All products and services featured are independently chosen by editors. However, Billboard may receive a commission on orders placed through its retail links, and the retailer may receive certain auditable data for accounting purposes.

Mother’s Day is less than a month away. Have you started shopping yet?

If the answer is no, we’ve found a hilarious throw pillow that your mom just might love – if she’s a fan of the original Mean Girls.

Tina Fey’s 2004 comedy, which celebrates its 20th anniversary on Tuesday (April 30), still lives rent-free in a lot of our heads, but even if your mom isn’t familiar with Regina George, Gretchen Wieners, Cady Heron and The Plastics, she’ll probably get a laugh out of this handmade pillow inspired by Amy Poehler’s infamous Mean Girls quote: “I’m not like a regular mom, I’m a cool mom.”

Best Mother’s Day Gifts: A Mean Girls-Inspired Pillow for 'Cool' Moms

Cool Mom Needlepoint Pillow


Made from 100 percent wool, the Cool Mom Needle Point Pillow retails for $108. The pillow is available at Furbishstudio.com and retailers such as Revolve, but it’s currently out of stock at Amazon, Bloomingdale’s and Etsy.

Related

Measuring 8 x 14-inches, the throw pillow is hand-embroidered in wool and backed in cotton velvet, per the product description. Besides the laugh factor, your mom will appreciate how much time it takes to make Furbish pillows. Each pillow takes around 20 hours to stitch by hand, according to the company.

Furbish offers a large selection of pillows with funny quotes such as, “If You Don’t Have Anything Nice to Say, Come Sit By Me,” “Nobody Is Perfect. I’m Nobody” “This Is Actually My First Rodeo” and “My Favorite Thing to Make for Dinner Is Reservations.”

While there’s never enough money to show just how much we care for our mothers, shoppers on a tighter budget can turns to Amazon and Walmart to find cheaper pillows and other Mother’s Day gift ideas.

For more shopping recommendations, see our list of new beauty drops of the season, where to buy a Dyson Airwrap in ceramic pink and rose gold and a luxury perfume dupe for under $25.

Benny Blanco is boyfriend of the year!

The producer took to Instagram on Monday (April 29) to document an adorable romantic gesture for his girlfriend, Selena Gomez — making her a full-blown steak dinner. “I woke up early this morning and I was like, ‘I want to do something nice for my girlfriend.’ I was thinking, whenever I want to put a smile on her face or get laid, I just make her steak.”

Blanco then took fans through his process of making the perfectly smoked steak, crispy potatoes and a Caesar salad. “If you’re not making homemade croutons, you’re an idiot,” he joked.

When the meal was finally complete, the star put the food into a storage container and was planning to “sneak” into her work and give it to her. However, Gomez had the day off, so he went to her house. When he arrived, the “Love On” singer was still sleeping. “I’m going to write a cute little note and leave it by her bed so she can eat it later,” Blanco revealed, before writing the note and putting it on her nightstand, giving her hand a little squeeze before heading out.

When Gomez woke up, she shared the sweet gift to her Instagram Stories, along with the note that reads: “I love you! Sleep well! I made you steak.”

Gomez first confirmed that she and Blanco were dating on Dec. 7, about six months into their romance. In a reply to fans on Instagram, she wrote that he “is my absolute everything in my heart” and that she is at her “happiest” in the relationship.

Watch Blanco’s steak dinner journey below.

A new partnership reaches No. 1 on Billboard’s Latin Airplay chart (dated May 4), as Feid and ATL Jacob’s “Luna” rises 2-1 to lead the 50-track-deep ranking. The song becomes the 11th collaboration in 2024 to land at the summit, with three of them Feid collabs.

“Luna,” released on Universal Music Latino/UMLE, ascends to the top slot from No. 2 after a 15% increase to 10.73 million audience impressions on U.S. reporting radio stations during the April 19-25 tracking week, according to Luminate. The new No. 1 unseats Prince Royce and Gabito Ballesteros’ “Cosas de La Peda,” which spent one week in charge. It falls to No. 3 with 8.33 million in audience, down 23%.

Related

“Luna,” produced by ATL Jacob, where the latter also provides background vocals, is one of ten cuts from Feid’s Ferxxocalipsis set, which earned the Colombian a third top 10 on Top Latin Albums (No. 9 debut last December). The song generated significant attention only after Feid shared an acoustic version on his Instagram account in January, thus followed a No. 20 launch on Latin Rhythm Airplay in February, where it holds at No. 1 in its second week.

With the new champ, American rapper ATL Jacob checks into the penthouse on the overall Latin Airplay tally for the first time. Feid, meanwhile, picks up his seventh No. 1 among 14 career entries. Further, as “Luna” shakes up the scoreboard, here’s a look at the 11 collabs, whether through co-billed or three-way combined efforts, that hit No. 1 on Latin Airplay in 2024:

Title, Artist, Peak Date
“Según Quien,” Maluma & Carín León, Jan. 6
“Bubalu,” Feid & Rema, Jan. 13
“Harley Quinn,” Fuerza Regida & Marshmello, Feb. 3
“Borracho y Loco,” Yandel & Myke Towers, Feb. 17
“Qlona,” Karol G & Peso Pluma, March 2
“Por El Contrario,” Becky G, Leonardo Aguilar & Angela Aguilar, March 9
“No Es Normal,” Venesti, Nacho & Maffio, March 16
“Puntería,” Shakira & Cardi B, April 6
“Perro Negro,” Bad Bunny & Feid, April 20
“Cosas de La Peda,” Prince Royce & Gabito Ballesteros, April 27
“Luna,” Feid & ATL Jacob, May 4

In addition to its Latin Airplay control, “Luna” ascends 9-8 on the multi-metric Hot Latin Songs chart, which combines airplay, streaming data, and downloads, despite a 6% dip in streams, to 3.5 million official U.S. streams generated during the same period.

“Luna” is one of the 36-song setlist on Feid’s Ferxxocalipsis Tour, the North American 27-date run that launched in Sacramento April 24 and will close in Miami on July 26.

All charts (dated May 4, 2024) will update on Billboard.com tomorrow, April 30. For all chart news, you can follow @billboard and @billboardcharts on both X, formerly known as Twitter, and Instagram.

Sorry, but PartyNextDoor is outside and will be taking his new album PARTYNEXTDOOR 4 (P4) with him on the road on the Sorry I’m Outside Tour, which he announced Monday (April 29).

In the 48-second trailer directed by Aidan Wilde, Party (real name Jahron Anthony Brathwaite) takes fans through his latest album journey from the studio to the stage and from the bright lights and police sirens of Hollywood (with his “Real Woman” single title replacing the Hollywood sign) to his Toronto hometown. In one scene, a sea of people are throwing their hands up in unison while chanting the sample of the late DMX‘s “Party Up (Up in Here)” in his single “Lose My Mind.” “Dates announced tomorrow,” Party wrote underneath the clip on Instagram.

The Canadian-Jamaican R&B star released his fourth studio album, PARTYNEXTDOOR 4 (P4), on April 26, 2024, via OVO Sound and Santa Anna Label Group. P4 arrives four years after his last studio LP Partymobile, which peaked at No. 8 on the Billboard 200 and No. 4 on Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums. The 14-track project contains no features and other previously released singles “Her Old Friends” and “Resentment,” the latter of which reached the top 10 of Hot R&B Songs. “This is the hardest I’ve ever worked on an album. This is the proudest I’ve felt,” he told Billboard in his recent cover story.

Related

PND has been outside promoting the album, with performances at SXSW (he first revealed the LP’s title during his headlining set at Billboard‘s THE STAGE at SXSW concert series), Rolling Loud California and Souled Out in Australia.

See the Sorry I’m Outside Tour trailer below.

A three-year-old was shot Sunday in Homestead, police say. The toddler is hospitalized. The details of what transpired remain sparse. But police have confirmed that the child was transported to … Click to Continue »

Miranda Lambert‘s new single “Wranglers” is coming, and fans at Stagecoach got to hear it first. Reba McEntire got to hear it, too — because she showed up to Lambert’s stage as a surprise guest Saturday night (April 27).

Reba joined Lambert for a three-song finale of “Mama’s Broken Heart,” her own “Fancy” and “Gunpowder & Lead,” wrapping Lambert’s headlining set that featured the live debut of the unreleased “Wranglers.”

“@Reba at @stagecoach y’all,” Lambert wrote Sunday on X (formerly Twitter), reacting to the fun she had at the Indio, California, festival the night before. “Thank you to my hero and friend for coming out here as my special guest. I’ll never forget it. She brought all the fire.”

Related

“What a night!!! Thanks @mirandalambert for asking me to be part of @Stagecoach last night. And thanks to all the #Countrymusic fans for sticking with us in that wind! #badasssisters #bas #stagecoach,” Reba posted on her own account.

“Wranglers” — written by Audra Mae, Evan McKeever and Ryan Carpenter, and recorded in Austin with co-producer Jon Randall — is set to be released on May 3. The song can be pre-saved here.

“‘Wranglers’ is a classic tale of a woman taking her power back,” Lambert said in a statement released to press. “I think we can all identify with the character in this song, because we have all had a time in our life where we needed to find our strength, and also get a little revenge on someone who did us wrong or hurt us. This offers such a cool, raging take on how something like this unravels. I think the songwriters nailed it.”

She added, “I am so proud to sing it. It feels like it could have been on the same record as Gunpowder & Lead in a lot of ways. ‘Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned’ is a pretty powerful statement, and the way it’s written, you can tell, we’re not kidding.”

Watch a clip of Lambert’s live “Wranglers” performance below, and see some footage of her Stagecoach duets with Reba.

Although Funk Generation just missed the lead on Billboard‘s weekly new Latin music poll results, Anitta‘s new album is triumphant in topping this week’s new music poll that features artists in various genres of music.

Music fans voted in a poll published Friday (April 26) on Billboard, choosing Anitta’s Funk Generation as their favorite new music release of the past week.

The new set from Anitta brought in more than 50% of the vote on this poll, securing a notable edge ahead of new releases from Normani and Gunna, Tems, PARTYNEXTDOOR and more.

Related

The veteran Brazilian star pumps up the funk on her sixth studio album, which has her singing in Spanish, Portuguese and English. The collection features singles including “Funk Rave” and “Joga Pra Lua,” and has Sam Smith guesting on vocals for “Ahi.”

Anitta has mapped out a tour in support of Funk Generation, the Baile Funk Experience Tour, a global trek that includes the singer’s first-ever North American leg: there will be stops in Los Angeles, Miami, Orlando, Boston, Toronto, Chicago and New York. Find the latest tour information on Anitta’s official website.

Trailing behind Funk Generation on this week’s poll is Normani’s team-up with Gunna for “1:59,” with 23% of the vote. The track is set to appear on her long-awaited album Dopamine, out June 14.

See the final results of this week’s poll below. Check out Billboard‘s Friday Music Guide to catch up with more must-hear releases from this week.

Taylor Swift was gunning for a truly epic release week long before The Tortured Poets Department actually dropped, with the pop star surprising fans by unleashing 31 new songs — as opposed to the previously confirmed 16 main and four bonus tracks — in the span of two hours April 19.

Related

She’d been crafting the sprawling, Jack Antonoff and Aaron Dessner-produced project for about two years before it finally arrived, with the singer telling fans at a February Eras Tour show that she’d been working on it since the moment she submitted the Billboard 200-topping Midnights to her label some time in 2022. The unavoidable news cycle about her breakups from longtime boyfriend Joe Alwyn and The 1975’s Matty Healy, as well as her blossoming romance with Kansas City Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce, only added fuel to the fire of hype leading up to Tortured Poets, which Swift further stoked by saying at another Eras concert, “I’ve never had an album where I needed songwriting more.”

Related

Come April 19, and her inimitable lyricism, discourse-provoking songwriting and apparent allusions to the aforementioned relationships proved to be more than enough to make millions of listeners tune in, the 14-time Grammy winner smashing records left and right in the process. Before Tortured Poets even hit the Billboard charts, it was doing unprecedented numbers in streaming, sales and vinyl — not to mention selling 1.4 million copies in its first day on the market, according to Luminate — giving Swift’s peers a run for their money in more ways than one.

Keep reading to see all of the major records The Tortured Poets Department has broken — so far — below.

Taylor Swift beamed up to a historic debut on the Billboard 200 with The Tortured Poets Department, the ambitious 31-song collection that she apparently wrote, recorded and released while preparing for and embarking on The Eras Tour (and, to quote track 13, she did it “with a broken heart”).

“What do you MEAN,” she wrote in her immediate reaction to the headline published by Billboard, which she reposted on Sunday (April 28).

Related

As reported earlier, Swift not only has the 14th No. 1 album of her career with TTPD, and the top-selling album of 2024 so far, year-to-date — but also the largest streaming week ever, the second-biggest week for any album by units earned, the third largest sales week in the modern era, and the biggest sales week for vinyl in the modern era.

The Tortured Poets Department launched with 2.61 million equivalent album units earned in the U.S. in its first week.

“My mind is blown,” Swift posted on her various social media platforms (X, formerly known as Twitter, Instagram and Facebook) Sunday afternoon. “I’m completely floored by the love you’ve shown this album. 2.6 million ARE YOU ACTUALLY SERIOUS?? Thank you for listening, streaming, and welcoming Tortured Poets into your life. Feeling completely overwhelmed.”

“I was already so fired up to get back to the tour but you doing THIS?? May 9th can’t come soon enough,” wrote Swift, who took the opportunity to upload some behind-the-scenes photos from the making of the album, including snapshots with Post Malone and Florence Welch.

Of TTPD’s 2.61 million sum, traditional album sales (purchases of digital download albums, CDs, vinyl LPs and cassettes) comprised 1.914 million, SEA units comprised 683,000 (equaling 891.37 million on-demand official streams) and TEA units comprised 14,000. Get the full breakdown on the numbers, and why it’s a historic release for Swift, here.

Swift’s May 9 shout-out is for her return to tour after a two-month break. Some are guessing she’ll work in at least some kind of a Tortured Poets era, tracing the evidence in a tour rehearsal clip set to “Fortnight” that Swift shared on Friday. (Looking at you, railing designed like the TTPD logo, and dancers practicing an unfamiliar top-hat-and-cane number.)

Related

She’ll bring The Eras Tour to Paris for a series of four consecutive concerts at La Défense Arena from May 9-12 as she sets off on the European leg of her career-spanning trek, with Paramore opening the show.

Eras will also make its way to Sweden, Portugal, Spain, the U.K., Ireland, the Netherlands, Switzerland, Italy, Germany, Poland and Austria by the end of the summer. All of Swift’s upcoming tour dates are listed on her official website.

Eric Church took people to church at Stagecoach’s Mane stage on the Empire Polo Grounds in Indio, Calif., on Friday night (April 26), but not all attendees of his closing set at the festival’s opening night were ready for some religion.

Related

The country superstar curated a one-of-a-kind set that he obviously put a great deal of thought into, from the stained-glass backdrop and 16-person choir to the setlist that included covers of “Hallelujah,” “Take Me to the River,” “Stand By Me,” “I’ll Fly Away,” “When the Saints Go Marching In” and even “Gin and Juice.”

“This was the most difficult set I have ever attempted,” Church said in a press release issued after the show. “I’ve always found that taking it back to where it started, back to chasing who Bob Seger loves, who Springsteen loves, who Willie Nelson loves, you chase it back to the origin. The origin of all that is still the purest form of it. And we don’t do that as much anymore. It felt good at this moment to go back, take a choir and do that.”

“For me, it’s always been something with records, with performances, I’ve always been the one that’s like, ‘Let’s do something really, really strange and weird and take a chance.’ Sometimes it doesn’t work, but it’s okay if you’re living on that edge, because that edge, that cutting edge, is where all the new guys are going to gravitate to anyway. So if you can always challenge yourself that way, it always cuts sharper than any other edge,” he said.

For much of the set, the only accompaniment was Church on guitar, the choir and his frequent collaborator, Joanna Cotton, but his full band joined at the end for a handful of Church’s tunes, including “Country Music Jesus” and “Springsteen.”

For some fans, the show was a thrilling chance to see a (presumably) once-in-a-lifetime set, while for others, it was too much of a deviation from his regular live show. To be fair, Church has mixed it up on festival gigs before: at the 2019 CMA Fest he did a 17-song acoustic medley, and at last year’s CMA Fest he played a seven-song set that featured some hits with new arrangements and some covers, including Little Feat’s “Sailin’ Shoes,” that left some casual attendees scratching their heads, which surprised Church. “I was shocked because I played the show that I went out there to play,” he told Rolling Stone. “We had a time slot and I went out there to play that slot and try to show a little bit, a peek, as to what I was working on for this tour.”

Some attendees were exhilarated by the one-of-a kind show at Stagecoach:

Others, not so much, with reports on social media of attendees leaving mid-show to to attend Nickelback’s performance at the Palomino stage. Palm Springs Desert Sun reporter Brian Blueskye described the scene as an “unplugged jam session” that “sent festivalgoers for the exit of the Empire Polo Club starting about 15 minutes in, a sight that could be best described as Moses parting the Red Sea” in his review.

Representatives for Stagecoach did not respond to a request for comment. A representative for Church said he declined to comment beyond Church’s statement.

Following well-received sets Saturday night (April 29) by Post Malone (who was joined by Dwight Yoakam, Sara Evans and Brad Paisley) and Miranda Lambert (who was joined by Reba McEntire), Stagecoach concludes Sunday with a closing set by Morgan Wallen.