Sabrina Carpenter and Miss Piggy are two famous blondes who love getting dolled up — but after the singer “arrested” the famed Muppet at a Short n’ Sweet Tour stop, they might also share beef.

In a video interview with TV Insider posted Tuesday (Feb. 3) — one day before the return of The Muppet Show via a Disney+ special in which the singer-songwriter guest stars — Miss Piggy addressed where she stands with Carpenter. When asked specifically whether the two-time Grammy winner’s cameo on the special means they’ve “made up” after she playfully arrested Miss Piggy as part of a recurring bit at her shows, the beloved porcine children’s character said she wasn’t sure.

“Well, I was at the concert after we filmed the show, so I guess my answer is: I’m not sure,” Miss Piggy answered candidly as Kermit the Frog nodded beside her. “I mean, you know, when she arrested me, it wasn’t a bad thing, you understand? It was a sign of respect.”

Miss Piggy was present at Carpenter’s tour-wrapping Short n’ Sweet concert in Los Angeles on Nov. 23. With help from Bobo the Bear, the Girl Meets World alum put the fabulous swine under arrest for being “too hot,” saying from the stage, “You’re so funny, Miss Piggy, wow! You’re like the only celebrity I get nervous to be around. I’m getting really flustered.”

But while Miss Piggy insists the concert arrest was all in good fun, she did get a little testy with Carpenter while filming The Muppet Show special, which is now available to watch on Disney+. In one scene, the pop star tells her, “I basically modeled my whole look and style after you.”

“Oh, trust me,” Miss Piggy responds. “My attorneys and I have taken notice, and we will be in touch.”

Watch the Muppet Show trailer below.

While at President Donald Trump‘s summit to help introduce his Trump Accounts program, Nicki Minaj and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent did the “Beez in the Trap” trend — well, she did the trend, while the cabinet member pretty much just stood there.

In a video posted Tuesday (Feb. 3) to the official Trump Accounts profile on X, Bessent and the rapper stand back to back while a viral mashup of her hit 2012 collaboration with 2Chainz and 4 Non Blondes’ “What’s Up” plays. The trend usually features one person singing along to “What’s Up” before the camera pans around to a second person rapping the “Beez in the Trap” chorus — which, in this case, Minaj herself did, energetically dancing while mouthing her own bars — but Bessent simply stands still and nods.

The video Trump Accounts shared also features footage of Minaj at the summit, at which she sat next to Bessent in the crowd as well as stood on stage with the twice-impeached POTUS to endorse his new savings account initiative. While at the podium, Trump said that the hip-hop star had contributed “hundreds of thousands of dollars in Trump Accounts,” and later, Minaj showed off the Trump Gold card — which costs $1 million plus a $15,000 DHS processing fee, and expedites the holder’s visa adjudication process — he gave her at the event on social media.

Minaj has been more active than ever in politics in recent months, from speaking at a United Nations event to condemn alleged religious persecution in Nigeria in November to appearing on stage with Erika Kirk at a Turning Point USA conference in December. In a podcast interview with Katie Miller — with whom Minaj also did the “Beez in the Trap” trend — the hitmaker explained why she was motivated to become more active in the space.

“If I’m being honest, President Trump … when I saw how he was being treated, over and over and over, I just couldn’t handle it,” Minaj told Miller in the episode posted Tuesday (Feb. 3). “I felt that a lot of that bullying and the smear campaigns and all of the lying, I felt that that had been done to me for so many years. And I was watching it in real time happen to someone else, and I didn’t think he deserved it.”

Watch Minaj and Bessent’s take on the “Beez in the Trap” trend below.

Following a flurry of recent activity for his former One Direction bandmates Harry Styles and Louis Tomlinson in recent weeks, Zayn is now getting in on the action.

The 33-year-old has shared news of his upcoming fifth studio album, Konnakol, which is due to drop April 17 via Mercury Records/Island Records U.K. Lead single “Die for Me” will be released this Friday (Feb. 6).

The LP will be Zayn’s first since 2024’s Room Under the Stairs, which hit No. 15 on the Billboard 200, and No. 3 on the U.K.’s Official Albums Chart.

In a statement, Zayn has expanded on the album’s title, which is a reference to the art of performing percussion syllables vocally and often found in South Indian Carnatic music. 

“It’s that time again, I have been lucky enough to make a fifth studio album,” he said in a press statement. “Konnakol in its definition is the act of creating percussive sounds with one’s voice, but what it means to me lies somewhere much deeper. It is a sound that holds the reverberation of a time before words existed.

He added, “I have always drawn on my heritage for inspiration since I first started making my own music — this album is a development of that understanding, knowing more now than ever, who I am, where I come from and where I intend to go.”

The album’s artwork sees Zayn’s face morphed with that of a snow leopard, an image that was first teased at his recent residency at Las Vegas’ Park MGM.

Zayn released his first solo album, Mind of Mine, in 2016, which charted at No. 1 in both the U.S. and U.K., and was followed by Icarus Falls (2018) and Nobody Is Listening (2021). In 2024, he ventured on his debut solo tour with a run of 21 shows in the U.K. and North America.

The news comes following the comeback of Harry Styles, who will release his fourth LP, Kiss All the Time. Disco, Occasionally, on March 6, while Tomlinson recently hit the summit of the U.K. Albums Chart with How Did I Get Here?

At his Jan. 28 residency performance, Zayn made a cheeky remark about ticket prices, which some assumed were a reference to passes for Styles’ upcoming residency tour.

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 Hot 100 dated Feb. 14, we look at the chances of breakout stars Ella Langley and Olivia Dean to depose Harry Styles and score their first career No. 1.  

Ella Langley, “Choosin’ Texas” (SAWGOD/Columbia/Triple Tigers): As Harry Styles’ “Aperture” declines in its second week of release, the door is open for Langley’s new smash to seize the top spot on the Hot 100. The steady climb of “Choosin’ Texas” to the top tier of the chart was punctuated by it jumping 6-2 this week, reaching a new peak in its 15th week on the chart.  

The song remains a strong performer on each Hot 100 component chart, ranking No. 2 on Streaming Songs, No. 3 on Digital Song Sales and No. 14 on Radio Songs this week, having previously topped both of the first two listings. Radio is still where “Texas” has the most room to grow, and next week it’s challenging for both its first week at No. 1 on Country Airplay (where it holds at No. 2 this week behind HARDY’s “Favorite Country Song”) and its first week in the top 10 on Radio Songs — as it continues to gradually amass top 40 spins, currently bubbling under the Pop Airplay chart.  

If “Texas” can make it to No. 1, it would not only be Langley’s first trip to the top spot, but an extremely rare achievement as a Hot 100-topper by a woman in a lead role that also led Hot Country Songs. This century, the only two to previously have managed that come with qualifiers: Beyoncé, who went country with “Texas Hold ‘Em” in 2024, and Taylor Swift, with a 2021 re-recording of a 2012 song released when she was already well on her way to crossover pop stardom (“All Too Well [Taylor’s Version]”), following “We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together” in 2012.

Olivia Dean, “Man I Need” (Polydor/Island/Republic): The week before “Texas” shot to No. 2, it was Dean’s turn to reach a new peak of No. 2 with her own long-building breakout hit, “Man I Need.” The song has already conquered the airwaves, capturing the top spot on Radio Songs this week for the first time, but it has begun to slip a little bit on DSPs, dropping to No. 4 on Streaming Songs as Langley takes the lead between the two on the overall Hot 100.  

That may reverse course next week, however, thanks to Dean’s big night at the Grammys on Sunday (Feb. 1). Dean took home the best new artist trophy — giving a memorable speech about being the “granddaughter of an immigrant” and a “product of bravery” — and also delivered a winning “Man” performance as part of the best new artist medley. Dean’s catalog was given a boost on DSPs as a result following the performance, with “Man” (4-3) swapping places with “Texas” on the Spotify Daily Top Songs USA chart for Monday.  

Whether or not “Man” can secure its (and Dean’s) first week at No. 1 — and give the Hot 100 back-to-back U.K. artists for the first time since Styles’ “As It Was” succeeded Glass Animals’ “Heat Waves” in April 2022 — may depend on how much those gains can hold up throughout the week. Things are getting crowded early on the Hot 100 this year, though, and “Texas” is still growing on radio, so if “Man” can’t capture the No. 1 this week, it might not get another chance this good for some time, if at all.

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Noah Kahan, “The Great Divide” (Mercury/Republic): He might not get as much mainstream attention as Bruno Mars or Harry Styles did in their returns, but don’t discount the new single from Noah Kahan in the discussion for next week’s chart. The singer-songwriter’s Friday (Jan. 30) release “The Great Divide” — title track to his upcoming album, long-awaited follow-up to his 2022 blockbuster breakthrough Stick Season — debuted atop the Spotify Daily Top Songs USA chart, and it still resides there three days later, helped by the song’s music video debuting during a Grammys commercial break, presented by MasterCard.  

Despite the strong streaming debut — and likely a good sales showing, as the song has ranked in the iTunes top 10 since its debut — “Divide” may not have the immediate radio support to be a true threat for a No. 1 bow on the Hot 100. (It’s aiming to debut on each of next week’s Alternative Airplay, Adult Alternative Airplay and Adult Pop Airplay charts, though.) Regardless, it has a good chance of instantly entering as Kahan’s career-best showing on the Hot 100, with the No. 9 peak of “Stick Season” in early 2014 marking his current highest to date.  

Bad Bunny, “DtMF” (Rimas): We’re not even at Bad Bunny’s biggest weekend of the month yet — that’s coming next Sunday, with a rather high-profile gig you may have heard mention of at some point — but he’s already zooming up the streaming charts, thanks to his massive night at the Grammys. The global superstar not only picked up an historic album of the year victory for his Debí Tirar Más Fotos album, he gave multiple memorable acceptance speeches (including one where he simply declared “ICE Out”) and was the focus of comedic bits from host Trevor Noah all evening.  

Consequently, his streams have absolutely exploded on both Spotify and Apple Music. On the former, he had eight songs re-enter the Daily Top Songs USA top 200, with another four speeding back into the top 40 — led by “DtMF” getting all the way to No. 2 — while on the latter, he has 21 songs as of posting on the real-time top 200, with “DtMF” topping the ranking outright.  

With Bad Bunny only appearing once on the Hot 100 this week, with “Voy a Llevarte Pa PR” ranking at No. 85, it’s unlikely that this massive mid-week bump will immediately get him back to the top of the chart. (“DtMF” hit No. 2 last January when the album first topped the Billboard 200; in May, it also became one of the set’s six No. 1s on Latin Airplay.) But Grammy buzz might end with him recharting a few titles, likely led by “DtMF” — and again, this isn’t even the main event of Bad Bunny’s February, so if this is what he can do following Music’s Biggest Night, just imagine what’s in store when he’s performing on sports and television’s biggest night in four days’ time. (Worth noting that Bad Bunny has still yet to score a Hot 100 No. 1 entirely of his own, only reaching the top previously alongside J Balvin and Cardi B on “I Like It.”)  

Megan Thee Stallion is adding another credit to her IMDb page.

The Houston rapper is set to have a guest-starring role on Tracy Morgan’s upcoming NBC sitcom The Fall and Rise of Reggie Dinkins. She’ll be playing the role of Denise, a recently divorced mom that sparks up a flirtatious relationship with Daniel Radcliffe’s character Arthur Tobin.

The Fall and Rise of Reggie Dinkins is about a disgraced former NFL star played by Morgan who is trying to fix his image and control the narrative with a documentary shot by an award-winning filmmaker played by Radcliffe. As he goes through the process of making the film, Dinkins must make amends with family, friends and himself for his past mistakes. Along with Morgan and Radcliffe, the show also stars Erika Alexander, Bobby Moynihan, Precious Way and Jalyn Hall.

For more Megan Thee Actress, you can check out Dicks: The Musical (2023), the Mean Girls musical remake (2024), STARZ’s P-Valley about a strip club in the Mississippi Delta, and Marvel’s She-Hulk: Attorney at Law. And if you happen to be in South Florida, you can check out her Popeyes in Miami that recently opened after she became a franchise owner. It’s safe to say that the Houston Hottie has been busy outside the booth. Hopefully, we’ll be getting some new music soon (whenever she feels like it).

Megan has three No. 1 hits on the Billboard hot 100 — 2020’s “WAP” with Cardi B, 2020’s “Savage” remix with Beyoncé and her 2024 single “Hiss” — and four top five albums on the Billboard 200, most recently with 2024’s Megan (No. 3).

The one-hour premiere event for The Fall and Rise of Reggie Dinkins airs Monday, Feb. 23, at 8 p.m. ET on NBC. New episodes will air Mondays at 8:30 p.m. beginning March 2.

You can watch the trailer below.