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Taylor Swift claimed the title for youngest self-made woman billionaire in the world in 2023 when Forbes first reported the pop superstar’s billionaire status. Two years later, she’s been dethroned by Lucy Guo, the 30-year-old co-founder of Scale AI, Forbes recently reported. Guo co-founded the San Francisco-based artificial intelligence company Scale AI in 2016 when she […]
Lil Uzi Vert was reportedly hospitalized in New York City on Monday (April 21) after falling ill at a Manhattan hotel. Billboard has reached out to the rapper’s reps for confirmation. According to TMZ, paramedics responded to a call for Uzi — who identifies as nonbinary — during the afternoon and transported them to a […]
Wiz Khalifa seems to believe that the Earth is flat. The Pittsburgh rapper is rolling out his latest album Kush + Orange Juice 2 and stopped by The Joe Budden Podcast to discuss a variety of topics — one of which is the age-old (and centuries-ago-answered) question: Is the Earth flat or round? There’s clip […]
Jonathan Davis is doing more than just throwing a dog a bone — he’s launching a new capsule collection for his Freak on a Leash pet line to help pooches everywhere be a little more rock n’ roll. The Korn frontman announced on Tuesday (April 22) that he has teamed up with designer Ashton Michael […]
Tayme Thapthimthong and LISA are close both on and offscreen — but before the pair met for the first time to shoot White Lotus, the actor says he was “so nervous” to meet the BLACKPINK star.
While guesting on The Jennifer Hudson Show on Tuesday (April 22), Thapthimthong opened up about the first time he interacted with LISA, who played his love interest on season 3 of Mike White’s hit HBO/Max series. “It was amazing,” he began. “She was so nice, friendly, kind.”
“The first time I met her, I was so nervous,” Thapthimthong continued. “Before actually getting to know her, I knew her from my daughter. She was 4 at the time, I went to see her at her mom’s house, and she had BLACKPINK on YouTube … I really enjoyed it. I was like, ‘Oh damn, this is good. LISA, her rap — it was like, good flow.’”
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The Skin Trade star went on to say how the Thai rapper’s casting as Mook was one of the last to be revealed to the rest of the season’s actors, noting he only learned who would be playing his primary scene partner with just a month left to go before filming started — and only after he signed NDAs. After getting to know LISA, he says the “Rockstar” artist invited him and his daughter out to lunch.
“She’s got so much going on at the same time,” Thapthimthong told Hudson. “I never wanted to impose, but she was so kind. She even bought [my daughter] a little Labubu doll for her birthday. She still talks about it — but now she calls me Gaitok all the time. She doesn’t call me dad anymore.”
As for whether or not he would ever get in the studio with LISA, Thapthimthong — who also sings and showed off his chops for Hudson on the talk show — said he would “absolutely love” to work with the K-pop idol. “That would be really cool to do,” he added, doubling down on what he previously said about teaming up with his costar on music. (For a taste of what their potential future collab might sound like, check out the pair’s impromptu “No Diggity” duet.)
Watch Thamthimthong gush about LISA on The Jennifer Hudson Show above.
ROSÉ is meeting Coldplay at the “APT.” At the rock band’s concert in Seoul, South Korea, on Tuesday night (April 22), the BLACKPINK star made a surprise guest appearance to perform her smash hit single for thousands of fans at Goyang Stadium. In a clip posted by both ROSÉ and the “Fix You” band, the […]
Teddy Swims and GIVĒON take over the No. 1 spot on Billboard’s Adult R&B Airplay chart with their collaboration “Are You Even Real” leading the list dated April 26. The single ascends from No. 3 after a 17% jump in plays that made it the most-played song on U.S. panel-contributing adult R&B radio stations in the tracking week of April 11 – 17, according to Luminate. Thanks to its gain, “Are You Even Real” wins the weekly Greatest Gainer prize, awarded to the song with the largest increase in plays.
“Are You Even Real,” released and promoted through Swims INT/Warner, trades places with last week’s champ, Muni Long’s “Superpowers,” which drops 1-3 after backtracking 23% in plays for the week.
With the new leader, Teddy Swims nabs his second No. 1 on Adult R&B Airplay. His breakthrough hit, “Lose Control,” ruled the chart for three weeks in June 2024. Radio triumphs have been instrumental to its ongoing, historic success: beyond Adult R&B Airplay, other “Lose Control” No. 1 ranks included Pop Airplay and the overall Radio Songs chart, helping it clinch the year-end Hot 100 No. 1 title for 2024 and a record-breaking 58 weeks in the Hot 100’s top 10.
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Plus, with “Lose Control” and “Are You Even Real,” Teddy Swims becomes the fourth artist thus far in the 2020s decade to top Adult R&B Airplay with each of his first two appearances. He joins:
The Bonfyre (“Automatic” in March 2019 and “U Say,” feat. 6lack, in February 2020)Tems (a featured role on Wizkid’s “Essence” in October 2021- January 2022 and her own “Free Mind” in February – April 2023)October London (“Back to Your Place” in August – October 2023 and “Mulholland Drive,” feat. Snoop Dogg and Latoiya Williams, in August 2024)
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For GIVĒON, “Are You Even Real” awards him a first No. 1 on Adult R&B Airplay with his fifth charting title. His prior best was a No. 7 result for “Like I Want You” in February 2021. The incumbent champ, however, isn’t his only current hit. The singer’s “Twenties” repeats at its No. 9 high on this week’s chart with a 4% jump in plays in the latest tracking week.
Elsewhere, “Are You Even Real” climbs 10-9 on the Rhythmic Airplay chart through a 7% increase in plays at the format and rises 18-16 on the Mainstream R&B/Hip-Hop Airplay chart (up 8%). Gains at the two formats, as well as adult R&B, power the song’s 44-41 improvement on the all-genre Radio Songs chart. There, “Are You Even Real” ascends to 16.7 million audience impressions across all formats, a 4% boost from the prior week.
The minute news broke about an upcoming remake of 1992’s The Bodyguard, the first question became: Who could possibly replace late pop superstar Whitney Houston and leading man Kevin Costner as the duo at the center of the romantic thriller? On the new Billboard Pop Shop Podcast, Katie & Keith are discussing some of the […]
Is it hot in here, or it just Davido and Victoria Monét‘s new “Offa Me” music video that dropped on Tuesday (April 22)? Davido infuses the KLVDR-directed visual with his breezy, charismatic vibe, while Monét entrances viewers with her slick vocal delivery and Sean Bankhead-choreographed moves, including a new dance to her catchy “Davido, V-Mo” […]
Benson Boone knows that not everyone is going to have beautiful things to say about him, but he’d at least like his haters to have constructive criticism to offer.
In a recent TikTok, the singer-songwriter vented about people who leave hate comments without backing them up. “If you hate me or my music at least have a good reason for it,” he wrote in text layered over a video of him sitting in a dark room, looking down at the camera.
“I just read a comment that said ‘idek why I hate Benson Boone but it feels right,’” he continued. “Like WHAT!!? how am I supposed to improve after reading that? At least say something valid like ‘he low key just flips everywhere can he [do] anything else?’ or even ‘I just don’t like his songs even though I’m basing my opinion off the only one that I’ve heard over and over’ (super valid)”
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To Boone’s point, he’s objectively best known — if not for his tendency to perform backflips on stage, like at the 2025 Grammys — for his Billboard Hot 100 No. 2 hit “Beautiful Things.” At the 2025 iHeartRadio Music Awards in March, the Washington-born star won song of the year for the smash.
One fan in the comments posited that the song’s popularity might have given Boone a case of overexposure. “i feel like sometimes when a radio overplays a song a LOT like beautiful things for example it can ruin the song and therefore the artist by proxy, without it having to do anything w you directly,” they wrote, to which the musician replied, “Honestly this is so true!!”
The post comes as the young star is preparing to release his next studio album, American Heart, in June. In a March cover story interview with Rolling Stone, Boone opened up about starting this next chapter following the success of “Beautiful Things,” sharing, “I think this year has taught me a lot of things, especially that it is incredibly easy to get carried away with my ego.”
“After ‘Beautiful Things,’ I was like, ‘Dude, I can do anything.’ And I can’t,’” he continued. “It’s good to talk about, ‘Hey, you know, I’m not the king of the world. I’m not somebody that everybody in the world knows. I’m still an up-and-coming artist.’ ”
See Boone’s TikTok below.