Charli XCX leaned fully into Brat summer over the weekend, when she celebrated her 32nd birthday on Saturday night (Aug. 3) with a star-studded bash in Los Angeles.

Among the A-list attendees was Tove Lo, who took to Instagram to share a selfie on the dance floor with the birthday girl herself along with Nelly Furtado and Lorde, who recently worked it out on the remix with Charli for “The Girl, So Confusing Version With Lorde.”

“Yum,” Tove Lo captioned the photo along with an apple emoji, in reference to Charli’s hit off her recent album Brat, “Apple.”

According to reports, other attendees at the birthday party included Twisters star Glen Powell, as well as Anya Taylor-Joy, Rosalía, Addison Rae, the Haim sisters, Sabrina Carpenter, Gracie Abrams, Rachel Sennott, Finneas, Lukas Gage, Scout and Tallulah Willis, among many others.

Billie Eilish also dropped by the party in Silverlake to dance and sing along to the pair’s just-released “Guess” remix, with Billie rocking an oversized baseball jersey, lime green bandana and red-tinged shades for the party, where one of the gifts included a beautifully Brat-propriate bouquet of Calla Lilies mixed with cigarettes from Rosalía.

Charli’s U.S. Brat tour is slated to kick off on Sept. 14 at Little Caesars Arena in Detroit.

The Smashing PumpkinsAghori Mhori Mei has topped this week’s new music poll that features artists in various genres of music.

Music fans voted in a poll published Friday (Aug. 2) on Billboard, choosing the the Billy Corgan-led rock band’s 13th studio album as their favorite new music release of the past week.

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Aghori Mhori Mei brought in 70% of the vote on the poll, securing a notable edge ahead of new releases from Charli xcx featuring Billie Eilish (“Guess”), Kacey Musgraves (Deeper Into the Well), Justin Quiles (Permanente), Jack White (No Name), and others.

The Pumpkins’ 10-track Aghori Mhori Mei is the follow-up to last year’s three-act rock opera, ATUM. The new set was recorded in the midst of the veteran Chicago act’s busy touring schedule over the past few years.

“In the writing of this new album I became intrigued with the well-worn axiom, ‘you can’t go home again’,” guitarist/singer Corgan said in a statement. “Which I have found personally to be true in form but thought well, what if we tried anyway? Not so much in looking backwards with sentimentality but rather as a means to move forward; to see if in the balance of success and failure that our ways of making music circa 1990-1996 would still inspire something revelatory.”

Corgan called the two-plus hour, 33-song ATUM a sequel to Smashing Pumpkins’ 1995 classic double album Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness and 2000’s Machina/The Machines of God.

The mid-July announcement of Aghori Mhori arrived after the Pumpkins booked a run of fall tour dates in South and Latin America, marking the group’s first venture south in almost a decade. In addition, the trio — Corgan, James Iha and Jimmy Chamberlain — is currently on the road opening for Green Day on their Saviors tour, mixed in with headlining shows across the U.S. through September. The Latin American tour launches Nov. 1 in Brasilia, Brazil.

Trailing behind Smashing Pumpkins on this week’s poll is a remix of Charli xcx’s “Guess,” featuring featuring Billie Eilish. The track brought in 10% of the vote.

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.

Adele didn’t let her live show get in the way of watching the 2024 Summer Olympics.

During her concert in Munich on Saturday (Aug. 3), the 36-year-old British songstress paused her performance to watch the women’s 100-meter final in Paris, as seen in a fan-captured clip posted on the X (formerly Twitter) account for NBC Olympics.

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The “Easy on Me” singer then broadcast the 11-second race on the big screen for all 75,000-something fans at the custom-built Adele Arena, where her 10-night residency launched on Friday.

The Munich crowd fell to a hush as Julien Alfred of Saint Lucia took home the gold medal, finishing the race in 10.72 seconds. U.S. stars Sha’carri Richardson and Melissa Jefferson won silver and bronze, respectively.

After Alfred’s victory, which marked Saint Lucia’s first Olympic gold medal in history, Adele asked the audience to give the runner a hand for the accomplishment.

“Let’s give her a round of applause!” the 16-time Grammy winner said. “Let’s get on with the show. Fantastic, St. Lucia!”

Adele also had the Olympics on her mind during the opening night of the mini-residency on Friday.

“… While I was watching world-class athletes, I’d be like, ‘Oh that landing was a bit dodgy, wasn’t it? Oh her legs weren’t really straight,’ Meanwhile, if I tried anything that they do, I’d be dead,” she said in a fan-captured video from the show. “I’d absolutely die if I tried to even do a little, any kind of movement at all.”

During the concert, Adele also gave props to U.S. gymnast Simone Biles for winning multiple gold medals, calling her “absolutely brilliant.”

Adele’s 10-night stand in Munich concludes Aug. 31. See a full recap of the opening night here. The singer’s Weekends With Adele residency at Las Vegas’ Colosseum at Caesars Palace picks back up in October.

Taylor Swift’s The Tortured Poets Department returns to No. 1 on the Billboard 200 chart (dated Aug. 10), collecting a 13th nonconsecutive week atop the list. The album spent its first 12 weeks on the chart at No. 1, fell to No. 4 for two weeks, and now rebounds to No. 1 for a 13th frame. (Thirteen is also famously Swift’s lucky number.)

Tortured Poets earned 71,000 equivalent album units in the U.S. in the week ending Aug. 1 (down 3%), according to Luminate. That marks the smallest weekly sum for a No. 1 album since March 16-dated chart, when Morgan Wallen’s One Thing at a Time was tops with 68,000 units.

The last album to spend at least 13 weeks at No. 1 was One Thing at a Time, which logged 19 total nonconsecutive weeks at No. 1 between March 2023 and this March. The last album by a woman to spend at least 13 total weeks at No. 1 was Adele’s 21, which earned 24 nonconsecutive weeks on top in 2011-12.

With Poets — Swift’s longest-leading album — she adds her 82nd career week at No. 1 on the Billboard 200, extending her record among soloists. (Elvis Presley has the second-most among soloists, with 67.) The total encompasses her 14 No. 1 albums. (She’s tied with Jay-Z for the most No. 1s among soloists.)

Also on the latest Billboard 200, the sleepy top 10, where no albums debut in the region, sees Chappell Roan’s The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess hit a new peak, as it climbs 8-4, surpassing its previous high of No. 5.

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. 10, 2024-dated chart will be posted in full on Billboard‘s website on Aug. 6. For all chart news, follow @billboard and @billboardcharts on both X, formerly known as Twitter, and Instagram.

Of The Tortured Poets Department’s 71,000 units earned in the week ending Aug. 1, SEA units comprise 59,000 (down 8%, equaling 77.73 million on-demand official streams of the deluxe album’s 31 songs), album sales comprise 12,000 (up 34%, aided by a stock replenishment of a deluxe CD edition of the album in Swift’s webstore) and TEA units comprise a negligible sum (down 23%).

Wallen’s One Thing at a Time rises 6-2 with 64,000 equivalent album units earned (down 1%, also returning to No. 1 on Top Streaming Albums for the first time since March) and Zach Bryan’s The Great American Bar Scene climbs 5-3 with 61,000 (down 14%).

Chappell Roan’s The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess reaches a new peak, jumping 8-4 with 53,000 equivalent album units (though down 1%). The set previously topped out at No. 5 on the July 13-dated list. Billie Eilish’s Hit Me Hard and Soft ascends 9-5 with nearly 53,000 units (down 2%) and Stray KidsATE falls 1-6 in its second week with 52,000 units (down 78%; it’s also No. 1 on Top Album Sales for a second week).

Eminem’s chart-topping The Death of Slim Shady (Coup de Grâce) dips 3-7 with 49,000 equivalent album units earned (down 37%), Twisters: The Album falls 7-8 with 44,000 units (down 23%), Charli XCX’s Brat returns to the top 10, rising 14-9 with 40,000 units (up 10%), and Noah Kahan’s Stick Season is steady at No. 10 with 39,000 units (down 10%).

Luminate, the independent data provider to the Billboard charts, completes a thorough review of all data submissions used in compiling the weekly chart rankings. Luminate reviews and authenticates data. In partnership with Billboard, data deemed suspicious or unverifiable is removed, using established criteria, before final chart calculations are made and published.

A vulnerable Machine Gun Kelly opens up about his troubled relationship with his mother in a raw conversation with Bunnie XO on the eighth season opener of her popular podcast, Dumb Blonde

“I would like to say for the record I love my mom dearly and I misrepresented her a lot early in my career,” Kelly tells Bunnie XO in the clip, which premieres below. “And not misrepresented in the sense of not  speaking truth. I was speaking my truth, but I didn’t give the masses the chance to understand her truth.”

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His pain came from his mother not trying to find him after she left the family when he was young, leading to several years of estrangement. “You gotta get to me… come f—ing find me no matter what it takes,” he says.

Kelly wrote about his issues with his mother in his searing 2019 song, “Burning Memories,” whose lyrics include, “How’d you leave your only child at nine for another dude?/ All the years that you ignore me left me sleepless in the bed/ I hope daddy got some kids because your only son is dead/ I spent 20 years waiting on the stairs/ Now I’m finished thinking anyone’ll ever hear these prayers.”

Kelly reconciled with his mother in 2021 and then posted a photo of the two together on Instagram in 2022 with the caption, “Introducing my mom.”

Bunnie XO isn’t the only member of the family spending quality time with Kelly lately. Her husband, Jelly Roll, and Kelly released new song “Lonely Road” on July 26, which they worked on for more than two years off and on. The song interpolates John Denver’s 1971 classic “Take Me Home, Country Roads.”

Bunnie XO’s podcast sees her interviewing celebrities from all walks of life, including clairvoyants like Tyler Henry, pro wrestlers such as Saraya, and burlesque queen Dita Von Teese. A future episode this season will feature her conversation with Elle King. 

The full podcast debuts Monday (Aug. 5) on all podcast providers, including Spotify and Apple Music. Watch the clip below.

Jelly Roll checked off an item on his bucket list after participating in this year’s WWE SummerSlam.

On Saturday (Aug. 3), the 39-year-old country star stepped into the wrestling ring at Cleveland Browns Stadium to deliver some major punishment during a heated match that found Miz and R-Truth battling Austin Theory and Grayson Waller.

Dressed in all black, Jelly teamed up with Miz and R-Truth and came armed with a folding chair that he furiously slammed onto his foes. The “Need a Favor” singer-rapper capped off the appearance by chokeslamming Theory, sending the stadium crowd into thunderous applause.

“Crazy- I lived a child hood dream tonight in the craziest way I’ve ever lived it. Wow. Man thank you @WWE for everything . What a night,” Jelly Roll wrote on X (formerly Twitter) after the event.

“Absolute madness- unreal – butter biscuit bombs baby,” he wrote in another post with footage of his ferocious moves.

Elsewhere during SummerSlam, Jelly Roll stepped into the ring with his band to perform the song “Liar,” which served as the official theme of the event.

WWE Chief Content Officer Paul “Triple H” Levesque teased in mid-July that Jelly might perform at the prestigious annual wrestling spectacle.

“Excited to have my friend Jelly Roll back with two official #SummerSlam theme songs: ‘Dead End Road’ off Twisters: The Album, and ‘Liar’ off his album coming this fall,” Levesque wrote on social media.

This isn’t the chart-topping country musician’s first interaction with WWE. The Nashville native has made several surprise appearances at WWE events in his hometown, most memorably in November 2023, during which he got involved in a match between wrestlers Randy Orton and Dominik Mysterio by pushing Mysterio and JD McDonagh after they confronted him outside the ring.

“I just felt like I was backing my boy,” Jelly said at the time.

It’s the latest addition to Jelly Roll’s ever-growing list of achievements, with the country superstar recently collaborating with Eminem on “Somebody Save Me,” which served as the closer on the rapper’s latest album, The Death of Slim Shady (Coup De Grâce).

See Jelly Roll’s SummerSlam posts on X and watch his “Liar” performance at the event on YouTube below.

Grupo Firme made La Última Peda Tour’s Austin concert especially unforgettable with surprise guest Demi Lovato, whom they welcomed on stage for the live debut of “Chula.”

Lovato joined Grupo Firme on stage Friday night (Aug. 2) at their arena show at the Texas capital’s Moody Center, arriving to cheers and screams from the crowd. The stars launched straight into their high-energy, flirtatious collaboration, a Spanish- and English-language bop.

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She traded lines with Firme’s Eduin Caz on the chorus, with the pair hyping the crowd as they danced together with club-level energy to the beat of their hot new song.

After a playful vocal back-and-forth, they ended their surprise “Chula” performance on Friday with a sweet hug.

The new track, with an official release date of Aug. 15, arrives as música mexicana continues to shine on the Latin music scene.

“Demi Lovato is an artist whom we’ve admired since we were kids,” Firme’s Eduin Caz told Billboard last month in an interview in Miami, where the conversation turned to the the group’s work with the pop star weeks before its premiere. “We would watch her on television.”

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Demi Lovato makes a surprise appearance at Grupo Firme’s concert at the Moody Center in Austin, Texas, on Aug. 2, 2024.

Of their collab “Chula,” he said, “Luckily the collaboration happened and the song is really good.”

“Mexican music has grown so much,” Jhonny Caz added. “Yes, some collaborations that you might have not imagined a few years ago with artists who want to make Mexican music are happening today. It shows that music breaks many barriers, many boundaries. I hope these collaborations will continue and see what the future holds.”

Watch fan-captured video clips of Grupo Firme and Demi Lovato’s first-ever “Chula” performance below.

A man at Morgan Wallen‘s concert at Kansas City’s Arrowhead Stadium was charged with a felony Friday night (Aug. 2) after threatening on social media to shoot “two individuals, who were members of the Kansas City Chiefs organization” and who were present at the event, according to the Jackson County Prosecutor’s Office in Missouri. Chiefs players Travis Kelce, Patrick Mahomes and Chris Jones were seen at Arrowhead with Wallen just before the country singer took the stage that night.

The statement, which referred to the felony as a “terroristic threat,” was released Saturday by Michael Mansur, director of communication, on behalf of Jackson County’s prosecutor, Jean Peters Baker.

Billboard reached out to representatives for Wallen and the Kansas City Chiefs for comment.

Court records indicate Aaron Brown of Winchester, Illinois, was charged with committing the class E Felony of making a terrorist threat in the second degree, reporting that “the defendant knowingly caused a false belief or fear that a condition involving danger to life existed by posting on X (formerly Twitter) that he was going to shoot [names redacted].”

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In court documents, the defendant was quoted as saying, “It was a stupid, stupid, stupid mistake.” He claimed he had never made threats in the past on social media and stated again that “it was stupid.” His girlfriend told investigators that the alleged threat was posted, and then deleted, on a “burner” account where he’d “tweet stupid stuff.”

“The defendant was charged earlier today and a $15,000 bond was set. Prosecutors requested a $250,000 cash bond,” according to the prosecutor’s office.

Wallen’s concert on Friday, the second night of his One Night at a Time Tour at Arrowhead Stadium, was delayed by 40 minutes while the defendant was located and apprehended by law enforcement.

The country singer eventually made his show entrance alongside the Chiefs’ Kelce, Mahomes and Jones, seen hyping up the audience in the video clip below. Wallen hugged all three before kicking off his set, and Kelce was later spotted singing along to One Thing at a Time‘s “Last Night” from his suite. (Taylor Swift, who’s linked to Kelce, was not in attendance; still on the European leg of The Eras Tour, she was performing in Warsaw, Poland, on Friday and Saturday.)

When Stray Kids released their single “MIROH” in March 2019, the then-one-year-old boy band commented to Billboard in an early listening session that they imagined the song’s explosive, anthemic energy could potentially help them get into festivals. More than five years after that release (and five No. 1 albums on the Billboard 200 chart), Stray Kids lived up to their festival promise and surpassed it in many ways.

With a headlining slot for Day 2 of Lollapalooza 2024, SKZ arrived in Chicago for the biggest festival performance of their career on Friday night (Aug. 2). This followed major appearances earlier this year at BST Hyde Park in London and I Days in Milan.

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Although the group just released ATE, currently their fifth consecutive chart-topper on the Billboard 200, the setlist celebrated their multiple releases since last hitting the U.S. for the Maniac World Tour throughout 2022-2023 with a few special throwback moments that illustrated how far the band has come. With a backing band supporting them as they did in London and Milan, SKZ songs like new single “Chk Chk Boom,” as well as fan favorites like “TOPLINE,” “Lonely St.” and “DOMINO,” all got a sonic upgrade — which noticeably pleased Stray Kids leader Bang Chan, who gave the instrumentalists multiple shoutouts through the night and told them, “Hopefully we get to work together again!” before the set closed.

But amid the heartfelt moments, including what appeared to be an impromptu, fan-dedicated track to close with, Stray Kids also used Lolla as the moment to show the true rock stars that they are on stage as yet another crowning achievement.

Here are the seven best moments from Stray Kids’ headlining Lollapalooza performance. 

Lollapalooza day one in Chicago was the place to see unforgettable performances. Megan Thee Stallion, Chappell Roan, Benson Boone, Kesha and loads more took to the stage to stun fans. Take a peak in this segment of ‘All Access!’

Tetris Kelly:

From Chappell Roan to Thee Stallion Lollapalooza day one in Chicago was the place to be. And we take you there in Billboard All Access. Lolla took over Chicago’s iconic Grant Park and the crowd was ready for a day of music and music’s favorite it girl, Chappell Roan, had them in the palm of her hand. From “HOT TO GO!” to “Good Luck Babe!” she gave hits and pyro. And the perfect transition was to then head to Kesha who had Lolla about to “Blow.” It was so hot she literally asked people to “Take It Off” we can’t think of a more beautiful thing than catching Benson Boone at sunset. And the city and Lollapalooza really lit up at night. The buildings even got involved. Stay safe Lolla for sure. The night’s headliner was Megan Thee Stallion, and though it started to rain she delivered a high energy set. Megan is a star. Thank you Lollapalooza