Billie Eilish doesn’t have time for fake friends because she’s too busy being a fan of her latest single “Therefore I Am,” which leaps 94-2 on the Billboard Hot 100 this week (dated Nov. 28).

She runs and skips around the empty Glendale Galleria shopping mall for the self-directed music video that was entirely shot on an iPhone.

“It feels like me,” she told Apple Music’s Zane Lowe about the single from her forthcoming album. “I feel like the rest of them also feel like me, but I think this one is more like — if I think about it from an outside perspective, this one I’d be satisfied if I was a fan.”

Check out the lyrics and music video below.

Guitar Center, the nation’s largest retailer of musical instruments, has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, the company announced Saturday.

The bankruptcy filing came just one week after the Guitar Center, which had been struggling to compete with online retailers even before the pandemic, announced it had reached a debt-reduction deal with its key stakeholders.

The approved restructuring support agreement (RSA) intends to reduce Guitar Center’s reported $1.3 billion debt by nearly $800 million, including $375 million in Debtor-In-Possession financing from some existing note holders and lenders. It also intends to raise $335 million in new senior secured notes.

The agreement additionally includes $165 million in new equity investments from a fund managed by the private equity group of Guitar Center’s controlling owner Ares Management Corporation (which acquired a majority stake in the company in 2014), new investor Brigade Capital Management, a fund managed by The Carlyle Group and other lenders.

The company says its business operations will continue uninterrupted during the debt restructuring process and that it will continue to pay its vendors, suppliers and employees; operate its stores, websites, call centers and social media pages; and receive goods and ship orders. It will additionally honor all merchandise credits, prepaid lessons, rentals, gift cards, deposits, orders, financing and warranties.

“This is an important and positive step in our process to significantly reduce our debt and enhance our ability to reinvest in our business to support long-term growth,” said Guitar Center CEO Ron Japinga in a release. “Throughout this process, we will continue to serve our customers and deliver on our mission of putting more music in the world.”

Japinga added that the company expects to emerge from bankruptcy by the end of this year.

Guitar Center currently has 300 stores as well as 200 Music & Arts stores, which sell band and orchestral instruments, in the U.S. A majority of those locations were forced to close temporarily early in the pandemic, only adding to the company’s woes.

Saturday’s bankruptcy filing ironically comes as guitar sales surge in the U.S., driven by consumers wanting to pick up new hobbies during the pandemic shutdown. Guitar maker Fender tells CNBC that the company’s sales will top $700 million this year, a nearly 17% increase from 2019, while competitors including Gibson and Taylor have noted similar surges. Guitar Center itself reports that sales of Fender and other top guitar brands have seen triple-digit growth on its website since the pandemic began, though it’s unclear what percentage of those online sales came from new customers versus existing customers who would ordinarily shop at one of the retailer’s physical locations.

The rise of online competitors such as e-tail giant Sweetwater, along with an overall decline in sales of its namesake product, coincided with Guitar Center’s 2007 leveraged buyout by private equity firm Bain Capital, which left the company with over $1 billion in debt that it has since struggled to pay off.

Happy Thanksgiving!

The bountiful holiday will be less about spending time with friends and family, and more about staying safe as the coronavirus continues to spread rapidly nationwide. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is discouraging the usual travel during this time of the year, and urging Americans “to celebrate at home with the people you live with.”

No matter how you’re spending this socially-distanced holiday, music is still here for you. Whether you’ll be delving into some “Yummy” apple pie, pumping yourself up for a “Dynamite” night wrapped up in a “cardigan” on the couch, or even if you’re feeling “Supalonely,” we’ve compiled a Thanksgiving playlist that’s sure to make you “Happy Anywhere.”

So, grab a plate of turkey and yams, and blast Billboard’s 2020 Thanksgiving playlist below.

Following an introduction — and warning, from host Taraji P. Henson, that their performance would melt TVs — Maluma and Jennifer Lopez got  hot and heavy for their collaboration “Pa Ti + Lonely” at the American Music Awards on Sunday (Nov. 22). Henson had called them “two of the biggest Latin stars on the planet” — and the pair proved why.

After a sensual opening from Lopez, during which she sat atop a table engulfed in shadows, Maluma joined in allowing them to sing directly into one another’s faces. Then, Lopez once again took center stage, delivering an iconic chair routine in front of bars and surrounded by dancers in variations of her own mesh body suit before ending the set back-to-back with Maluma.

It’s yet another taste of what’s to come from the superstars in their upcoming film Marry Me, out next year. “Pa Ti + Lonely” is featured on its soundtrack.

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Beaming in from Royal Albert Hall in London, Dua Lipa performed her latest hit “Levitating” at the 2020 American Music Awards on Sunday (Nov. 22).

Dressed in a glittering blue minidress and matching booties, Lipa immediately brought the bouncy energy that the number requires.

Surrounded by dancers dressed in blue leotards and black tights, the pop singer busted some moves of her own as she sang against a galaxy backdrop: “I got you, moonlight/ You’re my starlight/ I need you all night/ Come on, dance with me/ I’m levitating!”

For the finale, Lipa literally levitated, rising up and down on a wire as glitter showered down. Blast-off!

The American Music Awards are produced by dick clark productions, which is owned by MRC Entertainment, the parent company of Billboard.