Selena Gomez Developing New Series Based on ‘Sixteen Candles’

Make a wish, because Selena Gomez is putting a Latinx spin on the John Hughes classic Sixteen Candles.

Together with collaborators Tanya Saracho and Gabriela Revilla Lugo, the pop star is developing a new half-hour sitcom titled 15 Candles, which will take a page from the 1984 coming-of-age movie starring Molly Ringwald.

According to Variety, the comedy series “will follow four young Latinas in high school, navigating feelings of invisibility while exploring what it means to leave childhood behind as quinceañera season approaches.” Gomez will serve as executive producer on the project, which is headed to NBC streamer Peacock, while Saracho and Lugo are both expected to write and executive produce.

The Latinx-inspired take on Sixteen Candles is hardly Gomez’s first foray into television production. From 2017 to 2020, the starlet executive produced the Netflix adaptation of 13 Reasons Why, and she’s currently pulling double duty as star and executive producer of Hulu’s Only Murders in the Building alongside Steve Martin and Martin Short. (For her role as Mabel Mora, Gomez also received a Critics’ Choice Awards nomination for best actress in a comedy series.

The budding beauty mogul also used her appearance at Sunday’s awards show to get glam using Rare Beauty, the popular cosmetics line she launched in September 2020.

During this awards season, Gomez also served as a presenter at the 2022 Screen Actors Guild Awards, wearing an elegant black velvet gown by Oscar de la Renta and Bulgari diamonds. She ditched her shoes, however, after taking a tumble on the red carpet ahead of the ceremony.

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Wisin & Yandel’s ‘Recordar’ Hits No. 1 on Latin Airplay Chart

Wisin & Yandel secure their 15th No. 1 on Billboard’s Latin Airplay chart as “Recordar” rallies 13-1 on the March 19-dated survey. It’s the second-biggest jump to lead the all-Latin genre tally in 2022 so far after another song where Wisin is also a collaborator: “Emojis de Corazones” (Wisin, Jhay Cortez, Ozuna, featuring Los Legendarios) rose 11-1 on the Jan. 8-dated list.

“Recordar” was released Dec. 2 via Sony Music Latin/WK. It leads with a 56% increase in audience impressions, to 8.8 million, earned in the U.S. in the week ending March 13, according to MRC Data. It’s the biggest gain of the week in terms of audience, a 31% improvement to be exact, ahead of Banda Los Sebastianes de Saul Plata’s “Modo Incógnito,” which lifts 41-24 with a 25% surge, the week’s second-greatest gain.

The track’s leading stations, by audience, for the week tallied up over 2 million in audience between them, both in New York: WSKQ (1.56 million impressions) and WXNY (643,000).

“Recordar” puts the duo back the upper reaches of Latin Airplay after over two years: “Si Supieras,” with Daddy Yankee, led for one week in Oct. 2019. In between, they’ve placed three other tracks including one top 10 (“Mala Costumbre,” with Manuel Turizo, No. 9-peaked in April 2021).

Of the 10 songs that hit No. 1 on Latin Airplay for the first time on the 2022-dated charts, six of them — including “Recordar” — jumped to No. 1 from outside the top five (with four of those coming from Sony Music Latin).

Rankings to No. 1, Song Title, Artist, Date Reached No. 1
13-1, “Recordar,” Wisin & Yandel, March 19 (Sony Music Latin/WK)
11-1, “Emojis de Corazones,” Wisin, Jhay Cortez & Ozuna Featuring Los Legendarios, Jan. 8 (La Base/Sony Music Latin)
9-1, “Mala,” Marc Anthony, March 12 (Sony Music Latin)
8-1, “Una Nota,” J Balvin & Sech, Jan. 1 (Suenos Globales/Universal Music Latino/UMLE)
7-1, “Cúrame,” Rauw Alejandro, March 5 (Duars/Sony Music Latin)
6-1, “Sejodioto,” Karol G, Feb. 12 (Universal Music Latino/UMLE)

While “Recordar” is the pair’s first entry in 2022, it’s Wisin’s third visit. As previously mentioned, he ruled with the one-week champ “Emojis de Corazones” in Jan. and debuts at No. 43 on the current list with “Buenos Días,” with Camilo.

Over on the all-metric Hot Latin Songs chart, thanks its airplay surge, the pair captures its highest debut since “Aullando,” with Romeo Santos arrived at No. 19 in March 2019. The tally blends airplay, streams, and digital sales.

“Recordar’s” win lands following Wisin & Yandel’s upcoming tour announcement: La Última Misión tour will see the duo one last time together on stage to commemorate their 19-year career and their forthcoming eponymous album.

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Billboard Explains: South By Southwest

The biggest stars in music joined with film and interactive media and the hottest city of the Lone Star State? It’s South By Southwest in Austin, Texas and every year it’s one of the biggest festivals around. But how did it begin? What goes down when all the industries collide? And what’s in store this year after a two-year in-person break? This is Billboard Explains: South By Southwest.

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John Mayer Likens His ‘Neon’ Guitar Skills to ‘The Kid in School Who Could Turn His Eyelids Inside Out’

John Mayer knows his guitar playing skills on “Neon” are impressive, but he didn’t think they would become a trend on TikTok.

During his first show at the Los Angeles Forum on Sunday (Mar. 13), before playing “Neon,” he shared that the song “is interesting to me because it’s one of my oldest songs, and I would have thought that time would just send it down the assembly line and the older songs go in the back and the newer songs go in the front.”

“But, suddenly, this song now feels like a TikTok trick shot video challenge song and I feel kind of bad about it, because I wrote this song when I was playing alone in bookstores and cafés and stuff and wanted to get people’s attention,” he continued. “It’s a little cynical in the sense that it’s like, a little bit of circus trick.”

The “TikTok trick shot video challenge” he’s referring to started back in March 2021, when Mayer uploaded a video to the platform sharing a “guitar tip” on how to play his 1999 hit. The tip was to move your thumb and index finger back and forth on the guitar strings, which is difficult for the normal hand. “U forgot to explain the step where u just dislocate your thumb,” one of the 15,000 comments reads.

“I need a tutorial for this tutorial,” another says. Fans went on to post point-of-view videos poking fun at Mayer’s brief “Neon” tutorial — while subtly flexing that they can play the song. 

@johnmayer

Guitar tip: Neon #guitar #guitarist #guitartok

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“I feel bad because I have thumbs like a mile long,” Mayer said at the LA Sob Rock tour stop. “You know, like, the kid in school who could turn his eyelids inside out? That’s sort of what this is. It’s this one freako thing that I can do.”

He went on to flawlessly play “Neon,” only as John Mayer and his mile-long thumbs can do. Watch the whole bit via a fan video below.

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K-Pop Label JYP Entertainment Doing ‘Full-Scale’ Expansion Into US

One of K-pop’s biggest record labels is firmly planting its foot into the U.S. market in the latest move to indicate South Korean pop music is increasingly creating significant stateside business.

JYP USA, the North American subsidiary of JYP Entertainment, will focus on the U.S. development of JYP’s roster, as part of a “full-scale North American market development and global expansion maximization” by the South Korean label, Billboard has learned.

JYP Entertainment, one of South Korea’s publicly traded agencies, was founded in the late 1990s by musician-producer J.Y. Park, who created early breakout stars like Wonder Girls, the first K-pop act to enter the Hot 100 chart in 2009.

The North American launch follows last month’s news that JYP’s strategic partnership with Republic Records would grow to include boy band Stray Kids and girl group iTZY, continuing from what started as an initial collaboration for TWICE in 2020.

And it comes after HYBE, the South Korean label that is home to chart-topping boy band BTS, put in motion a restructuring last July that created hubs in the U.S. (Los Angeles) and Japan. HYBE also is partnering with Universal Music Group’s Interscope Geffen A&M Records to create a joint record label and a “girl group audition challenge” in the U.S. with Universal.

JYP USA will be based in Los Angeles initially, with plans to expand to New York City.

In addition to boosting its established chart-toppers, the new entity will also lay a foundation in the U.S. for the agency’s newest artists Xdinary Heroes, the six-member rock band that debuted in December, and NMIXX, the seven-member girl group whose Feb. 22 debut with the single “O.O” has garnered nearly 50 million YouTube views.

JYP USA also says it will “discover and foster local U.S. artists” — in a similar way to what the Korean label has done in Japan with its girl group NiziU.

Jointly produced by JYP Entertainment and Sony Music Japan, NiziU emerged from a 2020 competition TV show that whittled down 26 hopefuls to the eventual nine-member lineup that has landed two No. 1s on the Billboard Japan Hot 100.

The North American initiative will serve as an “international bastion of K-pop,” enabling JYP’s artist roster “to gain a greater foothold in the U.S. market,” Republic Records’ founder and CEO Monte Lipman said in a statement.

JYP USA is JYP Entertainment’s latest foray into the U.S. market. During Wonder Girls’ initial U.S. advancements, the agency had a joint-management arrangement with the Jonas Group and a New York office location that housed the Wonder Girls. Since that time, TWICE joined Wonder Girls with a single on the Hot 100. TWICE and iTZY have also landed multiple entries on the Billboard 200, with Stray Kids looking to be the company’s next entry with their upcoming Oddinary EP out Friday.

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