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Tropical hitmaker Elvis Crespo is back on the Billboard charts as “Nuestra Canción,” with Jerry Rivera, debuts at No. 10 on the Tropical Airplay chart (dated March 22). The new version of his 1998 track marks his return to the ranking’s top 10 after more than five years.
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“I’m grateful to God for the opportunity to experience this new life and feel the love of radio” Crespo tells Billboard upon his first top 10 since 2019. “Being back and sharing a song with an artist like Jerry Rivera is an honor that fills me with emotion, due to the respect and admiration I have for him. Without a doubt, this new chapter begins in an incredible way.”
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“Nuestra Canción” debuts at No. 10 on Tropical Airplay with 2 million audience impressions registered in the U.S. during the March 7-13 tracking week, according to Luminate. It gives Crepo his first top 10 since 2019 and 34th overall.
For Rivera, the collab brings rewarding results. He achieves his third top 10 so far in 2025. Previously, “Te Buscare” peaked at No. 8 in February. Meanwhile, “Volver a Enamorarnos” matches his previous best at No. 8 high and meets “Nuestra Canción” in this week’s top 10. Overall, the Puerto Rican amasses 35 top 10s spanning four decades of career entries, dating back to his first top 10, “Me Estoy Enloqueciendo Por Ti” in 1994. (No. 2 high).
The New York-born, Puerto Rican-raised vocalist first came to prominence with the 1999 hit “Suavemente,” which held strong at the summit on Tropical Airplay for nine consecutive weeks then. That same year, he broke the barriers as one of merengue’s most successful singer-songwriters, placing two other radio top 10s, including the five-week ruler “Tu Sonrisa.”
Crespo followed suit in 1999, positioning four other songs on the tally. While he spent one week at No. 1 with “El Cuerpo Me Pide” with Victor Manuelle, seven-week champ “Píntame” earned him a first Grammy for best merengue performance that same year.
Among those four ranked Tropical Airplay songs, “Nuestra Canción,” composed by Homero D’ Rodríguez, took him to a No. 17 high in April 1999. The song was the fourth single from Crespo’s debut studio album Suavemente, his first No. 1 on Top Latin Albums, which also gave him his first appearance on the all-genre Billboard 200 in 1999, where it remained for 43 weeks.
The new version of “Nuestra Canción” is composed by Crespo and Francisco “Pulpo” Barbosa. It has already become a new favorite across tropical stations. The song will become available across digital platforms on March 20 as announced by Crespo on TikTok.
While Crespo’s resurgence on Tropical Airplay earns him a 35th top 10 overall, Rivera enters a tie with Prince Royce for the fourth-most top 10s since the tally launched in 1994, both with 35 top 10s. They trail only Victor Manuelle (65 top 10s), Marc Anthony (57) and Gilberto Santa Rosa (37).
Crespo’s new achievement sets as the Puerto Rican prepares for his Poeta Herío Tour, which begins at the Coliseo de Puerto Rico on June 21.
Billboard’s Dance Moves roundup serves as a guide to the biggest movers and shakers across Billboard’s many dance charts — new No. 1s, new top 10s, first-timers and more.
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This week (on charts dated March 22, 2025), Zeds Dead, Lady Gaga, GT_Ofice, David Guetta and others achieve new milestones. Check out key movers below.
Zeds Dead
The Canadian electronic duo hits Billboard’s Top Dance Albums chart for the first time in nearly a decade thanks to its new album, Return to the Spectrum of Intergalactic Happiness. Released March 7 via the act’s Deadbeats label, the set debuts at No. 14 with 4,000 equivalent album units earned in the U.S. its opening week, according to Luminate. The pair last appeared on the chart in November 2016 with its No. 6-peaking Northern Lights. Zeds Dead has charted four additional projects on the ranking, including the top 10 Somewhere Else (No. 4 peak, 2014).
Plus, Zeds Dead’s “One of These Mornings” reenters the Hot Dance/Electronic Songs chart at No. 21, boosted by the new album’s release. The track debuted at its No. 15 high in February, becoming the pair’s highest charting entry. – XANDER ZELLNER
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Lady Gaga
As previously reported, the superstar has a monster week on Billboard’s charts thanks to her new album, MAYHEM. The set soars in at No. 1 on both the Billboard 200 and Top Dance Albums charts with 219,000 units. It becomes her seventh No. 1 on the Billboard 200 and her record-breaking eighth leader on Top Dance Albums, as she passes Louie DeVito for the most in the chart’s 24-year history. Notably, her 2008 debut, The Fame, has spent a record 193 weeks at No. 1.
Gaga also charts nine songs from MAYHEM on the Hot Dance/Pop Songs chart, including seven in the top 10. “Abracadabra” rules the ranking for a fourth week. –X.Z.
GT_Ofice
GT_Ofice earns his first leader on a Billboard chart as “Someone Else” ascends a spot to No. 1 on Dance/Mix Show Airplay. The DJ-producer (real name Caine Sheppard; the first three letters of his moniker stand for “good times only”) has charted four songs — all self-released– dating to 2023, reaching a previous No. 26 peak with “Every Thought of You” (with ALWZ SNNY). He also hit No. 30 with his other sole-billed entry, “Never Together.”
“Someone Else” is receiving support on stations including Pulse Radio in San Francisco (more than 850 plays to date, according to Mediabase), Pulse 87 (Hudson Valley, N.Y.; 600 plays) and Revolution 93.5 (Miami; 550 plays). “Dance radio has helped introduce me to listeners who might not be in the club or festival scene,” GT_Ofice says. “I generally mix poppy vocals with dance pop beats. My sound is just a little different.” –GARY TRUST
David Guetta & Sia
Both artists return to the top 10 of Hot Dance/Electronic Songs with their new collaboration, “Beautiful People.” Released March 7, the song debuts at No. 8 with 1.2 million U.S. official streams earns in its opening week. It earns Guetta his 26th career top 10, the second-most in the chart’s history, after Kygo’s 27, and Sia her sixth. It’s also Guetta’s record-extending 94th overall entry. The song concurrently starts at No. 30 on Dance/Mix Show Airplay.
“Beautiful People” marks the latest charted collaboration between Guetta and Sia. The pair previously appeared together on Hot Dance/Electronic Songs (which began in 2013) with “She Wolf (Falling to Pieces)” (No. 8 peak in 2013); “Bang My Head,” also with Fetty Wap (No. 5, 2016); “Flames” (No. 9, 2018); “Let’s Love” (No. 9, 2020); and “Floating Through Space” (No. 11, 2021). They first linked up for the smash “Titanium,” which hit No. 7 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 2011. –X.Z.
Frank Walker & Alexander Stewart
The pair’s single “Crossfire” rises 13-10 on Dance/Mix Show Airplay, reaching the top 10 thanks to a 9% gain in spins. Walker adds his fourth top 10 and first since “I Go Dancing” (with Ella Henderson), which spent a week at No. 1 in 2023. Stewart scores his second top 10, and overall entry, after his team-up with Two Friends, “Wrong Way,” which spent a week at No. 1 in November. –X.Z.
The depth and detail in the 464-page Heartbreaker: A Memoir (Grand Central Publishing) is impressive — and surprising.
To Mike Campbell as well.
The Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers guitarist tells Billboard that he was actually keeping a journal when the band (then known as Mudcrutch) moved to Los Angeles in 1974 from the members’ native Florida. “I did it for the first couple of months,” Campbell recalls. “Every day the entry was, ‘We went into the studio. We couldn’t get the track. We couldn’t get the track.’ It was so depressing I just quit writing it down. But the stuff was still stuck in my memory.” And he credits his co-author, novelist Ari Surdoval (Double Nickels), with helping to pull those out of him.
“As I started thinking back on my memories, a lot of things just popped out that I didn’t know were in there,” Campbell says. “It’s kinda crazy how the mind works.”
Heartbreaker offers the proverbial long, strange trip through the 75-year-old Campbell’s life from an impoverished, single-parent upbringing in Florida through his discovery of guitar and music, the Heartbreakers’ ascent and his own success as a sideman and songwriter (starting with Don Henley’s “The Boys of Summer” in 1984), right up through his current endeavor leading the Dirty Knobs, a band he formed as a side project more than a decade ago which has become Campbell’s primary musical outlet since Petty’s death in 2017. It’s spirit-lifting in spots, heart-breaking in others, and it offers a deep and revealing dive that will please Petty fans and guitar geeks alike.
“I didn’t want to write a sex, drugs and rock n’ roll book,” Campbell says. “I wanted to talk about the creative energy for the songs and the personal relationships between me and my bandmates. And I wanted to show the struggle it took to get where we got; it wasn’t just handed to us, and I wanted to tell the whole story of how we started out really poor and sacrificed for many years before we saw any income. So that was my basic thing.
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“Mostly I wanted to touch base on the creative mystery of songs and where they come from. I set those boundaries at the beginning — we’re not gonna talk about stupid things that every rock star writes about. I don’t find that very interesting.”
Campbell does check off all those boxes with Heartbreaker. There’s minimal sex; he’s been married to his wife Marcie for nearly 50 years, and their meeting at a Halloween party is sweetly recounted in the book. There are some drugs — his own use as well as his bandmates, including Petty’s heroin addiction — and plenty of rock n’ roll, documenting not only the Heartbreakers but also Campbell’s Forrest Gump-like connection to the likes of Bob Dylan, George Harrison, Stevie Nicks and Fleetwood Mac (whom he toured with during 2018-19), Johnny Cash and more.
“I did find myself just looking around and going, ‘How did I get here?’ a lot,” Campbell says with a laugh. “When a song would come, ‘Why me? How did I get so lucky that this song came out of the air to me, of all people?’”
Amidst his positive intentions, however, Campbell is also brutally honest about the sometimes-turbulent inner workings of the Heartbreakers, ranging from Petty’s ascent to frontman status and the group’s business structure to the delicate dynamics exacerbated by forceful personalities.
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“I wanted to be real, and I wanted to be truthful,” says Campbell, who co-produced several Heartbreakers and Petty solo albums, as well as the posthumous 2022 box set Live at the Fillmore 1997. He also co-wrote Billboard Hot 100 top 40 hits such as “Refugee,” “You Got Lucky,” “Runnin’ Down a Dream’ and others. “I don’t want to dwell on other people’s drug and alcohol problems. I have not read the book Tom put out (Conversations with Tom Petty, 2005), but I understand he talks about all that himself. I wanted to illuminate my relationship with my brothers in the Heartbreakers. We all come from the South and we grew up in a very similar way, and I wanted to show how special that brotherhood was. I wanted to let people look behind the curtain, see a little bit about what it’s like being in a band like this.
“Bands are very delicate creatures. It doesn’t take much to break a band up. You have all the egos and personalities and sometimes wives or girlfriends get involved, money…. But our group, the music always outweighed it. It was so important to keep the music alive that nobody’s wives or arguments over money, as far as I was concerned, was ever going to break it up. It was too special…and we cherished it.”
To that end Campbell says he shared excerpts of the book with those who were mentioned, including Petty’s daughter Adria, who’s been running the estate, keyboardist Benmont Tench, Dylan, Roger McGuinn, Jeff Lynne and others. “I wanted them to sign off that they were comfortable with it,” Campbell says. “Nobody had anything but thanks for how I treated them. Nobody said, ‘No, you can’t put me in the book.’”
“The parts that I read I thought were great,” says Tench, who’s waiting for the audio version of Heartbreaker, which Campbell recorded himself, to come out. “Mike’s memory is much more reliable than mine; I’m glad he’s writing it, and not me.”
Campbell’s great affection for Petty and the other Heartbreakers aside, he considers Dylan — whom he met during sessions for Dylan’s 1985 Empire Burlesque album before the Heartbreakers joined him on tour during 1986-87 — the most surreal character in the book. “He is a mystery genius, a beautiful creature,” Campbell notes. “He’s so enigmatic, but so brilliant. I’ve met a lot of my heroes, from George Harrison to Johnny Cash; they’re all intimidating and have the aura. But Bob has this special thing around him that’s intriguing ’cause he’s so brilliant and he’s so mystical and so hard to read. But he’s so good.”
A surprising thread throughout Heartbreaker, however, is Campbell’s professed insecurity, an inferiority complex that finds him taking much of the blame for any of the band’s shortcomings of failures. “That’s a therapist question,” he says when it’s pointed out. “I think maybe if I dig deep and look at it, maybe my parents’ divorce affected me in a very deep way, where my whole world was broken apart. Throughout my whole life I’ve tried to build a world that won’t break up, and keep it together — my band and my marriage. So maybe that’s why. Maybe it’s genetics. I don’t really know the answer, but…I’m still here doing it, so I think I’m dealing with it alright.”
Campbell has three author appearances slated so far for Heartbreaker: March 19 at the New Jersey Performing Arts Center in Newark; March 20 at the Powerhouse Arena in Brooklyn; and March 21 at Strand in New York City. Meanwhile, he’s been working on songs for the Dirty Knob’s follow-up to last year’s Vagabonds, Virgins & Misfits, with, he says, “several songs I’m excited about” already in hand. The quartet, which now includes former Heartbreakers drummer Steve Ferrone, will join Chris Stapleton for All-American Road Show stops on June 12-13 in Grand Rapids, Mich., and will be playing a selection of summer shows with Blackberry Smoke starting July 25-26 at Nashville’s Ryman Auditorium.
“I’m just busy,” Campbell notes. “I love my band and I love the songs I’m doing and the crowds we have so far. I’m writing all the time, and I’m happy. I’m really blessed. It’s been a great life, and it’s not nearly over.”
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Justin Bieber put his stamp of approval on Playboi Carti‘s JB-name-dropping track “Like Weezy” from the rapper’s latest album, Music. Bieber posted a since-expired Instagram Story of himself with “Like Weezy” playing over it. In the chorus, Carti raps, “I told her I’m big like Bieber, she ain’t believe me.” And the Atlanta rapper put […]
First released in 2019, Doechii’s “Anxiety” blasts onto the Billboard Hot 100 (dated March 22) at No. 13, thanks to its wide release at last, sparked by a 2023 reworking of the song and a new viral surge (with an assist by Will Smith and Tatyana Ali).
The song by the rapper-singer — who is set to receive the 2025 Woman of the Year award at the annual Billboard Women in Music celebration March 29 — enters with 20.6 million official U.S. streams, a 289% vault week-over-week, March 7-13, according to Luminate. Her highest charting Hot 100 hit also becomes her first top 10 on Streaming Songs (No. 5 debut), the Billboard Global 200 (No. 6) and Billboard Global Excl. U.S. (No. 7). It drew 56.9 million streams and sold 9,000 worldwide in the tracking week.
With “Anxiety” then available only on YouTube, Brooklyn rapper Sleepy Hallow co-opted its hook for the chorus of his own “A N X I E T Y.” Billed to Sleepy Hallow featuring Doechii, the 2023 release has experienced a TikTok-led surge in recent weeks, as users have soundtracked the “A N X I E T Y” chorus to a scene of Smith and Ali dancing in The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, the Smith-led sitcom that aired on NBC in 1990-96. “A N X I E T Y” debuted on the March 15-dated Hot 100 at No. 45 and ranks at No. 59 in its second week with 8.7 million streams. It also garnered 29.6 million streams worldwide March 7-13.
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The new attention for “A N X I E T Y” sent fans to Doechii’s solo, YouTube-only version, prompting the rapper-singer to release her original “Anxiety” wide on DSPs and digital retailers on March 4, triggering its arrival on March 22-dated charts following the first full week of its greater availability.
Notably, “Anxiety” and “A N X I E T Y” prominently sample Gotye’s “Somebody That I Used to Know” (featuring Kimbra), the smash that topped the Hot 100 for eight weeks in 2012 and went on to win two Grammy Awards, including record of the year. That hit jumped by 20% to 16.5 million global streams in the week ending March 13. It also makes the Hot Rock & Alternative Songs chart at No. 9 with 5.1 million U.S. streams (up 17%). Still in rotation at multiple radio formats, it additionally logged 3.9 million in airplay audience (up 16%).
Meanwhile, Doechii accomplishes the rare double of appearing on the Hot 100 with two versions of a song simultaneously. (Generally, mixes of a current release roll up into one entry for chart purposes, although in certain cases, such as an act being billed as a lead on one version and a featured artist on another, they remain separate.) In 2009, for example, Jay-Z and Alicia Keys’ “Empire State of Mind” ruled the Hot 100 for five weeks. Amid its 30-week run, her solo ballad version — “Empire State of Mind (Part II) Broken Down” — spent a week on the chart, at No. 55, in January 2010.
Further back, in 1990, the Righteous Brothers charted concurrent versions of their classic “Unchained Melody,” originally a No. 4 hit in 1965. Its synch in the blockbuster film Ghost scared up new love for the ballad, sending the original version back to a No. 13 high. With that single available at the time only on vinyl, the duo released a new recording of it (on a different label) as a cassette single, which hit No. 19.
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Ubisoft hopes to restore the Assassin’s Creed video game franchise to its former glory without disappointing purists who have been on board since day one while pleasing the newbies who picked up the sticks following AC’s pivot into an action-RPG format. With Assassin’s Creed Shadows, did Ubisoft Quebec accomplish its goal? Resoundingly, yes.
Assassin’s Creed is one of those video game franchises that I hold dear to my heart. I remember getting deeply entrenched in the battle between the Order of Assassins and the Templar Order when the first game arrived in 2007, putting us in the shoes of Altaïr.
Altaïr’s story was shortlived, passing the hidden blade to Ezio Auditore da Firenze, who carries the AC torch in what many say is the strongest trilogy in the video game franchise history, Assassin’s Creed II (2009), Assassin’s Creed Brotherhood (2010) and Assassin’s Creed Revelations (2011).
Others would lead the franchise that has seen its games grow into massive undertakings following 2018’s Assassin’s Creed Odyssey, which expanded on the action-RPG element first introduced in 2017’s Assassin’s Creed Origins. It was the first Assassin’s Creed game to allow players to choose between a male or female version of the game’s protagonist.
While fans initially welcomed the change, it quickly became an issue. Many gamers, including myself, felt the games became too bloated and action-oriented, burying what we adored about Assassin’s Creed, such as the stealth play and intense story.
With Shadows, creative director Jonathan Dumont and his team at Ubisoft Quebec aimed to deliver an experience where fans who enjoyed the different variations of AC games can now press start on an experience suited for them without sacrificing what made the franchise great.
A Gripping Narrative Experienced In Multiple Ways
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The story in Assasin’s Creed started strong but has since become confusing for most, especially to those whose first AC experience started with Odyssey and on. Shadows took multiple steps, hoping to bring players up to speed with everything that has happened in the franchise inside and outside the Animus.
One step is the new Animus Hub, now a one-stop section for Assassin’s Creed, which will be featured in all games in the future. There, gamers can catch up on the other games via brief rundown, launch other AC games they own, access regularly released missions, exchange keys earned from completing projects, and archive collected data files.
Then there is Shadows story itself, which is told through the eyes of two characters: Naoe, a young shinobi, and Yasuke, a legendary samurai.
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The game introduces you to Naoe, who quickly learns the way of the shinobi after a series of tragic events push her out into the open world of the late Sengoku period, where she will have to hone her assassin skills to complete her quest for revenge.
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You will eventually don the armor of Yasuke, the legendary African samurai who gains favor and freedom from his Portuguese slavers thanks to Lord Nobunaga.
Naoe and Yasuke’s stories are uniquely intertwined with Dumont and his team, crafting a narrative that will lead you down a gripping tale as you explore each of the protagonists’ personal mysteries. These mysteries are worth the time and effort to uncover and experience.
Choice is also important, as some decisions will impact particular outcomes. For example, Naoe forgives a target during one mission rather than killing them. Or you can even forge romantic relationships or gain allies with your choices. You can opt for “Canon mode,” which Ubisoft says is the definitive way to experience the game by removing the dialogue options.
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What kind of AC player are you? If you enjoy sneaking in the high grass or stalking the shadows and rooftops to take out foes, this game is for you.
Or, do you enjoy just cutting your foes down with wreckless abandon and don’t give a damn about your foes calling in reinforcements because, hey, “they can get this smoke too!” Guess what? This game is also for you.
Assassin’s Creed Shadows blends two distinct playing styles with its two protagonists system.
With Naoe, players get the stealth action they have sorely missed, but with a shinobi twist. Naoe feels different from other assassins in previous titles based on how she moves around the world.
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Her cool vaults and flips over obstacles, dashing across rooftops, tossing shurikens, use of smoke bombs, and other weapons and tools specific to ninjas give her a feel gamers have wanted for a long time and get thanks to the series finally shifting to Japan.
Yasuke is the exact opposite and is designed to give players that powerful tank that can cut down any foe that stands before them. While he can also use stealth elements, his power pushes you to run through doors literally and confidently take on several foes simultaneously because he is still skillful and, unlike Naoe, can take more damage.
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The best part is you are also not locked into one character; you can switch at any time, and the story will remain the same. So you’re not punished for playing favorites in Shadows.
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Assassin’s Creed is always best known for the living worlds that players roam in each game. That is taken to another level in Shadows, thanks to the changing seasons.
Japan changes dramatically during the seasons, which is reflected beautifully in Assasin’s Creed Shadows. This feature is not just aesthetically pleasing; it also affects gameplay.
For example, during the winter, bodies of water Naoe and Yasuke could normally swim in completely freeze; grassy areas to hide in are gone, but they return when spring or summer returns.
The changing seasons also affect particular missions, as specific targets will only appear during the summer.
The new objective board is also a welcomed addition to the game, giving players a more efficient way to track quests. As you progress through the game, explore the many different regions, circle zones featuring the faces of the significant characters you meet, and objectives you can complete.
Most of the objectives are optional, and if you opt not to partake in the side quests, which I am happy to say aren’t mindless fetch quests, you can probably complete the game’s main story in 30 hours or less.
Again, play how you want, but it will be hard not to be distracted and wander off the beaten path because, unlike in previous games, this is a living world worth exploring.
Base building is another welcomed addition to the game, allowing players to build a home where their allies and pets can hang out, plus add passive benefits like extra scouts that help you find objectives on the map and pick up resources you tag while out on missions.
Final Verdict
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When Dumont first announced that Assassin’s Creed Shadows was being delayed to allow more time in the oven, people thought it would be bad news for the game.
It turns out that it was the best decision. With Shadows, Dumont and his team needed to deliver an Assassin’s Creed that is not just a bloated fetch quest, which is a story that no one will remember or care about by the time the credits roll; they needed to give players a game on par with the original and it’s subsequent sequels.
Assassin’s Creed Shadows is an exceptional entry into the franchise that brilliantly combines all of the good features from the games over the years and stuffed them into a game that doesn’t require you to play 100+ hours to complete. It’s so good that you want to spend as much time in its world as possible to uncover more of the story because it’s absolutely worth it.
Shadows’ story is engaging, and despite some instances of weak voice-over work, the performances are top-notch. The introduction of the two-protagonist system gives players two different ways to enjoy the game while delivering a narrative to give a damn about again.
I’m still embarking on my adventure in Shadows, but I’m 100% invested and can confidently say this is the best game in the Assassin’s Creed franchise since Brotherhood.
With Shadows, Assassin’s Creed is back. We just hope that this momentum continues.
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We’re almost 100 years deep into this rodeo culture thing in The Lone Star State and each year the crowds, performances, entertainment and fashion take things to a whole new level. What started with a few Texas cowboys linking up to share and showcase their livestock has become a grand affair – so you know folks step out wearing their Texas Best.
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This year, Rodeo Season kicked off March 4th and is set to wrap things up on March 23rd. So as we enter the final full week of Rodeo Houston 2025, it’s only right we salute the looks that made us do a double-take, as it’s always fun to see the different and creative ways Texans (and folks in town to party with us) put together pieces to create fist that express their unique interpretation of what can be considered modern southern style.
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This year the girlies showed up and showed out when it came to rodeo fashion. Scroll below to see the styles we couldn’t get enough of.
1. Rodeo ready
2. Not every cowgirl wears a hat.
3. This aint her first rodeo
4. CHOSEN 🤞🏾
5. One night only, I’m from out of town.
6. Whole Lotta Gang Ish
7. Howdy..
8. All Black Everything
9. It’s a Texas Thang
10. Countrified
11. Fur Baby
12. Stick em up
13. Bigger in Texas
14. Ms. Cowgirl
15. Tear the roof off
16. Boots and Dukes
17. Sittin’ pretty
18. Let’s ride
20. Rodeo Nights
21. Look at that horse
22. Her first rodeo
23. Hey H-Town
24. All Smiles
25. Welcome to the show
26. Welcome to Texas
27. Goin my way?
28. We eatin’ good down here
29. Get you a cowgirl
30. Country girls have more fun
31. Let’s go
32. Sundown is coming
33. Live free
34. From Texas with Love
35. Your new favorite cowgirl
36. It’s that special time of year
37. If you know, you know
38. Show stopper
39. No gatekeepin’
40. Strike a pose
41. Gotta love them H-Town Girls
42. Just touched down in H-Town
43. Boot Love
44. Still no time for games
45. This is a big rich town
46. Howdy partner
47. Let’s Rodeo
48. Western Wear
49. Neon Nights
50. Rockstar Cowgirl
Variety is set to launch its first Power of Women: Nashville issue and event, bringing its Power of Women franchise to Music City to honor a slate of top women country artists and industry members.
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The May 1 event, in partnership with Lifetime, will celebrate the inaugural Power of Women: Nashville honorees, who will each appear on four separate covers of the issue, as well as women profiled in the annual Women’s Impact Report: Nashville, which will highlight the industry’s most philanthropic women who have made an impact through their work.
The Power of Women: Nashville event will honor artists Kelsea Ballerini, Mickey Guyton, Reba McEntire, and Lainey Wilson.
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Country Music Hall of Famer McEntire has earned 24 No. 1 Billboard Hot Country Songs hits and has forged a multi-faceted career that includes movies, television, music, Broadway, book deals, a clothing line and time as a judge on The Voice, among other initiatives. Wilson has earned entertainer of the year accolades from both the CMA and ACM, and released her latest album, Whirlwind, last year. She’s currently headlining her Whirlwind tour, with shows in Europe and North America. With her recent projects including the Grammy-nominated Rolling Up the Welcome Mat and her latest, Patterns, Ballerini has seen her career surge on the strength of heartfelt songs and energetic stage shows, with headlining concerts at Nashville’s Bridgestone Arena, Knoxville’s Thompson-Boling Arena, and New York’s Madison Square Garden. Guyton recently released her latest album, House on Fire, and launched her first headlining tour last year, in addition to garnering an array of high-profile appearances in recent years, including performing the national anthem at the Super Bowl in 2022.
Nine-time Grammy winner Sheryl Crow will host the event, while actress and activist Ashley Judd will be on hand to introduce the upcoming four-part documentary The Judd Family: Truth Be Told, which will premiere on Lifetime on May 10-11, and will profile familial and personal connections within the Judd family, including Ashley, her sister Wynonna Judd and their late mother, Naomi Judd. In addition to her own solo musical career, Wynonna was also a part of the Country Music Hall of Fame duo The Judds with Naomi. In the 1980s, the duo earned 14 No. 1 Hot Country Songs hits.
As has been done with Variety‘s Power of Women celebrations in Los Angeles and New York, each honoree will bring awareness to a charity of their choice, with the publication making a donation to each charity as part of the event. Ballerini will honor the Feel Your Way Through Foundation, which helps nonprofits focused on mental health initiatives. Guyton has chosen to celebrate The Loveland Foundation, which seeks to give opportunities to communities of color, while Wilson will spotlight her own Heart Like a Truck Fund.
“The impact of these extraordinary honorees reminds us that true power lies in uplifting others and creating meaningful change,” Elaine Frontain Bryant, EVP and Head of Programming, A&E, Lifetime & LMN, said in a statement. “This year, as we bring Variety’s Power of Women to Nashville for the first time, we celebrate not only their achievements but also the power of storytelling, community, and advocacy. Lifetime is proud to continue shining a light on these remarkable women with Variety.”
Variety and Billboard are owned by parent company PMC.
Lil Durk delayed his Deep Thoughts albumsince being arrested by U.S. Marshals in Florida on conspiracy, murder-for-hire and firearms charges in October, but the project finally has a release date.
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Durk released a trailer on Monday (March 17), announcing that his Deep Thoughts LP will arrive on March 28 as he remains behind bars without bond. The clip gives fans a look into his creative process as members of the OTF crew communicate with him on calls and run through songs making the tracklist’s cut.
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“I like the energy [of] what y’all are putting together,” Durk said. “Even the list of songs you sent me is good so I know y’all putting better changes on that s–t. I know it gon’ be bigger and better.”
Prior to being arrested, Durk heated up in the second half of 2024 with singles such as “Monitoring Me” and “Turn Up a Notch,” as well as “Opportunist” and “Late Checkout” with Hunxho. He even appeared on Central Cee’s Can’t Rush Greatness standout “Truth in the Lies” to kick off 2025.
Durk — born Durk Banks — was booked into Broward County jail following his arrest on Oct. 26. Los Angeles federal prosecutors unsealed an indictment accusing OTF crew members — allegedly at Durk’s discretion — of a 2022 shooting in Los Angeles targeting Quando Rondo, which led to Rondo’s distant cousin Lul Pab (Saviay’a Robinson) being killed.
Police believe targeting Quando Rondo came in retaliation to Durk’s childhood friend King Von’s murder in 2020 following an altercation between Von (Dayvon Bennett) and Rondo’s crews outside an Atlanta hookah lounge.
“After the [2020] murder, Co-Conspirator 1 made clear, in coded language, that Co-Conspirator 1 would pay a bounty or monetary reward, and/or make payment to anyone who took part in killing T.B. for his role in D.B.’s murder,” prosecutors wrote while using Rondo and Von’s initials.
Prosecutors continued: “Banks put a monetary bounty out for an individual with whom Banks was feuding named T.B. Banks ordered T.B.’s murder and the hitmen used Banks and OTF-related finances to carry out the murder.”
Durk has denied the allegations and pleaded not guilty to all of the charges. He’s remained behind bars without bond and will head to trial on Oct. 14.
The Chicago native’s last studio album, Almost Healed, arrived in 2023. The project debuted at No. 3 on the Billboard 200 and included hits such as the multiplatinum “All My Life” featuring J. Cole, which reached No. 2 on the Billboard Hot 100.