Yailin la Más Viral chatted with Billboard’s Ingrid Fajardo & Jessica Roiz on the red carpet of Premio Lo Nuestro 2026.
Sebastián Yatra chatted with Billboard’s Ingrid Fajardo & Jessica Roiz on the red carpet of Premio Lo Nuestro 2026.
ATEEZ achieve its seventh No. 1 on Billboard’s Top Album Sales chart, as GOLDEN HOUR : Part.4 debuts atop the list dated Feb. 21. The set sold 195,000 in pure album sales (the act’s best sales week yet) in the United States in the week ending Feb. 12, according to Luminate. The album also takes a bow at No. 3 on the overall Billboard 200 chart.
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Also in the top 10 on the latest Top Album Sales chart, the newest projects from J. Cole, Joji, Nick Jonas and Joe Bonamassa arrive, as does the soundtrack to the video game Clair Obscur: Expedition 33.
Billboard’s Top Album Sales chart ranks the top-selling albums of the week based only on traditional album sales. The chart’s history dates back to May 25, 1991, the first week Billboard began tabulating charts with electronically monitored piece count information from SoundScan, now Luminate. Pure album sales were the sole measurement utilized by the Billboard 200 albums chart through the list dated Dec. 6, 2014, after which that chart switched to a methodology that blends album sales with track equivalent album (TEA) units and streaming equivalent album (SEA) units.
J. Cole’s The Fall-Off debuts at No. 2 on Top Album Sales, while Bad Bunny’s DeBÍ TiRAR MáS FOToS gets a Super Bowl halftime boost, rising 11-3. Joji’s Piss in the Wind blows in at No. 4, while the vinyl release of the video game soundtrack to Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 debuts at No. 5. Nick Jonas’ Sunday Best bows at No. 6, Olivia Dean’s The Art of Loving shifts 6-7, ENHYPEN’s former No. 1 THE SIN : VANISH dips 4-8, Megadeth’s chart-topping self-titled set falls 3-9 and Joe Bonamassa’s B.B. King’s Blues Summit 100 starts at No. 10.
Yami Safdie chatted with Billboard’s Ingrid Fajardo & Jessica Roiz on the red carpet of Premio Lo Nuestro 2026.
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Luke Combs now has a family of five. The country superstar and his wife, Nicole, announced Thursday (Feb. 19) that they’ve welcomed their third baby boy, Chet Wiley Combs.
According to the couple’s joint Instagram announcement, Chet arrived weeks ago, but Thursday’s caption celebrated the baby’s expected due date.
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“Happy due date to the littlest Combs BOY!” the couple wrote on Instagram. “We’ve loved soaking up these last few weeks of newborn snuggles.”
In addition to the baby boy’s full name, the couple also shared three new photos: one of the now-five-member family — including Chet’s big brothers Tex (3 years old) and Beau (2) — followed by a close-up of Chet’s tiny hand held by Luke and Nicole’s hands and a final pic of Tex and Beau loving on their little bro.
Nicole shared the photo of she and Luke holding Chet’s hand with this sweet comment: “The little HAND. You really do forget how small they are.”
The Combses announced that they were expecting a third child back in September, sharing a video of Luke and Nicole surprising Tex and Beau with the news. The couple captioned the video with “Third time’s a charm! Baby #3 coming this winter.”
Luke and Nicole were married in 2020.
Combs is gearing up to release his sixth studio album next month, March 20’s The Way I Am. So far he’s released three songs from the project: “Back in the Saddle,” a No. 1 Country Airplay hit; “Days Like These,” a top 10 Country Airplay hit; and “Sleepless in a Hotel Room,” a top 20 hit on the Billboard Hot 100 and No. 3 on Hot Country Songs.
Bunnie XO and Jelly Roll are undisputedly country music’s first couple right now. But it has taken a lot for them to reach that pinnacle.
In her autobiography, Stripped Down: Unfiltered and Unapologetic, Bunnie XO recounts harrowing stories of damage done whether thrust upon her or self-inflicted. At times the book is excruciating to read as she laments a truly awful childhood that turns into an equally painful and disturbing adulthood. Though she and Jelly Roll may seem charmed now as they have both found success beyond their wildest dreams, their happiness has been hard fought and, as she reveals, their first several years together were brutal.
But through all the nightmarish tales, Bunnie XO’s spirit and instinct for self-survival shine through. Even during the many times she is suicidal (and sadly, more recently than one would think), something propels her to keep on.
The book, which came out Tuesday (Feb. 17), is a fast-paced, well-written read, but that doesn’t make it an easy one. At times, it’s unrelentingly grim and creates a temptation to scream at Bunnie XO to make better choices before realizing nothing in her life, as a child or young adult, gave her the skills to know how to do that. It’s impossible not to root for her as she careens from one traumatic experience to the next, determined to find a better way.
Bunnie admits it’s a miracle she’s alive between the men who beat her, the multiple overdoses, the ectopic pregnancies, the suicide attempts and even a car wreck that could have left her paralyzed.
With unblinking honesty, Bunnie provides a survivor’s manual of sorts. And while she is hard on the literally dozens of adults surrounding her as a child and the abusive men she drifted to from one to the next, she is equally hard on herself, at one point writing, “I was an awful human. I hurt people, and I had no remorse. I sure as hell couldn’t be told otherwise.”
But, to paraphrase Maya Angelou, when she knew better, she did better. Through a lot of therapy — and she makes it very clear that it took repeated attempts at getting counseling before it made a difference –and finally finding a way to love herself and have a nurturing relationship, she finds happiness.
Ultimately, Stripped Down could provide hope for women who have found themselves in some of the same unsurmountable hardships that they, too, can make it through.
Below are 13 revelations from the book.
Bad Bunny has something special for his Australian fans.
To celebrate his first-ever concerts in Sydney, the Reggaeton superstar drops an exclusive t-shirt, through a long-standing collaboration with Adidas.
The Adidas Originals x Bad Bunny DtMF tees are available in black and cream/white, priced at A$80, and are now available on the Adidas Australia website.
The back is emblazoned with “De Puerto Rico Para El Mundo,” and the word “Sidney, in Bad Bunny’s signature font, while the front hem carries a subtle embroidered Adidas Para Bad Bunny detail.
Benito’s DeBÍ TiRAR MáS FOToS World Tour touches down next week for two shows at Sydney’s ENGIE Stadium, on Feb. 28 and March 1, marking his first time performing in Australia.
When he arrives, he’ll be on a high.
Following his landmark Grammy Award win for album of the year and his epic halftime show at Super Bowl LX, Bunny charges into the top 10 on the latest ARIA Albums Chart with DeBÍ TiRAR MáS FOToS, up 20-4. That’s his first appearance in the top 10, easily besting the album’s previous best of No. 16 in 2025.
At the same time, the lead track from the album, “DtMF,” enters racks the Top 50 ARIA Singles Chart for the first time, at No. 4. The Puerto Rican artist also debuts on the chart at No. 25 with “NUEVAYoL” and at No. 34 with “BAILE INoLVIDABLE.”
As previously reported, the rapper lands a record-breaking 29 simultaneous titles on the Hot Latin Songs chart, including the entire top 25 — led by “DtMF” for a 47th week — and nails top spot on the all-genre Billboard Hot 100. Also, he monopolizes the top five spots on the Global 200 and the top three on Global Excl. U.S. charts.
Bunny’s world tour continues with concerts Feb. 20 and 21 at Allianz Parque in Sao Paulo, before heading Down Under.
King Gnu’s “AIZO” rises to No. 1 on the Billboard Japan Hot 100, for the chart released Feb. 18.
The opener for TV anime Jujutsu Kaisen Season 3 (Culling Game arc, Part 1) was first released digitally on Jan. 9 and debuted at No. 6. The track climbs to the summit in its sixth chart week following its Feb. 11 CD release, selling 68,441 copies. This marks King Gnu’s third No. 1 on the chart, following “Ichizu” and “Chameleon.”
Holding at No. 2 is Kenshi Yonezu’s “IRIS OUT,” which leads streaming, video views and karaoke again this week. The track also continues steady physical sales centered on brick-and-mortar stores, adding 960 copies to push cumulative sales past 310,000.
At No. 3 is Hey! Say! JUMP’s “Hanikami.” The theme song for the drama series 50-pun kan no Koibito launches with 230,578 copies — surpassing the group’s previous single — to hit No. 1 for sales. Mrs. GREEN APPLE’s “lulu.” comes in at No. 4, followed by M!LK’s “Suki Sugite Metsu!” at No. 5, unchanged from last week.
Meanwhile, M!LK’s “Bakuretsu Aishiteru” debuts at No. 6. Released digitally on Feb. 9, the five-man group’s latest single comes in at No. 5 for streaming, No. 9 for downloads and No. 4 for video, marking the boy band’s first release to make its debut in the top 10 of the Japan Hot 100.
Also, following the opening of the Winter Olympics on Feb. 6, back number’s NHK winter sports theme “Doshitemo Doshitemo” jumps 32-7, with streaming up to 132%, downloads to 198%, radio to 390% and video to 243% week over week.
Sakanaction’s “Iranai” debuts at No. 10. The drama theme song comes in at No. 2 for downloads, No. 20 for streaming and No. 9 for radio.
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 Feb. 9 to 15, here. For more on Japanese music and charts, visit Billboard Japan’s English X account.
Regional Mexican music legend Ramón Ayala is facing a $25 million lawsuit from an unnamed tour photographer alleging Ayala’s son engaged in abusive behavior toward the staffer.
In a case filed Tuesday (Feb. 17) and obtained by Billboard, a man identified as John Doe says Ramón Ayala Jr. engaged in a “dangerous pattern of escalating sexualized misconduct and assaultive behavior,” including unwanted touching and exposing his genitals.
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In one instance, the lawsuit claims, Ayala Jr. threw a bag of cocaine at the accuser. In another, Doe claims the younger Ayala held him down and “sucked plaintiff’s toes.”
“Without warning and without consent, defendant Ayala Jr. physically grabbed plaintiff’s legs, restrained him, forcibly removed plaintiff’s footwear, and engaged in sexually offensive physical contact with plaintiff’s foot,” writes the accuser’s attorney. “Defendant did this act in a sexual manner, and did it by force, not only to gratify himself, but to degrade the plaintiff.”
Ayala, a pioneer of Norteño music over a decades-long career as the leader of Ramón Ayala y Sus Bravos del Norte, is also named as a defendant in the case. He is accused of legal negligence for failing to stop his son’s conduct: “Despite knowledge of defendant Ayala Jr.’s ongoing behavior … defendants failed to intervene, supervise, discipline, or remove him from authority.”
In a statement posted to Instagram on Wednesday (Feb. 18), the elder Ayala said the allegation “deeply hurts my band, my fans, and my family” and that his legal team was “working to clarify the facts.” He also alluded to “those who act maliciously for financial gain.”
“We live in a world where freedom of expression is for everyone,” Ayala said. “But unfortunately, in their eagerness to gain attention, recognition or financial gain, some people, without any basis, try to take advantage and tarnish the legacy of an artist who rose from nothing through humility, effort, and sacrifice.”
The lawsuit was filed by Tony Buzbee, a well-known Houston plaintiffs attorney who made headlines last year for filing more than 20 cases against Sean “Diddy” Combs. Jay-Z later sued Buzbee over one of those cases, claiming the attorney had tried to blackmail him with false claims of sexual abuse. That case was later dismissed by a judge.
Ayala, affectionately known as the King of the Accordion, announced the final tour of his 60-year career in 2024. The four-time Grammy winner’s albums Arriba El Norte (1991) and Antología De Un Rey (2004) reached No. 1 on Billboard‘s Regional Mexican Albums chart, and 12 of his songs entered the Hot Latin Songs tally.
In Tuesday’s lawsuit, the John Doe’s attorneys wrote that Ayala’s son “routinely exposed his genitals aboard the tour bus” and often “performed sexually suggestive acts toward subordinates.” On one specific occasion, he allegedly “deliberately and roughly touched plaintiff’s buttocks without consent.” The lawsuit adds that when Doe confronted him about the alleged abuse, Ayala Jr. dismissed it as “horseplay” and told him to “get over it.”
“The conduct described herein was not accidental, playful, or misunderstood,” the Doe’s attorneys write in the lawsuit. “It was intentional, sexual, non-consensual physical contact carried out by a supervisory authority against a subordinate employee.”
In technical terms, the lawsuit alleges assault and sexual assault, negligence and gross negligence against Ayala, Ayala Jr. and their touring company Liram LLC. The case is seeking at least $25 million in damages.
