Billboard’s Dance Moves roundup serves as a guide to the biggest movers and shakers across Billboard’s many dance charts — new No. 1s, new top 10s, first-timers and more.
This week, on the charts dated Aug. 16, Demi Lovato scores her first dance entry in five years, and David Guetta extends his record for the most No. 1s on Billboard’s Dance/Mix Show Airplay survey.
Check out the key movers below.
Demi Lovato
Fresh off her surprise appearance with Jonas Brothers at the trio’s show at MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, N.J., on Sunday (Aug. 10), the star scores her first hit on Billboard’s dance charts in five years with her new single, “Fast.”
Released Aug. 1 via DLG Recordings/Island/Republic, the tune debuts at No. 8 on Hot Dance/Pop Songs with 3.8 million official U.S. streams earned in its first week, according to Luminate. It’s her first career entry on the ranking, which launched in January.
Still, Lovato has been a familiar face on Billboard’s other dance charts. She charted four songs on Hot Dance/Electronic Songs, three of which reached the top five: “No Promises” (by Cheat Codes featuring Lovato, No. 2 peak in 2017), “Solo” (Clean Bandit featuring Lovato, No. 4 in 2018) and, most recently, “Ok Not to Be Ok” with Marshmello (No. 2 in 2020). She has also earned 14 songs on Dance/Mix Show Airplay, including four top 10s: “Cool for the Summer” (No. 10; 2015), “No Promises” (No. 2), “Sorry Not Sorry” (No. 5; 2017) and “Ok Not to Be Ok” (No. 9).
David Guetta & Cedric Gervais
David Guetta and Cedric Gervais score another No. 1 single with “A Better World.” The track, released via What a DJ/Warner Records, rises 3-1 on Dance/Mix Show Airplay with a 15% increase in plays among 24/7 dance reporters and pop stations’ mix show hours.
Guetta achieves his record-extending 19th career No. 1 on the chart, and third this year, following “Forever Young” with Alphaville and Ava Max in January and “Beautiful People” with Sia in May. As for who’s behind Guetta, Calvin Harris has the second-most leaders, 17, followed by Rihanna (12), the Chainsmokers (10) and Ellie Goulding (eight).
Here’s a recap of all 19 of Guetta’s No. 1s on Dance/Mix Show Airplay:
“The World Is Mine,” feat. JD Davis, 2007
“Love Is Gonen,” with Chris Willis, 2007
“When Love Takes Over,” feat. Kelly Rowland, 2009
“Sexy Chick,” feat. Akon, 2009
“Gettin’ Over You,” with Chris Willis & feat. Fergie & LMFAO, 2010
“Without You,” feat. Usher, 2011
“Turn Me On,” feat. Nicki Minaj, 2012
“Stay (Don’t Go Away),” feat. Raye, 2019
“Let’s Love,” with Sia, 2020
“Bed,” with Joel Corry & Raye, 2021
“Heartbreak Anthem,” with Galantis & Little Mix, 2021
“I’m Good (Blue),” with Bebe Rexha, 2022
“Baby Don’t Hurt Me,” with Anne-Marie & Coi Leray, 2023
“I Don’t Wanna Wait,” with OneRepublic, 2024
“In the Dark,” with Armin van Buuren & feat. Aldae, 2024
“Never Going Home Tonight,” with Alesso & feat. Madison Love, 2024
“Forever Young,” with Alphaville & Ava Max, 2025
“Beautiful People,” with Sia, 2025
“A Better World,” with Cedric Gervais, 2025
As for Gervais, the French DJ notches his second No. 1 on the chart and first in 12 years. He first led with “Summertime Sadness,” with Lana Del Rey, in 2013. Before “A Better World” debuted in July, he had last appeared on the chart in July 2016 with “With You” featuring Jack Wilby (No. 17 peak).
ILLENIUM & Norma Jean Martine
ILLENIUM and Norma Jean Martine’s new collaboration, “Refuge,” is the top debut on this week’s Hot Dance/Electronic Songs chart, opening at No. 11 with 1 million streams in its first week of release.
ILLENIUM collects his 62nd career entry — the sixth-most in the chart’s history, after David Guetta (96), Marshmello (76), Kygo (70), Skrillex (69) and the Chainsmokers (66). It’s the fourth and highest charting entry for Martine.
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“Sometimes it takes you a long time to sound like yourself.”
That phrase is written on a sign above the bathroom at the studio of all-star vocal coach Eric Vetro. The first time Addison Rae saw it at her own lesson there, the influencer-turned-singer did what she often does when she finds something compelling: She pulled out her phone and took a picture to save for later inspiration.
“That’s a Miles Davis quote,” she tells me. “It is just the realest thing ever because not only does that apply as far as literal vocal warmups go — like, you could sound one way at the beginning of a lesson and another way at the end — but also just finding who you are takes a really long time.”
Today, it’s hard to imagine Rae ever felt lost in search of her true self. The 24-year-old confidently struts into Casa Vega, a Mexican spot in Sherman Oaks, Calif., wearing a wide smile and a bright white tutu at noon sharp to meet me for lunch. This storied place has been intertwined with showbiz’s rich and famous since it opened in 1956 — films like Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood and Valley Girl were shot here; Dakota Fanning has a signature margarita on the bar menu; Jane Fonda, Marlon Brando and Cary Grant were once regulars; and, more surprisingly, The Chainsmokers have a bronze plaque nailed to the wall above our booth. Rae’s entrance makes it immediately clear that she knows she is not only bearing witness to the restaurant’s celebrity history — she is part of it. It’s easy to believe her.
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“Sometimes it takes you a long time to sound like yourself.”
That phrase is written on a sign above the bathroom at the studio of all-star vocal coach Eric Vetro. The first time Addison Rae saw it at her own lesson there, the influencer-turned-singer did what she often does when she finds something compelling: She pulled out her phone and took a picture to save for later inspiration.
“That’s a Miles Davis quote,” she tells me. “It is just the realest thing ever because not only does that apply as far as literal vocal warmups go — like, you could sound one way at the beginning of a lesson and another way at the end — but also just finding who you are takes a really long time.”
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Today, it’s hard to imagine Rae ever felt lost in search of her true self. The 24-year-old confidently struts into Casa Vega, a Mexican spot in Sherman Oaks, Calif., wearing a wide smile and a bright white tutu at noon sharp to meet me for lunch. This storied place has been intertwined with showbiz’s rich and famous since it opened in 1956 — films like Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood and Valley Girl were shot here; Dakota Fanning has a signature margarita on the bar menu; Jane Fonda, Marlon Brando and Cary Grant were once regulars; and, more surprisingly, The Chainsmokers have a bronze plaque nailed to the wall above our booth. Rae’s entrance makes it immediately clear that she knows she is not only bearing witness to the restaurant’s celebrity history — she is part of it. It’s easy to believe her.
Back in 2019, Louisiana-born Addison Rae Easterling was in the process of self-invention. She got her start on TikTok that year as a beautiful girl next door, dancing to popular songs in her bedroom. The hope was that, if she just made enough videos and got enough followers, she could break into the entertainment business and have a multihyphenate career as a singer, dancer and actor. Within a few years, it worked. Rae — along with many of her TikTok contemporaries like Lil Huddy, Nessa Barrett and Dixie D’Amelio — were quickly scouted by major labels, which approached them with offers of big, shiny contracts and songs to record by proven hit-makers.
Rae did not grow up writing songs or playing musical instruments; all of her time was taken up by competitive dance. But she still seized her moment and, in early 2021, signed a deal with Sandlot Records, founded by chart-topping writer-producer Jacob Kash “JKash” Hindlin. By that March, she released her first single, “Obsessed.” Despite co-writing it with a who’s who of the writing/producing world, including Benny Blanco and Blake Slatkin, it was widely panned. Critics sneered at the cheeky dance-pop tune, claiming it was derivative and hollow (and that was nothing compared with the comments on social media).
“Initially, I was pretty let down by myself in a lot of ways because I had such high expectations,” Rae says of her early releases. “But I love music so much, and it’s ingrained in my life. It didn’t make sense for me to ever stop making it.”
Rae wears a Lucky Brand Jeans top and jeans, Intimissimi bra and Agent Provocateur shoes.
Lia Clay
Rae has always prided herself on her work ethic: At her TikTok peak around 2020, she was known for pushing herself to make seven or eight clips a day. And in the years following “Obsessed,” she took the time to hone her artistry, applying the same determined approach that fueled her short-form video output to her music. She studied performance clips from her favorite artists — Madonna, Britney Spears, Michael Jackson, among others — and ramped up her own songwriting sessions. She also took more voice lessons and used Tumblr to assemble mood boards of colors, images, songs and videos. It was Rae’s way of articulating what she didn’t yet have the musical vocabulary for. After years of practice, releasing an EP (AR, which included “Obsessed”) and featuring on Charli xcx’s “Von Dutch” remix, Rae finally knew exactly what she wanted. Now she just had to find the partners who could translate it into a hit album.
“I went into [Columbia Records] with a binder full of my references, and I was like, ‘This is the album I want to make,’ ” she recalls. Though the industry’s gold rush to sign every TikToker who could carry a tune was largely over by fall 2023, Columbia saw promise in Rae’s renewed vision and signed her. Then, in spring 2024, one of her many songwriting sessions brought her into contact with Los Angeles native Luka Kloser, 27, and Stockholm-born Elvira Anderfjärd, 26, a writer-producer duo reared by Swedish hit-maker Max Martin’s MXM Publishing. The two women immediately clicked with Rae and understood her vision, helping her transform it within just one session into her musical proof of concept: “Diet Pepsi,” a breathy synth-pop track about the ephemerality of young romance.
Prior to meeting Rae, Kloser and Anderfjärd had already racked up impressive wins. Kloser worked on Ariana Grande’s “ordinary things” and Tate McRae’s “grave” as well as multiple projects with her own brother, who records as Kid Bloom; Anderfjärd has become a trusted collaborator for artists like Tove Lo and Katy Perry and remixed multiple rerecordings for Taylor Swift. Still, Anderfjärd says that working with Rae was an especially “lucky” experience for herself and Kloser, who are best friends as well as creative collaborators and have joined us for lunch at Casa Vega. “It’s so rare to get this kind of trust from an artist,” she says. Kloser adds: “I don’t think I’ve ever experienced such magic in a first session, for lack of a better word. I think it surprised us all.”
“Diet Pepsi,” released in August 2024, served as a hard reset for Rae’s music career, gaining her new listeners and bringing back old ones who had counted her out. It became a critical success and her first Billboard Hot 100 and Pop Airplay hit, peaking at No. 54 and No. 9, respectively. In the following months, Rae sequestered herself with Kloser and Anderfjärd, aiming to create a debut album as sonically clear and acclaimed as “Diet Pepsi.” In June 2025, Addison arrived, peaking at No. 4 on the Billboard 200, with only a single additional writer featured on one track (Tove Burman on “High Fashion”) outside of the trio. “Diet Pepsi” remains the album’s biggest commercial hit, but Addison spawned plenty of other standout tracks, including “Fame Is a Gun” and “Headphones On,” which also ranked on the Hot 100 and earned Rae the respect that had once eluded her.
“It’s hard to flip the public perception of you and she did it effortlessly,” says Charli xcx, a staunch supporter of Rae’s for years. “Her growth and evolution has been expedited because [Rae] knows herself and she’s truly not worried about what people think of her.”
Anderfjärd (left) wears a Women’s History Museum vintage top and Venus in Tokyo skirt. Kloser wears an Adidas top.
Lia Clay
Over chips and salsa, I ask Rae what she attributes her success to: Hard work? Talent? Luck?
“I really just never give up and never quit, no matter what,” Rae says, flashing me a confident grin. “Really, what it comes back to is that I’m fearless — I’m not afraid of much. It doesn’t really take me much to try something new and go all in, and here, I went all in.”
“Diet Pepsi” was the first song the three of you wrote together. Tell me about the process of creating it.
Addison Rae: That one started with melody. I remember you were just on the piano, Luka. We were kind of nearing the end of the session and we were like, “OK, well, nothing happened. Nothing was inspiring. So I guess this was fun. You know, whatever.” Then we were like, “Let’s just keep playing.” And then Luka went on the piano and —
Luka Kloser: It’s so weird to think that those moments can be so substantial in your life. Had we been like, “Let’s go get dinner,” there’s a chance that we might have remained friendly but would never have entered this world of everything that has happened.
What are your roles in the studio when you’re working together?
Rae: It depends… Sometimes I’ll have a title or concept and just text it to them.
Elvira Anderfjärd: Addison has great one-liners.
Rae: That’s what happened with [Addison’s] “Summer Forever.” I just knew I wanted to name a song that, and we just went from there. A lot of my songs happen that way, except “Diet Pepsi.” That one was very on the spot while we were in a flow state writing.
Kloser: It’s nice when you have a super comfortable environment to create in because we are all able to share just any thought with one another, even if they aren’t thought out or massaged yet. It’s a no-judgment zone. That makes everyone feel a little bit more fluid in their roles. But it all typically starts with a lyric first or melody first.
When did you decide that you were going to lock in for a full album that would mostly involve just the three of you?
Rae: Once “Diet Pepsi” happened. We all knew it was really special, and so we were, for sure, planning to write again, and the next time we ended up writing was in Sweden… “Money Is Everything” was the second song that we made. “Aquamarine” was the third. Both just came from notes on my Notes app… I think titles can be so telling about what a song is going to be.
From left: Elvira Anderfjärd, Addison Rae, and Luka Kloser photographed on July 22, 2025 at Quixote Studios in Los Angeles.
Lia Clay
How did you take “Aquamarine” from a title to a full track?
Rae: I rewatched [2006 teen rom-com] Aquamarine and wrote down the word just as a title. So I walked [into our next writing session] with “Aquamarine” as a title, and we were kind of just like, “What does this even mean? How do you write a song called ‘Aquamarine’?” But aquamarine, the stone, represents rebirth and transformation, so I ended up being like, “How can we dive into that world?” And then the track just started happening. (To Kloser and Anderfjärd.) I remember we were rewatching that one clip of those flowers. Do you remember that? I had this YouTube video that I put on loop for us while we were making it, of these flowers blooming really quickly…
Anderfjärd: Yeah, you’d put on all those little background videos. Honestly, they were super important for the process. It puts us in a trance.
Rae: When we did “Summer Forever,” I remember there was that black-and-white old movie. Remember, with the people on the beach rolling around together? I put that on in the background. I do that, I think, every time we write.
Did going to Sweden bring a different energy to the room? How much does location affect the song that gets made?
Anderfjärd: I think so, but sometimes not in a way you’d expect. The first session, for “Diet Pepsi,” we were in the city in this little s—ty place. The vibes weren’t there, but that made us have to create our own.
Rae: Personally, I kind of thrive in a space where there’s no vibe because then everything naturally doesn’t sound as appealing. And then when you get something really special, it’s obvious. I think when you’re in a place or a space that’s too great of a vibe, almost anything could sound good.
“Diet Pepsi” came out in August 2024, and Addison did not arrive for almost another year. Why such a large gap?
Rae: As much as I would have loved for there to be a confirmed album date before I started putting music out, it just didn’t happen that way. When “Diet Pepsi” came out, we only had three songs done.
Just before writing and recording “Diet Pepsi,” you recorded the “Von Dutch” remix with Charli xcx. What did you learn from Charli or from watching the phenomenon of brat play out, and how did it inspire you in making your own music?
Rae: Charli really gave me the confidence as a writer, honestly. That’s why I felt so sure going into our sessions [for Addison, which happened soon after brat came out]. Most of the sessions I had done before I did the “Von Dutch” remix session with Charli, I had a lot of writers in the room, and I was feeling like I was leaning on writers a lot. Charli really leaned on me and gave me so much confidence, and that’s really when a big shift happened for me as far as being a songwriter.
Rae wears an Intimissimi top, vintage skirt, and Vaquera necklace.
Lia Clay
It’s rare to see a pop album that only has three people in the liner notes — and even more rare to see liner notes that only list women. How do you think this affected the songs you three made?
Rae: I think the perspective of having a room of only females was just a really different energy than what we’re all used to. It doesn’t really happen very often… I didn’t expect it to happen this way, and I don’t think anybody else expected that from me, which was really nice because I think it’s always good to have people unsure of what you’re going to do. We are all around the same age and have similar life experiences in a lot of ways, being women in this industry.
Luka and Elvira, you’re signed to Max Martin’s MXM Publishing. What did you learn from watching Martin and other MXM-signed hit-makers?
Anderfjärd: The main thing is that the most important thing is the song. Honestly, it’s very easy to forget sometimes. You can get very stressed in a studio environment where it’s like, “Let’s finish the song when the day is over.” I think they create an environment of just taking our time with it because who’s going to care if it took a year to finish or a day?
Kloser: That’s true. It’s been beautiful to be able to have that kind of mentorship. And I second Elvira: The song is always first. The ego should be left at the door. Just worry about the song. Those guys still show up worried about what song they’re going to make today, and that’s it. It’s a beautiful example to have every day because it’s really about the love for the music. It sounds cheesy, but I think their success speaks for themselves — they’ve really led with their love for the craft more than anything.
Luka, you’re from Studio City, Calif., but you often work alongside Swedish talent, including Elvira. Why do you think Swedish pop producers have been so prominent over the past few decades?
Kloser: Oftentimes, people feel like there’s this mathematical approach to pop songwriting. That’s not completely wrong. There’s definitely a toolbox that is there, but I think what sets Scandinavian people apart is that they have free music education. Also, when I hear Swedish people talk, I find it to be very melodic. I just think music is so deep rooted there. Also, Elvira always says that it’s dark 90% of the year, so all you can do is huddle up and jam.
Luka Kloser
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Addison, what was it like to show the people around you “Diet Pepsi” for the first time? It was a big departure from your previous work. Did they immediately understand your vision?
Rae: There were people I played it to who were like, “I don’t know if this is what people want from you.” And I was like, “Well, I don’t think people know what they want from me.” If I had to give any advice to anybody, it would probably just be to do what you want and don’t do what people think they want from you because that’s already so many steps behind. Once you give somebody what they think they want, it’s old news already.
In the earliest part of your music career, did you feel like you were trying to give anyone what you thought they wanted?
Rae: Not necessarily. I didn’t think I was trying to please anyone but myself. I had a very imagined world of what my music career would look like since I was little.
Growing up in dance, my teachers were always playing Britney [Spears]. They were always playing [Lady] Gaga. The Fame had just come out when I was on a competition team and everybody loved Gaga’s music. I remember doing an opening number to Madonna’s “Hollywood” at my dance studio. I always loved these extravagant pop stars as a little girl. I was just like, “This is what it’s like to be a woman, to be a pop star.”
Maybe my EP felt a little bit more derivative of what I thought me as a pop star was, especially when I was growing up, but now I’ve become my own thing. I think the album totally took on a life of its own, and it became something that only we could have done by leaning on our instincts and our feelings. That’s why it feels so rare and singular.
Did the success of “Diet Pepsi” add a lot of pressure for you when you were making Addison?
Rae: I initially struggled with the idea of not having the album done before “Diet Pepsi” came out. There was so much unknown before “Diet Pepsi” came out. We didn’t really know what people would think, nor did we really care, which I thought was so nice. And then, people really loved it, which was really nice and so gratifying. But I think it definitely added a layer of pressure initially. It was a lot to follow up.
Anderfjärd: We talked about that a lot around that time because all of us felt that pressure, but then we said, “Let’s just not feel the pressure of making another ‘Diet Pepsi’ because why would we do that? It already exists.” I think once we settled into that mindset we just thrived.
Addison, your career has been very public from the beginning. How did the weight of public opinion affect you as a young musician who was still learning?
Rae: Initially, I was pretty let down by myself in a lot of ways because I had such high expectations. And then over time, I just completely let that go and released it. I know the way that music makes me feel, and I know that I trust my taste and my instincts.
And even though I took a kind of break over time to figure out what that meant to me, I think it was so necessary, and that led me to exactly where I needed to be, which is right here with Luka and Elvira.
What other moments when making the album felt like you really coming into yourself as an artist?
Rae: “High Fashion” is probably the one for me because I remember we were struggling at that time. We didn’t know where else to go creatively, maybe because of the success of “Diet Pepsi” around that time, and then “High Fashion” happened. That was one where I was like, “OK, I fully trust myself, I fully trust Luka and Elvira, and I fully trust this room we have.”
Initially, [making music together] was so naive. Everything we were making was for us and private. Once everything was being received in real time and we were still making the album, it felt different. And then “High Fashion” brought us back to that same feeling.
I had a phase where I was sitting in the studio for days and I had nothing. It was a struggle. It can be hard, communicating with people about your feelings and where you are in life, especially when you’re going through a lot. When I was really struggling, there was a lot of weight being put on [Luka’s and Elvira’s] backs because I was unable to offer up my energy in those moments. I think those times are necessary, though, where you just sit and play and nothing happens or comes out of it.
Anderfjärd: It’s those moments where either you can sit and do nothing with that and go home or you can sit and talk about it and become closer. A lot of those moments are what created the groundwork of making a song because we became close enough to talk about everything.
Anderfjärd wears a Venus in Tokyo skirt.
Lia Clay
Only 18.9% of songwriters on the Billboard Hot 100 year-end chart in 2024 were women, according to the University of South California’s Annenberg Inclusion Initiative. Women fared even worse in production roles, representing just 5.9% of production credits. Luka and Elvira, do you think your gender made it harder to break into the industry?
Kloser: In hindsight, allowing ourselves to actually feel it all: Yeah, it did make it harder. There are very supportive men in this industry. And we’ve been very lucky to be surrounded by men that believe in us. But I mean, it is just a thing, whether you actively feel that it is or not.
Anderfjärd: When I was younger, I didn’t want to make it into a thing at all because I felt like there was a culture of, like, you have to be tough. Now, being a little older, there’s actually things that are so annoying about being a young woman in production.
Kloser: Yeah, this might be self-inflicted, but I feel like I truly have to prove I can actually produce every single time. No one ever questions like, “Oh, he’s a producer. Oh, does he actually produce?”
Luka and Elvira, what do you think it is that makes Addison such a standout artist?
Anderfjärd: She’s a very creative person who’s very tapped into herself. She sees a whole vision ahead of her. It’s not just a song — it’s a beautiful visual, beautiful styling. For her, everything is connected.
Kloser: Addison is so energetic, optimistic and driven. She has incredible taste. That was the first thing I noticed when I met her. She is truly a student of pop culture, and she knows herself in a way that is infectious to watch.
Are you three making any new music together right now?
Kloser: Nope, this was the last time we’re ever [together]. We’re divorcing at Casa Vega. (Laughs.)
Rae: (Coyly.) We have. (Laughs.)
This story appears in the Aug. 16, 2025, issue of Billboard.
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On the latest episode of “Takes Us Out,” Billboard cover stars Addison Rae, Elvira Anderfjärd, Luka Kloser sit down with Billboard’s Kristin Robinson to discuss creating their experimental pop success ‘Addison.’ Plus, Addison gets honest about the public opinions of her music career, how “High Fashion” was almost a ballad and the one “Diet Pepsi” lyric she refused to include.
Waiter:
Hello guys. Welcome to Casa Vega. My name is Xavier. I’m gonna be helping you today. Should I start you out with something to drink for you guys?
Luka Kloser:
Yes, an iced tea.
Waiter:
Iced tea, perfect. How about for you miss?
Addison Rae:
Just water.
Waiter:
Just water?
Elvira Anderfjärd:
Like a green iced tea.
Waiter:
I see. I’ll get that for you.
Kristin Robinson:
Okay, just water.
Waiter:
Just water. Thank you. Let me just go and get those drinks, and then I’ll be back, okay? Thank you.
Have you guys ever been here before, to Casa Vega?
Addison Rae & Luka Kloser:
Yes.
Elvira Anderfjärd:
I haven’t.
This is my first time here, and I know that they filmed ‘Once Upon a Time’ in Hollywood here.
Luka Kloser:
I’m a Studio City kid, so staple.
Addison Rae:
I’m a Valley Girl.
Luka Kloser:
I’m a Valley kid, yes.
I’m sure you came here all the time growing up.
Luka Kloser:
I mean, all the time is maybe an exaggeration, but many of times, for sure.
Waiter:
Also, I got some chips and salsa for you guys okay?
Luka Kloser:
Oh my gosh, thank you.
Wasn’t “Diet Pepsi” the first song y’all did together?
Addison Rae, Elvira Anderfjärd & Luka Kloser:
Mhm.
Okay. I imagine that going into a session with new people that you haven’t written with before, feels kind of awkward and like a blind date. Can you tell me about meeting each other for the first time and getting into the flow.
Addison Rae:
We met on New Year’s.
Luka Kloser:
We did. It’s so funny thinking back to that.
Addison Rae:
I know.
Luka Kloser:
Like sitting there as complete like strangers.
Addison Rae:
And we like maybe exchanged a few words, but we didn’t really talk that much. I don’t think.
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If you want to be as curious as Blippi, then we’ve got the music video for you.
The blue-and-orange-clad preschool favorite delivered his latest song “Curious Like Me” at the top of the month, and on Wednesday (Aug. 13) he dropped a brand-new music video for the song — the lead track from Friday’s Be Like Blippi EP — that takes him all across the United States to cross paths with country superstar Kane Brown, actor/singer Jordan Fisher and more friends who want to help Blippi on his journey of curiosity.
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The new video kicks off Be Like Blippi Week and arrives ahead of the new five-part YouTube series Blippi: The Ultimate Road Trip, which follows Blippi and his bestie Meekah as they visit iconic cities and landmarks (including Nashville’s Grand Ole Opry) and meet celebrity guests, including Brown, Fisher and Milk Bar CEO Christina Tosi.
In addition to the music video, Billboard is also going behind the scenes of the making of the song with an exclusive Behind the Orange Glasses clip that follows Blippi recording in the studio and testing out instruments like a slide whistle, trombone, maracas and even wine glasses filled with water. “I ask a lot of questions,” Blippi says in the exclusive clip. “Some might say I’m… curious.”
The lyrics of the song are a perfect match for the journey of discovery Blippi has been on since Stevin John originated the kid-friendly character in 2014. “If you wanna be curious with me/ Go ahead and grab your glasses just as fast as you can,” he sings to start the tune. “Gonna go explore I wanna find out more/ There’s so much to discover with one another/ We got so much to teach each other/ You can be anything/ We can do everything/ Anyone can be so curious, curious, curious like me.”
In the video, Blippi wears his signature blue-and-orange striped hat with his orange glasses and suspenders, and many of his co-stars (kids and grown-ups too) try out his trademark look.
Kane Brown no doubt has some Blippi fans in his house, considering he’s the dad to three kids between 1 and 5 years old with wife Katelyn: 5-year-old daughter Kingsley, 3-year-old daughter Kodi, and 1-year-old son Krewe.
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Puerto Rican singer/rapper Jhayco was taken into custody early Tuesday (Aug. 12) morning in Miami for alleged possession of cocaine and marijuana. The 32-year-old reggaeton artist born Jesús Manuel Nieves Cortés — known for his billion-stream collaborations on hits like “Dákiti” with Bad Bunny and “No Me Conoce – Remix” with Bad Bunny and J Balvin — was apprehended during a traffic stop, according to an arrest affidavit obtained by Rolling Stone.
The arrest took place around 3 a.m. after officers noticed a red two-door Corvette moving at just five miles per hour on Southwest 8th Street. The car reportedly remained stationary for over a minute before proceeding, prompting law enforcement to pull the singer over.
When deputies approached the vehicle, they reportedly noted a “strong odor” of cannabis coming from inside and observed “white powder on his [Cortés’] pants and white powder on his nose,” according to the report.
Further investigation revealed that the singer could not provide a valid driver’s license at the time of the stop. A search of Jhayco’s person and vehicle turned up “two pouches of cannabis with seven grams each, along with ‘clear baggies with suspect powder cocaine,’ that held two grams of the illegal substance, inside his pockets,” RS reports.
The singer allegedly denied it was cocaine, insisting it was “tusi,” a drug often referred to as “pink cocaine.” Tusi is a party drug that typically contains a blend of ketamine, MDMA, and other psychoactive substances, but it is often misrepresented as cocaine.
Jhayco was arrested and booked into the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center at 4:24 a.m., with a bond set at $3,000—$2,500 for the cocaine charge and $500 for marijuana possession under 20 grams. Court documents confirm that the bond has since been posted, and Jhayco was released shortly after.
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If you missed out on getting tickets for the Backstreet Boys‘ larger than life Into the Millennium Las Vegas residency at the Sphere in Las Vegas there is some good news. On Wednesday morning (Aug. 13), the boy band announced that due to demand they are extending their run at the iconic immersive venue, adding seven new shows in December and January 2026, including a New Year’s Eve gig.
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The fresh dates will take place on Dec. 26, 27, 28, 30 and 31, as well as Jan. 2 and 3.
BSB are the first pop band to take up residence at the domed venue and according to a release, at the end of the 21 previously announced, sold-out gigs they will have performed in front of 350,000 fans. Tickets for the newly added dates will go on sale first via a Backstreet Boys Fan Club pre-sale beginning on Aug. 19 at 9 a.m. PT, followed by an artist pre-sale beginning on Aug. 20 at 9 a.m. PT; sign up for the artist pre-sale here through 7 p.m. PT on Aug. 17. A general on-sale will kick off on Aug. 22 at 9 a.m. PT here.
U2 helped launch the venue in Sept. 2023, followed by Phish, Dead & Company, the Eagles, EDM artist Anyma and Kenny Chesney. BSB kicked off their 21-show run of Sphere gigs on July 11, with the current residency slated to wind down this Sunday (Aug. 17) before picking back up in December.
According to a Billboard report on opening night, the eye-popping spectacle, “transported fans to outer space as a massive screen surrounded them with visuals of a spacecraft right before the band appeared on stage. The Backstreet Boys — Nick Carter, Howie Dorough, Brian Littrell, AJ McLean and Kevin Richardson — launched into a night of hits with ‘Larger Than Life,’ which was the perfect description of the show they had created.”
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As Oasis gear up to bring their Live ’25 reunion tour to North America with a show at Rogers Stadium in Toronto on Aug. 24, the band announced the locations for the official fan stores on Wednesday morning (Aug. 13).
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Following the successful roll-out of the Oasis Live ’25 fan stores around the U.K. and Ireland for the inaugural run of shows, the locations and opening dates of shops in Los Angeles, Toronto, New York and Chicago have been revealed. Each store will feature exclusive brand collaborations and limited-edition items, including branded T-shirts, hoodies and jackets for men, women and children, accessories and more, including the recently announced Adidas Originals x Oasis collection.
The Toronto shop will open on Aug. 21 at 468 Queen St. (open daily from 11 a.m. ET), while the Chicago store will launch Aug. 26 at 1421 N. Milwaukee Ave. (open daily from 10 a.m. CT). The New York location (in support of the two shows at MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, N.J. on Aug. 31 and Sept. 1) at 107 Grand St. will open on Aug. 23 (open daily from 10 a.m. ET) and the Los Angeles shop will launch on Aug. 20 at 6250 Hollywood Blvd. (open daily at 10 a.m. PT).
The shops will stock exclusive T-shirts featuring album and single artwork graphics honoring the band’s killer debut and sophomore albums, Definitely Maybe and (What’s the Story) Morning Glory?, as well as ones commemorating beloved singles “Wonderwall” and “Supersonic.” There will also be exclusive tour edition colored vinyl of the band’s catalog and a Live ’25 print only available in the shops.
Following the seven North American stops, Oasis will move on to Mexico City, pop back to London for two more Wembley Stadium gigs and then wrap things up with shows in Asia, Australia/New Zealand and South America.
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Twenty One Pilots are ready for the world to hear their upcoming eighth studio album, Breach. In fact, they’re so excited about it that they’re planning a global listening event at record stores across the world a week before the LP’s release date (Sept. 12).
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The band announced the roster of indie record retailers that will host the album replays on Sept. 6 and 7, which will also include exclusive giveaways. According to a map posted by the band, the events are currently scheduled to take place in nearly every state in the U.S.; at press time there were no parties planned in Iowa, Arkansas, Hawaii or New Mexico, though the band said more locations will be announced soon.
That means that fans in Arizona can pop into a local Zia Record in Tucson, or Grace Records in Gilbert, Run Out Groove Records in Burbank, Programme Skate & Sound in Fullerton or 1-2-3-4 Go! Records in Oakland (all in California), while Ohio residents can pop in to Republic of Athens Records in Athens, Magnolia Thunderpussy in Columbus or Toxic Beauty Records in Yellow Springs.
In addition to multiple locations in each state, the sessions will also be held on Sept. 10 in Vancouver, Edmonton, Toronto and Montreal in Canada, Sept. 11 in Mexico City, the Netherlands, Hungary, Switzerland, Austria, Spain and Germany, Sept. 10 in Poland, Ireland and France and Sept. 6 across the U.K. Down Under Skeleton Clique members can pop into shops in Sydney, Brisbane and Melbourne and Auckland on Sept. 10 and 11, while on Sept. 11 fans in Japan can log into a YouTube listening party and those in South Africa can pop into Surfarosa in Cape Town.
Limited edition picture discs will be available at each location beginning while supplies last.
So far, the duo has released the single “The Contract” from the album that will thematically continue the narrative arc that began with 2015’s Blurryface and continued on 2018’s Trench, 2021’s Scaled and Icy and 2024’s Clancy. 21P will kick off the Clancy Tour: Breach 2025 stadium/amphitheater run on Sept. 18 with a show at Cincinnati’s TQL Stadium.
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Spotify has struck a new direct licensing agreement with Kobalt. The news follows about six months after the streaming service struck agreements with other top publishers — Universal Music Publishing Group and Warner Chappell — both of which reported at the time that their deals with Spotify improved remuneration for songwriters on the platform.
Details of the deal remain limited, but a source familiar with the matter says it positions Kobalt to earn beyond the baseline mechanical royalties set by the U.S. Copyright Royalty Board. Kobalt’s CEO, Laurent Hubert, calls the company’s direct deal with Spotify a “step in the right direction” which “reaffirms our unwavering commitment to ensuring our songwriters are paid fairly for their work, and underscores the importance of progressive licensing models that reflect the real-world use of music across digital platforms.”
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Spotify has had strained relations with music publishers and songwriters at different points throughout its history, due to royalty rate disputes, but tensions intensified in March 2024 when Spotify began paying a significantly lessened royalty rate for streams on its premium tiers to songwriters and publishers. This occurred as a result of Spotify reclassifying those tiers as “bundles,” a type of plan that qualifies for a discounted rate on U.S. mechanical royalties given that multiple products — in this case, Spotify’s music and newly added audiobooks — are both offered under one price tag.
At the time, Billboard estimated that this change will lead songwriters and publishers to earn about $150 million less in royalties for the first year bundling is in effect, compared to what was projected pre-bundling. More recently, at the National Music Publishers’ Association’s (NMPA) annual meeting in June 2025, the trade organization representing UMPG, WCM, Kobalt and the vast majority of other publishers reported that the bundle actually led to a loss of $230 million in the first year.
While the NMPA has lead a broad campaign against Spotify’s bundling practices since March 2024, by January 2025, several major players in the music publishing industry had begun exploring private deals with the streaming platform. UMG announced a recording and publishing deal with Spotify first — becoming the first direct deal between Spotify and a publisher since the passage of the Music Modernization Act in 2018. The deal impacted both UMG’s recorded music and publishing royalty rates and included language about protection for UMG talent through Spotify’s fraud detection and enforcement systems.
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A Spotify spokesperson told Billboard at the time: “Spotify maintains its bundle, but with this direct deal, it has evolved to account for broader rights, including a different economic treatment for music and non-music content.”
WCM followed shortly after, while Kobalt is the third to follow suit. A press release about Spotify’s Kobalt deal says it will “deliver greater flexibility, efficiency, value, and protections to songwriters in the US.”
Still, Spotify has yet to strike a similar deal with Sony Music Publishing, the largest publisher in the world. A source close to Spotify reveals that while they are having positive discussions with them, there is no deal to date.
“This deal reflects the collaborative efforts between Kobalt and Spotify in building a licensing framework to enable new formats, innovations, and potential to connect creators and fans alike. The deal also reflects a broader shift toward licensing structures that allow songwriters to participate more directly in the value their work creates on streaming platforms,” the press release continues.
While Spotify works to secure direct licenses with music publishers, the company is also working to roll out new features, many of which require the music publishers’ cooperation to go through. According to the Wall Street Journal, Spotify is working on a “remix” feature to speed up, mash up and otherwise edit sound recordings. It is also working on licensing music videos in countries around the world — both of which are expected to be part of Spotify’s teased ultra-premium tier. As the NMPA warned Spotify in a cease and desist letter to the streamer last year, “any such feature … without the proper licenses in place from our members… may constitute additional direct infringement,” serving as a warning shot to the streamer.
“We’ve always believed that better partnerships lead to better outcomes,” says Alex Norström, co-president & Chief Business Officer, Spotify. “This agreement with Kobalt boosts our support of songwriters through a licensing model that unlocks new growth and will expand the way music is made and shared today.”
Kobalt’s Hubert, adds: “As the largest independent music publisher dedicated to fighting for the rights of songwriters, this deal reaffirms our unwavering commitment to ensuring our songwriters are paid fairly for their work, and underscores the importance of progressive licensing models that reflect the real-world use of music across digital platforms. This partnership is a step in the right direction, and we look forward to continuing to work with Spotify to increase the value of songwriter royalties.”
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