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Shakira is gearing up for a monthlong takeover on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, Billboard can announce Tuesday (April 28). With three confirmed appearances, the Colombian superstar will first perform her global hit “Hips Don’t Lie” in honor of the song’s 20th anniversary on Tuesday, May 6. A sit-down interview with Fallon — during […]

Six contestants were eliminated during The Voice Season 27 Playoffs on Monday night (April 28), as Team Adam and Team Kelsea faced off in a night filled with standout performances, tough decisions, and no second chances.

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Team Kelsea lost Jaelen Johnston, Darius J, and Tinika Wyatt, while Team Adam eliminated Britton Moore, Conor James, and Ethan Eckenroad.

Each coach began the night with five artists but was tasked with narrowing their rosters down to just two singers each to advance to the Live Shows. The Playoffs featured no Steals or Saves, and all elimination decisions were made solely by the coaches.

Kelsea Ballerini’s team was mentored by Sheryl Crow, while Adam Levine’s artists were guided by LeAnn Rimes. From Team Kelsea, Iris Herrera secured her spot in the Live Shows with a powerful performance of Chris Stapleton’s “White Horse.”

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“Iris, you just did everything that makes you you. You did the best you’ve ever done. You know you’re supposed to be here, and that is such a superpower to have as an artist and as a woman. But you know you belong here.” Ballerini praised.

Alanna Lynise also advanced with her emotional rendition of SZA’s “Nobody Gets Me.” Ballerini said, “Everything she’s shown is top tier, top shelf.”

On Team Adam, Lucia Flores-Wiseman impressed the coaches with her version of The Beatles’ “In My Life.” Adam Levine told her, “Man, Lucia, I’ve never heard anyone like you. All of it is so refreshingly yours. It’s been a beautiful experience working with you. There is just something about Lucia that is singular and on its own level.”

Kolby Cordell also moved forward with his high-energy take on Bruno Mars’ “Finesse.” Levine applauded him, saying, “You’ve just shot up as… the biggest and best on the show.”

John Legend and Michael Bublé’s teams are set to compete in next week’s episode as The Voice Playoffs continue.

Bowen Yang made a surprise appearance as Role Model’s “Sally” during the singer’s performance of “Sally, When the Wine Runs Out” on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon on Monday night (April 28).

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Marking Role Model’s debut on the late-night talk show, the 27-year-old pop singer-songwriter, whose real name is Tucker Pillsbury, was joined by the Saturday Night Live star for a playful rendition of his viral fan-favorite, fully embracing the role and sending the audience into cheers.

Yang’s appearance on Monday night came just after he was spotted enjoying Charli XCX’s set at Coachella the previous weekend, in another fan-captured viral moment..

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Role Model has made it a tradition throughout his “No Place Like Tour” to invite a fan or special guest onstage to portray “Sally” during live performances of the track. What started as a spontaneous idea has since seen celebrities like Dylan Minnette and Jake Shane (the very first “Sally” at a Dallas show on Feb. 28, 2025) take part in the fun.

The rising star recently told Triple J of the hit, “For me, dance-y songs are probably the hardest things to write. I can’t do it. And that was like my one goal. I was like, I have to do this, even if it takes me an extra year. And I think we did it.”

“We had no plans to do this whole ‘Sally’ thing,” Role Model also recently told Teen Vogue. “I knew right before the tour started that Jake Shane was going to be in Dallas at the same time doing the show, so we were like, ‘Oh, we should bring him out.’”

Earlier this month, Role Model surprised fans with a guest appearance from Reneé Rapp during a show in Los Angeles, during which the singer walked out and began dancing. “Aw, s—, here we go again, I’m falling headfirst/ Ankles hit the two-step, Sally makes my head hurt/ Heard through the grapevine, she can be a diva/ Cold like Minnesota, hotter than a fever,” the audience sang the bridge as the duo hugged it out and danced together.

Watch Role Model’s Tonight Show performance featuring Bowen Yang below.

Born: Aug. 22, 2001 – Cairo, EgyptMusical Influences: Whitney Houston, Aretha Franklin, Mariah Carey, Celine DionCurrently Listening To: Bruno Mars, Beyoncé, AdeleFirst Idol Experience: “I’ve been watching since I grew up in Egypt. As a little kid I was pulling up videos of the show any way I could. I remember Carrie [Underwood’s] journey, the compilation of every performance of hers. And Kelly Clarkson and Fantasia.Favorite Alums:  Kelly Clarkson, Fantasia, Carrie Underwood, Ruben Studdard, Katharine McPhee, Phillip Phillips, La’Porsha Renae, Quintavious, Roman Collins

For the first seven years of his life, Filo lived with his family in Egypt, where he was introduced to music by the hymns at his Coptic Orthodox Christian church. “It was very much traditional, group singing with just melody, no instruments. That is where I started using my voice, but I didn’t put any thought into it. It wasn’t until I was 10 years old and my brother started downloading music on our iPad where I was introduced to mainstream music. That’s when I first got to hear Mariah Carey, Bruno Mars, John Legend and Meghan Trainor. From there, I sang in the shower and then my uncle said to my mom, ‘Are you hearing this?’”

But Filo says he never got approval for his “shower shows.” “We had moved to Abu Dhabi and there was a church choir we had put together. I loved the message of one particular song and auditioned to sing the solo. A lot of heads turned around when I started singing and that’s when I noticed, ‘Wow, maybe there’s something there. I love this. I love singing for people.’”

Filo’s mom, who has been an emotional presence on Idol this season, realized her son was interested in music and arranged for him to have voice and piano lessons. “That didn’t last long because after two months we moved to the States,” says Filo.

It was a turbulent time for the family. “There was a big revolution in Egypt where Christians were targeted. They burned mom’s hometown church in Minya down. We were lucky to get a visa to the States from the UAE. Luckily, the U.S. opened its doors and now we’re citizens, which is great.”

Along with his mother and older brother, Filo relocated to San Francisco. “It took a minute for me to fit in. Society here is so different to how it was back home and it was really a challenge finding a community. Luckily there were a few Coptic churches around where we lived, so it was slightly easier to transition. I was this awkward kid in eighth grade until I saw a poster for a school musical. I didn’t even know what a musical was. But I thought I would audition for it – it was the junior version of Shrek the Musical.”

Filo says that everyone else was prepared for the audition but he didn’t know any of the show’s songs and so tried out with Bruno Mars’ “When I Was Your Man.” And then? “I got the part of Shrek! That’s when I first felt like I belonged. People enjoyed what I was doing and I thought, ‘This is what I’m meant to do.’”

Moving on to high school, Filo was cast in all of his school’s musicals: Urinetown, In the Heights, Grease and Rent. He joined the choir and competed in local and national choir competitions, including one at Carnegie Hall. “In high school, everything revolved around my music activities.”

Filo was then accepted by the University of the Pacific in Stockton, Calif., where he studied classical music. But people back home had other expectations. “In Egypt, there are only three acceptable careers: Engineer, doctor or lawyer. That’s it, and nothing else matters. The most random people would come up to me and say, ‘So you’re doing this music thing, but what are you actually doing?’ ‘No, I’m doing music.’ ‘As a hobby. So what are you actually doing?’ I’d reply, ‘Great, thank you for your input.’ I didn’t know what to tell them.”

As a result, Filo studied for a music degree while also following a premed route. “Then, in my senior year, COVID happened.” That’s when Filo told his family he was going to dedicate his life to music.

Being on Idol has reinforced that decision. “I’ve learned how much I love to do this. This has not been an easy journey. You’re putting yourself out there for people to criticize and to have opinions. Often people don’t see the vision that you’re seeing or they’re not seeing the career that you want to have. Choosing music has proven to me how resilient I can be. It affirms not just my singing ability, but my character. Like, I’ve got this. No matter what happens on Idol, I’ve still got a vision and I’ve still got the love for the music. That’s what I’ve discovered about myself.”

One of the suspects in the armed robbery of Kim Kardashian said he plans to take responsibility for his role in the 2016 high-profile heist and will apologize in court as the trial begins Monday (April 28) in Paris.
Yunice Abbas, 71, who has publicly acknowledged his participation in the heist, is among 10 suspects facing charges including armed robbery and kidnapping.

“I will apologize,” Abbas told The Associated Press. “I mean it sincerely.”

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Kardashian, 44, is expected to testify in person at the trial scheduled to run through May 23. In interviews and on her family’s reality TV show, she has described being terrified as robbers pointed a gun at her to steal millions of dollars worth of jewelry in an apartment where she was staying for Paris Fashion Week. She said she thought she was going to be raped and killed.

Abbas said he acted as a lookout at the reception area on the ground floor, ensuring the escape route was clear. He said he was unarmed and did not personally threaten Kardashian, but acknowledged he shared responsibility for the crime.

He was arrested in January 2017 and he spent 21 months in prison before being released under judicial supervision. In 2021, he co-authored a French-language book titled I Sequestered Kim Kardashian.

In her account to investigators, Kardashian described two men forcing their way into her bedroom and pointing a gun towards her, asking for her ring. She said she was tied up with plastic cables and tape while the intruders were looking for jewels, including her engagement ring worth millions of dollars.

In a 2020 appearance on David Letterman’s Netflix show, she tearfully recalled thinking: “This is the time I’m going to get raped. I’m like, ‘What is happening? Are we gonna die? Just tell them I have children. I have babies, I have a husband, I have a family’.”

She told investigators the men brought her in the bathroom before they ran off and she managed to free herself.

The residency’s concierge, held at gunpoint and forced to lead the robbers to her apartment, also suffered psychological impact.

Investigators found Abbas’ DNA on plastic ties used to tie the hands of the concierge.

Asked about the trauma Kardashian suffered, Abbas said: “It’s true, I didn’t think about it. I recognize that because I did not brutalize her myself… I was not blaming myself regarding this aspect, and yet I’m responsible for it too.”

According to Abbas, minutes after the raid started, his accomplices came down from Kardashian’s apartment and gave him a bag of jewelry.

As he was fleeing the scene on a bicycle, he saw a police car, but officers were not yet aware of the robbery. Abbas said as he rode the bicycle the bag containing the jewelry became caught in the front wheel and he fell to the ground, spilling the contents of the bag. “I picked the jewels up and left,” he said.

The following morning, a passerby found a diamond-encrusted cross in the street and handed it to police. That was the only jewel from the robbery that was ever recovered.

French justice estimated stolen items to be worth $6 million in total.

Abbas said he didn’t know Kardashian’s identity at the time of the robbery.

“I was told about a famous person, a rapper’s wife. That’s all the information I had,” he said. “Until the next morning, when I heard on TV about the influencer. That’s when I understood who she was.”

He said he will detail his role during the trial, which will be conducted with a jury, a procedure in France reserved for the most serious crimes – yet he would not denounce his accomplices.

“I’m only an outsider. I’m not the one who masterminded the case. I take my share of responsibility,” he said.

Most of the suspects have denied involvement, except for Abbas and another man whose DNA was also found at the scene.

Thierry Niemen, the journalist who co-authored Abbas’ book, said Abbas approached him because he wanted to “tell his own truth” amid what he saw as inaccurate or sensationalized accounts.

The book also revealed investigative details, including how the FBI helped French police identify Abbas’ DNA despite him wearing gloves.

“This is the case of all superlatives,” Niemen said. “The FBI overseeing an investigation on French territory — that’s already a superlative.” Kardashian was then the top influencer in the world and the case was the most popular topic on the social media in 2016, Niemen stressed.

Abbas’ earnings from the book have been frozen pending the outcome of the trial.

Kardashian’s lawyer, Michael Rhodes, has said the reality TV star and entrepreneur wants the trial “to proceed in an orderly fashion in accordance with French law and with respect for all parties to the case.”

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Right now, you can get Sling Blue or Sling Orange + Blue for half off of your first month of service and add the streaming service Max for $5 off the monthly subscription price. This means Max starts at $4.99 per month, instead of $9.99 per month, when you bundle it with Sling TV.

Max is the home to hit movies and TV shows, as well as original Music Box documentaries, such as Yacht Rock: A DOCKumentary, Woodstock ’99: Peace, Love and Rage, Juice WLRD: Into The Abyss, DMX: Don’t Try to Understand and others.

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Quavo has been building his acting résumé over the years, and he’s hoping to get better at it — in fact, he’s hoping to be one of the best. TMZ caught up with the Atlanta rapper and asked if he could eventually become the best rapper-turned-actor ever and was asked if he could be better […]

There’s a change at the top of Billboard’s Top Movie Songs chart, powered by Tunefind (a Songtradr company), as Yeah Yeah Yeahs‘ “Spitting Off the Edge of the World” gives way to Chappell Roan’s “Casual” on the March 2025-dated list.

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Rankings for the Top Movie Songs chart are based on song and film data provided by Tunefind and ranked using a formula blending that data with sales and streaming information tracked by Luminate during the corresponding period of March 2025. The ranking includes newly released films from the preceding three months.

“Casual,” from Roan’s 2023 album The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess, debuts at No. 1 after a synch in the Dan Berk- and Robert Olsen-directed Novocaine, which premiered on March 14 and stars Jack Quaid.

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A No. 59-peaking hit on the Billboard Hot 100 last August, “Casual” earned 16.9 million official on-demand U.S. streams in March 2025 en route to its Top Movie Songs coronation, according to Luminate.

Novocaine bookends the latest chart; it also boasts the No. 10 song via R.E.M.’s “Everybody Hurts,” which garnered 2.3 million streams and 1,000 downloads.

Yeah Yeah Yeahs’ Perfume Genius-featuring “Spitting Off the Edge of the World,” which crowned the February 2025 tally after being heard in The Gorge, drops to No. 2 in its second month. The 2022 track earned 3 million streams and 2,000 downloads in March, the latter enough to pop it onto Billboard’s Rock Digital Song Sales chart for three weeks, including a week at No. 1 (March 1).

Music from The Gorge and Captain America: Brave New World are the only holdovers from February, with the remainder of the chart representing films released in March. In addition to Novocaine’s aforementioned two appearances, The Electric State and Snow White also boast two entries, while Holland reaches with one.

See the full top 10 below.

Rank, Song, Artist, Film1. “Casual,” Chappell Roan, Novocaine2. “Spitting Off the Edge of the World,” Yeah Yeah Yeahs feat. Perfume Genius, The Gorge3. “Mary Jane’s Last Dance,” Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, The Electric State4. “Waiting on a Wish,” Rachel Zegler, Snow White5. “Mother,” Danzig, The Electric State6. “Party Up,” DMX, Holland7. “Good Things Grow,” Snow White Ensemble, Snow White8. “i,” Kendrick Lamar, Captain America: Brave New World9. “Blitzkreig Bop,” Ramones, The Gorge10. “Everybody Hurts,” R.E.M., Novocaine

Lynyrd Skynyrd’s “Free Bird” is No. 1 on Billboard’s Top TV Songs chart, powered by Tunefind (a Songtradr company), for March 2025, topping the tally following a synch in NCIS: Origins.

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Rankings for the Top TV Songs chart are based on song and show data provided by Tunefind and ranked using a formula blending that data with sales and streaming information tracked by Luminate during the corresponding period of March 2025.

“Free Bird” appears in the 15th episode of NCIS: Origins’ inaugural season, premiering on March 31 on CBS. The new series is a spinoff of CBS’ long-running NCIS franchise and was renewed for a second season earlier this year.

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In March 2025, “Free Bird” earned 12.3 million official on-demand U.S. streams and 2,000 downloads, according to Luminate. One of Lynyrd Skynyrd’s signature tracks, the song peaked at No. 19 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1975.

Billie Eilish’s “When the Party’s Over” follows at No. 2 on Top TV Songs, a byproduct of its feature in the latest season of Invincible. Heard in the seventh episode of the third season (March 6), the song is one of a pair of entries on the latest chart from the Amazon Prime Video animated series, ahead of Nine Inch Nails’ “Every Day Is Exactly the Same” at No. 8 (episode eight, March 13).

“When the Party’s Over” notched 16.1 million streams and 1,000 downloads in March 2025, while “Every Day Is Exactly the Same” earned 2 million streams and 1,000 downloads. The former peaked at No. 29 on the Hot 100 in 2019, one of Eilish’s breakthrough tracks, while the latter reached No. 56 on the chart in 2006 and led the Alternative Airplay tally for four weeks that year.

Mondo Cozmo’s “Shine” ranks at No. 3 on Top TV Songs, buoyed by a synch in the eighth episode of season three of Reacher (March 27), scoring 320,000 streams and 3,000 downloads. The latter metric drove the song onto the Rock Digital Song Sales chart for the first time, entering at No. 8 on the April 5 survey and rising to No. 2 on the April 12 list. The song was a one-week No. 1 for the band on the Adult Alternative Airplay chart in 2017.

And Severance, which wrapped up its second season in March, boasts four entries on the latest Top TV Songs, led by The Alan Parsons Project’s “Sirius” at No. 4 (1.2 million streams, 1,000 downloads).

See the full top 10, also featuring music from Daredevil: Born Again and School Spirits, below.

Rank, Song, Artist, Show (Network)1. “Free Bird,” Lynyrd Skynyrd, NCIS: Origins (CBS)2. “When the Party’s Over,” Billie Eilish, Invincible (Amazon Prime Video)3. “Shine,” Mondo Cozmo, Reacher (Amazon Prime Video)4. “Sirius,” The Alan Parsons Project, Severance (Apple TV+)5. “Fire Woman,” The Cult, Severance (Apple TV+)6. “Staring at the Sun,” TV on the Radio, Daredevil: Born Again (Disney+)7. “I’ll Be Seeing You,” Billie Holiday, Severance (Apple TV+)8. “Every Day Is Exactly the Same,” Nine Inch Nails, Invincible (Amazon Prime Video)9. “Look Alive,” Hana Vu, School Spirits (Paramount+)10. “The Windmills of Your Mind,” Mel Torme, Severance (Apple TV+)

The 2026 Golden Globes have a date — Sunday, Jan. 11. That’s a bit later in the calendar year than the 2025 show, which aired on Jan. 5. The 2026 show will air live on both coasts (8-11 p.m. ET/5-8 p.m.PT) on CBS, and will stream on Paramount+ in the U.S. The show will again […]