Calvin Harris and his wife, Vick Hope, are celebrating the birth of their first child. The Scottish superstar producer shared the news by posting a photo of himself holding the newborn, a boy named Micah, in an Instagram post Monday (Aug. 4).

“20th of July our boy arrived. Micah is here!” Harris’ caption reads. “My wife is a superhero and I am in complete awe of her primal wisdom! Just so grateful. We love you so much Micah.”

The photo carousel also includes photos of Hope in a water birth tank, along with an image of what looks to be Hope’s placenta, which Harris then shows chunks of in a food dehydrator, with the final image of the carousel being a jar of supplements presumably made from said placenta. Placenta consumption is not uncommon, with some believing that benefits can include helping new mothers in the postpartum period.

This isn’t the first time Harris has shared his alternative health habits. Last year, he revealed that he drinks raw egg yolks to stave off jetlag, typically stashing six eggs in his carry-on bag.

The comments section on Harris’ birth announcement post is naturally buzzing with congrats, with fellow artists including Armin van Buuren, Chris Lake, Sonny Fodera, Kygo and many others chiming in with well wishes.

The news follows Harris and Hope getting married in England in 2023. It is the first marriage for both.

Meanwhile on the charts, Harris’ latest single “Blessings” is currently in its eleventh week on Hot Dance/Electronic Songs. The song, a collaboration with singer Clementine Douglas, is currently at No. 5, down from its apex position at No. 3.

What were some of the most notable trends on the Billboard Hot 100 songs chart in the first half of 2025?

Hit Songs Deconstructed, which provides compositional analytics for top 10 Hot 100 hits, has released its Mid-Year 2025 State of the Hot 100 Top 10 report.

Here are five takeaways from Hit Songs Deconstructed’s latest in-depth research.

Country Surges Past Hip-Hop & Pop

In the first six months of 2025, country was the most common primary genre in the Hot 100’s top 10, contributing to 29% of all top 10 hits.

Hit Songs Deconstructed notes the genre’s “dramatic rise from just 4% in 2021–22. This surge was driven largely by Morgan Wallen, who appeared on nine of the 11 country top 10s” from this January through June.

Also, notably, Latin songs, which had no presence in the Hot 100’s top 10 in 2024, rebounded to an 8% share in the first half of 2025 thanks to three Bad Bunny hits: “Baile Inolvidable,” “DtMF” and “Nuevayol.”

If country holds on through the end of the year, it will make for a new genre champion. Looking back through the past decade, hip-hop led in 2017, 2018, 2020, 2022 and 2024, while pop wrapped on top in 2016, 2019, 2021 and 2023.

As for hip-hop and pop in the Hot 100’s top 10 over the first six months of 2025, both fell in prominence. “Pop has been on a general decline since 2020, decreasing from 40% of songs to just 24% during the first half 2025,” Hit Songs Deconstructed analyzes. “Hip-hop, after rising to 38% in 2024, dropped back to 26%.”

Solo, So High

“Songs with a solo lead vocalist continued to rise for the fifth straight year, reaching their highest level in over a decade, at 74%” of Hot 100 top 10s in the first half of 2025, Hit Songs Deconstructed finds. “Conversely, songs with multiple lead vocalists dropped to their lowest level during the same time period at just over one-quarter.”

Hot 100 top 10s with multiple lead singers last held a majority in 2021, eking out a 51% – 49% win. Such No. 1s that year included The Kid LAROI and Justin Bieber’s “Stay” and Lil Nas X and Jack Harlow’s “Industry Baby.”

From this January through June, while two duets logged lengthy runs atop the Hot 100 — Kendrick Lamar and SZA’s “Luther” (13 weeks) and Lady Gaga and Bruno Mars’ “Die With a Smile” (five weeks) — Wallen (nine top 10s) has helped boost the share of top 10 hits by solo lead vocalists, along with, in addition to Bad Bunny, three each by Sabrina Carpenter and Drake.

A Major Development

“For the first time in a decade, top 10s in a major key surpassed those in a minor key, with a 53% – 45% split between them,” Hit Songs Deconstructed notes of the Hot 100 during the first half of 2025. (Top 10s driven by both keys have ranged between 0% and 3% over the past five years.)

Digging deeper, the mid-year report finds that despite the climb for major-key Hot 100 top 10s, the two most common keys were both minor: F-sharp minor and A minor, accounting for 13% and 11% of songs, respectively. Three of the five top 10s in F# minor peaked at No. 1: “4×4” by Travis Scott, “A Bar Song (Tipsy)” by Shaboozey and “Lose Control” by Teddy Swims.

Introspection Increased

What did Hot 100 top 10s sound like, lyrically, in the first six months of 2025?

“The theme of introspection rose to its highest level in over a decade, at 42% of songs,” Hit Songs Deconstructed’s report shows. “The theme traversed an array of genres and styles,” via songs including Doechii’s “Anxiety,” Chappell Roan’s “Pink Pony Club” and Wallen’s “Smile.”

Introspective songs have bounded from a 33% share of Hot 100 top 10s in 2024 and a 12% take in 2022.

Roomy Writers’ Rooms

“Songwriting teams of five or more writers accounted for 61% of 2025’s top 10s, up notably from 37% in 2024,” per Hit Songs Deconstructed’s Hot 100 review.

“Conversely, those credited to a single writer dropped from 10% to 5% of songs — both attributed to Drake: “Nokia” and “Gimme a Hug,” the mid-year research reveals.

The next most common totals of songwriters behind Hot 100 top 10s in the first half of 2025 after five-plus: two (16%), three (11%) and four (8%).

Groups of five or more writers have dominated this decade, also leading in 2023 (38%), 2022 (54%) and 2021 (56%). No other combination in that period has claimed more than 23% of Hot 100 top 10s (two writers in 2024).

Meanwhile, producer teams of two were the most represented over the first half of 2025, with a 32% share of top 10s. Twosomes likewise led for all of 2024 (27%), 2023 (41%) and 2022 (40%).

An ex-girlfriend of Sean “Diddy” Combs — and one of the alleged victims cited by prosecutors in his indictment — is now urging a federal judge to release him from jail.

Virginia Huynh, who was listed as “Victim-3” but never showed up at Diddy’s blockbuster racketeering and sex trafficking trial, filed court documents Sunday in support of the star’s recent efforts to secure release on bail until he’s sentenced in October.

Prosecutors have argued that Diddy must remain in jail because he’s dangerous and has an “extensive history of violence,” but Huynh said she does not “view Mr. Combs as a danger to me or to the community.”

“I want to assure the court that if released, I believe Mr. Combs will adhere to all conditions imposed and will not jeopardize his freedom or the well-being of his family,” Huynh wrote. “Allowing him to be at home will also support the healing process for all involved.”

Combs was acquitted last month on the most serious charges he faced over drug-fueled sex marathons called “freak-offs,” but was convicted on two lesser prostitution counts. His lawyers are currently pushing to throw out those convictions — or at the very least get him out of jail ahead of sentencing.

Huynh (who goes by “Gina”) was supposed to be a key part of the government’s case against Diddy. But days before the trial was set to start, prosecutors told the judge that they could not locate Victim-3, and she never ended up testifying before the jury.

Now, Huynh is frustrating prosecutors once again. In her letter to the judge, she identified herself as Victim-3 and directly asked the judge to release the star on bond ahead of sentencing — arguing that Combs is not the dangerous criminal portrayed by the feds.

“To my knowledge, he has not been violent for many years, and he has been committed to being a father first,” she wrote.

Huynh, who publicly alleged in a 2019 podcast interview that Diddy had stomped on her stomach and punched her in the head during their relationship, painted a different picture in her new letter to the judge.

“Our relationship, like many, was not always perfect, we experienced ups and downs, and mistakes were made but he was willing to acknowledge his mistakes and make better decisions in the future,” Huynh wrote. “Over the years that followed he made visible efforts to become a better person and to address the harm he had caused. By the time our relationship ended, he embodied an energy of love, patience and gentleness that was markedly different from his past behavior.”

Allowing Diddy to be released on bail ahead of sentencing will “allow him to continue caring for his family and fulfilling his responsibilities while still subject to the Court’s supervision,” Huynh said.

A spokesman for prosecutors did not immediately return a request for comment on Huynh’s letter.

Combs was arrested and charged last year with racketeering (RICO) and sex trafficking violations over accusations that he ran a sprawling criminal operation aimed at facilitating the freak-offs — elaborate events which he allegedly forced his ex-girlfriend Cassie Ventura and other women to have sex with male escorts while he watched and masturbated.

But following a blockbuster trial in May and June, a jury cleared Combs on the RICO and sex trafficking charges. The mogul was found guilty on two other counts for transporting Ventura, another woman and various sex workers across state lines for the purposes of prostitution.

Combs will face sentencing on those convictions in October; sentencing guidelines suggest he’ll likely receive between two and five years in prison.

Jessie J found herself unexpectedly back in the hospital recently after surgery to treat breast cancer. According to E! News, in an Instagram Story on Saturday (Aug. 2), the 37-year-old singer born Jessie Ellen Cornish revealed that six weeks after surgery she was back in the hospital due to an unexplained health issue.

“How I spent the last 24 hours,” Jessie wrote on her Story along with photo in which she had an IV in her arm. “6 weeks post surgery and I was back in the same ward I was after my surgery. Not expected or planned. I had and still have symptoms that pointed towards a blood clot on the lung. IT IS NOT A BLOOD CLOT THANK GOD.”

Noting that her doctors were able to identify the infection, Jessie said she decided to finish her recovery at home. “They ran a lot of tests which ended up showing I have an infection (still trying to figure out what) and a little fluid on my lungs,” she said. “Finding it hard to breathe in, but I discharged myself last night (I hate being in hospital) and will continue the investigation as an outpatient.”

In a Story on Sunday (Aug. 3), the “Bang Bang” singer provided an update, writing, “I finally got a diagnosis of what’s been going on. Lots of people have been asking, apparently it’s called… Dramatic? I think that’s the spelling. My symptoms are the same and no idea what’s wrong yet. But my sarcasm and sense of humour are holding on.”

The singer also shared a selfie video from bed, noting that it was the first “real time” clip she’d posted since surgery, as she’s not been thinking about making content, but rather taking it easy. “I think people think that I’m like hanging on by a thread… which in some moments has felt that way,” she said. “Like two or three days ago when I woke up and I couldn’t breathe. I still have pain in my chest when I breathe, but it’s not as bad.”

She added that she has “very few other symptoms” now, which makes her hopeful that it was just a “viral p–s take.” The good news was that she was feeling a lot stronger and, as counseled by so many, she is resting. She also thanked her mom for being her rock, as well as friends and family who’ve come over to play with her two-year-old son, Sky, or who’ve popped in to do a load of laundry for her.

“I’m very grateful for my little gang,” she said.

In early July, Jessie was also sharing some gratitude after test results revealed no evidence of cancer spread a month after her breast cancer diagnosis in June. “AND. I AM OK. Results = I have NO cancer spread. Happy tears are real. Thank YOU for the prayers, the love, the well wishes, the joy and all the positive energy,” she said in the caption to an Instagram video.

Jessie initially underwent surgery on June 23, initially telling fans her cancer was “all gone” post-operation, then later clarifying that she was awaiting test results to confirm. “Lots of healing to go and one more surgery to make these cousins look more like sisters, but for now it’s gratitude time,” she added in a latest post about her mastectomy and breast reconstruction surgery. “I am changing my name to The LopJess monster.”