Olivia Rodrigo is once again making it clear where she stands when it comes to ICE as it carries out mass deportations and aggressive raids under the Donald Trump administration.
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In her Dazedcover story published Thursday (June 4), the pop star began by saying she thinks “part of being an artist is sharing how you feel with other people,” which she believes should include political beliefs. “I don’t have a political science degree. I’m not the most educated person on planet Earth, but I like to try and stay up to date on things and share how I feel,” she said.
Rodrigo went on to recall what she was doing when she first discovered that the Department of Homeland Security had used one of her songs — “All-American Bitch” — to soundtrack a video glorifying ICE on social media last year. “I was just scrolling on my phone,” she told the publication. “It was so deeply disturbing to see that propaganda, and the fact it was my song in there made me feel even more enraged.”
The moment led to one of her most outspoken moments, with the singer commenting on the DHS video in November, “don’t ever use my songs to promote your racist, hateful propaganda.”
A few months later, the department would respond in a statement to Billboard: “We suggest Ms. Rodrigo thank them for their service, not belittle their sacrifice.”
But Rodrigo is holding her ground. “What they’re doing is so awful and barbaric and cruel,” she told Dazed. “I am really sad to be in a country that thinks that’s OK.”
In a response to her most recent remarks, a DHS spokesperson told Billboard, “America is grateful all the time for our federal law enforcement officers who keep us safe. We suggest Ms. Rodrigo thank them for their service, not belittle their sacrifice.”
The interview comes a little more than a week ahead of the Grammy winner’s third studio album, You Seem Pretty Sad for a Girl So in Love, arriving June 12. Its first two singles, “Drop Dead” and “The Cure,” debuted at No. 1 and No. 5 on the Billboard Hot 100.
See Rodrigo on the cover of Dazed and photos from the shoot below.
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Doja Cat really misses sending out Voice Notes on X. Since the feature for public audio posts has been removed, Doja put X Corp. owner Elon Musk on blast with a pair of X posts on Wednesday night (June 3), requesting that Voice Notes be restored.
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“hey elon if u see this please put the audio post feature back on here,” she wrote before going on to eviscerate and clown the billionaire tech mogul who owns the social media platform. “Thanks, u frog build looking b—h. Barrel chested ewok u look like u eat sand.”
That wasn’t all, either, as Doja turned things up a few notches after being called out by a fan for not mentioning Musk’s X account in her original post. It seems Doja took that as a challenge, going on to shred Musk by making some interesting comparisons.
“@elonmusk put the audio post feature back on this app. Thanks, you hairless no-neck havin, chimpanzee,” she said in her second post, which she pinned to the top of her feed. “Face look like it was drawn from memory. When u swim on ur back at the beach s–t look like a man o’ war. Hourglass ankles. Not tryna be mean though sorry.”
Elon has yet to respond to Doja Cat’s request or insults. Billboard has reached out to xAI, Musk’s company that owns X, for comment.
Voice Notes vanished in early 2025 and haven’t come back since. However, sending audio messages privately is still an option.
Doja Cat isn’t the only superstar artist to go after the Tesla CEO. Billie Eilish slammed Musk in November for not putting more of his money toward humanitarian relief efforts, labeling Musk a “f–king pathetic p—y b—h coward” in an Instagram Story post. And in January, Robyn shared her distaste for the tech mogul, saying on the Las Culturistas podcast, “I always hated him, way before it was cool to hate him.”
The “Kiss Me More” artist is currently on the European leg of her Tour Ma Vie World Tour, which hits Barcelona on Thursday (June 4) before making stops in Paris, Berlin, Amsterdam and more international spots.
The global trek comes in support of Doja Cat’s Vie album, which debuted at No. 4 on the Billboard 200 after being released in September 2025.
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When West Tennessee musician Phillip Lemmings discovered in 2005 that his wife was pregnant, he faced a crossroads.
He played guitar and mandolin in a five-piece country band, Forty5south, that had released two albums. But with his daughter, Lakelin, due to arrive in May 2006, it meant the family would have two kids under the age of three. Staying out on the road with a job that was an economic drag no longer made sense, so he quit the band, and Forty5south broke up.
Phillip remained friends with the group’s lead vocalist, Ash Bowers, who became a successful songwriter-producer (Matt Stell, George Birge). As Lakelin hit her teen years, she demonstrated real talents as a songwriter and singer, and Phillip lobbied Bowers periodically about her potential. When she reached age 17, Bowers started pulling her into writing sessions and crafting songs that fit her voice and story. With “Get Around Boy” — her first single released to radio — Lakelin, now 20, picks up professionally where her dad left off.
“It’s a real full-circle thing,” she says matter-of-factly.
The Lemmings home-schooled their children, which allowed Lakelin to see much of America in an RV.
“We were able to enjoy our childhood and travel and do all the things,” she says. “I was really thankful.”
Her songwriting efforts required travel, too. She continued to live in Henderson, Tenn., and routinely drove 135 miles for co-writing appointments with Bowers in Nashville. Mike Mobley (“Billy’s Got His Beer Goggles On,” “Easy”) became one of their collaborators, and when the three of them explored her story, she mentioned breaking up with a guy back home to devote her attention to her career.
“You see a little tear in her eye,” Mobley says, “just enough there to go, ‘Yeah, she’s still caught up on the boy.”
That comment didn’t become a song that day, but before their next appointment — June 6, 2024, at Bowers’ Wide Open Music in Nashville — Mobley spent more time connecting the dots between her travel and the sacrifice of relationships that often accompanies a touring lifestyle. He came back to their next writing session with an idea.
“I just started picturing her driving across the country, chasing her brand-new life, and meanwhile, [the memory of] this first love from back home riding shotgun the whole time,” Mobley says. “He’s still getting around because he’s going with her emotionally.”
That turned into a title, “Get Around Boy,” and he brought an opening line for the chorus, about a “beach out in California,” plus a semblance of a chorus melody to that next writing session. They turned it into an audio travelogue, and began listing places at least one of them had visited. She had traveled to 30 states, so it was easy finding locations she knew firsthand. In fact, the only one they incorporated in the song that she hasn’t experienced is Sedona, included because it rhymes loosely with California.
They took some liberties with her real-life story, projecting in the verses that the relationship had been expected to lead to marriage, and that she anticipated he’d be waiting. By the final verse, she discovers he is, in fact, marrying someone else, guaranteeing he remains in her rearview. And yet, the bridge emphasized, his memory was “still so close.”
“By the time we got to that bridge,” Mobley says, “I realized the whole song was just this push and this pull between chasing a life she wants and missing the life she had.”
To personalize it further, they inserted a couple West Tennessee references into the final chorus. They dropped in a Beale Street lyric and namechecked “Walking in Memphis.” They also indicated his memory’s travels were “not too bad for a plowboy.” That’s a subtle nod to the late Eddy Arnold, who was born in Henderson and was nicknamed “The Tennessee Plowboy.”
“In our downtown area, there’s a big sign and stuff, and a description of him and what he did,” she says. “So he’s still alive and well here in Henderson.”
They recorded a guitar-and-vocal work tape, with Mobley playing six-string. He added an intro riff on the fly, based on the chorus melody, and Bowers later overdubbed a programmed kick drum. It was one of the songs that helped her secure her Quartz Hill recording deal the following spring.
Lakelin didn’t record it initially for the label, but when the company held showcases at Eric Church’s club, Chief’s, last year during Nashville’s CMA Fest, she worked up the song with her band.
“Everybody inside the label over the next week or so mentioned that ‘Get Around Boy’ sounded like a hit,” Bowers says.
They recorded it at Nashville’s Sound Stage, owned by Black River, which represents Kelsea Ballerini, who made a surprise appearance. She wandered in unexpectedly that day with then-boyfriend Chase Stokes on a sort of mini-tour for a small group. Ballerini gave Lemmings props for a sparkly pair of boots Lakelin had chosen to give her a bit of an uplift that day.
“A little sparkle,” Lemmings says, “is never bad.”
The studio band understood the vibe from the work tape and settled into a framework that gave “Get Around Boy” a hopeful mood without calling attention to itself. The instrumental intro riff was replayed on electric guitar, instead of acoustic, and Sol Philcox-Littlefield crafted a solo that took a trip in just a few bars.
“Sol is so good,” Bowers says. “Every time I’ve ever been in the studio with him, he’ll give me a handful of options, and it’s really hard to pick which one. But we did have a conversation [that] this works because it does feel like a bit of a journey.”
Lemmings recorded her final lead part at the Couch Room, a Music Row studio owned by Eric Torres, who sang background vocals. The song had been shaped specifically for her, so it posed little trouble, outside its ambitious chorus.
“It’s a pretty big chorus, but it’s also very strategic,” she says. “It moves around a lot — the melody goes up and down — so getting that right and really nailing the pocket on those [melodic hills] was a little challenging.”
The writers hadn’t recognized that the travelogue motif and midtempo pace made “Get Around Boy” similar to the Tim McGraw song “Everywhere,” though several programmers made the comparison on her radio tour. They also said it was her best bet as a single, and Quartz Hill founder Benny Brown agreed.
“Obviously, he’s had plenty of hits,” Lemmings says. “He knows.”
“Get Around Boy” was shipped to country radio via PlayMPE on April 13. Promoting it has given Lakelin the opportunity to get around herself, using some of the same roads her father traveled during his time in Forty5south. And she carries his story everywhere she goes, doing the same sort of work that he dropped when she arrived.
“I crushed his dreams,” she says. “Now we’re chasing mine together.”
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Its persistence rewarded after more than two decades of appearances on Billboard’s Mainstream Rock Airplay chart, Black Label Society has its first top 10 — and it’s a record breaker.
The Zakk Wylde-led band rises to No. 9 on the June 6-dated survey with “Name in Blood.”
Black Label Society first hit Mainstream Rock Airplay with “Stillborn,” which peaked at No. 12 in 2003. Prior to “Name in Blood,” “Stillborn” stood as the band’s top-peaking song on the chart; the group has 14 career entries, including three top 20s.
The band’s wait of 23 years, one month and three weeks between its first appearance and first top 10 is the lengthiest for any act in the chart’s 45-year history. It passes the anticipation felt by Killswitch Engage, which went 20 years, eight months and two weeks between “The End of Heartache” in 2004 and maiden top 10 “Believe” last year.
While Black Label Society notches its first top 10 on the tally, frontman Wylde previously reached the region as featured on My Darkest Days’ “Porn Star Dancing” (No. 1 for two weeks in 2010). His guitar playing has appeared in the top 10 via his role as lead guitarist for Ozzy Osbourne from the late legend’s 1988 album No Rest for the Wicked through 2022’s Patient Number 9.
Black Label Society had one previous top 10 on a Billboard airplay chart: “Stillborn” peaked at No. 3 on the since-discontinued Heritage Rock Airplay in 2003.
Concurrently, “Name in Blood” rises 37-31 on the all-rock-format, audience-based Rock & Alternative Airplay chart with 1.2 million audience impressions in the week ending May 28, according to Luminate.
The song is the lead single from Engines of Demolition, Black Label Society’s 12th studio album. The set bowed at No. 1 on the Top Hard Rock Albums chart dated April 11 and has earned 51,000 equivalent album units to date.
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Louis Carr, president of BET, is the Living Legends Foundation Inc.’s (LLF) 2026 Ray Harris Lifetime Achievement Award honoree. The presentation will be made during the organization’s 35th anniversary awards dinner and gala on Oct. 2 at Flourish by Legendary in Atlanta. The Grammy Award-winning songwriting/production duo and Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inductees Jimmy Jam & Terry Lewis were the 2025 lifetime achievement honorees.
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LLF chairman David C. Linton commented in a statement, “For 35 years, the Living Legends Foundation has honored and supported those who bring Black music to the world while investing in the industry’s future through scholarships. We look forward to returning to Atlanta to honor an extraordinary group of professionals who continue to make Black music the envy of the world.”
In addition to paying tribute to Carr, LLF will present the following awards:
A.D. Washington Chairman’s Award — Black Promoters Collective (Shelby Joyner, Gary Guidry, Troy Brown, William “Bill” Ingram, Sulaiman Mausi, Shahida Mausi, Lionel Bea, Janice Cotton, Walt Reeder Jr.)
Jerry Boulding Radio Executive Award — Kenny Smoov, vp of urban programming, Cumulus
Frankie Crocker Radio Personality Award — Greg Street, air personality, WVEE (V-103) in Atlanta
Impact Player Award — Juliette Jones, COO, Alamo Records
Music Executive Award — Tim Reid, senior vp, repertoire & marketing, BMG Recorded Music
Mike Bernardo Female Executive Award — Phylicia Fant, global head of music industry & culture collaborations, Amazon Music
Kendall Minter Entertainment Advocate Award — James McMillan, Esq., CEO, ART@WAR Entertainment
Hip-Hop Visionary Award — Ted Lucas, founder/CEO, Slip-N-Slide Records
Entrepreneur Award — Ralph McDaniels, executive producer, Video Music Box
For more information about the upcoming LLF dinner and gala, visit HERE or purchase tickets HERE.
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Something — actually some things — are definitely happening for Peter Frampton right now, with the British-born rocker’s present and past colliding via a couple of new projects.
On May 15, Frampton released Carry The Light, his 19th studio album as a solo artist and first of all-new songs in 16 years. And this week he’s premiering the new documentary Frampton, directed by longtime band member Rob Arthur, with a special screening on Thursday (June 4) at the Tribeca Festival in New York.
And all of this comes just a few months after celebrating the 50th anniversaryof Frampton Comes Alive!, the iconic concert set that topped the Billboard 200 for 10 weeks, spawned two top 10 hits on the Billboard Hot 100 and made him the Taylor Swift of his day back in 1976.
“Yeah, it all comes to roost at the same time,” Frampton, 76, sporting a denim shirt over a Tom Petty tee, tells Billboard via Zoom from Bigsby Park, his home studio at his residence in Nashville. (Bigsby, the namesake dog, stretches out on a white sofa nearby during the conversation.)
“Celebrating (Frampton Comes Alive!) was very exiting — but daunting that it’s 50 years since that thing! And then (Carry The Light) and the documentary were sort of like this,” he adds, waving his arms to indicate their parallel paths, “and then all of a sudden they aligned. We didn’t plan it; it just luckily happened that way. We were going to release the album a month earlier, but then Tribeca contacted us… so we put it back so the album would come out and two weeks later it’s Tribeca, and then we could talk about both rather than talk about one thing or the other.”
Rest assured there’s a lot to talk about in both cases.
Showing The Way
The Frampton documentary was Arthur’s brainchild, broached after Frampton began privately revealing the degenerative Inclusion Body Myositis (IBM) diagnosis that’s slowly limiting his mobility and forced him to adjust his playing style — although anybody who’s seen him live since 2019 would be hard-pressed to notice. But the prospect of Frampton stopping at some point — “I thought, ‘This is the greatest gig on the planet. What am I gonna do when Peter’s done?’,” Arthur recalls — inspired him to learn film craft and, in turn, pitch the idea of a documentary.
It began as chronicle of Frampton’s Finale — The Farewell Tour in 2019. “Peter said, ‘Why don’t you just film all the concerts?’” Arthur says with a laugh. “I’m like, OK — you do know I’m on stage? I’m the keyboard player, right?” Nevertheless, he employed three cameras to capture the onstage action and, since the gear was on the road, also filmed behind the scenes and began interviewing Frampton.
“I’m like, ‘Wow, OK, this isn’t just a concert documentary. This is a story,’” says Arthur. Frampton’s management supported the idea, and while the Covid pandemic slowed down progress, it also gave Arthur — who started the Phenix Features film company with Frampton during the pause — time to hunker down and organize the endeavor. “Luckily I was around Peter a lot,” he says. “The chemistry between the two of us… we’re friends. He liked the way he looked with me in the room, without other strangers. It’s more of a conversation. The basis of the movie is my take on him as a friend, and of course I know his legacy very well.”
Because of that relationship, Frampton adds that he was able to focus on Carry The Light, with his son Julian Frampton co-producing, while Arthur worked on the film. “I trust Rob implicitly,” he says. “I had a lot to do with it. I know everything that’s in there. But we were working on two projects at once, and I mainly concentrated on the album and wasn’t involved day to day (with Frampton). I kept seeing it every now and again, and I love the way he told the story.”
Arthur says his ultimate goal was “to tell a career retrospective” and a life story, dating back to Frampton’s upbringing in Kent, England, where his mother, whose own acting ambitions were quashed by her own mother, encouraged his artistic pursuits. Frampton even takes Frampton and his brother Clive back to Bromley Technical High School, where their father was head of the art department and where a young Frampton played guitar with upper classman David Jones (nee Bowie) and formed bands such as the Little Ravens, the Trubeats, the Preachers and Moon Train — the latter of which was managed and produced by Rolling Stones bassist Bill Wyman.
Arthur filmed Frampton playing Buddy Holly’s “Peggy Sue” on the steps at Bromley — “I almost choked up there; one of the camera girls was crying,” he remembers — as well as at Abbey Road studios, where Frampton recalls being part of George Harrison’s All Things Must Pass album. Others appearing in the film include: Wyman; the Who’s Roger Daltrey, who inducted Frampton into the Rock And Roll Hall of Fame in 2024; Ringo Starr; Herb Alpert, who signed Humble Pie and then Frampton to A&M Records during the early ’70s; Alice Cooper, one of Frampton’s co-stars in the ill-fated Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band film; Andrew Brown from Frampton’s pre-Humble Pie band the Herd; Humble Pie’s Jerry Shirley; Sheryl Crow; Heart’s Nancy Wilson; Tom Morello; Styx’s Tommy Shaw; Kate Hudson; Joe Bonamassa and others. Frampton’s first wife, Mary Lindes, provides insights. “We’ll always be lifelong friends,” he notes, as do Frampton’s three children.
There And Back Again
Frampton provided hours of Super 8 footage he shot during the ’70s, including from while he was in the hospital following a near-fatal June 1978 car crash in the Bahamas. He also gave Arthur license to explore the darker aspects of his career, including substance abuse issues and his well-chronicled fall from popularity after Frampton Comes Alive! — even having to ask Atlantic Records chief Ahmet Ertegun for a loan at one point. Frampton also entertained an inquiry from Pete Townshend about replacing him, on stage at least, in the Who.
“Nobody likes talking about failure, but that’s a big part of it,” acknowledges Frampton, who was equally candid in 2020’s Do You Feel Like I Do?: A Memoir. “I wanted people to see it’s not all glamor, I wanted to show the story all the way through — the good, the bad and the ugly. It was me baring my soul, just like I did in the book, really — it’s the same story, but different details, so it was very important to say I failed, even though (failure) doesn’t sit well with me, being a positive man in many ways.”
Arthur, meanwhile, contends that Frampton is ultimately a triumphant tale.
“One thing I have to give (Frampton) total credit for was he was very transparent. He said, ‘Put it all in there!`” Arthur says. “I said, ‘Are you sure?` I got him to talk about stuff that he’s never talked about, and I said, ‘I’m gonna use this.’ (Frampton) said, ‘I know, I know. It’s OK.’ And it turns out his life did follow this beautiful arc; he was the biggest thing in the world, and three years later he was done and the world left him. So then it’s perseverance and a triumphant last third act.
“(Frampton) just wrote me last week, ’cause he watched it again, and he said, ‘Rob, I just love this doc. It’s painful to watch at times, but I love it.’ There’s my payday right there. That’s it — success! The fact he gives me a thumbs-up is giant.”
Julian Frampton was equally moved. “It’s a phenomenal story,” he says. “A lot of people will learn some things they didn’t know about his career and his family life. I never saw a lot of that footage before; it was like a time machine, watching a 24-year-old version of your dad on the beach and stuff like that, with all that hair. It’s a great thing.”
Frampton and Arthur are hoping the Tribeca audience will feel the same way — and they’re already looking ahead to Frampton‘s life beyond the festival. “We’re looking to find a streaming home, (but) we don’t know who that’s gonna be yet,” Arthur says. “We’re gonna have to see where it leads us after Tribeca. I’ve gotten some amazing feedback from great directors who have seen it, which makes me happy. So I think we’ve got something that’s super marketable and really entertaining.”
Carrying The Light
Carry The Light, meanwhile, kept Frampton plenty busy while Arthur was putting Frampton together. The Framptons recorded the 10-track set mostly in Nashville, at Frampton’s Studio Phenix and Bigsby Park and other locations, with a rhythm section of bassist Glenn Worf and drummer Chad Cromwell. Guests include Morello on the raging “Lions at the Gate,” Crow (“Breaking the Mold”), H.E.R. on the instrumental “Islamorada” and saxophonist Bill Evans on “Can You Take Me There” and “Tinderbox.”
Graham Nash features on “I’m Sorry Elle,” inspired by Frampton’s wait to meet his granddaughter born during the height of Covid, while Benmont Tench from Tom Petty’s Heartbreakers plays keyboards on “Buried Treasure,” which takes its title from the late Petty’s SiriusXM show that Frampton enjoyed.
Frampton says the IBM diagnosis pushed him “to play as much as possible, while I still can,” which led to two covers sets — All Blues in 2019 and the instrumental Frampton Forgets the Words during 2021. But he’s been long eyeballing another set of his own compositions to follow 2010’s Thank You, Mr. Churchill. “All of the songs are either brand new or they’re within the last six years of being written,” he says, noting that he came up with the riff for the topical “Lions at the Gate” about six years ago, during a session recording “Peggy Sue” for a Buddy Holly tribute project.
The title track, meanwhile, incorporates a Shawnee stomp dance, courtesy of guitar tech Nick Gibson and his tribal family in Oklahoma, and the idea of elders passing wisdom on provided a tentpole theme for the song and the album. “The thing that upsets me right now is that we will never learn from the past,” Frampton explains. “My father and many others from the Second World War would be turning in their graves right now; they fought to get rid of (fascism) and enhance the Constitution of America and hopefully straighten out Europe a little bit — which they did. So it really angers me that we have what we have now.”
With Carry The Light Out, Frampton is already working on a next album. “There’s six tracks waiting in the wings,” Frampton says, “and I’ve already got four embryonic ideas ready for me and Julian to sit down and do the same thing again, which is exciting ’cause I get to spend more time with him.” The IBM is preventing Frampton from making tour plans at the moment, however. “It’s obviously getting more and more difficult to play,” he acknowledges, but that doesn’t diminish his determination to keep trying.
“Somebody said something like ‘he’s not just a classic rocker anymore, and if there’s ever something I would love to hear, that would be it, that I’m current,” Frampton says. “I do feel that way, because I do feel like it’s an incredible album. I don’t usually use superlatives for my own stuff, but I knew this album is good. I knew Frampton Comes Alive! was good. I knew (1972’s) Wind of Change was great. I knew (Humble Pie’s) Rockin’ the Fillmore was fantastic. (Carry The Light) is the best of the best we had. We never settled for anything less than the best we could do, and it think you can hear it.”
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Ozuna presents his new single, “Mi Yo De Antes,” premiering exclusively on Billboard Thursday (June 4).
On the three-minute track — produced and written alongside El Creador Henry, J Melodiez, Hi Flow and Tivi Gunz — the Puerto Rican artist explores the aftermath of a breakup from a man’s perspective.
“My heart answers/ that it no longer wants to love you/ I erased my former self/ I was too much for you/ that is why you are not here,” he chants on the song that’s overall about a woman who failed him and she’s not happy while he’s moved on.
Sonically, the single opens with soulful electric guitar riffs and quickly transitions into a full-fledged reggaetón song powered by hard-hitting drums. And the real showstopper? Ozuna’s melodious voice.
“’Mi Yo De Antes’ has a lot of emotion and truth behind it,” the artist said in a press statement. “It speaks about how love and life experiences can change who you are, how you can drift away from yourself, and later look back trying to understand when you stopped being that person.”
The music video — filmed in Puerto Rico by Ricardo Rivera (“Fue Ricky”) and featuring Cuban-American model Mia Dio — backs the song’s sentiment by demonstrating the emotional highs and lows of a modern-day relationship.
“Mi Yo De Antes” comes on the heels of Ozuna’s “Una Aventura,” released in March.
In April, Ozuna earned his 37th No. 1 on Latin Airplay with “Enemigos,” his collaboration with Beéle and Ovy on the Drums. The feat places Ozuna as the second all-time among artists since the tally began in 1994, just behind J Balvin with 40 No. 1s.
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The fifth month of 2026 was mostly about one artist: Drake. The embattled rap superstar returned not just with his highly anticipated Iceman album, but two additional albums in Maid of Honour and Habibti, taking the top three spots on the Billboard 200, swarming the Billboard Hot 100 in unprecedented fashion, and generally dominating discourse and discussion like no other artist so far this year. The Drake eclipse largely overshadowed the rest of the month in pop stardom — but plenty of other artists still did make their presence felt with big hit songs, impactful albums, spotlight award-show moments and hype-building drops from upcoming projects.
This week on the Greatest Pop Stars podcast, we catch up with everyone — yes, of course including and led by Drake — who defined May 2026 in pop stardom. Host Andrew Unterberger is joined by Billboard staffers Kyle Denis and Rebecca Milzoff to share and debate our respective May top five lists, while also naming some honorable mentions, some disappointments, and some artists who we’re looking forward to in the next few months of the year. (If you want to listen back to our first four 2026 recaps, or any of our 2025 episodes, you can check them all out here.)
And of course, we ask all the most pressing questions about the month in pop stardom: Did Drake really need to drop three albums at once to get back to where he was? How are we currently stacking Noah Kahan’s The Great Divide up against its predecessor Stick Season? Is Kacey Musgraves on her way to being accepted back into the country mainstream? Is Michael Jackson really about to have one of the summer’s breakout hits with a decade-old posthumous song? Did we get what we wanted from Gracie Abrams’ first new single of 2026? Which ’90s alternative reference point are we currently citing for Olivia Rodrigo’s “The Cure”? And perhaps most importantly: What is up with that Role Model album title?
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It’s been a minute since Rachel Chinouriri last played a headline show in her home city, something she noted onstage at Shoreditch Town Hall on Wednesday night (June 3). “I realized I hadn’t done a London show, I think, in over a year. I was worried that maybe nobody would come tonight,” she admitted with a laugh, acknowledging her time away. “Thank you so much for being amazing, and reminding me that you guys are so special.”
Performing in the music program for 2026’s SXSW London, the show provided the British star a moment of reconnection with her Darlings — the name affectionately given to her fans — following two years of being booked and extremely busy. Chinouriri, however, is not a musician that is easily forgotten.
Following the release of 2024’s critically acclaimed debut What a Devastating Turn of Events, Chinouriri cemented her status as one of the U.K.’s standout young songwriters, placing her alongside musical peers like CMAT and Holly Humberstone. A stellar collection of emotive indie packed with smart hooks, the LP soared in a live setting, be that on her own headline tours across the U.K. and U.S., or during a run of high-profile support gigs with superstars including Florence + the Machine and Sabrina Carpenter. The Croydon-raised artist will continue her hot streak when she joins Gracie Abrams as a support act on her upcoming arena jaunt. New music on the horizon will only bolster her reputation.
But, for now, it was about renewing the 27-year-old’s connection with her fans, and her performance was both a triumphant return to performing in the capital and a showcase of the musical diversity and strength of SXSW’s music programming. These were the best moments from the show.
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DJ AG took over Billboard’s THE STAGE at SXSW London on Wednesday (June 3) bringing his eclectic taste to the U.K. festival.
The London-based performer was accompanied by a number of musicians artists during his set which spanned genres across garage, hip-hop, r&b, pop and beyond.
AG (real name: Ashley Gordon) has found an ardent following in recent years for his guerilla DJ sets and big name guests. Over the years, Will Smith, Akon, AJ Tracey, Skepta, Ciara and more have appeared during his live sets which are regularly streamed live on AG’s growing social channels.
Hosted in Ely’s Yard in Shoreditch, east London, AG hosted a number of rising artists throughout the showcase. U.S. artist Cameron McCloud, who recently won NPR’s Tiny Desk Contest as a member for Cure for Paranoia, pulled up for a cameo, alongside head-turning performances from Australian act Tikara and London-based Iyamah.
U.S. group Infinity Song joined AG for a short spot ahead of their showcase event at the nearby Shoreditch Town Hall venue as part of the Mahogany Showcase. House Gospel Choir, who performed with Harry Styles at the 2026 BRIT Awards and his One Night Only show in Manchester, also made an appearance with an uplifting guest spot.
SXSW London is currently in the midst of its second edition, bringing together leading voices in music, film, culture, technology and business for a wide-ranging program of panels, performances and screenings.
THE STAGE is a fixture of SXSW in Austin, Texas, with 2026’s lineup including Billboard 200 chart-topper Don Toliver, Mau P and Junior H. At the inaugural 2025 SXSW London, Tems performed a sold-out show at London’s Troxy as part of THE STAGE.
Elsewhere performances at SXSW London 2026 include Rachel Chinouriri, Tiwa Savage, Shame, ODUMODUBLVCK and more.
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