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Billy Idol lands his first top 10-charting effort ever on Billboard’s nearly 34-year-old Top Album Sales chart, as his new album Dream Into It debuts at No. 7 on the May 10-dated chart. The project is the iconic rocker’s first full-length studio project in over a decade, since 2014’s Kings & Queens of the Underground.
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Dream Into It also debuts on the Vinyl Albums (No. 19), Indie Store Album Sales (No. 21) and Independent Albums (No. 41) charts.
Elsewhere in the top 10 on the Top Album Sales chart, the latest releases from Ghost, Grateful Dead, d4vd, Tucker Wetmore, Goose and Viagra Boys all debut in the region.
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Billboard’s Top Album Sales chart ranks the top-selling albums of the week based only on traditional album sales. The chart’s history dates back to May 25, 1991, the first week Billboard began tabulating charts with electronically monitored piece count information from SoundScan, now Luminate. Pure album sales were the sole measurement utilized by the Billboard 200 albums chart through the list dated Dec. 6, 2014, after which that chart switched to a methodology that blends album sales with track equivalent album (TEA) units and streaming equivalent album (SEA) units.
Dream Into It sold 6,500 copies in the United States in the week ending May 1, according to Luminate – largely driven by physical purchases (about 2,500 on vinyl and 3,500 on CD). Digital download purchases comprised about 500 copies.
Dream Into It is Idol’s 10th charting title on the Top Album Sales chart, which began in 1991. In that span of time, he had previously gone has high as No. 12 with the 2021 EP The Roadside.
Idol has a long history on Billboard’s charts, including a dozen charting titles each on the Billboard 200 (dating back to 1981) and Billboard Hot 100 songs charts, as well as 16 entries on the Mainstream Rock Airplay chart.
Also on the latest Top Album Sales chart, rock band Ghost nabs its second No. 1 with its best sales week ever, as Skeletá debut atop the list with 77,000 copies sold. Grateful Dead’s latest archival live set, Dave’s Picks Volume 54: Baltimore Civic Center, Baltimore, MD – 3/26/73, bows at No. 2 with 19,500 copies sold. It’s the 46th top 10-charting set for the act on Top Album Sales. Rounding out the top three is d4vd’s new Withered, starting with 14,500 copies – the first top 10 and best sales week for the act.
Tucker Wetmore’s What Not to debuts at No. 4 with 7,500 (his first top 10 and best sales week), Kendrick Lamar’s former No. 1 GNX slips 3-5 (nearly 7,500; down 7%), Goose gets its first top 10 and best sales week with the start of Everything Must Go at No. 6 (7,000) and Viagra Boys round out the debuts in the top 10 as Viagr Aboys bows at No. 8 with 6,500 (the first top 10 and best sales week for the act).
Closing out the top 10 are two former leaders: Sabrina Carpenter’s Short n’ Sweet slips 2-9 (nearly 6,500; down 24%) and Lady Gaga’s MAYHEM falls 4-10 (5,000; down 23%).
Brad Arnold, singer and drummer of the Mississippi-based rock band 3 Doors Down, announced Wednesday (May 7) that he’s been diagnosed with stage 4 kidney cancer.
“Got some not-so-good news for you today,” Arnold said in a video posted to social media, revealing that he’s fighting clear cell renal cell carcinoma and that it’s metastasized into his lung.
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Due to Arnold’s diagnosis, the band is canceling its upcoming summer tour, with dates that were set to begin next week in Florida and continued through August.
Arnold said that he’s leaning on his faith through the medical battle (“I have no fear. I really, sincerely am not scared of it at all.”) and asked for prayers from his fans. “I’d love for you to lift me up in prayer any chance you get. And I think it’s time for me to go and listen to ‘It’s Not My Time’ a little bit.”
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He also referenced the 2008 3 Doors Down song “It’s Not My Time” in his Instagram caption, writing: “Thank you for all the memories so far. Now, I believe ‘ITS NOT MY TIME’ is really my song. This’ll be a battle so we need our prayers warriors! Thank y’all for being the best fans in the world. We love y’all!”
Arnold’s comments section was filled with a who’s who of his musical peers, with Creed’s Scott Stapp writing, “If anyone has the FAITH and STRENGTH to face this fight, it’s YOU brother. … I think I can speak for all of us, we are lifting you up in prayer right now believing without doubt for your total healing! I love you bro.”
Chris Daughtry added, “Sending you love my brother,” with Gavin McGraw commenting: “May God bless you brother. Showing us how to conquer the darkness with light.”
“Man I hate to hear that Brad. Praying for ya brother,” Jason Aldean wrote, with Sara Evans saying, “Will be praying for you every day!”
During their early 2000s heyday, 3 Doors Down scored 10 Billboard Hot 100 hits, including three top 10s: 2000’s “Kryptonite” (No. 3 peak), 2003’s “When I’m Gone” (No. 4) and 2003’s “Here Without You” (No. 5). They also scored two No. 1 albums on the all-genre Billboard 200 chart: 2005’s Seventeen Days and a self-titled project in 2008.
Cazzu expands her ruling on the Billboard Argentina Hot 100 as her chart-topping single “Con Otra” adds a third consecutive week atop the ranking (dated May 10). It’s the second-longest command of the year, after La T y La M’s “Amor De Vago,” featuring Malandro de América, dominated for 12 weeks between January and April (the latter holds at No. 4 for a second week).
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Cazzu also adds her 19th entry and fourth song of her No. 4-peaking album Latinaje, as “Mala Suerte,” bows at No. 76.
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Back in the top 10, Beéle, Westcol, and Ovy On The Drums’ “W Sound 05: La Plena” holds steady at No. 2 for a second week, while Emilia, TINI, and Nicki Nicole’s “Blackout” maintains its No. 3 position.
Brazilian Dennison de Lima Gomes, better known as DENNIS, scores his first entry and top 10 on the the Billboard Argentina Hot 100, thanks to the remix of “Motinha 2.0,” with Luísa Sonza and Emilia, which debuts at No. 5, the Hot Shot Debut of the Week.
“Motinha 2.0” gives Sonza her second top 10. Her first arrived also through an Emilia collab, as “Bunda” reached No. 3 in March. Plus, Emilia continues with the second-most top 10s since the chart launched in 2018, after Maria Becera’’s 29 top 10s to date.
The week’s Greatest Gainer honors belongs to Lali and Miranda!, whose pop duet “Mejor Que Vos,” vaults a staggering 38 spots, leaping from No. 52 to No. 14.
Five other songs debut on the chart, starting with Oro600, Pablo Chill-E, Duki and Quevedo’s “Nena Sad (RMX)” which arrives at No. 25.
Elsewhere, Lali places two simultaneous entries: “33,” with Dillom, opens at No. 29, while “Loco un Poco,” with Turf, starts at No. 88. Plus, Rodrigo’s “Amor de Alquiler (En Vivo)” debuts at No. 58.
Lastly, Uruguayan rock band La Vela Puerca, makes it Billboard Argentina Hot 100 debut with “Zafar” at No. 86.
When Rascal Flatts and the Backstreet Boys hit the stage at the ACM Awards on Thursday night, look for their medley to contain a few surprises. “We close out with ‘Thriller,’” bassist/singer Jay DeMarcus jokes to Billboard.
Maybe not, but they will sing a combo of BSB and Rascal Flatts hits with the two groups relying on their trademark harmonies. Rascal Flatts guitarist/vocalist Joe Don Rooney had nothing but praise for their new duet partners following rehearsal.
“They’re just such great singers and their melodies are so good,” he tells Billboard. “They know how to stack them. It’s like a wall of vocals. It’s really, really cool and really an amazing, powerful sound.”
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The medley will include “What Hurts the Most,” Rascal Flatts’ 2006 Hot Country Songs No. 1 that the Backstreet Boys perform with the trio on Life Is a Highway: Refueled Duets, a June 6 collection of remakes of Rascal Flatts’ most-loved hits that pairs the trio with such artists as Jason Aldean, Blake Shelton and Kelly Clarkson, as well as Jonas Brothers on their new single “I Dare You.”
Rascal Flatts came back following a five-year hiatus for their 25th-anniversary tour, which kicked off a few months ago and lasts through the summer. Following the break, they admit it took them a little while to get their sea legs back. “It took me a couple of weekends,” DeMarcus says. “Definitely the first weekend I got out there, I was winded, and I was like, ‘I gotta get my show legs back.’ My back hurt.”
“He’s like, ‘Are you guys sore at all?’” lead singer Gary LeVox adds.
As the trio revisits their hits in concert, some have taken on new meaning as the years have passed. “When we cut ‘My Wish,’ I didn’t have kids, so now that my kids are 13 and 15, it means a whole different thing to me now when I sing that song,” DeMarcus says. “I think that for all of us, different seasons of life make different songs mean different things.”
“I think what really did it for me was ‘Bless the Broken Road,’” LeVox says. “It’s a moment in the show where just the three of us are up there. It’s a special moment in the show.”
For Rooney, it’s “I’m Moving On.” “It’s very special to me and has taken on a new life in my life. I’ve been through a lot the last five years,” says Rooney, who has been sober for three years after being arrested for DUI in 2021 and going through a contentious divorce. “These guys said, ‘Get out there and sing “I’m Moving On” by yourself.’ It’s been tough. The first couple of weekends, I was extremely nervous, but it’s very heartfelt. I mean everything I say and I just really thank God so much for my life I have right now.”
Their Backstreet Boy pals are set for a Las Vegas residency at Sphere coming up in July, and Rascal Flatts admit that sounds pretty sweet to them. “We’ve had a couple of [Las Vegas] residencies. We were three years at the Hard Rock, two at the Venetian,” LeVox says. “Setting up one time is really nice. That’s really convenient.”
“I wasn’t allowed back in Vegas for a couple of years. I think they’ve lifted that now,” jokes DeMarcus before seriously adding of Sphere dates, “I think anybody would want to play there, you know. It’s a wonderful thing, but it’s a whole other thing for us. You have to spend so much time putting creative into building the show and making sure all the content fits. It’s very expensive to build all the content.”
Rascal Flatts, who are up for group of the year at the ACM Awards for the first time since 2017, are coy when it comes to saying if they plan to release an album of new music.
“We’re trying to take it a step at a time,” DeMarcus says. “We’ve just kind of been thrown back into the deep end, but we really loved being on tour. We really loved cutting the duets record. We’re going to do some more shows this summer, and we’re still talking about what the future looks like. We’re really excited about what lies ahead for us, but we really haven’t made any definite plans yet. I would hate to say never. If we find the right kind of song and we feel compelled to cut it, we have the freedom to do that. So you never know what’s gonna happen.”
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Summertime Benny is back!
Looking to heat things up for the coming summer months, Benny The Butcher is hard at work with the new cuts and giving them life and as always he gives us jewels and gems about the ins and outs of the street game.
Dropping off some new visuals to his Harry Fraud produced “Sign Language,” Benny The Butcher turns into Benny The Professor as he schools a group of men about life in the dope game and how to go about the business before hitting a strip club to make it rain on the talent with money that no doubt came from moving that work. Work hard, play hard, right?
Jim Jones meanwhile keeps himself busy as well and in I Born’s clip to “The Light,” Jones and Angel Hill accompany I Born to shine under the bright lights of a sound stage and kick their ish while styling out on some grown man ish.
Check out the rest of today’s drops including work from Boldy James and Real Bad Man, Nhale and Rowdy Racks, and more.
BENNY THE BUTCHER & HARRY FRAUD – “SIGN LANGUAGE”
I BORN FT. JIM JONES & ANGEL HILL – “THE LIGHT”
BOLDY JAMES & REAL BAD MAN – “BURN IN HELL”
NHALE & ROWDY RACKS – “PIMPIN”
R2R MOE – “NOT IN MY BAG”
KOO$ – “DON’T DO DAT”
PEEKO – “SORRY A$HANTI”
DRAFT DAY – “MAX VOLUME”
When some people first saw LISA‘s attire at the 2025 Met Gala, an unexpected question came to mind: “Wait, is that Rosa Parks on her underwear?” But according to a rep for one of the designers she worked with, the answer is a definite no.
In a statement to Vulture after the Monday (May 5) event, a spokesperson for Henry Taylor — an artist who collaborated on the BLACKPINK star’s Louis Vuitton look with Pharrell Williams — clarified that no civil rights pioneers were featured on LISA’s look whatsoever, despite online backlash that occurred when people mistakenly believed that Parks’ image had been displayed on her underwear. “The figure featured in Lisa’s Louis Vuitton look is not Rosa Parks, but one of Henry’s neighbors,” the rep said.
“The faces seen on this look, as well as on previous LV garments featuring Taylor’s artwork, are all drawn from his personal life — family members, friends, and neighbors,” they continued. “These figures come directly from Henry’s existing artworks, which he provided to LVMH for Pharrell’s debut collection with Louis Vuitton in 2023.”
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The statement puts to rest a wave of criticism directed at LISA after she walked the red carpet at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City Monday night, with the Thai performer sporting a sparkly black blazer, tights printed with the Louis Vuitton logo, and a mesh bodysuit patterned with embroidered faces in black lace. Some people slammed the White Lotus actress for what they believed to be an insensitive wardrobe choice, especially considering the fabric’s placement over her crotch area — not to mention the night’s “Superfine: Tailoring Black Style” theme, which focused on “the role of sartorial style in forming Black identities” and “the emergence, significance and proliferation of the Black dandy.”
But, as Taylor’s rep concluded in the statement, “None of the individuals depicted in any of [LISA’s] garments are Rosa Parks or other well-known figures from Black cultural history.”
The “Rockstar” singer was one of three BLACKPINK band members in attendance at the 2025 Met, which was co-chaired by Williams with A$AP Rocky, Colman Domingo and Lewis Hamilton. ROSÉ also hit the carpet, as did JENNIE.
The event comes as the bandmates are gearing up to reunite for the first time since their Born Pink World Tour ended in 2023. When it comes to solo music, LISA is also continuing what she started with debut album Alter Ego by collaborating with Maroon 5 on new single “Priceless,” which dropped May 2.
Edén Muñoz’s impressive track record of No. 1 hits on Billboard’s Regional Mexican Airplay chart endures, as “Mi Primer Día Sin Ti” climbs from No. 3 to No. 1 for its first week atop the chart dated May 10. This latest milestone marks his eighth champ, all achieved within a span of three years. His first leader came in May of 2022 with “Chale!”
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“Mi Primer Día Sin Ti” lands at the summit after a 29% gain in audience impressions, translating to 7.3 million earned in the U.S. during the April 25-May 1 tracking week, according to Luminate.
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“I’m happy that ‘Mi Primer Día Sin Ti’ is leading the chart just because I know many will relate to it and will become part of their life soundtrack,” Muñoz tells Billboard.
By notching his eighth ruler on Regional Mexican Airplay, and fifth as a soloist, Muñoz joins two other solo singers who have achieved eight or more No. 1s in the 2020s decade. Alejandro Fernández continues to lead with 12 champs, followed by Christian Nodal with 10. Among all acts, Muñoz breaks a tie with Carín León for the seventh-most leaders, a list where Calibre 50 leads with 13 No. 1s overall this decade.
Here’s the list of the acts with the most No. 1s on the chart in the 2020s:
No. 1s, Artists13, Calibre 5012, Alejandro Fernández12, Grupo Frontera10, Banda MS de Sergio Lizárraga10, Christian Nodal10, Grupo Firme8, Eden Muñoz
“‘Mi Primer Día Sin Ti’ is a ballad with the banda sound and some elements that make it feel different, yet still packed with emotion,” says Muñoz. “The song is one of those ballads that comes from my heart every so often but remains timeless.”
The song reaches the summit with Greatest Gainer honors, given weekly to the song with the biggest gain in audience impressions among the list’s 40 songs. The song ejects Los Ángeles Azules and Thalia’s “Yo Me Lo Busqué,” which drops abruptly from No. 1 to No. 15, after a 46% decline in weekly impressions.
“Mi Primer Día Sin Ti” also pushes 14-3 on the overall Latin Airplay chart, for its first week in the top 10. It becomes Muñoz’s ninth top 10 — all achieved since 2022.
They say you never forget your first Met Gala — and in the midst of her winning streak, Doechii is in no danger of forgetting how her appearance at the 2025 event went down on Monday (May 5).
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Prior to event starting, footage caught the TDE rapper in a stressful moment as she was shuttled out of The Mark Hotel covered by a portable screen and a number of umbrellas looking to keep her Louis Vuitton outfit a secret before hitting the blue carpet.
Some fans took issue with how Doechii addressed her team in the midst of the tense moment, as she tersely instructed them to bring her more umbrellas. “Give me another umbrella, now,” she shouted in her clip. “I need more f–king umbrellas!”
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The parties involved took a few breaths and cooler heads prevailed as all appears to be good for Doechii and her team after what she called an “overstimulating night.” The “Anxiety” rapper had some fun with her reply to the candid footage catching her leaving the hotel as Doechii posted a TikTok on Wednesday (May 7).
“All jokes aside this was such an overstimulating night but I wouldn’t trade it for the world,” she captioned the clip. “This was the night we all dreamed of and my team killed it (umbrellas aside).”
The TikTok video finds Doechii with her hands up, like the famed Druski meme, as The Commodores’ “Easy” provides the soundtrack. “God forbid a girl needs more umbrellas,” she wrote.
@iamdoechii_ All jokes aside this was such an overstimulating night but I wouldn’t trade it for the world! This was the night we all dreamed of and my team killed it (umbrellas aside) 😭🥴 ♬ Easy – Commodores
After successfully protecting her outfit, Doechii unveiled a crisp Louis Vuitton tux jacket with matching checkered shorts and a mahogany tie. “This is one of the biggest nights in fashion, and for it to be so Black .. .I’m present, I’m here,” the Grammy-winning rapper told Cosmopolitan. “I felt inspired by the theme of ‘student of hip-hop’ and I feel like that’s really dandy.”
Doechii was seen hanging out with Megan Thee Stallion and WNBA star Angel Reese inside as the Houston Hottie broke the no phone policy and filmed the trio sampling various appetizers from inside the venue.
Colman Domingo, Lewis Hamilton, A$AP Rocky and Pharrell were tabbed as co-chairs for the 2025 Met Gala, which saw attendees serve looks tied to the “Superfine: Tailoring Black Style” theme, celebrating Black fashion.
Earlier this year, Sen. Cory Booker made history by speaking for 25 hours straight inside the United States Capitol in protest of the Donald Trump administration, delivering the longest speech ever recorded on the senate floor. And in a new interview, the politician revealed which music gets him pumped up to take such big leaps in his work, from songs by Beyoncé to show tunes sung by Cynthia Erivo.
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While reflecting on his historic feat in a Rolling Stone profile published Wednesday (May 7), Booker shared that music is one thing he enjoys outside of his work as a New Jersey senator. “I wake up and listen to podcasts that give me the news of the day, and then by the time I’m working out, it’s whatever music can get me most pumped up,” he told the publication before pulling up his Spotify Wrapped from last year. “My top 2024 songs: On top is Beyoncé, ‘Texas Hold ’Em,’ which I think I played way too much.”
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“Bruce Springsteen,” he continued. “Stevie Wonder. Lots of gospel music. Oh, Bon Jovi’s ‘You Give Love a Bad Name’ made it into the top 20. ‘The Color Purple,’ Cynthia Erivo’s song, I played a lot last year.”
Speaking of Erivo, Booker noted that he hasn’t had the time to catch a movie in theaters since seeing Wicked, which premiered in November last year. It’s understandable why he might’ve been busy; the Democratic party has been fighting against the initiatives of the Republican majority-led Congress ever since January, when Trump was re-elected as president and his party took control of the senate after flipping four seats in the election.
In one of the splashiest means of protest since the billionaire businessman took office, the former mayor of Newark spoke for 25 hours and five minutes on March 31 into April 1, using his lengthy stretch of time on the senate floor to criticize Trump’s policies and delay Republican’s overall productivity in the senate.
Though he did beat out Strom Thurmond’s 24-hour spiel protesting the Civil Rights Act of 1957 for the new longest senate-speech record, Booker’s address wasn’t technically a filibuster, as he wasn’t delaying the passing of a specific piece of legislation. Of the decision not to do a proper filibuster, he told Rolling Stone, “In the modern Senate, it’s very hard to even get control of the floor.”
“I said to my team, ‘How did Ted Cruz get control of the floor? How did Rand Paul? Figure out how they got control,’” he continued. “The person in the cloakroom told me, very annoyingly, ‘We let [Rand Paul take the floor], because he promised it was only going to be a couple minutes — and he lied through his teeth’ … I’m not going to lie, so let’s just let them know that I’m going to take control of the floor and hold it for as long as I possibly can.”
As for whether he wants to run for president in 2028, Booker was frank. “It would be the biggest malpractice of my life if I didn’t tell you I am running for reelection two years before that election,” he told the publication. “I want to be reelected as a New Jersey senator, and my focus is to let my state know I am 100 percent focused.”
Fetty Wap‘s team announced on socials that the rapper will return with a new single on Friday (May 9). The rapper’s team shared the news on his socials on Wednesday (May 7). In the post, they noted that they’d also be starting a petition to get Fetty out from behind bars, where he’s been since […]