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09 Aug 2024

Lil Pump Says He’s Leaving America If Kamala Harris Becomes President

Lil Pump — who has supported Donald Trump since 2020 and has a tattoo of the former president’s mugshot on one of his thighs — has promised to leave the country if Kamala Harris wins the presidential election.

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The Miami rapper recently gave his fans the news in a video shot in his car. “I swear on my dad’s grave, if this stupid-a– bi— Kamala Harris wins the f—ing election, I’m moving out of America, boy,” he said. “I swear on everything.”

He then claimed on X that he’s going to perform a diss track aimed at both President Joe Biden and Vice President Harris during Trump’s next rally. “I will be performing the joe Biden kamal Harris diss track at the next trump rally,” he tweeted.

After Harris was announced as the hopeful replacement for President Biden as the Democratic nominee, Pump took to X and to voice his displeasure, tweeting, “Kamala Harris isn’t even black… she’s Indian. She locked up over 1,500 people for weed related crimes and then laughed about it years later. The worst VP in American History. Trump 2024”

If you remember, back in 2020 during a rally, the former president introduced Lil Pump as “Lil Pimp.”

“Speaking of sound, music and other things, one of the big superstars of the world, Little Pimp,” he said. “There he is! How’s it going? Do you want to come up and say something?”

When Pump got onstage, he told the crowd, “I came here to say, Mr. President, I appreciate everything you’ve done for our country. You brought the troops home and you’re doing the right thing. MAGA 20, 20, 20. Don’t forget that! Don’t forget that. And do not vote for Sleepy Joe at all!”

09 Aug 2024

John Legend Drops ‘L-O-V-E’ Feat. Chrissy Teigen & Their Kids Ahead of Children’s Lullaby Album

John Legend is turning his music career into a family business with the release of his new single “L-O-V-E,” which features wife Chrissy Teigen and two of their kids and arrives ahead of the Grammy winner’s upcoming children‘s lullaby album My Favorite Dream.

The “All of Me” artist both announced the 15-track LP and dropped the cheerful new song on Friday (Aug. 9), sharing the cover art for both on Instagram. The album is fronted by a cute throwback photo of Legend from when he was a little boy, while the song’s artwork was illustrated by 8-year-old Luna, who is featured as a background vocalist on “L-O-V-E” alongside her mom and little brother, 6-year-old Miles.

“Special thanks to the artist, Miss Luna, for the beautiful artwork,” Legend wrote, also posting a muted video of him dancing with his 1-year-old daughter Esti. “All music is baby tested, baby approved.”

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Produced by Sufjan Stevens, My Favorite Dream features nine original family-friendly tunes written by Legend, plus covers of existing classics such as “Three Little Birds” and “You Are My Sunshine.” The Voice coach was inspired to release an album of lullabies when a video of him serenading Esti on the piano received warm feedback from fans, according to his post.

“I’m right in the thick of fatherhood,” stated Legend, who welcomed his fourth child with Teigen — a son named Wren — in June 2023. “My parents loved to sing around the house, making up bedtime songs for us and songs to motivate and inspire us. And Chrissy and I also love singing to our kids. We make up little jingles and ditties for them all the time. In our home, music is very important to the way we interact and communicate with them.”

“Once I started thinking about it, I decided I wanted to write a whole new children’s album,” he continued in a release. “I just took it on as a challenge to write some original lullabies and children’s songs that I would want my kids to hear, something we could share with kids and parents all over the world.”

My Favorite Dream arrives Aug. 30. Listen to “L-O-V-E” featuring Teigen, Luna and Miles below.

09 Aug 2024

Drake Is Redesigning His Air Drake Private Jet: Here’s a Sneak Peek

Air Drake is getting a facelift.

The Toronto rapper recently previewed Air Drake 2’s redesign on Instagram, and it features a message that confirms your suspicions: “Chances are she’s on board.” Air Drake’s first iteration had the message, “If you’re reading this we left,” a play on his classic 2015 mixtape If You’re Reading This It’s Too Late.

The private Boeing 767 is a gift from cargo company Cargojet and can fit around 200 passengers if it were equipped like a commercial plane. Both iterations of the plane’s exterior were designed by the late Virgil Abloh. Air Drake 1’s paint job took inspiration from the cover of the rapper’s 2013 album Nothing Was the Same, with its blue sky and fluffy clouds. Air Drake 2, however, looks to be painted with a more overcast sky and lightning.

The cabin features three private suites, two living rooms, a business lounge, an entertainment room and a bathroom with a shower. All this is accented with gold and wood surfaces, carpeted floors and beige and light purple furniture.

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When Drake first showed off his plane back in 2019, he said he partnered with Cargojet because he wanted to support a Canadian business. “Supporting home grown businesses has always been a top priority of mine, so when an opportunity came up to get involved with a great Canadian company I was honored to do so,” he said in a press release.

Air Drake is almost 30 years old and was first bought in 1996 by Saudi Arabia’s Mid East Jet, according to chi-aviation.com.

09 Aug 2024

Here’s Our Dream Cast for Britney Spears’ Biopic

Britney Spears is reportedly the latest star to document her life via biopic.

According to Variety, Universal Pictures landed the rights to the pop princess’ best-selling memoir The Woman in Me. The book chronicles Spears’ rise to fame, her relationship with fellow child star Justin Timberlake — which included her getting pregnant and having an abortion during their time together — as well as her life under a highly restrictive 13-year conservancy.

The Woman in Me quickly became a best seller. In the day following its arrival in October, Spears stated the book was “the highest selling celebrity memoir in history” within its first day on shelves.

Wicked director Jon M. Chu and Marc Platt are reportedly leading the film’s development. Spears also took to X earlier this month to reveal that she’s been working on a “secret project” with Platt. “Excited to share with my fans that I’ve been working on a secret project with #MarcPlatt. He’s always made my favorite movies … stay tuned,” she wrote.

In anticipation of the potential biopic, we’ve compiled a list of our dream cast to portray the key people in Spears’ life, from the pop princess herself, family and exes to industry peers, reporters and more. See below.

09 Aug 2024

Watch Tate McRae & Megan Moroney Perform ‘Tennessee Orange’ in Nashville

Tate McRae had a special surprise for fans during her Nashville show on Tuesday night (Aug. 6).

The “Greedy” star took to TikTok to share that she brought out a surprise guest, Megan Moroney, and the duo performed Moroney’s breakthrough hit, “Tennessee Orange.” In the clip, the two singer harmonize on the chorus, singing together lyrics: “I met somebody and he’s got blue eyes/ He opens the door and he don’t make me cry.”

“Oh how I love her,” McRae captioned the post.

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Last month, Moroney cleared the air about her rumored romance with fellow country star Morgan Wallen, whom “Tennessee Orange” is rumored to be about. While on the Call Her Daddy podcast, host Alex Cooper directly asked her if she dated the “Last Night” singer. “Never exclusively,” Moroney replied. “I have tried to avoid that in every single interview I’ve ever done. But we’re here now and time has passed and all is well.”

She declined to confirm if “Tennessee Orange,” is about Volunteers fan Wallen as speculated, but she explained that she met the star right before the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020 while she was a senior in college. “We were friends for a long time. We were not just friends. And now we’re friends,” she explained. “I feel like he’s a very private person. We weren’t exclusively dating ever and I think that both of our schedules… when we tried to hang out it was like, ‘OK, we have this one day of the whole month where we’re both maybe in town and then the other has something going on.’”

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09 Aug 2024

Adele & Rich Paul Engaged: Singer Reveals She’s ‘Getting Married’ at Munich Concert

Wedding bells are in Adele and Rich Paul’s future, with the English singer revealing Friday (Aug. 9) that she’s engaged to the sports agent after three years of dating.

The unofficial announcement came during Adele’s concert in Munich, where she’s currently three shows in to a monthlong residency at a custom-built stadium that seats 74,000 guests a night. The 16-time Grammy winner appeared to read aloud a fan’s sign that said, “Will you marry me?”

“I can’t marry you,” she replied, holding up her left hand to indicate a ring on her finger as the crowd cheered. “‘Cause I’m already getting married.”

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Billboard has reached out to both Adele and Paul’s reps for comment.

The couple first started dating in 2021, with the businessman revealing in a New Yorker profile that he had been “hanging out” with “a major pop star.” They made their first public outing together two months later at game 5 of the NBA Finals in Phoenix.

“He’s just hilarious. And very smart,” Adele said of her beau in an interview with Oprah that November. “It’s quite incredible watching him do what he does,” she told Winfrey also sharing that she’s experiencing the first time she’s ever “loved myself and been open to loving and being loved by someone else.”

Proposal rumors swirled in 2022 when the “Hello” singer attended the BRIT Awards with a diamond ring on her left finger, something she confessed to having no intentions of clarifying for fans. “As if I would ever tell anyone if I was or wasn’t,” she said of the engagement speculation on The Graham Norton Show.

Adele was previously married to Simon Konecki, with whom she shares her only child Angelo. Her most recent album 30, which arrived in November 2021 and spent six weeks atop the Billboard 200, is predominantly themed around her experiences processing and recovering from the relationship with her son.

Watch the moment Adele announced she’s engaged to Rich Paul below.

09 Aug 2024

Adele & Rich Paul’s Relationship: A Timeline

A look back at Adele and Rich Paul’s relationship.

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Adele and Rich Paul attend the 2022 NBA All-Star Game at Rocket Mortgage Fieldhouse on February 20, 2022 in Cleveland, Ohio.

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There’s a fire starting in her heart — but instead of rolling in the deep, Adele has spent the past few years rolling up to basketball games, A-list wedding ceremonies and red-carpet events with Rich Paul.

The vocal powerhouse first shocked the world with news of her relationship in summer 2021, when she made a rare public appearance at a Phoenix Suns basketball game in July. Though that much-talked-about evening was one of the first times fans had seen one of history’s best-selling musical acts since she released her third studio album 25 six years prior, it was also so much more than a toe-dip back into the spotlight. Why? Because she took her seat in the crowd with Paul, an Ohio-based sports agent, close by her side.

That night was the beginning of their public-yet-private relationship — but before then, Adele had long become world famous for belting soulful, fiery ballads about devastating heartbreak and had spent much of 2019 as the subject of headlines scrutinizing her divorce from ex-husband Simon Konecki, with whom she shares her only child Angelo. Her album 30, which arrived in November 2021, is predominantly themed around her experiences processing and recovering from the relationship with her son.

No matter how it felt for her at the time, though, the pain Adele felt while writing the songs on 30 eventually yielded to a new romance, thanks to Paul. Only time will tell if the basketball entrepreneur one day inspires a record full of love songs, but for now, take a look at his and Adele’s love story below.

09 Aug 2024

Snoop Dogg Introduces First-Ever Breakdancing Competition at 2024 Summer Olympics

With breakdancing making its debut as an Olympic competition in Paris, it’s only right that Snoop Dogg hit the stage to kick off the festivities on Friday (Aug. 9).

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The Doggfather donned a red, white and blue tracksuit while his Billboard Hot 100 No. 1 hit “Drop It Like It’s Hot” boomed throughout the venue in Place de la Concorde.

Snoop hit a few dance moves as the crowd cheered him on before smacking the floor with the wooden baton. Friday marked the start of the women’s knockout competition with B-Girls looking to secure the first gold medal in the category.

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Team USA’s Sunny Choi and Logan Edra went head-to-head with dancers from France, Ukraine, Japan, Lithuania, the Netherlands and more.

The men’s breakdancing contest will go down in Paris on Saturday (Aug. 10). Unfortunately, breaking isn’t on the docket for the 2028 Summer Olympics when it comes to Los Angeles.

Snoop Dogg has been a breath of fresh air and a star at the 2024 Olympics. From serving as the torchbearer for the U.S. to swimming with Michael Phelps and paying a visit to the Louvre, he’s done it all during his few weeks in Paris.

The 52-year-old isn’t taking the opportunity for granted as he hopes his success as a correspondent will inspire NBC to continue thinking outside the box when it comes to Olympic coverage in the future.

“This opportunity wasn’t nothing but a chance for me to show the world what it’s supposed to look like when you put the right person in the right environment,” he told the Wall Street Journal. “Sports, entertainment, the globe — this is what I do. I do it every day. I want to give a shout-out to all of the executives, because the first thing they did was tell me to be me.”

09 Aug 2024

What’s Your Favorite New Music Release of the Week? Vote!

August is officially here, and today’s biggest artists are keeping the heat strong in the last month of summer with some great music releases.

Latto unveiled her third studio album, Sugar Honey Iced Tea, featuring contributions from Ciara, Coco Jones, Hunxho, Young Nudy, Teezo Touchdown, Megan Thee Stallion and Mariah the Scientist. Sugar Honey Iced Tea is the follow-up to 2022’s 777, which reached No. 15 on the Billboard 200 off the strength of its breakout single “Big Energy.”

Meanwhile, Shawn Mendes made his comeback with single “Why Why Why,” which leads the star’s upcoming album, Shawn. Last month, Mendes shared a message for fans about the project, writing, “Music really can be medicine. 2 years ago I felt like I had absolutely no idea who I was. A year ago I couldn’t step into a studio without falling into complete panic. So to be here right now with 12 beautiful finished songs feels like such a gift.”

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Katy Perry also continued her 143 rollout with new single “Lifetimes.” Perry said in a press statement, “‘Lifetimes’ is a song about eternal love. It’s about finding that one deep and satisfying love of your life. A soulmate doesn’t always have to come in the form of a partner – it can come in all different ways, a child, a best friend, a pet. For me it is my daughter – I ask her every night, ‘Will you find me in every lifetime?’ She says yes, and I feel found. You’ll find each other, over and over again, for lifetimes.”

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In the Latin world, superstar J Balvin unveiled his new 15-track LP Rayo. The project includes collaborations with Feid, Chencho Corleone, Bad Gyal and Carín León, among others.

With all the aforementioned drops, plus so much more, it’s a busy week in music and we want to know which release you liked the most. Check out our Friday Music Guide here, and let us know by voting below.


09 Aug 2024

Ray LaMontagne’s ‘Step Into Your Power’ Tops Adult Alternative Airplay Chart

Ray LaMontagne reaches No. 1 on Billboard’s Adult Alternative Airplay chart for a third time as “Step Into Your Power” ascends to the top of the Aug. 17-dated tally.

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The singer-songwriter last ruled with “Strong Enough” for seven weeks beginning in July 2020. His first leader, “Beg Steal or Borrow,” reigned for six frames in 2010.

In between “Strong Enough” and “Step Into Your Power,” LaMontagne reached Adult Alternative Airplay three times, paced by the No. 21-peaking “Roll Me Mama, Roll Me” in 2021. His Adult Alternative Airplay history dates to 2005, thanks to the No. 5 hit “Trouble.”

Concurrently, “Step Into Your Power” breaks into the top 30 of the all-rock-format, audience-based Rock & Alternative Airplay chart, lifting 33-29 via 1.2 million audience impressions, up 10%, in the week ending Aug. 8, according to Luminate. It’s LaMontagne’s first trip to the region dating to the list’s 2009 inception, surpassing the No. 32 peak of “Strong Enough” in 2020.

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“Step Into Your Power” is the lead single from Long Way Home, LaMontagne’s ninth studio set (due Aug. 16) and first since 2020’s Monovision, which peaked at No. 4 on the Americana/Folk Albums chart that July. He boasts three No. 1s on the tally, most recently with 2016’s Ouroboros.

On the all-genre Billboard 200, Lamontagne has notched three top 10s, all of which have hit No. 3: Supernova (2014), God Willin’ & The Creek Don’t Rise, with the Pariah Dogs (2010), and Gossip in the Grain (2008).

All Billboard charts dated Aug. 17 will update on Billboard.com on Tuesday, Aug. 13.