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Bizarrap’s 12 Most Watched Sessions Ranked: Critics’ Picks
The element of surprise is one of the many things that make Bizarrap‘s music and freestyle sessions some of the most watched videos on YouTube. Who will his next guest be? No one really knows, but when the Argentine producer drops a new session, it gets millions of views in a matter of hours. His music session with the Spaniard Quevedo is among his most watched, and it’s the one that has catapulted him to global success. Their “Bzrp Music Sessions, Vol. 52” scored both their first entry on the Billboard Hot 100. Currently, it has more than 400 million views on YouTube. Additionally, the track is only the second fully Spanish-language song to top the Global 200 in the chart’s two-year history, following Bad Bunny and Jhay Cortez’s “Dákiti” in 2020. “The first ‘session’ b...
Nick Jonas Reveals He & Priyanka Chopra Celebrated Baby Malti’s Birthday ‘In Style’
Nick Jonas and wife Priyanka Chopra have been celebrating all of their daughter Malti’s milestones, so when she turned 1 recently, Jonas couldn’t help but share a few details about her birthday party on Friday’s (Jan. 13) episode of The Kelly Clarkson Show. Explore See latest videos, charts and news See latest videos, charts and news Clarkson inquired about Malti’s age, asking if she is about to turn 1. “She did, over the weekend. We had to celebrate,” Jonas shared. “She went through a pretty wild journey in the earlier part of her life, and so we had to celebrate in style. She’s 1, she’s beautiful, she’s amazing. The best.” Jonas and Chopra first revealed back in January 2022 that they had welcomed Malti via a surrogate. On Mother’s Day, the Jonas Brothers singer updated his followers tha...
Lisa Marie Presley’s Death Mourned by Questlove, LeAnn Rimes & More: ‘I Hope She Is at Peace in Her Dad’s Arms’
01/12/2023 Her death at age 54 was confirmed Thursday by her mother, Priscilla Presley. 01/12/2023 After the news broke late Thursday (Jan. 12) that Lisa Marie Presley had died at age 54, tributes to the singer/songwriter and Elvis Presley‘s only child poured onto social media. It was reported earlier in the day that Lisa Marie Presley was rushed to the hospital and had suffered cardiac arrest. Her mother, Priscilla Presley, announced her death on Thursday night. “It is with a heavy heart that I must share the devastating news that my beautiful daughter Lisa Marie has left us,” Priscilla Presley said in a statement. “She was the most passionate, strong and loving woman I have ever known.” Among the stars remembering Lisa Marie was Smashing Pumpkins frontman Billy Corgan, who struggled to p...
Duran Duran’s Andy Taylor Talks Cancer Battle: ‘No One Can Be Prepared For That’
When Duran Duran was inducted into the Rock And Roll Hall of Fame last November, just reward for a 40-year-plus career of hits and flashy music videos which helped ignite the format, one essential bandmate was missing from the picture — founding guitarist Andy Taylor. Explore See latest videos, charts and news See latest videos, charts and news Duranies — the enduring collective noun for Duran Duran fans — had hoped for an on-stage reunion with Taylor and his former bandmates, the first in 17 years. It wasn’t to be. As Simon Le Bon, Nick Rhodes, John Taylor and Roger Taylor (none of the Taylors are related) accepted their Rock Hall induction, a message was read out from the axeman, addressing for the first time his cancer battle. “Four years ago, Andy was diagnosed with stage four prostate...
Rihanna Roars Into Action For New Super Bowl Halftime Teaser: Watch
Rihanna is ready to own 2023. The superstar Barbadian singer and songwriter will make her long-awaited live comeback next month when she graces the biggest stage of them all, the Super Bowl Halftime Show. The NFL and Apple Music, the league’s partner for the entertainment slot, ratchet-up the hype with a new 30-second spot. Explore Explore See latest videos, charts and news See latest videos, charts and news In the clip, posted to Rihanna’s social accounts, the returning star twirls and snakes to a montage of broadcasters commenting on RiRi and her lengthy absence from the spotlight. As the voices overlap and form a cacophony, a dramatic pause. Rihanna gets her close-up with her hair in a dramatic twist, she stares down the barrel and gives us the universal sign for “shush”. The promo...
Machine Gun Kelly Celebrates Engagement Anniversary With Megan Fox in a Sweet Throwback Video
Machine Gun Kelly and fiancée Megan Fox have hit another milestone in their relationship — the twin flames have been engaged for a year. To celebrate, the “Papercuts” singer shared a throwback video to his Instagram Story on Wednesday (Jan. 11) from the day he proposed. Explore See latest videos, charts and news See latest videos, charts and news The video features MGK delicately slipping the emerald portion of Fox’s ring onto her finger. He captioned the sweet moment, “one year ago under a banyan tree.” The banyan tree Machine Gun Kelly references is the one he discussed after announcing his and Fox’s engagement. “‘Yes, in this life and every life.’ Beneath the same branches we fell in love under, i brought her back to ask her to marry me,” he shared one year ago. “I know tradition is one...
Ringo Starr and All Starr Band Announce Spring 2023 Tour Dates
Ringo Starr announced the dates for a spring 2023 tour by his All Starr Band on Thursday morning (Jan. 12). The mostly West Coast outing by the Beatles drummer and his famous friends is slated to kick off on May 19 at the Pechanga Resort Casino in Temecula, CA and feature a three-show run at the Venetian Theatre in Las Vegas, as well as shows in San Diego, Seattle, Denver, San Francisco and Los Angeles before wrapping up on June 17 in San Jose, California. Explore Explore See latest videos, charts and news See latest videos, charts and news “It’s a new year and here are some new tour dates,” Starr said in a statement. “I love playing with the All Starrs and can’t wait to be back out on the road again with this band. I send Peace and Love to you all and we hope to see you out there.” T...
Double Win for Fuerza Regida: The Band’s 2 New Albums Debut in Top 10 on Latin Albums Chart
Fuerza Regida kicks off the year with a double win, scoring two top 10s on Billboard’s Top Latin Albums chart: Pa Que Hablen and Sigan Hablando debut at No. 5 and No. 6, respectively, on the Jan. 14-dated ranking. The Mexican corridos group becomes the first act to have two projects bow in the top 10 in the same chart week since 2016. Explore Explore See latest videos, charts and news See latest videos, charts and news “We worked on every track like if it was a single,” Jesús Ortiz Paz, the act’s lead singer, who goes by JOP, tells Billboard. “We spent more than 24 hours on each track, we worked on it with our heart and that is something that I remember a lot.” Both Pa Que Hablen and Sigan Hablando were released Dec. 30 through Street Mob/Rancho Humilde/Sony Music Latin. While the former w...
Jeff Beck’s 10 Best Songs: With Yardbirds, Solo & Beyond
You’re likely to find Jeff Beck‘s face on any Mount Rushmore of guitarists — and maybe of musicians, period. His musical praises are being sung worldwide since his shocking death Wednesday (Jan. 11) from bacterial meningitis at age 78. And rest assured that everything being said about the seven-time Grammy winner and two-time Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee is true. And maybe even understated. While his skills are unquestionably worth celebrating, those discussions sometimes obscure the fact that Beck’s greatest gift was in service to the songs he played. Whether with the Yardbirds or the various incarnations of his own band, or with a wide variety of collaborators, Beck elevated his songs with purposeful and deliberate choices — of notes, riffs, phrasings — that raised them to the pro...
Zendaya, Austin Butler & More Score 2023 SAG Awards Nominations
A day after winning at the 2023 Golden Globes, Zendaya and Austin Butler have a new awards show to look forward to: the 2023 Screen Actors Guild Awards. Both young superstars scored nominations Wednesday (Jan. 11) at the SAG Awards – Butler for outstanding performance by a male actor in a leading role for his electric breakthrough role as Elvis in Baz Luhrmann’s 2022 biopic of the music icon and Zendaya for outstanding performance by a female actor in a drama series for her second season as Rue in HBO’s Euphoria. It’s the first SAG nomination for both actors. The Banshees of Inisherin and Everything Everywhere All at Once dominate the film nominations, with five nods each, while Ozark and Dahmer – Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story lead TV nods with four apiece. The 2023 SAG Awards will tak...
Red Stewart Remembers Jeff Beck: He ‘Was On Another Planet’
Rod Stewart is remembering Jeff Beck as “the greatest,” an otherworldly axeman with whom he formed one of rock music’s hallowed partnerships more than 50 years ago. Explore See latest videos, charts and news See latest videos, charts and news Beck, who passed away Tuesday (Jan. 10) after contracting bacterial meningitis, at the age of 78, was a guitarist “on another planet,” Stewart recounts in a social post. Posting a picture of the pair together, he writes that Beck “took me and Ronnie Wood to the USA in the late 60s in his band the Jeff Beck Group and we haven’t looked back since. He was one of the few guitarists that when playing live would actually listen to me sing and respond. Jeff, you were the greatest, my man. Thank you for everything. RIP”. Beck tapped Stewart in 1967 to join hi...
Pitbull Scores Fourth Video to Rack Up 1 Billion Views on YouTube With This Club Banger
Mr. Worldwide has made it to the Billion Views Club once again. This time, it’s the video for his inescapable 2011 club anthem “Give Me Everything,” featuring Ne-Yo, Afrojack and Nayer. The hit song was No. 1 on the year-end Rhythmic Songs chart in 2011 and also marked Pitbull’s first Billboard Hot 100 No. 1, seven years after his 2004 debut “Culo” alongside Lil Jon. Pit has reached 1 billion views on YouTube three times before: with “Timber” (featuring Ke$ha), “Rain Over Me” (featuring Marc Anthony) and Jennifer Lopez’s “On the Floor.” “Give Me Everything” marks Ne-Yo and Afrojack’s second entry into the Billion Views Club and Nayer’s first. Explore Explore See latest videos, charts and news See latest videos, charts and news The track, produced by Afrojack, boasts a number of sonic eleme...
