Tina Knowles is that girl. As Billboard can exclusively reveal, the mogul’s Matriarch memoir finishes in first place among the most-listened music memoirs on Spotify in 2025.

The news comes on the same day Spotify unveiled its annual Wrapped on Wednesday (Dec. 3), providing users with custom summaries of their listening habits in addition to announcing which artists and podcasters got the most streaming love on the platform over the past 12 months. This year, audiobooks are included in Wrapped for the first time ever.

With Matriarch finishing the year as Spotify’s top music memoir audiobook, Fahrenheit-182 by Mark Hoppus and Dan Ozzi and Night People: How to Be a DJ in ‘90s New York City by Mark Ronson earned second and third place, respectively. Behind them, in order, were Bread of Angels by Patti Smith, Only God Can Judge Me by Jeff Pearlman, Last Rites by Ozzy Osbourne, Truly by Lionel Richie, Cudi by Kid Cudi, The Harder I Fight, The More I Love You by Neko Case and Heartbreaker by Mike Campbell.

The top books overall on the platform were the novels Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros, Lights Out by Navessa Allen and Iron Flame, also by Yarros.

Published in April, Matriarch shares Knowles’ insights into raising daughters Beyoncé and Solange from childhood to their adulthood as two of the biggest names in music. She also delved into her recent breast cancer battle, from receiving the diagnosis last year to undergoing surgery, during which doctors successfully removed the entire tumor.

When the memoir topped The New York Times‘ hardcover nonfiction bestsellers list, Bey wrote on Instagram, “The Mama T was that good?? Ha … You deserve it, I’m so proud!”

Shortly afterward, the 35-time Grammy winner brought her mom out on stage at a Cowboy Carter Tour show so that the crowd could join her in congratulating the author.

Nogizaka46’s “Biryani” soars to No. 1 on the Billboard Japan Hot 100, on the chart released Dec. 3.

This marks the popular girl group’s 30th No. 1 on the Japan Hot 100. Serving as the title track of the group’s 40th single, the song sold 736,722 copies in its first week to debut at No. 1 for sales, while hitting No. 8 for downloads, No. 22 for streaming and No. 20 for radio airplay.

At No. 2 is Kenshi Yonezu’s “IRIS OUT,” holding steady from last week. Karaoke for the Chainsaw Man – The Movie: Reze Arc theme rose to 103% of the prior frame, and the track leads streaming, video views and karaoke. As of last week’s report, cumulative streams for the song have topped 200 million.

MAZZEL’s “Only You” jumps 57-3. Released Nov. 26 as the title track of the group’s fourth single, the song sold 96,954 copies to bow at No. 2 for sales. It also rules radio and hits No. 5 for downloads, No. 54 for streaming, and No. 12 in video.

Yonezu and Hikaru Utada’s “JANE DOE” is at No. 4, down a spot from last week. The poignant ending theme for the Reze Arc movie holds at No. 2 for streaming for the tenth straight week, while radio rises 139% from last frame and karaoke climbs to 103%.

INI’s “Present” falls to No. 5 after topping last week’s chart. Launching with 1,213,001 copies last week to become the group’s first million-seller, it adds 28,774 copies this week to take No. 3 in sales. The single also comes in at No. 27 for downloads, No. 55 for streaming and No. 10 for radio.

Two tracks from the RADWIMPS tribute album Dear Jubilee -RADWIMPS TRIBUTE- again land in the top 10 this week: Mrs. GREEN APPLE’s “Kyoshinsho” at No. 8 and Vaundy’s “Zenzenzense” at No. 9. Elsewhere, M!LK’s “Suki Sugite Metsu!” jumps 19-10, earning the group its first top 10 entry. Downloads rise to 170% of last week, streaming to 101%, and video to 185%.

Billboard JAPAN’s year-end charts for 2025 will be revealed on Friday, Dec. 5 at 4 a.m. Japan Time.

The Billboard Japan Hot 100 combines physical and digital sales, audio streams, radio airplay, video views and karaoke data.

See the full Billboard Japan Hot 100 chart, tallying the week from Nov. 24 to 30, here. For more on Japanese music and charts, visit Billboard Japan’s English X account.

Ray J doesn’t play when it comes to his sister, Brandy. The “Sexy Can I” artist took to social media on Tuesday (Dec. 2), calling out Jay-Z and Beyoncé for apparently pulling up to multiple The Boy Is Mine Tour shows, but not showing any love to Brandy backstage.

“N—as need to pull up when they come to the show. Come say what’s up to Brandy too, Jay-Z and Beyoncé,” Ray J said. “We big fans, we got our family there and we know y’all there and we love y’all and we look up to y’all.”

He continued: “For y’all to come to every one of Brandy and Monica’s shows and never say what’s up to B and take all the pictures, I don’t like it.”

Elsewhere in the clip, Ray J says that he still has a ton of love for the Carter family, but thinks they could’ve made more of an effort to reach out to Brandy when attending her shows with Monica in Los Angeles and Brooklyn.

“We know you there, just walk by Brandy’s room and pull up and say, ‘What’s up, B? Have a good show.’ She don’t care, she never told me about this and I am crashing out on this one,” he added. “This is crazy.”

While some “crashouts” from Ray J are met with a negative reception, there seemed to be more people understanding where he’s coming from this time around. “THIS IS COMING FROM THE HEART!! And I LOVE MY FAMILY AND I LOVE JAY AND BEY!! ——BRANDY AND THE FAMILY DID NOT CO-SIGN THIS,” he captioned the post. “SHES SUPER FOCUSED ON MAKING EVERY SHOW GREAT! – I WILL PROB GET IN TROUBLE FOR THIS!! – BUT I LOVE JAY Z AND BEY!!”

NFL Hall-of-Fame wide receiver Terrell Owens agreed with Ray J. “Can respect where this is coming from,” T.O. wrote.

Beyoncé posted photos of her appearances at The Boy Is Mine Tour to her website, which includes a picture posing with tour opener Kelly Rowland, Monica, Solange and Patti LaBelle.

Brandy and Monica’s co-headlining The Boy Is Mine Tour continues on Thursday (Dec. 4) with a show in Atlanta, before heading to New Orleans, Houston, Miami, Jacksonville and Tampa Bay.

Watch Ray J’s video message below:

The Jonas Brothers have racked up a lifetime of memories during their two decades on stage and screen together. As they gear up for the final push of shows on their celebratory Jonas20: Greetings From Your Hometown tour, Nick, Joe and Kevin sat down with Variety for a look back at the high, lows and curveballs in their 20 year career as a sibling band, including an early Grammy loss that stung at the time, but feels just about right in retrospect.

The trio — who will be honored with a handprint and footprint ceremony at the TCL Chinese Theatre in Hollywood on Wednesday (Dec. 3), adding their imprints to the other stars in cement in front of the theater in honor of their 20th anniversary — recalled their nomination for best new artist at the 2009 Grammy Awards. Though they said they were honored just to be nominated, even after all this time the trio admitted that losing out to Adele made perfect sense.

“Of all the people to lose to, that’s just fine,” Nick said, with Joe adding, “she’s the right person to lose to.” The group has still not won a Grammy, but Nick said seeing multi-generational families coming out to their shows is “the best part” of their longevity as a group.

The look back was filled with some fun, silly memories, including one about the New Jersey-bred trio’s first trip to Hollywood as teens, where their management company took them on a ride around town in a rented Mini Cooper as they shouted along to Weezer’s “Beverly Hills.”

“We were listening to Weezer’s album,” Joe recalled. “We were singing, ‘Beverly Hills, that’s where I want to be.’ We were like, ‘We’re going to do this. We’re going to be out here, we’re going to make it out here.’” Though they were dropped by Columbia Records after releasing their debut album (2006’s It’s About Time), Disney’s Hollywood Records scooped them up and release three hit albums and two Camp Rock TV movies that turned the trio into pop superstars.

It was a heady time, with Joe dating fellow pop stars Taylor Swift and Demi Lovato and Nick dating Miley Cyrus and Selena Gomez, even as the public was laser-focused on the purity rings the brothers wore, which they insisted at the time meant they were saving themselves for marriage. “There was a lot of interest in our sexual life during our teenage years, which was odd,” Joe said of the scrutiny of their teen sex lives that Nick labeled “very inappropriate.” 

And then, to their fans’ shock, they broke up in 2013, a split Kevin said he thought they would “never” return from. Though Kevin was about to welcome his first child with wife Danielle, he quickly realized that sitting on the couch “doing nothing for hours, days” was spiraling him into depression and anxiety as the brothers pursued their own solo careers. They did, of course, get back together in 2019 to release the single “Sucker,” which debuted at the top of the Billboard Hot 100, giving them their first chart-topper.

After the massive anniversary tour and release of their Greetings From Your Hometown album in August, as well as the November debut of their holiday movie, A Very Jonas Christmas, Nick said it’s been a “wonderful year to celebrate this journey with the fans and with each other. To be family that not only is able to continue to, but to actually enjoy it and to be doing new things this far into our career, like the Christmas movie and other things — it’s a really meaningful thing for us. I feel like we’re in our favorite chapter of our journey.”

Reflecting on the most difficult part of their journey, Joe said it’s professional, but also personal. “We are a band, but we’re also a band of biological brothers. I think with a band breaking up, it arguably hits way harder than a normal band breaking up because Thanksgiving dinner might be a little bit more awkward than most,” he said, noting that somehow they pushed through by leaning on each other for support.

They also recalled their first red carpet, at the Kid’s Choice Awards, where they huddled beforehand and decided to mimic a carpet trick employed by bands such as Green Day, Blink-182 and the Backstreet Boys and stick their tongues out in every picture. “We were young,” Nick said.

Asked what they would tell their younger selves given what they know now, Nick said he’d counsel them, “just to take a little pressure off. I think we came up in a time — our work with Disney — and obviously, demographics of that being primarily a younger audience, teens, so there’s this real pressure to be a role model, to be an example. I think back when we would’ve said, ‘Oh, we love that. We don’t mind the pressure. We’re trying to be good guys.’ I think as a 33-year-old, talking to my 13-year-old self, I’d say, ‘Hey, don’t try to carry the world on your shoulders. If you just need to be a kid growing up, going through experiences, do that.’”

With so many achievements under their belts, the trio are not done yet. Nick said they’d love to go “full circle” and work with fellow Jersey native Bruce Springsteen, while Kevin is interested in hitting the studio with producer/songwriter Mark Ronson and Joe has his eye on working with veteran producer Rick Rubin.

As for the next generation of Jonases, Nick thinks his four-year-old daughter with wife Priyanka Chopra, Malti, could have the genes, but the couple are determined to take it slow. “[She] loves music and she loves to sing, but I think we’re going to be very patient and make sure she is teed up for emotional success as well as other success by way of how we parent her,” he said. “If she wants to pursue a career in music or acting, then of course we’ll be supportive of whatever she wants to do. We want to see her thrive.”

The JoBros will be back on stage on Wednesday night at the Intrust Bank Arena in Wichita, Kan. and wind down their anniversary tour on Dec. 20 at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn.