Patience is a virtue, a fact that fans of New Zealand-born pop phenomenon Lorde have learned time and time again throughout her career. But luckily, patience is no longer required when it comes to the singer’s newest full-length project.
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On Friday (June 27), Lorde unveiled her much-anticipated fourth studio album, Virgin. Released via Universal Music, the new album features 11 new songs, including its three previously released singles “What Was That,” “Man of the Year” and “Hammer.”
In a statement released alongside the album’s announcement back in April, Lorde compared Virgin to the color “clear” — and, more specifically, all the things that are clear. “LIKE BATHWATER, WINDOWS, ICE, SPIT. FULL TRANSPARENCY. THE LANGUAGE IS PLAIN AND UNSENTIMENTAL,” she explained of the record. “I WAS TRYING TO SEE MYSELF, ALL THE WAY THROUGH. I WAS TRYING TO MAKE A DOCUMENT THAT REFLECTED MY FEMININITY: RAW, PRIMAL, INNOCENT, ELEGANT, OPENHEARTED, SPIRITUAL, MASC.”
While the singer touted the importance of having some of the same sounds throughout the project, one thing that remains very different about Virgin is the producers the singer teamed up with; the LP boasts a series of new collaborators for the singer, including Jim-E Stack, Dan Nigro and Dev Hynes, while her Melodrama and Solar Power producer Jack Antonoff doesn’t make an appearance. While Lorde called Antonoff a “positive, supportive collaborator,” she added that “I just have to trust when my intuition says to keep moving.”
In the lead-up to the new project, Lorde also spoke extensively about how Virgin was inspired by her recent examination of gender. The singer said that a conversation with fellow pop star Chappell Roan prompted her to think more critically about her own gender identity. “I was like, ‘I’m a woman except for the days when I’m a man,’” she said. “I know that’s not a very satisfying answer, but there’s a part of me that is really resistant to boxing it up.”
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After more than a decade away from the top 40 of the Billboard 200 albums chart, The Beach Boys return to the region, as the greatest hits set Sounds of Summer: The Very Best of The Beach Boys jumps 52-14 on the June 28-dated chart. The album’s surge up the list follows the passing of the band’s Brian Wilson on June 11 at age 82.
Sounds of Summer was released in 2003 and initially debuted and peaked at No. 16 on the June 28, 2003-dated chart. This week, the set climbs to a new peak – No. 14.
The Beach Boys were last in the top 40 of the Billboard 200 chart in 2012 when the then-new studio album That’s Why God Made the Radio debuted and peaked at No. 3 and spent four nonconsecutive weeks inside the top 40.
In total, The Beach Boys have placed 56 albums on the Billboard 200, with 22 of them reaching the top 40.
Sounds of Summer is available in a standard 30-track edition and an expanded 80-track edition. All 30 of the songs on the standard version were top 40-charting hits on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, of the total 35 top 40s the group earned between 1962 and 2022. Songs on the standard edition include the No. 1s “I Get Around,” “Help Me, Rhonda,” “Good Vibrations” and “Kokomo,” alongside familiar favorites such as “Surfin’ U.S.A,” “California Girls” and “Wouldn’t It Be Nice.”
Sounds of Summer also makes its debut on Billboard’s Top Streaming Albums chart, bowing at No. 20.
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Karol G is set to bring her “tropicoqueta” vibes to late night.
The Colombian superstar returns to The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon Thursday (June 26) night to debut “Papasito,” the sizzling bilingual number from her latest album, Tropicoqueta.
In an exclusive 30-second sneak peek shared with Billboard, Karol G lights up the stage with a jubilant performance of “Papasito,” rocking a tropical-inspired black two-piece outfit that perfectly complements the song’s jubilant rhythm.
But if the preview wasn’t enough to spark anticipation, first-look photos of Karol G in a shimmering, skintight snakeskin dress — evoking Jessica Rabbit vibes — will have fans buzzing. The eye-catching shots also captures Karol G dancing alongside Jimmy Fallon, and speculation is swirling that this moment ties into “La Hora Loca,” a track off Tropicoqueta.
Last Friday, the Medellín hitmaker told Billboard Español, “At parties, the DJ always calls out, ‘It’s time for la hora loca [crazy hour],’ and everybody has to get up — a call to action. They hand out party hats, sunglasses, little props, and everyone comes together in the middle to start dancing to songs with choreography. So I said, “If I’m going to have a super Latin album that pays homage to everything we are as Latinos — it needs to go deep into our Colombian culture too.” And I thought, “I need to create a song that people will play during ‘la hora loca.’”
This marks Karol G’s second appearance on Fallon’s show; her first was in 2021 when she was rocking the blue hair era.
Catch the full episode tonight, Thursday, June 26, from 11:35 p.m. ET on NBC, with streaming available on Peacock.
Watch the preview clip and check out exclusive first-look images on Billboard below. Don’t miss the reigning queen of Latin pop lighting up late night once again.
Karol G on ‘The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon’ on Thursday, June 26, 2025.
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Karol G on ‘The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon’ on Thursday, June 26, 2025.
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Karol G on ‘The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon’ on Thursday, June 26, 2025.
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If he had only composed the unforgettable instrumental theme from Mission: Impossible, Lalo Schifrin would be fondly remembered. But the Argentine native had a seven-decade career that made him one of the premier composers in both film and television. Schifrin died Thursday (June 26) at age 93.
Schifrin received 19 Grammy nominations spanning 40 years (1962-2002) and multiple genres (both jazz and pop) and skillsets (composition, arrangement and performance). He won four Grammys.
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Schifrin received four Primetime Emmy nominations – three for Mission: Impossible and one for his music for David Wolper’s The Making of the President 1964. He received six Oscar nominations, five for scores (Cool Hand Luke, The Fox, Voyage of the Damned, The Amityville Horror and The Sting II) and one for a song, “People Alone” from The Competition (1980), which he co-wrote with lyricist Will Jennings.
Schifrin never won a Primetime Emmy or an Oscar in competition, but in 2018 the Motion Picture Academy awarded him an Honorary Oscar “in recognition of his unique musical style, compositional integrity and influential contributions to the art of film scoring.” He was just the third film scorer to receive such an award, following Alex North (1985) and Ennio Morricone (2006). A fourth film scorer, Quincy Jones, was awarded an Honorary Oscar posthumously last year.
Schifrin’s Honorary Oscar was presented by Clint Eastwood, for whom Schifrin had scored many films, from Coogan’s Bluff (1968) to The Bridge of San Luis Rey (2004). Their work together included the iconic 1971 film Dirty Harry and its four sequels.
“I am very honored by this distinction that touches me profoundly,” Schifrin said in accepting the award. “My love and appreciation for motion pictures started very early in my life. I remember when I was five years old my parents took me to see a movie, a horror movie, and at that moment I realized that without music it wouldn’t be so scary. And it’s true. I have been fortunate to have the opportunity to work with great, outstanding directors, producers, and talented musicians in the creation of musical scores to support their projects. … Composing for movies has given me a lifetime of joy and creativity. Receiving this Honorary Oscar is a culmination of a dream. It is a ‘mission accomplished.’”
For all he accomplished, Schifrin’s Mission: Impossible theme is unquestionably his greatest hit. His music for that drama series, which aired on CBS from 1966-73, brought him two Grammy Awards, three Primetime Emmy nominations and high placements on the Billboard charts.
His “Mission-Impossible” theme reached No. 41 on the Billboard Hot 100 in January 1968. It won a Grammy for best instrumental theme in 1968 and was voted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 2017.
Schifrin’s M:I score brought him a second Grammy in 1968 – best original score written for a motion picture or a television show. In the latter category, Schifrin bested scores from four feature films, which is highly unusual for a TV project, then or now. Schifrin’s album Music From Mission: Impossible reached No. 47 on the Billboard 200.
Schifrin told the New York Post in 2015 that the M:I theme came to him very quickly. And he said he composed it without seeing any footage from the show.
“Bruce Geller, who was the producer of the series, put together the pilot and came to me and said, ‘I want you to write something exciting, something that when people are in the living room and go into the kitchen to have a soft drink, and they hear it, they will know what it is. I want it to be identifiable, recognizable and a signature.’ And this is what I did.”
The theme transferred to the long-running film franchise starring Tom Cruise (who is slated to get his own Honorary Oscar in November.) Adam Clayton and Larry Mullen Jr. of U2 recorded Schifrin’s composition for the first M:I film in 1996. Their version reached No. 7 on the Hot 100 and was nominated for a Grammy for best pop instrumental performance – where it competed with Schifrin’s own new rendition of the theme which he recorded with the London Philharmonic Orchestra. (Both lost to Béla Fleck & The Flecktones’ “The Sinister Minister.”)
Schifrin’s highest-charting album on the Billboard 200 was a 1962 studio album, Bossa Nova – New Brazilian Jazz, which reached No. 35.
He won his first two Grammy Awards in 1965 and 1966 for “The Cat” and “Jazz Suite on the Mass Texts,” both of which were voted best original jazz composition.
Schifrin also wrote the pitch-perfect theme song for Mannix (also produced by Geller), which helped that Mike Connors P.I. series stay on the air for eight years (one year longer than M:I). His other TV themes include The Man From U.N.C.L.E., Medical Center, Starsky & Hutch, T.H.E. Cat and Petrocelli.
His other film scores, not already named, include The Cincinnati Kid, Bullitt, Enter the Dragonand all three Rush Hour films.
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Born Boris Claudio Schifrin on June 21, 1932, Schifrin was a second-generation musical talent. His father was the concert master for the Buenos Aires Philharmonic for more than three decades. The younger Schifrin began playing piano at the tender age 5. When he was about 16, his classmates turned him to jazz records, and he was hooked for life.
He studied music and law for four years at the University of Buenos Aires, and received a scholarship to the Paris Conservatory of Music in 1952. In 1956, Schifrin returned to Buenos Aires, formed his own jazz band and became active writing music for TV and radio programs.
Schifrin arrived in New York City in 1958. He reconnected with early mentor Dizzy Gillespie in 1960, and worked on Gillespie’s hit album, Gillespiana, which brought both musicians Grammy nominations – Gillespie for best jazz performance – large group (instrumental) and Schifrin for best original jazz composition. Around the same time, Schifrin also arranged jazz albums for the likes of Stan Getz and Sarah Vaughan.
Inspired by the success of such film composers as Henry Mancini and Johnny Mandel, Schifrin moved to California in 1963. He landed his first Oscar-nominated score, Cool Hand Luke, just four years later.
Schifrin also conducted several of the world’s top orchestras, including those in London, Vienna, Los Angeles, Israel, Mexico City, Houston, Atlanta and Buenos Aires.
In 1987, he was appointed musical director for the Paris Philharmonic Orchestra, which was formed for the purpose of recording music for films. He held the post for five years.
Schifrin received the BMI Lifetime Achievement Award in 1988 and received a Trustees Award at the Latin Grammys in 2017. He was a Lifetime Achievement honoree at the Society of Composers & Lyricists (SCL) Awards.
He is survived by his wife, Donna; sons Will, a TV writer (The Fairly OddParents), and Ryan, a writer-director (Abominable); a daughter, Frances; and four grandchildren.
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ATEEZ achieve its fifth No. 1 on Billboard’s Top Album Sales chart (dated June 28) as the act’s latest release, GOLDEN HOUR : Part.3 debuts atop the list. All fif of the group’s leaders have been consecutive, starting with 2023’s THE WORLD EP.2 : OUTLAW.
GOLDEN HOUR : Part.3 sold 101,500 copies in the United States in the week ending June 19, according to Luminate. In total, ATEEZ has collected eight top 10s on the Top Album Sales chart.
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Also in the top 10 of the latest Top Album Sales chart, the latest efforts from Brandon Lake, King Gizzard and The Lizard Wizard, Calum Hood and iTZY all debut in the region. Meanwhile, Metallica’s former No. 1 Load returns after an expanded reissue and SZA’s SOS reenters after new CD and vinyl editions for the deluxe LANA edition of the album dropped.
Billboard’s Top Album Sales chart ranks the top-selling albums of the week based only on traditional album sales. The chart’s history dates back to May 25, 1991, the first week Billboard began tabulating charts with electronically monitored piece count information from SoundScan, now Luminate. Pure album sales were the sole measurement utilized by the Billboard 200 albums chart through the list dated Dec. 6, 2014, after which that chart switched to a methodology that blends album sales with track equivalent album (TEA) units and streaming equivalent album (SEA) units.
ENHYPEN’s DESIRE : UNLEASH falls to No. 2 on Top Album Sales (27,000; down 71%) after debuting at No. 1 a week ago. Brandon Lake notches his first top 10 and biggest sales week ever as King of Hearts bows at No. 3 (20,000).
Metallica’s Load, first released in 1996, reenters the chart at No. 4 with 12,000 sold (up 6,925%) after its deluxe reissue in multiple formats with bonus material. (All versions of the album, old and new, are combined for tracking and charting purposes.) Load debuted at No. 1 on the June 22, 1996-dated chart and spent four consecutive weeks atop the list that year.
King Gizzard and The Lizard Wizard notch its highest charting album ever on Top Album Sales, and fifth top 10, as Phantom Island debuts at No. 5 with nearly 11,000 copies sold. The band had previously gone as high as No. 7, twice, with 2019’s Infest the Rats’ Nest and 2024’s Flight B741.
SEVENTEEN’s chart-topping SEVENTEEN 5th Album ‘HAPPY BURSTDAY’ is a non-mover at No. 6 (nearly 10,000; down 32%) and Morgan Wallen’s former No. 1 I’m the Problem rises 9-7 (9,000; down 12%).
Calum Hood’s debut solo album ORDER chaos ORDER arrives at No. 8 with 8,000 sold in its first week. SZA’s SOS reenters at No. 9 with 7,500 copies sold (up 228%), following the release of the vinyl and CD editions of the SOS Deluxe: LANA version of the album.
iTZY rounds out the top 10 of the latest Top Album Sales chart, as the act’s Girls Will Be Girls bows at No. 10 with a little more than 7,000 sold. It’s the seventh top 10, all consecutive, for the group.
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Chuy Montana’s story began at the border — but his voice carried far beyond its lines. Found busking with his guitar for traffic-bound listeners at the Tijuana-San Ysidro crossing, Jesús Cárdenas (real name) was discovered by JOP of Fuerza Regida, whose belief in Chuy’s talent led to him signing the young artist to Street Mob Records in 2023. It was a moment that would propel Montana into the booming international Mexican music scene.
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But on February 7, 2024, just as his music was beginning to flourish, Chuy Montana was found murdered in Tijuana. He was only 23 years old. Now, nearly a year and a half later, his voice emerges again.
On Thursday (June 26) night, Street Mob Records releases Montana’s posthumous debut album: No Fue Suerte, an 11-track collection featuring collaborations with some of the most buzzworthy names in regional Mexican music today, including Fuerza Regida, as well as Calle 24, Clave Especial, Armenta and more. With the help of Street Mob, the project was completed in close collaboration with Montana’s family.
“This has been the most [unique] type of project I’ve ever worked — the most challenging, but also the most rewarding,” Cindy Gaxiola, VP of commercial affairs at Street Mob Records, tells Billboard Español. “When you’re sitting there playing music for Chuy’s mom, and she’s taking it in and expressing her emotions — that was definitely a learning process for me, in a very positive way. So it’s rewarding to know that all of those emotions, all of that work, finally gets to be heard.”
The project features never-before-heard recordings that showcase the full breadth of Chuy Montana’s artistry: from corridos bélicos that confront life’s raw truths (“No Fue Suerte”), tender ballads steeped in emotional honesty (“Mamá”), and pensive tracks that showcase the creativity of a young artist finding his voice (“Qué Será”).
The album represents a community effort, largely featuring artists within the Street Mob Records roster, all of whom shared close ties with Montana. Most of the collabs were recorded over the artist’s voice after his death.
Two songs feature collaborations with hitmakers Fuerza Regida. “JOP was very involved in the creative process,” Gaxiola says. “He wanted to know where the album stood and get everything as close as possible [to finished]. He decided to jump on ‘Fama’ with Güero X, but as we continued mixing, mastering, and finalizing, he said, ‘You know what? I want to jump on another song.’ That’s how he ended up joining ‘Sin Chingarme a Nadie.’”
Chuy Montana
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Montana’s friendship with Güero X helped to shape the album’s direction and ensure Chuy’s voice was centered, mentions Gaxiola. “Güero was the one that also took a really good lead on this project, in terms of helping us gather the music and a bridge between us and the family since the beginning,” she adds.
“Calle 24 was already on one of the songs because they were friends,” she explains. “When it came to Clave Especial, who’s at such an exciting point in their career, their response was immediate: ‘Of course, what an honor for us to be a part of it.’” Both Calle and Clave are featured on track “Cuadros Peruanos.”
Other collaborators, like songwriter Armenta, joined at the request of Montana’s family for the steel-string guitar-laden “De Tijuana a París.” “Armenta asked if he could change some of the lyrics,” Gaxiola recalls. “And the family gave him their blessing because they wanted his voice and his touch to shine on the track. Everything about this project was very organic.”
At the heart of the album lies Montana’s ability to transport listeners into emotional, often visual worlds. His lyrics blend confessional candor with poetic imagery — a talent that stands out most on the album’s eerily foreshadowing focus track, “Perdón Mamá.” Featuring Juanpa Salazar and menacing accordion riffs, the song opens with the chilling lines: “Perdón, mamá, no fui lo que quisiste/ Yo se que ahorita tú te encuentras triste/ Mi cuerpo ahí estaba tirado, el charco rojo, empapados” (“Forgive me, mom, I wasn’t what you wanted/ I know that right now you’re feeling sad/ My body was lying there, the red puddle, soaked”).
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“When you listen to the album, you can visualize everything that he’s singing,” Gaxiola says. “That’s what makes listening to it so hard — yet it shows just how great of a storyteller he was. Even though he hadn’t lived some of these stories, you could feel how much he understood them.”
“Every note, every word on this album carries Chuy’s spirit,” shares a family member in a press release. For Montana’s relatives, the album’s completion offered not just a chance to celebrate his work, but also a moment of healing.
Street Mob Records also honored the family’s grief by organizing a private trip in Mexico’s Caribbean coast where 16 relatives gathered to hear the finished product for the first time. “They all had Chuy’s merch, were wearing it that night,” Gaxiola says. The trip created a space for connection and reflection. “This project wasn’t just about music — it brought people together, from the artists to our team and his family.”
For fans, Montana’s debut album offers the bittersweet promise of what could have been — a glimpse into a rising star whose stories resonate even beyond his years. “I hope fans listen to it with an open heart,” Gaxiola adds. “We’re all just excited for everyone to give this album the time and respect [it deserves], and for Chuy’s legacy to continue to live on.”
Chuy Montanta’s No Fue Suere pre-save link is available here.
Prosecutors have spent the last month trying to convict Sean “Diddy” Combs under an organized crime law usually deployed to go after mobsters and cartels. Trying to stick the landing during closing arguments, a government lawyer used the gangland language of “kingdoms” and “foot soldiers” as she zeroed in on Combs’ alleged racketeering enterprise.
Assistant U.S. Attorney Christy Slavik delivered the closing argument on Thursday (June 26) for the prosecution’s case against Combs, who’s accused of using violence, bribery and blackmail to coerce women into participating in marathon sex shows dubbed “freak-offs.” Combs says his sex parties were entirely consensual.
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Combs is charged under the federal Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act, commonly known as “RICO,” a powerful tool that allows prosecutors to tie together various criminal acts into a single “enterprise.” The statute is traditionally used to convict mobsters and cartels, but it’s also been wielded in recent years against alleged sexual predators like R. Kelly and Nxivm founder Keith Raniere.
Slavik focused heavily on Combs’ supposed criminal enterprise as she tried to convince the jury to convict the music mogul of RICO violations on Thursday. She argued that Combs sat atop a large, organized syndicate and described his employees as “loyal lieutenants” and “foot soldiers” — words typically associated with mafia capos who report to gang bosses.
“The defendant was at the top of this enterprise,” Slavik said, according to CNN. “Remember, it’s his kingdom. Everyone was there to serve him.”
To convict Combs under RICO, the jury will have to find that the rapper and his associates committed at least two underlying crimes together. Slavik argued that there’s evidence of Combs’ enterprise engaging in a whole host of illegal acts, including distributing drugs for freak-offs, bribing a hotel security guard with $100,000 for surveillance footage of Combs assaulting his then-girlfriend, singer Cassie Ventura, and setting Kid Cudi’s car on fire.
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Perhaps most importantly, Slavik said Combs and his employees committed the underlying crime of sex trafficking — which he is charged separately with — by forcing Ventura and another anonymous ex-girlfriend known as “Jane” to participate in the freak-offs.
Slavik told the jury that while both Ventura and Jane may have agreed to some of the freak-offs — dayslong hotel room parties where Combs would masturbate while watching the women have sex with male escorts — many of these events were obviously coerced.
The prosecutor said Combs blackmailed both women into participating in freak-offs by threatening to release their sex tapes. Slavik argued the rapper also plied the women with drugs to make them compliant and manipulated them with money — by paying Jane’s rent and threatening to stop unless she complied, and by controlling Ventura’s music career.
Combs additionally used violence, Slavik said, to traffic the women by making them think they had to participate in freak-offs if they didn’t want to get hurt. The prosecutor pointed to Jane’s testimony that she gave oral sex to an escort in 2024 after Combs dragged her by her hair and choked her, and claims from Ventura and numerous corroborating witnesses that Combs regularly beat her throughout the decade they dated.
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“It all comes down to this — what choice did Cassie have in the end?” Slavik said. “Viewed through the entire context of their relationship, Cassie did not have the freedom to make voluntary adult choices.”
Combs’ defense lawyers will get the chance to make their own closing argument to the jury on Friday (June 27), when they’ll likely say Ventura and Jane participated in the freak-offs willingly.
Prosecutors will get a final chance to address the jury with a rebuttal argument after Combs’ lawyers finish on Friday; the judge will then read out lengthy legal instructions. The jury could begin deliberating late on Friday, or when they return from the weekend on Monday (June 30).
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Billboard‘s Country Power Players presented by Bud Light was the perfect way to kick off CMA Fest 2025 in Nashville. Attendees at Category 10 celebrated the achievements of musicians and executives in country music over the last year while being treated to ice-cold Bud Light from the evening’s sponsor. This is partner content.
Billboard‘s Melinda Newman kicked off the evening by introducing this year’s host, Reyna Roberts. She teed up the first performer of the program, Carin Leon. The house was full of A-list presenters like Shaboozey, Garth Brooks, Ronnie Dunn, Lainey Wilson, Lauren Daigle and Brothers Osborne. Other incredible talent attended the festivities to support their peers like Bailey Zimmerman and Max McNown.
Those in attendance danced to tunes curated by Dj Grant Fisher while they enjoyed light-bites and refreshing Bud Light drafts and tall boys.
This year’s honorees included BigXThaPlug, who took home the Innovator Award, Ella Langley as 2025’s Trailblazer, and Riley Green who nabbed the Groundbreaker Award. This year’s executive honorees were Tatum Allsep, who accepted the Impact Award while Stacy Vee took home Executive of the Year. Billboard‘s Jim Asker was given a commemorative farewell Billboard cover.
The evening ended with a Little Big Town performance and the group accepting the inaugural Ben Vaughn Song Champion award, where they gave a heart-warming speech dedicated to the late Warner Music Nashville president/CEO.
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Right now, Sam’s Club has a whole host of musical instruments to shop.
If you’re looking to start up a brand-new hobby or want to beef up your music-making equipment, the retailer has you covered. We’ve compiled a list of five instruments you can shop now for as low as $17.91. We’ve included everything from casual karaoke machines and ukuleles to drum kits. You’ll only have access to these pieces with a Sam’s Club membership.
A standard membership will run you $50 a year and will get you some pretty great perks. Standard club members can enjoy no fees for curbside pickup on orders over $50, 2% cash back loaded monthly on the membership for most purchases made, and additional discounts on prescriptions beyond your current membership. Upon signing up, you’re given a Sam’s Club Mastercard.
Singing Machine Platinum WiFi Karaoke System with 10″ Touchscreen Display & 2 Wireless Microphones
This Singing Machine Platinum WiFi Karaoke System is perfect for your next get-together or birthday party. The machine comes equipped with two wireless microphones, great for doing duets, and a 10-inch touchscreen that displays songs that you can stream through the machine’s WiFi connectivity. This gives you direct access to streaming services like Apple Music, Prime Music, Spotify and YouTube. It also has more than 22 voice effects plus echo to make you sound even better. With all those features in mind, this $199 machine is kind of hard to turn down.
Looking to practice your keyboard skills on the go? The Alesis Harmony 61 Pro Portable Keyboard is for you. Retailing for $188, this keyboard features a slew of unique settings that allow you to create your own unique sound in an instant. There are built-in sounds covering a wide variety of instruments along with a curated catalogue filled with current charting hits to classical music.
You can layer multiple sounds together using “dual” mode or split two sounds across the keyboard with “split” mode. The Harmony 61 Pro also includes 10 reverb, eight chorus and two slicer effects that add additional depth to your musical creation. When you purchase this instrument you can register it on the Alesis website to unlock an exclusive 30-day free trial of the Melodics Premium plan that allows you to hone your skills on the keyboard.
Carlsbro Rock50 4-Piece Electronic Drum Kit with Headphones
Make like your favorite drummers and grab this Carlsbro Rock50 4-Piece Electronic Drum Kit. The kit retails for $234 and comes with headphones. The kit is a steal in comparison to comparable drum sets that can cost you up to $500 or more. The kit includes a 7-inch tom and snare pad, an 8-inch cymbal pad, an aluminum bass pedal and headphones. 50 drum lessons are also included. This kit would make an amazing gift for junior drummers and beginners looking to amp up their drum set. The sturdy metal frame is easy to assemble and can be easily adjusted to fit the height of the user.
Cort AD810OP-A Standard Series Dreadnought Acoustic Guitar, Open Pore Natural
Finding the right acoustic guitar can feel like Sophie’s Choice sometimes. Finding that Goldilocks instrument that’s just right is a tricky deal, however, Sam’s Club has narrowed down your search exponentially. Retailing for $178, this Cort AD810OP-A Standard Series Dreadnought Acoustic Guitar is the definition of superb sound for an affordable price. The acoustic model features a pretty spruce top, mahogany back and sides and a merbau fingerboard. The spruce construction is pretty standard for acoustic guitars given its versatile sonic character that makes it ideal for a variety of musical genres and playing styles. This piece is perfect for those just beginning to play guitar because it’s pretty forgiving and easy to work with.
Mahalo MR1TBR Rainbow Series Soprano Ukulele, Transparent Brown
If you’re looking to get into the world of string instruments, the ukulele is a great place to start. Easy to use and accessable for most, this ukulele would make a great gift if you want to have the mastery of an instrument under your belt. The Mahalo MR1TBR Rainbow Series retails for $17.91. It is a Soprano series, which is the smallest and most traditional size of a ukelele you can get. The Aquila Super Nylgut strings attached to this piece are fitted to produce a fuller, louder and more balanced sound with rich in tonal harmonics. With this ukelele in tow, you’ll be playing the chords to “Over the Rainbow” in no time.
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In the digital age, streaming your favorite movies and TV shows from popular services can start to add up. But not just for all of the accounts and logins you have to remember, but for your wallet. However, there’s a way to watch hit TV series, like Mad Men, Halt and Catch Fire, The Walking Dead, Breaking Bad and much more, as well as popular movies, including Limitless, Hustle & Flow, Divergent, Trading Places, Voyagers, The Innkeepers and others, for free.
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Here’s what you need to do: Just go to Philo FAST Channels and enter your email address. The streamer will then send you a notification to verify your email with a six-digit code. Once you enter the code back on Philo.com, you’ll have access to hundreds of on-demand movies and TV shows to watch for absolutely free.
And best of all? You can watch on your smart TV, smartphone, tablet, laptop and other web-connected devices via the Philo app or website.
Aside from on-demand titles, Philo offers free live channels too for entertainment, lifestyle, news, sports, shopping and much more. The service includes more than 110 channels, such as AMC Thrillers, beIN Sports Xtra, Cheddar News, Design Network, Ebony TV, Game Show Central, HSN, IFC Films Picks, Kin, LOL!, QVC, Screambox TV and many others.
Meanwhile, Philo has free unlimited DVR to record movies, TV shows and live channels for up to 30 days — even for the streamers free channel users. This is a bonus that most free streaming services don’t offer, but it comes included with Philo’s free channels tier. Consider it the cherry on top.
Please note: With certain content rights, some channels and TV shows may not be available to record via DVR.
We consider Philo to be a hidden gem among a sea of streaming services on the internet, thanks to its selection of movies, TV shows, live channels and wide range of features that you can access for free.
And in the event, you’d like to upgrade to watch premium channels, like A&E, BBC America, CMT, Discovery Channel, Food Network, HGTV and more than 70 other channels, you can upgrade to Philo Core for just $28 per month and still get access to all of the free movies, TV shows and live channels too. Philo Core comes with access to AMC+ too.
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