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It’s a Beatles celebration! In honor of Global Beatles Day (June 25), we’ve rounded up a collection of some of the coolest Beatles merchandise that you can find at Amazon and other retailers.

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If you’re unsure of what to get The Beatles fan in your life, we’re here to help. Celebrate John Lennon, George Harrison, Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr with our list of gift ideas that are perfect.

Keep reading for the best Beatles-inspired gear, including books, merch, apparel and other fun collectibles, and awesome gift ideas for dedicated fans of all ages.

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A fun way to hear The Beatles music, lullaby-style. This luminescent music box plays the band’s 1970 classic, “Let It Be,” plus it’s small enough to fit in the palm of your hand (it measures 3.3 x 3.3. inches).

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Paul McCartney released 1964: Eyes of the Storm. The book is comprised of 275 rare photos of The Beatles which McCartney snapped on a 35mm camera early in the band’s career.

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The Beatles Sgt. Pepper Drum Advent Calendar features 24-days of gifts such as a keyring, metal bookmark, dish towel, cookie cutters, socks, limited-edition pin badges and a replica of the Beatles’ Christmas card to fans.  

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Create a cool art piece with LEGO Art The Beatles Set. This 2,933-piece set for adults measures over 15.5-inches and features four build options, nine canvas wall decor plates, The Beatles’ signature tile, a brick-built LEGO frame, unique new hanging element and piece separator.

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Incorporate the Beatles aesthetic into your next card game. These premium playing cards are available in four different color editions dressed in the style of the 1967 album Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band.

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Lennon’s legendary style gets immortalized in the form of a Funko Pop! The figure is part of the Funko Pop! Rocks collection and stands almost 4 inches tall.

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All aboard! The Eurostar Beatles Submarine Train Set is perfect for collectors. The train set is a mini-recreation of the Eurostar 737 train wrapped in Beatles scenes from the 1968 musical-comedy, Yellow Submarine.

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Casley’s limited-edition Yellow Submarine Tin Box includes a Yellow Submarine | Beatles Case (Bold + MagSafe), and a Yellow Submarine | Beatles Power Pod all packed in a collectible tin.

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This collectible tin set holds 15 medium gauge guitar picks, each of which celebrates some of the legendary Beatles  images including Abbey Road, Sgt. Peppers and Revolver. Find additional Beatles-inspired guitar picks here.

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We couldn’t make the list without a Beatles T-shirt! This British flag Beatles logo tee is available in black, gray and navy blue in sizes S-5X.

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Also in the fashion department: a Beatles varsity jacket. This particular jacket is inspired by the band’s 1964 tour. You can also fid Beatles varsity jackets at Walmart, and Rockabilia.

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Josh Gad has joined the Kindle Kids Backseat Book Crew to encourage kids to read more this summer.

The Frozen actor and self-proclaimed “road trip expert” knows this sentiment well, given he’s always on the go. With summer travel plans made, kids wrangled and bags packed, sometimes the last thing on our minds is curling up with a good book. As a dad of two, Gad knows a thing or two about keeping kids entertained on a road trip. With Kindle’s help, his little ones and children all around the world will be able to cultivate a love of reading wherever their travels may take them, thanks to this virtual book club.

Josh Gad Helps Launch Kindle Kids Backseat Book Crew to Help Kids Read

<strong>Kindle Paperwhite Kids in Starfish </strong>

A kids Kindle with a starfish-themed cover.


“I remember probably up until the age of 14, dreading reading,” Gad tells Billboard. “It was like work and I didn’t want to do it … and then something clicked, and I fell in love with reading.”

To start your family’s reading journey, you can sign up now at kindlekidsbackseatbookcrew.com. Upon signing up, you will receive a members-only Backseat Book Crew Bundle filled with reading-themed stickers, a “Kindle Kid On Board” bumper sticker, reading recommendations for the summer, a patch and a 10% off promo code for your next Kindle Kids or Kindle Paperwhite Kids purchase on Amazon.com.

Josh Gad Helps Launch Kindle Kids Backseat Book Crew to Help Kids Read

Kindle Kids in Unicorn Valley

A kids Kindle with a unicorn-themed cover.


Gad explained that his kids are voracious readers, able to breeze through multiple stories quickly. Who has the space or time to carry six different hardcovers on a road trip? Certainly not Gad. Thus, the beauty of the Kindle. “Having a device like this, which my wife and I joke, is like screen time we can actually get behind, is amazing. Kids sit in the back seat. When we’re on a road trip, they will either read or listen to their books.”

Don’t have a Kindle? Right now, Kindle Kids is available for $129.99 on Amazon in whimsical Ocean Explorer, Space Whale and Unicorn Valley designs. You can also grab the Amazon Kindle Paperwhite Kids in Cyber City and Starfish style for $179.99, also on Amazon.

Kindle’s library features more than 10,000 books for children, available at their fingertips. No matter how fast of a reader your little one is, you’ll never run out of reading material. “The kids curate their own selections of authors and books and share with each other … and on average … kids who are using a Kindle will read at least one hour a day that, to me, is like manna from heaven,” Gad says. “Incentivizing kids to read. I’m like, yes, yes, yes, Sign me up.”

Josh Gad Helps Launch Kindle Kids Backseat Book Crew to Help Kids Read

<em>The Song of Achilles</em> by Madeline Miller

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A hardcover book that reimagines Homer’s enduring masterwork, The Iliad


I know you’re all dying to know: What does a busy celeb read on his time off on set? The answer might surprise you. “As of late, books that I’ve read that I’ve loved, James by Percival Everett,” the actor shares. “I’m obsessed with Madeleine Miller, who wrote both The Song of Achilles and Cersei … Erik Larson remains one of my favorite authors..In the Garden of Beasts or The Splendid and the Vile are great.”

Interestingly, Gad is also reading a lot of books about World War 2 and fascism to prep for his role in the upcoming project that takes place in that period. “None of these books I would call very entertaining, and none of these books are by choice,” Gad jokes.” As for music he’s currently bumping, Gad says he’s been going through a Kendrick Lamar phase: “My music is really defined right now by my children. So it’s lots of Sabrina (Carpenter), it’s lots of T-Swift, it’s lots of Kendrick, it’s lots of Beyonce … Charlie XCX. It’s it’s all the usual suspects.”

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A hardcover book that paints a historical narrative focusing on Winston Churchill’s first year as Prime Minister of Britain.


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The Contenders is a midweek column that looks at artists aiming for the top of the Billboard charts, and the strategies behind their efforts. This week, for the upcoming Billboard 200 dated July 5, we look at the new albums by Benson Boone and Karol G, two of the likeliest contenders to crash the chart’s top five. 

Benson Boone, American Heart (Night Street/Warner): In the past year and a half, Benson Boone has become one of the biggest new names in pop music, as the singer-songwriter has backflipped his way to stardom thanks to an energetic and physically stunning live show and a string of hit singles — starting with early 2024’s “Beautiful Things,” a No. 2-peaking Billboard Hot 100 smash still in the chart’s top 10 over a year later, which led his debut album Fireworks & Rollerblades that April. Now, he’s hoping to capitalize on all his recent positive momentum with his sophomore album, American Heart

Though the album has not yet produced a top 10 hit on the level of “Beautiful Things” with any of its advance tracks, it has already launched two top 30 hits into the Hot 100, the racing “Sorry I’m Here for Someone Else” and the fantastical “Mystical Magical” — both of which hit new peaks on the Hot 100 this week (Nos. 28 and 27, respectively). Consumption of both those hits should help boost the first-week numbers for American Heart, as might an in-joke-heavy video for new focus track “Mr. Electric Blue,” which debuted with the album on Friday (June 20), and features Boone poking fun of his reputation for backflip-overreliance and for only having one truly massive hit to his name so far.  

Also helping American Heart in its debut week — the album is available for physical purchase in more than five vinyl variants, as well as on standard CD and as part of a CD boxed set (with a T-shirt), and in two cassette editions. Perhaps not helping so much: The set’s early reviews, which have been mostly fairly nasty in their dismissals of the set. But every pop generation needs a couple young stars whose appeal absolutely flummoxes the critics, and Benson Boone appears well on his way to being one of those standard-bearers for Gen Z.  

Karol G, Tropicoqueta (Bichota/Interscope): After dominating 2023 with her Mañana Será Bonito set and its Bichota Season follow-up, Latin pop and reggaetón superstar Karol G is back with her new full-length set Tropicoqueta. The 20-track set features both big names of today (Feid, Greicy) and greats from an earlier generation (Manu Chao, Marco Antonio Solis) as Karol blends the contemporary with the classic on the set, in the vein of the recent retro-goes-modern stylings of Bad Bunny’s 2025 blockbuster Debí Tirar Mas Fotos.  

The set should stream well, and tracks from the album dotted the daily charts on both Spotify and Apple Music following the album’s Friday release — though none of them appear to be catching on as immediate breakout hits, and of the advance singles from the set, the only one to make a really lasting streaming impression was the now year-old “Si Antes Te Hubiera Conocido.” What’s more, Tropicoqueta’s debut will likely be hurt by its current lack of physical availability, with the set not due to be released for physical purchase until September.  

Regardless, it would have been unlikely to follow Mañana to another No. 1 debut on the Billboard 200, as Morgan Wallen’s I’m the Problem remains largely unmovable in the top spot after five weeks on top, as the streaming behemoth continues to pull in weekly units well into the six figures. Karol and Benson will be fighting for the No. 2 spot this week, with the final winner likely coming down to whether Karol’s more streaming-friendly set (American Hearts runs just 10 tracks to Tropicoqueta’s 20) can make up for the gap in sales from Benson’s myriad physical editions.  

HAIM, I Quit (Columbia): While the HAIM sisters have not had the Hot 100 presence of Benson Boone or Karol G in their now decade-plus careers, they’ve had consistent success on the Billboard 200, with each of their first three albums making the chart’s top 15. They’re likely to go four for four next week with the new breakup-themed set I Quit, which is also available in five vinyl variants and both standard and signed CD, and is drawing easily the strongest reviews of the week’s major new releases.  

Foreigner‘s upcoming change of the singing guard, from Kelly Hansen to Luis Maldonado, may well make for a more productive Foreigner, according to bassist Jeff Pilson.

In other words, forget about all that farewell talk.

“There’s just a lot of forward movement, and the band is incredibly excited,” Pilson, who’s been with Foreigner since 2004 (and was also part of Dokken), tells Billboard. “What started off as being a farewell tour now ended up being Kelly’s last tour and (the band) moving forward.”

Back in 2022 Hansen positioned himself as the primary driver behind Foreigner’s Historic Farewell Tour, which began the following year. “This catalog of songs, it’s extremely challenging for a rock tenor vocalist like myself to sing,” he explained at the time. “I never thought in a million years I’d be singing these songs in the (original) keys at this age (then 61), and I don’t know how much longer I can do that at the level I need to…If I’m not doing it for real, I shouldn’t be doing it.”

The farewell tour got under way during the summer of 2023 and has been extended a couple of times since, due to demand — bolstered by Foreigner’s long-awaited induction into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame last October. Earlier this year Hansen said he’d be skipping Foreigner dates in South America and Canada, with guitarist Maldonado, who joined the band in 2021, stepping up to the mic. Original Foreigner singer Lou Gramm made guest appearances during the former, with Geordie Brown from the cast of Jukebox Hero: The Musical doing the same this fall in the Great White North. Then, in May, Hansen announced he’d be stepping down for good after the current U.S. run, with his last dates planned for Oct. 10-11 in Atlantic City, N.J.

“I’ve had my time in here, and in the business, and the entertainment business is not the easiest business in the world,” Hansen explains. “I really want to be able to live my life outside of being on the road nine months a year. I want to be able to do other things in my life, with my family, while I still can. And I don’t want to be out there doing these songs at less than the standard that we’ve set, ever.”

Pilson says there are no hard feelings from the rest of the band. “We’ve had a great run together, and he deserves to have a wonderful life.” He adds that Maldonado was something of a surprise choice to step into the breach.

“Luis really had no intention of this,” Pilson says. “He was trying to talk Kelly into staying. And when it became clear Kelly really wants to live a life now…Luis just stepped up and, oh my God, that voice came through. We knew he could sing really well, but we were never thinking in terms of him replacing Kelly — so I would say no, we didn’t know exactly how well he could sing. But we knew he was great. He started doing shows with Michael (Bluestein, keyboardist) and Bruce (Watson, guitarist), acoustically, and once people started hearing him sing the Foreigner songs, it was like, ‘Wait a minute; what do we have here?!’ It happened organically, which is beautiful.”

The change may also open the door for fans to hear more music for Foreigner in the near future. The group has recorded two Spanish-language tracks sung by Maldonado, who was born in Guadalajara, Mexico, including a duet version of Billboard Hot 100 topper “I Want to Know What Love Is” with Joy Huerta of the Latin Grammy-winning duo Jesse & Joy. Pilson says more of those are planned. Meanwhile, Foreigner unearthed the unreleased 1996 track “Turning Back the Time” for a compilation of the same name that came out last fall. And for the upcoming reissue of the 1981 blockbuster 4, due out this fall, Foreigner finished the Mick Jones-Gramm track “Fool If You Love Him,” with Gramm singing and the current Foreigner members adding fresh parts.

Pilson says he’s also sifting through additional unreleased and in-progress recordings, and hopes some brand new material will be recorded as well. Gramm, who departed Foreigner acrimoniously in 2003 but began returning for guest appearances during the past eight years, told Billboard earlier this year that he’s definitely on board to contribute in whatever manner he can. And Pilson adds that Jones — who had to retire from touring due to Parkinson’s Disease — remains “really supportive” of Foreigner continuing and releasing new music.

“It’s creating a unified front,” Pilson says. “We’re able to integrate everything, not only with Lou but everything about Foreigner, into the present. Making this change, with Luis, with Mick and Lou’s endorsement and having the whole organization working more together, has been such a positive thing.”

Few bands are qualified to represent the LBC quite like Sublime, the legendary punk and ska outfit who’s original members trace their lineage to the very first Warped Tour in 1995.

Back in 1995, the Bradley Nowell-fronted group was touring in support of its first single, “Date Rape,” when they were asked to join the inaugural Warped Tour alongside No Doubt and future upstarts such as Deftones, Good Riddance, Lagwagon and Sick of It All. At one point, Sublime was eventually asked to leave the tour for a week due to the band’s dalmatian, Lou Dog, biting people.

“Basically, our daily regimen was wake up, drink, drink more, play, and then drink a lot more,” drummer Bud Gaugh told Time magazine at the time. “We’d call people names. Nobody got our sense of humor. Then we brought the dog out and he bit a few skaters, and that was the last straw.”

Fast forward 30 years, and Sublime is once again leading the pack, announced Wednesday (June 25) as a late-addition headliner for a relaunched Warped Tour stop in Long Beach, Calif., one of three total, July 26-27. Standing in for the late singer is son Jakob Nowell, who has performing alongside original band members Baugh and bassist Eric Wilson, who tells Billboard he’s “happy to be back on the Warped Tour again after all these years.”

GA and VIP tickets for Warped Tour Long Beach have sold out, and fans are encouraged to sign up for a waiting list for a shot at tickets.

Sublime is also playing Fear, Loathing and Sublime at the Dolby Live in Las Vegas on Aug. 14-15 with Pennywise, the Vandals and more. Vandals frontman Joseph Escalante is currently co-managing Sublime with music veteran Kevin Zinger.

“Wow, Warped tour!” Gaugh tells Billboard. “This has come full circle now with Sublime starting on the very first Warped, and now Warped is back together with Sublime at the center. Expect nothing less than utter chaos in Long Beach.”

One Direction fans were delighted to see the late Liam Payne appear in the new trailer for Netflix’s Building the Band on Tuesday (June 24). Now, the late singer’s sister is weighing in with her thoughts on the forthcoming series.

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In a post to her Instagram Stories on Tuesday, Payne’s sister Ruth Gibbins shared the trailer to the new show and explained why she was overcome with emotion while watching the clip. “I didn’t know whether to share this but it felt weird when I’ve raved about Liam’s work and achievements for the last 15 years,” she wrote. “Im heartbroken he never got to see how great he is in this show. He knew he had done a good job, we all told him this when we were at filming, but watching it back, wow!”

Gibbins continued, sharing a touching tribute to her brother. “You’re a star Liam, you always were and always will be,” she wrote. “There are a range of emotions I felt watching this, but one of the main ones ins immeasurable pride, always. Miss you more every day.”

In the trailer for the reality show, Payne offers sage advice to the show’s competitors, each of whom are tasked with forming six bands without getting to see one another until after they’ve created their group. “You have a lot of work to do, vocally,” he says to one group in the clip. “I need to feel that connection between you guys.”

The competition series, which is set to drop on Netflix July 9, wrapped filming two months before Payne died in October. After receiving the go-ahead from Payne’s family, the streamer announced in January that it would release the show as planned, and that the late singer’s family was “supportive of his inclusion” in the series.

Watch the full trailer for Netflix’s Building the Band below:

Cole Swindell has had plenty of milestones in the past decade: eight No. 1 hits on Billboard’s Country Airplay chart, along with being a writer on several hits for other artists including Luke Bryan and Thomas Rhett, while garnering a reputation as a reliable hitmaker and concert headliner who knows how to construct personal songs that convey a sharp emotional impact.

His 2022 album, Stereotype, further elevated his career, thanks to the four-week No. 1 Country Airplay smash “She Had Me at Heads Carolina.” On his fifth Warner Music Nashville album, Spanish Moss, which releases Friday (June 27), the Georgia native continues balancing songs that are deeply personal, while not abandoning Swindell’s instinct for commercial hits.

The album’s namesake is a song that almost wasn’t written. While golfing in the 30A area of Florida with writers including Jordan Minton, a question from Minton sparked a specific memory for Swindell, and a song that would shape the album.

“Jordan asked me what that stuff was hanging from the trees was,” Swindell tells Billboard. “When I told him it was Spanish moss, it reminded me of this memory of my dad. After I left his place in Savannah [Georgia], and I later noticed something hanging from my truck’s gas cap, and it was Spanish moss. I thought that phrase was a cool idea for a song and a title. The song ended up not being about that moment, but more of a love-type song, but if Jordan hadn’t asked that question, we might have never written this.”

Appropriately, Minton also took the photo — a snapshot of the Spanish moss that was on the golf course that day — that ultimately became the album’s cover.

The past two years have been a whirlwind of change in Swindell’s personal life. He proposed to longtime girlfriend Courtney Little in 2023, and they wed in June 2024. The couple is expecting their first child, a daughter, this fall. “I’m excited to be a dad. I’ve always wanted to be a dad,” he says. “She’s not here yet, and I’m already wrapped.”

The new album’s lead single “Forever to Me,” written by Swindell, Greylan James, and Rocky Block, already reached No. 2 on the Country Airplay chart — and originated during a spontaneous writing session two years ago.

““I wasn’t sure if I would get to write a song like this,” Swindell says. “I called Greylan, and he asked if he could bring Rocky. I’d never written with Rocky before, but I said, ‘Let’s go.’ We were talking and someone asked if I had a wedding song. I said, ‘Not yet.’ Then they asked how I felt about Courtney, and I told them, ‘She’s forever to me.’ Immediately, they were like, ‘That’s the hook.’”

Looking back on his wedding to Little, he recalls how they wed in a private venue in Sonoma, California, the same venue they had previously attended an event together before they became engaged. “I remember asking the staff back then, ‘Do y’all do weddings here?’”

The 21-song Spanish Moss has been in the works for over two years, as Swindell briefly took some time away from writing and recording to focus on his marriage and personal life.

“I’m glad I had kind of a break away from things, to enjoy that time together,” he says, adding that eventually he knew it was time to continue working on the new project. “We ended up with so many songs that we love and so, we decided to put all of them on here.”

While songs such as “Forever to Me” look at his current season of life, other older songs on the album, such as “Dale Jr.” and “Heads Up Heaven” are nods to Swindell’s late parents.

“Dale Jr.,” fittingly placed as the third track on the album, is a deeply personal tribute that honors both Swindell’s late father and the legacy of NASCAR legend Dale Earnhardt Sr. The song, which Swindell wrote with James and Matt Alderman, also speaks to Swindell’s meaningful friendship with Dale Earnhardt Jr., as the two have connected on a profound level through their shared grief and the lasting impact of losing their fathers.

He says Earnhardt Jr. reached out after Swindell released his 2016 hit “You Should Be Here,” which he wrote after losing his father in 2013, sparking a friendship between the two.

“This is one of my favorite songs I’ve been involved in writing,” Swindell said, adding, “That was what first connected us — we each lost dads pretty early on. My dad was a Dale Earnhardt Sr. fan, and was at the race when Dale passed away [at the Daytona 500 in 2001]. I sent [the song] to Dale Jr. after we wrote it and I think it meant a lot to him, just having that connection with someone who knows what you’ve been through.”

Songs like “99 Problems” explore the 20/20 hindsight of adulthood, and how youthful problems that once felt huge now seem small. But there are also plenty of up-tempo, arena-sized grooves such as “Kill a Prayer” and “We Can Always Move On.”

He just wrapped a run of international shows in Australia and New Zealand, opening for Cody Johnson, and in the coming months, he’ll be figuring out how to balance tour buses and baby cribs, but he’s up for the challenge.

“I want to keep getting better — better as an artist, better as a songwriter. But now, I also want to focus on being a good dad and husband,” he says.

A lawyer who brought shocking racketeering claims against Fat Joe and previously tried to drag Universal Music Group (UMG) into the Sean “Diddy” Combs litigation chaos has been arrested for allegedly hitting Fat Joe’s process server with his car.

Attorney Tyrone Blackburn was taken into custody the morning of Wednesday (June 25) in Brooklyn on allegations of assault, a New York Police Department spokesperson confirmed to Billboard. Reps for Fat Joe (Joseph Cartagena) say the arrest stems from an incident in which Blackburn allegedly struck the rapper’s process server with his car “in a failed attempt to avoid being served” with paperwork for an extortion lawsuit.

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“Tyrone Blackburn’s arrest comes as no surprise to me — it’s just the latest example of his malicious and manipulative pattern of misconduct finally coming to light,” said Fat Joe’s attorney, Joe Tacopina, in a statement. “Today’s arrest is just the first step, but I’m confident that my client’s name will be cleared from all of these falsehoods and Blackburn will be brought to justice once and for all.”

Blackburn did not immediately return a request for comment on Wednesday. It was not immediately clear what the next steps will be now that he’s been taken into police custody.

The attorney represents former Fat Joe hypeman Terrance “T.A.” Dixon, who sued the rapper last week, claiming he was forced to work without pay while being subjected to psychological manipulation and exposed to the trafficking of underage girls and other sexual misconduct.

Fat Joe has strenuously denied the allegations, and before Dixon even filed his lawsuit, the rapper launched a suit of his own accusing both the ex-hypeman and Blackburn of extortion. Fat Joe’s process servers were allegedly attempting to give Blackburn the paperwork for that case when the alleged incident occurred.

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The lawsuit that Blackburn is bringing against Fat Joe frames his activities as a wide-ranging criminal enterprise falling under the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act — the federal “RICO” statute often used in cases against mobsters and drug cartels.

Blackburn unsuccessfully tried to lob similar RICO claims last year in a sexual assault lawsuit he brought on behalf of producer Rodney “Lil Rod” Jones against Combs. The case originally accused UMG and CEO Lucian Grainge of participating in Combs’ racketeering conspiracy, but Blackburn later dropped those claims amid fierce opposition from the label. Blackburn admitted in a sworn declaration that there had been “no legal basis” for dragging UMG and Grainge into the salvo.

The attorney’s litigation tactics have been criticized by multiple judges handling his cases. One federal judge referred Blackburn for disciplinary proceedings last year, saying he was using the court system to “garner media attention, embarrass defendants with salacious allegations and pressure defendants to settle quickly.”

Jelly Roll is not OK with a NSFW suggestion wife Bunnie XO recently floated by him.

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The Dumb Blonde podcast host shared the sweet interaction to her TikTok on Tuesday (June 24). In the video, the country star hides his face behind his wife’s as he rests his hands on her shoulders. “I just told my husband that we could role play –,” but before she could finish, Jelly interrupts with an emphatic, “Absolutely not!” and a big smile on his face.

Bunnie then adds that she’s into adding a little spice to their love life by role playing, and asks the Grammy-nominated musician what he said about the idea, which, it turns out, was a sweet sentiment.

“I said, ‘I did not work 10 years to get the marriage I want to spend the night acting like it’s not the marriage I want,’” Jelly reveals in the TikTok with a smile and a laugh. “Do you know what I’m saying? I’ve worked hard to get the marriage I want — I’d like to keep it just like it is!”

The couple first met in 2015, and Jelly Roll proposed to the entrepreneur on stage during a Las Vegas Deftones concert in August the following year, marrying the same night he proposed. The two have been open about their hopes to expand their family by sharing their IVF journey. (Jelly is Dad to teen daughter Bailee and young son Noah from previous relationships.) Earlier in June, Bunnie shared some good news they had received about their IVF process. Though she didn’t specify what it was in her social media post, she noted: “This is just a huge win for us.”

See Bunnie’s TikTok about her NSFW suggestion for husband Jelly Roll below:

You can never truly predict which catalog songs are going to take off and have their viral moment.

Sometimes you can point to a clear and obvious reason — a prominent synch in a film or TV show, such as Kate Bush’s “Running Up That Hill (A Deal With God)” resurging after Stranger Things season four, or Nirvana’s deep cut “Something in the Way” getting its moment thanks to The Batman. Or, it’s the annual resurgence of holiday staples around Christmas or Halloween.

Other times, the resurgence is a little more unexpected — like when Fleetwood Mac’s “Dreams” or Fetty Wap’s “Again” returned to the Billboard Hot 100 (in 2020 and this February, respectively) thanks to light-hearted viral moments on user-generated content apps such as TikTok.

The latest case is Coldplay’s 25-year-old song “Sparks.”

Originally released in 2000 on the band’s debut album Parachutes, the cut enters the Hot 100 for the first time this week, debuting at No. 93 (on the chart dated June 28). The renewed interest stems from a viral breakthrough on TikTok, driven by a surge in streams following Coldplay’s two-night set at Las Vegas’ Allegiant Stadium on June 6 and 7.

The timing of the shows coincides with reports of frontman Chris Martin’s reported breakup with long-time partner Dakota Johnson. In one widely shared viral TikTok when the band performed “Sparks,” Martin appears to be visibly emotional while singing the line, “And I know I was wrong/ But I won’t let you down.” The moment stuck a chord with fans, as the song has now soundtracked more than 500,000 clips on TikTok to date.

Here’s a week-by-week breakdown of the song’s on-demand official U.S. streams, according to Luminate:

  • May 23-29: 3 million
  • May 30-June 11: 3.2 million (up 5%)
  • June 6-12: 4.8 million (up 48%)
  • June 13-19: 5.7 million (up 18.5%)

Despite never being released as a single, “Sparks” has long endured as a fan favorite and a mainstay in the band’s live setlists. It previously received a minor boost in 2005 after appearing in a scene in the movie Wedding Crashers. In 2020, Billboard’s editorial staff ranked it as one of the best deep cuts from the year 2000.

The Parachutes album also benefits from the renewed attention for “Sparks.” The set re-enters this week’s Billboard 200 at No. 169 with 9,000 equivalent album units earned (up 11%). The album originally peaked at No. 51 in 2001, and had last appeared on the chart in February 2016. The album’s single “Yellow” also saw some gains — it tallied 5.3 million U.S. streams in the tracking week (up 6%). That song became the band’s first entry on the Hot 100 in 2001, reaching No. 48. It also became a top 10 alternative radio hit.

“Sparks” earns Coldplay its 27th career entry on the Hot 100, and first since “We Pray,” featuring Little Simz, Burna Boy, Elyanna and Tini, in October 2024.