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12 Aug 2024

Watch a Series of Teenage Boys Explain What ‘Brat Summer’ Is

With Brat Summer in full swing, Billboard and SheMedia are teaming up to see just how wide the reach of Charli XCX’s latest album is.

In a new video posted Monday (Aug. 12), a group of teen boys answer what the term means to them. While the vast majority of participants admit that they’ve “never heard of [Brat Summer] in my life,” there were a few who gave thoughtful responses.

“Brat Summer to me is kind of just this movement of individuals living freely however they want without kind of caring how people perceive them,” one explained insightfully, while another hilariously added, “It reminds me of that expression, I don’t know if I’m allowed to say it: ’Serving c—.‘”

Two songs from Charli XCX’s Brat are currently sitting on the Billboard Hot 100, with “360” and the TikTok-viral “Apple” both cracking the chart. The album is also dominating Hot Dance/Electronic Songs with 16 tracks on the chart, the highest of which, “Apple,” is at No. 4 (so far). Brat has peaked at No. 3 on the Billboard 200 album chart. Charli’s U.S. Brat Tour is slated to kick off Sept. 14 at Little Caesars Arena in Detroit.

Since its release in June, Brat has become deeply engrained in pop culture and even politics. Charli XCX posted on Twitter, “Kamala [Harris] IS Brat,” and the VP’s presidential campaign responded by swapping in the Brat album’s lime-green color and font on its official account. 

Watch the full Billboard and SheMedia video above.

12 Aug 2024

Two Weeks of Planning & ‘Joyful Chaos’: Behind the Scenes of Paris Olympics Closing Ceremony With Phoenix

About halfway through the 2024 Paris Olympics Closing Ceremony on Sunday (Aug. 11) — after a parade of athletes triumphantly made their way into the Stade de France to mark the end of the 2024 Summer Olympics — the band Phoenix was huddled underground waiting for their cue.

“Usually, backstage areas can be sad places,” Phoenix’s Laurent Brancowitz, who plays guitar and keyboards, tells Billboard. “All you usually see is a security guard waiting for his shift to end and a guy handing out bottles of water. But this time it was beautiful. Looking out and seeing the light, the haze and people in costumes. We could see dancers jump just above our heads. It was an ant colony full of people who were really happy.”

The hordes of volunteers, performers and athletes convened to help bid Paris adieu to 19 days of the global spotlight. Along for the ride were a bevy of artists to help preview the 2028 Olympics Games in Los Angeles: H.E.R. sang the U.S. National Anthem from the stadium, while Billie Eilish, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Snoop Dogg and Dr. Dre all performed live on location from Long Beach, Calif.

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Those on hand representing France included the French singer Zaho de Sagazan and dancer Arthur Cadre, as well as Phoenix, one of the country’s most popular musical exports over the past two decades. (They originally formed in nearby Versailles in 1995.) But while it typically takes years of intricate planning for an Olympics to come together (plotting for Paris began back in 2017), Phoenix only had around two weeks to construct what amounted to a 20-minute set.

“We knew we were being considered and at some point we were actually first approached about appearing at the Opening Ceremony,” says frontman Thomas Mars of the initial planning, masterminded by creative director Thomas Jolly (who also plotted the July 26 Opening Ceremony). “We were telling them that whatever they needed, we’d love to participate,” says Mars. “The Olympics have that kind of pressure that’s right for music somehow.”

While the rain-soaked Opening Ceremony famously wound up featuring the likes of Lady Gaga and Celine Dion, Phoenix didn’t get word until late July that plans had shifted to feature the band prominently during the grand finale of the games. “We were thinking, ‘Is this a gift or are we going to make fools of ourselves?’” Mars muses of receiving just two weeks of advanced notice. “The only thing they told us is to put on a show for the athletes who are probably going to go wild.”

One of the first major decisions was to feature an array of fellow artists and friends to round out their set. “We reached out to a few people, and for some it didn’t work out because they were on tour,” says Mars. Eventually they successfully recruited Vampire Weekend’s Ezra Koenig, the French duo Air, Cambodian rapper VannDa and French-Belgian pop singer Angèle. In a full circle moment, they also invited the electro pop artist Kavinsky to perform his 2010 song “Nightcall,” a track Mars was initially asked to sing on before its release. “The producer of that song, Daft Punk’s Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo, first reached out when he made it and asked me to hop on, but we have a rule that we don’t do music outside of Phoenix,” says Mars. “So when we reached out to Kavinsky, I was like ‘What part was I originally supposed to sing?’”

Phoenix’s set also featured an unscripted moment where hundreds of athletes stormed the stage in excitement, breaking LED screens and crowding the space along the way. “When we saw everybody, we understood something unplanned was happening,” recalls Brancowitz. “But it turned out to be the perfect situation for a live show. It was a very joyful kind of chaos.”

However, there was some anxiety. “In the back of my mind, the structural engineer in me was like, ‘Is this stage going to survive 800 muscular athletes jumping in sync on top of it?’ But the people organizing handled the situation and managed to clear the stage without creating any drama.”

Mars also couldn’t help himself, at one point jumping into the crowd and getting hoisted up. “I asked the producers if I could, and I figured they’d say no because of security, but they were totally game,” says Mars. “All of the American athletes were actually gathered in one section, so when we did ‘1901’ (the song that helped break the band in the States), the Americans were most pumped up. One guy actually handed me his gold medal and wanted me to put it on, but in a split second I thought wearing it would be wrong. The heroes are the athletes, but it was a beautiful exchange.” Along the way, Mars raised a finger in the air as a tribute to Philippe Zdar, the French producer who worked on “1901” and passed away in 2019.

After Phoenix (and Tom Cruise’s much talked-about stunt jump from the top of the stadium), the focus shifted to Los Angeles in a segment produced by producer Ben Winston’s Fulwell 73, the outfit known for their recent work on the Grammy Awards. Production began on Long Beach’s Belmont Shore last week, when a bevy of trucks and hundreds of staff moved in. It was so secretive that many of the staffers weren’t even informed what they were working on beforehand. The Los Angeles portion kicked off at around 2 p.m. PT, featuring some of the city’s biggest musical acts, including Billie Eilish, who sang her latest “Birds of a Feather” accompanied by brother Finneas.

When the action cut back to Paris, the grand finale came in the form of French singer Yseult crooning an emotional version of Frank Sinatra’s 1969 hit “My Way.” It was a spirited choice considering the song has French origins; composed by Jacques Revaux, it was originally titled “Comme d’habitude” before Paul Anka concocted its now-iconic English lyrics custom-written to Sinatra’s then-retirement.

“I was confidentially told a few weeks ago that they just might be featuring ‘My Way’ as part of the show,” Anka tells Billboard of a call that came from organizers to give its writer a heads up. “The song has had all kinds of lives and it means a lot to France. I thought, ‘Wow! If they pull it off, that’d be pretty cool.” In the intervening time, it was radio silence until he was watching at home like everybody else. “I respected the take on it and I thought it was amazingly orchestrated, and by the end I thought it really kicked ass,” says Anka. “I also love how they chose a female performer because you usually hear men singing it. But with what the Olympics mean and what those athletes go through, to end the games with ‘My Way’ was one of the great moments I’ve ever had with that song, let alone in my career.”

When all was said and done and the audience departed, the performers couldn’t help but stick around and soak in the moment. “We had the stadium to ourselves,” says Phoenix’s Mars. “Everybody involved in creating the show just wandered around and stayed until really late.” In fact, Mars compares their Olympic turn to their 2009 star-making Saturday Night Live debut, which they said was the most consequential performance of their career. That is, until last night.

“People ask what’s next, and the only other thing would be to perform on SNL’s 50th anniversary special, if the powers-that-be are listening,” says Mars with a wink of the show’s upcoming anniversary special in February. “But really, performing at the Olympics was like when you have a kid. You come back and you can’t sleep, you’re just so excited. That’s how good it was. It compares with having a kid.”

12 Aug 2024

*NSYNC’s ‘Bye Bye Bye’ Rides ‘Deadpool & Wolverine’ Spotlight to Top 10 on Global Excl. U.S. Chart

*NSYNC’s “Bye Bye Bye” bounds to the top 10, to No. 8 from No. 16, on the Billboard Global Excl. U.S. chart. The song, originally a smash in 2000, is newly fueled by its synch in the box office blockbuster Deadpool & Wolverine, which has grossed over $1 billion globally since it premiered July 26.

The Billboard Global 200 and Global Excl. U.S. charts, which began in September 2020 – where Billie Eilish rules the roost with “Birds of a Feather” – 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.

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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“Bye Bye Bye” scales Global Excl. U.S. with 42.4 million streams (up 50%) and 3,000 sold (up 5%) outside the U.S. Aug. 2-8, sparked by its placement in the early moments of Deadpool & Wolverine, starring Ryan Reynolds and Hugh Jackman. The track debuted a week earlier, marking the group’s first entry on the chart.

Beyond holiday hits, “Bye Bye Bye” – which ruled Billboard’s Pop Airplay chart for 10 weeks and the all-format Radio Songs ranking, and hit No. 4 on the multimetric, U.S.-based Billboard Hot 100 in 2000 – is the second-oldest title to reach the Global Excl. U.S. top 10; Kate Bush’s “Running Up That Hill (A Deal With God),” originally from 1985, reigned for a week in July 2022, initially revived by its synch in Netflix’s Stranger Things and subsequently promoted as a single.

(Now in third place, Sophie Ellis-Bextor’s “Murder on the Dancefloor,” from 2001, hit No. 9 on Global Excl. U.S. this February, renewed thanks to its appearance in the film Saltburn, along with buzz on TikTok.)

“Bye Bye Bye” also jumps 18-12 on the Global 200 and re-enters the Hot 100 at No. 45. It drew 10 million official streams (up 31%), 4.8 million in radio airplay audience (up 8%) and 2,000 in sales in the U.S. Aug. 2-8.

To date, the anthem boasts 4.8 billion in radio reach, 517 million official on-demand streams and 1.3 million downloads sold in the U.S. It won for best pop video at the 2000 MTV Video Music Awards (where *NSYNC performed the song) and scored a record of the year Grammy nomination.

The Billboard Global 200 and Billboard Global Excl. U.S. charts (dated Aug. 17, 2024) will update on Billboard.com tomorrow, Aug. 13. 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.

12 Aug 2024

Billie Eilish’s ‘Birds of a Feather’ Soars to No. 1 on Billboard Global Charts

Billie Eilish earns her first No. 1 on both the Billboard Global 200 and Billboard Global Excl. U.S. charts as “Birds of a Feather” rises from the runner-up spot to perch atop each survey.

Eilish also debuts in the top five of each chart as Charli xcx’s “Guess,” on which she’s featured, starts at No. 3 on the Global 200 and No. 5 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.

“Birds of a Feather” tops the Global 200 with 78.8 million streams (up 2%) and 7,000 sold (up 11%) worldwide Aug. 2-8. The singer-songwriter previously peaked as high as No. 2 on the chart with “What Was I Made For?” in August 2023 and “Therefore I Am” in November 2020.

Plus, Charli xcx’s “Guess,” featuring Eilish, debuts at No. 3 on the Global 200 with 60.3 million streams and 9,000 sold worldwide. The song surged by 999% and 848% in the respective metrics following the Aug. 1 arrival of its remix with Eilish; it was first released June 10 on Charli xcx’s Brat and It’s the Same but There’s Three More Songs So It’s Not, the deluxe version of her album Brat, released June 7. Charli xcx notches her first top 10 since the Global 200 began, while Eilish adds her eighth.

Elsewhere in the Global 200’s top five, Sabrina Carpenter’s “Espresso” rebounds 3-2, following three nonconsecutive weeks at No. 1 beginning in June; Shaboozey’s “A Bar Song (Tipsy)” holds at No. 4, after reaching No. 3; and Jimin’s “Who” falls to No. 5 after spending its first two weeks on the chart at No. 1.

“Birds of a Feather” concurrently climbs 2-1 on Global Excl. U.S., with 57.3 million streams (up 3%) and 3,000 sold (up 18%) outside the U.S. Aug. 2-8. Eilish previously reached a No. 2 peak with “Lunch” in June and “Therefore I Am” in 2020. Both “Birds of a Feather” and “Lunch” are from her newest album, Hit Me Hard and Soft.

Charli xcx’s “Guess,” featuring Eilish, opens at No. 5 on Global Excl. U.S. with 40.1 million streams and 4,000 sold globally. As on the Global 200, Charli xcx claims her first Global Excl. U.S. top 10, while Eilish ups her count to eight.

In between Eilish’s concurrent top five Global Excl. U.S. hits, Jimin’s “Who” slips to No. 2 after logging its first two weeks on the chart at No. 1; Carpenter’s “Espresso” holds at No. 3, following eight nonconsecutive weeks at No. 1 beginning in May; and Karol G’s “Si Antes Te Hubiera Conocido” keeps at its No. 4 best.

The Billboard Global 200 and Billboard Global Excl. U.S. charts (dated Aug. 17, 2024) will update on Billboard.com tomorrow, Aug. 13. 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.

12 Aug 2024

Travis Scott, Future & Playboi Carti to Headline Rolling Loud Miami’s 10th Anniversary Festival

Rolling Loud is celebrating its 10th anniversary this year, and the rap festival unveiled its loaded lineup for Rolling Loud Miami 2024 on Monday (Aug. 12).

Travis Scott, Future and Playboi Carti will serve as headliners when the festival takes over Miami Gardens’ Hard Rock Stadium for the weekend of Dec. 13 through Dec. 15.

“ROLLING LOUD 10-YEAR ANNIVERSARY MIAMI, FL • DECEMBER 13-15, 2024 GOOGLE PAY EXCLUSIVE PRESALE STARTS WED @ 11AM ET ALL TIX ON SALE FRIDAY @ 12PM ET,” the festival wrote to its social media accounts.

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Fans are encouraged to sign up for “first access” on RL’s website which will have various general admission and VIP packages available for the three-day run.

It’s a decorated and versatile cast of rappers on the bill with Friday (Dec. 13) enlisting Yeat, Metro Boomin, Lil Yachty, BigXThaPlug, Bossman Dlow, JT, Hunxho, Wolfacejoeyy and more. Saturday (Dec. 14) recruits Don Toliver, Kodak Black, Sexyy Red and Lil Tjay while Sunday (Dec. 15) brings the heat to close out the festival with Lil Baby, Bryson Tiller, Polo G, Shaboozey, Ken Carson and Rich The Kid.

RL co-founder Tariq Cherif added: “Flawlëss @rollingloud 10 year anniversary lineup featuring our new rebrand. On sale Friday. Presale with Google Pay on Wednesday. See you in Miami in December!”

Fans seemed to be excited about the lineup, as some deemed it to be “worth the wait” as the festival temporarily delayed the rollout. “i will be there no matter what,” one fan wrote while another chimed in: “Yea dis the best lineup i’ve ever seen ngl.”

Find the full Rolling Loud Miami 2024 lineup below.

12 Aug 2024

MTV Bumps Date of 2024 VMAs; Sabrina Carpenter, Chappell Roan & More to Perform

MTV has bumped the date of the 2024 MTV Video Music Awards from Tuesday Sept. 10 to Wednesday Sept. 11 to avoid conflicting with the planned U.S. Presidential debate between vice president Kamala Harris and former president Donald Trump.

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The conflict with the debate would have posed an image problem for MTV, which has made boosting voter turnout and civic engagement a part of its brand since the 1992 election, in which Bill Clinton unseated George H.W. Bush. Also, the intense interest in the first (and conceivably only) Trump/Harris debate threatened to completely overwhelm the VMAs.

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In a press release announcing the change, MTV said “Our fans are encouraged to tune in for the 9/10 debate ahead of music’s most iconic night.”

Chappell Roan, Sabrina Carpenter, Camila Cabello, GloRilla and Rauw Alejandro are the first artists slated to perform at the awards. This will be Cabello’s third main-stage performance on the VMAs, but the first for these other artists. Carpenter performed a mash-up of “Feather” and “Nonsense” on last year’s pre-show. (The fact that Carpenter was booked on the pre-show, rather than the main show, just one year ago is a dramatic sign of how fast her rise has been this year.)

All five of the scheduled performers are 2024 VMA nominees. Carpenter is up for six awards, GloRilla for three, Roan and Alejandro for two and Cabello for one.

The show will air live from UBS Arena in New York on Wednesday, Sept. 11 at 8 p.m. ET/PT. This will mark the first time the show has been held on 9/11 since the terrorist attack in 2001 made that date infamous. In observance of the 23rd anniversary of 9/11, MTV will again support the nonprofit 9/11 Day, which organizes the September 11 National Day of Service and Remembrance, and Tuesday’s Children, which serves the families of 9/11.

The 2024 show will be held just three days shy of the 40th anniversary of the inaugural VMAs at Radio City Music Hall, where Madonna stole the show.

Cabello is set to perform a song from her fourth studio album, C,XOXO, which has so far reached No. 13 on the Billboard 200. Cabello’s previous main-stage performances were in 2019, alongside then-beau Shawn Mendes on “Señorita” and in 2021 on “Don’t Go Yet.” (As part of Fifth Harmony, she performed “Boss” on the VMAs pre-show in 2014.) Alejandro will perform a song from his forthcoming fifth studio album.

Latin and Latin pop crossover music has been an important part of the performance mix on VMA broadcasts since 2018. Last year, four Latin artists performed on the show – Shakira (as part of her Video Vanguard award presentation), Karol G, Peso Pluma and Anitta (the latter both solo and in tandem with K-pop stars TOMORROW X TOGETHER).

Prior to that, in 2022, J Balvin (with Ryan Castro), Anitta and Bad Bunny performed. In 2021, Ozuna, Cabello and Tainy (in tandem with Mendes) represented Latin music. In 2020, Maluma, CNCO and Nicky Jam (in tandem with Black Eyed Peas and Tyga) did the honors. In 2019, CNCO (in the pre-show), Cabello (with Mendes), Rosalía and Ozuna (in a joint performance) and J Balvin and Bad Bunny (also in a joint performance) all performed. In 2018, Jennifer Lopez (receiving a Video Vanguard award) and Maluma performed.

Taylor Swift leads the nominations for the 2024 MTV Video Music Awards, with 10 nods. Her “Fortnight” collaborator Post Malone is second, with nine nods – eight in tandem with Swift plus one for his hit “I Had Some Help,” featuring Morgan Wallen. They are followed by Ariana Grande, Eminem and Carpenter (six nods each); Megan Thee Stallion and SZA (five each), and LISA, Olivia Rodrigo and Teddy Swims (four each).

Other artists with multiple nominations are Anitta, Benson Boone, Bleachers, GloRilla, Dua Lipa and Tyla, with three each; and Bad Bunny, Billie Eilish, Roan, Charli XCX, Coldplay, Drake, Jelly Roll, Jessie Murph, Jung Kook, Latto, Alejandro, Sexyy Red, Tate McRae, Usher and Victoria Monét, with two each.

Fans can vote for their favorites across 15 gender-neutral categories by visiting vote.mtv.com through Friday, Aug. 30. Voting for best new artist will remain active into the show on Tuesday, Sept. 10. Nominations in social categories will be announced at a later date.

Bruce Gillmer and Den of Thieves co-founder Jesse Ignjatovic are executive producers for the 2024 VMAs. Barb Bialkowski is co-executive producer. Alicia Portugal and Jackie Barba serve as executives in charge of production. Wendy Plaut is executive in charge of celebrity talent. Lisa Lauricella is music talent executive.

12 Aug 2024

Nipsey Hussle’s Brother Blacc Sam Opens Up About Rapper’s Last Moments

Nipsey Hussle‘s older Blacc Sam sat down with legendary radio personality Big Boy on his Off Air interview series.

In the recently published episode, they talked about a bunch of topics ranging from Sam and Nipsey’s childhood to the rapper’s untimely death that shook up the rap world. Toward the end of the interview, around the 1:07 mark, Blacc Sam opened up about the day his younger brother was killed in 2019. He remembered being optimistic that Nipsey would make it as they headed to the hospital but admitted to having his faith shaken when he ultimately passed. “Just couldn’t understand it. It was like the Twilight Zone after that,” he told Big Boy. “Everything I believed in — my faith was shattered.” Big then asked Blacc Sam if the murder was really as random as the public was led to believe, which prompted Sam to discuss the security protocol that was usually implemented whenever Nipsey visited his Marathon Clothing store.

“Somebody come to the shop, they know we in the doorway,” he said. “When Hussle pull up, we in the doorway. You’re gonna see me with a hoodie on and I got a pistol on me. You’re gonna see one of the team members in the hoodie in the doorway with a pistol. That’s protocol when Hussle pull up.

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“So, it’s Sunday. It’s busy in there. Why the n—a in there didn’t follow the protocol? I wasn’t there. Why they didn’t follow it? Maybe they was f—king around, helping a customer who was doing some f—king customer service. This is what I’m thinking, trying to transition into some legitimate, just selling clothes. But nobody was in the doorway. From my understanding ol’ boy walked up with no shirt on first to check the scene ‘cus he knows what’s going on in that parking lot,” he said. “Had a conversation, probably seen no one was in the doorway, checked Hussle had on shorts, checked everybody else, left. They say he came back with a red shirt on. Tip-toed through the alley, went right and started shooting.”

He continued: “So, to me that’s premeditated. Number one, there’s no red shirts in the hood. Can’t buy no red shirt, no liquor store sell no red shirt. Number two, when a n—a come through the alley with the red shirt, that’s the throw-off.”

This year marks the fifth anniversary of Nipsey’s death. His girlfriend at the time, Lauren London, paid tribute to the late rapper on Instagram, writing, “If you know me You know March is always tough for me 31 days of holding my breath,” she said. “This day decided to fall on Easter Sunday this 2024 Interesting…. considering your name #GodWillRise Energy never dies…. I love you. Eternal.”

Nipsey was recently in the news because he has a posthumous verse on Rakim’s first album in 15 years. The legendary MC talked about getting a Nipsey verse in an interview with Billboard last month.

You can watch the full Big Boy interview here.

12 Aug 2024

Billboard Explains: Fuerza Regida’s Unstoppable Rise on the Charts

Fuerza Regida continue to make significant waves in the industry with their most recent album, Pero No Te Enamores, an audacious genre fusion that has captivated a diverse audience and propelled them up the Billboard charts.

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Billboard Explains traces the Mexican American band’s ascent from their first chart appearance — when Radicamos in South Central debuted at No. 35 on Regional Mexican Airplay in August 2018 — leading up to their latest album.

Notably, Pero No Te Enamores landed at No. 2 on the Top Latin Albums chart and secured a commendable No. 23 position on the Billboard 200 on the Aug. 10-dated list. This achievement shines even brighter considering the San Bernardino band’s foray into uncharted musical territory, creating a novel subgenre they coined “Jersey corridos.”

“When I first heard [Jersey club] about one to two years ago, I loved it. I was like, ‘Man, I wanna do something with it.’ I just didn’t know how. But I knew that when I did, they were gonna talk sh–,” frontman JOP told Billboard Español. “So when it got to the point to make a new album, I was like, ‘I wanna do Jerseys and dance music, I want to move something different but still keep the original Fuerza Regida [corridos essence] with the guitars.”

One of their career highlights was the release of “Bebe Dame” featuring Grupo Frontera, which soared to the top of the Regional Mexican Airplay chart. Their 2023 corridos-heavy album Pa Las Baby’s y Belikeada not only snagged their first No. 1 on the Top Latin Albums chart, but also reached No. 14 on the all-genre Billboard 200.

As Fuerza Regida continues to chart new paths and experiment with sounds, their journey remains a pivotal story in the evolution of Latin music on the global charts. Watch the full Billboard Explains video above for a deeper dive into their story, and check out our ranking of all 15 tracks from Pero No Te Enamores for more insight into their latest work.

12 Aug 2024

Haley Joel Osment Thinks Kendrick Lamar’s Joel Osteen Mix-Up on ‘Euphoria’ Was ‘Intentional’

Actor Haley Joel Osment reacted to being referenced on Kendrick Lamar’s “Euphoria,” and he believes K. Dot purposefully mixed him up with pastor Joel Osteen on the Drake diss.

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The Associated Press caught up with Osment at the Blink Twice premiere in Los Angeles on Aug. 8 to get his thoughts on Lamar’s apparent reference while naming films like A.I. and The Sixth Sense that HJO starred in around the turn of the century.

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“Am I battlin’ ghost or AI/ N—a feelin’ like Joel Osteen/ Funny, he was in a film called A.I. And my sixth sense tellin’ me to off him,” Kendrick raps on the track.

Osment recalled being in Ireland shooting for an upcoming movie when he received hundreds of texts blowing up his phone about Lamar’s “Euphoria,” which peaked at No. 3 on the Billboard Hot 100.

“I was shooting in Ireland when all that happened and I got like a hundred texts in the middle of the night. I was like, what is going on,” he said.

While K. Dot actually names Texas pastor Joel Osteen instead of him, Osment believes he did it with intention because of Lamar’s attention to detail, which led him to think there’s a deeper meaning to the mix-up.

“I think he’s too precise,” Osment added. “I don’t know for sure and I’m not gonna assume that he knows my exact name, but the way I’ve heard people talk about that and certain analysis that I’ve read about it, I think that it’s an intentional scrambling of my name and that other guy’s name. Because Kendrick’s too precise to just make a mistake like that.”

Kendrick Lamar also later pulled Osment’s “I see dead people” line from The Sixth Sense to open the Cali bounce of his “Not Like Us” anthem, which topped the Hot 100 for two weeks.

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12 Aug 2024

Another Round: Shaboozey’s ‘A Bar Song (Tipsy)’ No. 1 on Billboard Hot 100 for Fifth Week

Shaboozey’s “A Bar Song (Tipsy)” adds a fifth nonconsecutive week at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100.

Notably, the single, the singer-songwriter’s first leader on the Hot 100, is the first song to rule in streams, radio airplay and sales simultaneously since Adele’s “Easy on Me” in 2021. As “A Bar Song (Tipsy)” continues atop the Hot 100, it rebounds for a 10th week at No. 1 on the Digital Song Sales chart, notches a fourth week atop Streaming Songs and adds a second week atop Radio Songs.

Dating to the origin of Billboard’s Streaming Songs chart in January 2013 (when it joined Radio Songs, which began in 1990, and Digital Song Sales, which first published in 2005), “A Bar Song (Tipsy)” becomes one of only a dozen hits to have ruled in the Hot 100’s three metrics simultaneously.

Plus, as “A Bar Song (Tipsy)” tops the multimetric Hot Country Songs chart for a ninth week, it’s the first song to reign in streams, airplay and sales while leading both the Hot 100 and Hot Country Songs.

“A Bar Song (Tipsy),” on American Dogwood/EMPIRE (with country radio promotion by Magnolia Music), is from Shaboozey’s album Where I’ve Been, Isn’t Where I’m Going.

The Hot 100 blends all-genre U.S. streaming (official audio and official video), radio airplay and sales data, the lattermost metric reflecting purchases of physical singles and digital tracks from full-service digital music retailers; digital singles sales from direct-to-consumer (D2C) sites are excluded from chart calculations. All charts (dated Aug. 17, 2024) will update on Billboard.com tomorrow, Aug. 13. 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.