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Coach has become synonymous with the it-girls of our time, seen slung over some pretty famous shoulders.

Everyone from Selena Gomez to Jennifer Lopez has been spotted sporting Coach in the past, along with trendsetters like Charli XCX, PinkPantheress, City Girls’ JT and Oh Mary’s Cole Escola, who incorporate the brand’s accessories into their everyday. It’s no wonder then that Coach bags are some of the hottest gifts you can give this holiday season, seen as a sort of fashionable status symbol. The only downside to this is that Coach bags can run you upwards of $500+.

If you’re looking to gift one of Coach’s many handbag styles without spending a fortune, we’ve got a hack that might save you and your credit card from certain disaster. The not-so-secret hack? Search for your favorite silhouettes via Coach Outlet online.

The online shop currently has dozens of designer bags, clutches, wallets and more available for less than $100. It’s a great opportunity to snag a coveted piece for everyone on your gifting list. Below we’ve compiled a few of our favorites, all under $100 of course, that you can shop now ahead of Christmas. Whether you’re looking for yourself, we won’t judge, or a loved one, we’re sure you’ll find something you’ll love.

Poppy Crossbody Bag With Star Print

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A black crossbody bag with a whimsical star print.

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The Poppy Crossbody is a standout style with tons of personality, all for just $99. The bag is a sort of two-in-one situation, coming with a crossbody bag and a card case stashed inside or clipped to the side like a bag charm. The inside comes with multifunctional pockets for stashing all your everyday essentials, while the card holder can be used to store your AirPods and cards, of course. We fancy the Star Print, a celestial offering set against a black background, but there are five other colorways to choose from if that one doesn’t speak to you.

Plaza Bag 18

$95

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A deep brown shoulder bag.

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The Plaza Bag is a standard shoulder bag model with all the makings of a great everyday bag. The style currently retails for $95 and features a natural grain leather exterior that transitions into a compact but useful one-compartment base, large enough to hold your everyday essentials, including a phone, keys and lip gloss. The bag’s strap can be converted, transforming the Plaza from a shoulder bag into a wristlet. Plus the brown hue of the bag makes it so you can pair it with almost everything in your closet.

Mini Josie Top Handle Bag

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A mini handbag with a handle on the top.

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Don’t let its mini size fool you, the Josie is larger than life. Retailing for just $99, this mini bag boasts tons of styling possibilities thanks to the top handle and detachable strap that can convert this hand-held model into a shoulder or crossbody before your eyes. Its multifunctionality and size makes this bag a must-have for concerts and music festivals. Plus if the gray stone hue isn’t your thing, you’ve got seven other colorways to browse through, all for $99. 

Mini Envelope Wallet With Strap

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A tan wallet with a strap.

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This little envelope-esque design doubles as a wallet and a bag, all for just $74.40. That’s 70% off the OG price. The tiny bag is crafted of elegant crocodile-embossed leather, creating textural interest, and features an envelope closure at the front and a strap attachment, letting users wear the wallet crossbody. This is another great option for music festivals because it lets you go hands-free with all your essentials. No need to lug around a hefty tote.

Turnlock Card Case In Blocked Signature Canvas

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A mini card case with a strap.

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Speaking of tiny bags, this Turnlock Card Case In Blocked Signature Canvas is the smallest Coach offering we’ve seen, and the most affordable too. The canvas card case retails for $59 and works similarly to the Envelope style in that it holds cards and small objects and features a strap to wear crossbody. This bag is affixed with Coach’s signature canvas with logo detailing and an ultra-secure turnlock mechanism to keep what’s in your wallet safe.

Aden Crossbody Bag

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A crossbody black bag.

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This unisex crossbody features an all-over signature Coach print with a coated canvas and smooth calf leather material. The adjustable strap lets you wear it any way you want. Don’t like this “gunmetal” and charcoal colorway? The Coach Outlet has six colors on sale for up to 60% off.

Slim Crossbody

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A black slim crossbody bag.

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Elevate your night-out look with this mini Coach crossbody, which features crocodile-embossed leather and a metallic chain strap. It goes with everything and instantly classes up an outfit, whether you’re wearing jeans and a sweater or an evening dress.

Coach Crossgrain Leather Wristlet

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A black wristlet bag.

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Get a similar look with this Coach wristlet, on sale for just $95 on Amazon. Made from real leather, the accessory comes with a gold chain strap. Inside, find room for up to eight cards plus enough stretch to hold a phone up to seven inches in size. Choose from four colors on sale.

Coach Small Wristlet

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A brown logo-heavy wristlet bag.

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Amazon also has the wristlet in the iconic Coach monogram print. We like the leather accents and the gold Coach “C.” Wear this as a wristlet, mini clutch, or clip it onto a larger tote or bag.

Kailey Shoulder Bag

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A black leather shoulder bag.

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If you’re willing to spend a little bit more, Coach Outlet has this leather Kailey shoulder bag on sale for just $105 right now — a 70% discount. This bag is chic and sophisticated and will be a go-to purse for years to come. At under $150, it’s a certified steal.

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This upcoming season 28 finale of NBC’s The Voice is getting a hearty dose of country.

Riley Green, Zac Brown and Noah Cyrus will be performers during the Dec. 16 finale of The Voice, Billboard can reveal.

Green will perform the fan favorite “Jesus Saves” from his 2024 album Way Out Here. Zac Brown Band lead singer Zac Brown (who is also one The Voice‘s season 28 Mega Mentors), will join forces with Cyrus to perform “Butterfly.” The track was originally recorded by Brown with Dolly Parton and included on Zac Brown Band’s Love & Fear album.

“Getting to record ‘Butterfly’ with Dolly is a dream come true,” Brown said in a statement. “She’s always been one of my biggest inspirations, not just as an artist, but as a person. Collaborating with her brought a whole new perspective to the song. Together, we were able to capture the power of storytelling, weaving a narrative we hope will deeply resonate with listeners. Her voice brings so much heart and soul to this track and singing it with her was pure magic. This song was written for my kids for all the challenges life brings.”

Last month, Green picked up multiple CMA Awards trophies, including single of the year, song of the year and music video of the year, all for his Ella Langley collaboration “You Look Like You Love Me.” Earlier this year, the song also took home ACM Awards honors for single of the year, music event of the year and visual media of the year.

Zac Brown Band is currently in the middle of its Las Vegas limited engagement at Sphere, where they are pairing both their greatest hits and new music with Sphere’s premier immersive visual and sonic experience.

Cyrus recently released a deluxe edition of the album I Want My Loved Ones To Go With Me, featuring collabs with Orville Peck (“Love Is A Canyon”) and Stephen Wilson Jr. (“If There’s a Heaven”).

The Voice coaches Reba McEntire, Michael Bublé, Snoop Dogg and Niall Horan will each be championing their team members, vying for a win during the two-part season 28 finale, which takes place Dec. 15-16, airing on NBC.

By 1987, Belinda Carlisle had become a chart mainstay. Five years earlier, she and her Los Angeles pop-punk band the Go-Go’s became the first all-female group to top the Billboard 200 when their debut album, Beauty and the Beat, spent six weeks at No. 1 in 1982. The same year, the quintet followed with the top 10 LP Vacation and, in 1984, the top 20 Talk Show. They also scored five top 40 Billboard Hot 100 hits, including “Our Lips Are Sealed” and “We Got the Beat.”

The Go-Go’s went on hiatus after Talk Show, but Carlisle didn’t slow down. Her 1986 debut solo LP, Belinda, reached No. 13 on the Billboard 200 and spawned a No. 3 Hot 100 hit, “Mad About You.”

It wasn’t until the end of the following year that Carlisle, then 29, made her first solo trip to the top of the Hot 100 with “Heaven Is a Place on Earth,” which crowned the Dec. 5, 1987, chart. The song’s popularity was helped by an artsy music video directed by actress Diane Keaton featuring women in bandit masks holding illuminated globes.

In 2013, Rick Nowels recalled the process of co-writing “Heaven”: “[Co-writer] Ellen [Shipley] had the title ‘Heaven on Earth.’ I was playing around with a Prince-type rhythm and sang ‘Heaven Is a Place on Earth.’ We both decided it was more original.

“The first draft of the song had a different minor-key verse along with the minor-key chorus,” Nowels recalled. “We actually recorded it with Belinda and I began to feel that the chorus was a hit, but the verse was not great. So, Ellen and I got together and quietly rewrote the verse. I knew I wanted to modulate into the chorus, which is why the pre-chorus goes to a different key and then back to the original key for the chorus. I had to tell Belinda that we rewrote the song … and had to rerecord it. As soon as we played it for her, she agreed.”

For all involved, including engineer/mixer Shelly Yakus, the rewards were clearly worth the efforts. “I put a lot of time into the arrangement of the song,” said Nowels, who has also penned hits for Stevie Nicks, Madonna, Santana, John Legend and Lana Del Rey, among others.

In June 2022, Nowels was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame.

Heaven on Earth generated two more Hot 100 top 10s, the Diane Warren-penned “I Get Weak” (No. 2 peak) and fellow Nowels-Shipley composition “Circle in the Sand” (No. 7). 1989 follow-up Runaway Horses added the top 40 hits “Leave a Light On” and “Summer Rain” to her catalog.

Having overcome drug addiction, which she chronicled in her 2011 biography Lips Unsealed, “It’s surreal for a Valley Girl to go from working as a secretary to hitting the top of the charts,” Carlisle told Billboard in 2013. “It still makes me smile to think about it now.”

In 2021, The Go-Go’s were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. “What a great way to cement the legacy,” Carlisle told Billboard.

Carlisle’s 2023 release, Kismet, comprising five songs penned by Warren, hit No. 40 on the Top Album Sales chart in September and spun off the Adult Contemporary hit “If U Go.” “The fact that she gave me these amazing songs,” Carlisle mused, “is like a gift.”

In 2025, the Go-Go’s played Coachella, in April, while in August Carlisle released her latest album, the covers collection Once Upon a Time in California.

Over the last month and a half, Suno and Udio — two top AI music creation companies — have had a change of heart. Both services create impressively realistic songs at the click of a button — and have become villains to much of the music industry over their alleged use of copyrighted music to train their models without a license or compensation for artists. The three major music companies even banded together to sue them for copyright infringement in $500 million lawsuits filed last summer.

Now, after fighting that suit for over a year, Suno and Udio are coming to settle with some of the majors. Udio, often considered by music professionals to be friendlier to the music industry than Suno, went first, announcing a licensing deal with Universal Music Group and another soon after with Warner Music Group. In what was seen as more of a surprise, Suno followed by announcing a licensing agreement with WMG during Thanksgiving week. (UMG’s suit with Suno is ongoing, while Sony has settled with neither.)

The two deals are notably different. Udio’s requires it to pivot its service from one that can create new music in seconds based on text prompts to becoming a fan engagement platform where users can play with licensed music in a variety of ways, like remixing, mashing up, or prompting songs in the style of a certain artist. To control what is produced using Udio’s 2026 model, the service is now a “walled garden,” meaning none of the creations can leave the platform.

Suno, on the other hand, doesn’t have to pivot what it offers users. The only differences to the platform under the agreement with Warner, come 2026, will be that the works it trains on must be licensed, and users will have to pay to download the tracks they make. Because of the differences between the agreements, Suno is viewed as getting the better deal of the two companies, music and AI experts tell Billboard.

So what do these new deals mean for the future of AI music? While the announcements so far create the start of a framework for a system in which music rights holders get compensated for their work, the two AI firms have a lot to do to reestablish themselves as licensed music companies.

Importantly, all of the deals so far have been “opt-in,” meaning artists and songwriters represented by UMG and WMG will have to individually decide whether or not they want to license their rights to the AI companies. For WMG’s CEO Robert Kyncl, this was on his list of “non-negotiables” when working with AI companies.

While this allows artists and songwriters a lot of agency, it puts Suno and Udio in a tough spot. Many songs, especially modern pop and hip-hop hits, have anywhere from one to 10 (or even more) songwriters who have played a part in making the song, and often these songwriters are signed to different companies, some of which will not have had deals with Suno or Udio. It will be an uphill battle to clear many of the most valuable hits, because if even one songwriter declines a song’s usage by Suno or Udio, the entire song will be disqualified.

As part of these agreements, Suno and Udio have vowed to eventually retire their current models (which are allegedly trained on the world’s catalog of music without a license) and to launch new models next year trained on only licensed works. This raises important questions. Let’s say Suno, for example, still only has its Warner deal by the time it needs to retire its current model. Do the model’s impressive abilities get degraded? Wholly-owned, wholly-licensed songs by artists and songwriters who decide to opt in from WMG alone may not be enough to create a model just as good as the one before it.

Suno’s supposedly better deal might also hold it back from securing other music licenses in the near term. Even if licenses do go through with the other majors, artists and writers signed to those companies might be more nervous to opt their works into it than with Udio, given the commercial potential of them leaving the platform. The majors’ lawsuit against Suno and Udio made it clear that one of their primary concerns is that AI music will compete with human-made creations in the marketplace, including on streaming services. Already, Deezer estimates that 50,000 fully AI-generated songs are delivered to its site every day and that 97% of people cannot tell the difference between AI and human-made works. AI-enabled artists like Xania Monet, Breaking Rust, Velvet Sundown and others have already hit major milestones, including debuting on various Billboard charts and in some cases amassing millions of streams.

On the other hand, with these deals, the flood of AI songs onto streaming services will likely slow down, which will surely be cause for celebration in the music business. But it might not be enough of a relief to make the other music companies, and the artists they represent, feel ready to start working with Suno.

Udio’s willingness to pivot will likely make it easier for the platform to finalize licensing deals with music companies, but from a financial standpoint, Suno seems better positioned to succeed in the coming years. It recently secured $250 million in Series C funding, whereas Udio has only publicly disclosed a fundraise of $10 million. According to Suno’s investor pitch deck, obtained by Billboard, the AI firm also claims to have 1 million subscribers already, up 300% year over year.

Udio also faces new difficulties by joining an already-crowded race to become the premier destination for AI-powered music remixing and fan engagement. Hook, MashApp, Spotify and KLAY are all pursuing variations of the idea — using generative AI to give fans the chance to rework songs they love. Still, little is known about what Udio, Spotify and KLAY’s take on the idea will actually end up looking like, so it’s possible these services will be differentiated enough to co-exist.

Altogether, the deals suggest that Suno may have a clearer runway moving forward. But in both cases, lingering uncertainty will make it unlikely for most — artist, label, publisher or any other entity — to throw too much of their weight into the fast-changing AI music arena.

Those who have tried to wade into AI music already are experiencing the precarity firsthand. Suno-powered artist Xania Monet learned this the hard way. Monet, who signed a multi-million dollar record deal with Hallwood Media, just went from charting on Billboard’s Adult R&B Airplay to getting her songs pulled from many airwaves across the U.S. last week, due to iHeartRadio’s new “Guaranteed Human” policy that bans “AI music that features synthetic vocalists pretending to be human.” Broke Records, Isekai Records and AAO Records’ song “I Run” by HAVEN., which admitted to using AI to process the song’s vocals, also faced challenges when the viral song, whose vocals closely resembled U.K. artist Jorja Smith’s, received dozens of takedown notices from Smith’s team. Ultimately, the song was removed from streaming and social platforms multiple times and omitted from the Billboard and Official U.K. Charts. Since then, HAVEN. decided to redo the vocals — this time with no AI involved.

So far, nothing is set in stone in these early days of AI music. Whatever the reality of the space is today, it could all shift tomorrow.

Jai’Len Josey and Xavier Omär are currently on the road together, and the contemporary R&B duo made a pit stop in California’s scenic Alabama Hills on Friday (Dec. 5) to deliver an intimate performance of their soulful “Painting the Stars” collaboration, which serves as the first installment of Feeture’s COLLABs original series.

The weathered mountains coupled with an amber sunset made for a picturesque backdrop. Seated on tree logs with friends circling around as if Josey and Omär were the center of a smoldering bonfire, instead of embers, though, the duo’s honeyed vocals filled the crisp air of the Cali plains.

“My work with Xavier fine-tuned my R&B palette in the best way, and my time with Feeture expanded how I see the art of collaboration which I believe is the highest form of art,” Josey told Billboard. “Joining forces for our first collab on the Feeture platform felt like merging two worlds into something bigger than us, and now we get to bring that to life on tour.”

Further exploring the connection with a romantic partner, “Painting the Stars” landed on Xavier Omär’s HunnyMoon Mountain project earlier this year, and the evocative live performance gave the soothing tune a second life, with some help from friends serving as back-up vocalists.

“Working with Jai’Len was a privilege for me,” Omär added. “She has such a natural feel for the way a song should progress and her verse hit every mark that I needed for the song. The opportunity to have her join the tour was a no-brainer for me. As a live performer, she is an absolute force and I can’t wait for my fan base to see that.”

The San Antonio-bred crooner will continue his North American trek with Josey providing support. Next up, the pair is set to perform in Atlanta on Saturday (Dec. 6) before heading to New York City’s famed LPR, Dallas and San Francisco later this month.

“As an artist, I know the magic that happens when you share a stage and bring a record to life with someone you respect,” shared Feeture co-founder and CCO Ed Ponton Jr. “That’s the spirit behind COLLABS. Feeture was created to make moments like that possible, and launching with Jai’Len Josey and Xavier Omär feels like the perfect beginning.”

Watch the “Painting the Stars” performance below.