Drake is hard at work finishing his ninth solo album Iceman — even if everyone around him isn’t working at all.

During a Kick stream with Adin Ross, the Toronto rapper said he planned to burn the midnight oil to work on his upcoming project while there was some sort of party outside of where he was recording.

“I’ll stay up all night f—ing recording for Iceman,” he told Ross. “They’re having a full-blown party outside. I can hear a thousand people, them having a street festival all day. I’ll f—ing run out there. I’ll turn up with them, do shots, come back — like, I just want a little, you know, I wanna feel it.”

Elsewhere on the stream, Adin revealed he’s had the privilege of already listening to the highly anticipated project, but Drake wasn’t exactly enamored with the way he delivered the news.

“I’ve already listened to the whole Iceman album. I already listened to everything, he sent me the whole album early… Great album,” the popular streamer told the chat before Drake responded with, “Now people are gonna say that you’re underwhelmed by it when you f—ing talking about it like that.”

“It was f—ing amazing,” Adin then answered.

This wasn’t the first time Drake worked on new music while a party was happening near where he was recording. A few months back, OVO signee Smiley said he noticed his label boss working on new music during parties and while filming the “Nokia” music video.

“We’re at a party and he was in the other room by himself eating pasta with wired headphones writing music while we have a whole f—ing party going on,” Smiley said in a clip shared on social media. “He’s on a different mode right now. Even at the ‘Nokia’ video shoot…in the breaks, he had a bunch of producers and was just recording. So, he’s in that crazy mode right now. You see his captions…the man’s talkin’ his sh– because he’s in that mode right now.”

Iceman does not have an official release date yet.

Amid Warner Music Group’s stated efforts to cut annual costs by $300 million, several veteran promotion executives at Atlantic Records were laid off at the label last week after decades in the trenches, Billboard has confirmed.

They include Greg Dorfman, executive vp of promotion; John McMann, executive vp of pop and rhythmic promotion; Tim Dalbec, vp of promotion; and Mark Chotiner, regional director of West Coast promotion. All four executives spent decades with either Atlantic or the larger Warner Music Group (WMG). The layoffs were first reported by RAMP.

Dorfman is a 30-year WMG veteran, having started in radio promotion at Warner before joining Elektra Records in 1994; he was named executive vp of promotion at Elektra Music Group in 2020. McMann, who worked at Atlantic Records for 25 years, joined the label as vp of rhythmic promotion in 2000; prior to that, he worked at Jive Records after beginning his career in radio. Dalbec was at Atlantic for 35 years after starting at the label in 1989 in Northwest promotions, while 35-year industry vet Chotiner had been with Atlantic for roughly 17 years.

Representatives at Atlantic were not reachable at press time.

In July, WMG CEO Robert Kyncl announced the $300 million in annual cost cuts in a staff memo, stating the savings would be achieved through a combination of layoffs and slashing administration and real estate expenses. Kyncl noted that the staff cuts would account for $170 million of the total amount. In the memo, he contextualized the cuts as “the remaining steps in our plan to help future-proof the company and unlock the next era of growth,” adding that the money would be reinvested in the company’s A&R and mergers and acquisitions (M&A) efforts.

Kyncl added that the current wave of layoffs would be the end of a series of staff reductions that began early in 2023, when he assumed the CEO role. A September 2024 round saw significant staff cuts at Atlantic Music Group, with sources estimating that a total of 150 to 175 employees would lose their jobs. The job cuts followed a substantial restructuring at Atlantic Music Group in August 2024, which saw 10K Projects founder Elliot Grainge taking over as CEO and longtime Atlantic leader Julie Greenwald exiting the company. Layoffs have also hit Warner Records and Warner Music Nashville, most recently via a realignment of the Warner Records marketing department.

Jennifer Lopez wasn’t buggin’ when a creepy crawler interrupted one of her recent shows.

In a bada– moment from a concert posted to an official JLo fan account’s Instagram Sunday (Aug. 10), the singer-actress keeps totally calm while singing a tender ballad, even as a large cricket crawls up her chest and onto her neck. Right as the song finishes, Lopez grabs the cricket and whisks it aside in perfect time with the percussion fading away. “It was tickling me!” she tells the crowd, laughing.

In the caption, her fan account wrote, “Plot twist: @JLo just started rehearsals for Kiss of the Cricket Woman… on stage… in real time,” referencing the upcoming Lopez-led film Kiss of the Spider Woman.

The cricket cameo comes on the tail end of the performer’s Up All Night tour, which kicked off in Spain in July. Following a penultimate show in Kazakhstan on Sunday, Lopez is set to close out the trek on Tuesday (Aug. 12) in Italy. After the tour, she’ll play a handful of dates at The Colosseum at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas with shows planned for this December as well as January and March of next year.

And while her run-in with the cricket is certainly memorable, it’s not the first time Lopez has handled an onstage snafu with style. When she suffered a wardrobe malfunction at a recent performance, for instance, the musician — whose skirt inexplicably fell off her body mid-show — shrugged it off like a pro.

“I’m glad I had underwear on,” she joked with the crowd. “I don’t usually wear underwear.”

HUNTR/X’s “Golden,” from the soundtrack to the hit animated film KPop Demon Hunters, scores a fourth nonconsecutive week at No. 1 on both the Billboard Global 200 and Billboard Global Excl. U.S. charts. In July, the song became the first leader on each list for the act, whose music is voiced by EJAE, Audrey Nuna and REI AMI.

Plus, Chappell Roan’s “The Subway” rides onto the Global 200 at No. 3, marking her highest career rank, and No. 10 on Global Excl. U.S.

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.

“Golden” tops the Global 200 with 118.2 million streams (up 4% week-over-week) and 13,000 sold (up 30%) worldwide in the week ending Aug. 7.

Alex Warren’s “Ordinary” holds at No. 2 on the Global 200 after 10 weeks on top beginning in May.

Chappell Roan’s “The Subway” tunnels onto the Global 200 at No. 3 with 55 million streams and 8,000 sold Aug. 1-7, following the recording’s July 31 release (after fans waited patiently for it to arrive). It’s the singer-songwriter’s best debut and rank, as she adds her third top 10: “Good Luck, Babe!” rose to No. 5 last September and “The Giver” entered at its No. 10 peak in March.

On Global Excl. U.S., “The Subway” starts at No. 10 with 30.3 million streams and 3,000 sold outside the U.S. Chappell Roan scores her second top 10 on the chart, after “Pink Pony Club” hit No. 7 last October.

Rounding out the Global 200’s top five are two more songs from KPop Demon Hunters: Saja Boys’ “Soda Pop,” down to No. 4 from its No. 3 high, and “Your Idol,” which ascends 6-5 also after hitting No. 3.

“Golden” leads Global Excl. U.S. with 87.4 million streams (up 3%) and 7,000 sold (up 24%) outside the U.S.

“Ordinary” lifts 3-2 on Global Excl. U.S., following eight weeks at No. 1 starting in May; BLACKPINK’s “Jump” falls 2-3, three weeks after it launched at No. 1; “Soda Pop” rises 5-4 for a new best; and Faheem Abdullah’s “Saiyaara” slips to No. 5 from its No. 4 high.

The Billboard Global 200 and Billboard Global Excl. U.S. charts (dated Aug. 16, 2025) will update on Billboard.com Tuesday, Aug. 12. For both charts, 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, formerly known as Twitter, and Instagram.

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