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Time to head over to Bruno Mars and ROSÉ’s “APT.” for a celebration. The high-energy track has officially reached the one billion views mark on YouTube, the video platform announced this week. Explore See latest videos, charts and news See latest videos, charts and news Just 105 days after its release in October 2024, the […]
Gracie Abrams knows that if Taylor Swift were a man, she’d be the man. In a new interview with Cosmopolitan published Wednesday (Feb. 5), the 25-year-old pop star called her friend an “athlete, a brilliant businessperson and a genius writer” before emphasizing Swift’s massive impact on the world. “There’s also nothing that comes close to […]
After a hard day of work on the Toronto set of their upcoming, as-yet-untitled Christmas movie, the Jonas Brothers did exactly what you might expect: they went to a Camp Rock 1 & 2 trivia night at a local bar. In an Instagram video, Nick Jonas explained they decided to make the unscheduled stop after finding out about the trivia night focused on their 2008 Disney Channel musical movie in which they played singing siblings alongside Demi Lovato.
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“So we are surprising all the people right now… let’s see what happens,” Nick said in the selfie video in which brothers Joe and Kevin can be seen in the background. In an separate video posted on YouTube, Joe told the packed bar that, “we were just kind of looking for an open bar, I guess this was the only place,” as fans screamed in excitement behind him.
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The two-minute clip also found Joe beaming in from the set of the movie after wrapping up for the day and explaining that the trivia night was just minutes away from their hotel. “What better way to end the night than by surprising some people? Hopefully they get excited, we’ll see,” he over footage of the trio rolling into Hemingway’s restaurant and bar.
They were, of course, super excited, with the fan screaming, giving the siblings high-fives and filming the moment on their phones for posterity as the trio pushed through the crowd. “Best of luck, I hope the best table wins,” Joe said, hoisting up a beer to toast the contestants.
Nick added, “we didn’t think we’d be any good at this, but we did study in the car on the way here, just in case we were asked a question.” They then agreed to answer a single question, with Kevin taking over hosting duties to ask: “Which character gets put in charge of the Junior Rockers?”
Breaking protocol, they asked the freaking out fans to just yell out the answer, which, of course, they knew right away: Jason (aka Kevin). “Nice to meet you guys, have fun tonight!” Joe said to more screams, confidently stating “well, that worked” as they made their way back to the car. “So our fans are the best fans in the world,” Nick said on the sidewalk. “We loved stopping in there, they were so amazing.”
The fun didn’t end there, though. Just a few hours earlier, they filmed a bit where Nick swears he hears the dulcet tones of Kenny G’s soprano saxophone in Joe’s trailer, repeatedly asking his brother if the sound he was hearing was that of “Kenny G rippin’ solos.” Spoiler: it was.
The JoBros have been busy on all fronts lately. In addition to the tentatively titled Jonas Brothers Christmas Movie due out on Disney+ later this year, they teamed up with country trio Rascal Flatts last week on the heartbreak anthem “I Dare You” as the follow-up to their Marshmello collab “Slow Motion.”
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Longtime friends Elton John and Brandi Carlile have joined together for Who Believes in Angels?, a new studio album the pair recorded over 20 days starting in October 2023. Interscope will release the set on April 4, but the title track was released on Wednesday (Feb. 5).
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The pair wrote and created the album with John’s long-time co-writer Bernie Taupin and producer Andrew Watt. The quartet are nominated for an Oscar for best original song for “Never Too Late,” the end-title track to John’s documentary, Elton John: Never Too Late, which is included on the album.
“As my Farewell tour came to an end, I knew I wanted to make a new album with Brandi, I wanted to shift gears and do something different from anything I’d done before,” John tells Billboard. “I have always found Brandi so inspiring, our friendship was so close, and I just had the instinct that we could produce something really amazing. Creating Who Believes in Angels? was challenging, and I had a lot of self-doubt, but alongside Bernie Taupin and Andrew Watt, we ended up writing 10 songs in 20 days and it was one of the most joyous and exhilarating experiences I’ve ever had in my life.”
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Billboard has an exclusive look at the emotional, candid trailer that captures the recording of the album and the vulnerabilities and frustrations that gripped John as the quartet worked at Los Angeles’ Sunset Sound Studios.
“I’m 76 and I want to do something different. I don’t want to coast,” John says. But the recording sessions proved difficult, given that John was exhausted from finishing his final world tour. “I was a nightmare. Angry, I was tired, I was irritable,” John says, as he throws his earphones down in frustration and Watt snaps at him for being so “impatient.”
“Elton is prone to moments of insecurity, especially when the stakes are high,” says Carlile, who has “idolized” John since she was 11. She admits to “having a hard time connecting to Elton” at times during the process and wondering why he wants to make the album given that is it radically different from how he has created before.
Throughout the trailer, the tension escalates, as John gets so frustrated, he tears up a lyric sheet and throws it on the floor, declaring, “I’m going home,” and Watt directs the crew to cut the mics.
But then John realizes that Carlile, Taupin and Watt are depending upon him and suddenly the process gels and the creativity begins flowing again. “We’ve made an album that I think is spectacular for all the ages,” Carlile says. “My life has been taking me to this album the whole time.” They are joined in the studio by Red Hot Chili Peppers drummer Chat Smith, renowned session bassist Pino Palladino and Pearl Jam guitarist Josh Klinghoffer on the album that spans rock, pop and Americana.
As the trailer wraps, John begins crying, but this time it’s happy tears.
“Who Believes In Angels? feels like going into another era and I’m pushing the door open to come into the future,” John said in a statement. “I have everything I’ve done behind me and it’s been brilliant, amazing. But this is the new start for me. As far as I’m concerned, this is the start of my career Mark 2.”
“I’m still reeling from the fact that I got to do it,” added Carlile. “I think all ships rise with Elton John’s standards for songwriting, and it was an incredibly challenging and inspiring environment to work in, everybody throwing in ideas, everybody listening to everybody else’s ideas. It felt like a family. The world is a wild place to live in right now. It’s hard to find peace and triumph. It’s a radical act to seek out joyful and euphoric happenings. And that is what this album represents to me.”
Other than Taupin, John has seldom worked with collaborators: he and his musical hero the late Leon Russell made two albums together with T Bone Burnett and he has collaborated with lyricists like Tim Rice for musicals, including The Lion King and Aida.
Fans who pre-order Who Believes In Angels? are eligible for a chance to buy tickets to An Evening with Elton John & Brandi Carlile at the London Palladium on March 26.
Who Believes In Angels? tracklisting:
The Rose Of Laura Nyro
Little Richard’s Bible
Swing For The Fences
Never Too Late
You Without Me
Who Believes In Angels?
The River Man
A Little Light
Someone To Belong To
When This Old World Is Done With Me
Seal has never been in truer form than in Mountain Dew’s new Super Bowl commercial, which premiered Wednesday (Feb. 5), featuring the British singer serenading Becky G on a truly wild water safari.
The spot opens with the “Shower” singer cracking open a Baja Blast and taking a sip, which magically transports her onto a raft — driven by the soda company’s own Mountain Dude — through an idyllic mountain-lined stream. The passengers then pull up next to a choir of seals singing atop a rocky formation.
That’s when Seal the musician makes an appearance to perform a parody version of his 1995 Billboard Hot 100-topping hit “Kiss from a Rose” dedicated to Mountain Dew’s product — except he looks a little different. With his human head animated onto a seal’s body, the R&B star belts, “Baby, I compare it to a kiss from a lime on the bay/ Ooh, the more I think of it, it’s strange I’m a seal/ My flippers can’t hold Mountain Dew/ It slips right on through, what a shame.”
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In an extended version of the ad, a baffled Becky G looks on and says, “Well this is the weirdest thing I’ve ever seen.”
That’s when Seal — the human one, not seal the seal — appears in the back of the boat to quip, “Good looking seal.”
A 30-second cut of the whimsical commercial is expected to air during the Super Bowl broadcast Sunday (Feb. 9), which will find the Kansas City Chiefs facing off against the Philadelphia Eagles with a Halftime Show performance from Kendrick Lamar. Mountain Dew had previously announced that the “Mamiii” artist would be part of the campaign, but Seal’s cameo is a surprise, and in a statement, the “Fly Like an Eagle” artist called it an opportunity he “just couldn’t resist.”
“I had a blast coming up with new lyrics and loved collaborating with their team to bring this campaign to life in such a fun and unexpected way!” Seal shared.
Becky G added, “Partnering with a brand that knows how to bring the energy and get the party started feels like a perfect fit. Prepárate, Super Bowl LIX – vamos a pasarla increíble!”
Watch Seal perform “Kiss From a Lime” for Becky G below.
BLACKPINK is coming to your area! The K-pop superstars teased that they are hitting the road for a world tour in a video that dropped Wednesday (Feb. 5).
In a 21-second video on their social media channels and YouTube, the visual begins with a pitch black screen before an aerial view of a massive, open-air stadium begins to come into view, with the camera panning over thousands of fans cheering from different angles. The quartet of Jennie, Lisa, Jisoo and Rosé on a stage then comes into view, before the screen goes to black, a spotlight comes in, and the four women’s silhouette appears with the name of the group in — of course — pink popping up. The video ends with simple pink text on a black background: “2025 World Tour.”
Dates and venues have not yet been revealed.
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BLINKs shared their excitement in the comments section on YouTube and Instagram. “OMG, We were all waiting for our Queens, and now we’re gonna have a Great COMEBACKKKKK!” one wrote. Added another, “THE QUEENS ARE BACK !!!!”
The members of BLACKPINK have taken a break from group activities for the past year or so to focus on their solo projects. Jennie made her acting debut in HBO’s The Idol in 2023, and has released songs with other musical collaborators and solo since; Rosé dropped solo album rosie in December 2024, which featured her hit Bruno Mars collab “APT.”; Lisa’s debut solo album, Alter Ego, is arriving later this month and is appearing in the upcoming third season of White Lotus; while Jisoo’s mini album AMORTAGE will drop on Valentine’s Day.
In Jennie’s January Billboard cover story, she opened up about the quartet staying close by connecting in a group chat while working separately on their own projects. “Even though we know we can’t see each other so much, it doesn’t really feel any different than all the other years because we know we’re here for each other,” she said at the time.. “They’re literally a phone call away. And at this point, we respect each other’s space so much. So if there’s anything to be happy for, to celebrate, we’re all in it together.”
And in her own November Billboard cover story, Lisa confirmed BLACKPINK’s upcoming reunion for 2025, revealing that she feels the same ways as BLINKs about resuming group activities: “I can’t wait.”
Watch BLACKPINK’s 2025 tour teaser above.
Billie Joe Armstrong can’t say enough good things about that other Billie. Following Sunday night’s 2025 Grammy Awards, the Green Day frontman told Billboard that he was still buzzing about sharing the stage with Billie Eilish at last weekend’s all-star FireAid benefit concert. “The fact that we got to play together… she’s just, she’s a […]
The devastating wildfires that ripped through Los Angeles last month destroyed thousands of homes, taking with them countless memories and precious possessions gathered over a lifetime. While it will take years to rebuild and begin to replace some of the things lost in two of the most destructive blazes to ever hit the city, there are small acts of kindness happening every day aimed at helping to ease the pain of all that unimaginable loss.
This week the Duchess of Sussex, Meghan Markle, revealed that she’d teamed up with Billie Eilish to create one of those moments. In an Instagram post on Tuesday (Feb. 4), actress/podcaster Markle described how she reached out to the “Birds of a Feather” singer to help a 15-year-old whose family lost everything in the fires.
“I was just told that something arrived that I have been waiting for,” Markle said in a selfie video. “Oh my God,” she added as she looked at a big pile of Eilish merch. She explained that a few weeks ago, she and Prince Harry visited Altadena — the historic neighborhood that was completely wiped out by one of the fires — and they spoke to a mom who had found just a few possessions left in the rubble.
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While speaking to her, she saw the woman’s teen daughter and found out that when they came back to look at their house for the first time, all the girl was looking for was her prized T-shirt from an Eilish concert she’d recently gone to. The teen said she’d left it in the washing machine as they fled. “And of course they now see their home and the washing machine [and] the dryer are ash… they’re not there anymore,” said Markle.
While she admitted she didn’t personally know Eilish, Markle promised the family that she’d figure out a way to replace the beloved shirt. “So I thought of everybody that I knew and I made a voice note and I was like, ‘Please, can someone get this voice note to Billie Eilish? Here’s what I’m asking,” she said.
Markle did what any sensible person would in that situation, she reached out to Maroon 5 singer Adam Levine and his wife, model Behati Prinsloo, for some help getting this make-a-wish “over the line.” Getting emotional, Markle flipped through the pile T-shirts and vinyl — “I don’t even know what all this stuff means, but it’s signed for her!” — holding up a lunch box with a gold star on it and asking, “Is that a thing? A lunch box thing?”
She sent a huge thank you to Levine, Prinsloo and Eilish for pitching in. “This is going to mean so much to her,” Markle added. “To everyone who is showing up for people in big and small ways to get through what’s happened in California. Just thank you so much. I’m going to go and email her mom now. Just wanted to share that with you guys.”
Native Angeleno Eilish performed at last weekend’s FireAid concert that raised an estimated $100 million for relief, opening the show with a Green Day collaboration and then returning later for her own set. The Eaton and Palisades fires, which killed 29 people and destroyed more than 16,000 homes and structures, reached 100% containment last week.
Check out Markle’s post below.
It will definitely be a family affair at Sunday’s (Feb. 9) Super Bowl LIX. At least according to Jason Kelce. The retired Philadelphia Eagles great confirmed to People that Taylor Swift will be on hand at the Caesars Superdome in New Orleans to watch boyfriend Travis Kelce‘s Kansas City Chiefs take on the Eagles in their bid to become the first-ever NFL team to win three championships in a row.
Asked who’s traveling to the Big Easy for the game, Jason Kelce said, “Yeah, I think everybody’s coming in,” before he got specific about the guest list. “I mean, I don’t want to speak for everybody, but I think obviously, our whole family. I believe, obviously Trav and Taylor, and his family and his friends. I mean, Trav always travels like, full,” Jason said.
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“Even when he’s in regular season mode… he’s always got a bunch of his friends there. It’s been this way his whole career,” Jason said of his tight end younger brother, who is looking to add a fourth total Super Bowl ring to his collection. “He’s kept in touch much better with a lot of the people from our hometown. So there’s always a loaded contingency for the Kelces, wherever we’re at.”
Swift, of course, has been a regular presence in the family skybox at Chiefs games over the past year and a half, including at the thrilling AFC championship game against the Buffalo Bills on Jan. 26 that helped punch the Chiefs’ ticket to the big game for the fourth time in five years.
She was also on hand last year when the Chiefs beat the San Francisco 49ers in Las Vegas, where she partied with friends Ashley Avignone, Ice Spice and Blake Lively, as well as Kelce’s parents, Jason Kelce and her own parents.
When Travis took questions from reporters on Monday, he was, naturally, asked if he plans to pop the question to his longtime love at the game. “Wouldn’t you like to know?” he said with a smile in response to the long-swirling engagement rumors that have followed the couple for much of their relationship.
At press time a spokesperson for Swift had not returned a request for comment on the singer’s plans for Super Bowl Sunday.
On Tuesday evening (Feb. 4), fans were treated to a wicked good treat: an intimate conversation between Ariana Grande and Billie Eilish. Following a screening of Wicked at the Directors Guild of America in Los Angeles, a hush fell over the room as the credits silently rolled and all eyes fell on the double doors […]