Megan Thee Stallion is heading back to the 305. The Houston rapper announced on Wednesday (May 20) that she’s hosting another runway show at Paraiso Miami Swim Week for her Hot Girl Summer swimwear line on May 28.
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Megan strutted down the runway in heels for the debut Hot Girl Summer show at Miami Swim Week last year, and she’s returning to showcase the latest pieces from her second-ever collection later this month. The collection will feature garments for men, women and pets.
The show is set to start at 10 p.m. ET and will find Megan and plenty of models showing off the 20-piece women’s collection, which includes bikinis, one-piece bathing suits and cover-ups.
Members of season six’s Love Island attended the 2025 show, which became part of an episode of Peacock’s Behind the Villa. Megan picked up some hardware at least year’s Miami Swim Week, where she was honored with the Cultural Icon award at the first-ever Swimwear Icons Honors Night.
“I really wanted to expand my reach with this year’s collection and bring everyone into my Hot Girl Universe,” Megan said in a statement when the collection arrived in April. It’s currently available at various Walmarts as well as her own online shop. “Our brand is all about inclusivity, so it was important for me to design pieces for everyone to kick off the summer in style. It’s going to be so much fun seeing the Hotties and their pets wearing their matching looks.”
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Natasha Bedingfield‘s “Unwritten” has lived a lot of lives in the two-plus decades since its 2004 release, from being the theme song for MTV’s The Hills starting in 2006 to its prominent placement in the 2023 rom-com Anyone But You. Now it’s back again, as the first-ever cover song on the Moonbug Entertainment kids’ series Emmie’s Wonder Wardrobe.
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Billboard Family is exclusively premiering the “Unwritten” cover and video below from the Little Angel spin-off, which follows Baby John’s pink-haired big sister Emmie, “whose closet is bursting with costumes, colors, and endless possibilities,” according to a show synopsis. In the new video, Emmie and her friends make the most of a rainy day by dressing up like mermaids who embrace the water instead of hiding from it. As they ride scooters through muddy puddles while wearing mermaid tails, Bedingfield’s lyrics perfectly match the mood: “Feel the rain on your skin/ No one else can feel it for you/ Only you can let it in.”
Lola Reynoso, music director for Emmie’s Wonder Wardrobe — which premiered last month on April — explained why the top five Billboard Hot 100 hit was a great fit for the newest series from Moonbug Entertainment (CoComelon, Blippi).
“‘Unwritten’ is a timeless pop song that as soon as you hear it you want to sing it at the top of your lungs,” Reynoso tells Billboard Family. “It’s positive and uplifting energy was an inspiration for the music in Emmie’s Wonder Wardrobe and was the perfect first cover for the show because its message of self-discovery and embracing who you are is at the heart of the series. We hope families sing along together and that kids come away feeling inspired to express themselves and celebrate their individuality just like Emmie does in every episode.”
Another reason “Unwritten” makes sense for Emmie’s Wonder Wardrobe is that the series is targeting older preschoolers who are making the transition from the nursery rhymes of CoComelon to family-friendly pop hits like this one.
Kenny Chesney lands his milestone 100th entry on Billboard’s Hot Country Songs chart as “Carry On” opens at No. 31 on the May 23 list. It totaled 1.5 million chart-eligible U.S. streams, 10.5 million in radio airplay audience and 2,000 sold May 8-14, according to Luminate.
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The track marks Chesney’s first single on Hey Now Records, which launched in March, and previews his 21st album, due later this year. He has scored 55 top 10s, including 23 No. 1s. The song also starts at No. 20 on Country Airplay, where it’s likewise his 100th appearance.
The 100-title milestone lifts Chesney into elite company among acts with 100 or more hits on Hot Country Songs, which dates to October 1958. George Jones leads with 157. Dating to Chesney’s first charted title, “Whatever It Takes,” in December 1993, he boasts the third-most, after Morgan Wallen (119) and Taylor Swift (108). (The chart adopted its current multimetric methodology — a combination of streaming, airplay and sales — in October 2012.)
On Country Airplay, which began in January 1990 and solely tracks country radio airplay, Chesney’s 100th charted title ties him for the lead with George Strait. Garth Brooks (93), Tim McGraw (91) and Alan Jackson (82) round out the top five.
Chesney also stands out among Hot Country Songs’ most prolific No. 1 artists. His 23 leaders place him 11th overall, behind Strait’s 44, Conway Twitty’s 40, Merle Haggard’s 38, Ronnie Milsap’s 35, Alabama’s 33, Charley Pride’s 29, Jackson and McGraw’s 26 each, Dolly Parton’s 25 and Reba McEntire’s 24. In that legacy-heavy group, Chesney earned a first No. 1 most recently, with “She’s Got It All” in 1997.
Chesney’s power is even more apparent at country radio. His 33 Country Airplay No. 1s put him firmly in first place, ahead of Blake Shelton (30), McGraw (29), Jason Aldean, Luke Bryan, Jackson, Strait (26 each), Keith Urban, Thomas Rhett (21 each), Brooks & Dunn, Luke Combs, Toby Keith, Brad Paisley and Wallen (20 each).
Plus, since Chesney notched his first No. 1 on Top Country Albums, his Greatest Hits, in October 2000, his 17 leaders are the most among all artists in that span.
The milestones underscore the scope of Chesney’s career, one that has made him both a country radio standard-bearer and one of the most prolific hitmakers in the nine-decade history of Billboard’s country charts.
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First things first: Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce need to tie the knot and the Kansas City Chiefs need to rebound from a disastrous 2025-2026 season to make it to next year’s Super Bowl LXI at SoFi Stadium in Los Angeles.
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But if those two things happen before next Feb. 14, it’s possible that one of the most-watched celebrity couples on the planet may have to delay their first Valentine’s Day as a married couple to let Kelce go to work. On Wednesday’s (May 20) episode of his New Heights podcast, Kelce lamented that next year’s big game happens to fall on the same date as the romantic holiday.
“I don’t think I could ever remember it being that late in February,” Kelce, 36, noted after the NFL announced the locations and dates for the next few Super Bowls this week. “In my mind, it’s, what’s going on? Is it just kinda how the month of September starts here?”
Brother Jason weighed in and said he seemed to remember V-Day being close to the Super Bowl in the past and recalled it being “big news” for men to be watching the game on the day reserved for romance.
For its first 35 years, the Super Bowl was played in January. It began creeping into February in 2002, when it took place on Feb. 3 in the Superdome in New Orleans. For the next 20 years it bounced around the first week of February, getting as close to Feb. 13 in 2022.
So, while it’s possible next year’s game could delay Taylor and Travis’ Valentine’s plans, at this point the couple — who got engaged last August — have not revealed any details about their nuptials, so it’s not even clear they will officially be married come February, though it’s widely expected that they will tie the knot this summer.
First, though, the Chiefs need to bounce back from one of Kelce’s statistically worst full seasons as a professional tight end and quarterback Patrick Mahomes’ devastating ACL/LCL tear during a game on Dec. 14 against the Chargers that knocked the three-time Super Bowl champ out for the rest of the season. Mahomes underwent surgery the next day and while he is reportedly on track for a return this season it’s unclear if he will be available to start the season.
Either way, Swift is used to cheering Kelce on during the championship game, supporting him when the team won in 2024 and then again in 2025, when they lost to Jason’s former team, the Philadelphia Eagles. A silver lining to it all is that while Travis will be playing the Buffalo Bills on Thanksgiving this November, the Chiefs are not on the scheduled for the NFL’s Christmas Day roster.
Watch the Kelce’s talk scheduling conflicts on New Heights below.
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Bruce Springsteen has been on the most important tour of his career.
Not a globe-circling, stadium-packing, box-office-busting run like those of past years. But a nine-week sweep across the United States to guard the dreams and visions of a troubled nation and to prove the power of art to move hearts and minds.
“The E Street Band is here tonight,” says Springsteen, introducing these shows, “in celebration and defense of the American ideals and values that have sustained our country for 250 years.
“We are here to call upon the righteous power of art, of music, of rock’n’roll in these dangerous times.
“Our democracy, our Constitution, our rule of law are being challenged right now as never before by a reckless, racist, incompetent, treasonous president and his ship-of-fools administration.”
He presses his case further in comments mid-show, recounting the offenses, at home and abroad, of the Trump presidency. “This is happening now,” he declares after each indictment.
The Land of Hope And Dreams Tour brings its truth to the power center of Washington D.C. on Wednesday (May 27) for a penultimate show at Nationals Park. (The D.C. show is preceded by two remaining tour stops May 22 in Cleveland and May 24 in Boston, with a finale on a rescheduled date in Philadelphia May 30).
These performances — as witnessed by this writer at the UBS Arena in Elmont, N.Y., on May 5, at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn on May 14 and at Manhattan’s Madison Square Garden on May 16 — find the E Street Band playing at their peak, with rolling waves of sound pounding like a storm on the Jersey coast.
But as important, every song on this tour evokes a milestone on Springsteen’s lifelong journey to this moment.The Land of Hope And Dreams Tour is, in fact, a potent distillation of Springsteen’s career and life.
It is a life that began with learning right from wrong….
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One year after Taylor Swift blew attendees’ minds when she hopped on stage unannounced for a surprise performance at fiancé Travis Kelce‘s Tight End University event, TEU and partner Sports Illustrated announced the return of the Tight Ends & Friends concert for 2026 on Wednesday (May 20).
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While the lineup will drop at a later date, it was announced that the show will take place June 23 at The Pinnacle in Nashville. Tickets are on sale now via Tight End University’s website.
Produced in partnership with SI‘s parent company, Authentic Brands Group, the concert is part of TEU’s annual week of programming for fans 18+, with the press release promising “top-tier country music talent, high-energy performances and special guests.” This year’s Tight End University will take place between June 22-25 and, in addition to the concert, will allow the public to attend the training and field work.
TEU was formed by famed NFL tight ends Kelce, San Francisco 49ers’ George Kittle and former Bears/Panthers player Greg Olsen, with last year’s inaugural event featuring a set from Kane Brown, as well as Swift performing a surprise “Shake It Off” with Brown’s band.
“Tight Ends and Friends is everything TEU stands for: the brotherhood, the celebration, the fans and the moments that nobody sees coming,” said Olsen in a statement. “What we built last year in Nashville was something truly special, and this summer we are taking it to another level entirely.”
Kelce said Swift’s surprise performance last year was so last minute that she didn’t even have time to rehearse. “We’re in Nashville, she grew up in Nashville — she moved there when she was younger,” Kelce said on his New Heights podcast last July. “We had this plan for a while that we were going to have some fun with the tight ends. I won’t say when the idea came up, but when we were there at Tight End and Friends, and we knew there was a professional like Kane Brown, who can just, he can figure it out. He’s a pro. Tay just kind of went up to him and the band and went, ‘Hey, if you guys are down, I’ll go up there, play a song and see if we can pop the roof off this place.’”
TEU brings together players, legends and fans for an immersive week of competition, camaraderie and culture.
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Stability AI has announced the launch of Stable Audio 3 — a family of three new AI music models and one audio-based special effects model. Most of these new releases are “open weight,” a term used to describe models that are publicly available and can be downloaded and built on for further development, and are created via licensed training data.
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According to the research paper released alongside these four models, they are trained on a combination of licensed audio from production library AudioSparx (806,284 audios) and Creative Commons recordings from Freesound. To ensure no authorized copyrighted material ended up in the dataset from the Creative Commons portion of the data, music recordings were filtered using a tagging tool.
Key improvements from Stable Audio 2.0 to the new releases include variable length generations, allowing for up to six minutes of song to be created, and full song composition on portable devices like phones and tablets.
The roll out includes the following new models:
Small SFX: This can create sound effects on any device, including on mobile phones and consumer-grade laptops.
Small: This can make solid musical compositions on all devices but cannot generate over two minutes of song.
Medium: This model boasts higher musicality (i.e. structure, melodic coherence, and phrasing) and longer track length. Now, the model can create up to six minutes and 20 seconds of song.
Large: The most advanced model, designed for music platforms and creative applications that need low-latency generation at a high volume.
According to a press release about the new suite of audio models, this is designed to be “setting the stage for what’s next,” which will include “a suite of new products for musicians” that they are currently working on.
News of Stable Audio 3.0’s launch comes after announcements in late 2025 that Stability AI would be partnering with Universal Music Group and Warner Music Group to develop “next generation professional music creation tools” together, as stated in the UMG partnership deal specifically. Based on the details of Stable Audio 3.0 research paper, provided to Billboard, neither of these major music companies are currently part of the Stable Audio training dataset.
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When summertime calls, the King of Dancehall answers.
On Wednesday (May 20), Billboard can exclusively reveal that Jamaican dancehall icon Vybz Kartel will unleash his new God & Time album on June 5 via TJ Records and Vybz Kartel Muzik, with Zojack Worldwide handling distribution. Pre-order is available now, alongside the release of the album’s faith-rooted title track and accompanying music video.
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Featuring several high-profile guest stars — including Latin Grammy-winning reggaetonero Farruko, Grammy-nominated pop-dancehall princess Shenseea and contemporary Jamaican music star Skillibeng — God & Time follows two consecutive Grammy-nominated projects from the King of Dancehall. Both 2024’s Party With Me, which arrived around the time of his release from prison, and 2025’s Heart & Soul earned nods for best reggae album, marking Kartel’s first nominations at the ceremony.
“I named the album God & Time because it’s a slang that has been popular in Jamaica since we was children,” Kartel tells Billboard. “When I was in prison, my lawyer used to always say that to me. I eventually just started believing in myself and applying it to my life.”
For God & Time, Kartel re-teamed with the same creatives behind 2015’s Viking (Vybz Is King) and 2016’s King of the Dancehall, the latter of which spawned “Fever,” a defining song for 2010s dancehall. Introduced by the Shenseea-assisted lead single “Panic,” God & Time is set to feature Kartel’s signature blend of self-reflection, waist-wining riddims and genre-bending crossover records. “You can expect Vybz Kartel energy; the flow will be different, and the lyrics will be amazing,” he says, also teasing a few more surprise collaborations on the album.
Notably, God & Time will also survey the depths of Kartel’s psyche and the full range of his emotions following his triumphant release from prison in 2024. On Aug. 6, 2024, Kartel regained his freedom after the Court of Appeal unanimously ruled that he and his co-accused — Shawn Campbell, Kahira Jones and Andre St. John — would not face a new trial for the 2011 murder of Clive “Lizard” Williams. Although he was originally sentenced to 35 years in prison after a historic 64-day trial back in 2014, Kartel (and his co-accused) have always denied their involvement in Williams’ death.
Since his release, Kartel has seized his second chance at life beyond bars, mounting a massive Freedom Street concert in Kingston to bring in 2025, popping out at Drake’s Wireless Festival takeover that summer and playing his own Worl’ Boss Tour in venues across the U.K., Europe and the United States. Earlier this month, he appeared on Chris Brown’s “F—k and Party,” a cut from the R&B superstar’s Brown LP, which debuted at No. 7 on the May 23-dated Billboard 200 ranking.
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Ariana Grande is gearing up to celebrate the tenth anniversary of her 2016 album, Dangerous Woman, with an expanded edition of her third LP featuring new artwork and a song that didn’t make the original version. Dangerous Woman (Tenth Anniversary Edition) will drop on May 29 as an 18-track digital album, expanded to include the unreleased fan favorite “Knew Better Part Two.”
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The Grammy-nominated, three-times platinum album that debuted at No. 2 on the Billboard 200 album chart will feature the Hot 100 top No. 4 hit “Side to Side” (feat. Nicki Minaj), as well as the No. 8 hit title track and No. 13 single “Into You.” According to a release announcing the project, the album has racked up more than 20 million global units and more than 25 billion streams to date thanks to such enduring hits as “Into You” and “Side to Side.”
Additionally, six songs from the album have surpassed more than one billion global streams, with “Side to Side” and “Into You” generating, respectively, 7.5 billion and 5 billion streams; “Side to Side” also made history as the first female collaboration to surpass one billion Spotify streams.
The album will feature the original album tracks “Moonlight,” “Be Alright,” “Let Me Love You” (featuring Lil Wayne), “Greedy,” “Leave Me Lonely” (feat. Macy Gray), “Everyday” (feat. Future), “Sometimes,” “I Don’t Care,” “Bad Decisions,” “Touch It,” “Knew Better/Forever Boy,” “Thinking About You,” “Step On Up” and “Jason’s Song (Gave It Away).”
Grande is gearing up to release her eighth studio album, Petal, on July 31, featuring the upcoming single “Hate That I Made You Love Me,” which is also due out on May 29. She is also prepping for her first tour in six years, the Eternal Sunshine trek, which is slated to kick off on June 6 in Oakland, Calif.
And, after lighting up movie screens around the world in Wicked and Wicked: For Good, Grande will be back on the screen opposite Ben Stiller and Robert De Niro in November in Focker-In-Law.
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What have been some of the most notable trends on Billboard’s Radio Songs chart over the past five years?
ChartCipher has released its new trend report spotlighting Radio Songs hits from 2021 through 2025, encompassing all titles, whether they peaked at No. one or No. 50. (“Using AI, ChartCipher extracts granular data for the compositional, lyrical and sonic qualities of songs and delivers insights into the qualities shaping today’s hits,” the company notes in the report.)
Below are three key takeaways from ChartCipher’s latest research.
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Rock Is on the Rise, While Pop Drops
“Rock posted the clearest gain of any genre in Radio Songs between 2021 and 2025, rising from 10% to 24% and more than doubling its footprint by the end of the period,” ChartCipher found.
Standout examples of rock hits that scaled Radio Songs in that span include sombr’s “Back to Friends,” Hozier’s “Too Sweet” and Glass Animals’ “Heat Waves.” (ChartCipher’s definition of rock includes alternative.)
Meanwhile, rock’s ascent “stands in sharp contrast to pop, which fell from 52% in 2021 to 35% in 2025 after peaking at 55% in 2022,” ChartCipher stated. Still, pop “remained the most represented genre for most of the period.”
Plus, “Country was comparatively steady, moving from 31% to 29% and briefly overtaking pop in 2024 at 33% versus 32%.”
ChartCipher
Recapping the five most prominent primary genres for 2025 among Radio Songs hits: pop, 35%; country, 29%; rock, 24%; hip-hop/rap, 20%; and dance/club/electronic, 6%.
In 2021, the top five were: pop, 52%; country, 31%; hip-hop/rap, 20%; rock, 10%; and R&B/soul, 6%.
Drum and Bass Were Nearly Universal
What instruments were most commonly heard in Radio Songs hits over the last five years?
“Prominent drums and bass were nearly universal across the entire period,” ChartCipher compiled, with the instruments claiming nearly identical shares of between 93% and 96%.
As rock gained, “Guitar slightly grew from 60% in 2021 to 68% in 2025.
“Piano, on the other hand, moved in the opposite direction, falling sharply from 35% in 2021 to just 11% in 2025 — a drop of nearly two-thirds,” per Chart Cipher.
Still, hits by piano men — and women — in that stretch included Olivia Dean’s “Man I Need,” David Guetta and Bebe Rexha’s “I’m Good (Blue)” and Justin Bieber’s “Holy,” featuring Chance The Rapper.
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“The two most prevalent lyrical moods in every year of the five-year period were cynical and detached,” according to ChartCipher. Further, “The largest increases between 2021 and 2025 came from cynical and detached, which rose by 29 and 19 percentage points, respectively, to 75% and 57%.”
Plus, “anger increased by 16 percentage points to 40%.”
ChartCipher
Wait, there’s positive news! ChartCipher reported that happy (38%) and optimistic (37%) rose to their highest shares of the five-year measurement in 2025, alongside the moods noted above. Especially happy hits on Radio Songs in that span include ROSÉ and Bruno Mars’ “APT.,” Nicky Youre and Dazy’s “Sunroof” and, naturally, Post Malone’s “I Like You (A Happier Song),” featuring Doja Cat.
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