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Cardi B is celebrity the legal victory in her civil trial earlier this week by turning her viral courtroom faces into more cover art for her Am I the Drama? album. Explore See latest videos, charts and news The “Outside” rapper unveiled the Courtroom Edition of Am I the Drama? less than 24 hours after defeating claims she assaulted a security guard in 2018. “I mean look!… BY POPULAR DEMAND, the court room edition of AM I THE DRAMA? is available NOW,” she wrote to Instagram on Wednesday (Sept. 3). The artwork finds Cardi going through the cycle of emotions with her demonstrative facial expressions and various wardrobe looks in court over the past week. Fans were loving the decision to capitalize on the courtroom press as well. “Literal genius. I’m getting one I’m too childish,” one person commented. Another added: “Perfect timing, Cardi is a marketing genius.” The pair of Courtroom Edition covers are available in CD form for $10 on Cardi’s store. The countdown is on to Am I the Drama?, which is set to arrive on Sept. 19. A California jury unanimously sided in Cardi’s favor on Tuesday, ruling that ex-security guard Emani Ellis did not properly prove assault, battery or infliction of emotional distress as well as negligence claims. Ellis filed the civil lawsuit claiming that Cardi cut her face during an altercation at an L.A. doctor’s office in 2018. She was seeking $24 million and the jurors rejected the claims after an hour of deliberation. “This time around, I’m gonna be nice, but the next person that try to do a frivolous lawsuit against me — I’m going to countersue, and I’m gonna make you pay because this is not okay,” Cardi said after the ruling. “I work hard for my money for my kids and for people I take care of, so don’t you ever think that you gonna sue me, and I’m just gonna settle and just give you my money. It’s not gonna happen.” Find the Courtroom Editions of Am I the Drama? below. Get weekly rundowns straight to your inbox Sign Up Source link

Josiah Queen leads Billboard’s Top Christian Albums chart for the second time, debuting atop the Sept. 6-dated survey with Mt. Zion. In its first week of release (Aug. 22-28), Mt. Zion earned 15,000 equivalent album units in the United States, according to Luminate. That sum includes 6,000 in album sales. The 22-year-old Florida native first ruled Top Christian Albums when The Prodigal, his debut album, launched atop the list in June 2024. The set has spent all but four of its 66 weeks on the chart in the top 10, and all in the top 20. Mt. Zion is his first album on an established label (F&L Music Group and Capitol Christian Music Group); The Prodigal was released independently. Related Mt. Zion becomes Queen’s first entry on the all-genre Billboard 200, at No. 57. It also starts at No. 4 on Americana/Folk Albums and No. 12 on Top Rock & Alternative Albums. Concurrently, eight songs from Mt. Zion’s 12-tune tracklist appear on the Hot Christian Songs chart, led by “Dusty Bibles,” which returns to its No. 3 high thanks to 4.2 million official U.S. streams, 1.4 million radio audience impressions and 1,000 sold. It’s followed by the Brandon Lake collaboration “Can’t Steal My Joy,” which reaches a new No. 7 best (4.1 million impressions, 2.2 million streams). “Can’t Steal My Joy” holds at its No. 9 high on Christian Airplay, having become Queen’s first top 10 on the survey, while “Dusty Bibles” rises to No. 25. Queen’s top debut on Hot Christian Songs is “Watch Your Mouth,” at No. 17 (1.5 million streams). It’s free Billboard charts month! Through Sept. 30, subscribers to Billboard’s Chart Beat newsletter, emailed each Friday, can unlock access to Billboard’s weekly and historical charts, artist chart histories and all Chart Beat stories simply by visiting the newly redesigned Billboard.com through any story link in the newsletter. Not a Chart Beat subscriber? Sign up for free here. Source link

Labor Day weekend has come and gone, which must mean that the final word is in on the Songs of the Summer. Billboard‘s official Song of the Summer listing closed with the chart dated Sept. 6, and unsurprisingly, tops is the song that topped the chart every week of the season: Alex Warren‘s 10-week Billboard Hot 100 No. 1 megaballad “Ordinary.” Behind it comes three straight Morgan Wallen-led smashes — “What I Want” (feat. Tate McRae, No. 2), “Just in Case” (No. 3) and “I’m the Problem” (No. 4) — with Kendrick Lamar and SZA’s “Luther” rounding out the top five. A little lower on the chart, this week’s Hot 100 No. 1 — HUNTR/X’s “Golden” — finishes at No. 7. What does Billboard‘s chart-determined Song of the Summer tell us about the state of Songs of the Summer? And which of the top 10 best defined our own summer? Billboard staffers answer these questions and more below. 1. Alex Warren’s “Ordinary” is officially our Song of the Summer. What do you think the song’s summertime success tells us, if anything, about what listeners want from a summer song in 2025? Katie Atkinson: To my mind, this one has little to nothing to do with summer. I really love when a Song of the Summer sounds like summer feels (upbeat, sunshiny lyrics), but I think “Ordinary” just reached its peak at the exact right moment, first topping the Hot 100 on the chart dated June 7, and filled a spot at radio that’s been filled over the past year-plus with mellow hits by Benson Boone, Teddy Swims or Hozier and rode that wave (ooh, surfing reference — that feels summery!) to the top spot. Christopher Claxton: Alex Warren’s “Ordinary” being Song of the Summer shows that people in 2025 want more than just a party anthem for the season. The track is vulnerable, emotional and relatable, it’s not about chasing the typical “turn-up” movement, but about tapping into feelings that a lot of people connect with right now. I think it proves that a summer hit doesn’t always have to be high-energy; sometimes listeners just want something real, something that mirrors what they’re going through while still being catchy enough to sing along to all season. Kyle Denis: I don’t think “Ordinary” tells us anything markedly new or different about what listeners want from summer song, specifically. I think it peaked at the right time of the year (which also happened to be relatively quiet), but its sound only fortifies what we’ve learned from last year’s hits like “Beautiful Things,” “Lose Control” and “Too Sweet.” If anything, I think that the conversation “Ordinary”-as-song-of-the-summer has sparked is a bit more interesting. Clearly the numbers are there, but the passion is lacking. It feels like this year’s summer songs were best felt on a regional level with smaller hits like “Boots on the Ground,” “Shake It to the Max” and “Whim Whamiee.”  Jason Lipshutz: Instead of serving as a beach-party soundtrack, the song of the summer has become a signifier of contemporary pop trends over the past decade; it’s why we’ve had a Spanish-language SOTS (Luis Fonsi & Daddy Yankee’s “Despacito” in 2017), a K-pop champ (BTS’s “Butter” in 2021) and a couple of country victors (Morgan Wallen’s “Last Night” in 2023, and Wallen and Post Malone’s “I Had Some Help” last year). Alex Warren represents the current spate of big-voiced male singer-songwriters scoring inescapable anthems, riding the 2024 wave of Teddy Swims’ “Lose Control,” Benson Boone’s “Beautiful Things” and Hozier’s “Too Sweet” to dominate 2025. In this way, the summer timing of “Ordinary” is incidental — it’s not what listeners want from a summer song, but it’s what listeners want right now, period. Andrew Unterberger: I think the main thing “Ordinary” tells us about Songs of the Summer is that they really need a Spring runway first. With more and more songs hanging around the top of the Hot 100 for durations that would’ve been unthinkable a decade ago — and taking time to get their streaming and radio peaks synched up — it’s going to be very hard for a song to debut in summer (or even shortly before) and actually become our official Song of the Summer as long as those trends persist. 2. Songs No. 2 through 4 on the chart — “What I Want,” “Just in Case,” “I’m the Problem” — all belong to Morgan Wallen, who also appeared on the Song of the Summer last year with the Post Malone-led “I Had Some Help” and owned it solo in 2023 with “Last Night.” Is Morgan Wallen now the 2020s’ unquestioned summertime king? Katie Atkinson: Kind of hard to deny when you look at the last three years like that. I also think there’s something inherently summery about country music, even the ballads. The genre just feels warm and breezy, and fits like a hand in an oven mitt at summer staples like barbecues, baseball games and pool parties. But I will say that 2024’s “I Had Some Help” – with its firework-filled music video and Post Malone in his best summer jorts – felt like a better match for the sunny season than this year’s mid-tempo trio. Christopher Claxton: One time might be an accident, two times a coincidence, but three times? That’s a pattern. Morgan Wallen hasn’t just shown up on the list three summers in a row, this year, he’s got three songs on it. At this point, it’s safe to call him the summertime king. But every king can be dethroned, and it’ll be interesting to see who’s ready to challenge him next. Kyle Denis: Sure? A three-summer run of this magnitude is certainly impressive. Nonetheless, I can’t help but feel like it shouldn’t be this easy to avoid songs that are ruling entire seasons. Songs like “A Bar Song” and “Not Like Us” and “Espresso” felt like they penetrated every silo of the contemporary pop scene. I’d say “Last Night” and “I Had Some Help” err

Paris Jackson is speaking up after Colman Domingo reportedly indicated that she was in support of an upcoming Michael Jackson biopic, from which she clarified she actually distanced herself after finding the script to be “dishonest.” In a series of Tuesday (Sept. 2) posts on her Instagram Story, the singer-songwriter tagged the Euphoria actor and wrote, “Don’t be telling people I was ‘helpful’ on the set of a movie I had 0% involvement in lol that is so weird.” “I read one of the first drafts of the script and gave my notes about what was dishonest / didn’t sit right with me,” she continued. “When they didn’t address it I moved on with my life. Not my monkey not my circus.” Billboard has reached out to Domingo’s reps for comment. The posts come in response to the Four Seasons star telling People that Paris had been “helpful” in the making of the biopic about her famous father, adding that she and her brother, Prince Jackson, were “very much in support of our film.” The publication has since updated the story to remove Domingo’s claim about Paris being “helpful.” Domingo is set to play Michael’s father and former manager Joe Jackson in the upcoming film. In follow-up videos on her Story, the actress shared more about her feelings surrounding the project, as well as biopics in general. “It’s Hollywood. It’s fantasyland. It’s not real,” she told followers. “But it’s sold to you as real.” “The narrative is being controlled,” she continued. “And there’s a lot of inaccuracy and there’s a lot of just full-blown lies. At the end of the day, that doesn’t really fly with me. I don’t really like dishonesty. I spoke up, I wasn’t heard, I f–ked off.” That said, Paris emphasized that fans of her dad should feel free to enjoy the movie once it comes out. “Y’all are gonna like the f–king movie,” she added. “So just go watch it, go enjoy it, do whatever. Leave me out of it.” As of now, Antoine Fuqua’s Michael is expected to hit theaters in April 2026, though the film has been subject to multiple delays. In November 2024, it was pushed back six months for a scheduled release in late 2025, after which it was once again moved to a later date. According to reports, the delays were due to extensive reshoots necessitated by a decades-old legal agreement that barred any dramatic portrayal of the family of Jordan Chandler, who in the 1990s accused the King of Pop of molesting him when he was a pre-teen. Michael, who died in 2009, was never convicted or held legally liable on any accusation of child molestation, and his estate has always vehemently denied all such claims. Source link

Bruce Springsteen’s 1980 blockbuster The River was a hard act to follow. The double-disc album was Springsteen’s first No. 1 album on the Billboard 200, logging four consecutive weeks in the top spot. Moreover, it brought Springsteen his first top 10 hit on the Billboard Hot 100 (“Hungry Heart”) and his second Grammy nomination (best rock vocal performance, male, for the entire album, though he lost to Rick Springfield’s smash single, “Jessie’s Girl”). Nebraska, released on Sept. 30, 1982, through Columbia Records, was Springsteen’s sixth studio album. He recorded the songs unaccompanied on a four-track recorder in the bedroom of his home in Colts Neck, N.J. The album is seen as one of the first DIY home recordings by a major artist. In recording a follow-up to The River, Springsteen made the brave decision to follow his heart and not compete in the pop arena he had just proved he could conquer. That career crossroads moment is dramatized in the upcoming film Deliver Me From Nowhere, in which Jeremy Allen White plays the legendary rocker. Nebraska entered the Billboard 200 at No. 29 in the issue dated Oct. 9, 1982, a marked drop from The River, which had debuted at No. 4 in the issue dated Nov. 1, 1980. The following week, Nebraska leaped to No. 4, becoming Springsteen’s fourth consecutive studio album to make the top 10 within two weeks. But after taking that 25-position leap to No. 4, Nebraska would climb just one more notch. The album peaked at No. 3 for four weeks in October/November 1982, behind John Cougar Mellencamp‘s American Fool and Fleetwood Mac’s Mirage the first two weeks and then Men at Work’s Business as Usual and Mirage the next two weeks. Nebraska logged 29 weeks on the Billboard 200, a big drop from The River, which held on for 107 weeks. No singles were released from Nebraska in the U.S., though Springsteen did create his first music video of the MTV era for one of the tracks, “Atlantic City.” The album received no Grammy nominations. The latter wasn’t really a surprise: Born to Run and Darkness had also been shut out in the Grammy nods. Grammy voters were cool to Springsteen in his first decade. (It was nothing personal: They were resistant to rock artists in general at the time.) Springsteen has since become Grammy royalty, winning 20 Grammys between 1985 and 2010. Nebraska has yet to be inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame or the National Recording Registry. Springsteen has three recordings in the Grammy Hall of Fame: His 1973 debut album, Greetings From Asbury Park, N.J.; Born to Run and Born in the U.S.A. His only entry in the National Recording Registry, where very few artists have more than one title listed, is Born to Run. However, the album was well-received by critics at the time; it finished No. 3 in The Village Voice‘s crit-polling year-end Pazz & Jop listing. Did Springsteen miss being at the center of the pop universe? Perhaps. His very next album, Born in the U.S.A., hit the pop bullseye, topping the Billboard 200 for seven nonconsecutive weeks, spawning seven top 10 singles on the Hot 100 and bringing Springsteen four Grammy nominations (over a two-year span), including his first win, best rock vocal performance, male for “Dancing in the Dark.” True artists follow their own path, rather than fulfill others’ expectations of them, as Springsteen demonstrated in 1982. Source link

Cardi B has typically been outspoken when it comes to her political views, whether it’s her disgust with President Donald Trump or issues in the community, but she’s been more muted than usual in recent months when using her platform for political commentary. The Bronx rapper shed some light on why she’s “been so silent about politics” in her Billboard cover story on Tuesday (Sept. 2). “You know the reason why I’ve been so silent about politics? It’s because when I used to complain the past four years, I know for a fact that people watch my stuff. I know it,” Cardi said. “I know the White House watches my stuff. I have a big platform. I know they listen to what I say. I might not say it the prettiest way, but I know they listen to what I’m saying.” She continued: “There’s a president that knows I’ve never supported him and it’s like if I say something, he’s not going to care. I tried to give people warnings and it is what it is. What I can do? What I can say?” Cardi reflected on having a change of heart in the 2024 presidential election, as she originally wasn’t going to vote, but decided to “pick the lesser evil” and side with Kamala Harris. The Grammy-winning artist even spoke at a Harris rally in Milwaukee ahead of the election. “There was a time when I said I wasn’t voting for nobody. Everybody’s doing shady s–t. I was like, you know what? I had to pick the lesser evil. People thought it was funny. People made fun of my accent,” she said. “People made fun of my speech. I was [like]c, ‘Aight. Y’all gonna see what’s funny.’ S–t ain’t funny right now, isn’t it? It’s really tough out here. S–t is really rough out here for everybody. I tried to warn ya.” Ahead of the arrival of her Am I the Drama? sophomore album on Sept. 19, Cardi picked up another legal victory earlier this week in Los Angeles when she defeated claims of assaulting a security guard in 2018. Get weekly rundowns straight to your inbox Sign Up Source link

Sabrina Carpenter‘s new album Man’s Best Friend is full of tongue-in-cheek lyrics and lighthearted bops, but at its core, the pop star says the project is actually about something more serious: heartbreak. In an a upcoming interview with Zane Lowe for Apple Music 1 arriving Thursday (Sept. 4), the pop star opens up about creating the fun music fans hear on Man’s Best Friend — which arrived at the end of August, months after Carpenter’s breakup from Barry Keoghan — out of an emotional period of time in her life. “I think I came out of a sad situation a lot less bitter than I intended or expected to,” she begins. “With a little bit more of the, like, ‘You know what? There’s two people involved, and this is part of growing up,’” she continues. “I don’t want to be enemies with people that I loved … I feel like it is one of those situations where, even the album starting with, ‘Oh, boy’ was sort of an eye roll to yourself being like, ‘Here we go again.’” On “Manchild,” the Billboard Hot 100-topping “eye roll” in question, Carpenter gently makes fun of a romantic partner for being “incompetent.” The track dropped earlier this summer and served as the lead track for Man’s Best Friend, with the Grammy winner recently following it up with single “Tears,” on which she jokes about her own lowered expectations by singing about thinking men who do the bare minimum are sexy. But while she was able to show off her signature sense of humor on Man’s Best Friend, Carpenter reminds listeners on Apple Music 1 that it was born from a time in her life where she didn’t “really have a lot of time to mope and weep” about a breakup she was experiencing. “You kind of just have to get back out there, and not even in a dating way, not even in a romantic way, but just get back out there in terms of, if you’re staying inside and you’re thinking about how everything’s going wrong, everything’s going to go wrong,” she says on Lowe’s show. “Just because you deal with something that’s difficult and maybe really hurts you, doesn’t mean that you’re damaged, doesn’t mean you can’t do it again, doesn’t mean you can’t open yourself up,” Carpenter adds. “And I think this one was a newer heartbreak experience for me.” The interview comes about nine months after the singer split from the actor, who she dated for about a year. Before that, the two stars had made public appearances at events such as the Met Gala, and Keoghan even starred in his then-girlfriend’s “Please Please Please” music video. During a different interview about Man’s Best Friend, Carpenter addressed whether she feels responsible for the hate Keoghan has received in light of their breakup. “I feel pretty transparent going into any of my relationships that I write songs,” she recently told Gayle King on CBS Mornings. “And I think they’re just as down for it. I think also most of the time, they’ve been pretty flattered when they get a song written about them, good or bad.” Source link

Los Tucanes De Tijuana win big with their first leader in 20 years on Billboard‘s Regional Mexican Airplay chart, as “Mi Ex,” with Grupo Firme, leaps 14-1 on the list (dated Sept. 6). Originally released by Los Tucanes in 2002, the revamped live hit marks the group’s return to the top spot for the first time since 2005. Explore See latest videos, charts and news “Mi Ex,” released via Music VIP, soars to the top of the chart with 7 million audience impressions earned in the United States during the tracking week ending Aug. 28, according to Luminate. That’s an 80% growth compared to the previous week. Driving its boost are key supporters KEBT in Bakersfield, Calif., KHOT and KNAI in Phoenix, KSEA in Monterey-Salinas, Calif., and KYLI in Las Vegas. “Mi Ex” was originally released as one of 14 songs on Los Tucanes De Tijuana’s album Jugo A La Vida (via Universal Music Latino), which debuted and peaked at No. 6 on the Regional Mexican Albums chart in 2002. Plus, the song reached No. 16 high on the Regional Mexican Airplay chart in 2003. When the new live version debuted on the July 12-dated chart, the norteño band notched its 75th chart appearance on Regional Mexican Airplay, extending its record for the most entries since the tally launched in 1994. Further, the song’s coronation marks a return to the summit for Los Tucanes, their first since 2005’s six-week reign with “El Virus Del Amor.” This achievement also earns the group its ninth No. 1 hit on the chart. Grupo Firme, meanwhile, banks its 11th ruler. Previously, the act ruled through “El Beneficio De La Duda” for two weeks in 2024. It’s free Billboard charts month! Through Sept. 30, subscribers to Billboard’s Chart Beat newsletter, emailed each Friday, can unlock access to Billboard’s weekly and historical charts, artist chart histories and all Chart Beatstories simply by visiting the newly redesigned Billboard.com through any story link in the newsletter. Not a Chart Beat subscriber? Sign up for free here. Source link

Lady Gaga has been preaching about protecting the dolls for most of her career. Now, she’s joining a different set of dolls for her eerie new music video. On Wednesday (Sept. 3), the pop superstar dropped the music video for her new song, “The Dead Dance,” featured in the second season of Netflix’s Wednesday. Directed by Tim Burton himself, the new video sees Gaga taking on the visage of a haunted porcelain doll, with cracks stretching across her face. As she comes to life and begins staggering around a graveyard of other spooky looking figurines, Gaga finds her rhythm and makes good on the song title’s promise. “‘Cause when you killed me inside, that’s when I came alive/ Yeah, the music’s gonna bring mе back from death,” she sings, while surrounded by a group of dancing, zombified dolls around her. “I’m dancin’ until I’m dead.” Along with dropping the new song and video, Gaga also shared a deluxe edition of her 2025 album Mayhem on Wednesday, adding “The Dead Dance” and two previously-released tracks — “Kill for Love” and “Can’t Stop the High” — to the album on streaming services. Prior to the deluxe drop, the two bonus tracks were only previously available on specialty editions of album. “The Dead Dance” was created for season two of Wednesday, the second half of which also debuted on Wednesday. In the new episodes, Gaga appears as Rosaline Rotwood, a deceased former instructor at Nevermore Academy who helps Wednesday Addams (Jenna Ortega) in her quest to save her family and friends. In an interview with Billboard, the show’s composer Chris Bacon praised Gaga’s performance on the show and spoke about how he went about scoring her scenes. “It was naturally very exciting to see Lady Gaga pop up on screen, but it was also just treating her like she’s any other character,” he explained. “She brings a certain mythology with her, and there’s a certain mystery and maybe a hint of darkness to her, just like everybody in the Wednesday universe. So it was fun to get to play with that musically.” Check out the official music video for Gaga’s “The Dead Dance” above. Source link

After a few years spent away from her solo career, Brandi Carlile is ready to give fans her long-awaited eighth studio album. On Wednesday (Sept. 3), Carlile announced that her new album Returning to Myself is set to be released on Oct. 24 via Interscope Records and Lost Highway. The 10-track project was produced by Carlile and a coterie of A-list producers, including Andrew Watt, Aaron Dessner and Justin Vernon. To celebrate the news, Carlile also debuted the title track from her new project, alongside a black-and-white music video. Throughout the Floria Sigismondi-directed clip, Carlile can be seen wandering alone along the coastline and around a large metal structure, while singing over an acoustic guitar about the fear of being alone with oneself. “Returning to myself is such a lonely thing to do,” Carlile yodels on the song’s chorus. “But it’s the only thing to do.” Explore See latest videos, charts and news In a statement released alongside the news, Carlile reflected on the meaning behind the album and song’s titles, saying that coming back to her solo music proved harder than she thought it would be. “I’m not my favorite person to spend my time with. Returning to myself is not just a lonely, but a painfully boring thing to do. So much so that I’m actually not at all interested in doing it,” she wrote. “Why is it heroic to untether, when the tense work of togetherness is so much more interesting? Because I don’t want to do it. Because I don’t want to return to myself. And that’s why I will.” Carlile has certainly spent the last few years celebrating that togetherness through her collaborative projects with musical icons, including Joni Mitchell, for her live Joni Jams series; Tanya Tucker, for her album While I’m Living and subsequent documentary The Return of Tanya Tucker; and Elton John, for the pair’s collaborative album Who Believes In Angels? from earlier this year. Watch the video for Carlile’s new song Returning to Myself, and read the official tracklist for her new album of the same name below. Returning to Myself tracklist: Returning To Myself Human A Woman Oversees A War With Time Anniversary  Church & State Joni You Without Me No One Knows Us A Long Goodbye Get weekly rundowns straight to your inbox Sign Up Source link