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Muni Long scores back-to-back No. 1s on Billboard’s Adult R&B Airplay chart as “Ruined Me” climbs from the runner-up spot to crown the list dated Nov. 30. The single captures the summit as the most-played song on U.S. monitored adult R&B radio stations in the tracking week ending Nov. 21, a 14% improvement from the prior week, according to Luminate.
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“Ruined Me,” released and promoted through Supergiant/MPR Global/Def Jam/Republic Records, follows Muni Long’s previous leader, “Make Me Forget,” a one-week champ in August. Both songs appear on the singer-songwriter’s Revenge album, which dropped on Aug. 30.
Elsewhere, “Ruined Me” repeats at its No. 12 high on the R&B/Hip-Hop Airplay chart, which ranks songs by combined audience totals from adult R&B and mainstream R&B/hip-hop radio stations. Despite no change in rank, the single rose to 8.1 million audience impressions, a 13% improvement over the prior week.
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While “Ruined Me” enjoys its coronation on Adult R&B Airplay, the song is beginning to make inroads on the Mainstream R&B/Hip-Hop Airplay chart, where it debuts at No. 35. Thanks to its growing promotion efforts, the track vaults 51% in its week-over-week play count.
Radio gains help “Ruined Me” hold at No. 14, two weeks after its No. 12 best, on the multimetric Hot R&B Songs chart, which blends airplay with streaming and sales for its rankings.
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2024 continues to be a banner year at radio for Muni Long, who first recorded under the name Priscilla Renae but enjoyed a resurgence – complete with a new stage name – that began with the viral hit “Hrs and Hrs” two years ago. She recaptured the same viral-to-radio magic with “Made for Me” earlier this year, leading to its seven-week domination on the R&B/Hip-Hop Airplay chart in April – May, and follow up “Made Me Forget” became another top 20 success, peaking at No. 18 in August.
In addition to Muni Long’s own Revenge singles, the singer-songwriter has another hit in “I Do,” with Toosii. The pair’s collaboration jumps 18-16 on R&B/Hip-Hop Airplay through a 7% weekly audience boost to 4.8 million impressions.
MTV is ringing in the holiday season by announcing a new special: MTV Unplugged Presents: LL COOL J From the Rock The Bells Festival. The special will premiere on Dec. 5 (10 p.m. ET/PT) in the U.S. and globally. Explore See latest videos, charts and news See latest videos, charts and news The hour-long show […]
J. Cole played a couple unreleased songs he recorded with Kendrick Lamar on episode four of his “audio series” podcast Inevitable. The songs, “Shock the World” and “Temptation” are from 2010 around the time both flirted with recording a joint album together. Cole went into detail about those early collaborations. According to Cole, the two […]
TDE founder Top Dawg weighed in on Kendrick Lamar‘s latest album GNX, suggesting rivals might not want to engage with the red-hot rapper. “Dot is a dangerous man right now,” Anthony “Top Dawg” Tiffith said on his Instagram Story. “Everything I thought he would be at 16 years old is here right now. Everybody stand […]
Congratulations are in order for Flo Milli, who revealed on Monday (Nov. 25) that she’s pregnant with her first child. The “Never Lose Me” rapper took to X (formerly Twitter) to write, “Flo mommy s—,” before adding, “i can’t even see my coochie nomore that’s crazy.” She also shared a series of photos with her […]
J. Cole’s Dreamville Festival is returning to North Carolina in 2025. Dreamville Fest is set to celebrate its fifth anniversary during the weekend of April 5 and 6 at Raleigh’s Dorothea Dix Park.
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The first wave of pre-sales will start on Dec. 11 at 9 a.m. ET, with various general admission and VIP packages available on the Dreamville Fest website. These will be the least expensive deals for the two-day tickets, which will only increase as the festival date gets closer.
While the lineup is yet to be revealed, fans can expect another star-studded affair in 2025 along with dozens of tasty food vendors, site-wide art installations, merch booths and the famed Dreamville Ferris Wheel on the festival grounds.
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Fans had plenty to say in the Instagram post’s comments section about the festival’s return. “Damn 5 years already seems crazy to hear. Especially having never missed one,” one person wrote.
Another suggested: “I’ll come but can we get better speakers for the rise stage this year.”
There were fans even calling for J. Cole and Kendrick Lamar to get back on good terms so the “Not Like Us” rapper could headline the festival.
“April 5 & 6, 2025 Sign up now to be the first to get presale access at dreamvillefest.com or by texting DREAMVILLE to 68624,” Dreamville captioned the announcement on IG. “Presale begins 12/11 at 9am EST.”
2024’s festival featured J. Cole headlining, but his set is perhaps best remembered for his apology to Kendrick Lamar as he walked back his “7 Minute Drill” diss track and bowed out of the feud.
“That s–t don’t sit right with my spirit,” Cole said in April. “That s–t disrupts my f–king peace. So what I want to say right here tonight is in the midst of me doing that and in that s–t, trying to find a little angle and downplay this n—a’s f—ing catalog and his greatness, I want to say right now tonight, how many people think Kendrick Lamar is one of the greatest motherf–kers to ever touch a f—ing microphone? Dreamville, y’all love Kendrick Lamar, correct? As do I.”
The North Carolina rapper continued: “I just want to come up here and publicly be like, bruh, that was the lamest, goofiest s–t. I say all that to say it made me feel like 10 years ago when I was moving incorrectly. And I pray that god will line me back up on my purpose and on my path, I pray that my n—a really didn’t feel no way and if he did, my n—a, I got my chin out. Take your best shot, I’ma take that s–t on the chin boy, do what you do. All good. It’s love.”
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Drake shocked the music industryon Monday (Nov. 25) when he accused his label, Univeral Music Group, and Spotify in a court filing of artificially inflating the popularity of Kendrick Lamar’s “Not Like Us.”
Drake’s Frozen Moments LLC alleges in the filing that the two parties conducted an “illegal scheme” that involved paid bots and other methods to “pump up” Lamar’s track that viciously disses him and accuses him of pedophilia, among other claims. UMG has denied the allegations, calling them “offensive and untrue” in a statement to Billboard. (Spotify declined to comment.)
The legal procedure — and the second action against UMG that Drake filed Tuesday (Nov. 26) — essentially reignited the flame for the Kendrick and Drake beef, as fans continued to bicker back and forth on social media over his legal maneuvers. “Drake Stan’s acting like Drake suing in order to fight the good fight against capitalism is soooooo funny bro LMFAOOOOOOO,” one person tweeted.
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7PM in Brooklyn co-host Kazeem Famuyide took a different approach while examining the industry as a whole. “Kendrick: F the whole industry. Drake: F the whole industry. Cole: F the whole industry. Fans: actually, I’m on the industry’s side here,” he added.
Kendrick: F the whole industry. Drake: F the whole industry. Cole: F the whole industry. Fans: actually, I’m on the industry’s side here. pic.twitter.com/l96ouJWN8P— Kazeem Famuyide 🇳🇬 🍎 (@Kazeem) November 26, 2024
No Jumper‘s Adam22 agreed this could have major implications on the music industry. “Anyone acting like Drake is just a bad loser hasn’t read this s–t yet,” he tweeted. “If half of this gets proven, Drake will look like a hero for exposing the corrupt music industry.”
Former NFL star Arian Foster took a different approach and jokingly compared Drake’s legal action to this being his version of the Jan. 6 Capitol insurrection.
“One thing that’s funny to me about Drake suing his label is I’ve never seen so many fans be on the label’s side before lmao,” another fan chimed in. “This the first time where the artist isn’t automatically right to the public.”
In its statement to Billboard, UMG noted: “We employ the highest ethical practices in our marketing and promotional campaigns. No amount of contrived and absurd legal arguments in this pre-action submission can mask the fact that fans choose the music they want to hear.”
Kendrick’s “Not Like Us” proved to be the knockout blow in his feud with Drake, and has remained a cultural staple as one of the biggest songs of the year. The Mustard-produced diss track topped the Billboard Hot 100 for a pair of weeks and hasn’t departed from the top 20 since its arrival in May.
Find more fan reactions to Drake’s legal actions below.
Drake the type of nigga you find in hide & go seek and then he cry and say he wasn’t even playing 😭😭😭 Fuck was you in the dryer for???— I LOVE YOU, PINK!🦋 (@Pinkthepimp) November 25, 2024
Drake reporting Kendrick to the HR department is crazy work— DDOT. (@DDotOmen) November 26, 2024
Drake trolled and begged for Kendrick to get in the ring and got his ass handed to him now he went back in the house and dialed 911— Trav (@travaunt) November 25, 2024
Machine Gun Kelly is excited to be a dad again. Two weeks after his on-and-off fianceé Megan Fox announced that she’s pregnant with her first child with the rapper-turned-rocker-turned-country-singer, MGK confirmed the news in an X post about his next music phase. “isolating myself in the desert next week to restart this album from scratch. […]
Some people resolve to lose that last few pounds, quit drinking for a month, say hello to a stranger every day or finally book a dream vacation to Hawaii. But Cardi B‘s New Year’s resolutions have a bit more bite to them. The “Bongos” rapper hopped on Instagram Live on Sunday (Nov. 24) to let everyone with a bone to pick know that 2025 is the year she’s done with your mess.
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In a fan capture of the post, Cardi explained that she and her friends have been making new year goals, new year plans and new year affirmations, and you better believe she is not playing with any of them. “I’m telling you right motherf–king now, every n–ga or a b–ch that motherf–kin’ play with me in 2024? I’m letting you know right now… y’all better apologize to me today!,” Cardi said in the clip in which she appears to be in her pajamas.
“Because you wanna know what? You wanna know why? Because next year… as soon as… you know everybody always say this every New Year’s, but this time I’m standing on it,” she added. “Next year, as soon as 12 a.m. hit I’m hitting the reset button. You hear me? I’m hitting the motherf–king reset button.”
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Cardi then got specific about the level of reset she’s planning. “I’m hitting the f–king reset button. I’m whipping everybody’s ass with a we belt,” she warned. “I’m sick of f–king everybody. I’m telling you, next year I’m not taking f–king nothing.” While Cardi did not specify who her ire was aimed towards, she said a “whole bunch” of stuff happened to her this year that threw her 2024 into chaos.
After having all her music plans in order, including working on music videos and getting unspecified surgery at the beginning of 2024, Cardi said, “God was like, ‘not so fast. I’m sending you a f–king baby!’” To be clear, Cardi gushed over the baby daughter who was born in early September, just weeks after the rapper filed for divorce from Migos MC Offset — with whom she has two other children. Cardi called her “so f–kin beautiful… and she’s my bestie. If I could I would take her to the club with me because she’s my bestie. I wanna be with her all day.”
Cardi spent much of 2024 teasing her long-awaited sophomore album, including in another recent Instagram livestream in which she told fans she’s “wilding out lately” but wants to “get [her] f–-king life together… I have so much things coming next year,” she said. “I know next year is gonna be my f–-king year.” Among the items on her 2025 to-do list are: releasing her as-yet-untitled follow-up to 2018’s Billboard 200-topping debut album Invasion of Privacy, as well as, hopefully, getting “a little boyfriend.”
In October, Cardi told fans that her second full-length studio album was “coming really, really soon,” confirming that she was in the studio working on it.