Colombian musician Maluma has paused his recent show in Mexico City to stand up for one of his youngest concertgoers and their fragile ears.

The incident, which took place during the singer’s three-night run of shows at Palacio de los Deportes, saw the chart-topping artist focus his attention on an audience member who had brought a young child along to the show – apparently without proper ear protection.

“With all due respect… how old are they?” Maluma can be heard asking the child’s guardian in a video shared online, per Variety. “A year old? Less? A year. Do you think it’s a good idea to bring a one-year-old baby to a concert where the decibels are this f–king high? Where is the sound this loud? 

“That baby doesn’t even know what it’s doing here,” he added. “Next time, protect their ears or something. For real. It’s heavy. It’s your responsibility. You’re waving them around like they’re a toy. That baby doesn’t want to be there, for real. 

“I’m telling you with all love and respect, now that I’m a father… would never bring them to a concert. For the next time, be a bit more aware.”

As Maluma mentioned, he and partner Susana Gomez welcomed their first child last year, with Paris Londoño Gomez being born on March 9, 2024. The musician shared his first photos with his daughter just two weeks later, accompanying the post with a caption that read, “My first 15 days as a Dad, this is the best I’ve ever lived in my Life.”

The recent incident took place as part of Maluma’s +Pretty +Dirty World Tour, which launched in Spain in March before touring throughout Europe and Latin America until May. The current run of dates in Mexico launched in Mexico City on Aug. 6 and will wrap with a date in Guadalajara on Aug. 16 before the larger tour finishes with a show in El Salvador on Aug. 23.

Art Fein, a longtime fixture of the Los Angeles music scene who achieved his greatest success as the host of Art Fein’s Poker Party, a music-focused public access TV show, died on July 30. He succumbed to heart failure while recuperating from surgery for a broken hip. He was 79.

Art Fein’s Poker Party, which debuted in 1984 as Lil Art’s Poker Party and ran for 24 years, drew such guests as Brian Wilson, Alison Krauss & Union Station, Love with Arthur Lee, Dwight Yoakam, Spirit, Dion, Joe Strummer, Etta James, and session musician Carol Kaye, a member of the fabled Wrecking Crew.  And that’s just for starters.

Each episode ran for 30 minutes, and featured conversation and performances. Many of the videos are archived at Fein’s YouTube channel.

“Terribly saddened to hear that Art Fein, producer/manager, music historian and really, the Ed Sullivan of public access TV, has passed away,” bass player Toni Pambianco wrote on X. “He’ll be greatly missed.”

Fein especially liked to give a platform to roots music artists such as zydeco star Clifton Chenier, Jerry “Swamp Dogg” Williams, and Ray Campi & the Rockabilly Rebels. Fein was influential in putting a spotlight on this genre, long before the Recording Academy added dedicated categories to recognize this music, namely best regional roots music album in 2012, best American roots song in 2014 and best American roots performance in 2015.

“He just did such a great job,” Rosie Flores told writer Randy Lewis, who wrote a detailed tribute/biography following Fein’s death. “We could get on television, you know, and we weren’t famous people – a lot of us weren’t famous — but we were cool, and he would give us airtime and who else was doing that? Nobody.”

Fein was quick to capitalize on a 1984 FCC policy that allowed cities to require a public-access channel any time they enter into a franchise agreement with a cable company. The show was taped in Los Angeles, where Fein relocated in 1971 after college, but also aired on local-access channels in Austin, Texas, a stronghold of roots music, and, on a less regular basis, New York City and Seattle. It was at a taping of the show at Century Cable in Santa Monica, Calif. that Fein met his wife, Jennifer, who worked there.

The show was an ideal vehicle for Fein, showcasing his passion for music and his gregarious personality in a way that regular, 9-to-5 jobs never had. In the 1970s, Fein had worked in promotion or publicity for three record companies — Capitol, Elektra/Asylum and Casablanca — but he didn’t last more than a year at any of them. He was also music editor for Variety for about a year. That wasn’t a good fit for his talents and temperament, either.

The show is where he really flowered. In 1992, when the show was eight years and 400 episodes into its run, The Los Angeles Times ran a major feature on Fein and his show. The writer of the piece, Bob Baker, noted that prior to the show, Fein “had been making an uneven living in the margins of rock music —working as a music consultant on films and TV shows, writing freelance articles, writing album liner notes and, for a couple years, managing the Blasters.”

“If this show is a springboard, I’ll be mighty happy,” Fein told Baker, “but if it’s not, I’m having a ball doing what I want to do. I’ve always had an artistic temperament, but before I started the show I never had any art. I couldn’t sing; I didn’t want to write a novel. But this is something I feel really good about. I almost feel like a knight going off to battle when I leave the house, like I’m going to really say something.”

Fein was a catalyst who loved nothing more than making things happen (he was less concerned with whether he got paid for his role). He played The Blasters’ “Marie Marie” for Shakin’ Stevens, who recorded it and landed a top 20 hit on the Official U.K. Singles Chart in 1980. He organized annual events such as an annual Elvis Birthday Bash, held on or around The King’s Jan. 8 birthday each year for more than four decades, and a New Year’s Eve Bash for six years from 1978 to 1984.

Arthur David Fein was born on June 17, 1946, and was adopted at birth by Sam and Lillian Fein. The music bug bit him when he was 10, which is also, not coincidentally, when Elvis Presley, Jerry Lee Lewis, Chuck Berry and other rock and roll icons exploded.

In his 2022 memoir, Rock’s in My Head, Fein wrote about accidentally catching Presley on The Ed Sullivan Show in January 1957. “My life changed in a lightning bolt,” he wrote. “Who was this side-burned Pied Piper from outer space with slick black hair like Superman, and just as handsome? … What was this music? This was rock & roll!”

Fein became an even bigger fan of Lewis. “If Elvis was God, Jerry Lee Lewis was the Prince of Darkness,” he wrote.

Fein graduated from the University of Colorado, Boulder at the end of the 1960s with a degree in journalism. He moved to California in 1971, living for a couple of years just south of Santa Cruz. In 1973, he moved to L.A. He had a brief stint at Capitol in the label’s newly-created college promotion department. The department was eliminated less than a year later.

Fein freelanced music articles for a time before being hired as music editor at Variety. That job didn’t last long either, nor did subsequent jobs in publicity at Elektra/Asylum and Casablanca. Some people just aren’t cut out for 9-to-5 gigs.

Fein did better working for himself. He hung out his shingle as an artist manager, working with Ray Campi & the Rockabilly Rebels, The Blasters, The Cramps and The Heaters. In 1983, he produced the album, (Art Fein Presents) The Best of L.A. Rockabilly. He was a music consultant for TV and film — Roadhouse 66 (1984), Tour of Duty (1987) and Blood Diner (1987).

Fein was also a successful author. He wrote three books: The L.A. Musical History Tour: A Guide to the Rock and Roll Landmarks of Los Angeles (Faber & Faber, 1991, with a second edition published by 2.13.61 in 1998); The Greatest Rock & Roll Stories: The Most Outrageous, Magical and Scandalous Events in the History of Rock & Roll (Rhino/GPG, 1997); and the memoir Rock’s in My Head (Trouser Press Books, 2022).

In The L.A. Musical History Tour, Fein told readers where to find such L.A. rock sites as the Foster’s Freeze in Hawthorne where The Beach Boys hung out; Morrison Hotel, where The Doors shot the cover photo for their 1970 album of the same name; and the location of the “Rock & Roll Denny’s.”

He also wrote a blog, Another Fein Mess. Dispatches from 1998 to 2017 are archived at Fein’s website.

Fein had a long and complicated friendship with Phil Spector. Fein had long idolized the legendary producer and creator of the Wall of Sound. The first place Fein stopped when he arrived in L.A. in 1973 was the now-defunct Gold Star Recording Studios in Hollywood, where Spector produced sessions by such acts as The Crystals and The Righteous Brothers. Over the years, Fein brought many friends, including Gene Sculatti, Bob Merlis, Dick Blackburn, Kristine McKenna and me, to Spector’s home for visits.

Fein remained loyal even after Spector shot and killed actress Lana Clarkson at his home in 2003. He attempted to stay in touch even after Spector was convicted of second-degree murder in 2009 and was sentenced to 19 years to life in prison. But eventually, Fein seemed to accept that he had been loyal to a fault.

“I wrote to him 15 times when he was in prison and never got an answer,” Fein revealed in his memoir. “By the time he died, on January 16, 2021, at the age of 81, I had completed my mourning.”

Journalist Chris Morris (a former Billboard writer and editor), summarized Fein’s unique collection of strengths in a review of Fein’s memoir: “Art has served rock & roll as scribe, flack, label guy, manager, promoter, TV host, kibitzer, schmoozer, and all-around good Joe. He has known the famous, infamous, nefarious, and fabulous denizens of the music and lived to tell the tale.”

Fein is survived by his wife, Jennifer, and their daughter, Jessie.

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While Walmart has daily rollback deals online, one of the best ways to score a deeper discount at the department store is by signing up for Walmart+. And there’s no better time to do it, as the retailer is launching some new music and entertainment perks exclusively for Walmart+ members.

One of them is a free one-month trial to YouTube Premium, the subscription service that lets you watch YouTube videos and playlists without ads. You can also access YouTube movies and listen to more than 100 million songs on YouTube ad-free. And YouTube Premium lets you watch content offline and in the background too.

Walmart+ members can get 30 days of YouTube Premium for free – a $13.99 value. Choose to continue with the program and your next two months of YouTube Premium are 50% off with your Walmart+ membership. See full details on this limited-time off here.

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Morgan Wallen’s I’m the Problem nets a 10th nonconsecutive week atop the Billboard 200 chart (dated Aug. 16). The set earned 136,000 equivalent album units in the United States in the week ending Aug. 7 (down 5%), according to Luminate. I’m the Problem debuted at No. 1 on the May 31-dated chart, spent it first eight weeks in the pole position, stepped away from the top for two frames, and then returned to No. 1 for the last two consecutive weeks.

Also in the top 10 of the latest Billboard 200, Reneé Rapp and $uicideBoy$ score their highest-charting albums ever, while Yeat collects his sixth top 10-charted set.

The Billboard 200 chart ranks the most popular albums of the week in the U.S. based on multi-metric consumption as measured in equivalent album units, compiled by Luminate. Units comprise album sales, track equivalent albums (TEA) and streaming equivalent albums (SEA). Each unit equals one album sale, or 10 individual tracks sold from an album, or 3,750 ad-supported or 1,250 paid/subscription on-demand official audio and video streams generated by songs from an album. The new Aug. 16, 2025-dated chart will be posted in full on Billboard‘s website on Aug. 12. For all chart news, follow @billboard and @billboardcharts on both X, formerly known as Twitter, and Instagram.

Of I’m the Problem’s 136,000 equivalent album units earned in the week ending Aug. 7, SEA units comprise 131,000 (up 2%, equaling 172.27 million on-demand official streams of the set’s songs — it leads Top Streaming Albums for an 11th nonconsecutive week), album sales comprise 4,000 (down 5% — it rises 16-13 on Top Album Sales) and TEA units comprise 1,000 (down 26%).

Cumulatively, Wallen’s three No. 1 albums (I’m the Problem, One Thing at a Time and Dangerous: The Double Album) have spent a total of 39 weeks at No. 1 on the Billboard 200. That ties him with Elton John for the fourth-most weeks at No. 1 among male artists in the chart’s history, which dates to March 1956, when the chart began publishing on a regular weekly basis. Among male artists, the leaders are: Elvis Presley (67 weeks), Garth Brooks (52), Michael Jackson (51), John and Wallen (39 each), Harry Belafonte and Drake (37 each). Among all artists, The Beatles have the most weeks at No. 1, with 132 across 19 No. 1 albums.

I’m the Problem has now spent 10 weeks at No. 1, One Thing at a Time ruled for 19 nonconsecutive weeks in 2023-34 and Dangerous: The Double Album was tops for 10 straight weeks in 2021.

In total, only six acts, including Wallen, have at least three albums that have spent at least 10 weeks at No. 1. He joins The Beatles and Elvis Presley (four such albums each); Whitney Houston, The Kingston Trio, Taylor Swift and Wallen (three each). Additionally, Wallen is the only act to spend at least 10 weeks at No. 1 with three consecutive full-length albums.

The KPop Demon Hunters soundtrack holds at No. 2 on the Billboard 200, with 100,000 equivalent album units earned (its best week yet by units earned — up 7%). The set has posted a gain every week since its debut on the list seven weeks ago.

Reneé Rapp achieves her highest-charted album yet (and first top 10) as BITE ME bows at No. 3 on the Billboard 200 with 64,000 equivalent album units earned — the singer-songwriter-actress’ biggest week by units. Of that sum, album sales comprise 47,000 (her best sales frame ever, it debuts at No. 1 on Top Album Sales), SEA units comprise 17,000 (equaling 21.85 million on-demand official streams of the set’s songs, it debuts at No. 34 on Top Streaming Albums) and TEA units comprise a negligible sum.

Rapp previously placed one entry on the Billboard 200, Snow Angel, which debuted and peaked at No. 44 in 2023.

BITE ME’s first-week sales were bolstered by its availability across 11 vinyl variants (including signed editions) and five CD variants (including signed editions).

$uicideBoy$ earn their highest-charted album as THY KINGDOM COME debuts at No. 4 on the Billboard 200 with 57,000 equivalent album units earned. It’s the fifth top 10 set for the hip-hop duo, who had previously gone as high as No. 5 with their last charted project, 2024’s New World Depression. Of THY KINGDOM COME’s first-week units, SEA units comprise 34,000 (equaling 45.48 million on-demand official streams of the set’s songs — it debuts at No. 6 on Top Streaming Albums), album sales comprise 23,000 (it debuts at No. 2 on Top Album Sales, boosted by its availability across six vinyl variants) and TEA units comprise a negligible sum.

Justin Bieber’s SWAG is a non-mover on the Billboard 200 at No. 5 (44,000 equivalent album units earned, down 16%), Alex Warren’s You’ll Be Alright, Kid climbs 8-6 (nearly 44,000, down 8%), Wallen’s chart-topping One Thing at a Time rises 11-7 (39,000, up 1%) and SZA’s former No. 1 SOS is up 12-8 (36,000, down 5%).

Yeat collects his sixth top 10-charted effort as DANGEROUS SUMMER starts at No. 9 with 34,000 equivalent album units earned. Of that sum, SEA units comprise 18,000 (equaling 25.83 million on-demand official streams of its songs — it debuts at No. 29 on Top Streaming Albums), album sales comprise 16,000 (boosted by its availability across three CD variants, all signed, exclusive to his webstore, it debuts at No. 3 on Top Album Sales) and TEA units comprise a negligible sum.

Sabrina Carpenter’s chart-topping Short n’ Sweet rounds out the latest top 10, as it climbs 16-10 with 30,000 equivalent album units earned (up 5%).

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.

Kourtney Kardashian is speaking out after facing backlash over a photo of her 21-month-old son, Rocky Thirteen, seen on a boat without a life jacket.

On Friday (Aug. 8), the 46-year-old reality star — who shares Rocky with her husband, Blink-182 drummer Travis Barker — posted a series of Instagram snapshots, one of which showed her young son on a boat without a life vest, sparking criticism online.

Other photos in the post suggested the family was vacationing in Idaho, where state law requires children 14 and under to wear a life jacket while on a boat.

“Great photo except for the fact the child has no life jacket on,” one user commented. Another urged, “Please, please put a life jacket on that sweet babe!” A third wrote, “You gotta make sure the kids are wearing life vests at all times! Just like you wouldn’t drive them around without a seatbelt/car seat. Water is so unpredictable and can be devastatingly dangerous.”

In response to the criticism, Kardashian addressed the controversy the next day through her Instagram Story.

“Update: bought a life vest that fits!” she wrote over a photo of an infant-sized life jacket. “Good looking out. Honestly didn’t think about some of the dangers. Thank you for making me aware and hopefully this helps make other mommies aware of the dangers of certain types of boating without a life vest.”

The original image showed Kardashian seated at the back of a boat while holding Rocky, whom she welcomed in November 2023 with Barker. The Lemme founder is also mom to three children with ex-partner Scott Disick: sons Mason, 15, and Reign, 10, as well as daughter Penelope, 13.

Other snapshots from Kardashian’s Instagram post included a mirror selfie of herself in a bodysuit, scenic views of the lake, and a variety of meals enjoyed during the trip. “Food for the soul,” she captioned the post.