protection too. I was young but I had a manager who told me, ‘No you’re not going to that party.’ […] I also had God protecting me from whatever was happening. The people who experienced it, I really feel bad for them.”
In a devastating video, obtained by CNN earlier this year and dated March 5, 2016, Combs appears to shove his longtime former partner, Cassie Ventura, to the ground near an elevator bank, kick her several times while she lies on the ground and drag her down a hallway. The contents of the video mirror an assault allegation Ventura made in a now-settled lawsuit she filed against Diddy in November.
Shortly after, on May 19, Diddy took to social media to share a video of himself taking responsibility and apologizing for his actions in the disturbing clip. “It’s so difficult to reflect on the darkest times in your life, but sometimes you got to do that,” Diddy says in his Instagram video. “I was f—ed up. I mean, I hit rock bottom. But I make no excuses. My behavior on that video is inexcusable. I take full responsibility for my actions in that video. I’m disgusted. I was disgusted then when I did it, I’m disgusted now.”
He continued, “I went out and sought professional help. Had to go into therapy, into rehab. Had to ask God for his mercy and grace. I’m so sorry. But I’m committed to being a better man each and every day. I’m not asking for forgiveness. I’m truly sorry.”
“The gut-wrenching video has only further confirmed the disturbing and predatory behavior of Mr. Combs,” said Ventura’s attorney, Douglas Wigdor, in a statement sent to Billboard. “Words cannot express the courage and fortitude that Ms. Ventura has shown in coming forward to bring this to light.”
Ventura was the first to accuse Diddy of sexual assault, filing a lawsuit in November in which attorneys for Cassie claimed she “endured over a decade of his violent behavior and disturbed demands,” including repeated physical attacks and forcing her to “engage in sex acts with male sex workers” while he masturbated. According to the complaint, after she attempted to separate from him in 2018 after an on-and-off public relationship for 11 years, Combs allegedly “forced her into her home and raped her while she repeatedly said ‘no’ and tried to push him away.” The case was soon settled, but Combs was then sued by multiple other women who claimed they were sexually abused by the hip-hop mogul.
“ENOUGH IS ENOUGH,” Diddy wrote on Instagram in December. “For the last couple of weeks, I have sat silently and watched people try to assassinate my character, destroy my reputation and my legacy. Sickening allegations have been made against me by individuals looking for a quick payday. Let me be absolutely clear: I did not do any of the awful things being alleged. I will fight for my name, my family and for the truth.”
Michael Bublé, Jelly Roll, Adam Lambert, Miranda Lambert, Teddy Swims, Keith Urban and Questlove are among the music stars booked for season six of The Kelly Clarkson Show, which is set to premiere on Monday, Sept. 23.
Other guests set for the new season include Kristen Bell, Halle Berry, Adam Brody, Jim Carrey, Colin Farrell, Anna Kendrick, Trevor Noah, Uma Thurman, Ali Wong, Kate Winslet and Zachary Quinto. In addition, the casts of Wicked (including Ariana Grande, Cynthia Erivo, Michelle Yeoh, Jeff Goldblum and Jonathan Bailey) and Emily in Paris (including Lily Collins, Ashley Park, Philippine Leroy-Beaulieu and Camille Razat) will appear in studio.
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Production is planning to kick off the new season with a 30 Rock rooftop party at the talk show’s iconic New York City headquarters. The premiere week event will feature Kelly Clarkson performing a Kellyoke medley with house band Y’All to an audience of New Yorkers, including The Kelly Clarkson Show Good Neighbors and Rad Humans, people who are stepping up for their local communities.
The Kelly Clarkson Show has been the top-rated afternoon talk show over the course of its five seasons. The show has aired 884 original episodes. Clarkson has covered more than 800 songs in the show’s popular Kellyoke segment, which has demonstrated that she can just sing about any kind of song. 2024 Grammy host Trevor Noah alluded to Clarkson’s skill in the segment when he joked at the ceremony that if winners went too long in their acceptance speeches, “We’re going to get Kelly Clarkson to cover one of your songs better than you ever could.”
Since its launch in 2019, The Kelly Clarkson Show has won 22 Daytime Emmy Awards, including multiple wins for outstanding daytime talk series and outstanding daytime talk series host. Clarkson has personally won eight Daytime Emmys over the course of the first five seasons of her show (compared to three Grammys over a much longer period of time). Impressively, she has won at least one Emmy in each of the five seasons.
In accepting the award for outstanding daytime talk series for the fourth consecutive year at the ceremony on June 7, Clarkson gave special thanks to NBC for listening to her concerns when she proposed moving the show from Los Angeles to New York.
“Thanks to NBC for believing in our show. … The fact that NBC, a huge company, took time and listened when I said ‘Hey, my life is not going super great. I don’t know if I can live here [in L.A.] anymore. I don’t know if I can do this.’ And they really wrapped their arms around us and they helped us move. And the move has been so great for not just me and my family but our whole show. It takes a lot of time and money and effort to do that. It is not unnoticed. I just want to say thank you for thinking of mental health as well as, you know, a product.”
The show averages 1.3 million daily viewers and has grown each season. Clarkson serves as executive producer with Alex Duda, who also serves as showrunner. Y’All is led by music director Jason Halbert. The series is produced by Universal Television and is distributed in national syndication by NBCUniversal Syndication Studios.
Watch the season six teaser below:
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With the 2024 U.S. presidential election just 70 days away, the candidates — Vice President Kamala Harris and former president Donald Trump — are pulling out all the stops to win the contest. But internet comedian Randy Rainbow is not impressed by the tactics of Trump’s embattled running mate, JD Vance. In his latest parody […]
Charli XCX accidentally on purpose drew herself into the current heated American presidential race with what she thought was an innocuous tribute to Vice President Kamala Harris’ ineffable, no f’s given qualities. And while her “Kamala IS Brat” tweet last month helped boost the enthusiasm about what was then the very-new White House campaign by the current VP-turned-Democratic-candidate, Charli told Vulture that the tweet fired off while hanging around her pool in L.A. was meant to be something “positive and lighthearted” rather than a strict political endorsement.
Just days after Harris announced her intention to run for the Democratic nomination following President Joe Biden’s historic decision to give up his second run for the nation’s top job, Charli made noise by announcing “Kamala IS brat.”
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The reference was to the title of XCX’s new album and a messy-on-purpose lifestyle Charli has described as someone who can be high lux at times, or who has a “pack of cigs, a Bic lighter and a strappy white top with no bra” at others. Very aware of what she was doing and how it might land, Charli watched as the Harris campaign immediately seized on what seemed like a cool girl nod to their insurgent effort, by instantly rebranding the Kamala HQ‘s X page with the same font and lime green logo style as the singer’s album title.
“To be on the right side of democracy, the right side of women’s rights, is hugely important to me,” said Charlie, who as a British citizen cannot vote in the U.S. election, but whose tweet became a cringe-worthy talking point on cable and broadcast news programs where confused anchors tried to figure out what the kids were talking about.
“I’m happy to help prevent democracy form failing forever,” she added, appearing to nod to the existential threat to the American political system that President Biden and Harris have said former President and third-time White House aspirant Donald Trump represents. “I obviously knew what I was doing.”
That said, she had no inkling the tweet would be seem more than 55 million times and turned into its own meta meme. “Did I think me talking about being a mess b–ch and, like partying and needing a Bic lighter and a pack of Marlboro Lights would end up on CNN? No,” she said, noting that she is not, and has never aspired to be, “a political artist… I’m not Bob Dylan and I’ve never pretended to be… My music is not political. Everything I do in my life feeds back into my art. Everything I say, wear, think, enjoy — it all funnels back into my art. Politics doesn’t feed my art.”
In the same interview, Charli revealed that she is already working on another “full-length other project” that will definitely be “in the bratosphere, so to speak.” At press time no additional information was available on that project.
Billie Eilish’s “Birds of a Feather” nests atop both the Billboard Global 200 and Billboard Global Excl. U.S. charts for a third week. Two weeks earlier, the song became her first leader on each list.
Plus, Lady Gaga and Bruno Mars bound in at No. 2 on each tally with “Die With a Smile” and LISA’s “New Woman,” featuring Rosalía, debuts at No. 6 on Global Excl. U.S.
The Global 200 and Global Excl. U.S. charts, which began in September 2020, rank songs based on streaming and sales activity culled from more than 200 territories around the world, as compiled by Luminate. The Global 200 is inclusive of worldwide data and the Global Excl. U.S. chart comprises data from territories excluding the United States.
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Chart ranks are based on a weighted formula incorporating official-only streams on both subscription and ad-supported tiers of audio and video music services, as well as download sales, the latter of which reflect purchases from full-service digital music retailers from around the world, with sales from direct-to-consumer (D2C) sites excluded from the charts’ calculations.
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Eilish’s “Birds of a Feather” holds atop the Global 200 with 86.4 million streams (up 1%) and 10,000 sold (down 35%) worldwide Aug. 16-22. (A week earlier, its sales were boosted after she performed the song at the 2024 Summer Olympics Closing Ceremony on Aug. 11.)
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Lady Gaga and Bruno Mars’ “Die With a Smile” soars onto the Global 200 at No. 2 with 75.1 million streams and 31,000 sold worldwide following its release Aug. 16. The former adds his third top 10 since the chart began, while the latter lands her first.
Sabrina Carpenter’s “Espresso” slips 2-3 on the Global 200, following three nonconsecutive weeks at No. 1 beginning in June; Post Malone’s “I Had Some Help,” featuring Morgan Wallen, jumps 12-4, following a week at No. 1 upon its debut in May — as parent album F-1 Trillion debuts at No. 1 on the U.S.-based Billboard 200; and Shaboozey’s “A Bar Song (Tipsy)” tumbles to No. 5 from its No. 3 high.
“Birds of a Feather” concurrently leads Global Excl. U.S. with 64.1 million streams (up 2%) and 5,000 sold (down 30%) outside the U.S. Aug. 16-22.
“Die With a Smile” starts at No. 2 on Global Excl. U.S. with 48.2 million streams and 13,000 sold outside the U.S. It’s Bruno Mars’ second top 10 and Lady Gaga’s first on the chart.
Karol G’s “Si Antes Te Hubiera Conocido” retreats to No. 3 from its No. 2 Global Excl. U.S. best; Carpenter’s “Espresso” falls 3-4, following eight nonconsecutive weeks at No. 1 beginning in May; and Jimin’s “Who” backtracks 4-5 after logging two weeks at No. 1 earlier in August.
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Plus, LISA’s “New Woman,” featuring Rosalía, launches at No. 6 on Global Excl. U.S. with 54.5 million streams and 10,000 sold outside the U.S. Aug. 16-22, following its Aug. 15 release. LISA earns her fourth top 10 on the chart – the most among BLACKPINK members; Jennie boasts three, and Jisoo and Rosé have one each. Meanwhile, LISA matches the four top 10s that BLACKPINK has achieved as a group. Rosalía adds her fifth top 10 on the chart.
The Billboard Global 200 and Billboard Global Excl. U.S. charts (dated Aug. 31, 2024) will update on Billboard.com Tuesday, Aug. 27. For both charts, the top 100 titles are available to all readers on Billboard.com, while the complete 200-title rankings are visible on Billboard Pro, Billboard’s subscription-based service. For all chart news, you can follow @billboard and @billboardcharts on both X, formerly known as Twitter, and Instagram.
Luminate, the independent data provider to the Billboard charts, completes a thorough review of all data submissions used in compiling the weekly chart rankings. Luminate reviews and authenticates data. In partnership with Billboard, data deemed suspicious or unverifiable is removed, using established criteria, before final chart calculations are made and published.
Shaboozey’s “A Bar Song (Tipsy)” adds a seventh nonconsecutive week at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100. The single, which became the singer-songwriter’s first leader on the list in July, claims outright 2024’s longest reign, surpassing the six nonconsecutive weeks on top for Post Malone’s “I Had Some Help” featuring Morgan Wallen. The latter, […]
Coldplay closed out their four-night run at Vienna’s Ernst Happel Stadium on Sunday (August 15) with yet another tribute to Taylor Swift. Performing in the same venue that Swift had to abandon earlier this month after local police uncovered an alleged terror plot to attack Swifites, Coldplay singer Chris Martin and opening act Maggie Rogers paid homage to Swift with a meditative song from the singer’s 2020 pandemic album Folklore.
Again posted up on the smaller satellite b-stage in the midst of the audience on the stadium floor, Martin played piano on the “beautiful song” co-written by Swift and producer Aaron Dessner. “I’m doing good, I’m on some new s–t/ Been saying yes instead of no/ I think I saw you at the bus stop, I didn’t though,” Martin sang in a fan video of the performance.
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The 65,000-plus fans were remarkably hushed during the quiet, keyboard-and-voice cover, with Rogers coming in to sing the refrain, “I guess you never know, never know/ And if you wanted me, you really should’ve showed,” before the two singers joined voices for the wistful chorus, “But it would’ve been fun/ If you would’ve been the one.” As usual, Martin brought a pair of fans up on stage for the tribute, one of whom was rocking a Coldplay concert tee along with a colorful sign that read: “Dear Chris, Swifties Will Remember You. Thank you!”
The thanks came after Coldplay opened their run last Wednesday with a cover of Swift’s “Love Story,” and then performed “Shake It Off” twice, once with the band on Thursday and a second time with two fans on Saturday.
Swift wrapped up her five-show run at London’s Wembley Stadium last week, bringing a close to the European leg of her Eras Tour. The triumphant final run came after officials in Vienna said they’d arrested three suspects in the alleged plot to attack the stadium during what was planned to be a three-show run by Swift in an effort to “kill as many people as possible.”
The main 19-year-old suspect, reportedly radicalized online, had allegedly pledged fealty to the Islamic State, while a another suspect, an 18-year-old man, had also allegedly pledged allegiance to the terror group ISIS. A 17-year-old young man who has been detained was reportedly hired by a company providing services to the venue for the shows just a week prior. None of the men have been formally charged yet.
Watch video of Martin and Rogers performing “The 1” below.
Selena Gomez brings her A-game in a new teaser for Emilia Pérez, which dropped Monday (Aug. 26) ahead of the film’s arrival on Netflix this fall.
In the nearly two-minute visual, fans get glimpses of the 32-year-old singer-actress staring down the camera, breaking down in tears and lying on a blanket with her fictional family while watching the stars. All the while, someone — presumably leading lady Karla Sofía Gascón, who plays the film’s titular character — sings in whisper-soft Spanish.
“Half rich, half poor, half kingpin, half queen,” the voice croons, according to Netflix’s English subtitles, with a shot of Gomez strutting in slow motion coming onscreen at the word “queen.” “Half here, half there, half dead, half alive/ Half inside, half out, everything, nothing.”
After a fast-paced sequence of dance numbers led by Gomez and her costars, gunshots and blood, the teaser ends with a close-up shot of the Rare Beauty founder quietly exhaling, her eyes closed. Also starring Zoe Saldaña, who appears throughout the teaser, the movie follows a Mexican drug lord (Gascón) embracing her true identity as a woman.
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Following its premiere at the Cannes Film Festival in May — where Gomez and her castmates collectively won the best actress honors — Emilia Pérez premiered in French theaters Aug. 21. Viewers in the U.S., Canada and the U.K. will finally get to watch once the Jacques Audiard-directed musical drops on Netflix Nov. 13.
Ahead of the film’s French premiere, the “Love On” singer posted a throwback video on Aug. 19 of herself reacting to the news that she’d been cast in Emilia Pérez. “I can’t believe I got the movie, I’m so going to cry right now,” she says in the clip, barely holding back tears. “I don’t want to cry … This is going to be so cool.”
Watch the Emilia Pérez teaser above.
Drake is back for round two with another drop for his 100 Gigs content website. Drizzy went back into the archives and dug through the Nothing Was The Same-era archives circa 2013 to give fans a peek into his creative genius at the time.
100 Gigs received an update on Sunday (Aug. 25), which also includes the three-pack of tracks he leaked on his burner Instagram on Friday (Aug. 23).
There are highlights scattered throughout the content dump, with one featuring Drizzy talking to YG and Mustard following their “Who Do You Love” collaboration in 2014, which peaked at No. 54 on the Billboard Hot 100.
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“I’m bout to send you a verse I did on this beat that Mustard sent me for you … I’m just about to record the s–t and I’ma send it to you,” Drake told YG and Mustard on the phone. “Just get Future to email it and I’ll send you the verse in 30 minutes … I’ma send you the s–t and let’s turn up the summer, I’m ready.”
It’s an interesting chess move by Drake to showcase his once fruitful relationship with YG and Mustard, considering the pair of West Coast natives aligned themselves with Kendrick Lamar during Drizzy’s feud. YG danced on stage with Kendrick at the Pop Out concert and Mustard produced “Not Like Us.”
Mustard also recently took things a step further regarding his relationship with Drake when he nixed the idea of ever doing another song with the 6 God and referred to him as a “strange guy” in an interview with The Los Angeles Times published Aug. 21.
“I don’t think I want to make a song with that dude,” he told the paper. “He’s a strange guy.”
There were also some run-ins with his on-and-off-again enemy Ye — formerly known as Kanye West — as they shared the OVO Fest stage while Yeezy gave Drake his flowers. West even admitted that Drake’s explosion entering the rap game inspired him and Hov to make Watch the Throne.
“Me and Hov wouldn’t have made Watch the Throne if this n—a wasn’t putting pressure on us like that,” he said before performing “Can’t Tell Me Nothin.” “So I just want to pay my respect.”
New footage of Drake & Kanye at OVO Fest 2013, shared by Drake via his 100 GIGS site”Me and Hov would’ve never made Watch The Throne if [Drake] wasn’t putting pressure on us” pic.twitter.com/QZWtkgnVqo— Kurrco (@Kurrco) August 25, 2024
Drake talks about meeting Kanye at OVO Fest (2013)”I’m the biggest Ye fan. Period. Sometimes I feel like I can’t like it because I gotta go against it. But that sh*t tonight was almost therapeutic.” pic.twitter.com/VbGPCW19hk— Kurrco (@Kurrco) August 26, 2024
The love fest continued backstage when Drake gushed about being a Ye fan and hearing West show his appreciation for his artistry since he grew up idolizing him.
“I’m the biggest Ye fan, period. Sometimes I feel like I can’t like it because I gotta go against it,” Drake admitted. “But that s–t tonight was almost therapeutic.”
There was plenty of other footage in the latest drop, including a time when Drake and The Weeknd were on good terms, as well as footage recording NWTS tracks such as the Jay-Z-assisted “Pound Cake” and “Furthest Thing.”
Nothing Was the Same arrived in September 2013 and debuted atop the Billboard 200 with 658,000 copies sold in the first week.
