Sabrina Carpenter is enjoying the taste of victory after bringing home her first-ever VMA win Wednesday (Sept. 11), while Taylor Swift and Post Malone will be celebrating their victories for at least a fortnight.
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Made up of three of the 2024 MTV Video Music Awards’ most nominated artists, the trio took time to pose with their new Moon People backstage for a series of triumphant photos. In one picture of the group sitting in a row on a cushioned bench, Posty holds two of his trophies over his chest — making the “Please Please Please” artist cover her mouth and grin — while the pop superstar playfully places one of the seven statuettes she received that night on her “Fortnight” collaborator’s shoulder.
Carpenter, Swift and the “Rockstar” singer had much cause for celebration following the Megan Thee Stallion-hosted ceremony. While the Girl Meets World alum took home song of the year for her Billboard Hot 100 top 10 hit “Espresso,” the “Anti-Hero” artist won a total of seven trophies, tying her with Beyoncé for the most decorated artist in VMAs history. Two of those were video of the year and best collaboration for “Fortnight,” which she shared with Posty.
“There is a very clear reason why Post Malone is everyone in music’s favorite person to collaborate with,” Swift said while accepting best collab, making her partner in crime blush. “It is because you are so ridiculously talented. You’re the most down-to-earth person.”
Toward the end of the night, the 14-time Grammy winner made fans cheer the loudest by shouting out a certain Kansas City Chiefs tight end. “I would always just hear someone cheering, like, ‘Whoo!’ from across the studio — that one person was my boyfriend, Travis,” the 14-time Grammy winner recalled of shooting “Fortnight” while accepting the award for video of the year. “Everything this man touches turns to happiness and fun and magic, so I want to thank him for adding that to our shoot.”
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Fans will also be happy to see Swift and Carpenter reunited, months after the latter finished her run as an opener on the Latin America, Asia and Australia legs of the Eras Tour. At one point, fans had worried that the pair might be at odds due to the Work It star participating in a Skims photoshoot for Kim Kardashian — with whom Swift has a yearslong feud — but Carpenter put that to bed.
“In that scenario, I’ve been very, very communicative with [Swift] about that situation, and I just love her so much and support her till the end,” Carpenter told Rolling Stonein June. “So it was no weirdness for me, but I know people will just say things because that’s all they have time to do.”
Two months later, Swift confirmed that she’s still in the “Nonsense” artist’s corner by praising her new album Short n’ Sweet, which went on to debut at No. 1 on the Billboard 200. “Short. Sweet. Has made an extraordinary album,” Swift wrote in August on Instagram Stories. “Go support our girl!!”
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Growing up in Detroit, Eminem has long been one of Big Sean’s idols. Sean Don has worked with Em in the past, but this time on The Death of Slim Shady was extra special for the 36-year-old.
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Billboard caught up with Big Sean on the red carpet prior to the 2024 MTV Video Music Awards on Wednesday (Sept. 11) at UBS Arena in Elmont, N.Y., where Sean reflected on teaming up with Eminem for “Tobey.”
“I’m happy to be a part of that album as well. For sure, for sure. [The Slim Shady LP] was the first album I bought from Costco with my birthday money,” he explained. “That was way back. To be on The Death of Slim Shady was a full-circle moment.”
“Tobey” happened to be an all-Detroit affair, as Eminem recruited the emerging BabyTron to complete the trio. The single ended up peaking at No. 27 on the Billboard Hot 100. It marked the fourth Big Sean x Eminem team-up, following in the footsteps of “Detroit Vs. Everybody,” “No Favors” and Detroit 2‘s “Friday Night Cypher.”
Eminem opened the 2024 VMAs with a dynamic performance, which saw him rock a blond wig alongside a crew of Slim Shady clones during “Houdini.” He ditched the wig and things got more serious when Jelly Roll appeared on screen for their poignant “Somebody Save Me” collaboration.
It’s a busy week for Eminem fans. The Detroit icon is gearing up to make Friday the 13th a spooky one, when he’ll drop off more music packaged as part of The Death of Slim Shady: Expanded Mourner’s Edition. As for Big Sean, his Better Me Than You album arrived on Aug. 30, and the LP debuted at No. 25 on the Billboard 200.
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At The New York EDITION, the likes of Playboi Carti (R&B/Hip-Hop Artist of the Year), Megan Thee Stallion (R&B/Hip-Hop Artist of the Year), Teezo Touchdown (Rookie of the Year), Rachelle Jean-Louis (Executive of the Year) and more were honored at the intimate ceremony in front of their peers and industry heavyweights.
While the celebrations took place inside the venue, the neighboring Time Square intersection was also flooded with congratulatory feels, courtesy of INFINITI. On a massive jumbotron outside of the venue, a victorious message showed love to all the recipients of this year’s coveted R&B/Hip-Hop Power Players list.
Scroll on below to see photos of the massive message and other highlights from the star-studded evening!
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A federal judge says Madison Square Garden owner James Dolan must sit for a deposition over the infamous 2017 ejection of ex-NBA player Charles Oakley from the Manhattan arena, ruling that the CEO “had a courtside seat” for the incident.
MSG had argued that Dolan has little relevant info for the remaining issues in the long-running lawsuit, in which Oakley is accusing the company of assault and battery. MSG’s lawyers suggested that the bid for a deposition was just one more effort to “harass” Dolan amid a “rancorous” lawsuit.
But in a ruling Tuesday, Judge Richard Sullivan rejected those arguments and ordered Dolan to be deposed – saying that the executive had “a courtside seat to the action here” and “likely possesses relevant knowledge that cannot be obtained from other witnesses.”
“At the most basic level, Dolan was an eyewitness to the removal of Oakley and can provide personal observations as to Oakley’s behavior that evening and the force used to remove him,” the judge wrote.
In a statement Thursday, an MSG spokesperson told Billboard: “This is just another example of how the legal maneuverings of Charles Oakley and his lawyers continue to waste the time and resources of everyone involved.” In his own statement, Oakley’s attorney Valdi Licul said: “We are pleased the court rejected Mr. Dolan’s efforts to avoid giving sworn testimony about Mr. Oakley’s removal from MSG. We look forward to questioning him under oath.”
Oakley, a beloved former New York Knick with a contentious relationship with Dolan, was removed from the Garden on Feb. 8, 2017 after an altercation with security guards. Accounts of the incident varied widely; Oakley claimed he had done nothing wrong, but MSG said he had engaged in “abusive behavior” before he was kicked out.
Dolan is the majority owner/CEO of Madison Square Garden Entertainment, a live music giant that operates the famed NYC arena in addition to Manhattan’s Radio City Music Hall, the Las Vegas Sphere and other prominent venues. He is also the majority owner of Madison Square Garden Sports Corp., which owns the Knicks.
Months after the incident, Oakley sued both Dolan and MSG, alleging a wide range of legal wrongdoing. Since then, the case has been on a seven-year journey up and down the federal court system.
Sullivan initially tossed the lawsuit in 2020, but a federal appeals court later overturned the ruling and revived the case. After litigation resumed, the same judge later tossed it again, pointing to video evidence showing Oakley had “unilaterally escalated the confrontation, leading to his eventual forcible removal.” But last year, an appeals court overturned parts of that ruling, too.
The current iteration of the lawsuit targets only MSG, not Dolan personally, and only includes claims of assault and battery, which are centered on whether the company’s employees used unreasonable force to remove him from the arena.
With Oakley’s lawyers demanding a deposition to help prove those claims, MSG argued that Dolan was a so-called apex witness – the kind of top-level executive that judges rarely pull into court cases unless they’re directly involved in the alleged wrongdoing.
But in his decision on Tuesday, Judge Sullivan said that Dolan was a “far cry from the prototypical apex witness,” since Oakley claims that Dolan personally spoke with a security guard prior to the incident and later signaled for them to remove Oakley from the arena.
“Dolan is one of only two people who can attest to the contents of that conversation,” the judge wrote. “Only Dolan can explain whether he signaled the guard and, if so, what his signal was intended to convey.”
Sullivan didn’t give Oakley’s attorneys everything they wanted. They were also seeking a court order that would allow them to dig through four years of Dolan’s emails, but the judge gave them only access to emails from a three-week span immediately after the incident.
“Oakley has not articulated how Dolan’s emails from years after the incident are likely to yield evidence concerning whether the MSG defendants used reasonable force when removing Oakley from MSG on the night in question,” the judge wrote. “Such extensive discovery would be disproportional to the needs of this case.”
No date for a deposition has yet been scheduled in court records, and Dolan’s attorneys could seek the challenge Tuesday’s ruling before he actually sits down with Oakley’s attorneys.
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Over his nearly 20-year career, Arcángel has become one of reggaetón’s most influential and enduring artists, landing 10 No. 1s on the Billboard charts and collaborating with superstars like Daddy Yankee, Romeo Santos and Bad Bunny. So it came as something of a shock when, in an interview with the famed Puerto Rican radio host Molusco late last year, he called the genre “musically poor.”
“If we compare it to any other genre, it’s much more complex to make another genre than to make reggaetón,” Arcángel tells Billboard today, explaining his controversial comments. “We don’t need a real instrument. It’s not the same where musicians are needed and you must know how to write real music. I am not criticizing it; I am just telling you the truth.”
But as he looks forward to a year packed with potential new projects — a new album, a book and a docuseries are all on the table — he readily admits that it’s reggaetón, uniquely, that got him here: “This genre has made me rich. I don’t think that another genre would have given me everything that I have today.”
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Growing up, the artist born Austin Agustín Santos lived in New York with his father and Puerto Rico with his mother, Carmen Rosa Santos, who was once a member of the all-girl merengue group Las Chicas del Can. Music surrounded him, including the emerging reggaetón scene of the ’90s, even if he says that the burgeoning genre wasn’t his favorite — at least, until one CD changed his mind.
“When I was still in school, they gave me a CD called Planet Reggae, and when I heard Tego Calderón, I fell in love with urban music from Puerto Rico,” the 38-year-old says. “That’s when I thought, ‘Wow, I like this. I respect this. This is the future,’ and it motivated me to move to Puerto Rico and want to sing reggaetón.”
Arcángel finished high school and only had one job — dressing up as Elmo to entertain pediatric cancer patients at a local hospital — before he dedicated himself to music. In 2004, he formed the underground duo Arcángel & De la Ghetto and signed with Baby Records (owned by Puerto Rican artist Zion of Zion & Lennox). Two years later, he launched his own label, Flow Factory, where he released his debut solo studio album, El Fenómeno, in 2008 after going solo the year prior. (He and De la Ghetto, now a star in his own right, remain friendly and appeared together on Bad Bunny’s “Acho PR” in October of last year.) Today, he credits el bajo mundo (the streets) for jump-starting his career.
“I didn’t invest any money in music. I gave my music away for free at first. I put it on Myspace,” he explains. “I’m a guy who came from the streets, and I didn’t make commercial music. I don’t owe my success or my status to radio impact.”
But while he downplays the importance of record sales and radio airplay (“When I sing in front of thousands of people, and thousands of people repeat my lyrics, that’s much more powerful”), such success did soon come. Arcángel scored his first Billboard hit in 2006 with his feature on Jowell & Randy’s “Agresivo,” which peaked at No. 27 on the Latin Rhythm Airplay chart. But the song that really changed his career, he says, was his romantic 2008 track “Por Amar a Ciegas,” co-produced by Luny Tunes, Tainy and Noriega.
“I was already popular in the urban scene, but that song gave me a respect that went beyond just being a reggaetón singer or rapper,” he says. “It made a lot of people, not [just] fans of urban music, listen to me.”
Slim and small in stature but with a powerful, raspy voice, Arcángel is perhaps best known for his strong-willed personality and unapologetic self-confidence — qualities that have both helped and hurt him over his career.
In 2012, he signed a record and management deal with producer Rafael “Raphy” Pina’s Pina Records, where he was co-managed by Pina and Omar “Omi” Rivera (the latter, founder of Omi Management, still manages him). While there, he released Sentimiento, Elegancia y Maldad, which conquered the Top Latin Albums chart in 2013 — still his only No. 1 album — and became his first entry on the Billboard 200.
But in 2018, Arcángel parted ways with Pina due to personal issues, negotiating himself out of his longtime contract. His career stagnated for a year — until he signed a deal with the then-emerging label Rimas Entertainment in 2019.
“We had two options: We go with a traditional major label, or we try it out with [Rimas’] Noah Assad and Jonathan ‘Jomy’ Miranda, who are visionaries, who are modern, who are creative,” Rivera says. “Besides, the era of physical was also changing to digital, and they had a lot of knowledge in that area. It was a risky decision at that time because it involved money, but on the other hand it gave us peace of mind because we knew that they would adapt to what we wanted to present in the project.”
Rimas helped Arcángel get back on track, including with a pair of No. 3-peaking singles on Hot Latin Songs: 2019’s “Sigues con Él” with Sech and 2022’s “La Jumpa” with Bad Bunny. He’s now released five studio albums with the label, including Sr. Santos — a tribute to his late brother Justin Santos, who died at age 21 in a 2021 car accident — which debuted at No. 3 on Top Latin Albums in 2022. He’s also become a major supporter of Latin music’s next-gen stars, teaming up with Feid, Peso Pluma, Bizarrap, Eladio Carrión, Young Miko, Grupo Frontera and more.
But huge hits and vibrant collaborations alone aren’t what’s kept Arcángel relevant for this long.
“Arca took risks at very crucial stages of the movement,” Rivera says. “He’s very peculiar and unique. He’s not afraid to speak his heart out. This whole industry is so complicated because you must please so many people, but by being himself, he has been able to earn the respect he has today.”
“I’ve fallen a couple of times and had to learn new tricks,” Arcángel admits. “I’ve won more when I lose than when I win, and I still managed to do what can truly make a human being happy: live off what you really like.”
This story appears in Billboard‘s Rumbazo special issue, dated Sept. 14, 2024.
Billboard Latin Music Week is returning to Miami Beach on Oct. 14-18, with confirmed superstars including Gloria Estefan, Alejandro Sanz and Peso Pluma, among many others. For tickets and more details, visitBillboardlatinmusicweek.com.
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The TikTok Billboard Top 50 is a weekly ranking of the most popular songs on TikTok in the United States based on creations, video views and user engagement. The latest chart reflects activity from Sept. 2-8. Activity on TikTok is not included in Billboard charts except for the TikTok Billboard Top 50.
“Symphony,” featuring Zara Larsson, takes hold of a third week atop the ranking, sporting yet another gain in official U.S. streams alongside it; it’s up 23% to 1.8 million listens in the tracking week ending Sept. 5, according to Luminate.
The 2017 tune remains driven by a meme and trend on TikTok that features users posting videos of technicolor dolphins alongside humorous or dark captions.
It reigns ahead of “Curse,” which spends a third week at No. 2, driven by a multi-person dance trend that concurrently brings the 2019 song onto non-TikTok Billboard charts for the first time. Its 59% jump in streams to 4.5 million drives it to a No. 18 debut on Hot Rock & Alternative Songs, plus a No. 24 premiere on Alternative Streaming Songs.
“Die With a Smile” is the mover of the group, albeit up one spot from No. 4 to 3 on the TikTok Billboard Top 50 (a new peak). Since its Aug. 16 release, the song has been used in a variety of TikTok uploads, usually related in some way to romance, per the song’s theme. Some of the top-performing videos so far include homecoming proposals, footage from movies and TV shows such as Tangled and Elemental, and people talking about how they’d react if their significant other posted them set to the song.
“Die With a Smile” is currently No. 6 on the Billboard Hot 100 as the ranking’s latest Greatest Gainer/Airplay; it debuted at No. 3 in August.
Alphaville’s “Forever Young” follows “Die With a Smile” into a new peak on the TikTok Billboard Top 50, rising 5-4. Creations featuring the song, which peaked at No. 65 on the Hot 100 in 1988, continue to include posts showing the passage of time with loved ones, edits featuring fictional characters and a trend in which one person in a couple lifts the other in the air as they spray water down on both from a water bottle.
Though the songs listed so far were in the previous TikTok Billboard Top 50’s top five, there’s some more substantial movement going on across the rest of the chart, led by Kodak Black’s “No Flockin,” which shoots 20-6. It’s the first time on the TikTok Billboard Top 50 for the rapper, and it comes with a song that was originally released in 2015 and then peaked on the Hot 100 at No. 95 in 2017.
“No Flockin” has received some of its top-performing uploads in recent weeks from sports-related videos, plus other general content. The song is up 20% in streams to 3.6 million in the tracking week ending Sept. 5.
Adrianne Lenker’s “Anything” returns to the TikTok Billboard Top 5’s top 10, blasting 31-8 after previously reaching No. 8 in April. One of the song’s trends features one user asking the other person “Why are you always at my house?” or some variation, with the other lip-synching to Lenker’s “I just wanna be a part of your family” lyric.
And while Sabrina Carpenter’s “Taste” falls from its No. 3 peak to No. 7 on the latest ranking, another song from Short n’ Sweet joins it in the chart’s top 10, as “Bed Chem” vaults 18-9, mostly driven by lip-synch clips.
“Bed Chem” is the third song from Short n’ Sweet to reach the TikTok Billboard Top 50’s top 10, following the aforementioned “Taste” and “Please Please Please,” the latter peaking at No. 2 in June.
See the full TikTok Billboard Top 50 here. You can also tune in each Friday to SiriusXM’s TikTok Radio (channel 4) to hear the premiere of the chart’s top 10 countdown at 3 p.m. ET, with reruns heard throughout the week.
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As three wildfires rage throughout Southern California, electronic music festival Nocturnal Wonderland has been canceled due to its proximity to the blazes.
Produced by Insomniac Events, the festival was set to take place this weekend (Sept. 14-15) at the Glen Helen Amphitheatre in San Bernardino, Calif. But producers announced Wednesday (Sept. 11), that the festival will not happen because of the Line Fire, which is burning near the venue.
“We are saddened to inform you that new fires in the San Bernardino area have ignited over the last 35 hours and are now approaching the Glen Helen Amphitheatre,” the festival announced on social media. “The health and safety of festival attendees and staff is our highest priority. After further discussions with local authorities, due to the impact of the fires surrounding the venue, we will be unable to proceed with Nocturnal Wonderland.”
The statement notes that ticketholders will receive an email regarding ticket refunds in the coming days, along with information about how ticketholders can support local firefighters and the residents of affected areas.
The Line Fire has been burning in the San Bernardino National Forest since Sept. 5, and expanded to 34,659 acres burned as of Sept. 11. As reported by the San Bernardino Sun, local authorities announced on Wednesday that “the worst is getting behind us” in terms of getting the fire contained. Two other fires, the Airport Fire and the Bridge Fire, are currently also burning in Southern California, forcing evacuations and affecting air quality throughout the region.
These blazes continue on the tail end of a signficant heatwave, which gripped the region over the last week and brought temperatures up to 112-degrees in parts of the city. Amid this heatwave, the Hollywood Bowl lost power on Sept. 8 and was forced to cancel a show by singer-songwriter Vance Joy. The region also experienced a 4.7 magnitude earthquake at approximately 7:30 a.m. local time on Thursday (Sept. 12).
Nocturnal Wonderland is Insomniac Events’ longest running festival, with the 2024 iteration having scheduled featured performances by artists including Kaskade, RL Grime, Slander, Flosstradamus and other genre-spanning electronic acts.
In the comments section of the announcement, Insomniac Events Founder Pasquale Rotella wrote, “My thoughts and prayers go to all those affected by the fires. Heartbroken about the cancellation. Your support means the world. Can’t wait to celebrate together in the future.”
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In decades past, the BBC Proms were considered an austere, sometimes stuffy showcase of classical music at London’s Royal Albert Hall. But in recent years, pop and rock acts have risen to the challenge to be a part of the programming, with Sam Smith taking on a performance backed by the BBC Orchestra earlier this summer.
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Last night (Sep 11), Florence + The Machine played their 2009 debut Lungs in full for their first – and only – live performance in 2024, backed by conductor Jules Buckley and his orchestra. The Proms were first held in 1895, and have been organised by the BBC since 1927. The events take place over an 8-week stretch in the summer each year.
The show – dubbed “Symphony of Lungs” – saw many classic tracks be performed live for the first time in decades. “Bird Song” had not been played by the band for 15 years, while fan favorites “Drumming Song” and “My Boy Builds Coffins” were brought back into the setlist after lengthy absence.
Speaking to the crowd, Florence Welch said that the album captured her “messy and chaotic” teenage years and spoke of the challenge revisiting the songs. “I really had a time re-learning these songs ‘cause these [vocal] ranges are crazy,” she said from the stage. “Because you’re young and you’re drunk and you only think you’ll ever sing them one time.”
Watch footage from the show below.
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The event was one of the season’s most in-demand events with tickets selling out instantly upon announcement earlier this year. A limited batch of tickets released on the day of the event, with prices as low as £8 ($10), saw a queue form online that reached over 20,000 hopeful attendees.
Lead singer Florence Welch and the band worked extensively with conductor Jules Buckley to adapt the songs for his orchestra. Speaking to Vogue, the singer said it was an offer she couldn’t refuse. “When [the invitation] came in, they were like, ‘We know you’re off, but would you…?’ and I was like, ‘Yes!’”
Fan favorites including “Dog Days Are Over”, “Kiss With A Fist” and “Rabbit Heart (Raise It Up)” were all performed, fusing elements of the string section and her own band expertly. Lungs was a instant-hit upon release, landing at No.1 on the U.K. Albums Chart and No.14 on the Billboard 200.
Florence + The Machine released their most recent album Dance Fever in 2022, which was another chart topper in the U.K. and reached No.14 on the Billboard 200. Earlier this year, Welch collaborated with Taylor Swift on The Tortured Poets Department cut “Florida!!!”, which peaked at No.8 on the Billboard Hot 100.
See the show’s full setlist below.
“Drumming Song” “My Boy Builds Coffins” “You Got the Love” (Candi Staton cover) “Bird Song Intro” “Bird Song” “Swimming” “I’m Not Calling You a Liar” “Kiss With a Fist” “Howl” “Girl With One Eye” “Hardest of Hearts” “Rabbit Heart (Raise It Up)” “Blinding” “Hurricane Drunk” “Cosmic Love” “Between Two Lungs” “Dog Days Are Over” “Falling”
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Katy Perry‘s career-spanning medley and passionate Vanguard acceptance speech at the 2024 MTV Video Music Awards on Wednesday (Sept. 11) kept fans on their toes — including Taylor Swift, whose jaw dropped more than once during the showcase.
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One of the “Anti-Hero” singer’s biggest reactions came when the night’s main honoree said something that definitely needed censoring during the ceremony’s live broadcast: “… and the LGBTQ community, who I recognize I wouldn’t be here without, and who showed me that you can be both kind and c—.”
At hearing the C-word come out of Perry’s mouth, Swift froze in the middle of clapping, opened her mouth in disbelief, then turned around to look at longtime collaborator Jack Antonoff, who pointed at the 14-time Grammy winner as she smiled and nodded.
Other memorable moments came when the “Woman’s World” artist started her speech by saying she’d done her entire performance while “on the first day of [her] period,” which also made Swift stop in her tracks before nodding with dazed encouragement. Moments before, when Perry was performing her medley to celebrate winning 2024’s Video Vanguard honors, the Eras Tour headliner totally stopped dancing as her jaw dropped with shock as the former American Idol judge started kissing her “I’m His, He’s Mine” collaborator, Doechii, in a position that would make the most flexible yoga enthusiasts envious.
Swifties — many of whom were watching the pop star’s reactions on the VMAs’ live audience cam more than the actual show itself — were totally here for it. “Taylor Swift’s reaction to Doechii and Katy Perry kissing is priceless,” one person wrote, while another added, “taylor gagged over ‘you can be both kind and c—‘ is SENDING ME.”
At other points in the night, Swift took home seven different Moon People — including video of the year for “Fortnight” — which ties her with Beyonce for most-awarded in history with 30 awards total over the past two decades. But fans of both the “Karma” artist and Perry were perhaps most heartened to see the former dancing along to the latter’s set and cheering her on as the “Roar” vocalist accepted the Vanguard prize from partner Orlando Bloom.
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That’s because the two pop stars have a storied past, involving a yearslong feud that the pair eventually settled in 2018. A year later, Perry joined Swift in her “You Need to Calm Down” music video, solidifying their friendship once more.
Watch Swift react to Perry’s Vanguard showcase below.
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In this episode of Billboard Unfiltered, Billboard staffers Kyle Denis, Trevor Anderson and Damien Scott explore the impact of Kendrick Lamar being selected to headline the Super Bowl Halftime Show, why other artists believe Lil Wayne was snubbed, why Beyoncé should have received a CMA nomination, whether she’s being snubbed and more!
Damien Scott: That’s exciting to have the No. 1 rapper when he’s the No. 1 rapper headline the Super Bowl Halftime Show is incredible
Kyle Denis: This was not an album made to be embraced by country if that was the case it would sound very, very different.
Trevor Anderson Alright what’s up fellas?
Damien Scott What’s crackin’?
Trevor Anderson It’s been a busy set of weeks for us in particular here at Billboard, if you haven’t it checked out. Make sure you check out all across our socials and our website, we had our R&B/Hip-Hop Power Players event coming through last weekend. Multi-day event, we had power players itself honoring the biggest executives and movers and shakers in the R&B and hip-hop world. We had a concert on Friday with BigxThaPlug, BossMan Dlow and Teezo Touchdown out there.
Damien Scott Who killed it! I was, I just gotta say, I thought Teezo was gonna do well, but when he came out with the LL COOL J fit, I was like this motherf—er is on some other sh-t.
Trevor Anderson Teezo is ready to be that sort of performing rockstar, you can tell it’s part of the DNA code for him.
