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Eminem‘s daughter Hailie Jade celebrated her first Mothers Day over the weekend, and she commemorated the day with a heartwarming post. On Sunday, Jade hopped on Instagram to celebrate her first Mama’s Day, revisiting her pregnancy journey with a touching reel on IG. “Growing you has been the greatest gift of my life,” Jade wrote […]
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Texas rapper That Mexican OT is known for his rapid flows and quick wordplay, but unfortunately, his speed is limited to his speech as the man just doesn’t have the physical requirement needed to move fast enough to get out of the way of a charging bull.
Over the weekend, a video showing the “Johnny Dang” rapper getting mowed down by a bull at a PBR Rodeo in Fort Worth, Texas, hit the internet and while OT seems fine and dandy, it still wasn’t a pretty sight. Partaking in the rodeo festivities, OT was hit by the bull three times in the video with the final hit actually flipping the Mexican rapper over and onto the ground before the video cut off. Though there was another man trying to get the bull’s attention and get some of that horn himself, that bull saw a slower-moving target with a lot of carne on its person and knew it was chow time.
Luckily, That Mexican OT seemed to have avoided any serious injuries such as a horn impaling any body parts and actually seems to enjoy the sport as he promoted his appearance in anticipation of the event.
Check out That Mexican OT getting mashed on by a bull in slow-mo below, and let us know if this is something you’d do if given the chance in the comments section.
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On May 9, Beyoncé wrapped a historic run of five shows at SoFi Stadium in Inglewood, California, 10 miles from downtown Los Angeles. According to figures reported to Billboard Boxscore, the Cowboy Carter Tour kick-off grossed $55.7 million and sold 217,000 tickets.
Beyoncé’s $50 million-plus run in Los Angeles is the biggest reported single-venue engagement of 2025 so far, eclipsing multiple stops on Coldplay’s tour through Asia and Shakira’s seven-night stay in Mexico City. Further, it’s the fifth-highest grossing tour stop in Boxscore history, only behind two legs of U2’s Sphere residency in Las Vegas (2023-24), Harry Styles’ 15 shows at Madison Square Garden in New York (2022), and eight nights of Take That at Wembley Stadium in London (2011). Notably, it’s the highest-grossing reported single-venue engagement ever by a woman.
Cowboy Carter Tour launched on Monday, April 28, with successive performances on May 1, 4, 7, and 9. On average, Beyoncé grossed $11.1 million per night, playing to more than 43,000 fans at each show. In completing this week-long run, she has now played more shows at SoFi Stadium than any other artist in the venue’s history – eight, including three in 2023 – since its opening at the beginning of the decade.
The L.A.-area shows may not even remain the tour’s peak, as an upcoming five-night stay at MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, N.J. (13 miles from New York) could challenge that $55 million take. Beyoncé will have her longest run at one venue in London with six nights at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium, though ticket prices overseas often fall below the surging rates in the United States.
Using Cowboy Carter Tour figures in the Los Angeles area as a guide, with city-by-city comparisons to previous tours, it appears that Beyoncé’s 2025 run is barreling toward Billboard’s initial projections of $300 million. It will out-gross all of her previous tours with the lone exception of 2023’s Renaissance World Tour, which ran for 56 shows compared to Cowboy Carter Tour’s current routing of 32. According to Live Nation, total ticket sales will eclipse one million.
The initial reports for Cowboy Carter Tour push Beyoncé’s reported career Boxscore earnings past $1.4 billion, with 11.9 million tickets sold. Those totals will continue to rise until the trek closes on July 26 at Las Vegas’ Allegiant Stadium.
The ACM Awards will return to Prime Video next year.
The Academy of Country Music and ACM Awards producer Dick Clark Productions (DCP) has struck a deal with Prime Video for the return of the show on the service for the next three years, which will take it through its 63rd ceremony in 2028.
The news follows the ACM Awards’ 60th anniversary show, which streamed live on Amazon’s Prime Video on May 8 from the Ford Center at the Star in Frisco, Texas. The show also streamed live for an international audience across more than 240 countries and territories, exclusively on Prime Video and Amazon Music’s channel on Twitch.
During this year’s ceremony, Lainey Wilson took home the night’s top honor of entertainer of the year (marking her second consecutive win in the category), as well as female artist of the year, songwriter-artist of the year and album of the year (for Whirlwind). Ella Langley earned the most trophies of the evening with five wins, followed by Wilson with four wins. Alan Jackson was the recipient of the inaugural ACM Lifetime Achievement Award, while Keith Urban was honored with the ACM Triple Crown Award.
“Our ongoing partnership with the Academy of Country Music and Dick Clark Productions has been an amazing experience for everyone involved,” said Vernon Sanders, global head of television at Amazon MGM Studios, in a statement. “With the tremendous success of this year’s 60th anniversary show hosted by the legendary Reba McEntire, we are overjoyed to continue our relationship with the Academy and DCP for the next three years. We look forward to maintaining this success and bringing even more star-studded and captivating shows to our global Prime Video customers.”
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“Our powerful partnership with Amazon MGM Studios and Prime Video has expanded the reach and accessibility of our show and the country music genre to viewers anytime, anywhere around the world and has redefined what an awards show experience can and should be in today’s environment,” said Damon Whiteside, CEO of the Academy of Country Music, in a statement. “The synergies between Prime Video, Amazon Music, Twitch, and the other divisions of Amazon bring exponential value to our artists, our genre, and our fans through an immersive 360 music experience they can’t get from any other platform. I am so proud of our pioneering first four years in the streaming space, and we are excited to continue to deliver the future of country music and the ACM Awards to fans everywhere over the next three years.”
“We’re thrilled to continue our partnership with Prime Video through 2028,” added Jay Penske, CEO of Dick Clark Productions. “The Academy of Country Music Awards made history in 2022 as the first major awards show to exclusively livestream and continues to break new ground, creating a world-class music event and providing dynamic, unparalleled reach through Prime Video, connecting country music with a global audience.”
“I feel like it’s just another way for us to get country music out there to the world,” added the Academy of Country Music’s winningest artist of all time, Miranda Lambert, of the partnership between the ACM Awards and Prime Video. “Country music is really popular right now, and I’m so glad more people are understanding what we’re about, and I’m so happy to be part of the ACM history, and that it’s gonna continue for three more years is really exciting.”
The 60th Academy of Country Music Awards was produced by DCP, with Raj Kapoor serving as executive producer and showrunner and Patrick Menton serving as co-executive producer. Whiteside served as executive producer for the Academy of Country Music, while Penske and Barry Adelman served as executive producers for DCP, with John Saade working as consulting producer for Amazon MGM Studios.
The ACM 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.
To celebrate 30 years of steering the Korean entertainment sphere, SM Entertainment hit Los Angeles with its star-studded SMTOWN Live 2025 concert. Boasting 68 individual artists, representing 13 different groups, all on one sprawling stage at the Dignity Health Sports Park, the showcase brought out a range of K-pop talent that showcases SM’s expansive impact […]
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All Swiftie eyes will be turned toward the 2025 American Music Awards later this month, as fans are absolutely convinced that Taylor Swift is planning to announce something major at this year’s ceremony.
There are several reasons for the detective-like fanbase’s latest hunch. Two of the biggest ones tie back to the pop superstar’s online store, which fans noticed now covertly spells out “AMAs” via the first letters of each word in a prominent four-option menu: Apparel, Music, Accessories and Sale.
Additionally, Swift’s site currently has exactly 12 items up for sale at 26% off, which fans have pointed out as two significant numbers. First, the 14-time Grammy winner’s last album — the 17-week Billboard 200-topping Tortured Poets Department — was her 11th studio LP, meaning her next project would be her 12th. Second, the date of the 2025 AMAs is May 26.
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That, of course, isn’t all. Taylor Nation recently reshared a fan’s post on X about voting for Swift at this year’s AMAs (she’s nominated in six categories in 2025) and wrote, “And our town, it looks so sMall from wAy up here.”
“Screamed, ‘vote for the chairman’ at the night sky!” Swift’s team added in the May 6 post.
On the surface, those lines appear to be a simple play on a lyric from Swift’s track “thanK you aIMee.” But you also might notice the randomly capitalized letters in the sentence; put them together, and what do they spell? “AMAs.”
With all of that in mind, Swifties are sure the “Fortnight” singer has something special planned for the 2025 awards. The repetition of the number 12 in her potential Easter eggs has a lot of people thinking that an announcement pertaining to her next proper album is in the cards, but some are holding out hope that she’ll actually reveal something about her long-anticipated Reputation or Taylor Swift re-records.
“Her store spelling out AMAS, 12 items on sale for 26% (the amas are on the 26th), TN capitalizing a caption to spell out AMAS…. guys… THESE ARE EASTER EGGS,” one fan wrote on X.
Another person added, “i think this enough reasonable clown material.”
If Swift does unveil something album-related at the AMAs, it would be far from the first time she’s used an award show for that purpose. It was at the 2022 VMAs that she announced Midnights, and while accepting best pop vocal album for that same LP at the 2024 Grammys, she announced Tortured Poets.
The Eras headliner also has a special history with the AMAs in particular. In 2019, she was declared the show’s second-ever artist of the decade, performing a medley of her biggest hits before accepting the honor on stage. She’s also the most-decorated artist in AMAs history, boasting 40 awards in her collection total.
Airing live on Memorial Day, or May 26, the AMAs will be available to stream on Paramount+ in the U.S. The upcoming show comes after Swift was recently spotted out and about with boyfriend Travis Kelce for the first time in months, dining at a Philadelphia restaurant on Mother’s Day (May 11) after mostly lying low following the conclusion of the Eras Tour in December.
See what Swifties are saying about the possibility of a big AMAs announcement below.
🚨| Taylor Swift’s official store currently features 12 items at 26% off in her store. —The site also spells “AMAs”, and the AMAs will take place on the 26th of this month. pic.twitter.com/qKxwDbXUnv— Taylor Swift Updates (@TSUpdating) May 12, 2025
the 12 stones in taylor’s earrings at the grammys, 12D’s in her instagram caption, her store spelling out AMAS, 12 items on sale for 26% (the amas are on the 26th), TN capitalizing a caption to spell out AMAS…. guys… THESE ARE EASTER EGGS— kaia! (@kaiamal13) May 12, 2025
first tayppearance in forever, website spells out “AMAS”, the taylor nation countdown, i think this enough reasonable clown material pic.twitter.com/GzTsQyRuqv— 𝙎𝙚𝙩𝙝⸆⸉ (@t4n00kl1ng) May 12, 2025
Taylor’s website spells out AMASAMAS are on 5/26 …5 + 2 + 6 =13 🤡what also happened on 5/26/23the karma mv…what if the 2 on the coffee cup meant 2 years from that date? which is also the AMAs…🤡🤡🤡 pic.twitter.com/sidWI9eo2M— g (taylor’s version) – heard idsb miami n2 🐍🖤 (@readyforittv13) May 12, 2025
Taylor Swift gave us three different Easter eggs for May 26th. Apparently we will have something at the 2025 AMAs. pic.twitter.com/s0yXLh35Zn— Taylor Swift Charts (@TChartSwift) May 12, 2025
i think i’m clowning for rep (taylor’s version) for the amas cause the first time she announced something at an award show was midnights and at metlife n1 we got rep and midnights surprise songs and the 1 part of the karma mv that was very rep coded— lily (taylor’s version) HEARD YOYOK (@lilys_garden13) May 12, 2025
Dead & Company are planning a concert in Golden Gate Park to celebrate the 60th anniversary of the Grateful Dead forming in 1965. The San Francisco Recreation and Park Commission will vote on issuing a permit for the anniversary concert this Thursday (May 15), paving the way for Another Planet Entertainment to promote the historic […]