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Smooth and shiny strands is a recipe for a confident hair day and while hot tools can help you achieve salon-worthy hairstyles, without a detangling brush you can end up with frizzy, knotted hair. TikTokers have been claiming the UNbrush as the ultimate brush for detangling hair, but now Amazon shoppers are claiming a $9 hairbrush is the true defender against painful “yanking.”

The Original Wet Brush has gathered more than 55,000 verified five-star reviews from the online retailer and even some love on TikTok with influencers showing off how the brush seamlessly glides through hair. User @katie.org even compared the cheap hairbrush to the luxe $150 Mason Pearson hairbrush, which has gathered more than 3 million views.

“I do not see a difference,” the caption for the video reads.

While the UNbrush has received consistent praise on social media, its reviews are not up to par with the OG Wet Brush, which has scored a 4.7-star rating out of five compared to its competitor’s 4.5 stars. Not to mention it’s also more affordable at $9 making it one of the best beauty deals available right now.

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Featuring 19 colors and patterns to choose from (including an Amazon-exclusive Aqua), the Wet Brush is ready to help smooth knotted strands with its flexible bristles. ShopBillboard has even tested the hairbrush and love how lightweight and comfortable the hair tool is to hold. Its unique bristles allows for the brush to move through hair more easily with less snags, creating a pain-free experience.

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Since the brush is so lightweight and compact, it’s also easy to pack away in your luggage making it a travel necessity for keeping your hair smooth during your adventures.

Reviewers have also gushed over how the detangling brush has “revolutionized” their hair care routine describing the experience as “love at first brush.” It’s also curly hair-approved, with one shopper saying “This brush gets through it with ease. I’m also super tender-headed and it doesn’t hurt when I brush. I even bring it with me to the salon and request my stylist use it for detangling.”

For more product recommendations, check out ShopBillboard‘s roundups of the best flat irons, grooming products and travel-friendly beauty products.

Hours after the Venezuelan National Electoral Council declared Nicolás Maduro the winner in Sunday’s (July 28) presidential elections, the opposition denounced irregularities in the counting process, leading a number of Venezuelan artists to react with sorrow to the political situation in their country.

“Impossible not to wake up on a morning like today’s without praying for the unity and peace of our Venezuela. We are riding on hope with tears in our eyes and faith in our chests,” brothers Mau y Ricky told Billboard.

“THEY STOLE THE VOTES!!! IT IS KNOWN TO BE FRAUD!!! What an injustice, poor Venezuela! A national sentiment,” singer and influencer Lele Pons wrote in Spanish on her Instagram account with a series of images and videos of her crying and of the news.

“fraud. brazenness. cynicism. mockery. DICTATORSHIP. There are no words to describe it and the world has to keep learning about it,” Latin Grammy winner Joaquina wrote on her Instagram stories, while on her X account she posted: “Don’t try to cover the sun with a finger.”

Sunday’s elections in Venezuela had generated expectations of change in many people, since after 25 years of the socialist government initiated by the late Hugo Chávez, President Nicolás Maduro faced “the biggest electoral challenge since he came to power 11 years ago,” as reported by The Associated Press. Edmundo González, who represented the united opposition candidacy, campaigned vigorously agains Maduro’s re-election.

Dozens of Venezuelan artists flooded their social media accounts with messages expressing their hope for a change of course in the country. But close to midnight, the National Electoral Council declared Maduro the winner with 51.2% of the votes — despite the opposition’s claims of irregularities in the counting process. Shortly after, opposition leader María Corina Machado denied Maduro’s triumph and said in a press conference, “We won, and everybody knows it,” pointing out that in the 40% of the tally sheets in her possession, González had won with 70% of the votes.

González, meanwhile, told the AP: “Venezuelans and the whole world know what happened.”

The situation, however, is not surprising to some, as similar situations have been seen in past elections in the South American country. “Venezuela has been living a great fraud for many years… an ideological, moral and ethical fraud,” the lead singer of Venezuelan rock/reggae band Rawayana, Alberto ‘Beto’ Montenegro, tells Billboard. “Unfortunately we are not surprised by another electoral fraud, we have already seen it all.”

On his Instagram account, hitmaker Danny Ocean — who in recent days released the EP venequia. dedicated to his country – called on the opposition: “Let’s not fall into games, let’s not fall into a psychological war, that’s what they want! They want to destabilize, they want to spread fear!! WE KNOW IT WAS A FRAUD,” he wrote. He also pleaded with the Venezuelan Armed Forces to avoid violence and realize that “what is happening is not right.”

José Luis “Cheo” Pardo, ex-guitarist of Los Amigos Invisibles, echoes the sentiment. “Venezuela came out to express through their vote in the most civilized way”, he said to Billboard Español. “Then, after hours of anxiety, we all faced the hard truth we all knew but didn’t want to believe: a government that has lied so much and for so long is not going to concede to their people’s will so easy”.

Venezuelan producer and composer Román Rojas, meanwhile, told Billboard Español that he experienced “the aftermath of the brutality of the Maduro regime through a friend, a talented violinist, who was tortured for his political stance.” He was referring to Wuilly Arteaga, who became known in 2017 by playing sad versions of the national anthem during demonstrations in Caracas, and who was thrown to the ground, had his violin broken and was imprisoned in a confrontation with policemen.

“For artists to flourish, they need to live in societies where freedom of expression is protected, not punished,” Rojas added. “When governments impose restrictions, art loses its authenticity and becomes a tool of ideology.”

For Henry D’Arthenay, leader of the group La Vida Bohème, “In Venezuela, we’ve grown used to this political circus; we are unfazed, and in my opinion, this has only made us stronger. The millions of Venezuelans kidnapped by a scam of a government that sold false hope and gave hunger in exchange, and the millions of Venezuelans outside the country who were pushed out and that were denied the chance to vote. We are the orphans who continue holding the nation together with the power of hope.”

Latin Grammy-nominated DJ and producer Mr. Pauer, meanwhile, pointed out that, although he has been living in the U.S. for over 30 years, he prays for change and dreams of going back. “It hurts me a lot to see how they repress the voice of my country, which asks for change so badly,” he tells Billboard. “It is time for a peaceful transition and for the world to find out what is happening to my people and to take actions that truly defend democracy.”

Read reactions from other artists, including Danny Ocean, Nacho and Elena Rose, below:

—Additional reporting by Isabela Raygoza and Jessica Roiz.

XG’s “Something Ain’t Right” tops this week’s new music poll.

Music fans voted in a poll published Friday (July 26) on Billboard, choosing the Japanese girl group’s catchy dance track as their favorite new music release of the past week.

“Something ain’t right” in the relationship that has XG ranting in their new single, but fans stepped up to make sure everything’s going right for the septet, at least on this week’s new music release poll.

XG’s fresh track brought in more than 60% of the vote. Voters this week chose “Something Ain’t Right” over new music releases from Fuerza Regida, MGK with Jelly Roll, Halsey, Post Malone with Luke Combs, Ice Spice and more.

“You’ve been acting funny lately/ You ain’t gotta lie/ Got me out here looking crazy/ What you tryna hide?/ Baby, I can’t take it, you can’t fake it/ Something ain’t right/ I know something ain’t right,” XG’s Chisa and Hanata sing on the first verse of the group’s latest, a dance-ready number with a ’90s flavor.

The song is a taste of XG’s forthcoming second mini-album, which is due out Nov. 8; a pre-order is expected to start in early August.

A vibrant music video was unveiled with the track that has Chisa, Cocona, Harvey, Hinata, Juria, Jurin and Maya flawlessly showing off sleek choreography and cool, confident style.

Among the new music trailing behind “Something Ain’t Right” on this week’s poll is Fuerza Regida’s new album Pero No Te Enamores, with 14% of the vote, and MGK and Jelly Roll’s collab “Lonely Road,” with 10% of the vote.

See the final results of this week’s poll below.

As Stray Kids’ new album ATE opens at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 chart (dated Aug. 3), they become the first group ever to debut at No. 1 with their first five charting albums.

Stray Kids previously debuted atop the chart with ODDINARY, MAXIDENT (both in 2022), ROCK-STAR and 5-STAR (both in 2023).

The only other act to debut at No. 1 with its first five chart entries was rapper DMX in 1998-2003 with It’s Dark and Hell Is Hot (1998), Flesh of My Flesh Blood of My Blood (1999), …And Then There Was X (2000), The Great Depression (2001) and Grand Champ (2003).

The Billboard 200 chart ranks the most popular albums of the week in the U.S. based on multi-metric consumption as measured in equivalent album units, compiled by Luminate. Units comprise album sales, track equivalent albums (TEA) and streaming equivalent albums (SEA). Each unit equals one album sale, or 10 individual tracks sold from an album, or 3,750 ad-supported or 1,250 paid/subscription on-demand official audio and video streams generated by songs from an album. The new Aug. 3, 2024-dated chart will be posted in full on Billboard’s website on July 30. For all chart news, follow @billboard and @billboardcharts on both X, formerly known as Twitter, and Instagram.

ATE arrives with 232,000 equivalent album units earned in the U.S. in the week ending July 25, according to Luminate. That’s the largest week of 2024 for any K-pop album, and the sixth-biggest debut for any album this year.

The Billboard 200 began publishing on a regular, weekly basis in March of 1956. For context, today it’s common for albums to debut at No. 1. However, before 1991, when the Billboard 200 began utilizing Luminate’s electronically monitored tracking information, only six albums debuted at No. 1.