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28 May 2025

Justin Bieber Proudly Supports Hailey Bieber After She Sells Her Rhode Skincare Company for $1 Billion

Justin Bieber is celebrating Hailey Bieber‘s wins.

Following the announcement that the model had sold her Rhode skincare company to e.l.f. Beauty for an eye-popping $1 billion on Wednesday (May 23), the pop star took to social media to champion his business-savvy wife in a sweet but subtle way.

On Instagram, Justin posted a glamorous photo of Hailey rocking a powerful white suit, as well as a screenshot of her own caption announcing the news on the platform. “When I launched @rhode in 2022, I always had big dreams for the company, and the most important thing to me is to keep bringing rhode to more spaces, places, and faces globally,” the mogul wrote on her page. “So today I am so incredibly excited and proud to announce that we are partnering with e.l.f. Beauty … a like-minded disruptor with a vision to be a different kind of company that believes in big ideas and innovation in the same way that I do.”

“I feel invigorated, excited and more ready than ever to step into an even bigger role as Chief Creative Officer, and Head of Innovation of rhode as well as strategic advisor to e.l.f. Beauty,” Hailey continued in her caption. “Thank you to the amazing rhode team who have helped me build over the years. I couldn’t have done it without all of you. And to our rhode community, thank you for being the most supportive and for being on this journey, this next chapter is going to be even more incredible together!”

Justin also reshared Hailey’s post on his Story.

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The businesswoman didn’t share the billion-dollar price tag of her sale in her post, but the 10-digit figure was reported by Wall Street Journal and Forbes. The latter publication breaks down the deal as being “$600 million in cash, $200 million worth of e.l.f. Beauty stock and a potential $200 million in future payouts based on the company’s growth over the next three years.”

The sale comes just three years after Hailey first launched Rhode, a venture for which Justin has been at her side every step of the way. The musician — who married Hailey in 2018 — has appeared with her at several events for the company, and in February, he shared photos and wrote on Instagram, “Congrats baby on your beautiful @rhode pop up.”

Hailey’s major money move also comes shortly after she appeared on the cover of Vogue, getting candid in the accompanying interview about her life — both as a woman in the public eye and as a new mom to son Jack Blues, whom she welcomed with Justin in August. The “Peaches” singer also shared a few thoughts with the publication, saying, “I’ve done a lot of dumb things in my life, but the smartest thing I’ve ever done was marry Hailey.”

Shortly afterward, he faced a bit of backlash for sharing on Instagram that he once told Hailey she’d “never be on the cover of Vogue” during a “huge fight” they had in the past. Justin has since removed the caption from his page, replacing it with a string of emojis, but he’d originally added, “Yikes I know, so mean … For some reason because I felt so disrespected I thought I gotta get even.. I think as we mature we realize that we’re not helping anything by getting even … So baby u already know but forgive me for saying u wouldn’t get a vogue cover cuz clearly i was sadly mistaken.”

28 May 2025

Bad Bunny Claims Third No. 1 From ‘Debí Tirar Más Fotos’ on Latin Airplay Chart

After leading Billboard’s Hot Latin Songs chart since last January, Bad Bunny’s “DTMF” cracks the No. 1 slot on the Latin Airplay chart (dated May 31). It’s the third song from Debí Tirar Más Fotos, his sixth solo album, to hit the top of the overall Latin radio ranking.

“DTMF” advances 2-1 in its 13th week on the Latin Airplay chart, after a 31% gain in audience impressions, to 8.8 million, earned in United States during the May 16-22 tracking week, according to Luminate.

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“DTMF” marks the third track from the album Debí Tirar Más Fotos to hit No. 1 on the tally, after “El Clúb” and “Baile Inolvidable” each charted at the summit for two weeks between February and March.

As Benito claims the Latin Airplay crown, he adds a 28th chart-topping hit –a run that started in 2018– and enters a tie with Daddy Yankee for the fourth-most since the ranking began in 1994. Here’s a recap of those artists with the most wins, with Shakira standing out as the sole female representation among those acts with at least 24 No. 1s:

No. 1s, Artist
37, J Balvin
35, Ozuna
32, Enrique Iglesias
28, Bad Bunny
28, Daddy Yankee
24, Maluma
24, Shakira

Rauw Alejandro & Luis Angel ‘El Flaco’ Score Big Wins: Elsewhere on the Latin charts, Rauw Alejandro and Luis Angel ‘El Flaco’ score additional gains.

Rauw Alejandro returns to the summit on the Latin Pop Airplay chart almost a year after “Touching The Sky” ruled for one week (August 2024). His recent single, “Carita Linda” jumps 3-1 in its sixth week with 4.15 million in audience impressions, up 19%, earned during the same period. The song becomes the Puerto Rican’s seventh ruler, and third unaccompanied by any other act.

Meanwhile, Luis Angel ‘El Flaco’ scores a second champ on the Regional Mexican Airplay chart with “Vuelve a Mi.” The song, which climbs 5-1, becomes the airplay Greatest Gainer of the week after a 44% boost in impressions, to 6.7 million.

“Vuelve a Mi” also takes Luis Angel to his third top on the overall Latin Airplay chart, where it rallies 14-4 in its 11th recap.

28 May 2025

Rezz Relocates Her Upcoming Show From Brooklyn Mirage Amid Club’s Ongoing Closure

Rezz is the latest artist to relocate a show from the Brooklyn Mirage, the New York venue that was meant to reopen earlier this month but remains closed amid ongoing permitting issues.

On Wednesday (May 28), the producer announced on social media that her May 30 performance will now take place at SummerStage in Central Park.

In this announcement she writes that “due to [the Mirage’s] ongoing internal issues my show can’t happen there as planned this Friday, but my team was busting a– looking for a dif venue for this Friday and 1 that is available is SummerStage at Central Park!! If u bought your tickets to Mirage u can use your tickets here! It’s the best we could do given these last minute circumstances. Also if you want to refund your Mirage ticket ofc that’s an option too. Doing this for the fans.”

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After a substantial remodel, Brooklyn Mirage was scheduled to open on May 1 with a pair of shows from Sara Landry. Those shows were both canceled by the club hours before they were set to begin, after building inspectors declined to grant the recently renovated facility a permit to open.

All subsequent shows at the venue have been canceled or postponed. Last week, Billboard reported that following the extended delay, Josh Wyatt will no longer serve as CEO of the club’s parent company, Avant Gardner. Gary Richards, Avant Gardner’s non-executive chairman of the board, is now managing day-to-day operations for Avant Gardner in the interim.

In its own announcement today on social media, Brooklyn Mirage announced that a May 31 show by Artbat has been moved to November, a June 1 event from party series Everyday People will now happen in September and a June 6 performance from A.G. Cook will now happen in August. The club also announced that “all ticket holders for impacted shows will also receive an email and text with relevant show information and ticket options.”

June 7 and June 8 shows from bass producer Tape B and the party series All Day I Dream remain on the club’s online calendar, indicating the possibility of Brooklyn Mirage opening next weekend.

28 May 2025

Ludwig Göransson Not Sure He Can ‘Wrap His Head Around’ Donald Glover Retiring Childish Gambino

Ludwig Göransson is still getting used to Donald Glover retiring his Childish Gambino moniker.

The movie score composer and music producer stopped by Apple Music to have a chat with Zane Lowe recently and talked about his work with Childish Gambino.

“It’s been a huge part of my life — Donald and Childish Gambino — and being on that journey, and touring and playing,” he said when asked how he felt about Glover deciding to stop making music under the Childish Gambino name. “We have so many family friends. I mean, we are a family. … I’m not sure actually I still can wrap my head around it. I wasn’t sad because I know that it’s not like he’s gonna stop making music.”

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He added that he still goes back to listen to the music that they’ve made and expressed that he was “very proud of it.”

Elsewhere in the interview, he talked about the difference in working on movie scores versus producing songs for music artists. “I do love making songs,” he said. “I do like working with artists, and for me that’s always been really important for my own musical journey, for my own growth to sit with another — no disrespect to directors, they’re artists — to sit with another musician, work with them, get their vision out and sit and create something is amazing.”

In 2024, while promoting Childish Gambino’s final album Bando Stone & The New World, the actor and musician told The New York Times that he decided to let that part of his life go because it wasn’t as “fulfilling” as it used to be.

The two started Childish Gambino when they met on the set of Community, when Göransson was a composer on the NBC sitcom and Glover played the character Troy Barnes.

You can watch the full interview below.

28 May 2025

2025 American Music Awards Attract Largest Audience Since 2019

You never know what will happen when you throw a lot of changes at a long-running awards show — but for the 2025 American Music Awards, it appears that change is a good thing. The show, which was hosted by Jennifer Lopez and held at the Fontainebleau Las Vegas on Monday for the first time, posted its largest audience since 2019 (when the show was hosted by Ciara).

The AMAs were the No. 1 broadcast of the night on Monday. The show attracted 4.86 million viewers, according to Nielsen, up 38% from its last live broadcast in 2022 (airing Nov. 20, 2022, and hosted by Wayne Brady on ABC).

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There were many changes with this year’s show — it was the first regular AMAs broadcast on CBS, the first to air on Memorial Day (or in the spring, in general), the first not to take place in the Los Angeles area and first since a time reduction from three to two hours.

The 2025 American Music Awards ratings measures Live+SD Fast National Data including Out-of-Home Viewing and live streaming on Paramount+.

The 2025 American Music Awards outpaced several other recent primetime specials, including ABC’s CMA Country Christmas hosted by Amy Grant and Trisha Yearwood on Dec. 3, 2024; NBC’s Ladies & Gentlemen…50 Years of SNL Music on Jan. 27, 2025; and ABC’s CMA Fest on June 25, 2024.

The 2025 American Music Awards on CBS drove 9.2 billion potential impressions and 816,600 mentions on social media, while also posting growth across all key demographics versus the 2022 broadcast: up 91% among adults 18-34, up 23% among adults 18-49 and up 16% among adults 25-54.

The 2025 American Music Awards social accounts garnered over 100M video views within the first 24 hours across Instagram, Tiktok, X and Facebook, according to Listenfirst.

The ceremony’s Twitch live broadcast peaked at 205.5 thousand during YouTube star Kai Cenat’s onstage appearance, according to TwitchTracker.

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The American Music Awards are produced by Dick Clark Productions, which is owned by Penske Media Eldridge, a joint venture between Eldridge Industries and Billboard parent company Penske Media.

28 May 2025

Donald Trump Commutes Life Sentence of Former Chicago Gang Leader Larry Hoover

President Donald Trump has commuted the sentence of Larry Hoover, as the former Chicago gang leader was set to spend the rest of his years behind bars in Colorado.

Trump has dished out quite a few pardons in recent weeks while in the Oval Office, and he commuted the multiple life sentences of the Gangster Disciples’ founder on Wednesday (May 28), according to the Chicago Sun–Times.

However, CBS News reports that the 74-year-old will still have to serve the remainder of his 200-year sentence for the murder of drug dealer William “Pooky” Young in 1973.

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Federal prosecutors accused the drug kingpin of running a “criminal enterprise” from behind bars, which helped him still oversee gang activities while imprisoned. Hoover was hit with 40 additional charges and found guilty in 1997.

Ye (formerly Kanye West), who is a Chicago native, has long advocated for Hoover’s freedom. He spoke about Hoover during a White House visit with Trump in 2018 and then headlined the Free Larry Hoover Benefit Concert with Drake in December 2021 at the Coliseum in Los Angeles.

West was overjoyed to learn that Trump commuted Hoover’s sentences. “WORDS CAN’T EXPRESS MY GRATITUDE FOR OUR DEVOTED ENDURING PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP FOR FREEING LARRY HOOVER,” he wrote to X on Wednesday.

Ye even showed love to Drake for joining him onstage in 2021. “Thank you to Drake for helping to bring Larry Hoover home,” Yeezy added.

West gave Larry Hoover’s son, Larry Hoover Jr., a guest appearance on his 2021 Donda album and shouted out Hoover on “Jesus Lord” as well as Vultures 2‘s “River.” Hoover Jr. also joined Ye during his Drink Champs interview in 2021.

Hoover has continued to petition for a criminal sentence, and U.S. District Judge John Blakey heard a mercy bid from the former gang leader in 2024. “We did what so many said was impossible,” Hoover’s attorney, Justin Moore, told the Sun-Times. “We got Larry Hoover out of federal prison.”

28 May 2025

Dove Cameron Remembers Late Cameron Boyce on His Birthday: ‘Catch You in the Next Life’

Dove Cameron is remembering Cameron Boyce on what would’ve been his 26th birthday, posting an emotional tribute to her late Descendants co-star Wednesday (May 28).

Six years since the Jessie actor died suddenly after suffering an epileptic seizure in his sleep, the “Boyfriend” singer shared a carousel of photos with her friend and wrote on Instagram, “i still feel you all the time.”

“catch you in the next life,” she continued. “happy birthday. i love you.”

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In one of the photos, a smiling Boyce wraps his arms around the Liv & Maddie alum while smiling wide; in another, they sit on the floor and pose with two other Descendants stars, Sofia Carson and Booboo Stewart. Cameron also shared a snap of the gun and rose tattoo on her wrist that she got in the late actor’s honor.

Carson also paid tribute to Boyce on Wednesday, sharing a black-and-white photo and writing on Instagram, “Keep dancing in heaven, my Cam. Earth could never be the same without you.”

Boyce was just 20 years old when he died in 2019, leaving the Disney community — and countless fans who watched him on projects such as Jessie and Bunk’d — in shock. At the time, a spokesperson confirmed that his seizure had been the “result of an ongoing medical condition for which he was being treated.”

Cameron and Boyce starred together in three Descendants movies between 2015 and 2019. The soundtrack for the first film debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200.

The Schmigadoon! actress has since pursued a solo music career, dropping her debut single “Bloodshot” in 2019. Her viral hit “Boyfriend” peaked at No. 16 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 2023, and she is now fresh off the release of new singles “Too Much” and “French Girls,” the latter of which dropped earlier in May.

“There’s a huge intersection between pain, heartbreak, joy and camp and levity. And that’s where we found ourselves in ‘French Girls,’” Cameron recently told Billboard of the newer song. “The melodrama of being a muse for a sculptor or a painter. There’s something so painfully romantic and also constricting about that. In ‘French Girls,’ the thing that I was really obsessed with was this self-sacrificing mania about being a muse that is not healthy.”

28 May 2025

Giveon Announces Release Date for His Sophomore Album ‘Beloved’

Giveon has announced his sophomore album Beloved will be dropping later this summer. On Wednesday (May 28), Giveon hopped on Instagram to finally announce his new album Beloved will drop on July 11.

“BELOVED, the sophomore album, july 11th,” he wrote on Instagram. “i spent over a thousand days crafting this for you and for myself. excited for you to see my growth not only as an artist but also as a man. i’ll never take your patience for granted. see you soon.”

The new album comes after the Grammy-nominated artist dropped off the project’s lead single “Twenties” in March. The song reached No. 6 on Hot R&B Songs and coincided with the five-year anniversary of his debut Take Time EP.

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The EP was nominated for best R&B album at the 2021 Grammy Awards, and was followed by the top 10 R&B album When It’s All Said and Done in October 2020. He also appeared on Justin Bieber’s summertime smash “Peaches” in 2021, but other than that has been laying low to work on Beloved.

“I get that question a lot,” he told Billboard back in March when asked what he’s been up to this whole time. “I always tell people that I’ve just been absorbing bodies of work that inspire me. Not just music but multiple mediums like paintings, films, life itself. Because there’s a lot of inspiration that comes from life and all of my music is autobiographical. So I don’t have a choice but to experience life and then write it out while working on my craft.”

He was fairly tight lipped on his sophomore effort, but said: “I’m excited for people to hear it. With my first album, I was just making music and having. Now I’m still having [fun]. But I’m also like, ‘Oh, I have a responsibility with this music because I see how it touches and helps people.’”

Check out the Instagram post announcing Beloved below.

28 May 2025

Suge Knight Believes Diddy ‘Definitely Should Walk’ Free in Sex Trafficking & Racketeering Trial

Suge Knight believes Diddy should be a free man at the conclusion of his sex trafficking and racketeering trial.

While Knight and Diddy were at opposite ends of the contentious West Coast/East Coast rap beef in the ’90s, the Death Row founder joined NewsNation’s Cuomo on Tuesday (May 27), where he detailed why he thinks that Diddy shouldn’t be found guilty.

Knight said he believes Combs had many accomplices who should be in handcuffs with him, while Diddy was the only Bad Boy Records executive to take the fall. “I say this all the time, Puffy and I are not friends. But Puffy should definitely walk,” he explained. “There were other executives involved in Puffy’s life and for Puffy to be the only guy that gets on the stand is a sad day for hip-hop.”

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Host Chris Cuomo asked Knight about his relationship with Diddy’s former assistant, Capricorn Clark, who testified against Combs and claimed Diddy kidnapped her. Knight alleged that Bad Boy’s Reggie Wright Jr. forced Clark to have sex with multiple people.

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“I don’t think this is a case where Puffy should be going to prison … How could every person who’s involved with Puffy not on the stand except for Puffy? At some point, the law gotta be blind,” Knight continued. “We just can’t jump to conclusions and say, ‘throw Puffy under the bus.’ Like I said, him and I are not friends, but Puffy definitely should walk. What’s right is right, wrong is wrong.”

Even if Diddy ends up receiving a lengthy prison sentence, Knight believes that President Donald Trump will end up giving the Bad Boy mogul a pardon.

“I don’t think he has nothing to worry about, and I don’t think he’s worried because he’s gonna be federal, and if he gets convicted, Trump’s gonna pardon him,” he said to Cuomo. “I feel that Puffy is going to be alright and have a fair shot at it. He’s not a dummy. I’m quite sure somebody is going to talk to those jurors and convince one or two of them.”

Diddy’s sex trafficking and racketeering trial is approaching day 10 and is expected to last into July. He faces life in prison if convicted on all charges.

Watch the full clip featuring Suge Knight on Cuomo below:


 

28 May 2025

A Look at All the Rappers Ye Has Beefed With

While Drake and Ye had a mutual respect for each other early on that slowly fell apart over the years. The 6 God’s “Best I Ever Had” music video was actually directed by Ye back in 2009, and Drizzy called the rapper the “most influential” person to his sound. Not to mention they joined forces with Lil Wayne for the incredible Billboard Hot 100 hit “Forever,” and Ye also contributed to production on Drizzy’s Thank Me Later debut.

By the mid-2010s, however, the pair went their separate ways and began sending each other cryptic shots. Drake appeared to take a jab at Ye and Jay-Z as they prepared to deliver Watch the Throne during a 2011 Tim Westwood interview, with Drizzy implying that he and Lil Wayne were getting ready to drop a joint record and that Hov and Ye took the idea from them. Things then escalated in 2011 when Drizzy said he was trying to “surpass” Ye, but fears of an escalating feud were quelled after the latter popped out at The Boy’s OVO Fest in 2013. Yet a year later, Drake clowned some of Ye’s bars on Yeezus, and in 2016 bragged that his pool was bigger then the G.O.O.D. Music leader’s.

While the tensions between the two didn’t appear to run that deep, Ye escalated the feud during a radio interview in 2016 when he criticized Drizzy and DJ Khaled’s song “For Free” dominating radio. The rant caused Drake to respond and express confusion over why Ye was targeting him, but he then still enlisted Ye to appear on his 2017 track “More Life.”

But by 2018, their relationship had completely fractured. Ye produced Pusha T’s “Infared” diss aimed at Drake, and is long believed to have been the one that told Push about Drake’s son Adonis. Push used that information for his killshot diss track “The Story of Adidon.”

Back and forths continued throughout the year, with Ye momentarily trying to broker peace between him and The Boy but to no avail. Eventually, Drake said “it is what it is” in an interview with Rap Radar, adding he has no intention of brokering peace with Ye. The feud then reached a head in 2021 when Ye dropped off Donda four days before Drizzy was set to release Certified Lover Boy. Both albums debuted atop the Billboard 200, but Drake’s effort came on top with 613,000 album units to Ye’s 309,000.

The two titans did then put their differences aside later that year for the Free Larry Hoover Concert, but on his 2023 song “Red Button,” Drake blasted any hope of a truce with the Yeezy leader.

“Every time you need me for a boost, I never hesitated/ Every time that Yeezy called a truce, he had my head inflated/ Thinkin’ we gon’ finally peace it up and get to levitatin’/ Realize that everything premeditated,” Drake raps.

Ye then made his side of the story known when he attempted to insert himself into Kendrick and Drake’s growing feud in 2024. Ye hopped on an unofficial “Like That” remix dissing Drake, before changing his tune in 2025 and showing support for Drake in the wake of the tumultuous feud.

“I’m never finna call Drake out of his name,” Ye wrote in a tweet. “I’m team Drake, 100%.”