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Jessie Murph had the ultimate girls night and turned the party up even more inviting Sexyy Red into the fold for the “Blue Strips (Remix).” The hedonistic visual arrived on Tuesday (May 27) as Big Sexyy, Jessie and their girl gang hit the town to indulge on everything the nightlife has to offer. The emerging […]
After collecting multiple hits across Billboard’s Hot Latin Songs chart and Latin Airplay charts, Beéle makes his first appearance on the albums rankings as Borondo. The Colombian singer-songwriter’s debut set launches on the Top Latin Albums (at No. 10) and Top Latin Rhythm Albums (at No. 4) lists, dated May 31.
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Borondo, a 26-track album, was released May 15 on Hear This Music/5020 Records. The set starts at No. 10 on Top Latin Albums with 11,000 equivalent album units earned in the United States in the tracking week ending May 22, according to Luminate.
During the tracking week of May 16-22, Borondo‘s debut was driven primarily by streaming activity, with the album’s songs generating 17 million official on-demand streams. Meanwhile, the remainder of the total-week sum came from a minimal contribution of album sales and track-equivalent units. (Each unit equals one album sale, or 10 individual tracks sold from an album, or 3,750 ad-supported or 1,250 paid/subscription on-demand official audio and video streams generated by songs from an album.)
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Further, Borondo’s entrance marks a breakthrough for Puerto Rican indie label Hear This Music—founded by DJ Luian and Mambo Kingz— achieving its first performance and top 10 on any Billboard albums tally since its formation in 2015 (the imprint has earned 20 entries on the Hot Latin Songs chart, including three top 10s).
The set was previewed by one charting song: “Mi Refe,” with Ovy on The Drums, peaked at No. 8 on Latin Rhythm Airplay in April.
Prince Royce, Mora & Sebastian Yatra Achieve Top 10 Success: Elsewhere on the Latin albums charts, three other Latin artists leave a mark this week, starting with Prince Royce, whose album Eterno debuts at No. 3 on the Top Tropical Albums chart, his eighth straight top 10 since the 54-week ruler album Prince Royce in 2010.
Eterno, a collection of 20th century English hits turned-bilingual bachatas, becomes the Hot Shot debut of the week on Top Tropical Albums with 3,000 equivalent album units earned during the tracking week ending May 22. The album’s songs generated 1.9 million official on-demand streams in its first week.
“How Deep Is Your Love” is the only song that previewed the album; it hits new peaks on the overall Latin Airplay (No. 5) and Tropical Airplay (No. 4) charts after a 35% boost in audience impressions, to 7 million.
Puerto Rican Mora secures his fifth top 10 on the Top Latin Rhythm Albums chart with Lo Mismo De Siempre, as the album bows at No. 9 with 7,000 equivalent album units, also largely from streaming activity (9.8 million official on-demand streams in its opening week).
The Rimas-released set, dropped on an off-cycle Sunday, May 18, thus, debuts on the chart with only five days of activity (the chart’s tracking week runs Friday through Thursday).
Lastly, Sebastian Yatra’s Milagro starts at No. 9 on Top Latin Pop Albums with 2,000 equivalent album units. The 17-track album, released May 18 on Universal Music Latino/UMLE, generated 2.3 million official streams during the same period. It becomes Yatra’s fourth top 10 on the tally.
All charts (dated May 31, 2025) will update on Billboard.com tomorrow, May 28 (a day later than usual due to the Memorial Day holiday May 26). For all chart news, you can follow @billboard and @billboardcharts on both X, formerly known as Twitter, and Instagram.
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Travis Hunter is currently living his best life after being drafted by the Jacksonville Jaguars and marrying his fiancée, Leanna Del Fuente, but as expected, the haters had plenty to say.
Hunter, the Jaguars’ newly drafted offense/defence specialist, put a bow on what many would consider a fantastic month by tying the knot to his longtime girlfriend.
Hunter, 22, and De La Fuente, 23, began their love story when they met at Collins Hill High School in Suwanee, Georgia, and it continued throughout his 3-year college stint in Colorado. It didn’t take long for them to seal the deal after their engagement in February 2024.
Along with her very expensive rock on her finger, Hunter wasn’t done blessing his now wife with gifts. Videos of the wide receiver and cornerback unveiling a black Mercedes-Benz AMG G63 Brabus 800, worth more than $200,000, as a gift to his bride, went viral on X, formerly Twitter timelines.
Other clips show Hunter with his new wife celebrating their nuptials, and another of him dancing with his bride while flashing the biggest grin on the planet.
Haters Were Hating On Travis Hunter Getting Married
But with the bliss, of course, comes the unnecessary vitriol of the man just being happy to be married.
“travis hunter actually married that girl *laughing emojis,” one post on X read.
Another hating ass comment read, “Bag Secured. Look at that GRIN on him. #TravisHunter got the stripper a ring AND a G-Wagon just to show everyone he’s all in on her. What could possibly go wrong?”
Someone on Instagram went as far as to write Kanye West, also known as Ye, entire verse from “Gold Digger” under a post.
Some came to the defense of the newly married couple.
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We’re sending our best wishes to Travis Hunter and De La Fuente.
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50 Cent isn’t letting up on his self-appointed coverage of the Diddy trial, and he continues to have fun with AI to help with his trolling. This time around, the Queens rapper and filmmaker reacted on social media to his name being mentioned during Diddy’s ex-assistant Capricorn Clark’s testimony on Tuesday morning (May 27), during […]
SZA is giving props to Tate McRae after she covered “F2F” from SZA’s SOS album. On her Instagram Story Tuesday (May 27), the “Kill Bill” musician reposted a video of the Canadian pop star singing the track during a pre-show soundcheck in Paris. Though the original song finds SZA belting angsty lyrics over head-banging electric […]
Kendrick Lamar writes another winning chapter to his GNX era as the album becomes only the third project with four No. 1 hits on Billboard’s Rhythmic Airplay chart. The set finds its fourth leader on the chart dated May 31, as “Peekaboo,” featuring AzChike, jumps from No. 4. With the quartet, GNX ties Doja Cat’s Planet Her and SZA’s SOS (inclusive of its standard and deluxe LANA editions) for the most champs in the chart’s 32-year history.
“Peekaboo,” released and promoted through pgLang/Interscope/ICLG, ascends as the most-played song on U.S. panel-contributing rhythmic radio stations in the tracking week of May 16-22, according to Luminate, improving 19% in plays at the format compared with the prior week. Thanks to the surge, “Peekaboo” wins the Greatest Gainer award, given each week to the song with the largest increase in play count.
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The new champ takes over from Drake’s “Nokia,” which ruled the ranking for the last two frames. The Lamar-Drake exchange wraps a photo finish between the two rivals, whose feud ignited into one of the defining pop-culture storylines of 2024. “Nokia” slides to No. 2 with an 8% decrease in plays during the tracking week.
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With “Peekaboo,” Lamar achieves his 11th No. 1 on Rhythmic Airplay, six of which have arrived in the last year. Here’s a review of his radio-ruling collection:
“Humble.,” three weeks at No. 1, beginning June 6, 2017“Loyalty.,” feat. Rihanna; one, Sept. 30, 2017“Love.,” feat. Zacari; one, Dec. 30, 2017“Pray for Me,” with The Weeknd; two, April 18, 2018“Like That,” with Future and Metro Boomin; four, May 18, 2024“Not Like Us,” 12, June 15, 2024“Squabble Up,” two, Jan. 18, 2025“TV Off,” feat. Lefty Gunplay; four, Feb. 8, 2025“Luther,” with SZA, one, March 1, 2025“30 for 30,” with SZA, two, March 8, 2025“Peekaboo,” feat. AzChike, one (to date), May 31, 2025
Featured artist AzChike, meanwhile, captures his first Rhythmic Airplay No. 1 with “Peekaboo,” likewise his first entry on the list.
As mentioned, “Peekaboo” joins “Squabble Up,” “TV Off” and “Luther” for a record-tying four Rhythmic Airplay No. 1s from Lamar’s GNX album. The set matches the counts of:
Doja Cat’s Planet Her – “Kiss Me More” (feat. SZA), “You Right” (with The Weeknd), “Need to Know” and “Woman” in 2021-22
SZA’s SOS – “Kill Bill,” “Snooze,” “Saturn” and “30 for 30” (with Lamar) in 2023-25. The former pair are from the standard SOS, with the latter added through its deluxe LANA edition.
“High Road” hitmaker Koe Wetzel is a dad. He and partner Bailey Fisher welcomed their first child, daughter Woods Madison Wetzel, on May 23.
Fisher initially shared the news with fans, posting a photo of the couple’s newborn daughter on Instagram and captioning it, “Woods Madison Wetzel, born May 23rd, 6:49 am, 5 pounds 11 ounces.”
Fisher also wrote in the caption, “My whole heart outside of my body.”
Wetzel also shared the news on his Instagram on Tuesday, May 27, with a photo of the singer with his daughter snuggled against his chest. “The most beautiful thing these eyes have ever seen,” he captioned the photo, adding, “The world is yours Woods Madison Wetzel.”
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Fans previously speculated that the couple’s child was on its way when, hours before Wetzel was set to open the initial night of HARDY’s Jim Bob World Tour, Wetzel canceled his first three opening sets on the tour over the Memorial Day weekend, missing the shows May 22-24 in California and Nevada.
Wetzel shared a statement on Instagram at the time, telling fans, “Unfortunately due to a family medical event, I’ve got to get back to Texas. We hate to miss this first weekend of the JimBob World Tour with our brother HARDY, so make sure y’all show Stephen Wilson Jr. and McCoy Moore all the love. Hoping to get back out next week and party with y’all in Salt Lake City, Utah. Thanks for understanding. Much love and see you soon. – Koe.”
The next scheduled date on the Jim Bob World Tour is May 29 in Salt Lake City, Utah.
Last year, Wetzel’s collaboration with Jessie Murph “High Road” spent five weeks at the top of Billboard‘s Country Airplay chart, while his album 9 Lives debuted in the top five on the Top Country Albums chart. Another track from the album, “Sweet Dreams,” also reached the top 10 on the Hot Country Songs chart.
Lorde is getting ready to ask some tough questions on her new single “Man of the Year,” which the singer announced is coming out Wednesday (May 28) while dropping a music video teaser on Instagram.
In a clip from the visual posted one day prior to the track’s release, a topless Lorde spins around in a swivel chair and looks down at her bare chest. “Who’s gonna love me like this?” she sings in a snippet of the song. “Who could get me like this, when he flow down through me?”
“M.O.T.Y. Tomorrow late New York time,” the New Zealand native captioned the post. “Written in blood.”
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The teaser comes more than a week after Lorde first announced that “Man of the Year” would serve as the second single from June-slated album Virgin, following lead track “What Was That,” which dropped in April. In her recent Rolling Stone cover story, the Grammy winner shared that she wrote “Man of the Year” about her own broadening gender identity, which she says fell into place after she stopped taking oral contraceptives.
“I felt like stopping taking my birth control, I had cut some sort of cord between myself and this regulated femininity,” she told the publication. “It sounds crazy, but I felt that all of a sudden, I was off the map of femininity. And I totally believed that that allowed things to open up.”
Just before writing “Man of the Year” — which Lorde has also said is her “favorite” track on Virgin — the star taped her chest down with duct tape in an effort to realize a vision of herself “that was fully representative of how [her] gender felt in that moment,” she told Rolling Stone. She appears that way on the cover art for “Man of the Year,” wearing nothing but the silver tape and a pair of jeans.
Elsewhere in the interview, Lorde confirmed that she still uses “she” and “her” pronouns, but some days feels more like a man than a woman. “[Chappell Roan] asked me this … She was like, ‘So, are you nonbinary now?’” she recalled to the publciation. “I was like, ‘I’m a woman except for the days when I’m a man.’ I know that’s not a very satisfying answer, but there’s a part of me that is really resistant to boxing it up.”
See Lorde’s “Man of the Year” teaser below.
Tiësto tells us all about his collab with Sexyy Red and Kaskade talks about what it’s like to perform at EDC festival 2025. we also run down the highlights from Suenos Festival and Bottle Rock, all presented by Amazon Prime. From the blasting beats of EDM in Vegas to hot Latin sounds in Chicago and […]
Since its release, Teddy Swims‘ breakthrough hit has never once lost control over its place on the Billboard Hot 100. And this week, “Lose Control” became the song with the longest-ever run on the U.S. singles chart, something the musician celebrated on Instagram Tuesday (May 27).
Sharing the news on his Story, an excited Swims began by simply saying, “Let’s go!!!!!!”
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The star also wrote that the feat was achieved “BY GOD” before shouting out Warner Records CEO and co-chairman Aaron Bay-Schuck. “FOREVER GRATEFUL FOR YOUR STEADY GRACE LOVE AND LEADERSHIP,” the musician gushed.
Swims’ accomplishment comes about two years after he first released “Lose Control” in June 2023, with the track later appearing on his debut album, I’ve Tried Everything But Therapy (Part 1). On the Hot 100 listing dated May 23, 2025, the hit logs its 92nd week on the chart, surpassing Glass Animals’ prior record for most weeks spent on the ranking with “Heat Waves.”
“Lose Control” also now holds the record for longest stay in the chart’s top 10, logging its 63rd week in the echelon.
“When it was finished, I was showing everybody before the song came out,” the Georgia native reflected on writing the song to Billboard in 2023. “I just felt that energy, like, ;This is lighting in a bottle.’ I knew this was going to change my life.”
In addition to collecting new records, Swims also got some new ink this week. The day prior to his chart feat, the star shared a video on his Story of himself at a tattoo parlor, where an artist stenciled on a portrait of none other than Joe Dirt, the mullet-sporting janitor played by David Spade in the 2001 film of the same name.
Swims is fresh off of the January release of his new album I’ve Tried Everything But Therapy (Part 2), which reached No. 4 on the Billboard 200. He’s currently on tour in support of the LP, with his next shows set for Radio City Music Hall in New York City on May 27 and 28.
