Bizarrap and Shakira team up atop the Billboard Argentina Hot 100 chart as “Bzrp Music Sessions, Vol. 53” ascends from No. 6 to lead the Jan. 21 dated ranking. It’s a third No. 1 for Shakira, while Bizarrap captures his eighth. All champs, except for his featured role in Trueno and Nicki Nicole’s “Mamichula,” which also features Taui and Tatool, derive from his music sessions.

Steve Aoki secures his first top 10 thanks to “Muñecas,” with Tini and La Joaqui, which takes the Hot Shot Debut of the week, arriving at No. 5. The collaboration grants La Joaqui her third top 10. Tini, meanwhile clocks her 14th top 10 which places her into tie with Bad Bunny and Bizarrap for the second-most top 10s since the chart launched in 2018.

Miley Cyrus claims her highest ranking with latest single “Flowers,” at No. 11. Previously she scored a No. 40 high with “Midnight Sky” in 2020.

Elsewhere, Yandel earns his fourth chart appearance as “Yandel 150” bows at No. 45. The song is the fourth single from his album La Resistencia which debuts at No. 11 on the current Billboard Latin Rhythm Albums chart (dated Jan. 28). Plus, Argentinian Lauty Gram notches his first chart entry with “Vida Gangster” at No. 53.

This week’s Greatest Gainer honors goes to Pepper and Axel Caram’s “Sesión – 6,” which climbs 35 slots, 96-61. Plus, Maria Becerra scores her 36th chart entry, the fifth-most among all acts, as “Desafiando El Destino” starts at No. 67.

Further, seven more songs debut this week: Chano and Luckra’s “Nunca Nos Fuimos” opens at No. 74, Tiago Pzk’s “Bemasté” at No. 84, LIT Killah’s “Neón” at No. 85, Gusty Dj, La Joaqui and L-Gante’s “Ęy Pa La Guacha Loca? (Con Salastkbron) – Remix” at No. 86, Rema and Selena Gomez’s “Calm Down” at No. 91, La K’Onga and Matías Valdez’s “Latidos” at No. 94, and Feid’s “Feliz Cumpleanos Ferxxo” at No. 98.

Michael B. Jordan is taking over Saturday Night Live for his hosting debut this weekend (Jan. 28), with Lil Baby taking the stage as musical guest.

However, in a new promo for the episode, SNL favorite Heidi Gardner was a bit confused when the Black Panther actor introduced the rapper. “What? No way! Where? I love little babies,” Gardner shouted, before Lil Baby cleared up the misinterpretation.

“You see how that could be confusing?” the comedian asks the rapper in response.

In another cut, Gardner asks Jordan to be her Valentine, as the holiday of love is coming up in a few weeks. When the SAG Award winner took too long to make his decision, Lil Baby quickly offered to be the SNL cast member’s valentine. “You snooze, you lose,” Gardner tells Jordan.

Saturday Night Live airs every Saturday live on NBC at 11:30 p.m. ET/8:30 p.m. PT. For those without cable, the broadcast will also stream on NBC’s streaming service, Peacock, which you can sign up for at the link here. Having a Peacock account also gives fans on demand access to previous SNL episodes as well.

Watch the new series of promos below.

DJ Khaled is ready to become America’s next top model. The producer dished on his role as a Savage X Fenty brand ambassador and model in a new interview on Thursday (Jan. 26).

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“I’ve been trying to tell the world I wear a lot of hats. You see me in that robe,” he told BET of modeling for the brand’s Valentine’s Day campaign. “I’ve got a modeling career ahead of me, you know.”

Khaled continued: “I want to thank Rihanna and Savage X Fenty for letting me be part of this campaign. Rihanna is a visionary, and for her to give me the opportunity to wear the clothes, it was so dope and organic. I love that she lets me be myself. I promote to the world to always be yourself. She inspires me.”

The Savage X Fenty Valentine’s Day drop, which Rihanna modeled herself in a series of steamy uploads to social media earlier this month, isn’t the only collection the superstar has released lately. She’s also unveiled her limited edition Game Day line in anticipation of her halftime show at Super Bowl LVII next month, and just this week added a Fenty x Mitchell & Ness collab as well.

Meanwhile, DJ Khaled is still riding high off the success of his 2022 album God Did, which not only debuted as his fourth No. 1 album but also contained top five hit “Staying Alive” featuring Drake and Lil Baby as well as follow-up single “Big Time” featuring Future and Lil Baby.

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Wireless Festival announced its 2023 lineup Wednesday (Jan. 25), featuring headliners Travis Scott, Playboi Carti and D-Block Europe.

The three-day festival will be held at London’s Finsbury Park from July 7-9, 2023. The London summer festival will also feature emerging and established R&B and hip-hop acts such as Lil Uzi Vert, Metro Boomin, Latto, Ice Spice, Headie One, Bryson Tiller, Joey Bada$$, FLO, Mariah the Scientist, Lil Durk, Lil Tjay, Popcaan, Glorilla and many more, as not every name on the lineup has been revealed.

50 Cent is listed as the special guest, while DJ Target, Kenny Allstar, Nadia Jae, Remi Burgz, Seani B and Tiffany Calver are the festivities’ hosts.

Scott made his way across the pond in August 2022 for his first headlining performance since his 2021 Astroworld Festival tragedy that left 10 people dead. He sold out both shows at London’s O2 arena and, shortly after, teased his upcoming studio album Utopia on social media. Carti is also expected to release an album this year, tentatively titled Music.

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Three+ U.K. mobile customers began having access to a limited pre-sale on Wednesday morning for 48 hours. Barclaycard customers can also access a limited pre-sale and receive 10% off tickets until Friday at 8:59 a.m. Tickets will go on sale for the general public here on Friday at 10 a.m.

Check out the 2023 Wireless Festival lineup, as well as the official lineup promo video, below.

Austin Butler caught some heat from fans earlier this month when he referred to his ex-girlfriend Vanessa Hudgens as an unnamed “friend” when discussing how he landed the role of Elvis Presley in the 2022 Baz Luhrmann biopic for The Hollywood Reporter‘s Actor’s Roundtable.

However, in a new interview with The Los Angeles Times, Butler cleared up that the friend was in fact Hudgens, whom he dated for nearly a decade before the duo split in 2020. “I was with my partner at the time,” he told the reporter, who recalled Butler’s story, in which he was in the car when his “friend” heard him singing along to an Elvis song and encouraged him to seek out the role of the King of Rock and Roll.

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“The month before I heard that Baz was making the movie, I was going to look at Christmas lights with a friend, and there was an Elvis Christmas song on the radio and I was singing along, and my friend looked over at me and goes, ‘You’ve got to play Elvis.’ I said, ‘Oh, that’s such a long shot,’” Butler said during the THR interview, without mentioning Hudgens by name. Fans pieced together that the High School Musical star was the subject of the story, as she told a nearly identical anecdote back on a 2019 episode of Live with Kelly and Ryan

When the LA Times reporter followed up, asking if the person in the car was Hudgens, Butler agreed. “We’d been together for so long and she had this sort of clairvoyant moment and so I really, I owe her a lot for believing in me,” he shared.

Bad Bunny has reached a tentative settlement in a lawsuit that accused the Puerto Rican superstar and his collaborators of “unauthorized incorporation” of three DJ Playero songs into his 2020 track “Safaera,” according to legal documents obtained by Billboard.

The “settlement in principle” was reached Jan. 17 after both parties — in this case, Bunny and the Florida-based company AOM Music — participated in a mediation. After notice of the settlement was filed with the court, a federal judge in California suspended future hearings in the case.

The court document notes that the process will “take some time since the settlement is complex and will require the review and approval of multiple corporate and individual parties.” The parties are required to submit a joint report on the status of the settlement if a dismissal of the case hasn’t been filed by Feb. 17.

Filed by AOM Music, also known as BM Records, on Sept. 27, 2021, the lawsuit claimed that Bad Bunny “stole” samples from reggaeton pioneer DJ Playero’s “Besa Tu Cuerpo,” “Chocha Con Bicho” and “Sigan Bailando” for “Safaera,” a global hit that was included on the superstar’s history-making album YHLQMDLG. “No license or authorization was obtained,” the suit alleged.

After the complaint was filed, DJ Playero took to Instagram with a statement clarifying he knew nothing of the lawsuit and had nothing but respect for all the artists involved. “I am proud that I was part of opening the doors to these artists who are known worldwide today,” he wrote, “a song that sounds on the radio and in the world with part of a track of mine is a beautiful feeling that no one can imagine.”

Produced by Tainy, DJ Orma and Subelo Neo, the nearly five-minute “Safaera” — which features Jowell & Randy and Ñengo Flow — is a mashup of old school perreo and reggaetón beats and samples and interpolates various classic hits, including the signature six-note hook to Missy Elliott’s “Get Ur Freak On.”

When it was released in early 2020, “Safaera” was temporarily pulled from Spotify due to a claim that a fragment of the song had not cleared the corresponding rights. In a back-and-forth last year, rapper Missy Elliott weighed in on Twitter after successfully getting her royalties for the song.

Elliott’s response came after Jowell (of Jowell & Randy) claimed his royalties had dropped to 1% after the rapper was properly compensated. “Sadly you mislead all these people to make them think I have 99%,” Elliott wrote at the time. “Now I don’t talk business on line because that’s messy but now we are here I have 25% and there is 6 other samples & 15 other writers on this one song.”

Read the full settlement notice below: