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When Kendrick Lamar dropped his surprise album GNX, fans wondered why he decided to leave “Not Like Us” off the project. Now, we finally know the reason why, at least according to a TDE executive. Terrence “Punch” Henderson was recently asked by a fan on X why the Compton rapper “didn’t include the mega smash […]
Lady Gaga has added yet another Grammy Award to her collection. The superstar notched her 14th Grammy on Sunday night (Feb. 2) after her Bruno Mars collaboration, “Die With a Smile,” won best pop duo/group performance. The win also marks Mars’ 16th Grammy. To celebrate, Gaga took to Instagram on Tuesday (Feb. 4) to share […]
When Morgan Wallen announced his upcoming I’m The Problem Tour, Miranda Lambert was listed among the openers. Lambert, the most-awarded artist in ACM Awards history, is set to open 11 shows on the trek — and some fans are disappointed to see Lambert in an opening slot on the tour.
On Tuesday (Feb. 4), Lambert shared a Instagram video reel of herself reading some of the “mean tweets” — or rather, comments — that came with the tour announcement. “I appreciate that y’all aren’t afraid to hold back,” she wrote in video’s caption
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Some of the less-than-thrilled statements included, “Hmmm, team Miranda forever, but this comes as a shock,” “I was the biggest Miranda fan,” and “This ain’t it, sis.” Another comment read, “I’m so disappointed in both of you. May God forgive you both,” drawing a laugh from Lambert, who said jokingly, “We’re really doing bad on this tour, Morgan.”
Other commenters expressed surprise that Lambert — who has been an established headliner in her own right for many years — is opening a show for Wallen. “You are not a side dish–you are a main course,” read one.
Another commenter showed disappointment that Lambert isn’t playing the two Texas shows on the tour, Wallen’s pair of concerts set for Houston on June 20-21. “WTF, I don’t see Texas on here,” the commenter wrote, to which Lambert responded with a nod, saying, “I know, that sucks. I’m not on the Texas shows.”
“So there we go. Thanks guys for the support. Appreciate that,” Lambert said, taking the comments in stride.
Wallen’s I’m the Problem Tour launches June 20 and runs through Sept. 13. Other openers set to appear throughout the tour include Koe Wetzel, Corey Kent, Ella Langley, Gavin Adcock, Brooks & Dunn, Thomas Rhett and Anne Wilson.
The tour takes its namesake from Wallen’s current song and his upcoming fourth studio album. That project will follow his album One Thing at a Time, which stayed atop the Billboard 200 albums chart for 19 non-consecutive weeks and garnered six Country Airplay chart No. 1 singles.
Lambert released her most recent album, Postcards From Texas, in 2024 through a partnership with Republic Records and Big Loud. The album’s lead single, “Wranglers,” released in May 2024.
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While Set It Off hit theaters before Latto and GloRilla were born, they’re still familiar with the ’90s classic. Big Glo and Big Mama teamed up on Tuesday (Feb. 4) to release their “Procedure” visual, which originally landed on Glo’s Glorious album this summer. Explore See latest videos, charts and news See latest videos, charts […]
FKA Twigs scores her fourth career No. 1 album on Billboard’s Top Dance Albums chart (dated Feb. 8), thanks to her new LP Eusexua.
Released Jan. 24 via Young/Atlantic/AG, the album opens with 21,000 equivalent album units earned in the week ending Jan. 30 in the U.S., according to Luminate. Of that sum, 12,000 were in pure sales, generating a No. 3 debut on Top Album Sales. Vinyl sales were particularly high for the album — 7,000 — helping the album also debut at No. 3 on Vinyl Albums.
FKA Twigs previously led Top Dance Albums with LP1 in 2014, Magdalene in 2019 and Caprisongs in 2022.
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Her four No. 1s tie her with Aphex Twin, Lindsey Stirling, M.I.A., Marshmello and Pet Shop Boys for the fifth-most No. 1s in the 24-year history of Top Dance Albums, after only Lady Gaga and Louie DeVito (seven each), and Daft Punk and Chainsmokers (six each).
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Eusexua, notably, ends the reign of Charli XCX’s Brat on Top Dance Albums. Brat spent 33 weeks at No. 1 — encompassing the entirety of its chart run — and dips to No. 2 with 16,000 units.
Eusexua concurrently starts at No. 24 on the Billboard 200, becoming the highest charting album of FKA Twigs’ career.
She also debuts five songs from the album on Billboard’s recently launched Hot Dance/Pop Songs chart: “Childlike Things” featuring North West (No. 6), “Striptease” (No. 9), “Eusexua” (No. 10), “Girl Feels Good” (No. 12) and “Perfect Stranger” (No. 15).
Billboard launched the 15-position Hot Dance/Pop Songs chart beginning on the Jan. 18-dated rankings. The chart ranks the most popular current dance/pop songs, featuring titles with dance-centric vocals, melody and hooks, by artists not traditionally rooted in the dance/electronic genre. That same week, the publication revamped its Hot Dance/Electronic Songs chart. The 25-position list ranks the most popular current dance/electronic songs, billed to DJs, producers and long-standing core artists in the dance/electronic genre, with an emphasis on electronic-based production.
Looks like the sample was cleared! Rema announced Tuesday (Feb. 4) that he’ll be releasing his highly anticipated single “Baby (Is It a Crime)” on Friday, Feb. 7, which samples Sade‘s “Is It a Crime.” “Baby ( is it a crime )’ out Friday. + Official music video,” he wrote on X with a black […]
Beyoncé’s long-awaited album of the year victory at the 2025 Grammy Awards for Cowboy Carter has garnered plenty of praise across the music industry, but some weren’t as happy to see Queen Bey rack up the award wins, and The View‘s Whoopi Goldberg isn’t letting it slide.
The actress had some words to share after Raymond Arroyo joined Laura Ingraham’s The Ingraham Angle on Fox News on Monday (Feb. 3), following Bey’s history-making night the evening before, and he slammed the Recording Academy for Beyoncé’s country dominance while she had more wins than artists such as Dolly Parton.
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“The country artists are not really happy about this,” Arroyo said. “I’m gonna put this in some context Laura: Dolly Parton has 10 Grammys. Frank Sinatra had 11 Grammys. Beyoncé has 35. How is that possibly commensurate with that talent? I mean come on.”
He continued to tell the host: “What people don’t know about the Grammys is everybody votes in every genre. You can vote in up to 20 genres. So basically Lady Gaga’s cat sitter votes for, you know, best reggae and best country album. So that’s why you get this ridiculous outcome that has nothing to do with the country audience or the country musicians.”
Oscar winner Goldberg came to Bey’s defense the next day, scolding the pundit on the Tuesday (Feb. 4) episode of The View.
“Sir, are you aware that you have to be in the music industry to be a Grammy voter? So, the cat sitter can’t just vote,” she fired back. “Are you aware that when the Grammys began in 1959, there were only 28 categories — now there are 94?”
Goldberg added: “The year that Frank Sinatra got six nominations despite having two No. 1 albums, he only won one Grammy that night for his album cover — not even for his singing, for the album cover. Listen, man. You can’t do that. She earned it.”
Arroyo is wrong on some other points. Sinatra won nine competitive Grammys, not 11. Voters cannot vote “in up to 20 genres.” In addition to the six General Field categories, voters can vote in no more than 10 categories spread across no more than three fields.
Beyoncé collected another three wins at the 2025 Grammy Awards, including her first album of the year victory for Cowboy Carter to bring her grand total to 35 Grammys. She also took home victories for best country album and best country/group performance for “II Most Wanted” with Miley Cyrus.
Watch Whoopi Goldberg’s slam the conservative pundit on The View below.
Ariana Grande has a lot of gratitude for Thank U, Next. While reflecting on her career in an interview with The Hollywood Reporter‘s Awards Chatter podcast, the singer-actress opened up about the therapeutic powers her smash 2019 album had during a “dark” period in her life.
Of writing and recording Thank U, Next over the span of two weeks just a few months after her previous album, Sweeter, dropped in August 2018, Grande said on the episode posted Monday (Feb. 3), “I think I needed it.”
“I was doing so much therapy, and I was dealing with PTSD and all different kinds of grief and depression and anxiety,” she continued. “I was, of course, treating it very seriously, but having music be a part of that remedy was absolutely contributing to saving my life. They were dark times, and the music brought so much levity.”
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It’s not the first time the “Yes, And?” singer has opened up about pouring herself into the Thank U, Next creative process. Around the time she was making the album, she publicly dealt with the grief of losing ex-boyfriend Mac Miller, who died in September 2018, as well as the heartbreak of her split from ex-fiancé Pete Davidson the following October. Months prior, Grande’s Manchester concert was targeted by a deadly terrorist attack, after which she struggled with PTSD.
“[Thank U, Next] poured out with urgency, and it was made with urgency,” she added on Awards Chatter. “It was a means of survival. The label understood that, but they were also very hesitant to stop Sweetener dead in its tracks and move onto an album so quickly … I just said, ‘I don’t really care about the formula. I don’t want to play by the rules at this moment, because this is what I need for my soul.’ It felt really healing and freeing.”
The album ended up spending two weeks atop the Billboard 200, with its title track leading the Billboard Hot 100 at No. 1 for a total of seven weeks. Grande performed songs from both LPs on her subsequent Sweetener World Tour in 2019 — during which time she started hearing “murmurs” that her favorite Broadway musical, Wicked, was in talks to get the live-action treatment in Hollywood, she told Awards Chatter.
Flash forward more than half a decade, and Grande is now Oscar-nominated for her portrayal of Glinda in Jon M. Chu’s adaptation of the show. After the academy unveiled its nominees in late January, the “We Can’t Be Friends” artist wrote on Instagram, “i’m humbled and deeply honored to be in such brilliant company and sharing this with tiny ari who sat and studied Judy Garland singing Somewhere Over the Rainbow just before the big, beautiful bubble entered.”
“i don’t quite have all my words yet, i’m still trying to breathe,” she added of her best supporting actress nod at the time. “but thank you. oh my goodness, thank you.”
Shakira, Don Omar and Peso Pluma are set to headline 2025 Sueños Music Festival in Chicago, taking place May 24-25. The full lineup was announced on Tuesday (Feb. 4) with Grupo Frontera, Maria Becerra, Wisin, El Alfa, Tito Double P, Bellakath and Oscar Maydon, among others, also set to perform in Grant Park. Colombian superstar […]
It’s an event anytime DJ Khaled is in album mode. The We the Best mogul brought out all of the stops to reveal the title of his upcoming 14th studio album, Aalam of God, which translates to “the word of God” in Arabic.
DJ Khaled released a blockbuster seven-minute album trailer — directed by Eif Rivera — on Tuesday (Feb. 4), which finds the Miami native in the middle of an intense heist scene. In it, Khaled is doing everything he can to protect the files for his upcoming album — which features a pair of Drake songs — as assailants attempt to extract the project from his briefcase throughout the cinematic clip.
The 49-year-old does his own stunts as he makes a great escape from Mark Wahlberg’s team of robbers. “Did you get it?” Wahlberg asks. “This guy’s two Drake songs on there. What if he’s got another 100-bar from Jay-Z and that thing gets out on the f–king street?”
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Khaled hops into the car with Anthony Ramos, who he believes is his friend, but Ramos ends up double-crossing the musician after lunch at a Jamaican spot while holding him at gunpoint and demanding he cough up the album.
“Look how far we came and you f–king worried about what they saying? You know our saying, ‘Win with us or watch us win,’” Khaled says to Ramos, who’s playing Tone. “One more thing, Tone, you a piece of s–t!”
An unreleased snippet soundtracks the final scene with a track seemingly titled “God Is on Our Side.” “Make sure you listen in order too — from the intro to the outro,” Khaled says as he walks off scot-free. He heads to the private jet and hints at a collaboration with Rihanna on the way. “Send Rihanna the record,” he adds. “Aalam of God.”
In announcing the project on social media, Khaled also told fans in his Instagram caption, “”DRAKES BACK TO WORK… SO AM I! THIS THE ONE WITH✌🏽DRAKES.” He also tagged producer Ayo Juan while teasing a potential Ri collab, saying, “matter of fact..send that record over to @badgalriri .. u know…I JUST WANNA BREATHE – THE AIR THAT RIHANNA BREATHES – yo RIH everyTING locked.”
Aalam of God is set to arrive later in 2025, and will serve as Khaled’s 14th studio album. “This is not my last album, it’s my Black album,” Khaled said in a press release while channeling his inner Jay-Z.
Watch the cinematic trailer below.