Charlie Wilson teams up with Gracie’s Corner, the popular, animated sing-along series on YouTube, on “Have a Good Time,” a new single released by the family-run channel Friday morning (June 13). The R&B mainstay sings on Gracie’s dance groove and stars in its music video, launching below.

With a little help from Wilson — aka “Uncle Charlie” — Gracie’s latest song inspires young viewers to get up and move along to the music: “Uncle Charlie says clap your hands! Clap, clap! And do your dance! Uncle Charlie says stomp your feet! Stomp, stomp!”

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Kids should catch on the Uncle Charlie’s feature fast, as it’s a reference to the classic childhood game Simon Says.

“Working with Charlie Wilson on ‘Have A Good Time’ has been an absolute dream. His energy and passion for music are contagious, and he brings such a joyful spirit to everything he does. This song is all about celebrating movement, fun, and togetherness — something Uncle Charlie embodies effortlessly. Seeing Gracie and Charlie share the mic is a special moment for families everywhere, and we can’t wait for kids to dance along!” Dr. Javoris Hollingsworth, the real-life Gracie’s dad and co-founder of Gracie’s Corner, tells Billboard Family.

“Have a Good Time” is now available on streaming services including YouTube, Spotify and Apple Music.

Gracie’s Corner is known for positive, fun content like 2024’s viral “Veggie Dance,” the “yum, yum, eat ’em up!” dance number reminding children to eat their asparagus (and broccoli and Brussels sprouts and cauliflower, et al.), and the empowering 2020 breakthrough hit “I Love My Hair.”

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The creators behind ‘Gracie’s Corner’: Graceyn “Gracie” Hollingsworth and her parents, Dr. Javoris Hollingsworth and Dr. Arlene Gordon-Hollingsworth.

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The winner of two NAACP Image Awards — for outstanding children’s program and outstanding animated series — in 2025, the channel starring an animated Graceyn “Gracie” Hollingsworth aims to entertain and uplift with educational, inclusive content that speaks to a diverse audience.

It’s a family pursuit and passion, as it was all started by Gracie and her parents, Dr. Javoris Hollingsworth and Dr. Arlene Gordon-Hollingsworth. At press time, their YouTube account has more than 5.5 million followers, with total views surpassing 4.6 billion since its inception in 2020.

“This one here hits different,” George Clinton told an assorted crowd of songwriters, artists and music industry players in New York City on Friday (June 13) night as he was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame. “It’s been chosen by those who truly know what it means to be a songwriter and I’m so honored.”

The P-Funk progenitor was, unsurprisingly, correct: the Songwriters Hall of Fame does hit different, even for attendees. Without the pressure of delivering ratings for a televised or livestreamed awards show, the annual songwriters’ gala can focus on honoring the actual honorees. As the organization’s CEO/president Linda Moran said in her opening remarks, this isn’t an evening about getting the biggest names imaginable in one room – it’s truly a night where the songwriters are the stars.

That’s not to say there aren’t A-list guests and buzzy moments at the gala. At Friday night’s ceremony at Manhattan’s Marquis Marriott, there were surprise stars, pinch-me performances, moving moments and pleasantly unexpected choices.

This year’s SHOF induction class consisted of: George Clinton; Tom Johnston, Michael McDonald and Patrick Simmons (of The Doobie Brothers); Ashley Gorley; Rodney “Darkchild” Jerkins; Mike Love; and Tony Macaulay. Gracie Abrams was honored with the Hal David Starlight Award, which spotlights gifted young scribes, and Stephen Schwartz was given the Johnny Mercer Award, which salutes songwriters with a substantial legacy who have already been inducted.

Here are eight standout moments from the 2025 Songwriters Hall of Fame induction.

While Justin Bieber stays busy recording the long-awaited follow-up to his 2021 Justice album, his backing gorup, We the Band, dropped their debut single on Friday morning (June 13). The Earth, Wind & Fire-esque slow-burn R&B jam “One & Only” showcases the group’s smooth, soulful vocals and retro ’70s funk style. The slick accompanying performance video was directed by Zev York in collaboration with Nick DeMoura, who was the choreographer and creative director for JB’s 2023 Believe world tour.

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The group consisting of bassist/vocalist Harv, DJ Tay James, guitarist/vocalist Julian Michael, drummer Devin “Stixx” Taylor and keyboardist Dr. O backed up Bieber on his 2015 Purpose world tour as well as his 2022 Justice world tour, which prematurely ended in Sept. 2022 after the singer revealed that he was diagnosed with Ramsay Hunt Syndrome and suffering from partial facial paralysis.

According to a release announcing the song, Tay James met Bieber in 2009 after graduating from college, snagging a gig as the singer’s official DJ, followed by bassist Harv taking on the role of music director in Bieber’s live band, which he filled out with Taylor and Michael. In 2021, Harv co-wrote and co-produced Bieber’s Billboard Hot 100 No. 1 hit “Peaches.”

We The Band recently signed with the Avex Music Group and the group is working to finish their as-yet-untitled debut album, which, according to a release announcing the signing will include unnamed “special guest appearances.”

“This has been a dream of ours for many years now,” the group said in a statement. “To create our own music that represents who we are as musicians with the support of a global powerhouse like Avex is incredibly exciting for all of us. We can’t wait for our fans to hear what we’ve been working on.”

At press time no additional information was available on Bieber’s next studio album, which the singer has been teasing for much of the past year via videos and pictures from the recording studio.

Check out the “One & Only” video below.

While Jonas Brothers fans await the release of the sibling band’s Greetings From Your Hometown studio album on Aug. 8, they can keep their summer cool with a live LP that dropped on Friday (June 13). Live From the O2 London is a 24-track collection recorded at the iconic London venue last year, featuring such beloved hits as “Sucker,” “Only Human,” “Waffle House,” “What a Man Gotta Do,” “Year 3000” and “Burning Up.”

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Along with those bangers, the album ends with a cover of the Cranberries’ 1993 hit “Dreams,” and also features the unreleased ballad “When You Know” from their upcoming LP. In addition, the career-spanning live album opens with the 2023 song “Wings,” and makes pit stops at “Summer Baby,” “Vacation Eyes,” “Play My Music,” “Fly With Me,” “Paranoid,” “Walls” and “Only Human,” as well as including “Cake By the Ocean” from Joe Jonas’ side band, DNCE.

In an Instagram post earlier this week, the trio promised that the live album’s tracklist features songs from “the early days, unreleased music from our upcoming studio album, and a ton of favorites in between.” They added, “Getting to capture the energy from these shows on Nick’s birthday in London last year was something special and we can’t wait to share it with you all.”

This year has been all about celebrating the trio’s 20th anniversary as a band, which, so far, has included the release of the singles “Slow Motion” and “Love Me To Heaven,” as well as the massive JONASCON gathering at New Jersey’s American Dream. The band will hit the road for their North American Jonas20: Living the Dream stadium tour slated to kick off on Aug. 10 at MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, N.J.

Listen to Jonas Brothers Live From the O2 London LP below.

Toby Gad unveiled the music video for “Run (Piano Diaries),” his previously unreleased collaboration with the late Donna Summer, exclusively to Billboard on Friday (June 13).

The Queen of Disco’s voice shines as she delivers the ballad’s powerful message, singing, “You can sit it out, wait until you see your chance/ Try your luck, you can dare to dance/ Dream away your life and never live your dream/ Or breathe every breath you get and run with it.”

Meanwhile, the music video features Gad accompanying Summer’s vocals on the piano as 13-year-old dancer London! performs an emotional lyrical routine over a montage of archival footage of the late “MacArthur Park” dance floor diva, who passed away in 2012 at the age of 63.

Gad and Summer originally worked on the song for the disco legend’s final studio album, 2008’s Crayons, which also earned the pair a No. 1 hit on Billboard’s Dance Club Songs chart with fourth single “Fame (The Game).”

Though “Run” ultimately didn’t make the cut for Crayons‘ final tracklist, Gad is now releasing the ballad as special part of his ongoing Piano Diaries project, reimagining some of the greatest hits in his catalog with new artists.

“Donna was funny, such a warm spirit — we instantly connected,” Gad tells Billboard. “I was a little nervous at first working with such an icon, but unlike Madonna, who enjoyed testing my character for several days before letting me into her world, Donna opened up to me immediately as I showed her my first ideas. She loved to crack jokes and had such an immediate sense of humor. She enjoyed big hugs and on the first day it felt like she had already decided that I was part of her family.”

The songwriter behind hits like John Legend’s “All of Me” and Beyoncé’s “If I Were a Boy” went on to recall, “Donna was not only an amazing singer who was totally in charge of her voice, much like Beyoncé when I worked with her, [she] was also a great songwriter, intuitively finding words that are honest, authentic and have emotion.”

Watch Gad’s emotional music video for “Run (Piano Diaries)” below.

Haim finally released the full tracklist for their upcoming album I Quit on Thursday night (June 12), slowly revealing the 15 song titles in videos on their Instagram stories become compiling the whole thing in a single post (see below).

While we already knew the follow-up to 2020’s Women In Music Pt. III will contain the previously released singles “Relationships,” “Everybody’s Trying to Figure Me Out,” “Down to Be Wrong” and “Take Me Back,” we now know the collection co-produced by singer/guitarist Danielle Haim and Rostam Batmanglij will also feature the songs “All Over Me,” “Love You Right,” “The Farm” and “Blood on the Street,” among others.

The group previously teased that the opening track, “Gone,” will feature a sample of George Michael’s “Freedom! ’90,” which Danielle said in an interview with i.D. magazine was inspired by listening another pop star’s bespoke sampling. “I was listening to the Beyoncé album, and I was really inspired by all the different samples,” she said. “It doesn’t feel ‘F–k you’ to me—it feels like… ‘I’m gonna do my thing.’”

Among the other songs on the album are: “Lucky Stars,” “Million Years,” “Try to Feel My Pain,” “Spinning,” “Cry” and “Now It’s Time.”

Alana, Danielle and Este Haim will hit the road in support of their fourth studio album on Sept. 4 with a show at TD Pavilion at the Mann in Philadelphia for a tour that will keep them across North America through an Oct. 11 show in Santa Barbara before hopping over to the U.K. for a run of late October shows that are currently slated to wrap on Oct. 31 at the OVO Hydro in Glasgow.

Check out the full track list for I Quit below.

Swifties the world over have been rushing to scream “Take me to Florida” as Taylor Swift and partner Travis Kelce were seen in the southeast for the Stanley Cup Finals.

Turning up for Game 4 on Thursday (June 12), the pair were in attendance at Sunrise’s Amerant Bank Arena to watch the Edmonton Oilers reign supreme over the Florida Panthers, with the 5-4 result coming via an overtime goal from Leon Draisaitl. 

However, with Swift and Kelce in the crowd, ice hockey was of least concern for fans of the musician, with announcers focusing on the pair to describe them as “musical and sporting royalty.” Likewise, even a photo of the pair taken during the game’s second period with Canadian hockey icon Wayne Gretzky failed to overtake the excitement generated by Swift’s presence.

Per a recent report from People, Swift is currently staying with Kelce at his Florida residence while he’s in training for the upcoming NFL season. In February, the Kansas City Chiefs tight end made the decision that he would return to professional football for another season, with the upcoming season set to be his last under contract with the team.

Earlier this month, Travis and brother Jason spoke to former professional basketball player Shaquille O’Neal on their New Heights podcast, where the NBA icon suggested that Travis could follow in his footsteps of his DJ moniker Diesel and become an opening act for Swift.

“You know what [would be] crazy? You opening up with your girlfriend,” O’Neal suggested. “Bro, you’d be a f–king star. Ten minutes hyping up the crowd, oh my God.” 

“Come on, you know I’m a hype man,” Kelce said while laughing. “You know I’m a hype man. Get it rocking in there. Have the Swifties bouncing off the walls before T gets out there.”

Just weeks after teasing their latest era, Twenty One Pilots have shared both the lead single from their forthcoming album and a run of North American tour dates.

Dubbed “The Contract,” the single is the Ohio group’s first piece of new music since the release of their seventh album, Clancy, in May 2024. The track is so far the only taster of their upcoming record, Breach, which is scheduled for release in September.

Breach was teased by the band in a social media post in May, indicating that the album’s content would thematically continue the narrative arcs which the band have focused on across the past decade. “Hello Clancy. Hello Blurryface,” they wrote on social media. “Let’s finish this.”

Referencing the titular characters of their 2024 and 2015 LPs Clancy and Blurryface, respectively, the record will ostensibly wrap up the narratives that have also continued across records such as 2018’s Trench and 2021’s Scaled and Icy.

Though the specific release date of Breach is yet to be announced, the record’s arrival will be paired with a run of North American shows, which launch in Cincinnati in September and will keep the pair on the road until late October. 

Much like their latest global trek in support of Clancy, the naming of their upcoming run as The Clancy Tour: Breach seemingly confirms a sense of continuation from their last studio effort, with further specifics expected to arrive in the coming months.

Listen to “The Contract” below:

Twenty One Pilots – The Clancy Tour: Breach 2025

Sept. 18 – TQL Stadium, Cincinnati, OH
Sept. 20 – Budweiser Stage, Toronto, ON
Sept. 23 – American Family Insurance Amphitheater, Milwaukee, WI
Sept. 24 – Credit Union 1 Amphitheatre, Tinley Park, IL
Sept. 27 – Hersheypark Stadium, Hershey, PA
Sept. 28 – The Pavilion at Star Lake, Burgettstown, PA
Sept. 30 – XFINITY Theatre, Hartford, CT
Oct. 1 – Maine Savings Amphitheater, Bangor, ME
Oct. 4 – Northwell at Jones Beach Theater, Wantagh, NY
Oct. 5 – Jiffy Lube Live, Bristow, VA
Oct. 7 – Veterans United Home Loans Amphitheater, Virginia Beach, VA
Oct. 8 – PNC Music Pavilion, Charlotte, NC
Oct. 10 – iTHINK Financial Amphitheatre, West Palm Beach, FL
Oct. 11 – MIDFLORIDA Credit Union Amphitheatre, Tampa, FL
Oct. 14 – The Wharf Amphitheater, Orange Beach, AL
Oct. 15 – Ameris Bank Amphitheatre, Alpharetta, GA
Oct. 17 – Coca-Cola Amphitheater, Birmingham, AL
Oct. 19 – Walmart AMP, Rogers, AR
Oct. 20 – Dos Equis Pavilion, Dallas, TX
Oct. 23 – North Island Credit Union Amphitheatre, Chula Vista, CA
Oct. 25 – BMO Stadium, Los Angeles, CA

Love at first sight can be a dangerous thing. j-hope is back to heat up the summer with his lust-filled “Killin’ It Girl” single, which finds the BTS member joining forces with Memphis’ own GloRilla on Friday (June 13).

j-hope delivers a fiery verse while crafting a seductive chorus and then Big Glo invades the minimalistic production with her gritty Memphis flow, making for a delectable clash.

“Killin It Girl” follows a busy year for j-hope, which saw him unleash singles like “Sweet Dreams” with Miguel and “Mona Lisa.”

“Sweet Dreams” featuring Miguel — an artist I’ve long respected — has a smooth, soulful vibe that feels deeply personal. On the other hand, “Mona Lisa” brings a hip-hop-driven performance energy,” j-hope told Billboard in May.

He continued: “Both tracks are easy to connect with, yet they offer a glimpse into the broader, more evolved musical world I’m building. This is just the start — I have plenty more musical experiments in store.”

The BTS frontman rumbled through North America as part of his HOPE ON THE STAGE tour, which included a pair of sold-out shows at Brooklyn’s Barclays Center in March. He’ll wrap up the global trek on Friday (June 13) with a performance at Goyang Stadium in South Korea.

“I was hands-on with everything — stage design, choreography, fashion and even the props — pouring my heart into every aspect,” j-hope said of the world tour. “I hope the audience left with a sense of genuine positivity and inspiration. Moving forward, I want to keep creating authentic performances that unite everyone through the power of music.”

As for GloRilla, she’s coming off performing at the BET Awards and her fiery “Typa” single, which arrived on June 6.

Listen to “Killin’ It Girl” below.

Billie Joe Armstrong has paid tribute to Brian Wilson by sharing a cover of the Beach Boys’ 1964 classic “I Get Around.”

The Green Day guitarist and vocalist shared his rendition of the song on Instagram on Wednesday (June 12), hours after the news of Wilson’s passing broke. 

“Thank you Brian Wilson,” Armstrong wrote. “I recorded a cover of ‘I Get Around’ a few years ago.. never got to share it. One of my all time favorite songs ever.”

Originally released in May 1964 as the sole single from the Beach Boys’ sixth album, All Summer Long, “I Get Around” would become the group’s first song to reach No. 1 on the Hot 100, a feat they would achieve twice more in the ’60s – thanks to “Help Me, Rhonda” and “Good Vibrations” – and once in 1988 by way of “Kokomo.”

Armstrong’s rendition of “I Get Around” isn’t exactly a left-field choice for the musician, especially given the influence that many bands of the pop-punk genre have taken from the Beach Boys’ approach to music and songwriting. 

While Green Day’s 2009 track “Last of the American Girls” was noted as containing harmonies reminiscent of the Beach Boys, Wilson himself showed an ignorance toward the punk genre in 2015. “I never went for that. I never went for the fast kind of music,” he told The Guardian

Wilson passed away on June 11 at the age of 82, with his death inspiring countless tributes from musicians around the world. In the same vein as Armstrong, Sting honored Wilson’s legacy by performing a live rendition of 1966’s “God Only Knows.”

“Today, one of my heroes died, Brian Wilson from the Beach Boys,” Sting said during the encore of his Wednesday night concert in Rostock, Germany. “So I want to sing a song that I love.” Both Sting and Wilson had previously performed the same song together during a 2008 concert at Carnegie Hall.