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.

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.

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.”

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.

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.

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.”

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.

Radio stocks struggled this week as companies’ second-quarter earnings revealed additional revenue losses. 

SiriusXM shares fell 15.6% after the company’s second-quarter earnings on Thursday (Aug. 1) showed a loss of 173,000 satellite radio subscribers and 41,000 Pandora subscribers. Revenue fell 3% to $2.18 billion, although net profit improved 2% to $316 million. In the first quarter, SiriusXM lost 594,000 subscribers, although revenue improved 0.8% to $2.16 billion.

SiriusXM is trying to thread the needle as it expands its product line and gives consumers more options. The new $9.99-per-month streaming service is intended to appeal to a broader audience than potential satellite radio subscribers. At the same time, the company is introducing new pricing tiers for satellite radio, including a $9.99 music-only subscription that can expand to news, talk and sports for additional fees. The trick is not cannibalizing its core, higher-priced satellite offering. “The early results in our testing have been encouraging,” CEO Jennifer Witz said during Thursday’s earnings call. “It shows that we’re getting consumers into the right packages for them.”

Shares of radio broadcaster Cumulus Media fell 21% to $1.62 and dropped as far as $1.29 on Friday (Aug. 2) — a 52-week low — after the company’s second-quarter earnings showed that revenue fell 2.5% and net loss increased to $27.7 million from $1.1 million a year earlier. iHeartMedia, which doesn’t report earnings until Thursday (Aug. 8), appeared to be a casualty of Cumulus Media’s results as its shares fell 12.9% to $1.49. 

Collectively, radio companies have had the worst stock performance of all music companies this year. Year to date, Cumulus Media is down 69.5%, iHeartMedia has fallen 44.2% and SiriusXM is off 42.6%. Only JYP Entertainment, which has fallen 44.3% year to date, has suffered a similar drop.  

The Billboard Global Music Index (BGMI), a measure of the market capitalizations of 20 publicly traded music companies, fell 1.1% to 1,739.18. Even though 13 of the 20 stocks lost ground — five of them suffering double-digit declines — gains by some of the index’s most valuable companies nearly offset the losses. HYBE improved 5.3% to 180,800 won ($139.01). Spotify gained 2.8% to $331.02. And Universal Music Group (UMG) rose 0.5% to 21.44 euros ($23.41). 

Music stocks have had a case of the summer doldrums after soaring in the winter and spring. The BGMI has fallen for four consecutive weeks and stands 5.9% below its all-time high of 1,847.64 set on May 17. On Friday, the index reached its lowest point since April 19. 

Music companies’ losses were compounded by sharp declines in U.S. stock markets on Friday after news that the unemployment rate rose in July stoked fears the economy could enter a recession. The tech-heavy Nasdaq fell 3.4% this week and stood in “correction” territory, at 10.1% below its all-time high set on July 11. Amazon fell 8.0% after missing revenue expectations and providing investors with a disappointing forecast. Intel fell 31.5% after announcing broad layoffs, reporting a decline in quarterly revenue and issuing weak guidance. 

The S&P 500 dropped 2.1% to 5,346.56. In the United Kingdom, the FTSE 100 gained 2.3% to 8,474.71. South Korea’s KOSPI composite index dropped 2.0% to 2,676.19. China’s Shanghai Composite Index improved 0.5% to 2,905.34. 

The week’s greatest gainer was K-pop company JYP Entertainment, which rose 6% to 56,400 won ($41.53). JYP was added to the BGMI this week after Hipgnosis Songs Fund was removed from the London Stock Exchange once its acquisition by Blackstone was completed. Three other K-pop companies were among the week’s few gainers: HYBE improved 5.3%, YG Entertainment rose 2.1% and and SM Entertainment increased 1.0%. 

Reservoir Media dropped 14.4% to $7.37 after releasing its quarterly earnings on Wednesday (July 31). Tencent Music Entertainment, which will report earnings on Aug. 13, fell 10.5% to $12.62. Warner Music Group (WMG) fell 5.3% to $28.26. In the wake of UMG’s latest earnings results, which showed a slowdown in subscription revenue, J.P. Morgan dropped its price target on shares of WMG — which will report earnings on Aug. 7 — to $41.00 from $42.00.