Latin music is as popular as ever, so it makes sense that stars like Bad Bunny are embroiled in a growing number of major legal battles in U.S. courts. As the old music lawyer adage goes: “Where there’s a hit, there’s a writ.”
The genre has boomed in recent years, becoming the fastest-growing core music genre in the U.S. and hitting a record-breaking $1.4 billion in revenue in 2024, marking the genre’s third consecutive year surpassing $1 billion. “Latin music in the U.S. continues to gain popularity and generate increased value thanks to the incredible artists whose music connects across language and geographical barriers,” said the Recording Industry Association of America’s Matt Bass in an October report.
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All that explosive growth has been fueled not only by the global superstardom of Bunny — who played this year’s Super Bowl and cleaned up at the Grammy Awards — but also by the rise of artists like Colombian star Karol G and regional Mexican powerhouses Fuerza Regida and Peso Pluma.
But with great success comes great disputes. Reggaeton stars, like Bunny himself, are facing unprecedented litigation over how key elements of their music are covered by copyright laws. Other big names, like Del Records founder Ángel del Villar, are fighting criminal charges that could put them behind bars for years. Still others, like Daddy Yankee, are using the courts to bring their own stunning allegations against others.
To get you up to speed, here’s Billboard‘s quick guide to Latin music’s major lawsuits, criminal cases and legal battles. We break down five major cases and everything you need to know about them, followed by five more key legal disputes to watch in the months ahead.
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“I have associates in my firm that never fathomed that when they went to and graduated law school, they would sit for hours and study lyrics,” says Drew Findling, speaking with Billboard over coffee in West Hollywood.
Findling, who has carved out a niche at the crossroads of criminal law and music, is currently the go-to defense attorney for star rappers coming under the thumb of prosecution. His client list reads like a who’s who of contemporary hip-hop: Cardi B, Offset, Gucci Mane, Lil Nas X, Lil Durk, Da Baby, GloRilla, Rod Wave and Lil Baby, among others.
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Though he now rubs shoulders with some of music’s biggest names, Findling had far humbler beginnings at the Fulton County Public Defender’s Office. And to this day, it’s clear that he’s first and foremost a passionate criminal defense attorney.
That comes through in how he talks about the music business and his own role in artists’ careers. For a musician caught up in the criminal justice system, there’s often noise from labels, managers, agents and publicists about the potential impacts of different legal maneuvers. Will a proposed trial date interfere with an album rollout? Is embarrassing information going to come out in a legal brief? Will bail conditions ruin the world tour?
Yes, these career impacts are real considerations for his clients, says Findling, adding that his firm maintains “10 out of 10” relationships with managers and labels. But winning in court takes priority over all else.
“We’re always going to do what’s in the best interest of the client for their case,” explains Findling. “And so, if coincidentally, if vicariously, it has an impact on their career, we’ll take that into consideration. But we always put first and foremost the end result of their case.”
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Findling says that in the hip-hop industry, there’s a “total respect” for the criminal process. Take, for example, the fact that Findling represents artists from all different labels, even when they don’t get along with each other. He says not a single client has ever pressured him not to take on a rival’s case, which he calls an “unwritten rule” in hip-hop: When your liberty is at stake, you deserve to get the very best legal representation, full stop. As Findling puts it, “Ops have nothing to do with us.”
Music business concerns are still crucial, though. Any good criminal defense lawyer needs to be aware of their client’s career status, as it can be relevant to whether prosecutors are able to show a motive for crimes that have a financial component.
“It’s no different than if we were representing a doctor in a healthcare fraud case. We’ve got to be aware if the doctor’s practice was really suffering, and at that time she made shady decisions because she had impending bills,” explains Findling. “Same with a performer: If somebody’s on the upswing, if they’re rolling in their industry, we need to know. And if they’re suffering, we need to know. That could be the reason for a flawed decision, and in like fashion, if someone’s surging, it could be why the allegations are just ridiculous.”
That’s why Findling has his associates study rap lyrics, the same way that other young lawyers pore over caselaw and legal briefs. For artist clients who have pending criminal cases, Findling’s team often looks over their unreleased music to determine whether any lyrics could present a legal issue.
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This is because prosecutors have a habit of citing violent rap lyrics as evidence in criminal cases. It’s a controversial practice that’s been restricted in several states but is still allowed in federal court, despite a legislative solution that’s been repeatedly introduced in Congress but has yet to move forward.
Findling is intimately familiar with lyrics popping up in court. A judge recently ruled that certain Lil Durk lyrics will be admissible in the Chicago rapper’s upcoming murder-for-hire trial, in which Findling will be the lead defense lawyer. He’s a vehement critic of the practice.
“What prosecutors and law enforcement don’t understand: This is just a business,” says Findling. “When a musician writes a song, they’re writing that song, and these big labels are approving it, because they know people are gonna sit on their mom and dad’s La-Z-Boy at 18 years old and hit the download. That’s the music that people want to hear.”
“I think it is unfair and absolutely racist, calling it what it is, to somehow draw the inference that that is part of a bent towards violence,” adds Findling. “No, it’s capitalism, is what it is.”
Findling is not shy about calling out racial bias when he sees it in the criminal justice system, especially where Black artists are concerned. One of his biggest complaints is the way law enforcement agencies scour the social media accounts of rappers for photos that depict a luxury lifestyle.
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These images often get cited in court as evidence that an artist made a windfall through drug dealing or other illegal activity. But Findling says rappers earn millions of dollars selling records, and flashing cash and jewels is part of the job.
“You would never ask that if a CEO for a major company was in a resort in Maui flashing cash,” he says. “You wouldn’t say, ‘Wow, so what’s that CEO doing on the side?’ But if you’re in the space of rap and hip-hop they’re gonna ask that question, and that’s just pure unadulterated racism.”
Findling also sharply criticizes the use of the death penalty, which is on the table in the ongoing murder case against his client YNW Melly. He says prosecutors only do this to get a so-called death-qualified jury, which means any potential trial juror who says they’d be unwilling to issue the death penalty gets eliminated from the pool. “You kick off that group of people that might be more empathetic to a defendant,” he says. “We’ve seen that forever, and Melly’s case is just another sad example.”
The use of RICO cases is another problem for Findling. The Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) Act, a federal statute that also has a local counterpart in Georgia, is often deployed to prosecute large groups for alleged gang activities. This was the case in the YSL prosecution of Young Thug and his associates, in which Findling represented YFN Lucci.
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In no uncertain terms, Findling says RICO cases are brought by prosecutors who are “insecure about the ability to win a case, so they just come up with the easiest way.” The easiest way, he says, is to charge dozens of people together with “borderline” criminal activities and wear them down as a group.
“You get these monster indictments, and look at who’s really getting hurt,” says Findling. “You look at Lucci, and you look at Thug, but look 22 spaces down at the 19-year-old African American kid that can’t afford the counsel… What happens is it’s really hurting these young kids of color. They’re just getting swept up in the system, on these cases that are just so thin.”
Findling is similarly critical about the RICO trial of Sean “Diddy” Combs, who was convicted last year of prostitution offenses but acquitted of more serious sex-trafficking and RICO counts over sex parties known as “freak-offs.” The Combs indictment “was a joke, Findling says, and “just another example of using RICO when you had no confidence in the underlying case itself.”
Findling’s job is grueling, and he’s constantly on the road; during his Billboard interview, he was in Los Angeles for back-to-back hearings in Lil Durk’s murder-for-hire case and Lil Nas X’s assault case before getting on a plane that night. Asked what keeps him coming back, his answer is simple: “I just love all these young people.”
“People underestimate the brilliance that’s involved, the dedication that’s involved,” he says. “I always say that grinders are attracted to one another. I love the people that are working like crazy, and I just have admiration for them. Man, the ones that have come from challenging backgrounds — how can I not want to be there for them?”
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BTS Earns 7th No. 1 Album on Billboard 200 With ‘ARIRANG’
BTS’ ‘Swim’ Debuts at No. 1 on Billboard Hot 100
How BTS Took Over the World: A Timeline of the Group’s Biggest Career Moments
“Swim” leads a historic haul from ARIRANG, BTS’ first studio album of new material since 2020, which bounds in at No. 1 on the United States-based Billboard 200 albums chart. The group claims the top nine spots on the Global 200, tying Taylor Swift for both the most top 10s in a single week and the most titles from No. 1 on down, after songs from her The Tortured Poets Department launched at Nos. 1-9 on the May 4, 2024, chart.
BTS does even better on Global Excl. U.S., becoming the first act to monopolize the entire top 10 — and top 13 — thanks to ARIRANG songs. Swift scored nine of the top 10 when her The Life of a Showgirl made its chart start (Oct. 18, 2025), while Bad Bunny was the only act before this week to hold as many as the top three simultaneously, for two weeks this February.
Here’s a recap of BTS’ songs at Nos. 1 through 9 on the latest Global 200 and their worldwide streaming and sales totals in the week ending March 26, following ARIRANG’s March 20 release, according to Luminate:
No. 1, “Swim,” 108.8 million official streams / 221,000 sold
No. 2, “Body to Body,” 65 million streams / 35,000 sold
No. 3, “Hooligan,” 50.2 million streams / 21,000 sold
No. 4, “FYA,” 48.2 million streams / 20,000 sold
No. 5, “Normal,” 45.8 million streams / 21,000 sold
No. 6, “Aliens,” 44.2 million streams / 19,000 sold
No. 7, “Like Animals,” 43.3 million streams / 20,000 sold
No. 8, “2.0,” 42.8 million streams / 18,000 sold
No. 9, “Merry Go Round,” 40.7 million streams / 17,000 sold
The next-highest song in the Global 200 top 10: PinkPantheress’ “Stateside,” with Zara Larsson, a week after the collab hit No. 1.
The top nine lines up identically on Global Excl. U.S., followed by four more ARIRANG songs at Nos. 10-13: “They Don’t Know ‘bout Us,” “One More Night,” “Please” and “Into the Sun,” respectively.
In addition to upping its No. 1 totals, BTS nearly doubles its sums to 20 top 10s on the Global 200 and 21 on Global Excl. U.S., both the most among groups.
Meanwhile, the highest entry not by BTS on Global Excl. U.S. is Dominic Fike’s “Babydoll” at No. 14, a week after reaching the top 10 at No. 7.
The Billboard Global 200 and Global Excl. U.S. charts, which began in September 2020, rank songs based on streaming and sales activity culled from more than 200 territories around the world, as compiled by Luminate. The Global 200 is inclusive of worldwide data and the Global Excl. U.S. chart comprises data from territories excluding the United States.
Chart ranks are based on a weighted formula incorporating official-only streams on both subscription and ad-supported tiers of audio and video music services, as well as download sales, the latter of which reflect purchases from full-service digital music retailers from around the world, with sales from direct-to-consumer (D2C) sites excluded from the charts’ calculations.
The charts, dated April 4, 2026, will update on Billboard.com Tuesday, March 31. For both tallies, the top 100 titles are available to all readers on Billboard.com, while the complete 200-title rankings are visible on Billboard Pro, Billboard’s subscription-based service. For all chart news, you can follow @billboard and @billboardcharts on both X and Instagram.
Luminate, the independent data provider to the Billboard charts, completes a thorough review of all data submissions used in compiling the weekly chart rankings. Luminate reviews and authenticates data. In partnership with Billboard, data deemed suspicious or unverifiable is removed, using established criteria, before final chart calculations are made and published.
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Two massive albums lorded over the hip-hop world this weekend: Ye’s long-awaited Bully and Yeat’s ADL.
Arriving a day late and a few months after a headline-grabbing apologytour, Ye’s twelfth solo studio album arrived featuring collaborations with Don Toliver, CeeLo Green, Peso Pluma and Travis Scott. Notably, James Blake, who received a production credit for “This One Here,” released a statement asking for his credit to be removed, arguing that the final song was too far removed from his original contributions.
Yeat’s 21-track set was a similarly star-studded affair, featuring appearances by Elton John, YoungBoy Never Broke Again, Swizz Beatz, Joji, 070 Shake, Grimes, Kid Cudi, Don Toliver, Julia Wold, BNYX and King Kylie (aka Kylie Jenner). The new album follows 2024’s Lyfestyle, which marked the Irvine, Calif. rapper’s first LP to top the Billboard 200.
In the R&B world, late ’90s/’00s R&B stars Tank and Tyrese dominated social media with their Apple Music-hosted Verzuz battle. The hour-and-a-half-long showdown featured excellent live vocals from both gentlemen, as well as surprise appearances by Jamie Foxx, Trey Songz, LeToya Luckett and Chingy. Unfortunately, Ginuwine, their TGT groupmate, missed the face-off due to the TSA airport delays.
Additional new releases across both genres include sets from Fetty Wap (Xavier), Central Cee (All Roads Lead Home), Chief Keef (Skeletor), Fivio Foreign (Still Standing), Juvenile (Boiling Point), Elmiene (Sounds for Someone), RAYE, (This Music May Contain Hope), Victory (Confessions of a Lonely Girl), Jozzy (Soundtrack 2 Get Her Back), Justine Skye (Candy) and Bellah (State of Emergency, Vol. 1).
With Fresh Picks, Billboard aims to highlight some of the best and most interesting new sounds across R&B and hip-hop — from a ’00s-nodding party jam from Anella to a soulful new Jessie Reyez track. Be sure to check out this week’s Fresh Picks in our Spotify playlist below.
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Brazilian soccer legend Ronaldinho has launched a new venture in the music industry with the brand-new label Tu Música, Billboard can exclusively announce Monday (March 30). Headquartered in Miami, the label aims to unite artists, cultures and markets while establishing a platform for large-scale music creation and distribution.
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“Music has always been a big part of my life. It’s been with me during the most important moments, on and off the pitch,” said Ronaldinho in a statement. “Now I want to take that energy everywhere — connecting cultures and creating opportunities for artists from anywhere.”
With the launch of Tu Música, Ronaldinho “takes another step in his journey beyond [soccer], expanding his presence in the entertainment industry,” notes a press release.
Initially focused on Latin America, Tu Música will leverage the region’s growing cultural influence and the visibility of the FIFA World Cup — which runs from June 11 to July 19 — with plans to expand into Europe, Africa, Asia and the Middle East. The label’s first project will be a World Cup-inspired album that brings together artists from various countries. The week of April 6, artists and songwriters will have the opportunity to submit their work, with chosen tracks set to feature on the album.
Born Ronaldo de Assis Moreira (a.k.a. Ronaldinho Gaúcho), the Porto Alegre native is widely regarded as one of the greatest soccer players in history. A two-time FIFA World Player of the Year (2004, 2005), UEFA Champions League winner (2006, Barcelona), and FIFA World Cup champion (2002, Brazil), Ronaldinho is celebrated for his unparalleled skill, creativity and iconic free kicks that have inspired generations.
Tu Música was co-founded by Roni Maltz Bin, CEO of Sua Música Group; Allan Jesus, CEO of ASJ; and Roberto de Assis, Ronaldinho’s brother and longtime manager. The label will leverage Sua Música Group’s expertise in distribution and marketing, while ASJ will provide talent management and brand partnership support.
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BTS has come a long way since releasing its first album in 2013, and in the decade-plus that has passed, the K-pop stars have managed to become the biggest group in the world.
While the 2020s have seen the boy band’s seven members — RM, Jin, Jung Kook, Suga, j-hope, Jimin and V — releasing solo projects, smashing records (both as a group and in personal endeavors), going on tour and fulfilling their civic duties by performing mandatory service in the South Korean military, the past few years make up only a portion of the K-pop group’s wild ride overall. The members’ illustrious music career formally kicked off when they debuted with 2 Cool 4 Skool, which — though a far stretch from the bigger Billboard Hot 100-topping hits that would later cement them as international superstars, such as “Butter,” “Dynamite” and “Permission to Dance” — established the septet as a force to be reckoned with, and one that would only continue to grow with the aid of its devoted ARMY fanbase.
After multiple album and single releases in the years that followed, BTS has created a career that only few storied music acts can dream of — culminating in the release of ARIRANG in March 2026. Grounded in Korean history and culture, the project marks the band’s first full-length LP since reuniting post-military, debuting atop the Billboard 200 and opening with a historic 641,000 equivalent album units sold, with lead single “Swim” also debuting at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100.
Here, Billboard is looking back at all of BTS’ biggest achievements since debuting more than a decade ago. Check out the group’s career-defining milestones in chronological order below.
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Masked Russian punk feminist collective Pussy Riot staged a protest at the Manhattan offices of tech company Ubiquiti on Friday (March 27) over their claims that the company’s Wi-Fi equipment is being used by Russian soldiers in their ongoing war against Ukraine.
Group founder Nadya Tolokonnikova posted a video statement over the weekend in which she said that the Russian military is allegedly using Ubiquiti to communicate with front line troops. In the clip, she talks in voice-over about the company she claims “powers Russian war crimes” over footage of three PR members in all black wearing pink balaclavas with x’d out eyes holding a sign that features that same provocative phrase.
“Last month when Starlink was turned off, Russian guys went crazy,” she said in reference to former DOGE boss Elon Musk’s move in February to cut Russian forces’ access to his Starlink satellite service in order to give Ukrainian fighters an edge in the grinding four-year war. She jokingly said that the Russian fighters scrambled for an alternative, suggesting they were considering using doves to carry their messages. At press time a spokesperson for Ubiquiti had not returned Billboard‘s request for comment.
Tolokonnikova said in the time since, Russian soldiers have begun using Ubiquiti products, and she then appeared to provide proof in the form of images of masked Russian soldiers standing in front of what she said were Ubiquiti satellite dishes and equipment. “Since the disabling of Starlink, Russian soldiers been panicking: ‘All we’ve got left now are radios, cables and pigeons.’ But Ubiquiti’s hardware has emerged as the favorite replacement,” read the caption to the video, which demanded that Ubiquiti obey U.S. sanctions against providing help to the Russian cause, acknowledge that their equipment is being used by Russian forces and work with Ukraine to stop its use.
Members of Pussy Riot gathered outside Ubiquiti’s Manhattan offices on Friday to protest and deliver their list of demands. Hours after their action, they wrote that the company appeared to respond in the form of a message from payment processing partner Square, which informed PR that its Square account had been deactivated. “So, @Ubiquiti responded to our action. A few hours after we showed up at their headquarters in Manhattan, @Square – Ubiquiti’s partner company – deactivated the account we use to sell T-shirts at our gigs,” they wrote in a caption to an X post featured what appeared to be the notice from Square. “Going after Russian feminist activists in exile, but not after Russian war criminals. Cringe.”
According to the Kyiv Post, Ukrainian forces made their most significant territorial gains in more than two years in February after Russian troops lost access to the Starlink satellite system, disrupting their battlefield communication and coordination and cutting off access to real-time battlefield video and secure communications.
Pussy Riot have been a thorn in the Russian dictatorship’s side since their 2012 “A Punk Prayer” protest, which resulted in members Tolokonnikova — who was added to Russia’s most wanted list in 2023 — and Alyokhina being briefly imprisoned. They’ve since staged a number of other protests, including at the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics in Russia, as well as a field invasion during the 2018 World Cup Finals and a “celebration” of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s 68th birthday in October 2020 in which they hoisted rainbow LGBTQ pride flags outside government buildings in Moscow in protest of the Russian government’s continued denial of LGBTQ rights. In 2023, the collective received the Woody Guthrie prize for their fight for freedom and justice.
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Kehlani’s “Folded” re-enters the top 10 of the Hot 100, Olivia Dean continues to rise and BTS’ “SWIM” enters the top five, but will the K-pop group take No. 1?
Tetris Kelly: Does BTS swim to the top of the charts? This is the Billboard Hot 100 top 10 for the week dated April 4. “Folded” is back in the top 10. “The Fate of Ophelia” slips to nine. “Stateside” falls to eight. Olivia Dean is up to No. 7. “Golden” is down to six, as is “Ordinary” to No. 5, and “I Just Might” to four. “Man I Need” is in at No. 3. “Choosin’ Texas” is at two. And OT7 grabs their seventh No. 1. It’s BTS with “SWIM.”
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BTS’ “Swim” makes the splashiest of starts, at No. 1, on the Billboard Hot 100. The song becomes the superstar South Korean pop group’s seventh career leader and first since 2021; the following year, the septet announced a hiatus.
“Swim” is from ARIRANG, BTS’ first studio album of new material since 2020. The set blasts in atop the Billboard 200 albums chart, where it’s likewise the group’s seventh No. 1.
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BTS continues to boast the most Hot 100 No. 1s among groups since it first led, with “Savage Love (Laxed – Siren Beat)” with Jawsh 685 and Jason Derulo, in October 2020. In fact, BTS has the most No. 1s among groups in nearly half a century — since the Bee Gees banked its nine career chart-toppers in 1971-79. As for the most No. 1s among groups since the chart began in August 1958, the Beatles lead all acts with 20, followed in the category by the Supremes (12), Bee Gees, the Rolling Stones (eight) and BTS.
Check out the full rundown of this week’s Hot 100 top 10 below.
The Hot 100 blends all-genre U.S. streaming (official audio and official video), radio airplay and sales data, the lattermost metric reflecting purchases of physical singles and digital tracks from full-service digital music retailers; digital singles sales from direct-to-consumer (D2C) sites are excluded from chart calculations. All charts dated April 4, 2026, will update on Billboard.com Tuesday, March 31. For all chart news, you can follow @billboard and @billboardcharts on both X and Instagram. Plus, for all chart rules and explanations, click here.
Luminate, the independent data provider to the Billboard charts, completes a thorough review of all data submissions used in compiling the weekly chart rankings. Luminate reviews and authenticates data. In partnership with Billboard, data deemed suspicious or unverifiable is removed, using established criteria, before final chart calculations are made and published.
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Lola Young is back in the spotlight, but that doesn’t mean her recovery process is over.
In an interview with The Sunday Timespublished Saturday (March 28), the British pop star was candid about the fact that her sobriety journey is an “ongoing process,” even as she resumes her live performances and public appearances following time away spent in a treatment center. The interview comes after Young performed breakout hit “Messy” at the 2026 Grammys, marking her first public appearance since collapsing on stage at All Things Go in September.
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“I think I would rather for the sake of my privacy not say too much,” Young began when broaching the subject with the publication. “But what I would say is that recovery is an ongoing process. I’m not the finished article, but I’m doing a hell of a lot better.”
“I mean drugs recovery, yes,” she continued when asked for clarification. “When you’re in recovery … that doesn’t necessarily need to mean drugs — but me specifically, yes.”
Young has long been open about her struggles with mental health and substance abuse, having previously shared that she has schizoaffective disorder. In a recent Rolling Stone cover story, she explained that the condition mixed with the stresses of her newfound fame made it increasingly difficult to manage her cocaine dependency, leading to her “breaking point” at All Things Go.
Shortly after her onstage fall, Young canceled her upcoming tour dates and announced that she’d be stepping away for a while to work on herself, which involved spending time in a treatment center. “What I can tell you is that I was being looked after,” she told The Times of her time there.
“As artists we are public-facing figures,” she added of how overwhelming fame can be. “We get scrutiny, we get people calling us out, we get people not liking our bloody outfits — we have to deal with all of it. And even though from the outside it may look like we are doing fine, sometimes we’re not.”
The challenges Young faced last year made it that much more meaningful when, at the Grammys, she won best pop solo performance for “Messy.”
“I was s–tting myself,” she said of the big night. “I was in shock to be there, I was in shock to have won.”
Shortly after the awards, Young played her first show since taking time away, hosting a one-night-only concert at London’s Palladium.
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https://i0.wp.com/neztelinc.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/station.nez_png.png?fit=943%2C511&ssl=1511943Yvetohttps://neztelinc.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/nez_png.pngYveto2026-03-30 17:05:392026-03-30 17:05:39Lola Young Calls ‘Drugs Recovery’ an ‘Ongoing Process’ After Making Comeback: ‘I’m Doing a Hell of a Lot Better’