Ravyn Lenae caught up with Billboard’s Tetris Kelly at the Spotify Best New Artist Party 2026.
Peppa Pig has always been a pop girly, but she’s making her porcine-pop-star status official with a brand-new Rihanna cover and album.
On Friday (Jan. 30), Billboard Family is exclusively premiering Peppa’s music video for her new cover of Rihanna’s “Diamonds,” as her Peppa Pig Pop album arrives on all platforms.
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The baby-pink star of the long-running British children’s series Peppa Pig gives an upbeat update to Rihanna’s uplifting hit, which topped the Billboard Hot 100 for three weeks in 2012. She also swaps out some lyrics, turning the shiny song into an ode to friendship as opposed to the romantic original. (Sample: “I knew that we’d become one right away” becomes “I knew that we’d end as friends right away.”)
Watch the Billboard Family-exclusive music video for “Diamonds (Peppa’s Version)” below:
We know from a previous A$AP Rocky interview that Peppa Pig is definitely playing in his and Rihanna’s house, with the rapper telling Dazed in 2022 after welcoming their first child RZA: “I will always remind my children to never lose their imagination, even as adults, no matter what. I actually love to watch cartoons,” he said, listing Peppa as well as Teletubbies, Blue’s Clues, Yo Gabba Gabba and Baby Shark. In addition to RZA, the superstar couple welcomed son Riot in 2023 and daughter Rocki last year.
“Diamonds (Peppa’s Version)” arrives on streaming services as part of Peppa Pig Pop, a four-song album that also includes previously released Peppa covers of BTS’ “Dynamite,” Kelly Clarkson’s “Stronger” and Katy Perry’s “Roar.”
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Last month, Peppa made more musical headlines when she joined forces with fellow preschool powerhouse “Baby Shark” to create a dance remix of the mega-viral original song and video.
Noah Kahan caught up with Billboard’s Tetris Kelly at the Spotify Best New Artist Party 2026.
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Ty Dolla $ign caught up with Billboard’s Tetris Kelly at the Spotify Best New Artist Party 2026.
A backing vocalist on Wiz Khalifa and Charlie Puth’s chart-topping Furious 7 soundtrack hit “See You Again” is suing Warner Music Group (WMG) and NBCUniversal, alleging he was “cheated out of royalty payments and downstream compensation” for years.
Jake Broido claims in a Thursday (Jan. 29) federal court lawsuit that he provided the so-called gang vocals on “See You Again,” which scored Paul Walker’s famous final scene in 2015’s Furious 7 and reigned atop the Billboard Hot 100 for 12 weeks. But he alleges WMG and NBCUniversal misclassified his contributions on the song’s registration paperwork, ultimately depriving him of royalties and licensing fees.
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“It is, of course, not surprising that Broido’s efforts to get paid have been, for a decade, obfuscated and obstructed by Warner,” reads the complaint. “That is the long history of the music industry; to make executives rich at the expense of artists.”
Broido alleges he was working as an administrative staffer at WMG in early 2015 when Puth approached him asking if he could sing gang vocals, a recording technique where voices are layered to sound like crowd noise. Broido, who had been studying gang vocals for years, says he happily went into the studio with Puth and sang what would ultimately become part of “See You Again.”
Session vocalists like Broido are supposed to collect royalties through the AFM & SAG-AFTRA Intellectual Property Rights Distribution Fund. But Broido’s name didn’t make it onto the “See You Again” AFM Fund registration paperwork; instead, the files merely listed “three A&R staffers” as background singers.
Broido alleges that WMG, whose subsidiary Atlantic Records released the Furious 7 soundtrack, deliberately doctored the AFM Fund paperwork because it hadn’t secured a critical work-for-hire agreement from him. According to the lawsuit, WMG wanted to hide this “embarrassing failure” from its studio partners at NBCUniversal.
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The result, alleges Broido, is that he wasn’t paid crucial royalties that should have been distributed to him by the AFM Fund. He says WMG also misclassified “See You Again” as “non-theatrical” on the registration paperwork, which deprived him of the chance to participate in lucrative licensing negotiations.
“Warner Music made misleading statements, partial royalty payments and assurances to Broido that it was pursuing an investigation, including that it would ‘look into this’ and that it would ‘follow up,’ only for Warner Music to ultimately ‘ghost’ Broido,” reads the complaint. “In reality, Warner Music’s assurances were merely a scheme to conceal facts from Broido in an attempt to ‘wait out the clock.’”
Broido is now suing WMG and NBCUniversal for breach of contract, fraud and conspiracy. The lawsuit also levels breach of fiduciary duty claims against the AFM Fund, alleging it was “asleep at the switch” and made “absurd and negligent decisions that allowed Warner Music and NBCUniversal to cheat Broido.”
The background singer is seeking unspecified financial damages through the litigation, as well as a declaration that he is a co-owner of the “See You Again” copyrights.
Reps for WMG, NBCUniversal and the AFM Fund did not immediately return requests for comment on Thursday. Khalifa and Puth are not facing any legal claims in the case.
The electronic offerings at Coachella 2025 just expanded with the Thursday (Jan. 29) announcement of the lineups at the festival’s Do Lab stage.
This stage traditionally features different lineups across both weekends. This year, weekend one will see artists including Tinashe, Anfisa Letyago, Baby J, Jigitz, Poolside, Roddy Lima, Onmon, Jazzy and Andy C. On weekend two, the Do Lab will host artists including Seth Troxler, A-Trak and Dave 1 plays as The Brothers Maklovitch, Tourist, Sbtrkt, Sarz, Mary Droppinz playing b2b with Level Up and many more. (See both complete lineups below.)
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The Do Lab stage has been a fixture at Coachella for more than 20 years, with each year typically presenting a few surprise guests, who over the years have included DJ Snake and Billie Eilish. Meanwhile, the Do Lab’s own festival, Lightning in a Bottle, will take place in Southern California over memorial day weekend with a lineup featuring Mau P, Sara Landry, Zeds Dead, Empire of the Sun and more.
Coachella 2026 happens April 10-12 and 17-19, 2026 with an electronic lineup featuring Anyma, Nine Inch Nails and Boys Noize playing as Nine Inch Noize, PinkPantheress, Solomun, Disclosure, Rezz, Mochakk, Duke Dumont, Kaskade, Major Lazer, Subtronics and more.
Other electronic acts were added to the bill earlier this week, when Coachella’s Quasar Stage announced a weekend one lineup featuring Pawsa, David Guetta and Fatboy Slim and Armin van Buuren b2b Adam Beyer, DJ Snake and Sara Landry over weekend two.
Do Lab Coachella Lineup 2026
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I’m not crying, you’re crying.
During a recent school talent show, first-grader Juju decided to perform a rap classic, and little man handled it like a pro. As the crowd cheered him on, he went off top and started rapping the lyrics to 2Pac’s “Dear Mama,” and he remembered every bar of the song’s first verse while taking control of the crowd like a true MC.
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The video, of course, has gone viral, racking up nearly 14 million views on TikTok and thousands of likes, with many of the comments saying that the late rapper would be proud and commending his poise during what must’ve been a high-pressure situation for the youngster.
Little Juju felt the love and posted a video thanking all of his new fans and took the time to shout out his favorite wrestler while doing the Hardy Boyz dance. “Hi, my name is Julian,” he began. “Thank you guys for all the love and support and I’m the little guy that did the talent show and I did that because I really love 2Pac and thank you guys for all of that. You guys are superstars too. Just believe me, OK? And shout out to Jeff Hardy too. Thank you guys for all of that support.”
“Dear Mama” isn’t the only classic rap song he knows. Juju’s parents recently posted a video on TikTok from two years ago of him performing Eminem‘s “Lose Yourself” complete with rap hands and everything. “Thinking back Juju has always been Hip Hops Baby! Throwback 2 years ago!,” the caption read.
We might have a future star on our hands, hopefully we’ll be blogging about his blossoming rap career one day.
We might be more than five years removed from Cardi B and Megan Thee Stallion’s raunchy Billboard Hot 100-topping smash “WAP,” but Cardi is keeping its saucy spirit alive in new Saturday Night Live promos.
Cardi B returns to the SNL stage this weekend as musical guest, joining first-time host Alexander Skarsgård for Saturday’s brand-new episode. In new promos, castmember Chloe Fineman deploys an uncharacteristically raspy voice when she tells the duo, “I’m so excited!”
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“What’s going on with your voice there, Chloe?” Skarsgård asks, to which she replies: “I’ve been doing extremely Dry January. No liquor, no soda, no juice, no water,” she says, introducing her extreme version of the “Dry January” challenge that many partake in to abstain from alcohol to start a new year.
“No water?” Skarsgård asks. “Yeah! You guys should try going extremely dry.”
“No thank you,” Cardi says politely, adding with a suggestive roll of her tongue: “I like to stay nice and wet.”
“I, too, opt for wetness,” Skarsgård (dryly) adds.
Elsewhere in the promos, Fineman asks Cardi whether her stage name stands for “cartilage and bone” (prompting both the host and musical guest to call for the police) and Skarsgård doing the intros entirely in his native language of Swedish.
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Cardi B is making her second appearance as SNL musical guest, after first hitting the stage in April 2018 to promote her debut album Invasion of Privacy. Now, she’s promoting her most recent album, September’s Am I the Drama?, as well as the accompanying Little Miss Drama Tour, which launches next month in Palm Desert, California, on Feb. 11.
Skarsgård will make his SNL hosting debut this weekend to promote The Moment, the Charli xcx-inspired and -starring mockumentary in which he plays the director of the concert film within the film. The Moment just debuted at Sundance Film Festival and arrives in theaters on Friday via A24.
