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Ken has officially entered his rock-star era, with Lenny Kravitz bringing the attitude. Released Sept. 17, 2026, the Barbie Signature Kenbassadors Lenny Kravitz doll captures the singer in a look inspired by his recent Blue Electric Light tour.
Just hours after its release, the Lenny Kravitz Kenbassadors doll is already proving popular with shoppers, as Amazon’s direct inventory is sold out, but higher-priced listings over $100 remain available from Amazon resellers. The collectible marks the second Kenbassador from Mattel, following LeBron James, whose doll debuted in 2025.
Sculpted in Kravitz’s likeness, the collectible features his trademark locs, tattoos and a nose ring, and comes dressed in a bronze-colored mesh cowl-neck tank, boot-cut jeans, a studded belt, boots and sunglasses. The set also includes a doll stand and a certificate of authenticity, with the doll presented in displayable packaging for collectors and fans ages 6 and up.
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The Lenny Kravitz doll is part of Mattel’s Barbie Signature Kenbassadors Collection, a series created to recognize influential men and celebrate Ken during his 65th anniversary year. LeBron James was the inaugural Kenbassador in 2025, making Kravitz the second figure in the collection. Mattel is celebrating Kravitz as a multi-hyphenate artist whose work spans music, fashion, acting, design and production. The company also highlights his more than 50 million records sold worldwide and his lasting influence across music and culture.
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Kravitz’s doll is Mattel’s latest creation of celebrities to join the Signature family, with Whitney Houston, Marilyn Monroe and Kylie Minogue also getting their own personalized doll this year.
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Dave Stewart has made a great many albums during the past 47 years — on his own, with his bands such as the Tourists, Eurythmics and SuperHeavy, or as a producer for the likes of Bob Dylan, Mick Jagger, Tom Petty, Ringo Starr and many more.
But the new The Way It Was Back Then, which comes out Sept. 18, is unlike any he’s made before.
“I didn’t know I was making an album,” the Rock And Roll Hall of Fame and Songwriters Hall of Fame inductee tells Billboard via Zoom from the offices of Rare, an artist’s rights company he co-founded in London. And as such he wound up creating the 10 tracks “back to front” at his island studio on Harbour Islands in the Bahamas, rather than in a conventional recording manner.
Inspired by last year’s ad hoc Dave Does Dylan solo acoustic covers set, The Way It Was Back Then developed out of a somewhat similar process. “I just sang the songs with the acoustic guitar, straight into (the recording), just like the Dylan songs,” he recalls. “I didn’t have any of the words written down or in my mind; I just sang them stream of conscious, into the mic. What I got was the spontaneous, one-take vocal and guitar, or with a funny little keyboard called an Orchid. I just thought, ‘Right, I’ll fix some of this later,’ but the more I listened the more I didn’t want to change anything.
“Usually you play everything and make a track and then the singer sings on top of it. This was the exact opposite. It was very homemade.”
Stewart and engineer Jesse Samler subsequently overdubbed all the instruments onto Stewart’s vocal and guitar tracks, adding only “a couple of local ladies who don’t really sing — one of them sings a bit in church — to sing these high backing vocals” on some of the songs. But the result is anything but raw; “Your Wishes,” the album’s second track, features lush orchestrations, while the title track, “He House Where I Was Born,” “Oh Jesse,” the Bowie-esque “Thin Ice” and “All Done” are high-octane, full-band constructions. The more restrained “Black Cat” — which Stewart says is “one of my favorite songs” on the album — builds into a brief guitar solo that he says was actually about 15 minutes long during the recording, and “Makes Me Happy (And Sad)’s” intimate ambience feels like a Pink Floyd demo.
“Jesse plays the drums really good, and we both play the bass and keyboards and guitar, or whatever the songs needed,” Stewart says. “It was funny; I have these concerts in my home town, Sunderland (England) where I’m playing the whole album and not anything else, and I said to Jesse, ‘Hey, I better learn these songs,’ ’cause the only time I ever sang them was when we were recording them.”
Lyrically, Stewart found himself digging deep, waxing nostalgic in the title track and “The House Where I Was Born” — which came from observations he made while once staying in the house across the street from his childhood home and visiting his old school and other parts of the neighborhood. “Cry If You Want” was inspired by one of his daughters’ severe health issues, he says, while “Black Cat” is an expression of defiant resilience.
“I count my blessings and find myself lucky,” Stewart notes, “but it doesn’t stop me from having really deep emotional struggles and feelings in my own world.” In that way the album, especially with its off-the-cuff approach, became a kind of musical therapy for Stewart.
“When you’re younger you’re very busy and you’re doing this and that, you don’t have the same introspective or reflective way of looking at things as you do when you get older,” he explains. “I’m 74 now. I find that as you get older it’s more about the feeling you have of this particular period or that particular time, the feeling you had when that particular moment happened. So the songs tended to be more about that… even though they’re descriptive in certain ways in use places and people or whatever. But I was emoting the feeling of that time and place more than the details, I think.”
In another unconventional move, The Way It Was Back Then is being released in limited physical editions on vinyl and CD via Bay Street Records, as well as via Stewart’s Art of Chaos app, which features a variety of other exclusive content. “After it’s been out for a while, I might allow it on other (platforms) that might become available,” says Stewart, who’s planning some “pop-up concerts for the U.K.” after the Sunderland shows. “At first I want it to be something people make an effort to get for themselves. I actually love it now that I’m hearing it after the fact. My first thought back when we started was, ‘Oh, is this an album?’ Now hearing it, I’m going, ‘Yeah, it is.’ It’s not just me and Jesse; it sounds like a record, which makes me happy.”
The tracklist for The Way It Was Back Then includes…
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Troye Sivan has dropped the second song and visual, “Party,” from his forthcoming album, She’s the Best, which is due out Oct. 9.
The stomping electro-dance track samples Madonna’s No. 1 Billboard Hot 100 hit “Music” and is accompanied by a lush, racy video directed by Gordon von Steiner. He also directed Sivan’s clips for “Got Me Started,” “One of Your Girls” and “Rush,” with the latter earning Grammy Award nominations for von Steiner and Sivan for best music video.
Filmed at a castle in Berkeley, England, the choreography-heavy video for “Party” stars Sivan as a knight in shining armor in medieval times. In between the sword fighting and revelry, Sivan and the cast cavort their way through sexy shenanigans (and many a bare behind).
Sir Ian McKellen — who first worked with Sivan when he was 14-years-old in a production of Waiting for Godot in Perth — provides an introductory voice-over narration to the clip: “The conquest is nearly behind us. Fires blaze from one end of the realm to the other. And what is victory, if not celebrated? For at long last, a party.”
“We both take partying quite seriously,” Sivan says of von Steiner, in an upcoming episode of the Billboard Pop Shop Podcast. “ … It can be this very transcendent and almost spiritual experience … especially as queer people, I think that nightlife is often the first time that you find yourself in a space where you’re not the minority.
“So we were talking about it and … we were like, ‘Surely people have always partied in some capacity, and surely queer people have always partied in some capacity.’ And so it got us thinking: What would this party have looked like 100 years ago, 200 years ago? It just unlocked this whole feeling and world that was just so much fun to dig into.
“Sir Ian McKellen did the voice-over … and that was also important to me because it’s this idea of queer lineage and each generation setting the stage and showing the younger generation or the new generation: ‘This is where we gather and this is what we do, and this is one way to really connect with your community.’ I was so excited to ask him and so excited that he said yes.”
“Party” was written by Sivan, Leland, Tyde Levi (Sivan’s brother), Rob Feher, Kaelyn Behr, Elvira Anderfjärd, Tove Burman and Luka Kloser. It was produced by Levi, Feher, Behr and Sivan. It’s the second offering from Sivan’s upcoming album, following the title track “She’s the Best.”
After a 20-date run, Mary J. Blige is concluding her Las Vegas residency reign. Mary J. Blige: My Life, My Story at Dolby Live at Park MGM still has 10 remaining dates between October 2026 and February 2027 when the residency will end. Those dates include Halloween, Valentine’s Day weekend and President’s Day weekend.
In announcing the conclusion of her Park MGM shows, Blige stated, “This residency felt like divine timing. I’ve seen so many of you in Vegas and we still have 10 dates left. I feel even more grateful and deeply inspired after every show. Grab your girlfriends, your boots, and I’ll see you in Vegas in October and February.”
The remaining October dates are: Oct. 23-24, Oct. 28 and Oct. 30-31. The five dates in February 2027 are: Feb. 12-13, Feb. 17 and Feb. 19-20. All shows begin at 8 p.m. local time. For additional ticket information, visit here.
Rock & Roll Hall of Famer Blige launched My Life, My Story — her first-ever Vegas residency — on May 1. This followed the success of Blige’s For My Fans Tour in 2025. That tour included an April 10 stop in New York City, where the nine-time Grammy winner attained another career milestone: performing her first sold-out headlining show at Madison Square Garden. Livestreamed globally, that achievement was later spotlighted in the theatrical concert film Mary J. Blige: For My Fans, Live From Madison Square Garden, released globally in November 2025.
The “Queen of Hip-Hop Soul” released her latest album, Gratitude, in November 2024. Blige recently extended her long association with Lifetime, the cable and satellite television network. The latest project under that partnership is the film Mary J. Blige’s Be Happy, which aired in February.
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Ticketmaster’s new global president Saumil Mehta — who joined the Live Nation-owned ticketer last November after nearly a decade at business platform Square — disagrees with the narrative that music venues and sporting facilities lack choices when it comes to which ticketing companies they can work with.
“At a headline level, I would categorically reject that venues don’t have choices,” he told Trapital founder Dan Runcie at the tech and music conference Trapital Summit in Los Angeles on Tuesday (Sept. 15).
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“I have participated in many, many, many [ticketing contract] renewals over the last 10 months and I’m fully aware of how competitive it is,” Mehta continued. “Every renewal we go up on, whether it’s sports teams or clubs or theaters or amphitheaters…there are competitors bidding for those venues. Those rights to be in those buildings are getting more expensive. There is no question about it.”
Mehta added that retaining or signing new ticketing contracts comes with a lot of scrutiny from venues that are comparing Ticketmaster with its competitors, with the financials, product and services all being considered. He went on to explain that the live entertainment industry in the U.S. runs on an exclusivity model, where venues can sign exclusive contracts with ticketing companies — meaning that any artist or team that performs at that venue will be subject to using the exclusive ticketer.
Ticketmaster’s exclusive contracts with venues were a major topic of the recent antitrust trial against Live Nation. Ultimately, a jury found that Live Nation does indeed operate an illegal monopoly by threatening to withhold concerts from venues that do not sign exclusive contracts with Ticketmaster. Live Nation denies those claims.
The ticketing model differs in other countries, including the U.K., where large venues use multiple ticketing companies for the same event and allocate a certain amount of inventory to each entity. Mehta added that if the U.S. were to move to the allocation model, Ticketmaster is “perfectly willing and able to respond,” adding that Live Nation and Ticketmaster have been doing business “successfully” in the U.K. for a long time. “I have empirical evidence that we’ve done it in the U.K., so it’s fine,” he said.
The narrative that Live Nation and Ticketmaster have a stronghold on live entertainment isn’t the only criticism Mehta has had to combat in the past 10 months on the job. When asked by Runcie where the disconnect between what he at the ticketer and its public opinion comes from, Mehta said, “Depending on how you count, [the modern ticketing] industry has been around for 40-plus years and narratives build up and calcify over long periods of time. So, I’ve inherited 40 plus years of decisions and narratives, both good and less good, and that’s okay.”
“My mission and my message to our team is: Come in here, compete every day, build better products, and know that if we continue to build better products and do great work for fans and artists and teams, we will get picked, and if we don’t, we will lose clients, and we will deserve to lose clients,” Mehta continued. “It’s a free market. It’s wildly competitive, no matter what some news companies say, so I act like it.”
Trapital founder Dan Runcie and Ticketmaster global president Saumil Mehta at the 2026 Trapital Summit in LA on Sept. 15
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When asked what criticisms of Ticketmaster he believes to be the most valuable, Mehta explained that the business of live entertainment is not as simple as economic transactions. “We’re not selling toothbrushes,” Mehta said. “We’re selling extremely scarce, extremely valuable, completely perishable, high-demand inventory. In many cases, with a deeply emotional connection between the fan and the artist, or the fan and the sports team. In a world like that, I think that [Ticketmaster has] an opportunity to operate with more fan transparency, and we have the opportunity to better connect the desires of the artist and the team with the information that the fan has access to.”
Mehta provided the example of sports teams geo-fencing (in this scenario, deciding who can purchase tickets based on zip codes) for playoff games, which he said is a common request from teams to keep “home court advantage.” Ticketmaster has received criticism for the practice, but believes better in-the-moment communication with fans could have diminished the admonishment from ticketbuyers.
“If we don’t do an exceptional job of fan communication, fan transparency, fan education in the moment — not a social media post that you sent out two days prior — during the transaction flow, during the checkout flow, for better or worse, we’re going to catch the criticism,” he said, “and it’s our responsibility to do more there.”
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The nearly 100-year-old Loew’s Jersey Theatre is set for a grand re-opening on Nov. 13 with a performance from the Trey Anastasio Band, the venue has announced.
Located in the heart of Jersey City, N.J.’s Journal Square, the theater will re-open as a fully restored, state-of-the-art live performance venue this fall after a massive redevelopment project between the Jersey City Redevelopment Agency (JCRA), the State of New Jersey/ New Jersey Economic Development Authority and Harris Blitzer Sports & Entertainment (HBSE), the latter of which also operates Prudential Center in Newark, N.J. and White Eagle Hall in Jersey City.
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After more than 40 years of limited use, the theatre — one of five “Loew’s Wonder Theatres,” which were built as movie houses in and around New York City in the 1920s — has undergone a restoration to preserve its original character while transforming it into a versatile 21st-century venue.
“There was a big effort within the city to keep the building from the wrecking ball,” Loew’s Jersey Theatre GM Bruce Wheeler tells Billboard. “The city was very interested in having the Loew’s Jersey Theatre be the anchor for them bringing the Journal Square area back to full force.”
In its heyday, the Jersey Theatre, which was at the center of the bustling neighborhood also know as Publishers Row where many newspaper businesses were located, hosted greats like Duke Ellington and New Jersey’s own Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons. Originally built by renowned theater architects Rapp and Rapp as a 3,021-seat movie house, the private/public partnership behind the reopening spent $130 million renovating the venue. It now features flexible seating configurations ranging from approximately 2,600 to 4,000 guests in order to host concerts, live performances, sporting events, film presentations and more.
Loew’s Jersey Theatre Grand Lobby Rendering
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The city, which bought the theater from private owners in 1993, had been threatened with demolition, but local preservationists kept the fight alive, and HBSE, who came on board the renovation project in 2021, saw a need for a midsize theater in Jersey City. In addition, the location — easily accessible to the tri-state area via car, PATH train and New Jersey Transit — made it an ideal candidate.
“Quite frankly, artists would prefer to play in something that has some character to it. That you’re looking out and you’re seeing beautiful architecture, and then also the fans want to be in an experience like that,” Sean Saadeh, HBSE chief programming officer and head of entertainment, tells Billboard. “So, why tear down something so beautiful that was so thought out 100 years ago?”
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The restoration included bringing the building up to code with its electric and plumbing systems, as well as adding brand new heating and air conditioning units and sound system. The lighting system was also modernized — though artists can also bring their own set up — while the orchestra seating is fully mobile, allowing for standing room only shows.
But with the theater being added to the New Jersey Register of Historic Places in 1985, the restoration had to respect the building’s design. For example, the fully seated balcony seating was restored with new chairs and fabric, but contractors had to restore the aisle end caps.
“It’s a marriage of the restoration piece and bringing the building itself up to a modern-day standard,” says Wheeler. “So, when people walk in, they’ll feel like they walked into the building back almost 100 years ago. But as far as the experience of seeing a concert or an event there, it’s going to be as modern-day as it possibly can be.”
The venue’s original pipe organ was also restored and maintained and will continue to be serviced and tuned regularly. Saadeh adds that other key components and equipment from the theater will be sprinkled throughout the venue to pay homage to its character. The new LED marquee was designed to look like the original, but the modern screens will allow more information to be displayed.
While the Loew’s Jersey Theatre was a movie house, attendees would often be treated with special performances by stars like Bing Crosby and Judy Garland following screenings. For this reason, Wheeler explains that the original architects were very cognizant of sightlines for both film and stage performances.
Loew’s Jersey Theatre Upstairs View Rendering
Courtesy HBSE
“When you’re an artist looking out to the crowd, we all know how important that is for their experience, and what Loew’s brings to the table is a sea of people versus balcony,” says Saadeh, adding that all upper seating — lodge, mezzanine and balcony — is on a single outcropping. “You’re not looking at balcony after balcony stacked on top of each other. You’re seeing a sea of fans, and that really is an important experience for an artist because it feels like you’re really in the middle of it all.”
The grand reopening weekend will kick off on Nov. 13 with Trey Anastasio Band, followed by The War On Drugs on Saturday, Nov. 14. Scheduled shows also include Jodeci on Nov. 18; Derek Hough’s Dance For The Holidays on Dec. 8; Unwrapped: An Acoustic Holiday on Dec. 9; Christmas with Chris Tomlin on Dec. 10; Jeff Dunham on Jan. 9; and World of Warcraft: 20 Years of Music on May 8.
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Chris Perfetti, Richard Gadd, Brooks Nader, Shabana Azeez, Gerran Howell, Haley Kalil and more play pass the mic on the 2026 Emmys red carpet.
Shabana Azeez First of all you are a snack.
Krys Marshall Ooh!
Chris Perfetti Oh man.
Richard Gadd Oh that’s a really good question. The role that somebody else has played this year that you would most like to play yourself.
Joy Taylor I mean, I really love Matthew Rhys, but I don’t know that I could be him. But I aspire. How are you keeping cool today?
Peter Krause I’m not. I’m just sweating. If you could be on any television series from the past, what would it be?
Krys Marshall ‘Gilligan’s Island’ in a little top tie up with a little booty shorts, like Marianne. If you could work with anybody who’s now gone on, passed on, who would that be?
Chris Perfetti Our boy Tim Curry, who I loved so much, such an icon. R.I.P. my dude. What’s the first thing you’re gonna do when you take off what you’re wearing today.
Shabana Azeez Thank you, Chris, for that question. Put on my next outfit, which is a deeply uninteresting take. You are a snack, but if you could be an actual food snack, what snack would you be?
Jeff Hiller I’d probably be a Nutty Buddy. I don’t want to explain why. What superpower do you want?
Geran Howell I think it’s got to be flight. I’m always suspicious if people say “I want to be invisible.” I’m always like, it’s kind of weird. Favorite British snack?
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Empire of the Sun will burn bright for a six-date tour of Australia and New Zealand next year, for what will be the act’s largest to date in the region.
Produced by Frontier Touring, the Ask That God: Afterlife Tour will get underway in New Zealand for a show Feb. 19, 2027 at Auckland’s Spark Arena, then skips across the ditch for concerts in Brisbane (Riverstage, Feb. 21), Sydney (Afterpay Arena, Feb. 25), Melbourne (Sidney Myer Music Bowl, Feb. 27), Adelaide (Adelaide Entertainment Centre, March 2), and Perth (RAC Arena, March 6).
Emperor Steele (Luke Steele) last toured these parts in 2024 for the Ask That God Tour, a journey that has sold more than 400,000 tickets worldwide.
The forthcoming jaunt is said to be the final live instalment of the Ask That God experience, expanding the universe introduced on the electronic act’s album of the same name, which dropped in 2024.
The reimagined show “celebrates imagination, transformation and connection in a rapidly changing world,” reads a statement from Frontier Touring.
“Ask That God: Afterlifefeels like a tour of unknowns and possibilities — new visions, new plateaus, fragile breakthroughs,” Steele remarks. “I think things are going to happen on this tour that have never happened before. We can’t wait to take this music and this tour to new frontiers. Let’s break barriers together.”
Led by Steele and producer Lord Littlemore (Nick Littlemore), Empire of the Sun has released four albums, all of them cracking the top 10 on the ARIA Chart. Since the release of their debut album Walking on a Dream in 2008, the duo has shifted more than five million albums, captured six billion streams, won eight ARIA Awards, and two APRA Awards.
The single “Walking on a Dream” was an ARIA Top 10 hit in 2008, and belatedly drove into the Billboard 100 when it was synced to a Honda Civic commercial in 2016. In the United States, the song powered to No. 65 on the Billboard Hot 100 and to No. 1 on Billboard’s Dance Club Songs, their second leader on the tally after 2013’s “Alive.” “Walking on a Dream” is a member of APRA AMCOS’ Billions Awards club, entry to which is awarded to songwriter members who’ve achieved one billion streams with a song.
In July of this year, Empire of the Sun and Danny Ocean scored a goal with “Llego” (via SALXCO UAM and Def Jam Recordings), a release tied to the FIFA World Cup 2026.
The general on sale for the tour down under begins Friday, Sept. 18 at 2pm local time. Frontier Members can access their presale tickets. For tickets and tour information visit frontiertouring.com/empireofthesun.
Empire of the Sun 2027 tour of Australia and New Zealand:
Friday, Feb. 19 — Spark Arena, Auckland, NZ Sunday, Feb. 21 — Riverstage, Brisbane, QLD Thursday, Feb. 25 — Afterpay Arena, Sydney, NSW Saturday, Feb. 27 — Sidney Myer Music Bowl, Melbourne, VIC Tuesday, March 2 — Adelaide Entertainment Centre, SA Saturday, March 6 — RAC Arena, Perth, WA
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For Tinashe, opening up for an artist isn’t just about getting onstage in front of a huge crowd. She wants to know that the artist, as well as their fans, will actually give her room to be herself.
So when Harry Styles came calling, she was ready to say yes.
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Speaking at the Spotify x Coach event in New York City on Wednesday (Sept. 16), Tinashe talked about joining Styles’ on his upcoming Together, Together stadium tour, noting that she’s already opened for some of the music industry’s biggest names, including Nicki Minaj, Katy Perry, Beyoncé and Maroon 5.
“I reached the point where I was like, ‘I’m not gonna open for anyone unless I feel like they really understand what I’m about,’” she said.
Styles, she added, fits that criteria. Tinashe praised the singer for being “very open to the artistry” and focused on making sure fans have a good time. She points to the fact that that’s something she sees as the heart of live music and performances.
“I’m excited to be able to get up there in Phoenix,” she said, before imagining the scale of the shows. “I never perform my songs in a stadium.”
Tinashe will open both of Styles’ April 2 and 3 shows at State Farm Stadium in Phoenix, kicking off the North American leg of his expanded Together, Together tour. The 2027 stadium run will also bring Styles to Pasadena, Dallas, Toronto, Atlanta and Chicago, with a different special guest joining him as a supporting act in each city.
The timing also finds Tinashe as she’s entering a new era. Her fifth studio album, Popstar, is due Sept. 25, following 2024’s Quantum Baby. Her “No Broke Boys” collaboration with Disco Lines also became her second U.S. top 40 hit on the Billboard Hot 100, reaching No. 39.
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Karol G continues to stay on top of the Billboard Hot Latin Songs top 10 chart with “Bby Wow.” Bad Bunny and Karol G continue to be dominate forces on the chart.
Here’s the Billboard Hot Latin Songs top 10 for the week dated September 19th. Lenin Ramirez crashes into the top 10 with “Polvo Rosita,” Neton Vega slides to 9. Latin Mafia and Fred Again.. push up to 8, as does Jay Wheeler to 7. “Koko” moves to 6 and “Ayúdame” to 5, “Matadora” claims the No. 4 spot, Karol G and Drake take No. 3, while “DtMF” holds the line at No. 2 and “Bby Wow” continues running the show with a fourth week at No. 1!
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