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10 Jul 2023

Taylor Swift Extends Record for Most Hot 100 Top 10s Among Women With ‘Cruel Summer’

Taylor Swift’s “Cruel Summer,” now being promoted as her new single after it was released on her 2019 album Lover, jumps from No. 13 to No. 7 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart (dated July 15). The song becomes her 41st top 10 – extending her record for the most among women.

The track, which Swift wrote with Jack Antonoff and St. Vincent and produced with Antonoff, tallied 30.3 million in all-format radio airplay audience (up 35%), 14.9 million streams (up 11%) and 3,000 sold (essentially even week-over-week) June 30-July 6, according to Luminate.

The song was released on Swift’s 2019 album Lover and is now being promoted by Republic Records as her newest single. It has been gaining momentum in recent weeks, as Swift has been performing it on her current Eras Tour, her first in which she’s been able to spotlight songs from Lover, which was released shortly before the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. Each concert on the tour is divided into 10 acts, encompassing nine of her LPs; the Lover era kicks off the show, with “Cruel Summer” performed in the opening set.

Nearly four years after Lover’s release, “Cruel Summer” becomes the set’s fourth Hot 100 top 10, joining lead single “Me!,” featuring Brendon Urie (No. 2 peak); “You Need to Calm Down” (also No. 2); and the title track (No. 10), all in 2019.

“Cruel Summer” is Swift’s 41st career Hot 100 top 10, the second-most among all acts and the most among women.

Most Hot 100 Top 10s:

  • 68, Drake
  • 41, Taylor Swift
  • 38, Madonna
  • 34, The Beatles
  • 32, Rihanna
  • 30, Michael Jackson
  • 29, Elton John
  • 28, Mariah Carey
  • 28, Stevie Wonder
  • 27, Janet Jackson
  • 26, Justin Bieber
  • 25, Lil Wayne
  • 25, Elvis Presley (whose career start predated the Hot 100’s inception)

The Hot 100 blends all-genre U.S. streaming (official audio and official video), radio airplay and sales data, the lattermost metric reflecting purchases of physical singles and digital tracks from full-service digital music retailers; digital singles sales from direct-to-consumer (D2C) sites are excluded from chart calculations. All charts (dated July 15, 2023) will update on Billboard.com Tuesday (July 11).

10 Jul 2023

Jack White Calls Out ‘Disgusting’ Mark Wahlberg, Joe Rogan & Other Celebs for Cozying Up to Donald Trump at UFC Fight

Jack White has no tolerance for those who rub elbows with Donald Trump, and he’s making sure everyone knows. On Monday (July 10), White took to Instagram to release a statement condemning celebrities who cozied up to the former POTUS at UFC 290 on Saturday.

“Anybody who ‘normalizes’ or treats this disgusting fascist, racist, con man, disgusting piece of sh– Trump with any level of respect is also disgusting in my book,” wrote the “Another Way to Die” singer. “That’s you Joe Rogan, you Mel Gibson, you Mark Wahlberg, you Guy Fieri. This is a statement from me, not a discussion/debate.”

Alongside his statement, White posted a photo set of the aforementioned celebrities saluting, posing and conversing with Trump during the event.

Over the weekend, Trump stopped by UFC 290 while carrying out a weekend of campaign stops in Las Vegas and Iowa. When he touched down at T-Mobile Arena, Trump was greeted by a slew of Hollywood stars, including two-time Academy Award winner Mel Gibson, Academy Award nominee Mark Wahlberg and celebrity chef Guy Fieri.

This is not the first time White has called out a fellow celebrity for supporting the former president: In November, the rocker called out former Twitter CEO Elon Musk for reinstating Trump’s Twitter account.

As a soloist, Jack White has earned six top 10 entries on the Billboard 200, including the No. 1 albums Blunderbuss (2012), Lazaretto (2014) and Boarding House Reach (2018). He also boasts a pair of entries on the Billboard Hot 100, the highest of which is his Beyoncé duet “Don’t Hurt Yourself” (No. 28) in 2016. As a member of The White Stripes, he has earned an additional three top 10 albums, as well as the seminal Grammy-winning hit “Seven Nation Army.”

Check out White’s statement below:

10 Jul 2023

‘America’s Got Talent’ Winner Michael Grimm Can Speak But ‘Doesn’t Have His Singing Voice Yet,’ Wife Says in New Update

America’s Got Talent season 5 winner Michael Grimm is officially in recovery, his wife Lucie Zolcerva-Grimm shared with fans in an update posted to Instagram on Saturday.

Zolcerva-Grimm says the singer “is now in a recovery facility for physical therapy, speech therapy. His mind and body has disconnected so we are working on reconnecting that. So he’s been through a lot,” she said.

In a June 12 update to fans, Zolcerva-Grimm revealed that Grimm’s health started becoming a concern around Memorial Day weekend after he experienced body tremors and difficulty speaking. He was then rushed to the ICU and placed on a ventilator under heavy medication so as to prevent him having a stroke or flatlining.

The new update, however, is a more positive one — “I’m thrilled to say that his speaking voice is completely back. So the speech therapy portion of it has been very successful,” Zolcerva-Grimm said, adding that while her husband “doesn’t have a singing voice yet, he is not stressed over it. He feels that with proper vocal exercises and retraining he will get back on track.”

Grimm had also seen a large improvement over his mobility: “He is walking on his own and that’s a huge thing for us, getting that leg strength back, getting his coordination and his equilibrium back, those were all massive things. That’s probably his biggest win right now.”

The update came ahead of a planned four-hour benefit in Las Vegas to help pay for Grimm’s medical costs on July 9. Fans can also contribute to a PayPal for donations.

See Zolcerva-Grimm’s new update video below.

10 Jul 2023

Jelly Roll Showers His Wife With Praise in ‘A Bunnie Appreciation Post’: ‘She Saved Me’

Jelly Roll has spent years building up a music career that includes chart-topping songs such as “Son of a Sinner,” being a Billboard cover star and winning CMT Music Awards accolades, in addition to the release of his latest album Whitsitt Chapel. But his wife Bunnie XO is also an entrepreneur and person of influence in her own right, thanks to her work building up her Dumb Blonde podcast, which covers a range of topics including fashion, relationship advice, music and business.

On Friday, Jelly Roll posted a lengthy statement of praise for his wife, titling it “A Bunnie Appreciation Post!” Jelly Roll (real name: Jason DeFord) and Bunnie have been married since 2016.

“A lot is often said or made about my story, but the truth is, I’ve never been moved more by a story than the story of my wife,” Jelly Roll wrote. “To watch what this woman has overcame and her passion and determination to be something better has inspired me from the moment I met her. She saved me in one of the darkest times of my life. She has been nothing but supportive.”

He also wrote about the origins of Bunnie’s Dumb Blonde podcast. “I remember her sitting at our kitchen table and her talking to me about the vision she had to start the Dumb Blonde Podcast, and how it was her means to end working in the sex industry for good. I watched her build her own platform, her own podcast and her own team with ZERO help from me. She wanted to do it on her own, she didn’t want to be just ‘Jelly Roll’s wife,’ she wanted to build her own empire to empower women and share her story in hopes that it could motivate others to believe that they could change their lives and be happy. Watching her launch into this season of the Podcast, watching her build this beautiful community on Patreon where she posts our family vlog series ‘Meet the DeFords’ and NOW SHE IS COMING ON TOUR WITH ME AND DOING HER OWN MEET AND GREET (that I’ll be crashing as many of them as I can).”

He concluded with a personal note to Bunnie, saying, “Watching you take this thing to the moon has been nothing short of incredible to watch- so so so so happy for you baby. Let’s keep changing the world a little at a time.”

Bunnie responded to Jelly Roll’s message, writing in a comment, “I’m crying at the dinner table … You have always been my reason, my why & my strength. I love you to the moon & deepest galaxies.”

In his recent Billboard cover story, Jelly called Bunnie “a beacon of change in my life. You’re talking about a woman that came in and took a child that was soon to be born and a child that [we were] soon to have full custody of. I would have never got custody of my daughter without her. I wouldn’t have had the stability or the money.”

10 Jul 2023

Here’s the First Rap Album to Top the Billboard 200 in Each Calendar Year (Complete List)

As Billboard reported on Monday (July 10), Lil Uzi Vert’s Pink Tape enters the Billboard 200 at No. 1 in the issue dated July 15. That’s the latest in the calendar year we’ve had to wait to see a rap album at No. 1 since 1993, when Cypress Hill’s Black Sunday rang the bell on Aug. 7.

In every other year since 1989, the first album to reach No. 1 did so in the first half of the year.

Beastie Boys’ Licensed to Ill was the first rap album to top the Billboard 200, reaching No. 1 on March 7, 1987. No rap albums reached No. 1 in 1988, the last year that that has been the case.

2Pac had the year’s first rap album to reach No. 1 four times, more than any other rapper. He had the first rap album to reach No. 1 in 1995 and 1996, while he was still living, and in 2001 and 2005, after his death. The rapper was killed in a drive-by shooting in September 1996 at the age of 25.

DMX had the first rap album to reach No. 1 three times – in 1998, 1999 and 2000. He’s the only rapper to have the year’s first rap album to reach No. 1 in three consecutive years. The rapper died in April 2021 at age 50.

Rick Ross and Nicki Minaj each had the first rap album to reach No. 1 twice. Ross scored in 2008 and 2009; Minaj in 2011 and 2012. Minaj is the only female artist to have the first No. 1 rap album of a year.

One soundtrack was the first rap album to hit No. 1 in a calendar year. That was Gridlock’d (1997), which featured such stars as 2Pac and Snoop Doggy Dogg (as he was then billed).

One supergroup collective has had the first No. 1 rap album of the year. That happened in 2020 when Jackboys achieved the feat. The group comprised Travis Scott, Sheck Wes, Don Toliver and Chase B.

Five times, a rap album was the first album to top the Billboard 200 in a calendar year. Once, this was true in back-to-back years. The first album to reach No. 1 in 2018 was Eminem’s Revival. The first to achieve the feat in 2019 was 21 Savage’s I Am > I Was.

Here’s a complete list of the first rap albums to reach No. 1 in each calendar year:

1987: Beastie Boys, Licensed to Ill (March 7)

1988: none

1989: Tone Lōc, Lōc-ed After Dark (April 15)

1990: MC Hammer, Please Hammer, Don’t Hurt ’Em (June 9)

1991: Vanilla Ice, To the Extreme (Jan. 5)

1992: Kris Kross, Totally Krossed Out (May 23)

1993: Cypress Hill, Black Sunday (Aug. 7)

1994: Snoop Doggy Dogg: Doggystyle (Jan. 15)

1995: 2Pac, Me Against the World (April 1)

1996: 2Pac, All Eyez on Me (March 2)

1997: Soundtrack, Gridlock’d (Feb. 15)

1998: DMX, It’s Dark and Hell Is Hot (June 6)

1999: DMX, Flesh of My Flesh, Blood of My Blood (Jan. 9)

2000: DMX, …And Then There Was X (Jan. 8)

2001: 2Pac, Until the End of Time (April 14)

2002: Big Tymers, Hood Rich (May 18)

2003: 50 Cent, Get Rich or Die Tryin’ (Feb. 22)

2004: OutKast, Speakerboxxx/The Love Below (Jan. 10)

2005: 2Pac, Loyal to the Game (Jan. 1)

2006: Juvenile, Reality Check (March 25)

2007: Nas, Hip Hop Is Dead (Jan. 6)

2008: Rick Ross, Trilla (March 29)

2009: Rick Ross, Deeper Than Rap (May 9)

2010: Ludacris, Battle of the Sexes (March 27)

2011: Nicki Minaj, Pink Friday (Feb. 19)

2012: Nicki Minaj, Pink Friday: Roman Reloaded (April 21)

2013: ASAP Rocky, Long.Live.ASAP (Feb. 2)

2014: Schoolboy Q, Oxymoron (March 15)

2015: Drake, If You’re Reading This It’s Too Late (Feb. 28)

2016: Future, Evol (Feb. 27)

2017: Migos, Culture (Feb. 18)

2018: Eminem, Revival (Jan. 3)

2019: 21 Savage, I Am > I Was (Jan. 5)

2020: Jackboys, Jackboys (Jan. 11)

2021: Playboi Carti, Whole Lotta Red (Jan. 9)

2022: Gunna, DS4Ever (Jan. 22)

2023: Lil Uzi Vert, Pink Tape (July 15)

10 Jul 2023

Liam Payne Went to Sobriety Treatment Center for 100 Days After One Direction Backlash

Liam Payne is reflecting on one of his bigger career controversies, in which he sent One Direction fans into a spiral after he controversially claimed on Logan Paul’s Impaulsive podcast that he was the inspiration behind Simon Cowell’s decision to create One Direction.

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A year later, the “Strip That Down” singer uploaded an eight-minute YouTube video on Saturday (July 8), in which he revealed that the backlash was one of the incidents that ultimately encouraged him to enter a sobriety treatment program for 100 days. “My own frustrations with my own career and where I kind of landed, I took shots at everybody else which is wrong. Obviously, I want to apologize for that, in the first instance, because that’s definitely not me,” he shared in the clip. “One of the biggest remarks I made was about the One Direction thing … and a lot of self-protection, I suppose, in that moment, more than anything. The rest of the boys really stuck by me when I needed them most, they kinda came to the rescue. Even Zayn, as well, which is why I did send him a little thank you online. It came across really big-headed didn’t it?”

Back in June 2022, Payne appeared on Impaulsive, in which he shared a number of thoughts on the members of One Direction he didn’t get along with, the alleged origin of the boy band and why he can’t stand beside former 1D bandmate Zayn Malik.

“I just kind of feel like I’ve got more of a grip on life and everything that was getting away from me, I just feel like I’ve got more of a handle on it,” Payne reflected back on the moment now. “I just needed to take a little bit of time out for myself actually because I kind of became somebody who I didn’t really recognize anymore. And I’m sure you guys didn’t either. I was in bad shape up until that point and I was really happy to kind of put a stopper to life and work.”

Payne added that his decision to seek treatment also stemmed from wanting to be better for his six-year-old son, adding, “There’s no point trying to be a dad when you’ve got nothing to teach. And I don’t think up until this point I really had much to say to him other than what came from deeply loving and very deeply. Which are obviously the most important things, but I just kind of feel like I’ve got more of a grip on life now.”

Moving forward, the 29-year-old singer said he’s focusing on his sobriety as he continues to make social media content for the rest of the year. He’s also set to head out on a headlining tour later in the year.

Watch Payne’s full video below.

10 Jul 2023

Olivia Rodrigo Sends ‘Love’ to Fans After ‘Vampire’ Debuts at No. 1 on Hot 100

Olivia Rodrigo’s “Vampire” sunk its teeth into the Billboard Hot 100 dated July 15, 2023, debuting atop the chart.

The 20-year-old pop star took to Instagram on Monday (July 10) to celebrate her third leader on the tally, sharing a screenshot of the Hot 100 top 10 and writing, “AHHHHH IM SO EXCITED AB THIS!!! thank you x1000 to everyone who bought and streamed vampire I love you!!!! and thank u to my amazing team!!!! ahhhh!!!!”

See her post here.

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“Vampire” follows Hot 100 hits “Drivers License” and “Good 4 U” in 2021, both of which also launched at No. 1. The track serves as the lead single from Rodrigo’s upcoming sophomore album Guts, due out Sept. 8, and since “Drivers License” introduced her first project, Sour, she becomes the first artist ever to debut the lead singles from two career-opening albums at No. 1 on the Hot 100.

Rodrigo’s achievement also dethrones Morgan Wallen’s “Last Night,” which now sits at No. 2 on the Hot 100 after 13 weeks at No. 1 

“We always said that it was kind of our version of a rock opera,” Rodrigo told Billboard of “Vampire,” which she wrote with her frequent musical collaborator Dan Nigro. “I think as the album was coming together, we were coming up with a bunch of songs that we really liked, but this one always stuck out to me as something that I felt like was honoring my singer-songwriter roots, but felt like an evolution – in a good way that wasn’t too stark. So, I really liked it for that, and it was always one of my favorites.”

10 Jul 2023

Lil Uzi Vert Scores Third No. 1 Album on Billboard 200 With ‘Pink Tape’

Lil Uzi Vert’s Pink Tape debuts at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 albums chart (dated July 15), earning 167,000 equivalent album units in the U.S. in the week ending July 6, according to Luminate. It’s the rapper’s third chart-topper and launches with the year’s third-largest debut, by units earned, and the biggest week of the year for any rap or R&B/hip-hop album.

Further, Pink Tape brings a rap album to No. 1 on the Billboard 200 for the first time in 2023, marking the longest wait in a calendar year for rap set to lead the list since 1993. That year, the chart didn’t see a rap set top the tally until Cypress Hill’s Black Sunday opened at No. 1 on the Aug. 7, 1993-dated chart (two years before Uzi was born on July 31, 1995).

The last rap album to lead the Billboard 200 prior to Pink Tape was Metro Boomin’s Heroes & Villains, which spent one week atop the chart dated Dec. 17, 2022. The 29-week gap between Metro and Uzi is the longest the Billboard 200 has gone without a rap album at No. 1 since 1992-93, when 34 weeks separated Ice Cube’s The Predator (one week at No. 1, Dec. 5, 1992, chart) and Cypress Hill’s first of two weeks at No. 1 with Black Sunday (Aug. 7, 1993).

Between Heroes & Villains and Pink Tape were six different No. 1s: SZA’s SOS notched 10 nonconsecutive weeks atop the list, Morgan Wallen’s One Thing at a Time logged 15 nonconsecutive frames, and four albums each led for one week during that span – TOMORROW X TOGETHER’s The Name Chapter: Temptation, Karol G’s Mañana Será Bonito, Taylor Swift’s Midnights and Stray Kids’ 5-STAR.

Also in the new top 10 of the Billboard 200, aespa notches its second top 10-charting set as third mini album MY WORLD bows at No. 9, and Rylo Rodriguez scores his first top 10 with the No. 10 bow of Been One.

The Billboard 200 chart ranks the most popular albums of the week in the U.S. based on multimetric consumption as measured in equivalent album units, compiled by Luminate. Units comprise album sales, track equivalent albums (TEA) and streaming equivalent albums (SEA). Each unit equals one album sale, or 10 individual tracks sold from an album, or 3,750 ad-supported or 1,250 paid/subscription on-demand official audio and video streams generated by songs from an album. The new July 15, 2023-dated chart will be posted in full on Billboard‘s website on July 11. For all chart news, follow @billboard and @billboardcharts on both Twitter and Instagram.

Of Pink Tape’s 167,000 equivalent album units earned in the week ending July 6, SEA units comprise 154,000 (equaling 210.39 million on-demand official streams of the set’s 26 songs – the largest streaming week of 2023 for any rap or R&B/hip-hop title), album sales comprise 11,000 and TEA units comprise 2,000.

Lil Uzi Vert announced Pink Tape’s June 30 release just four days earlier, on June 26.

Uzi previously hit No. 1 on the Billboard 200 with Eternal Atake in 2020 and Luv Is Rage 2 in 2017. The rapper hit the top 10 with Pluto x Baby Pluto, a No. 2-peaking collaborative set with Future in 2020.

Back on the new Billboard 200, Wallen’s One Thing at a Time falls to No. 2 with 110,000 equivalent album units earned (down less than 1%) after 15 nonconsecutive weeks atop the list – the most weeks at No. 1 since Adele’s 21 logged 24 nonconsecutive weeks at No. 1 in 2011-12. One Thing at a Time has earned in excess of 100,000 equivalent album units in all 18 of its chart weeks. It extends its own record as the album with the most weeks of 100,000-plus units since the Billboard 200 began ranking titles by units in December of 2014.

Peso Pluma’s Génesis holds at No. 3 on the Billboard 200 in its second week with 68,000 units (down 7%), Swift’s Midnights is also a non-mover at No. 4 with 54,000 (down 5%), Wallen’s former No. 1 Dangerous: The Double Album climbs 7-5 with 48,000 (up 2%), SZA’s SOS rises 8-6 with 44,000 units (down 6%) and Gunna’s A Gift & a Curse falls 5-7 with nearly 44,000 (down 20%)

Swift’s chart-topping Lover climbs 9-8 on the latest Billboard 200 with 43,000 equivalent album units earned (up 1%). Swift’s most recent album release, Speak Now (Taylor’s Version), a re-recorded edition of her 2010 No. 1 album Speak Now, bowed on Friday, July 7. If Speak Now (Taylor’s Version) premieres at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 chart dated July 22, it would mark Swift’s 12th No. 1 – surpassing Barbra Streisand for the most No. 1s among women. All 11 of Swift’s full-length studio albums and re-recorded projects from 2008’s Fearless through 2022’s Midnights have debuted at No. 1. Speak Now (Taylor’s Version) is Swift’s third re-recorded project, following Red (Taylor’s Version) and Fearless (Taylor’s Version), both in 2021.

Aespa’s MY WORLD debuts at No. 9 with 40,000 equivalent album units, marking the second top 10-charting set for the Korean group. Of that sum, album sales comprise 39,000 (making the set the top-selling album of the week), SEA units comprise 1,000 (equaling 1.33 million on-demand official streams of the set’s six tracks) and TEA units comprise a negligible sum.

MY WORLD was initially released in the U.S. via retail download and streaming services on May 5, but did not chart on the Billboard 200 until now, following its CD release on June 30.

Like many K-pop releases, the CD edition of MY WORLD was issued in collectible CD packages (more than 16, including exclusive editions for Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Target, Walmart and the act’s webstore), each containing a standard set of branded merchandise items and randomized branded elements (such as photo cards, posters and stickers). Effectively all of the album’s sales in the week ending July 6 were on the CD format, with a negligible sum generated by digital download album purchases. The set was not released on any other retail format (cassette, vinyl, etc.).

Rapper Rylo Rodriguez closes out the top 10 with his first top 10-charting set, as Been One debuts at No. 10 with 35,000 equivalent album units earned. SEA units comprise effectively all of that sum, equaling 47.93 million on-demand official streams of the set’s 19 songs. (Album sales and TEA units combine total a negligible sum.) Been One is the artist’s second charting effort, following the No. 37-peaking G.I.H.F. (Goat in Human Form) in 2020.

Luminate, the independent data provider to the Billboard charts, completes a thorough review of all data submissions used in compiling the weekly chart rankings. Luminate reviews and authenticates data. In partnership with Billboard, data deemed suspicious or unverifiable is removed, using established criteria, before final chart calculations are made and published.

10 Jul 2023

Billie Eilish Teases ‘What Was I Made For’ in ‘Barbie’ Film Promo

Billie Eilish revealed just days ago that she’s joined the star-studded list of artists contributing to the Barbie soundtrack, and the 21-year-old superstar teased her emotionally driven track in a short teaser clip posted to Instagram on Monday (July 10).

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In the 30-second promotional video, a voice is heard telling Barbie, played by Margot Robbie, to “take my hand, close your eyes, now, feel.” A soft, melancholy piano melody plays in the background before Eilish is heard singing the title of the track, “What Was I Made For.”

“absolutely over the MOOOOON excited for you to see this,” she captioned the post. See the clip here.

“What Was I Made For” is slated for a July 13 release and features contributions from Eilish’s Grammy-winning older brother, FINNEAS.

Executive produced by Academy Award-winning songwriter and producer Mark Ronson, the Barbie soundtrack is set to feature songs from some of contemporary pop’s biggest and brightest stars, such as Lizzo, Fifty Fifty, Kali, Gayle, Khalid, Haim and Ava Max. A slew of singles have already been released from the soundtrack, including two that have reached the Billboard Hot 100: Dua Lipa’s “Dance the Night” (No. 31) and Nicki Minaj, Ice Spice and AQUA’s “Barbie World” (No. 7).

Barbie hits theaters on July 21.

10 Jul 2023

Jack Harlow’s First Wax Figure Makes Its Debut at Madame Tussauds Las Vegas

Another rapper has been immortalized in wax! On Monday (July 10), Madame Tussauds Las Vegas revealed that Jack Harlow is one of the lastest celebrities to enter its gallery, and the result is so good, the “Whats Poppin” singer could not believe the similarities.

Madame Tussauds shared an Instagram video of the Kentucky native meeting his wax figure for the first time alongside the unveil. Harlow hilariously remarked on the figure’s beauty, and expressed previous doubts that the wax could mimic his appearance so accurately.

“Damn! Wow … he’s just beautiful, Jesus. That is crazy. Is this mine? Everything just looks like he’s about to come to life. It’s good. He’s cut. I just wanna knock his a– over, you know? Way, way exceeded my expectations,” he said in the video. “I was worried I was going to see him and be like, ‘OK, this is funny because it’s an attempt,’ but it looks just like me for real.”

The figure, which took around six months and 20 studio artists to create in the museum’s London location, is dressed in the custom-designed suit by Musika New York from his video for “Churchill Downs (feat. Drake).” As for the accessories, Harlow’s wax figure wears diamond studs, a Rolex and a jewel encrusted Kentucky-shaped pendant that hangs from a chain in its hands. 

“Jack Harlow’s new figure is a perfect addition to our museum,” said Linsey Stiglic, marketing manager for Madame Tussauds Las Vegas, in a press release. “His confidence, humor, and of course, music is admired by all, and we’re so thrilled to welcome him to our Las Vegas attraction.”

See Harlow’s wax figure reveal below.