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As the questions surrounding Oasis‘ fast-approaching reunion tour continue to swirl, longtime bassist Andy Bell has confirmed his presence within the lineup.
Bell’s presence was confirmed in a recent conversation with Austrian outlet OE24, who spoke to Bell following a performance in the country by his band Ride. “Yes, I’m in and I’m really looking forward to it,” Bell noted. “We’ll see each other on tour. Or rather, you’ll see me, because I’ll hardly be able to spot you in the audience!”
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News of Bell’s involvement gained traction in March after NME reported that “sources working closely with the band and tour” had outlined who would be performing with the Gallaghers onstage this year.
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At the time of their split in 2009, Oasis officially featured Gem Archer on guitar, with Bell taking on bass, guitar, and keyboards. A series of touring drummers had sat behind the kit since the 2004 departure of Alan “Whitey” White, with Chris Sharrock holding the beat at their final shows.
According to the March report, the forthcoming version of the band would see the Gallaghers joined by Archer and Bell, along with Oasis co-founder Paul “Bonehead” Arthurs, and Joey Waronker, who has previously performed with R.E.M., Beck, Roger Waters, and more.
“NME tell me who your source pots are that keep giving you info about OASIS and I’ll give you an exclusive interview about up n coming OASIS tour,” Liam Gallagher wrote in response to the report. “You can have it all but how much do you want it.”
Bell – who had performed in Oasis since 1999 and later joined Liam Gallagher, Archer and Sharrock as a member of Beady Eye – previously sparked speculation of a reunion from the group in April 2024 when he was asked by Virgin Radio U.K.’s Andy Goldstein whether the band could ever perform together again.
“I’m going to say a qualified yeah, I think they will at the end of the day,” Bell said. “I don’t think it looks likely right now, but I think life is long, isn’t it?”
Liam Gallagher responded to Bell’s comments on social media, writing, “Andy bell from ride the shoe gazing phenomenon should really not be getting people’s hopes up it’s not big and and it’s not clever.”
When pressed by a fan who claimed Bell was simply noting what Gallagher himself had claimed in the past, the vocalist claimed, “I’ve never mentioned oasis reunion it’s over we must all really move in for our own mental health.”
To date, Oasis have lined up more than 40 dates for their Live ’25 outing, which will hit stadiums in the U.K., North America, Asia, Australia and South America from July through November. So far, the only participants confirmed by the Gallaghers to appear are the brothers themselves — who have not shared a stage since August 2009.
News of Bell’s self-confirmation comes soon after Alec McKinlay, who heads the band’s Ignition Management and Big Brother Recordings, Oasis’ U.K. label, disputed claims from Liam Gallagher that the band had a new album in the works.
“This is very much the last time around, as Noel’s made clear in the press,” McKinlay said in an interview with Music Week published Tuesday (May 13). “It’s a chance for fans who haven’t seen the band to see them, or at least for some of them to. But no, there’s no plan for any new music.”
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Fresh from teasing the release of new album Love Chant last month, The Lemonheads have previewed the upcoming LP with latest single “Deep End.”
Co-written by Evan Dando alongside longtime collaborator Tom Morgan (of Australian outfit Smudge), “Deep End” features Juliana Hatfield on backing vocals with additional guitar from Dinosaur Jr.’s J Mascis. Both Hatfield and Mascis make brief cameos in the accompanying video, which was filmed in by São Paulo, Brazil by Surreal Hotel Arts.
The black-and-white clip sees Dando walking down an endless sidewalk as he’s passed by a series of objects, people, and landscapes, with his bandmates occasionally joining. “It’s never been so painless making a video,” Dando said of the clip. “Everyone working was really great. The endless sidewalk goes really well with the song.”
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“Deep End” is also backed by a cover of Townes Van Zandt’s “Sad Cinderella,” which features backing vocals from Nashville artist Erin Rae. Both tracks will appear on a limited edition 12″ vinyl single that arrives on June 13 via Fire Records.
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The A-side is set to appear on Love Chant, which will arrive as the band’s first album of new material since 2006. The record will reportedly release in fall, though specific details are expected to arrive in the coming months.
The Lemonheads first formed in Boston in 1986, with a series of independent albums arriving via Taang! before the group signed to Atlantic for 1990’s Lovey.
Working with Morgan while in Australia, The Lemonheads found their commercial breakthrough with 1992’s It’s a Shame About Ray, which reached No. 68 on the Billboard 200. Its success was bolstered by a cover of Simon & Garfunkel’s “Mrs. Robinson,” and helped the group achieve their commercial peak with 1993’s Come on Feel the Lemonheads, which peaked at No. 56.
The Lemonheads initially dissolved in 1997, though Dando reactivated the group in 2005, with a self-titled record arriving the following year. Since then, two cover albums have been released, with Varshons and Varshons 2 being issued in 2009 and 2019, respectively.
Pink Floyd’s archival live album Pink Floyd at Pompeii: MCMLXXII debuts in the top 10 across multiple Billboard charts (dated May 17), following its release on May 2, including a No. 3 arrival on Top Album Sales with the band’s biggest sales week in over a decade.
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The digitally remastered and remixed set is the audio companion the concert film of the same name, which was originally recorded in 1971, and garnered a limited theatrical release in April 2025 after it was digitally remastered. A version of the film was first briefly released in 1972, and has been issued a number of times since then. However, the audio from the film has never been issued as a stand-alone album until now.
In total, it sold just over 20,000 copies in the United States in the week ending May 8, according to Luminate. The album contains the eight performances from the film and was available to purchase as a two-CD set and a double-vinyl package or as a digital download. The CD and vinyl editions have two bonus tracks, while the digital edition has a third bonus cut. (The film itself, separate from the album, was also sold as stand-alone Blu-ray, DVD and digital download.)
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The Pink Floyd at Pompeii: MCMLXXII album also debuts at No. 1 on Indie Store Album Sales, No. 2 on Vinyl Albums (with 12,500 copies sold in its first week), No. 2 on Top Rock Albums, No. 3 on Top Rock & Alternative Albums and No. 28 on the overall all-genre Billboard 200. On the latter, Pompeii marks the 15th top 40-charting set for the band and 30th charting album overall.
With the No. 3 debut on Top Album Sales with 20,000 copies, Pink Floyd captures its largest sales week for an album in over 10 years. The act last sold more copies of a single album on the Jan. 10, 2015-dated chart, when the band’s final studio album, The Endless River, sold 29,000 copies in its seventh week of release.
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.
It’s a busy week in the top 10 on Top Album Sales, as the Pompeii project is one of six debuts in the region. At the top of the list, Bad Bunny’s Debí Tirar Más Fotos reenters at No. 1, for its first week in the lead, following its vinyl release. Fuerza Regida’s 111XPANTIA bows at No. 2, while Eric Church’s Evangeline Vs. The Machine motors in at No. 4. Ghost’s Skeletá falls to No. 5 after its debut at No. 1 a week ago, while Josh Groban’s first U.S.-released hits retrospective Gems jumps in at No. 6. Kendrick Lamar’s chart-topping GNX descends 5-7, Car Seat Headrest’s The Scholars starts at No. 8 and Key Glock’s Glockaveli bows at No. 9. Sabrina Carpenter’s former leader Short n’ Sweet rounds out the top 10, falling 9-10.
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Bun B and Statik Selektah have been dropping off some heat for a while now and while heads have been sleeping on their work, the duo continue to collaborate on new material and have recruited some NY heavyweights for their latest offering.
Linking up with Brooklyn’s own Gorilla NEMS and Smif-N-Wessun for their visuals to “Super Legends,” Bun B welcomes the Gorilla to his Trill Burgers establishment (we jealous) before hitting an afterhours spot to meet with Smif-N-Wessun who get the heads boppin’ to that OG ish.
Back up to the Northeast, Benny The Butcher is still cookin’ like the first of the month is rapidly approaching and in Ill Tone Beat’s clip to “The Outcome,” BTB shows that all he needs is a turntable and some records to get things poppin’ and prove that he’s a problem on the mic regardless of the situation.
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BUN B & STATIK SELEKTAH FT. GORILLA NEMS, & SMIF-N-WESSUN – “SUPER LEGENDS”
ILL TONE BEATS FT. BENNY THE BUTCHER – “THE OUTCOME”
BIG MOOCHIE GRAPE – “BAD PILL”
VYBEZ KARTEL – “THEY’RE OUTTA LOVE, WE AREN’T”
CRUCH CALHOUN & MIKE & KEYS – “POST & DELETE”
VRSA – “A DAY WITHOUT A MEXICAN”
JUDD DILLINGER – “THA DOCUMENTARY”
BABYZAY – “FRESH AS THEY COME”
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Gerardo Coronel ‘El Jerry’ celebrates a new milestone on the Billboard charts with his first No. 1 on the overall Latin Airplay ranking, as “No Se Dice” lands at No. 1 on the May 17-dated list. The corridos singer-songwriter also adds his fifth champ on the Regional Mexican Airplay chart.
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“No Se Dice” surges 12-1 on Latin Airplay after a 31% gain in audience impressions, to 7 million, earned in the U.S. during the May 2-8 tracking week, according to Luminate. The song takes the Greatest Gainer honor of the week, an award recognizing the track with the largest audience growth within the 50-position chart. The track has gained significant support from three Univision stations: KSCA (Los Angeles), WOJO (Chicago), and KLNO (Dallas).
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“No Se Dice” marks Coronel’s first No. 1 on the Latin Airplay chart, following a No. 2 high through “Tutorial Para Olvidar” in late 2024. In sum, he’s placed five career top 10s, dating to “Que Onda Perdida” in 2023.
Elsewhere, “No Se Dice” climbs 3-1 on Regional Mexican Airplay, becoming Coronel’s fifth ruler overall and second in 2025. Here’s the recap of his collections of No. 1s on Regional Mexican Airplay since the chart launched in 1994:
Peak, Title, Artist, Weeks at No. 1July 1, 2023, “Que Onda Perdida,” with Grupo Firme, threeDec. 2, 2023, “Se Buscan Borrachos,” twoAugust 24, 2024, “Tutorial Para Olvidar,” oneFeb. 15, 2025, “Chsm El Hígado,” oneMay 17, 2025, “No Se Dice,” one
“No Se Dice,” released on January 17 through Union Music, marks also a major milestone for the indie label as it celebrates its first No. 1 on the overall Latin Airplay chart.
Bruce Springsteen is proud to have been born in the U.S.A., but he’s not particularly happy with its leadership right now.
At the first show of his Land of Hopes and Dreams Tour in Manchester, England, the rock star slammed President Donald Trump’s administration from the Co-Op Live stage Wednesday (May 14). “The mighty E Street Band is here tonight to call upon the righteous power of art, of music, of rock and roll, in dangerous times,” he told his cheering crowd moments after he walked on.
“In my home, the America I love, the America I’ve written about, and has been a beacon of hope and liberty for 250 years, is currently in the hands of a corrupt, incompetent and treasonous administration,” he continued, as captured in a clip filmed by a concertgoer and posted to X. “Tonight, we ask all who believe in democracy and the best of our American experience to rise with us, raise your voices against the authoritarianism, and let freedom ring.”
Springsteen went on to sing the trek’s namesake song, 2001’s “Land of Hopes and Dreams,” which includes the lyrics: “Dreams will not be thwarted/ Faith will be rewarded/ Hear the steel wheels singing/ Bells of freedom ringing.”
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The Boss has long been vocal about his opposition to the sitting president. In the 2024 election, Springsteen endorsed Trump’s opponent, Kamala Harris, and four years prior, he opened up about his fears surrounding the twice-impeached POTUS’ first bid for a second White House term back in the 2020 race.
“I believe that our current president is a threat to our democracy,” he told The Atlantic of Trump at the time. “He simply makes any kind of reform that much harder. I don’t know if our democracy could stand another four years of his custodianship. These are all existential threats to our democracy and our American way of life.”
At Wednesday’s show, Springsteen echoed these sentiments during a mid-show speech. “In America, the richest men are taking satisfaction in abandoning the world’s poorest children to sickness and death,” he told fans before singing “My City of Ruins.”
“And in my country, they are taking sadistic pleasure in the pain that they inflict on loyal American workers, they are rolling back historic civil rights legislation that led to a more just and moral society,” he continued. “They are abandoning our great allies and siding with dictators against those struggling for their freedom.”
The performance marks the first of several tour dates Springsteen and the E Street Band have scheduled this summer. After two more dates in Manchester, he’ll perform at venues in France, Spain, Germany and Italy through the beginning of July.
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Welcome to Billboard Pro’s Trending Up newsletter, where we take a closer look at the songs, artists, curiosities and trends that have caught the music industry’s attention. Some have come out of nowhere, others have taken months to catch on, and all of them could become ubiquitous in the blink of a TikTok clip. This week: An early great of the Billboard charts threatens her first new hit in many decades, a staple turn-of-the-millennium band connects with Gen Z and two new artists score viral breakout hits.
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A Connie Francis Deep Cut Makes for a ‘Pretty’ Good Viral Moment
Connie Francis was one of the reigning queens of the Billboard Hot 100 in its early days. The late-’50s and early-’60s pop star scored a whopping 15 top 10 hits on the chart, including three No. 1s: “Everybody’s Somebody’s Fool,” “My Heart Has a Mind of Its Own” (both 1960) and “Don’t Break the Heart That Loves You” (1962). And over six decades after her commercial peak, Francis is once again having a big pop culture moment – but it’s not with any of those charting singles.
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“Pretty Little Baby,” a non-single from Francis’ 1962 album Connie Francis Sings Second Hand Love, has caught fire on TikTok in the past month. Users have been lip synching along to the “You can ask the flowers/ I sit for hours/ Telling all the bluebirds/ The bill and coo birds/ Pretty little baby, I’m so in love with you” verse of the song, often while wearing cute retro outfits and/or singing to actual babies, with over a million videos being created to the song (though the official sound’s page currently appears to be unavailable).
Regardless, the song has already begun to cross over from TikTok to streaming in massive numbers. As recently as the tracking week ending April 10, the song was earning just over 17,000 official on-demand U.S. streams a week – but four weeks later, that number was up to 2.4 million, a gain of over 7,000%. And it’s still rising at an incredible rate – even debuting on the Spotify Daily Top Songs USA and Global charts – meaning the song could soon be threatening a Hot 100 debut, a mere 63 years after its initial release. – ANDREW UNTERBERGER
OK TikTok: Radiohead’s ‘Let Down’ Goes Up in Viral Plays as Catalog Grows
One of the greatest emotional rushes within Radiohead’s sprawling discography is the final verse of “Let Down,” on which Thom Yorke’s quivering lilt soars higher and higher to achieve bracing, beautiful alt-rock catharsis. Even as “Karma Police,” “Paranoid Android” and “No Surprises” remain the signature songs from the band’s 1997 masterwork OK Computer, “Let Down” has long been a favorite among Radiohead diehards — and now, the song is slowly crossing over to casual fans, too.
TikTok has latched onto that euphoric final verse, particularly the line “One day, I am gonna grow wings,” with users reacting to (and often bowled over by) the song’s whooshing upward build. And those TikTok clips are starting to translate into real streaming momentum for “Let Down,” which was earning 1.83 million U.S. on-demand weekly streams a month ago (during the chart week ending Apr. 10, according to Luminate), and is now earning 2.73 million streams (for the week ending May 8).
That’s a 49% increase in the song’s weekly streams over a four-week period — and while Radiohead’s entire streaming catalog isn’t growing that rapidly, “Let Down” is helping that total grow. Radiohead’s catalog earned 35.4 million streams during the week ending May 8, up 10% from four weeks prior (32.1 million during the week ending Apr. 10). Pretty impressive for a band whose most recent album came out nine years ago, although Yorke is keeping busy: he just put out a new album with electronic producer Mark Pritchard, as the duo Tall Tales, just last week. – JASON LIPSHUTZ
Trump, Dance Trends & TikTok Relationship Drama Boost BB Trickz’ “Super”
Nearly two months ago (March 30), BB Trickz released “Super” as the lead single from her new 80z EP – and an interesting combination of social conversation has driven up the track’s streams.
Eagle-eyed music fans may recognize BB Trickz, a Spanish rapper who broke through in 2023 with sample drill tracks, from Charli XCX’s “Club Classics” remix. BB even appeared as a surprise guest on the second night of Charli’s Barclays Center mini-residency on the Brat Arena Tour (May 1). About two weeks before her appearance onstage (April 22), BB said that she could learn a few things from Donald Trump and Hitler during an interview with Grimey TV, spurring understandably split reactions amongst fans and increasing her general notoriety as “the most hated rapper in Spain.”
That clip – which has since amassed over 57,000 views – came around the same time “Super” became the go-to song for a TikTok love triangle to throw shade at one another. TikTok personalities @.willito, @orlenaodette, @wendolynortizz have each posted multiple videos with the official “Super” sound (which currently boasts over 166,000 posts) that have millions of collective views.
Independent of that love triangle, much of the social conversation around “Super” is based around some people adoring the song and other people detesting it. Furthermore, on April 24, BB Trickz teamed up with TikTok personality @bachbuquen for a dance challenge set to “Super.” That clip reached 9.4 million views on Back’s account and over 23.5 million views on BB’s account.
According to Luminate, “Super” has jumped over 776% in streams over the past four weeks. During the period of April 4-10, the track earned over 146,000 official on-demand U.S. streams. By the time her Trump comments started going viral and the dance trend kicked off, “Super” pulled over 1.9 million streams during the week of May 2-8, growing over 50% week over week.
Having already visited the Billboard charts with Charli — “Club Classics” reached No. 8 on Hot Dance/Electronic Songs last year – BB Trickz could soon be poised for her first solo entry. – KYLE DENIS
ATL’s Female Rap Wave Buoys a New Hit In BunnaB’s “Bunna Summa”
Just as Pluto & YKNiece’s “Whim Whammiee” begins its Hot 100 ascent, Atlanta has already spun out another delightfully ratchet female rap hit to kick off the summer.
Released on April 16, “Bunna Summa” arrived after a few short weeks of teasing from the artist herself. On April 4, Bunna B posted a snippet of the then-unreleased song to her official TikTok account (@therealbunnab). To date, that snippet has amassed over 584,000 views, while the accompanying official sound now plays in over 51,000 posts on the app. Most of the song’s traction has come from the end of its opening verse: “I drive the boat, these b–ches follow/ F–ked around and text my ex, oops, it was a typo/ Shake, shake, shake, booty shake like a maraca/ If you ain’t throwin’ ass, what the f–k you outside for?”
In its first week of release (April 11-17), “Bunna Summa” garnered 112,000 official on-demand U.S. streams, according to Luminate. That number jumped 425% in its first full tracking week (April 18-24) to over 592,000 streams. The following week, streams jumped a further 145% to over 1.4 million, and by May 2-8, the song started crossing over two million weekly streams.
If her hit continues to rise along with the temperatures, we can officially crown the upcoming season a “Bunna Summa.” – KD