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Watch BLACKPINK’s ROSÉ Sit on LISA’s Lap & Interview Her About Her Solo Coachella Debut

LISA and ROSÉ may not have shared a stage as BLACKPINK at Coachella this year, but that doesn’t mean they weren’t together throughout the festival as the former made her solo performance debut in the desert Friday (April 11).

Following LISA’s performance on the Sahara Stage opening night, the two ladies got together in what appeared to be the Thai rapper’s trailer and shared a sweet moment as ROSÉ conducted a post-show interview while sitting in her bandmate’s lap. “Do you have any interesting or fun stories on stage, anything that happened that nobody really knows?” the “APT.” singer asks in a clip posted by MTV UK over the weekend, holding up a pretend microphone as the pair lovingly kept their arms wrapped around each other.

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“I think they all noticed it, because the wind was so … it dries my lips,” LISA replies before demonstrating how she had to wet the fronts of her gums with her tongue in between lyrics, making ROSÉ burst out laughing. “I think it showed, I think it showed.”

LISA’s showcase wasn’t the first time she’s performed in the desert. BLACKPINK first took the stage at Coachella in 2019, and in 2023, the foursome made history as the first Korean act to ever headline the festival.

Friday night was, however, the first time the White Lotus star has performed as a soloist at Coachella, singing and rapping songs from her February debut album, Alter Ego. Two days later, JENNIE also made her solo Coachella debut with LISA and ROSÉ both cheering her on from the crowd. In videos posted to the New Zealand-born star’s Instagram Story, the pair passionately dances along to the Idol actress’ set, and in one clip immediately after JENNIE got off stage, ROSÉ picks her up and spins her around proudly.

The Coachella reunion — sans JISOO — is about as close as BLINKs have come to seeing the band back together in more than a year, with the quartet taking some time off from group duties to focus on solo projects. The women will soon reassemble for real, though, when they embark on a global tour kicking off in July.

Watch ROSÉ interview LISA after the latter’s solo Coachella debut below.

Opry Entertainment Group Names Tim Jorgensen as VP of Operations in Austin

Opry Entertainment Group (OEG) has named Tim Jorgensen as vp of operations on its Austin team.

In the new role, Jorgensen will lead OEG’s Block 21 businesses in the city, including ACL Live, 3TEN and W Austin. In addition to leading strategic direction for the Block 21 complex, he will oversee day-to-day operations at ACL Live and 3TEN. Jorgensen will report directly to Gary Scott, COO at Opry Entertainment Group.

Jorgensen previously worked at ASM Global, overseeing arenas, stadiums, convention centers and theaters and helping launch the Thunder Ridge Nature Arena in Missouri. He also recently served as president of full-service production labor company Crew One Productions, leading strategic acquisitions and overseeing its festival division. He previously held leadership roles at Live Nation and House of Blues Entertainment.

“Tim is a strong fit for our Austin team, bringing more than 20 years of experience that aligns with our commitment to delivering high-quality hospitality and unforgettable entertainment experiences,” Patrick Moore, CEO of Opry Entertainment Group, said in a statement. “His deep understanding of the Austin market and music industry make him uniquely equipped to elevate our brand as we continue to scale our business and establish Block 21 as the city’s premier destination for music and entertainment.”

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“I’m thrilled to join the Opry Entertainment Group team and help shape the future of Block 21,” Jorgensen added. “ACL Live is a tremendous venue and wonderful asset to Austin’s world-renowned music scene. I look forward to building on its legacy by bringing even more live music to the city and increasing the utilization of this iconic venue, all while continuing to deliver exceptional experiences for artists, fans and the Austin community.”

In 2022, OEG parent company Ryman Hospitality Properties closed on its purchase of Block 21. Completed in 2010, Block 21 is located in Austin’s 2nd Street district, with the 37-story building offering mixed-use development including W Austin Hotel & Residences and ACL Live at the Moody Theater. OEG’s portfolio of entertainment venues and live event businesses includes the Grand Ole Opry, Ryman Auditorium, WSM Radio, the Blake Shelton co-owned Ole Red brand and Luke Combs‘ Nashville entertainment complex Category 10.

Old Wounds, New Shots: 50 Cent & Ja Rule’s Beef Over Irv Gotti Comments

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The decades-long feud between 50 Cent and Ja Rule reignited once again following 50’s disrespectful comments about the late Irv Gotti.

During a recent interview, Ja Rule expressed anger over 50 Cent mocking the death of Gotti, who was not only the head of Murder Inc. but also a close personal friend. Ja revealed that he was ready to respond publicly but was ultimately talked out of it by Kenneth “Supreme” McGriff, a legendary figure in Queens and someone long tied to both sides of the beef.

In true 50 fashion, the G-Unit mogul wasted no time responding. He posted a clip from the interview on Instagram with a caption mocking both Ja Rule and the interviewers: “The Breakfast Club should be ashamed of themselves asking questions that perpetuate violence. This fool has been ready to go what he calls nuclear for 22 years. LOL.” Taking things even further, 50 added a distasteful jab at the late Gotti, writing, “Ya man in my Runtz right now!”, a disrespectful reference implying Gotti is being smoked like cannabis.

Ja Rule fired back on X (formerly Twitter), writing: “@50cent you b**ch a** n*gga… I already ate your lunch shut up!!!” He continued with a shot at 50’s street cred: “Until you do something to the n*ggas that shot you you can’t troll no more… handle your business chump lmao…”

Ja also posted a 2016 HipHopDX article, where former G-Unit associate Bang ‘Em Smurf claimed 50 sought an order of protection from Murder Inc., further fueling the fire.

Billboard Hot 100 Top 10 Countdown for April 19, 2025 | Billboard News

Kendrick Lamar and Drake go head-to-head for No. 1 on the Hot 100.

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This is the Billboard Hot 100 top 10 for the week dated April 19. “Beautiful Things” is at 10. Morgan Wallen is still at nine. “Lose Control” slips to eight. Alex Warren’s “Ordinary” joins the top 10. “A Bar Song (Tipsy)” is down to six, as “Pink Pony Club” is locked at five. BigXthaPlug and Bailey Zimmerman debut at No. 4, while “Die With a Smile” falls to three. “Nokia” rings to No. 2. And tallying an eighth week at No. 1 is “Luther.”

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Black Americans For Trump Member Questions Trump’s Tariff Policy

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A member of the Black Americans for Trump Coalition and a Republican strategist pondered President Donald Trump’s policies on tariffs, describing the messaging around them as “chaotic.” Melik Abdul, the Black Americans for Trump Coalition member in question, spoke with CNN about the implementation of global tariffs and the effect it’s having on the nation and the economy.

Melik Abdul was a guest on CNN’s Table For Five program discussing President Donald Trump and some of the conversations he’s been having surrounding his policies, citing that people threw their support behind the longtime mogul based on the perception of his business acumen. However, Abdul appeared to be disillusioned with President Trump’s handling of the tariffs situation and didn’t meet the expectations he and others had when they voted for him.

“It is what I can only describe as a very chaotic week. Because you’re right, a lot of the things that you pointed out, Donald Trump, they were full-throated in this, and this is the thing: it was the certainty that this is going to work,” Abdul began.

He added, “And as the market got that little bump and they say, ‘See, this is what deal-making is, this is art of the deal.’ and then we see a different story. And it is the messaging where you have Donald Trump saying one thing. You may have Ka

roline Leavitt saying another thing, you may have Lutnick saying another thing, you may have [Treasury Secretary Scott] Bessent saying another thing.”

The CNN segment and Melik Abdul’s commentary can be viewed here.

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Kendrick Lamar & SZA’s ‘Luther’ Rules Hot 100 for Eighth Week; BigXthaPlug & Bailey Zimmerman, Alex Warren Hit Top 10

Kendrick Lamar and SZA’s “Luther” leads the Billboard Hot 100 songs chart for an eighth total and consecutive week. The single, whose title celebrates late R&B legend Luther Vandross, who is sampled on the track, became Lamar’s sixth No. 1 and SZA’s third. Lamar and SZA each extend their longest career Hot 100 reigns with the song.

Meanwhile, “Luther” ties 24kGoldn’s “Mood” (featuring iann dior), which led for eight weeks in 2020-21, for the second-longest Hot 100 command among rap hits this decade, after Roddy Ricch’s “The Box,” which dominated for 11 weeks in 2020. (Rap titles are defined as those that have hit or are eligible for Billboard’s Hot Rap Songs chart.)

Plus, Drake’s “Nokia” rises 3-2 on the Hot 100 following the first full tracking week after its official video premiered March 31, and two songs enter the top 10: BigXthaPlug’s “All the Way,” featuring Bailey Zimmerman, debuts at No. 4 and Alex Warren’s “Ordinary” bounds 14-7. BigXthaPlug and Warren each earn their first top 10s, marking the first acts to reach the tier for the first time in 2025, while Zimmerman adds his second.

Browse the full rundown of this week’s top 10 below.

The Hot 100 blends all-genre U.S. streaming (official audio and official video), radio airplay and sales data, the lattermost metric reflecting purchases of physical singles and digital tracks from full-service digital music retailers; digital singles sales from direct-to-consumer (D2C) sites are excluded from chart calculations. All charts (dated April 19, 2025) will update on Billboard.com tomorrow, April 15. For all chart news, you can follow @billboard and @billboardcharts on both X, formerly known as Twitter, and Instagram.

Luminate, the independent data provider to the Billboard charts, completes a thorough review of all data submissions used in compiling the weekly chart rankings. Luminate reviews and authenticates data. In partnership with Billboard, data deemed suspicious or unverifiable is removed, using established criteria, before final chart calculations are made and published.

ENHYPEN Announce Dates For U.S./European Leg of Walk the Line World Tour

K-pop boy band ENHYPEN announced the dates and venues for the upcoming late summer U.S. and European legs of the group’s 2025 Walk the Line world tour. The 10-city swing is slated to kick off on Aug. 6 with the first of two dates at UBS Arena in Belmont Park, NY, followed by a stop at the United Center in Chicago on August 9 and two nights (Aug. 12-13) at the Toyota Center in Houston.

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The quick run will wind down on Aug. 16 at BMO Stadium in Los Angeles before hopping over to the The O2 Arena in London on Aug. 22. From there the group will hit Manchester in the U.K., before moving on to Amsterdam, Brussels and Berlin before winding down on Sept. 3 at the Accor Arena in Paris.

For the U.S. dates, an ENGENE membership pre-sale will run from April 23 at 4 p.m. local time through 10 p.m. local on April 24. A general on-sale for the U.S. dates will begin on April 25 at 4 p.m. local time. The ENGENE membership pre-sale for the European dates will open at 10 a.m. local time on April 23 and run through 9:59 a.m. local time on April 25; click here for more information on tickets.

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HEESUNG, JAY, JAKE, SUNGHOON, SUNOO, JUNGWON AND NI-KI made their Coachella Festival debut over the weekend with a 45-minute, 13-song set backed by a live band. Rocking custom Prada denim outfits, the group blasted through hits including “Walk the Line,” “Paranormal,” “XO,” “No Doubt” and “Sweet Venom” on a stage that evolved from a burning cityscape to a serene cloud forest.

Check out the full list of dates for ENHYPEN’s 2025 Walk the Line U.S./Europe Tour below:

  • Aug. 6: Belmont Park, NY @ UBS Arena
  •  Aug. 7: Belmont Park, NY @ UBS Arena
  •  Aug. 9: Chicago, IL @ United Center
  •  Aug. 12: Houston, TX @ Toyota Center
  •  Aug. 13: Houston, TX @ Toyota Center
  •  Aug. 16: Los Angeles, CA @ BMO Stadium
  •  Aug. 22: London, UK @ The O2
  •  Aug. 25: Manchester, UK @ AO Arena
  •  Aug. 28: Amsterdam, NL @ Ziggo Dome
  •  Aug. 30: Brussels, BE @ ING Arena
  •  Sept. 1: Berlin, DE @ Uber Arena
  •  Sept. 3: Paris, FR – Accor Arena

Stevie Nicks ‘Can’t Wait’ to Hit the Road on Newly Announced Solo Tour: Here Are the Dates

Stevie Nicks has no plans to stand back idly this summer and fall, with the rock legend announcing that she’s getting back on the road with a run of solo tour dates Monday (April 14).

Interspersed between Nicks’ previously announced joint performances with Billy Joel, the solo run will begin Aug. 12 with a show in Boston, which she’ll follow with stops in Toronto, Minnesota, Ohio, South Carolina, Florida, Arizona, Nevada and Oklahoma. Sharing a poster with the dates listed on it, the Fleetwood Mac frontwoman wrote on Instagram, “More solo shows are on the way in 2025 — I can’t wait to share these nights with you.”

Four days prior to her kickoff performance in Massachusetts, Nicks will play MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, N.J., with the “Uptown Girl” singer. The duo has been co-headlining gigs together for the past couple of years, and after the remainder of Nicks’ solo August shows, they’ll team up again for stadium performances in Santa Clara, Calif., on Oct. 4, New Orleans on Oct. 18 and Detroit on Nov. 15.

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The tour dates come about seven months after Nicks dropped “The Lighthouse,” a women’s empowerment anthem inspired by the 2022 overturning of Roe v. Wade that marked her first proper release since 2020’s “Show Them the Way.” She’s since performed the track on Saturday Night Live in October as well as Jimmy Kimmel Live the following month.

“I have often said to myself, ‘This may be the most important thing I ever do,’” Nicks wrote of the song in a statement at the time of its release. “To stand up for the women of the United States and their daughters and granddaughters ~ and the men that love them. This is an anthem.”

See Nicks’ tour announcement below.

Sales Of Phony Starks’ Tesla Cybertruck Plummet In 1st Quarter Of 2025

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Ever since throwing his billion-dollar weight behind Donald Trump’s reelection campaign and “helping” the Trump administration fire tens of thousands of government and federal workers via his DOGE initiative, Elon Musk has turned himself into one of the most despised “political” figures in the world. And thanks to Phony Stark, Tesla has been bearing the brunt of the public backlash.

According to Crooks And Liars, sales of the once must-have Tesla Cybertruck continue to plummet as people refuse to align themselves with what many feel is a fascist movement being born out of the Trump-Musk administration, and though there are rumors that Musk will exit his position at the White House this coming May, the damage to the Tesla brand has been done. With the lack of sales of Tesla automobiles going global (the world recognizes what’s going on in America), Tesla stock has steadily dropped in the first quarter of 2025, and it doesn’t seem like it’s going to rebound anytime soon, if ever.

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The Austin-based company delivered just 6,406 Cybertrucks this year through March, according to Cox Automotive. That’s more than double its volume in the year-earlier period, when it was slowly starting to make the hard-to-build model. But the quarterly figure was less than half of what it sold in either the third or fourth quarter of 2024–14,416 and 12,991 units, respectively–as its production ramped up.

Musk had previously forecast that annual sales of the electric pickup might average 250,000 a year, though it delivered only about 39,000 last year. A combination of multiple recalls–including one last month to fix stainless steel body panels that fell off due to faulty glue–and the likelihood of sharply higher costs for steel, aluminum and imported auto parts due to Trump’s tariffs, suggest Tesla will struggle to boost sales of a model that can sell for about $100,000. Weak demand has also led to an inventory of about 2,400 unsold new Cybertrucks, according to auto news site Jalopnik.

It doesn’t help that anti-fascist people around the world have taken to vandalizing Cybertrucks on the streets by spray painting swastikas on them and writing messages directed at Elon Musk for his now infamous Nazi salute at Donald Trump’s inauguration in January. Who would want to put down a grip on an automobile that might get vandalized on the street due to it’s connection to one of the most hated men in the world? We know we wouldn’t.

While vandalizing a Tesla Cybertruck is now considered a “hate crime” by this administration’s Department Of Justice and can land you in prison for 20 years (no, seriously), people will still refuse to support anything associated with Elon Musk as he continues to publicly support the Nazification of the United States.

What do y’all think about the the lack of sales of the once popular Tesla Cybertruck? Let us know in the comments section below.

Rauw Alejandro Announces the Latin American Leg of His Cosa Nuestra World Tour: Here Are the Dates

Puerto Rican superstar Rauw Alejandro announced on Monday (April 14) that he’s taking his 2025 Cosa Nuestra world tour to Latin America, revealing that his visit will make stops in Argentina, Brazil, Colombia and Mexico.

The Latin American tour — produced by Live Nation — will kick off on Oct. 14, in Chile and will travel to major cities across the region, including Argentina, Brazil, Colombia and Mexico. The tour will conclude on Nov. 15 in Guadalajara. Fans can look forward to an electrifying performance featuring Rauw’s greatest hits as well as new music, highlighting the genre-blending sound that has established him as a global sensation.

In his first-ever tour with a live band, Rauw delivered an electrifying performance that blended theatrical stage production, high-energy choreography, and powerful live instrumentation. This combination elevated his signature futuristic sound to new heights. Each scene of the Cosa Nuestra story featured strong dance movements, expressive performances, and wardrobe changes, all of which Rauw commanded with undeniable style and presence.

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The Cosa Nuestra World Tour is in support of Rauw’s Cosa Nuestra album, released last year, which gave the singer-songwriter his first top 10-charting effort on the Billboard 200 with a No. 6 debut. The LP also landed No. 1 on the Top Latin Albums chart and Latin Rhythm Albums charts in November. Most recently, Rauw’s “Khé?” with Romeo Santos, part of Cosa Nuestra, hit No. 1 on Billboard’s Latin Airplay chart, becoming the first No. 1 for either of them since 2023.

See the newly announced dates below:

  • 14 Oct. 14, Santiago, Chile, Movistar Arena
  • Oct.18, Buenos Aires, Argentina, Movistar Arena
  • Oct. 22, Sao Paulo, Brazil, Vibra São Paulo
  • Oct. 26, Bogota, Colombia, Movistar Arena
  • Nov. 2, Monterrey, Mexico, Arena Monterrey
  • Nov. 6, Mexico City, Mexico, Palacio de los Deportes
  • Nov. 8, Mexico City, Mexico, Palacio de los Deportes
  • Nov. 15, Guadalajara, Mexico, Arena VFG **

For ticketing information, visit the Live Nation website