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At the 2025 BET Awards, Doechii had something to say. The Florida rapper continued her winning year by being named best female hip hop artist at Monday night’s (June 9) show, and instead of using her speech to talk about all she’s accomplished since dropping the critically acclaimed mixtape Alligator Bites Never Heal, she addressed […]
The BET Awards 2025 are packing on the nostalgia. Millennials were transported back to sitting in front of their living room televisions after school as Ashanti opened the awards show by performing “Rock Wit U” and “Foolish.” Rocking her signature thigh-high black boots, gleaming off the Peacock Theater stage, she passed the diamond-encrusted mic to […]
Dumb Blonde Podcast host Bunnie Xo is firing back against an online troll who criticized her and husband Jelly Roll‘s journey to have a baby through IVF. On her Instagram Stories, Bunnie shared a TikTok video in which a woman is seen saying, “I think [Bunnie Xo’s] now on an IVF journey. Isn’t she 45 […]
Sly Stone of Sly and the Family Stone died Monday (June 9) at age 82, and the music community is grieving the groundbreaking funk pioneer.
Questlove, who directed the new documentary Sly Lives (aka The Burden of Black Genius), shared a touching tribute on Instagram.
“Sly Stone, born Sylvester Stewart, left this earth today, but the changes he sparked while here will echo forever. From the moment his music reached me in the early 1970s, it became a part of my soul. Sly was a giant — not just for his groundbreaking work with the Family Stone, but for the radical inclusivity and deep human truths he poured into every note,” he wrote. “His songs weren’t just about fighting injustice; they were about transforming the self to transform the world. He dared to be simple in the most complex ways — using childlike joy, wordless cries, and nursery rhyme cadences to express adult truths. His work looked straight at the brightest and darkest parts of life and demanded we do the same.”
The Roots drummer also highlighted two lines that “haunt me” as he reflected on his legacy: “We deserve everything we get in this life” from Sly Lives! and “We got to live together” from the group’s 1968 Billboard Hot 100 No. 1 hit “Everyday People.” “Once idealistic, now I hear it as a command. Sly’s music will likely speak to us even more now than it did then. Thank you, Sly. You will forever live,” Questlove continued.
Public Enemy‘s Chuck D thanked Questlove “for keeping his FIRE blazing in this Century” on X while sharing an illustration of Stone and Questlove. He posted more artwork of the psychedelic soul group while writing, “………and The Family Stone Rest In Beats SLY.”
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Legendary record executive Clive Davis, who worked with the group when it signed to CBS Records in 1967, wrote in a statement to Billboard, “Sly was truly one of a kind. I had the very special experience of knowing him when he was at his most creative, his hardest working and his genius flourishing vibrantly. Sly’s artistry influenced so many of our important creative talents. He will be forever missed.”
KISS frontman Paul Stanley remembered seeing Sly and the Family Stone “debut at the Fillmore East in New York City opening for Jimi Hendrix. They were a freight train of bombastic, joyous SouI that would soon climb the charts and change the sound of R&B for so many other artists. Rest In Soul!” he wrote on X.
Holly Robinson Pete also celebrated Stone’s pioneering efforts. “You didn’t just make music—you shifted the culture. As kids in Philly, my brother played Sly, I was Cynthia on my imaginary horn. We lived your music. You gave us the groove & the message. Thank you, genius,” she wrote on X.
The Rock & Roll Hall of Fame posted an in memoriam tribute thread on X, including a clip of Stone’s acceptance speech during a very rare public appearance when he and the group were induced in 1993. The Rock Hall praised Sly and the Family Stone for making “it possible for Black popular music to burst free on its own terms” and “extending the boundaries of pop and R&B with each new song,” while hailing its 1969 Hot 100 No. 1 hit “Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin),” the double A-side single with “Everybody Is a Star,” for helping “create the sonic blueprint for the funk and disco genres that followed.”
Country singer Conner Smith was driving the truck that struck and killed a 77-year-old pedestrian in Nashville on Sunday (June 8), Billboard has confirmed. A release from the Metro Nashville Police Department on Monday (June 9) stated that a 24-year-old man named Conner Smith was behind the wheel during Sunday’s accident. The pedestrian was identified […]
The 78th annual Tony Awards on CBS on Sunday (June 8) delivered its largest broadcast audience since 2019 (when James Corden hosted), up 38% year-over-year, and its largest livestreaming audience ever on Paramount+, up 208% year-over-year. The show, hosted by Cynthia Erivo for the first time and back in Radio City Music Hall for the […]
Social media star Khaby Lame was detained by the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement after being apprehended by authorities on June 6. According to an ICE spokesperson, Lame was granted a “voluntary departure” and has left the United States. The viral TikTok sensation’s Instagram Story showed him in Brazil as of Monday (June 9). The […]
Josi Cuen and Jorge Medina have achieved their first No. 1 as soloists with their maiden collab “En Tiempo y Forma (Juntos),” which climbs two spots to the top of Billboard’s Regional Mexican Airplay chart (dated June 14).
The song drew 7.5 million audience impressions in the United States May 30-June 5, according to Luminate. That’s a 21% gain compared to the week before. The song earns the chart’s Greatest Gainer honor, given to the track with the largest audience growth among titles at the format.
Cuen and Medina are former members of La Arrolladora Banda El Limón, which boasts 19 Regional Mexican Airplay No. 1s among 39 top 10s in a history on the chart that dates to 2001. Cuen departed the group in 2021, after Medina left in 2017.
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“En Tiempo y Forma (Juntos)” was released in December 2024 on Avivar Music. Thanks to the song’s coronation, the label likewise celebrates its first No. 1 on a Billboard chart.
Cuen previously reached a No. 24 Regional Mexican Airplay high as a soloist through “Prefiero Estar Muerto,” with Luis Ángel “El Flaco,” in 2023. Medina posted two prior top 10s, both in 2018, among seven entries.
Elsewhere, Cuen and Medina clock their highest-charting placement on the overall Latin Airplay tally, where “En Tiempo y Forma (Juntos)” bounds 7-2, with nearly all its airplay from regional Mexican stations.
The singers’ first No. 1 on a Billboard chart arrives hot on the heels of their first-ever joint tour, JUNTOS 2025, which launched October 2024 in Mexico. The U.S. leg of the tour kicks off June 12 in San Jose, Calif., and wraps Sept. 13 in Las Vegas.
All charts (dated June 14, 2025) will update on Billboard.com tomorrow, June 10. For all chart news, you can follow @billboard and @billboardcharts on both X, formerly known as Twitter, and Instagram.
It’s been almost a year since Scooter Braun officially retired from music management after years of shepherding the likes of Ariana Grande, J Balvin and Tori Kelly into superstardom. But before he had any of those clients, he had Justin Bieber.
In an interview on The Diary of a CEO posted Monday (June 9), the music mogul reflected on where he stands with the pop star nearly two decades after Braun first discovered the then-13-year-old Bieber back when he himself was just 25. “We were able to achieve some amazing things,” the businessman began. “I’m very proud of what we achieved and always rooting for him.”
Now that they no longer work together, however, Braun confessed that his relationship with Bieber is “not the same that it was.”
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“I think there comes a point where — I understand — he probably wants to go on and show that he can do it,” Braun said. “We worked together for so long and we had such extreme success, and I think you get to a point as a man where you want to show the world you can do it on your own. And I completely respect that. I think at this point, that’s what he’s doing. Myself and everyone from the old team is rooting for him.”
The SB Projects founder went on to praise Bieber and a few other former clients, noting that their successes only serve as “testimony” to what they were able to achieve together. “To see Justin move forward and succeed, to see Ariana with what’s happened with Wicked in this past year, to see Tori Kelly …,” Braun said. “Everybody that I’ve ever had a chance to work with, to see them go on and do great things on their own, it’s awesome.”
Braun announced in June 2024 that he would be retiring from artist management to focus on his duties as CEO of HYBE America, a role he stepped into after HYBE acquired his Ithaca Holdings for $1.05 billion in 2021. The news came a little less than a year after Billboard reported that the “Baby” singer was exploring other options on the management front, though a full-on split at the time seemed difficult as Bieber still had four years left on his contract with SB Projects.
Also in 2023, Grande, Balvin and Demi Lovato each parted ways with Braun’s company in quick succession. When Braun announced his retirement the following year, the mogul shouted out many of his former clients and wrote, “I will continue to root for them with the same passion that I did at each of their humble beginnings … there will never be a day where I don’t take great pride and honor in what we accomplished together.”
Even so, rumors circulated that there had been a personal rift between Braun and Bieber. That speculation was only exacerbated when the Grammy winner appeared to unfollow his former manager on Instagram in January.
But according to Braun, their professional separation was nothing personal. When asked on The Diary of a CEO whether it “hurt” to hear that Bieber wanted to go his own way, Braun said, “No, not at that point.”
“I was also at that point,” Braun said. “It had been a couple years where I knew I wanted to do something else. I wanted to find out who I was, I wanted to experiment with a different career. We were both communicating enough with each other. The writing was on the wall.”
Watch Braun’s full interview on The Diary of a CEO below.
Brittany Renner has confirmed her split from husband Kevin Gates after only 52 days of marriage. Renner sat down with Los Angeles radio station Real 92.3 LA to talk about her relationship with the Baton Rouge rapper during the lead-up to Monday’s (June 9) BET Awards. “We got married April 6 and divorced May 28,” […]
