Olivia Rodrigo’s “Drop Dead” debuts at No. 1 on the Billboard Global 200 chart, becoming her fourth leader on the worldwide ranking.

The Murrieta, Calif., native first led with “Drivers License” for eight weeks in January-March 2021. She followed with “Good 4 U” for six weeks that May-July and “Vampire” for two weeks in July 2023.

“Drop Dead,” released April 17, drew 67.7 million streams and sold 41,000 downloads globally through April 23, according to Luminate.

The song introduces her third album, You Seem Pretty Sad for a Girl So in Love, due June 12.

Meanwhile, Justin Bieber boasts a trio of songs in the Global 200’s top 10 following his high-profile performances at the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival in Indio, Calif., on both April 11 and April 18.

Bieber’s “Beauty and a Beat,” featuring Nicki Minaj, surges 4-2 for a new best on the Global 200, up 82% to 80.4 million streams — the most of any song worldwide in the tracking week — and 33% to 5,000 sold; a week earlier, it drew 44.2 million streams, up from just under 10 million the week before. The song, which hit No. 6 on the U.S.-based Billboard Hot 100 in 2012, was part of his April 11 Coachella performance, an unconventional set that mixed proper live songs with clips of his early hits played directly from YouTube.

Bieber’s “Daisies” returns to the Global 200’s top 10, jumping 16-5 after it closed both of his Coachella appearances. The song, from his 2025 album Swag, and which debuted at its No. 3 high last July, climbed to 45.5 million streams (up 60%) and 5,000 sold (up 69%) worldwide.

Plus, Bieber’s “Baby” — the first of his 27 career Hot 100 top 10s, which hit No. 5 in 2010 — blasts 26-8 on the Global 200 with 39.1 million streams (up 42%) and 2,000 sold (up 12%) worldwide. Bieber ups his count to 10 top 10s since the Global 200 began in September 2020.

Elsewhere in the Global 200’s top five, BTS’ “Swim” falls two spots to No. 3 after spending its first four weeks on the chart at No. 1 and Tame Impala and JENNIE’s “Dracula” drops to No. 4 from its No. 2 high.

The Billboard Global 200 and Global Excl. U.S. charts rank songs based on streaming and sales activity culled from more than 200 territories around the world, as compiled by Luminate. The Global 200 is inclusive of worldwide data and the Global Excl. U.S. chart comprises data from territories excluding the United States.

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A third man has pleaded guilty to acting as an accomplice to the long-unsolved murder of Run-DMC’s Jam Master Jay at a Queens, New York recording studio in 2002.

According to federal prosecutors, 52-year-old Jay Bryant copped to the criminal charge on Monday (April 27), three years after he was charged with helping orchestrate the killing of the famed DJ (Jay Mizell). The feds claim Bryant opened the studio’s locked fire escape door so that Karl Jordan Jr. and Ronald Washington could enter undetected and allegedly shoot Mizell.

Prosecutors say Bryant, who has a prior criminal record, faces at least 15 years in prison at his upcoming sentencing due to federal mandatory minimum laws.

“More than two decades after the cold-blooded, execution-style killing of Mr. Mizell, an exhaustive investigation revealed Bryant’s role and today he finally admitted his guilt,” said Joseph Nocella Jr., U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of New York, in a statement Monday. “The prosecutors in our office and our law enforcement partners never give up, no matter how long it takes, in the pursuit of justice for the victim and the victim’s family.”

Bryant’s defense lawyer did not immediately return a request for comment.

Prosecutors claim Bryant was “integral” to the shocking killing of Mizell at age 37, which allegedly stemmed from a soured cocaine dealing operation between Mizell, his godson Jordan and his childhood friend Washington. The feds say that after Bryant let the other two men into the Queens building, Washington guarded the studio door while Jordan shot Mizell in the head at close range.

Jordan and Washington went to trial in 2024, arguing that they were innocent and that Bryant was the sole perpetrator. Both men were found guilty. But nearly two years later, a judge took the unusual step of overturning Jordan’s conviction after determining that there was no evidence of a motive for the then-18-year-old to kill his godfather.

Prosecutors are now appealing to reinstate Jordan’s conviction, insisting in a filing earlier this month that the verdict was supported by dozens of witnesses who saw or were told about the murder. Washington’s conviction remains intact.

Andreína Bravo’s “Primera Cita” has topped Billboard’s new music Latin poll published on April 24. 

In support of the weekly New Music Latin poll and playlist, curated with recommendations by Billboard Latin and Billboard Español editors, music fans voted for the Ecuadorian artist’s new single as their favorite music release of the week.

“Primera Cita,” which translates to “first date,” generated more than 87% of the vote, beating out other releases including a streak of new albums from Trueno, Quevedo, Fonseca, Draco Rosa and former CNCO member Erick Brian, to name just a few. 

“Primera Cita” merges pop, house and merengue, bringing to life a flirty song ready for the summer season. Bravo chants about a first date that includes an ocean-view breakfast and a Martini Bellini toast. “That baby is what you need/ I can be your beautiful girl/ and at the end/ everything was made possible/ I knew it since the first date,” she sings.

In the music video by Ovenverse Creative Universe, Bravo is seen wearing a red bathing suit as she makes her sweet declaration from the paradise beaches of Ecuador. 

“I made this project with all my heart. Go watch it, feel it, and give it lots of love,” she expressed in an Instagram post. 

“Primera Cita” comes on the heels of the emerging pop star winning the audience favorite award at the 2026 Premios REM in Ecuador earlier this month. “The most beautiful thing about this award is knowing that it came from the audience, from real love, and of the fans who are always with me,” she previously said about her supportive fan club, who picked “Primera Cita” as their favorite release.

Editor’s Note: The weekly New Music Latin poll results are posted if the poll generates more than 1,000 votes. See the full results below.

For some artists, home can serve as the inspiration that breeds creativity. Isaia Huron found solace at his parents’ home in South Carolina as he stitched together his latest project, Mr. Lovebomb.

Released April 10 via RCA Records, Mr. Lovebomb stretches beyond Huron’s creative boundaries, as he lays out a 10-song story about a fictional character who doubles down on love and heartbreak with every new woman he encounters.

Created in a mere seven days back home in the balmy South Carolina weather — where birds are chirping and the skies are clear blue — Huron’s precocious storytelling is a testament to the trial and error that comes with dating in the modern age. From “this girl wants everything” to “wool,” Huron unabashedly narrates a gripping tale that men and women alike can relate to.

“So far, from these responses that we’ve gotten from the two singles, especially from ‘this girl wants everything,’ I see a lot of dudes being like, ‘Bro, thank you for saying it,’” Huron says. “Girls really love it too, ironically. I was low-key kind of nervous because I be kind of in my head and thinking girls might hear this and not really want everything, like, ‘F–k this a–hole.’”

Despite his trepidation, Huron stood on his convictions and penned a painstakingly honest album that he began shortly after wrapping up his 2025 debut album, Concumbiana, which features “I CHOSE YOU” and the Kehlani-assisted “SEE RIGHT THROUGH ME.”

“They all love it because it’s relatable,” he says. “Most girls are just like, ‘Yes, I do want everything,’ and it’s annoying to see that because it just confirms the negative traits the character has in the main story. We’ll have to see how people respond to the whole thing.”

Billboard spoke to April’s R&B Up and Comer of the Month, Isaia Huron, about the creation of Mr. Lovebomb, dating in 2026, and why he finds beauty in recording at home over a traditional studio setup.

What does recording and creating at home bring out of you that a traditional studio setup can’t?

Honestly, I don’t know because I’ve never really recorded in a studio for myself. What I’ll say is when I do get asked to go to the studio for other artists, I find that even if they give me a room for myself, I’m not able to access melodies freely. It doesn’t really have to be at home per se, but wherever I am — if I’m in solitude in a hotel or somebody’s basement — I’m away from the subconscious time constraint that you have if you go to the studio.

Like, if you book eight hours and you gotta pay a certain amount of money per hour, it makes you feel boxed in time-wise and I think music deserves more than that. I think it’ll naturally shape your approach. Trying to engineer me would be a very difficult thing just because of how fast I do it myself. I never really thought about it like that though. So that’s an interesting question. 

You know Missy Elliott has a similar mentality. Hence why I thought about you and your creative process for Mr. Lovebomb. 

It’s very true, it’s very real. Obviously, the studio has better quality things, and to acquire those things, it takes knowledge on how to use outboard gear. So the quality is lessened in some sense, but if you work hard to learn what these tools are and you can get them at the house, it’s far less of a headache in the long run ’cause you can work all the time and not have to pay anything. I’m just more interested in that than I am going to a studio. It’s always weird going there, man. It’s like, “Ugh.” I just leave. I don’t wanna be here. 

You were building Mr. Lovebomb while still in motion with Concumbiana. How did you balance creating one world while actively promoting another?

I don’t think about it like that, you know? When we were doing Concumbiana, I was kinda done [with the project]. It hadn’t come out yet. So the timeline was, I made Concumbiana in early 2025, finished in March-April, did the video shoot for Concumbiana in Toronto, then flew to South Carolina and started on Mr. Lovebomb right there. In my head, it was time to move on — let’s make a new story. It wasn’t like me trying to figure out how to differentiate the stories, I was already finished. So I don’t know if I think about it that way. 

You’re a self-taught producer. What risks or new approaches did you take on Mr. Lovebomb that you weren’t ready to explore on Concumbiana?

None, really. I made them so close together that I was in kind of the same bag. It’s literally like same tools, new story. There’s no risks.

Well, one thing I can say is I tried to make something a little bit less musically complex. I have this career trajectory calculation that I have in my head and that I’ve had for a long time, and to me, I’m just kind of following in the lines of it. Mr. Lovebomb was kind of less of a challenge than Concumbiana was. That’s the way I should put it.

So I don’t know if there were any challenges, to be real. I guess making the project outside or making it in seven days, but again, that’s not really a challenge compared to Concumbiana, where it took me three months. We’ll see which people like more, but the seven days is me mastering this kind of production style that I have formed on Concumbiana, so I can get it done quicker with Mr. Lovebomb. I wouldn’t say there weren’t any challenges. 

As a strong storyteller, was there a specific moment or record where you knew Mr. Lovebomb was finished?

Yeah, I think the last song. That’s the first song on the project. I was working on it when I went to this girl’s house. She had made me some food and I was literally in the middle of recording the album. I play the album on her TV and the way it felt in the house, I didn’t know if I was going to like this project. But when I listened to it, I thought, “Oh. This can work.”

When I got home, I said I just needed one more song — and I made the first song, “give you my word.” Once I did that, that’s when it felt like we had a cohesive story. So, the first song because I started the album with making “side slider,” I almost worked backwards in some weird sense, you know? I guess that’s kind of how you have to do it if you’re going to do it chronologically, right? That’s a good practice to have. 

How do you think Mr. Lovebomb reflects or challenges the way people date today?

No. I think the effect of it will. I think when we see how people will react live or interact with me, that might change my perception of relationships, but I don’t know. This is just a make-believe story of a collection of what we all feel. It’s moreso agreeing with myself with whatever I wrote. 

“Wool” is one of my favorites. When’s the last time someone pulled the wool over your eyes in dating?

They always do, right? [Laughs.] I like really pretty girls. A lot of pretty girls that I know are really sweet at first, until some s–t goes down or something is not agreed with, and they always start reminding you of how non-empathic you are and s–t. You have to date somebody for a minute to see things kind of unfold and everybody has that ability to pull wool over people’s eyes. I don’t think anybody is perfectly consistent with what they lead with. It’s kind of aggressively metaphoric, especially in the story, because it happens really quickly, but it’s meant to capture what people can feel in these situations. I don’t know if that’s too abstract of an answer. 

There’s a moment where the main character ends up with the waitress his partner was rude to. What inspired that twist, and what were you trying to say with it?

Kanye has this song on Watch the Throne [called] “I Can’t Stop” where he’s like, “I heard she f–ked the doorman, well it’s cool, I f–ked the waitress” and that was in my mind and I think that’s how it kind of found its way inside of the story. It was a very easy thing to do and what you find in the story is, [the main character] kind of lovebombs twice. He lovebombs the main girl of course, but then you get later down to the story and he’s kind of saying things where he just met the girl at the diner. Girls love that s–t, too, if you do it the right way, but it just kind of speaks to the overall problem of him being a lovebomber in the first place. 

Who is Isaia Huron on Mr. Lovebomb that we haven’t seen from you before?

Dude, I don’t know. I think it’s all the same. It almost feels like you can’t have one without the other. I feel like it’s all kind of relative. I don’t know how to answer that. I think that’s a question more for fans who know both albums. It’s almost mythological, in a sense where you can pull your own perspective from it and the more interesting answer would come from them. I think I’m too in it to be able to say, “This is what’s new from me.” It’s coming from the same person who made the story a couple months before.

Have you thought about a sequel for Mr. Lovebomb?

I’m gonna do a deluxe and it’s the story continued. It gets more raw. I always wanted to do that thing where if there ever was a deluxe, there could be a continuation, instead of piling on extra throwaways. I tried to do that for Concumbiana, but contractually, it just didn’t make sense. And I don’t like to go overboard on songs. If I owe 12 songs, I’m giving 12 songs. If I owe 14, I’m giving 14. If I owe 16, I’m giving 16. I’m not giving 17 or doing 15. Birthed out of obligation is how I like to do everything. So, yes, a deluxe will be born. 

You know it’s not the same as it was. Eight months after they first sparked dating rumors, Harry Styles and Zoe Kravitz are reportedly engaged.

On Monday (April 27), a source confirmed to People that the British pop star and American actress have formally made plans to tie the knot; Page Six also reported on April 23 that the pair was engaged, citing an unnamed source. The news comes after fans noticed that Kravitz had begun wearing a glittering diamond ring on that finger amid her romance with Styles.

Billboard has reached out to reps for the singer and Kravitz for comment, and has not yet been able to independently confirm the engagement.

Styles and the Caught Stealing star have stepped out together multiple times in London and Rome, where the musician had been splitting his time while working on Billboard 200-topping new album Kiss All the Time. Disco, Occasionally over the past year or two. Photos and fan videos have captured them going out for walks and holding hands.

The One Direction alum was last linked to Taylor Russell, whom he dated for less than a year. He was previously tied romantically to Olivia Wilde, Camille Rowe and Taylor Swift. The latter is good friend of Kravitz’s, who co-wrote “Lavendar Haze” on album Midnights.

Kravitz — who is the daughter of musician Lenny Kravitz actress Lisa Bonet — was married to Karl Glusman from 2019 to 2021. She was also engaged to Channing Tatum, but they called off their relationship after three years in fall 2024.

Styles is currently gearing up to embark on his Together, Together world tour in support of Kiss All the Time. Disco, Occasionally. In May, he’ll begin his series of mini-residencies with a stint at Johan Cruyff Arena in Amsterdam, followed by stays in London, New York City and more cities.