Sebastian Yatra’s “La Pelirroja” rallies to the top of Billboard’s Latin Airplay chart, leaping from No. 7 to No. 1, on the July 5-dated tally. The achievement marks Yatra’s 12th chart-topper, tying with Enrique Iglesias for the most No. 1s by a male Latin pop solo artist from the 2010s onwards.

“La Pelirroja” was released March 21 as the third single from his fourth studio album, Milagro, which took the Colombian to a No. 9 debut on the Top Latin Pop Albums chart in May. The song takes the lead on the overall Latin Airplay tally after a 49% gain in audience impressions, to 8.2 million, earned in the United States in the tracking week ending June 26, according to Luminate.

Further, “La Pelirroja” rises with the Greatest Gainer honors, granted weekly to the song with the largest audience increase among the 50 titles on the tally. Four Univision stations are among the song’s stronger supporters during the tracking week, starting with WVIV-FM (Chicago), KAMA-FM (Houston), KVVF-FM (San Jose) and KDDX-FM (Dallas).

Yatra’s new No. 1 coronation grants him a 12th win on Latin Airplay, which puts him on a tie with Enrique Iglesias for the most rulers among male Latin pop soloists since the 2010s decade. Among all Latin pop solo performers, Shakira continues to lead with 16 champs since 2010. . Overall, J Balvin continues to lead with 37 No. 1s since Latin Airplay began in 1994.

Among Yatra’s 12 chart-toppers, “La Pelirroja” becomes his second without a collaborator, after “Tacones Rojos” ruled for one week in 2022.

Elsewhere, the song holds steady at No. 1 on the Latin Pop Airplay for a second week, where it became Yatra’s 10th ruler on the June 28-dated list.

A band called The Velvet Sundown has made waves in the music industry over the last week due to allegations that the images and songs on its Spotify profile were AI-generated. Now, in a new conversation with Rolling Stone, a so-called “adjunct” member of the band, Andrew Frelon, admits to using AI music company Suno in the creation of some of its songs, calling the whole project an “art hoax.”

“It’s marketing. It’s trolling. People before, they didn’t care about what we did, and now suddenly we’re talking to Rolling Stone, so it’s like ‘Is that wrong?’” Frelon told the outlet.

Frelon reportedly changed his story multiple times during the interview. First, he said Suno’s tools were only used in the brainstorming of the writing process; later, he admitted to using Suno but “not in the final product.” Later in the interview, he again changed his position, saying at least some of the songs were generated by Suno, but that he didn’t “want to say which ones.” Of the tools in Suno’s suite of features, Frelon cited using Persona, a product released in October 2024 that allows users to remix songs on the Suno platform into new genres and styles.

The Persona tool was also recently employed by Timbaland in the creation of his controversial AI artist TaTa, which is part of the artist and producer’s new AI entertainment company Stage Zero. (Timbaland has been a strategic advisor for Suno since October 2024.)

“Personally, I’m interested in art hoaxes,” Frelon added in the interview. “The Leeds 13, a group of art students in the U.K., made, like, fake photos of themselves spending scholarship money at a beach or something like that, and it became a huge scandal. I think that stuff’s really interesting … We live in a world now where things that are fake have sometimes even more impact than things that are real. And that’s messed up, but that’s the reality that we face now. So it’s like, ‘Should we ignore that reality? Should we ignore these things that kind of exist on a continuum of real versus fake or kind of a blend between the two? Or should we dive into it and just let it be the emerging native language of the internet?’”

The Velvet Sundown became a viral sensation last week after the band’s Spotify profile was posted to Reddit by a user who accused the band of being AI-generated. At the time, Sundown’s top song had just over 100,000 plays on the platform, but after the Reddit post spurred widespread discussion about the band — and AI music in general — listens for its top song have climbed to 675,000 and counting.

The band is just one example of many, however. French streamer Deezer reported this spring that 18% of songs delivered to them every day are now fully AI-generated, equating to about 20,000 new AI songs daily.

Last month, “A Million Colors” by Vinih Pray became the first-known AI-generated song to rank on the TikTok charts. The song, which has since been removed from TikTok, peaked at No. 44 on the TikTok Viral 50 and was used by hundreds of thousands of users on the platform, including Kylie Jenner, who used the song to soundtrack a makeup tutorial with 1.7 million likes. To date, it has over 1 million plays on Spotify.

So far, most streaming services, including Spotify, do not have policies specific to AI music on their platforms. Among the streamers, Deezer has taken the lead. Since January, the company has spoken out about how the company plans to regulate AI content on the platform. Now, anything that Deezer’s proprietary AI detection tool flags as fully AI-generated is removed from its algorithm and is ineligible for playlisting, although users can still listen to the tracks via search. All AI songs on the platform will also be tagged to ensure that users know what they are listening to. The Velvet Sundown’s artist page on Deezer currently displays this tag.

Nelly and Ashanti know a thing or two about making hits. The couple stopped by Cocoa Butter on Tuesday (July 1), where the St. Louis native played a game to narrow down and pick his favorite song by his wife.

For the first round, Nelly went with “Baby” over “Foolish.” He had Ashanti cackling after he asked her about which video actor Larenz Tate starred in, which happens to be “Rain on Me.”

He continued to ride the “Baby” train while choosing the 2002 hit from Ashanti’s self-titled debut album over “Happy” and “Rock Wit U.”

Nelly had to do some thinking when it came to “Rain on Me,” but the timing of the track’s arrival in regard to their relationship rubbed him the wrong way. “‘Rain on Me’ was at a different time in our relationship,” he said. “We gon’ slide ‘Rain on Me’ along like that and stick with ‘Baby.’”

Next in the gauntlet came a couple of Ja Rule-assisted anthems with “Always on Time” and “Mesmerize.” “See all of these are great records,” Nelly said. “Yeah, some of them are with my brother Ja [Rule], ‘Baby’ is just my wife, [so] I’m gonna ride with ‘Baby.’”

Perhaps it’s because Nelly and Ashanti welcomed their first baby last July, but the Country Grammar artist is sticking with “Baby. “I’m a Scorpio man, so I stick to what I know and love and that’s ‘Baby,’” he claimed.

So it ended up being “Baby” supremacy for Nelly. “I love ‘Baby.’ That’s one of my favorite Ashanti records,” he added.

“Baby” served as a standout on Ashanti’s 2002 self-titled debut. The Chink Santana- and Irv Gotti-produced hit — which samples Scarface’s “Mary Jane” — reached No. 15 on the Billboard Hot 100. Actress Nia Long makes a cameo in the Murder Inc. anthem’s video.

Ashanti and Nelly embarked on a recent press run in support of their Nelly & Ashanti: We Belong Together reality series, which was released June 26 on Peacock. The unscripted show will give fans a peek behind the curtain of life as partners and parents for the celebrity couple, who rekindled their romance in 2023.

Watch the clip below.

Diddy‘s son King Combs spoke with the press outside the courthouse after his father was acquitted of three of five charges against him, and he’s celebrating the mixed verdict.

ABC 7 caught up with him as he celebrated while playing his new song “Diddy Free” from his recently released EP Never Stop, which is executive produced by Ye (formerly Kanye West), and expressed happiness and gratitude to reporters. “We love y’all. We love everybody watching. I’m so happy,” Combs said. “Pops coming home. God bless the whole world.”

On Wednesday (July 2), Sean “Diddy” Combs was convicted on two counts of illegal prostitution and is facing a maximum of 20 years, while being acquitted of more serious sex-trafficking and racketeering charges that could’ve put him behinds bars for 15 years to life, with the jury deliberating for two days after a trial that lasted seven weeks.

Diddy was taken into custody on Sept. 16, 2024 and was denied bail after pleading not guilty to charges that included sex trafficking and racketeering. This whole ordeal started when his former girlfriend Cassie Ventura filed a lawsuit claiming that the fallen mogul abused her for years. In a statement to Billboard, her lawyer Douglas H. Wigdor, commending her courage for coming forward. “This entire criminal process started when our client Cassie Ventura had the courage to file her civil complaint in November 2023,” he said. “Although the jury did not find Combs guilty of sex trafficking Cassie beyond a reasonable doubt, she paved the way for a jury to find him guilty of transportation to engage in prostitution. By coming forward with her experience, Cassie has left an indelible mark on both the entertainment industry and the fight for justice.”

Diddy and his attorneys will more than likely file an appeal once his sentence is finalized. For now, he’s been denied bail and will remain behind bars until his sentencing.