Ava Max‘s “Lovin Myself” tops this week’s new music poll.

In a poll published Friday (May 30) on Billboard, music fans chose the pop singer’s latest single as their favorite new release of the past week.

“Lovin Myself” brought in 57% of the vote, beating out new releases from artists like Tate McRae (“Just Keep Watching”), Miley Cyrus (Something Beautiful), Lorde (“Man of the Year”), Leon Thomas (MUTT Deluxe: HEEL), Yeule (Evangelic Girl Is a Gun), and others.

“Lovin Myself” doubles down on Max’s streak of self-empowerment, with the singer declaring, “I don’t need nobody, I’m lovin’ myself!” as warm synths rain down on her voice.

Max revealed in early May that her third album, Don’t Click Play, will be arriving on Aug. 22. The forthcoming set features lead single “Lost Your Faith.”

The album cover sees Max braving the heat within a triangle of fire, her hands gripping its burning edges — perhaps a visual metaphor for the fire-emoji energy she wants listeners to feel when they hit play. The triangle itself resembles the familiar symbol for a play button. In April, she directed fans to DontClickPlayOnAvaMax.com, a site disguised as an online petition that cleverly teased an unreleased track.

Don’t Click Play follows 2023’s Diamonds & Dancefloors (which reached No. 34 on the Billboard 200) and 2020’s debut Heaven & Hell (which peaked at No. 27 and featured her breakthrough single “Sweet But Psycho,” a top 10 hit on the Billboard Hot 100 in 2018).

Placing second in the poll was Tate McRae’s “Just Keep Watching”, which received nearly 15% of the vote. The fast-moving club track is featured in the F1 film soundtrack.

Check out the full results of this week’s poll below and visit Billboard’s Friday Music Guide for more must-hear releases.

Hailee Steinfeld and Josh Allen are officially husband and wife.

The singer-actress, 28, and Buffalo Bills quarterback, 29, were photographed walking down the aisle during a stunning wedding ceremony in Southern California on Saturday (May 31), according to People.

Neither Steinfeld nor Allen had shared photos of their oceanside nuptials on social media at press time.

The couple announced their engagement in November 2024 with a breathtaking Instagram post. In the snapshot, the NFL star is seen down on one knee atop a grassy ridge overlooking the water, surrounded by candles and framed by a large, flower-covered arch.

The Sinners actress and Allen were first linked romantically in spring 2023, after being spotted dining together in New York City. Months later, Allen confirmed the relationship but asked The Associated Press not to mention Steinfeld by name in an attempt to maintain privacy.

Earlier this year, Steinfeld opened up about the engagement during an appearance on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon. Speaking about her new life in Buffalo, N.Y., the “Starving” singer said with a smile, “I have been given a very warm welcome.” She added, “The people are incredible, it’s such a wonderful, wonderful place.”

Allen’s Buffalo Bills had an impressive season, making it to the AFC Championship before falling to the Kansas City Chiefs ahead of the Super Bowl. Steinfeld has become a vocal supporter of her new husband’s team. In a February interview with Who What Wear, she playfully shaded the Chiefs when asked to name the four AFC teams.

“You got the Buffalo Bills and the Bills’ three sons,” she replied pointedly.

Still, Steinfeld managed to find a few kind words for the Chiefs in a Hot Ones Versus episode released the day before her Fallon appearance in early April. When challenged to compliment the team or eat a spicy wing, Steinfeld gave it her best shot while facing off against her Sinners co-star Michael B. Jordan.

“Yellow and red really complement them all pretty well,” she said to avoid eating a spicy wing, struggling to think of more things to say as Jordan laughed at her. “They are very loud … it’s great you want that from a fanbase. And third, they go hard for their team.”

Alf Clausen, the Emmy-winning composer whose music provided essential accompaniment for the animated antics of The Simpsons for 27 years, has died.

His daughter Kaarin Clausen told The Associated Press that Alf Clausen died Thursday (May 29) at his home in Los Angeles after struggling with Parkinson’s disease for about a decade. He was 84.

Clausen, who also scored TV series including Moonlighting and Alf (“no relation,” he used to joke) was nominated for 30 Emmy Awards, 21 of them for The Simpsons, winning twice.

Al Jean, an early Simpsons writer who was one of the key creative figures on the show in the 1990s, said in a post on X Friday that “Clausen was an incredibly talented man who did so much for The Simpsons.”

While Danny Elfman wrote the show’s theme song, Clausen joined the Fox animated series created by Matt Groening in 1990 and provided essentially all of its music until 2017, composing nearly 600 scores and conducting the 35-piece orchestra that played it in the studio.

His colleagues said his music was a key component of the show’s comedy, but Clausen believed the best way to back up the gags of Homer, Marge Bart and Lisa was by making the music as straight as possible.

“This is a dream job for a composer,” Clausen told Variety, which first reported his death, in 1998. “Matt Groening said to me very early on, ‘We’re not a cartoon. We’re a drama where the characters are drawn. I want you to score it like a drama.’ I score the emotions of the characters as opposed to specific action hits on the screen.”

Groening, in a 1996 interview, called him “one of the unacknowledged treasures of the show.”

Clausen was born in Minneapolis and raised in Jamestown, North Dakota. He graduated from the Berklee College of Music in 1966, and moved to Los Angeles seeking a career in music.

In the 1970s he was a musical director on several TV variety shows including Donny & Marie.

Clausen worked as an orchestrator for composer Lee Holdridge in his scores for 1980s films including Splash and The Beastmaster.

It was Holdridge who first got the composing job on Moonlighting, the late-’80s ABC rom-com detective series starring Bruce Willis and Cybil Shepherd, but he handed the gig off to Clausen, who would get six Emmy nominations for his music on it.

Clausen won his Emmys for The Simpsons in 1997 and 1998 and also won five Annie Awards, which honor work in animation in film and television.

He was fired from The Simpsons in a cost-cutting move in 2017, to the outrage of his collaborators and fans. He sued over his dismissal.

Clausen is survived by his wife, Sally; children Kaarin, Scott and Kyle; stepchildren Josh and Emily, and 11 grandchildren.

Ronald Fenty, the father of Rihanna, has reportedly died at the age of 70.

Fenty passed away following a brief illness, according to Starcom Network News, a radio station based in Rihanna’s native Barbados. The official cause and exact date of death have not yet been disclosed. Sources told the outlet that he was surrounded by family at the time of his passing.

Billboard has reached out to Rihanna’s representatives for comment.

On Wednesday (May 28), Rihanna’s younger brother, Rajad Fenty, was photographed arriving at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles. TMZ reports that the singer was also in the vehicle but was not visible in the photos.

Rihanna — who is currently expecting her third child with A$AP Rocky — had a complicated relationship with her father over the years. The two were estranged for a period before eventually making amends.

After Rihanna (born Robyn Rihanna Fenty) was assaulted by then-boyfriend Chris Brown in 2009, Fenty spoke publicly about the incident without her consent. In a 2011 interview with Vogue, the singer expressed her disappointment.

“You grow up with your father, you know him, you are a part of him, for goodness’ sakes!” she said at the time. “And then he does something so bizarre that I can’t begin to wrap my mind around it.”

In a 2012 interview with Oprah, Rihanna said she had repaired her relationship with her father, who she had described as being violent growing up. In 2019, however, she filed a lawsuit against him and his business partner, Moses Perkins, accusing them of attempting to profit off her name by launching a company called Fenty Entertainment. She alleged they misled investors by falsely claiming she was involved in the venture. Rihanna dropped the lawsuit shortly before it was set to go to trial in 2021, according to the BBC.

Fenty shared three children — Rihanna, Rajad and Rorrey — with his ex-wife, Monica Braithwaite. The couple divorced in 2002. The family was raised in Bridgetown, Barbados, where Rihanna lived until she moved to the U.S. at age 16. He also had three children from previous relationships: daughters Samantha and Kandy, and son Jamie, People reports.