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After seven years on her label, Tenille Townes and Sony Nashville have parted ways. Though Townes has achieved much success in her native Canada, including winning 15 Canadian Country Music Association Awards over the past five years, her Stateside career never experienced the same liftoff, even after winning the ACM Award for new female artist of […]
Congratulations are in order for Lea Michele, who is officially a girl mom. The actress took to Instagram on Sunday (Aug. 25) to announce that that she and husband Zandy Reich welcomed their second baby, a girl named Emery Sol. “Our hearts are so full 🤍 Emery Sol Reich 💕,” Michele captioned a photo holding the newborn bundle […]
Paramore is celebrating their Eras tour trek with Taylor Swift. The band took to their Instagram page on Monday (Aug. 26) to share appreciation for Swift, posting a photo in which frontwoman Hayley Williams and the band smile alongside the pop star, who is giving a thumbs up to the camera. “Thank you for asking […]
Barbz, September is going to be your month. After several teasers, Nicki Minaj has announced the release date for her Pink Friday 2: Gag City Reloaded deluxe album. Explore Explore See latest videos, charts and news See latest videos, charts and news The Queens legend revealed on Monday (Aug. 26) that the deluxe edition will […]
After a brief delay, Big Sean’s Better Me Than You has a new release date. Sean Don confirmed in a vulnerable Instagram Live session on Monday (Aug. 26) that his sixth studio album will arrive on Friday (Aug. 30). Explore Explore See latest videos, charts and news See latest videos, charts and news “The album […]
The War and Treaty’s Michael Trotter Jr. is opening up about the rough journey that led him to where he is today. The duo is the latest guest on Bunnie XO‘s Dumb Blonde podcast, where Trotter shared his experience with gangs and family trauma.
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“Cleveland is not something I talk about often,” Trotter explained. “Growing up in Cleveland, I grew up in a strict Christian household, it was very cultish to me. Friday night sundown to Saturday night sundown. It’s nothing but God. You can’t do anything. You can’t watch TV, I couldn’t go play with friends, none of that stuff. It was just church, church. It really altered my life for a minute there.”
He continued, “It was a big contrast to what real life was. Friday to Sunday it was like, ‘Hallelujah, Jesus, Jesus’ and the rest of the week, we were living like s—.”
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The singer noted that in his faith, everyone was “putting on this faith and saying that they’re happy,” but divorce and drugs were prominent throughout the community. He started “rebelling” early in life, after dealing with abuse at the hands of his father, who was struggling with addiction. “I turned to the streets in Cleveland, had a strong gang life. The gang association is called Folks, and I had a cousin who was very high up in gang life in Cleveland. I had my little initiation and I started selling.”
Trotter shared that his gang activity started at age 11. “I got stabbed when I was 12, and I think that was the turning point,” he recalled. “I was laying in the streets of Cleveland, and my cousin had been killed, so my mom then was like, ‘We need to get out of Cleveland and get to D.C.’”
Over time, and through processing his PTSD, Trotter has grown through his trauma, forming The War and Treaty in 2014 with his wife, Tanya. Since then, thankfully, the husband-and-wife duo have grown into musical success. The War and Treaty were one of two country acts nominated in the Grammys’ best new artist category in 2024; the other was Jelly Roll, Bunnie XO’s husband. “The space we occupied was really important,” Michael previously told Billboard. “The two artists representing the genre were not representative of that genre at all, if we’re being completely transparent. You got Jelly Roll, a tatted-face rapper who can sing a little bit, and Mike and Tanya, these Black, overweight, gospel-trained singers. Country music is actively trying to attack the narrative it has created, and I’m proud to be part of that change.”
Donald Trump‘s campaign is asserting its right to use Foo Fighters‘ “My Hero” at events despite the band’s public denunciation of the campaign’s prior use of the track. “We have a license to play the song,” Trump campaign spokesperson Steven Cheung wrote in an email to The Hill. Additionally, he tweeted at the band, using puns of the […]
Late last week, Lil Yachty had what many would consider a meltdown on social media — and his former groupmate is responding to some of the heated allegations.
Yachty hopped on Instagram Live to address both a not-so-flattering clip from his podcast A Safe Place where he and his co-host Mitch got into an awkward conversation about work ethic, and a couple of since-deleted tweets from an X user who claimed to run into his former artist and assistant Karrahbooo at a Red Lobster where she allegedly told the fan she was “kicked out” of the Atlanta rapper’s Concrete Boys collective.
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Yachty accused Karrahbooo of lying and being manipulative. “Tell people how you verbally abuse people. Don’t get on here to make it seem like n—as kicked you out… bullying you? Bro, go ‘head and tell people how you talk to people… You talk to people like they’re small, like they’re beneath you,” he said on IG Live, adding, “This the problem with you new artists. Y’all get poppin’ online and then you become more popular than your actual music. You $900,000 in the hole and I got every f—ing receipt.”
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Boat also claimed he wrote all of her verses and positioned her as the face of Concrete Boys. “I wrote every f—ing verse you’ve done,” he proclaimed. Later saying, “I slowed the beat down, I put 808s specifically on your verse so when it got to your part and the beat dropped, everyone would be like, ‘This girl is the craziest one,’” in reference to her viral On the Radar freestyle.
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Well, over the weekend, Karrahbooo addressed her former label boss.
She first responded to him via Instagram Stories, saying, “Put it on yo kid I ain’t write these songs miles. Stop da cap and leave me out ur internet shenanigans.” She continued, “Stop bullying me big dawg I never said anything you letting random fans get in yo head man up.”
Then, during her set at Pepsi Dig In Day in Chicago, Karrahbooo again addressed Yachty’s ghostwriting allegations. While performing her song “Running Late,” she asked the crowd, “Who ain’t write it?… Who ain’t write it?” several times.
They both then took more jabs at each other on Instagram. “Don’t throw rocks and hide your hand,” wrote Yachty on his IG Story, to which Karrahbooo responded by saying, “I never threw rocks and u have my number u big grown bi— leave me alone literally @lilyachty.” Adding, “I never said nothing about sh– and I still ain’t said nothing about what’s really going on I don’t want no beef wit you industry people just move on wit ur life stop tryna bring me down when I stay out the way I’m done talking u got it yo character gone speak for itself.”
Lil Yachty & KARRAHBOOO trade more shots via IG as their beef continuesLY: “don’t throw rocks and hide your hand”K: “i never threw rocks… u big grown b*tch leave me alone” pic.twitter.com/9XBOAX8stf— Kurrco (@Kurrco) August 25, 2024
Mariah Carey is suffering through not one, but two unimaginable losses. As first reported by People and confirmed by Billboard on Monday (Aug. 26), the vocalist’s mother, Patricia, and sister, Alison, have both died, passing away within hours of one another on the same day over the weekend.
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In a statement shared with Billboard, Carey wrote, “My heart is broken that I’ve lost my mother this past weekend.”
“Sadly, in a tragic turn of events, my sister lost her life on the same day,” she continued. “I feel blessed that I was able to spend the last week with my mom before she passed.”
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The five-time Grammy winner added, “I appreciate everyone’s love and support and respect for my privacy during this impossible time.”
No further details about the nature of Patricia and Alison’s deaths have been made public.
Patricia was a Juilliard-trained opera singer and vocal coach. She was married to Alfred Roy Carey, with whom she welcomed Alison, Mariah and a third child — a son named Morgan — before the couple divorced when the “Obsessed” singer was 3, according to People. Alfred died of cancer in 2002.
Carey — who herself is a mom to two kids, twins Moroccan and Monroe — has been open about her complicated relationship with her family. In her 2020 memoir The Meaning of Mariah Carey, the superstar recalled how her therapist once encouraged her to “literally rename and reframe my family” for her own “sanity and peace of mind”: “My mother became Pat to me, Morgan my ex-brother and Alison my ex-sister … I had to stop expecting them to one day miraculously become the mommy, big brother and big sister I fantasized about,” she wrote.
“Ours is a story of betrayal and beauty,” Mimi added of Patricia in the book. “I’ve emancipated myself from bondage several times, but there is a cloud of sadness that I suspect will always hang over me, not simply because of my mother but because of our complicated journey together … Our relationship is a prickly rope of pride, pain, shame, gratitude, jealousy, admiration and disappointment. A complicated love tethers my heart to my mother’s.”
Post Malone is back with another massive week on Billboard’s charts, thanks to his new album F-1 Trillion.
The set launches at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 (dated Aug. 31) with 250,000 equivalent album units earned in its opening week, according to Luminate. That’s the second-biggest week of 2024 for a country album, following the opening frame of Beyonce’s Cowboy Carter (407,000 units) in April. F-1 Trillion also becomes Post Malone’s first No. 1 on the Top Country Albums chart.
All 18 songs from F-1 Trillion’s standard edition chart on the Billboard Hot 100 – including all 15 collaborations – led by former six-week No. 1 “I Had Some Help” at No. 2. Here’s a recap (all of which are debuts except where noted):
Rank, Title:No. 2, “I Had Some Help,” feat. Morgan Wallen (holds at No. 2; spent six weeks at No. 1 in May-July)No. 13, “Pour Me a Drink,” feat. Blake Shelton (up from No. 30; peaked at No. 12 in July)No. 17, “Guy for That,” feat. Luke Combs (up from No. 36; returns to peak)No. 23, “Wrong Ones,” feat. Tim McGrawNo. 25, “Losers,” feat. Jelly RollNo. 34, “California Sober,” feat. Chris StapletonNo. 40, “What Don’t Belong to Me”No. 42, “Finer Things,” feat. Hank Williams Jr.No. 50, “Nosedive,” feat. Lainey WilsonNo. 54, “Yours”No. 56, “Have the Heart,” feat. Dolly PartonNo. 60, “Goes Without Saying,” feat. Brad PaisleyNo. 63, “Missin’ You Like This,” feat. Luke CombsNo. 65, “Hide My Gun,” feat. HARDYNo. 66, “Devil I’ve Been,” feat. ERNESTNo. 78, “Never Love You Again,” feat. Sierra FerrellNo. 83, “M-E-X-I-C-O,” feat. Billy StringsNo. 88, “Right About You”
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(The standard edition of F-1 Trillion was released on Aug. 16 and sports 18 songs. Later on Aug. 16, Post Malone released a deluxe reissue, dubbed the “Long Bed” edition, with nine additional solo tracks by the singer.)
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Post Malone also charts a 19th song on the latest Hot 100: Taylor Swift’s former two-week No. 1 “Fortnight,” on which he’s featured, ranks at No. 55. The haul marks a new weekly best, surpassing his 18 entries on May 12, 2018, when his album beerbongs & bentleys made its chart arrival.
With 15 debuts, Post Malone ups his career total to 95 career Hot 100 entries. Of those, 48 have reached the top 40, 13 have made the top 10 and six have hit No. 1. He first appeared on the chart dated Sept. 26, 2015, with his breakthrough hit “White Iverson.”
Multiple guests on F-1 Trillion make notable visits to the Hot 100. Thanks to his feature on “Finer Things,” Hank Williams Jr. tallies his fourth career entry on the chart, and first since “A Country Boy Can Survive (Y2K Version),” with Chad Brock and George Jones, in 2000. Before that, he had last charted in 1964 with “Long Gone Lonesome Blues” and “Endless Sleep.” “Finer Things,” at No. 42, is now the highest-charting song of his career.
With her role on “Have the Heart,” Dolly Parton adds her 22nd career Hot 100 hit and second this year, after “Tyrant,” with Beyoncé. Before that, she had last charted via her featured turn on Brad Paisley’s “When I Get Where I’m Going” in 2006. This marks the first calendar year that Parton has charted multiple songs since 1985, when she logged two duets with Kenny Rogers—“The Greatest Gift of All” and “Real Love.”
Plus, Billy Strings scores his first career Hot 100 entry thanks to his featured appearance on “M-E-X-I-C-O.” The 31-year-old bluegrass star has already forged a successful history on Billboard’s rankings, including seven career entries on the Bluegrass Albums chart:
Peak Position, Title, YearNo. 3, Turmoil & Tinfoil, 2017No. 1 (25 weeks), Home, 2019No. 10, An OurVinyl Sessions (EP), 2019No. 1 (9 weeks), Renewal, 2021No. 1 (16 weeks), Me / And / Dad, 2022No. 6, Meet Me at the Creek / Pyramid Country / Must Be Seven / Meet Me at the Creek (Live at Lawrence Joel Veterans Memorial Coliseum, Winston-Salem, NC 3/4/23), 2023No. 1 (5 weeks), Live, Vol. 1, 2024
He has spent 55 total weeks at No. 1 on the Bluegrass Albums chart in his career (encompassing the No. 1 runs of his four leaders). That’s the fifth-most since the list launched in 2002, after Alison Krauss (242), Steve Martin (83), Nickel Creek (82) and Old Crow Medicine Show (66).
Three of his albums have also reached the Billboard 200: Renewal (No. 82 peak), Me / And / Dad (No. 37) and Live, Vol. 1 (No. 58). He has also raked in six Grammy Award nominations, winning for best bluegrass album in 2021 for Home.