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Travis Kelce may be known for his football skills, but now he’s leaning on his natural charm as the host of Prime Video’s new game show Are You Smarter Than a Celebrity? The series will join the streamer’s “winning Wednesdays” lineup with a three-episode premiere airing Oct. 16 for a 20-episode run.

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Kelce was confirmed as host for the show back in April, with Taylor Swift even making an appearance on set to support the 35-year-old.

Each episode will feature a new contestant vying for a $100,000 grand prize. All they have to do is successfully answer 11 questions with the help of a classroom of celebrities. If the concept sounds familiar, you’re not wrong: Are You Smarter Than a Celebrity? is MGM Alternative’s (a division of Amazon MGM Studios) spinoff of the 2007 game show Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader?

Keep reading to learn the streaming options available.

How to Watch Are You Smarter Than a Celebrity? Online for Free

You can watch Are You Smarter Than a Celebrity? online exclusively on Prime Video. The first three episodes are available to stream, and new episodes will arrive every Wednesday. If you’re already a Prime member, you just need to log into your account and head to Prime Video to watch the game show for no additional cost.

Don’t have a Prime membership? Amazon is offering a 30-day free trial for new users who sign up. You’ll be able to watch Are You Smarter Than a Celebrity? for free in addition to everything else within the Prime Video library. Once the free trial is over, you’ll be charged the regular subscription fee of $14.99 a month, or $139 a year.

Looking for more savings? Adults 18-24 and college students can get a six month free trial and 50% off subscription when you sign up for a student membership. Qualifying government programs can also get you a 30-day free trial and half-off membership fee when you sign up for the EBT/Medicaid membership.

In addition to being able to stream Are You Smarter Than a Celebrity? for free, a Prime membership will let you watch Prime Originals including The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power, Killer Heat, Fallout, The Idea of You, The Boys, Gen V, My Lady Jane, Mr. & Mrs. Smith, Expats, Citadel Diana, Tragically Hip No Dress Rehearsal and The Legend of Vox Machina.

To expand your content options, you can add premium channels to your subscription through the Prime Channel storefront including Paramount+, Max and Starz.

Watch the trailer for Are You Smarter Than a Celebrity? below:

Yng Lvcas and Peso Pluma have a billion reasons to celebrate this week. The Mexican singer/rappers both scored their first ever ticket into the YouTube Billion Views Club this week when the clip for the remix of their smash 2023 collaboration, “La Bebe,” crossed the 10-digit line.

Lvcas launched the original version of “Bebe” in 2021, though the popular song didn’t end up on his debut Wup? Mixtape 1 released that year. He recycled it as the outro for his reggaetón-leaning follow-up La Perreo Mixtape), which came out later in 2021.

When the remix arrived in March 2023 it came with additional vocals from Pluma, whose laid-back vocals matched Lvcas’ equally chill flow. The colorful video for the remix features the two men rocking flashy designer gear while singing on a nearly empty soundstage lit by neon tubes, with the song’s title spelled out in silver and gold mylar balloons floating behind them.

Though they start out alone on the rose and red heart balloon-strewn stage, the scene soon shifts to footage of the men cooly crooning in front of a flashy mansion, accompanied by a quartet of lingerie-clad women shaking their hips to the spare beat. “She wants me to put music on/ So that the baby can dance all the way down/ We drank a couple of bottles/ And even so, she remembers that we did it yesterday,” Lvcas sings in Spanish (translation courtesy of Genius).

LVcas then gets some alone time with one of the models in a bedroom, while Pluma dances his way through various scenes wearing a black balaclava and puffer coat accented by a Public Image Ltd. t-shirt.

The “La Bebe” remix debuted on the Billboard Hot 100 at No. 77 in April 2023 and eventually climbed up to No. 11; it topped out at No. 2 on Billboard’s Hot Latin Songs chart and hit No. 1 on the Latin Rhythm Airplay tally in June of that year.

Watch the “La Bebe” remix video below.

Four powerful women who have built upon the legacies of their family names — Camila Fernández, Chiquis Rivera, Lupita Infante and Majo Aguilar — sat down together Wednesday (Oct. 16) at Billboard Latin Music Week 2024 and talked about how they rose above and assumed their own path in leadership roles in regional Mexican music.

Moderated by Luana Pagani, founder of Fairwinds, and presented by Smirnoff Ice, the artists discussed during The Legacies panel how they are taking their illustrious family names and breaking through with their own sounds.

Here are the best quotes from the panel:

Camila Fernández: “[Our ancestors] inherit us in affection, and [fans tell me], ‘You remind me so much of your grandfather [Vicente Fernández]’. I’ve been working for 10 years for my hands. My grandfather used to say that success comes from work, not luck. It’s a mantra. You always have to have that thought. Exceed the expectations people have of you. Give honor to the family you come from; to keep elevating Mexico.”

“I need to start from zero to know [about being in the spotlight]; to earn it, that it’s not a whim of mine. Yes, I can do it! I make a fresh spin on mariachi for the new generations. Dressed as a charra and singing mariachi. My tour is called La Fernández.”

Chiquis: “From the beginning, I wanted to put a mark on my career. I want to do it with a lot of love. I’m proud to be Jenni Rivera’s daughter. She [did everything] with ovaries. She said, ‘If you don’t open this door for me I’m going out the window, but I’m going in.’ The first time I got on stage was when I was 10 years old in a competition my grandfather [Pedro Rivera] had. ‘I want to do that.’ An album of corridos. It was in 2012 that I said, ‘I want to try that’. And I sang ‘La Chacalosa’ [by Jenni Rivera] and won second place. Let them say what they say … I feel very proud of what we have been able to do, but even more proud of how I feel as a woman in my gender. We are stronger together.”

Lupita Infante: “It’s a great responsibility [the inheritance]. In the end it’s the public that decides if you continue with this career. I will never stop being [Pedro Infante’s] granddaughter. I feel that I grew up far away from the industry, from show business. My dad [Pedro Infante Jr.] passed away in 2009. My grandfather is long gone. And that’s where I got close [to music]. Connecting with Mexico. I’m from Los Angeles.”

“We who do the mariachi genre, it’s something very beautiful, very traditional, and it’s hard to break away, because you want to represent the genre. I am a producer as well. Change certain elements and find and look for that sound that I still have that I am respecting the mariachi.”

Majo Aguilar: “Since a long time ago I had it clear that I wanted to go forward, not sideways. Of course it helps [being the granddaughter of Antonio Aguilar and Flor Silvestre]. It is important to say it, otherwise it would be very unfair not to recognize it. That you have that surname that your family has done super important things in the industry. I admire all the girls here very much. Your mom is Jenni Rivera, you are already Chiquis, that you have achieved that with such a great mother, imagine being Jenni Rivera’s daughter, [Chiquis] you have paved so much road for us. My case is very particular, music chose me, and not music. Now I understand why I have this restlessness to sing”.

“I do mariachi with love, not to follow trends. To fuse the mariachi instruments with the tumbado format. Mariachi Tumbado is the name of my album. We have to embrace our genres, now they are in the global charts, and feel very proud”.

Latin Music Week coincides with the 2024 Billboard Latin Music Awards set to air at 9 p.m. ET on Sunday, Oct. 20, on Telemundo. It will simultaneously be available on Universo, Peacock and the Telemundo app, and in Latin America and the Caribbean through Telemundo Internacional.

The Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show is back in all of its pink, angel-winged glory, with the once-annual televised juggernaut making its grand return Tuesday (Oct. 15) in New York City.

It was held at the women’s lingerie brand’s flagship store in Brooklyn, the 45-minute show featured fierce catwalk takeovers from veteran Angels Gigi Hadid, Tyra Banks, Adriana Lima, Barbara Palvin, Taylor Hill and more. Victoria’s Secret also brought back its traditional lineup of A-list musical performances, with Cher leading an all-women docket that also included LISA of BLACKPINK and Tyla, both of whom were outfitted with the company’s signature wings.

Also in attendance were Ice Spice, Queen Latifah, Tyga, Coco Jones and Phoebe Dynevor, as well as Dylan Sprouse, who is married to Palvin. The Suite Life of Zack and Cody alum supported his wife by bringing cutouts of their pets’ faces, which he showed off on the red carpet before the show.

The event comes six years after the last Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show, which previously marked one of the biggest annual fashion events of the year before the company shuttered it amid inner brand turmoil and public complaints about the cast of models’ lack of diversity. Leading up to 2018, it was also a big performance opportunity for musicians, with Taylor Swift, Ed Sheeran, Ariana Grande, Harry Styles, The Weeknd, Lady Gaga, Selena Gomez and many more all taking the stage over the years.

In 2023, Victoria’s Secret reimagined the show with a pre-taped special showing off that year’s collection in various locations around the world. It featured live music from Doja Cat, at that point fresh off the release of her album Scarlet. 

Whether you missed the livestream of the show on Prime Video or simply want to relive the magic, Billboard has collected all the best moments from the program. See photos from the 2024 comeback VSFS below. 

Members of The Lumineers, Dropkick Murphys, American Authors, Rise Against and Plain White T’s are among the artists taking part in a new Public Service Announcement encouraging people to get ready to vote.

The #KnowBeforeYouGo campaign is a partnership between talent agency Wasserman and non-partisan, non-profit voter information and registration organization HeadCount.

Other Wasserman music clients taking part in the PSA, which debuts below, include Lisa Loeb, Vincint, A-Trak, Bartees Strange and Ambar Lucid. Additionally, Wasserman sports clients featured in video are Julie Foudy, Jason Collins, Sierra Quitiquit, Weston McKennie, Hilary Knight, Alexander Mattison, Chris Mosier and Lela Rochon.

The 75-second PSA will air on HeadCount’s YouTube channel, as well as Wasserman and HeadCount’s social media channels and was produced by Wasserman’s creative agency, Laundry Service. In it, the artists and athletes remind voters to check their registration, as well as their options for early voting and vote-by-mail, as well as in person on Nov. 5.

“The #KnowBeforeYouGo campaign brings together iconic figures in music and sports to encourage people to exercise their most precious democratic right:  voting,” said Lucille Wenegieme, executive director of HeadCount, in a statement to Billboard.  “Through the PSA, we aim to equip voters with the information they need to show up confidently at the polls, helping to create a culture where civic participation is celebrated and valued. Together, Wasserman and HeadCount are inspiring a new generation to make their voices heard every election cycle.” 

#GetOutTheVote PSA video from Wasserman and HeadCount

Denise Melanson, Wasserman’s vp of social impact, added, “Wasserman and our clients have been working with HeadCount for years through various campaigns and initiatives. When it came time us to establish our own campaign, HeadCount was the obvious choice as a partner. Their passion for civic engagement while harnessing the power of popular culture is synonymous with Wasserman’s mission” 

HeadCount has registered more  350,000 people so far during the 2024 election cycle at over 3,000 events and through partnerships with over 100 music artists. For more information, voters can visit headcount.org/wasserman.

Megan Thee Stallion is ready to tell her story on her own terms and In Her Words. Amazon’s Prime Video gave fans a first glimpse at the candid Megan Thee Stallion: In Her Words documentary when the revealing trailer was released on Wednesday (Oct. 16).

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Hotties have another reason to celebrate Hottieween, as its shaping up to be a busy spooky season for Meg with In Her Words slated to hit Prime Video on Oct. 31. The sobering documentary peels back the layers of Megan Thee Stallion and allows fans to get a peek behind the curtain at who Megan Pete is.

In addition to reliving her meteoric rise to stardom, fans will be brought into the pain Meg endured with the loss of her mother in 2019, which left her directionless, and how she navigated the backlash and trauma following the Tory Lanez shooting in 2020.

Lanez is currently behind bars after being sentenced in August 2023 to 10 years for the shooting; he was convicted in December 2022 on three felony counts for shooting the rapper in the feet during a drunken dispute.

“I want people to understand how this is affecting me,” she says at one point in the trailer, while shedding tears. “I want people to see how I feel.”

She shared: “I was definitely getting a little too engulfed in social media.”

Meg’s Hotties will go on a journey that will show them the three-time Grammy Award winner at her lowest and highest, as well as the hard work that goes into being Megan Thee Stallion, including laborious rehearsals, late-night studio sessions and non-stop traveling — all while getting her college degree.

TIME Studios, Roc Nation and Amazon MGM Studios produced the documentary; Nneka Onuorah sits in the director’s chair.

“I feel so honored to work with Amazon MGM Studios, Roc Nation and TIME Studios to share Megan’s story,” Onuorah said in a statement. “Her raw and beautiful spirit really shines through in the film. She is a champion for all women who deserve their truth to be heard.”

Watch the trailer below. Megan Thee Stallion: In Her Words launches on Prime Video on Oct. 31.

BTS member Jin‘s long-awaited debut solo album finally has a release date and track list. The K-pop superstar’s first full-length venture outside the on-hiatus group’s orbit is called Happy and it is due out on Nov. 15.

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The announcement was accompanied by a brightly colored, playful tracklist poster with the mini-LP’s title up top in big cartoony letters and the six tracks displayed in a variety of bright red, green and blue typefaces.

“Reflecting the title of the album, the tracklist poster exudes a lighthearted, joyful mood with colorful confetti-like dots and stars against a bright red backdrop,” read a statement. “It evokes the feeling of receiving a specially-adorned gift along with the phrase ‘TRUE HAPPINESS TRUE LOVE’ at the bottom of the poster, adding a heartfelt touch.”

In addition to the focus track, “Running Wild,” the collection will include the pre-release single, “I’ll Be There,” which is due out on Oct. 25. The album will also feature “Another Level,” “Falling,” “Heart on the Window” (feat. WENDY)” and “I will come to you.” Jin collaborated with a number of other acts on the album, including Take That’s Gary Barlow, who co-produced and co-wrote “Running Wild.”

He also roped in Take and Toru from the Japanese rock band ONE OK ROCK to co-produce “Falling” (along with GHSTLOOP). “Happy reflects Jin’s honest contemplation on happiness, which holds significant importance to him,” according to a press release. “Embarking on a journey to find the true meaning of happiness, Jin aims to share a sense of warmth and comfort through a true, authentic expression of himself as a solo artist.”

To date, Jin, 31, has released the solo tracks “Super Tuna,” “Yours,” “Abyss,” “Awake,” “Tonight,” “Epiphany” and “Moon,” as well as contributing to the soundtracks of a number of Korean TV shows and collaborating with Coldplay on his debut solo single, 2022’s “The Astronaut.”

The oldest member of BTS, Jin was discharged from his mandatory South Korean military duty in June and his solo debut comes as ARMY eagerly await the rest of the band members finishing their required hitches in anticipation of BTS’ expected 2025 return.

Check out the tracklist poster for Happy below.

It’s been nearly 30 years since Mariah Carey recorded a grunge album with her band, but it’s still not too late for the world to hear the icon embrace her inner rock star.

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On the episode of Bowen Yang and Matt Rogers’ Las Culturistas podcast that dropped Wednesday (Oct. 16), the vocalist confirmed that she hasn’t forgotten about Someone’s Ugly Daughter, the alt-rock LP she worked on with her band in 1995 while simultaneously recording her album Daydream. “I’m so mad I haven’t done that yet,” she told the hosts of wanting to release the shelved project.

Even so, Mimi says there are some logistics she hasn’t yet thought about. “Who do I drop it with?” she said, to which Rogers suggested she release it independently through Garage Band.

“I could do that,” Carey continued. “It’s a good album. OK, you will hear it. I was getting life from that, seriously. It was jokes, as well. They’re everlasting.”

As told by the “Obsessed” singer in her 2020 memoir The Meaning of Mariah Carey, the singer and her band wrote and recorded Someone’s Ugly Daughter to blow off steam while working on Daydream. She initially wanted to drop it as it was, but ended up releasing it under the pseudonym Chick with her friend Clarissa Dane on lead vocals.

The Songbird Supreme previously spoke about the grunge album on Rolling Stone Music Now in 2020, confirming that she’d uncovered the original version of the record with her voice at the forefront. “I think this unearthed version will become something that, yes, we should hear,” she said at the time. “But also, I’m working on a version of something where there’ll be another artist working on this with me as well … Possibly something built around the album. I’m just full of surprises.”

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Carey’s episode of Las Culturistas comes as the superstar is gearing up to embark on her 2024 holiday tour, which kicks off Nov. 6 in Highland, Calif. The trek will run for about six weeks, with the star making stops in Texas, Georgia, Philadelphia and more parts of the U.S. before closing out Dec. 17 in Brooklyn, N.Y.

“It is going very well,” she recently told Entertainment Tonight of rehearsals for the tour. “We just finished up working on my setlist, getting the whole stage together, the ensembles, the fits — all of it.”

In April, Carey will reach the 20-year anniversary of her iconic album The Emancipation of Mimi, which spent two weeks at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 in 2005. The five-time Grammy winner kicked things off a few months early at the beginning of October with a performance of “We Belong Together” at the American Music Awards.

Listen to Carey’s Las Culturistas episode below.

Just a week after debuting, NLE Choppa and 41’s collaboration “Or What?” rockets into the top 10 on Billboard’s Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart with a 24-9 surge on the list dated Oct. 19. The track, released through NLE Choppa/Warner, continues to turn its viral momentum from TikTok clips into huge gains on streaming services.

In the Oct. 4-10 tracking week for Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs, which blends streaming, radio airplay and sales data for its ranks, “Or What?” registered 8.5 million official U.S. streams, according to Luminate. The count is a 49% explosion from the prior week’s 5.7 million clicks. Thanks to the surge, “Or What?” launches at No. 6 on the R&B/Hip-Hop Streaming Songs chart.

Streaming contributes virtually all the song’s activity for Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs, with a negligible number of digital downloads sold in the tracking week and 158,000 total audience impressions. (For comparison, the threshold title on this week’s 50-position R&B/Hip-Hop Airplay chart drew 1.3 million impressions.)

With “Or What?,” Memphis rapper NLE Choppa earns his second top 10 on Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs and ties for his best rank among 21 career entries. “Slut Me Out” also reached No. 9, in April 2023.

Hip-hop collective 41, comprised of Brooklyn rappers Kyle Richh, Jenn Carter and TaTa, picks up its first Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs hit under the combined artist billing. The three previously charted individually on breakthrough hit “Bent,” which reached a No. 37 high in December 2023.

Social media users have pushed “Or What?” into viral territory in the last weeks, largely due to TikTok clips in which users play off the track’s “Is we f–kin’ or not?” lyric. The tune has been used in more than 170,000 clips to date on the social platform, with the recent surge pushing the track to a new peak of No. 2 on this week’s TikTok Billboard Top 50 chart.

Elsewhere, “Or What?” shoots 21-6 on the Hot Rap Songs chart and 91-52 in its second week on the all-genre Billboard Hot 100.

Lawyers for Sean “Diddy” Combs are demanding that the government reveal the names of his alleged sexual abuse victims, arguing he cannot fairly defend himself without knowing their identities.

In a motion filed late Tuesday in Manhattan federal court, the star’s attorneys asked the judge to force prosecutors to filed a so-called bill of particulars, disclosing who exactly was accusing him of abuse.

Citing a “torrent” of anonymous civil accusations ranging from “false to outright absurd,” Combs’ lawyers say they cannot mount an adequate defense without knowing which of those claims forms the basis for the criminal charges.

“The government is forcing him, unfairly, to play a guessing a game—one made all the more challenging by the onslaught of baseless allegations that desperate plaintiffs are lodging at him (for the most part anonymously) in civil suits designed to exact a payoff from Mr. Combs and others,” Combs attorney Marc Agnifilo writes in the filing.

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The defense attorneys say the wording of the sex trafficking and racketeering indictment is so vague that it “could be interpreted as treating Mr. Combs’ entire sexual history over the past sixteen years as part of the alleged criminal conspiracy.”

“Without clarity from the government, Mr. Combs has no way of knowing which allegations the government is relying on for purposes of the Indictment,” Agnifilo writes.

Combs, also known as Puff Daddy and P. Diddy, was once one of the most powerful men in the music industry. But last month, he was indicted by federal prosecutors on charges of racketeering and sex trafficking over what the government says was a sprawling criminal operation aimed at satisfying his need for “sexual gratification.”

The decades-long scheme allegedly involved not only elaborate sexual parties called “freak offs” and other sex abuse, but also forced labor, kidnapping, arson and bribery. If convicted on all of the charges at trial – currently set to start May 5 – Combs potentially faces a sentence of life in prison.

With the trial still months away, Combs’ attorneys have already begun to fight back. In a motion last week, they accused the government of leaking evidence to the press, including the infamous video of Combs assaulting then-girlfriend Cassie Ventura. Prosecutors have argued back that those “baseless” claims are a strategic move aimed at preventing prosecutors from showing the video to jurors.

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In Tuesday’s filing, Combs’ lawyers argued that the continued anonymity of the alleged victims would seriously hamper their practical ability to prepare for the trial

“Mr. Combs … anticipates that the discovery will contain voluminous evidence of consensual sexual activity – making it all the more difficult for Mr. Combs to ascertain which of his prior sexual partners now claim, years later, that they felt coerced,” his lawyers write.

If history is any guide, Combs’ lawyers face an uphill battle in convincing the judge to unmask his alleged victims.

In the similar racketeering case against R. Kelly, prosecutors privately disclosed the names of several alleged victims to Kelly’s legal team, but argued that others must remain hidden, citing concerns that the singer or his entourage might seek to intimidate them.

The judge eventually agreed, saying that federal courts “routinely deny requests for victims’ identities in racketeering cases, especially when the government demonstrates a risk to witness safety [or] the potential for witness intimidation.” At Kelly’s eventual trial in 2021, several victims testified under pseudonyms.