Sabrina Carpenter showed a few seconds of “Skin” on Sunday (Jan. 31).

“SKIN MUSIC VIDEO TOMORROW 2pm PT,” she wrote on Twitter. “going live on my YouTube Channel right before at 1:40pm PT.”

“Maybe we could have been friends,” Carpenter sings in the clip, which shows a quick montage of what seems to be romantic scenes from a relationship.

Carpenter, who recently signed with Island Records, surprise-released the song on Jan. 22. Fans speculated it was a response to Olivia Rodrigo’s hit single “Drivers License,” due to rumors of a love triangle involving Rodrigo, Carpenter and Joshua Bassett. (In “Drivers License,” Rodrigo sings, “And you’re probably with that blonde girl/ Who always made me doubt/ She’s so much older than me/ She’s everything I’m insecure about.” In “Skin,” Carpenter sings, “Maybe you didn’t mean it/ Maybe ‘blonde’ was the only rhyme.”)

But in an Instagram post last week, Carpenter said “Skin” “isn’t calling out one single person. some lines address a specific situation, while other lines address plenty of other experiences I’ve had this past year.”

“i wasn’t bothered by a few lines in a (magnificent) song and wrote a diss track about it,” she wrote. “i was at a tipping point in my life for countless reasons. so i was inspired to do what i usually do to cope, write something that i wish i could have told myself in the past. people can only get to you if you give them the power to. and a lot of people were trying to get to me.”

Watch the “Skin” music video preview below, and tune in to see the full visual at 5 p.m. ET/2 p.m. PT on Monday (Feb. 1).

Republic Records achieves a rare feat on the Billboard 200 chart (dated Feb. 6), as the company is the distributing label of the Nos. 1-4 albums. It’s the first time a label has monopolized the top four since 1996.

Morgan Wallen’s Dangerous: The Double Album (released via Big Loud/Republic) is No. 1 for a third week, while three former leaders trail the set: Pop Smoke’s Shoot for the Stars Aim for the Moon (Victor Victor Worldwide/Republic) is steady at No. 2, Taylor Swift’s Evermore (Republic) rises 4-3 and The Weeknd’s After Hours (XO/Republic) climbs 8-4.

The last time a label held court in the top four was on the Dec. 7, 1996, chart, when Interscope ruled with Bush’s Razorblade Suitcase (Trauma/Interscope), Snoop Dogg’s Tha Doggfather (Death Row/Interscope), No Doubt’s Tragic Kingdom (Trauma/Interscope) and 2Pac’s first posthumous album The Don Killuminati: The 7 Day Theory (Death Row/Interscope), released under the pseudonym Makaveli. 

The Billboard 200 chart ranks the most popular albums of the week in the U.S. based on multi-metric consumption as measured in equivalent album units. Units comprise album sales, track equivalent albums (TEA) and streaming equivalent albums (SEA). Each unit equals one album sale, or 10 individual tracks sold from an album, or 3,750 ad-supported or 1,250 paid/subscription on-demand official audio and video streams generated by songs from an album. The new Feb. 6, 2021-dated chart (where Dangerous holds at No. 1) will be posted in full on Billboard’s website on Feb. 2. For all chart news, follow @billboard and @billboardcharts on both Twitter and Instagram.

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Lenny Kravitz shared an emotional note about Cicely Tyson, the pioneering Black actress and his godmother, who died on Jan. 28 at the age of 96.

“With inimitable style and grace, my dear Godmother Miss Cicely Tyson made her grand exit to the heavens,” Kravitz wrote on Friday (Jan. 29), a day after Tyson’s family and manager issued a statement about her death. “She lived a remarkable life up to the last moment.”

Kravitz lauded his godmother as “a true pioneer, who bared her heart and soul so we could witness the spirit of the characters she so brilliantly portrayed, which continue to move and inspire generations. A Black queen who showed us how beautiful black is.”

Among her many accomplishments, including being the recipient of three Emmy Awards, Tyson was the first African-American to win a lead actress Emmy, for her performance portraying a woman from the 1850s to the civil-rights era in the 1974 CBS telefilm The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman. She notably received an Oscar nomination for her role in 1972’s Sounder, and she won a Tony award in 2013 for her work in The Trip to Bountiful.

“The love between us was and is tremendous,” Kravitz said in his post. “As long as I have had consciousness, I’ve known Godmother. She and my mother were kindred spirits. Sisters. And after my mother passed, Godmother’s role in my life was amplified. I constantly felt her spirit over me. She always gave me unconditional support. She came to my shows, came over for holidays, met me for dinners, stayed with me in Paris when I first moved there, and never let me too far out of her sight. Our phone calls went on sometimes for hours.”

“We spoke just a few nights ago and talked about everything. She had just sent me her book that has been sitting on my nightstand where it will remain. She did it all, wrote the book, and then God called her. I can hear Godmother saying ‘ok, now y’all can read about it, I’m going home.’ Rest peacefully, Godmother. You did it all exquisitely,” wrote Kravitz, referring to her just-published memoir, Just As I Am.

See his full note in honor of Tyson, as well as a series of personal photos, on Instagram.

Billie Eilish connected with fans by answering a random assortment of questions from them on Friday (Jan. 29).

The “Therefore I Am” singer took to Instagram Stories to give short-and-sweet responses to inquiries about what she’s into right now and what’s to come from her own upcoming releases.

Her personal favorite song is currently Cage the Elephant’s “Cigarette Daydreams,” and her top TV show at the moment is Killing Eve — which she showed with an image of actress Jodie Comer (who reacted to the news on her own Instagram Stories with an “I AM NOT OK”).

Eilish chose to respond to a question about who her “ideal boy” would be. Apparently, he’d be a little something like Scar from Disney’s animated feature film The Lion King.

For those that didn’t already know, Eilish answered a question about the release date of her upcoming documentary, The World’s a Little Blurry: It’ll be available on Feb. 26.

And when a fan asked “how many tracks approx on upcoming album,” Eilish implied there would be 16.

Eilish also shared an update on her dogs and a peek at her favorite restaurant.

Check out her mini question-and-answer session on Instagram.

Megan Thee Stallion wore all the colors for her latest set of photos posted on social media.

In pink, blue, purple and yellow-orange hues, the rapper posed with an iridescent Dior handbag.

On Instagram on Saturday (Jan. 30), she joked, “Dior’d my damn self.”

“That’s hot,” Meg captioned the pictures over on Twitter.

The “Body” rapper appears to have been inspired by the Lady Dior Art Bag (the limited edition handbag retails for $8,500), which was made in collaboration with artist Judy Chicago, for her overall bright look.

Get a glimpse of her statement outfit in a series of snapshots on Instagram.