Max B and French Montana check into the penthouse of Billboard’s Rhythmic Airplay chart as “Ever Since U Left Me” jumps from No. 4 to rule the list dated March 28. The rappers’ single, released and promoted on Montana’s Coke Boys record label, takes the crown as the most-played song on panel-contributing rhythmic radio stations in the United States for the tracking week of March 13-19, according to Luminate.

For its coronation week, “Ever Since U Left Me” surged 12% in plays compared to its total from the prior week (March 6-12). The single’s advance knocks Lil Uzi Vert’s “What You Saying” from the top spot, with last week’s leader sliding to No. 3 (down 7%) in plays. Between the two, Kehlani’s “Out the Window” mounts a charge, improving 5-2 on the back of a 13% increase in plays.

The new champ also extends the legacy of a 50-year-old iconic record. “Ever Since U Left Me” samples KC and the Sunshine Band’s “That’s the Way (I Like It),” which topped the Billboard Hot 100 for two weeks and the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart for a week in 1975.

With the new No. 1, Max B lands his first Rhythmic Airplay with his second career entry. He and The Weeknd guested on French Montana’s “A Lie,” which reached No. 34 in October 2017. “Ever Since U Left Me” is one of Max B’s first songs since the rapper was released from prison on Nov. 9, 2025. He initially received a 75-year prison sentence in 2009 for his role in a deadly robbery at a New Jersey hotel, but it was substantially reduced in 2016 after he pleaded guilty to lesser charges as part of a plea deal.

For French Montana, “Ever Since U Left Me” marks the rapper’s third No. 1 on Rhythmic Airplay. He first led via a featured turn on Chris Brown’s “Loyal,” a two-week champ in May 2014 and followed with his own “Unforgettable,” featuring Swae Lee, which ruled for one week in July 2017.

Elsewhere, “Ever Since U Left Me” climbs 7-6 on Rap Airplay (up 18%) as the Greatest Gainer for having the largest increase in audience. It also drives 25-18 on R&B/Hip-Hop Airplay with five million in audience impressions, up 24% from last week.

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The Devil of Hell’s Kitchen is back, and this time bringing with him more superhero friends. Alongside series leads, Charlie Cox as The Man Without Fear and Vincent D’Onofrio as Kingpin, Daredevil: Born Again is arriving on Disney+ today, March 24, and is reintroducing a fan favorite Marvel character, Jessica Jones.

Played by Krysten Ritter, Jones will share the small screen with Matt Murdock and crew once again since their limited Defenders run on Netflix. Will the other two members, Iron Fist and Luke Cage, make a surprise cameo? With the way Daredevil: Born Again season one ended, Matt may need all the help he can get.

Created by Dario Scardapane, Chris Ord and Matt Corman, the upcoming eight episode sophomore season will feature, “Mayor Wilson Fisk crushing New York City underfoot as he hunts down public enemy number one, the Hell’s Kitchen vigilante known as Daredevil. But beneath the horned mask, Matt Murdock will try to fight back from the shadows to tear down the Kingpin’s corrupt empire and redeem his home,” according to Marvel.

Daredevil: Born Again season two premieres on Tuesday, March 24, at 9 p.m. ET / 6 p.m. PT on Disney+ and Hulu. Keep reading to learn how you can sign up for the streaming platform online.

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What’s Daredevil: Born Again About?

Created by Dario Scardapane, Matt Corman and Chris Ord, Daredevil: Born Again follows Matt Murdock (Charlie Cox), a blind lawyer who fights for justice in court by day and in the mean streets of Hell’s Kitchen as the masked vigilante Daredevil by night. In the series, he clashes with Wilson Fisk (Vincent D’Onofrio), a crime lord and mayor of New York City.

The new TV series also stars Margarita Levieva, Deborah Ann Woll, Elden Henson, Wilson Bethel, Zabryna Guevara, Nikki M. James, Genneya Walton, Arty Froushan, Clark Johnson, Michael Gandolfini, Ayelet Zurer, Jon Bernthal and others.

Meanwhile, The Newton Brothers, film and TV composers John Andrew Grush and Taylor Newton Stewart composed and arranged the score for Daredevil: Born Again. The Newton Brothers also worked on TV scores for X-Men ’97, Goosebumps, The Fall of the House of Usher, Midnight Mass, The Haunting of Hill House and others.

Available starting on Tuesday, March 24, Daredevil: Born Again is streamable on Disney+ for subscribers only. In the meantime, watch a trailer for the new TV series below.

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THE BIG STORY: If I had told you, in the early 2000s, that the guy behind “Because I Got High” and “Colt 45 and 2 Zig-Zags” would win a major legal victory for civil liberties two decades later, would you have believed me?

Following a trial that took the internet by storm, Afroman won a verdict last week clearing him of wrongdoing in a civil defamation lawsuit filed by seven Ohio police officers. The cops claimed he caused them severe emotional distress by releasing videos and songs on social media mocking them after they conducted an aggressive raid on his home, which ultimately yielded no charges.

The trial was a spectacle: The rapper himself was decked out in an American flag suit as his lawyer played a series of music videos, live-streamed around the world, in which Afroman savagely ridiculed the officers, including one he labeled “Officer Poundcake.” One deputy wept dramatically on the witness stand for jurors; another testified that he wasn’t sure whether or not his wife had had sex with Afroman.

But beneath the bawdy surface, the trial raised serious questions about the First Amendment. Namely: Can police officers and other government officials use civil litigation to punish people who criticize them? After the ACLU called the case “nothing short of absurd,” Afroman’s lawyers argued that a verdict for the officers would have a “chilling effect” on the freedom of speech. And in the end, a jury in small-town Ohio agreed.

As the dust settles, the Afroman trial seems a perfect example of the Streisand Effect — a social phenomenon in which efforts to suppress information, usually via litigation, backfire spectacularly by calling more attention to it. The name comes from a 2003 incident in which Barbra Streisand sued to kill a paparazzi photo of her Malibu home, only to lose the case and then see the photo spread far more widely across the internet.

For the seven officers who filed the case against Afroman, whatever negative publicity they got from his initial posts paled in comparison to the avalanche of coverage they got last week, as users on TikTok, Instagram and X beamed their faces to millions around the world and Afroman’s songs surged in popularity on streaming platforms. And then they lost the case anyway.

Forget Barbra — let’s call it the Officer Poundcake Effect.

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Other top stories this week…

— Live Nation’s antitrust trial got back underway, featuring hotly-anticipated testimony from Live Nation chief executive Michael Rapino — including about those ugly Slack messages.

— A North Carolina musician named Michael Smith pleaded guilty to stealing $8 million in royalties with fake streams on AI-generated music in the first-ever streaming fraud case brought by U.S. prosecutors.

— Chance the Rapper won a jury verdict rejecting a lawsuit filed by his longtime manager Pat Corcoran (aka Pat the Manager) over allegations of millions in unpaid commissions.

— Bad Bunny’s lawyers demanded that an African music publisher repay more than $450,000 in legal bills after dragging the superstar into a failed copyright case: “This case was meritless from the beginning.”

— FKA Twigs launched a lawsuit against an indie band called The Twigs that has threatened to sue her over their similar names, accusing the duo of “weaponizing” trademarks to win a “seven-figure payout.”

— Justin Timberlake dropped a lawsuit aimed at blocking a Hamptons police department from releasing bodycam footage from his viral DWI arrest two years ago, allowing the video to hit the internet.

— Nicki Minaj was hit with a new lawsuit that claims she has stiffed a concert production company on $275,000 in fees — and that her reps just keep saying, “We’ll look into this.”

— Gunna filed a lawsuit claiming that shady concert promoters duped him into playing a show at a party for this year’s X Games and never had the money to pay his performance fee of $750,000.

— The musician behind the Zulu chant in “The Circle of Life” from The Lion King sued a comedian over a viral podcast comment about the song. Thanks to the First Amendment, the case faces long odds.

— BMG joined the AI wars by suing Anthropic for copyright infringement, claiming its AI model Claude was illegally trained on bangers like Ariana Grande’s “7 Rings” and Bruno Mars’ “Uptown Funk,”

— The rapper Mystikal pleaded guilty to a charge of third-degree rape in Louisiana, leaving the 55-year-old facing up to 20 years in prison when he’s sentenced in June.

— Ye (formerly Kanye West) settled a lawsuit over accusations of “blatant” illegal sampling on Vultures 1 — one of just many, many, many such cases filed against the rapper over the years.

— Remy Ma’s streaming platform renamed an upcoming movie originally titled The Biggest Boss after being threatened with legal action from the biggest boss himself, Rick Ross.

— Yung Miami publicly defended her decision to seek leniency for Sean “Diddy” Combs ahead of his prostitution sentencing, saying he was a “changed man” by the time she dated him from 2021 to 2023.

A little cold weather is no match for ARMY — especially if it’s in the way of seeing BTS live.

After returning from a hiatus with their new album Arirang on Friday (March 20), BTS put on their first U.S. show in four years at Manhattan’s Pier 17 on Monday (March 23). The performance was part of an invite-only event put on in collaboration between the band and Spotify called “Spotify x BTS: Swimside.”

Though New York City experienced some unusually warm weather the week leading up to the show, by Monday, temperatures were in the 40s (Fahrenheit) and below. An outdoor rooftop venue overlooking Manhattan’s Seaport neighborhood, Pier 17 is particularly vulnerable to any drops in temperature. Tack on light rain and fog, and the conditions for Swimside certainly weren’t favorable.

Despite the less-than-stellar weather, after ARMY learned about the show’s location earlier in the day, many of them queued up outside the venue hoping to snag a spot close to the stage. In the end, 1,000 fans lucky enough to be invited braved the cold and rain and made their way to the Seaport to see their favorite K-pop group. In return, they were treated to a Q&A with BTS hosted by British singer-songwriter Suki Waterhouse and a live performance of three of BTS’ new tracks.

Although they were under bright stage lights for the show, BTS was not immune to the cold weather that their fans endured for them. On Tuesday (March 24), Jimin sent out a message via Hybe’s social platform Weverse acknowledging the low temperatures and thanking fans for coming out anyway.

“I thought I was too cold during yesterday’s concert, so I was worried,” the singer wrote before saying he’s sure that fans were also cold and apologizing. “Thank you so much for waiting for us.” He closed with a final word of gratitude to the fans: “Thank you ARMY.”

BTS will embark on a massive world tour next month, putting on 79 concerts across 34 regions. While we hope that the weather conditions are perfect for each show, we know that either way, ARMY will show up and show out.

Bandsintown, the live music and event discovery platform, has announced an integration with Apple Music to bring concert listings directly to the streaming platform. The new service, announced on Tuesday (March 24), will be available with the iOS 26.4 update, appearing on Apple Music artist pages and in a new Concerts tab within the search feature.

Artists who publish their events via Bandsintown and connect their Apple Music profiles to the platform will have their upcoming concerts appear directly on the streaming service. Venues, festivals and promoters utilizing Bandsintown Pro will also see their events featured on the platform.

Artists can easily link the two platforms by connecting their Apple Music artist page URL within the Bandsintown for Artists dashboard. After being connected, events will sync to Apple Music within 48 hours on both artist pages and in the Concerts search tab.

Fans on Apple Music will be able to view event details, including direct ticketing links, venue information and setlists. Apple Music will also send notifications to users when artists they follow have upcoming shows happening nearby.

According to a press release, more than 700,000 artists and 65,000 venues utilize Bandsintown for their events, with the platform publishing 2.3 million events annually. Since first launching in 2012, the company has formed strategic partnerships with YouTube, Google, Spotify, Apple, Shazam and Microsoft Bing. The company’s fan app and website generate more than 400 million personalized concert recommendations per month, the release adds.

For iOS 26.4 users, concert listings are available in public and developer beta, with a broader release available soon.