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Fifteen days after Shakira announced that she would give away her 2022 purple Lamborghini Urus, the winner was announced on Friday (Dec. 6) on Univision’s morning show Despierta América.
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The lucky one was Michael Mejia, who won for his creative video in which his drawing of Shakira comes to life to the beat of “Soltera.” “We did it! We did it! We did it!” Mejia chants in a new Instagram post celebrating his victory. On his account bio, he describes himself as an artist who also designed Fariana’s latest album cover, according to a post on his Instagram account.
Shakira also shared the news on her Instagram Stories.
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The contest — in partnership with Univision and in support of her latest single “Soltera” — was launched on Shakira’s Instagram Nov. 20. “A promise is a promise! I confirm! I’m going to give my car to someone who really wants to have it and enjoy new unforgettable moments with the people I love the most,” the Colombian singer captioned a set of photos in which she’s posing with her customized purple vehicle.
To participate, fans had to upload their dance to “Soltera” on Instagram and TikTok with the hashtag #ElCarroDeShakira by Nov. 29. Shakira then selected five finalists who were voted on by the public on Dec. 5. The contest applied only for U.S. residents who are 18 years or older.
“This car was a gift to myself as I began my single life, but I realized that what truly matters is human connection,” Shakira said in a press statement when the contest was announced. “The car, the clothes, the material things — they don’t transform us. It’s the people we love and the connections we build that truly make a difference.”
“Soltera,” a tropical-pop fusion with notes of Kizomba and Calypso rhythms, encapsulates the pleasures of being single. The song earned the Colombian superstar her 25th No. 1 on Billboard’s Latin Pop Airplay in October, also putting her in a tie with Enrique Iglesias for the most rulers among all acts, a record the latter has held since 2000.
Shakira is getting ready for her 2025 Las Mujeres Ya No Lloran World Tour, a stadiums and arenas trek produced by Live Nation. The North America dates kick off May 13 in Charlotte, N.C., at Bank of America Stadium, followed by a show at MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, N.J., along with stops Boston, Miami, Las Vegas and more major cities before wrapping up June 30 in San Francisco at Oracle Park.
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Megan Moroney is set to perform at the 2024 Billboard Music Awards. The rising country star joins SEVENTEEN, Teddy Swims, Tyla, Coldplay and Jelly Roll, who were previously announced as performers on the show.
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Hosted by actress and comedian Michelle Buteau, the 2024 BBMAs presented by Marriott Bonvoy is set to air on Thursday, Dec. 12, at 8 p.m. ET/PT on FOX and Fire TV Channels, and on-demand on Paramount+, with performances also rolling out across Billboard.com and via @BBMAs and @Billboard social channels.
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Moroney, whose performance is Carnival Cruise-branded, is a finalist for top country female artist at the BBMAs. She won new female artist of the year at the ACM Awards in May and new artist of the year at the CMA Awards last month. Her sophomore album, Am I Okay?, reached No. 3 on Billboard’s Top Country Albums chart and No. 9 on the all-genre Billboard 200. The title track made the top 20 on Hot Country Songs.
As previously announced, Zach Bryan, Taylor Swift, Morgan Wallen and Sabrina Carpenter are the leading finalists for the 2024 Billboard Music Awards.
This marks the show’s return to FOX, which carried the show from its 1990 inaugural broadcast through 2006. In addition, Paramount+ will provide on-demand streaming of the show, while the free Fire TV Channels app will provide one-click access to fans using Amazon devices (Fire TV smart TVs and streaming media players and Fire Tablets).
The BBMAs will celebrate music’s greatest achievements with exclusive original performances, artist interviews, and award celebrations taking place from global locations and in the midst of sold-out tours. Shaboozey will deliver a special performance from W Hollywood, part of the Marriott Bonvoy portfolio. Additional performers and special guests will be announced soon.
The BBMAs honors the year’s biggest artists, albums, songs, producers and songwriters across multiple genres, as determined by year-end performance metrics on the Billboard charts. The eligibility dates for this year’s awards are aligned with Billboard’s Year-End Charts tracking period, which measures music consumption from the charts dated Oct. 28, 2023 through Oct. 19, 2024.
The Billboard Music Awards are produced by Dick Clark Productions, which is owned by Penske Media Corporation. PMC is also the parent company of Billboard.
The show is presented by Marriott Bonvoy, Marriott International’s travel program and portfolio of more than 30 hotel brands. For more information, visit MarriottBonvoy.com.
Paris Jackson is engaged to longtime boyfriend and bandmate/producer Justin Long. The singer announced the news on Friday morning (Dec. 6) on Instagram with a series of pictures of the happy couple. Explore Explore See latest videos, charts and news See latest videos, charts and news “happy birthday my sweet blue. doing life with you […]
Quavo has been showing off his versatility as an artist throughout 2024. He’s dipping back into his country bag while expressing his “Georgia Ways” alongside Luke Bryan and Teddy Swims.
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“Georgia Ways” arrived on Friday (Dec. 6), with the trio paying homage to their Peach State roots. An outdoors-themed visual accompanied the release, with Quavo, Luke and Teddy rumbling through the countryside participating in various activities.
“Magic City, tell a country boy what the hell that means,” Bryan inquisitively asks Quavo about the famous ATL jiggle joint to kick off the clip while casting their fishing rods into the pond.
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“In the South we ball, how about them Dawgs/ Waffle House, soaking up the alcohol/ Lemon pеpper, Magic City on a Monday,” Huncho raps on the track.
Draped in camouflage and Chrome Hearts pants, Quavo goes fishing, drives his quad around and heads to the barn with Bryan before inviting Swims into the fold. The Grammy-nominated “Lose Control” artist throws on his cowboy hat and performs from the bed of his pickup truck.
“G-E-O-R-G-I-A/ Where I B-E, baby, let me hear you say/ G-E-O-R-G-I-A/ A-Town stompin’ on that old red clay,” Swims sings.
“Georgia Ways” was initially debuted during the University of Georgia versus Georgia Tech football game last week, for which Quavo was in attendance. The SEC Championship will also be highlighting a clip from the visual during the conference championship game’s broadcast on ESPN on Saturday (Dec. 7).
It’s been a busy year for the Migos rapper, who could be setting up for another solo project in 2025. He previously notched collabs this year with Lana Del Rey, Lenny Kavitz, Yeat, Giggs, The Kid Laroi and more.
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Sabrina Carpenter fans dream-came-trued it for her this year, with the 25-year-old pop star’s hit single “Espresso” ending 2024 as the most-streamed song on both Spotify and Apple Music. And in a post on Instagram Thursday (Dec. 5), Carpenter made sure to give listeners a big thank you for all the love. “most streamed song […]
Rosé channels some seriously hot/cold vibes in the new video for her solo track “Toxic Till the End.” The Avril Lavigne-like emo pop single from the BLACKPINK singer’s eagerly anticipated debut solo album, rosie, stars Gossip Girl actor Evan Mock, who plays Rosé’s love interest in the visual about a couple who meet cute before flaming out.
“Call us what we are/ Toxic from the start/ Can’t pretend that I was in the dark/ When you met my friends/ Didn’t even try with them,” she sings over the track’s bubbling synths as the clip offers up the screen couple’s origin story. It opens with pink-haired Mock flagging down Rosé’s car on a country road after his bicycle pops a flat.
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Instantly intrigued, she gives him a ride and soon enough the couple embark on a classic rom-com montage of their early, happy days. They chase each other through the lush gardens of an estate, laughing and sharing romantic fireside snuggles and sharing a tender moment where the singer signs her beloved’s cast after he wipes out on his skateboard.
The song’s urgent lyrics, though, hint at the brewing issues just underneath the shiny facade. “Jealous and possessive/ So manipulating/ Honestly impressive/ You had me participating,” she seethes as the accompanying visuals hint at a fast-growing flame quickly fizzling out as Mock appears to cover his phone to conceal a rogue text that heralds the beginning of the end.
Rosé burns out in her car and laments the betrayal hinted at in the song’s title, raging, “I can’t forgive you for a lot of things/ For not giving me back my Tiffany rings/ I’ll never forgive you for one thing my dear/ You wasted my prettiest years,” even as she hints at a complicated love too hard to dismiss in the Ramez Silyan-directed video
“When I was running out of your place/ I said I never wanna see your face/ I meant I couldn’t wait to see it again/ We were toxic,” she adds as the song climbs to a raucous din, before downshifting as the messy couple appear to make up again and Rosé reveals that their “chance” meeting might not have been as serendipitous as it seemed.
In a chat with Apple Music’s Zane Lowe about the song that was originally titled “The Ex,” the singer said she wrote the tune after discussing the difficult relationship that inspired it with her friends for years. “We’ve talked about the ex a bit too much, it’s about time that we write a song called ‘the ex’,” she said; she later changed the title to something that felt like a “better punchline.”
“It was actually easy for me to talk about it because it was the thing I was talking about all the time,” she told Lowe about the story she “hated” bringing up over-and-over.
The 12-track rosie includes the hit single “APT.” featuring Bruno Mars — which has spent six weeks so far at No. 1 on the Billboard Global 200 — as well as “Number One Girl,” “Game Boy,” “Drinks or Coffee,” “Stay a Little Longer,” Not the Same” and “Dance All Night.”
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Billboard’s Friday Music Guide serves as a handy guide to this Friday’s most essential releases — the key music that everyone will be talking about today, and that will be dominating playlists this weekend and beyond.
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This week, ROSÉ tells her full story, Bad Bunny hints at a major new era and TWICE keep rolling out major moments. Check out all of this week’s picks below:
ROSÉ, rosie
The debut solo album from BLACKPINK star ROSÉ may be arriving shortly after her first top 10 hit, the Bruno Mars-assisted smash “APT.,” yet rosie doesn’t sound like a hastily constructed attempt to continue momentum — the 12-song collection is a thoughtfully considered portrait of relationship complications and personal complexities, impressively splitting the difference between intimacy and arena-ready pop.
Bad Bunny, “EL CLúB”
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While 2024 was ostensibly an off-year for Bad Bunny after a whirlwind multi-year run, the Puerto Rican superstar is seemingly gearing up for a major 2025: on “EL CLúB,” his second solo single of the year, he blends propulsive dance music with atmospheric contemplation, the beat hanging in air and never reappearing (although the song’s music video suggests that it will pick back up with a new Bad Bunny project soon enough).
TWICE, Strategy
Placing an exclamation point on another highly successful year, K-pop superstars TWICE toss out another crackling Megan Thee Stallion collaboration (“Strategy”), a surefire English-language standout (“Kiss My Troubles Away”) and a holiday confection (“Magical”) on their latest mini-album, which runs for 20 minutes but covers a good amount of new ground for the collective.
Quavo, Teddy Swims & Luke Bryan, “Georgia Ways”
Quavo, Teddy Swims and Luke Bryan have all followed wildly different professional paths since emerging from the Peach State, but the new collaboration “Georgia Ways” serves as common ground for the three, who bond over college football, Waffle House and late-‘90s Chipper Jones; Teddy Swims is the newest star of the three here, and punctuates the single with some soulful, swaggering crooning.
V x Bing Crosby, “White Christmas”
The sound of BTS member V joining Bing Crosby on this revamped version of the holiday classic “White Christmas” nods to the evolution of popular music as a more global, less time-constrained medium: with the blessing of the Crosby estate, V has made his own mark on a timeless recording, honoring its spirit while bringing “White Christmas” to a new generation.
Editor’s Pick: Khalid & Normani, “Personal”
When Khalid and Normani linked up six years ago on “Love Lies,” they scored a smash duet that lingered around multiple radio formats for months; “Personal,” a follow-up included on the deluxe edition of Khalid’s recent album Sincere, will have its commercial fate determined in the coming weeks, but hearing two gifted R&B singers weave their voices together again makes for a deeply satisfying fan service, and a reminder of both artists’ individual vocal powers.
Duo The War and Treaty are set to release a new album, Plus One, on Valentine’s Day. The 18-song set, which will release via Mercury Nashville, was primarily produced by the duo’s Michael Trotter Jr., and recorded at FAME Studios in Muscle Shoals, Ala.
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The duo’s Trotter Jr. and Tanya Trotter worked with their longtime live band on the album, and wrap in a blend of gospel, bluegrass, country, soul, symphonic pop and more. Along the way, they collaborated with producers including Jonathan Singleton (Luke Combs, Chase Rice), John Shanks (Stevie Nicks, Sheryl Crow) and Jesse Frasure (Jelly Roll, Kelsea Ballerini).
“We see this record as an open invitation to be a part of what we’re doing — it came from wanting to be the hope we believe people need right now, as well as the hope that we need for ourselves,” Tanya Trotter said in a statement.
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“One of our main intentions with this album is to inspire people to share themselves with others, and open themselves up to the possibility of being loved,” Michael Trotter Jr. added.
The album’s songs include “Drink From Me” featuring Billy Strings; “Love Like Whiskey,” which the Trotters wrote with Miranda Lambert; and the Black gospel-influenced “Called You by Your Name.”
Plus One follows the duo’s 2023 project Lover’s Game, which earned a Grammy nomination for best American roots song (for the album’s “Blank Page”), while The War and Treaty was nominated for best new artist.
Over the past year, The War and Treaty has opened shows for Chris Stapleton, Zach Bryan and The Rolling Stones. In March, the duo will also launch the Plus One Tour, which will visit 30 cities across the United States, including New York City’s Irving Plaza, The Howard Theatre in D.C., The Troubadour in Los Angeles, The Kessler Theater in Dallas and more. The tour begins March 26 in Minneapolis and will conclude on June 19 in Bristol, Tenn. General ticket on-sale opens next Friday, Dec. 13, at 10 a.m. local time.
See the tracklisting for Plus One below:
“Love Like Whiskey”
“Skyscraper”
“Can I Get an Amen”
“Called You by Your Name”
“Stealing a Kiss”
“Teardrops in the Rain”
“Leads Me Home”
“Carried Away”
“Drink From Me” feat. Billy Strings
“Reminisce”
“Save Me”
“Love Is on Fire”
“I Can’t Let You Go”
“Home”
“Love Light”
“Mr. Fun”
“Tunnel Vision”
“The Glorious Ones”
There’s nothing artificial about Mariah Carey, who has addressed rumors that her 2024 Spotify Wrapped video message to fans was AI-generated. “Bad lighting and a red lip have you all thinking this is AI??” the vocalist tweeted Thursday (Dec. 5), reposting the video in question from a fan account on X. “There’s a reason I’m […]
Rauw Alejandro is going on tour next year in support of his latest album, Cosa Nuestra. The Puerto Rican superstar unveiled the dates to his world tour on Friday (Dec. 6). The Live Nation-produced stint is set to kick off April 5 in Seattle, and will then visit major cities including San Francisco, Chicago, Houston, […]