Bizarrap can now add “voice actor” to his résumé. The Argentine DJ and producer announced that he will be joining the Disney and Pixar universe, bringing one of the animated film Toy Story 5 characters to life in the Spanish-language version of the upcoming animated film.
To make the news official, the artist posted a carousel of photos on his Instagram account on Monday (June 1), in which he appears with toys of the iconic characters Woody and Buzz Lightyear. One of the photos features him wearing a black baseball cap featuring the font and colors of the franchise’s logo, but the letters form the abbreviation the artist uses for his name: BZRP.
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“I am the voice of ‘Santa de Jardín,’ the new character in Toy Story 5 ((last pic)),” he captioned his post. “Unexpected places you can reach by doing what you love, chapter 42.” The final image of his character features a weathered garden gnome wearing a classic pointy red hat and sporting a bushy white beard.
A press release distributed on Monday (June 1) confirmed that the creator of the “BZRP Music Sessions” will lend his voice to the character “Santa de Jardín” (Garden Santa) in the Spanish-dubbed version of the film, which will be available in Latin America and Spain. According to the statement, “Santa de Jardín” is part of a small community of forgotten toys in a backyard and serves as their protector.
The announcement comes just days after Pixar revealed that Bad Bunny will voice the character Pizza With Sunglasses, both in the original English version and the Spanish-dubbed version. Biza’s character and the “Debí Tirar Más Fotos” singer will share a scene together, the press release revealed.
Toy Story 5 will premiere in the United States on June 19, one day after its release in markets including Mexico and Argentina. Watch the official Spanish-language trailer below:
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Everything’s cool between Joe Jonas and Sophie Turner, as far as their kids are concerned.
On the Tuesday (June 2) installment of the Jonas Brothers’ new podcast Hey Jonas, the DNCE frontman delved into how his co-parenting relationship with the Game of Thrones actress — to whom he was married for four years — helps him on a holistic level. “I am a single dad, and I co-parent with my children’s mother,” he began, responding to a listener who’d called in with a question about what the most “healing” part of becoming parents has been for the JoBros.
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“I think my children have given me purpose again in my life,” he continued. “Having them, the reason I do what I do now, meaning go to work … knowing that I get to work hard if I’m not with them and go back to my shared time I get to be with them, it makes it so much better to work that much harder. In my saddest moments, I’m able to be reminded quickly that a hug from them can solve the world’s problems in my own world.”
“I’m grateful I have a co-parent I can balance even the bad days [with],” Joe added. “Having good people around me to help me navigate it is really special. They’ve taught me that I’m going to be OK in my toughest days.”
The musician shares two young daughters with Turner. In 2023, they announced their split with a statement reading, “After four wonderful years of marriage we have mutually decided to amicably end our marriage … truly this is a united decision and we sincerely hope that everyone can respect our wishes for privacy for us and our children.”
Before their divorce was finalized the following year, however, the situation between them briefly turned contentious when Turner sued Joe for allegedly refusing to hand over their daughters’ passports, keeping them from returning home with her to England. She dropped the suit after reaching a custody agreement with the singer in January 2024, and they now share custody of the girls.
“My little ones have some incredible women to look up to, including their mom,” Joe said on the School of Greatness podcast this past July. “I have a great co-parenting relationship, which is really important to me.”
Joe is now dating Tatiana Gabriela, making the relationship official on social media in April with photos and a vlog of their recent trip to Puerto Rico. He dropped a solo album, Music For People Who Believe In Love, last year and reached No. 24 on the Billboard 200. Greetings From Your Hometown, the Jonas Brothers’ 2025 album, peaked at No. 6.
Watch Joe open up about coparenting with Sophie Turner below.
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The 2026 NHL Playoffs are almost finished, with the beginning of the NHL Stanley Cup Final around the corner, as puck drops on Tuesday, June 2. The top teams in the Eastern Conference and the Western Conference in the pro hockey league are set to battle for the iconic Stanley Cup trophy.
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It’s likely there will be a number of celebrities and famous recording artists in attendance during the NHL Playoffs, such as VGK fans Lil’ Jon, Wayne Newton, Gordon Ramsay and others; as well as Canes fans Stephen Colbert, Petey Pablo, John Isner, Evander Holyfield and more. Just tune in to the series to find out who’s sitting rinkside.
NHL Stanley Cup Final 2026 Schedule
The 2026 NHL Stanley Cup Final start on Tuesday, June 2, and goes until Wednesday, June 17 — if the series goes to seven games. During the championship series, the Hurricanes have home ice advantage since the team has the better regular season record. Game 1 and Game 2 (as well as Game 5 and Game 7, if necessary) take place at Lenovo Center in Raleigh, N.C., while Game 3 and Game 4 (with Game 6, if necessary) are set at T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas.
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In the week ending May 28, following its May 22 release, “The Cure” totaled 19.7 million chart-eligible streams, 292,000 in radio audience and 9,000 sold in the United States, according to Luminate.
Rodrigo previously ruled both rankings with “Brutal” in 2021 and “Bad Idea Right?” in 2023. She has now notched a No. 1 on the charts from each of her three albums: Sour, Guts and her forthcoming You Seem Pretty Sad for a Girl So in Love.
In all, Rodrigo has charted 13 titles on both Hot Rock & Alternative Songs and Hot Alternative Songs, 11 of which have hit the top 10.
Concurrently, “The Cure” bows at No. 5 on the all-genre Billboard Hot 100, becoming Rodrigo’s sixth top five and eighth top 10, totals that include four No. 1s. “Drop Dead,” the lead single from You Seem Pretty Sad for a Girl So in Love, debuted at No. 1 in May and leaps 30-12 on the latest list as the greatest gainer in streaming (13 million, up 13%). “Drop Dead” remains the set’s focus radio track, rising to No. 8 on the Pop Airplay chart.
You Seem Pretty Sad for a Girl So in Love is due on Geffen/Capitol Interscope June 12.
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Sony Music Publishing continued to sweep the No. 1 spot on both the Top Radio Airplay and Hot 100 publishing rankings in the first quarter of 2026 after claiming that distinction in all four quarters last year.
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Its best showing this quarter was on the Radio Airplay rankings, where it garnered a 29.11% share, with a stake in 71 of the Top 100 songs, including Olivia Dean’s “Man I Need,” which topped that chart. While that was down slightly from the 75 songs and 30.03% showing it produced in the fourth quarter of 2025, Sony showed a big improvement on the Hot 100 rankings over the prior quarter, posting a 29.08% share with a stake in 65 songs — up from 21.57% and 49 songs in Q4 2025. It also had a stake in the Hot 100 chart’s top song of the quarter, Ella Langley’s “Choosin’ Texas.”
Another factor boosting Sony’s performance: It was the administrator for the quarter’s top songwriter, the Songs of Orchard’s Shane “sombr” Boose, who accomplished that feat for both charts.
Warner Chappell Music (WCM) came in at No. 2 on both publisher rankings, with a 23.22% share and a stake in 58 songs on Top Airplay; and a 20.49% share and a slice of 50 songs on the Hot 100 chart. WCM’s top Airplay song was the No. 2 track, Bruno Mars’ “I Just Might,” while its top Hot 100 song was the No. 3 tune, Alex Warren’s “Ordinary.” That marked an improvement on both charts from Q4 2025, when Warner Chappell had a 22.13% share on Top Airplay while claiming 57 songs; and a 16.92% share on pieces of 36 songs on the Hot 100, where it placed third.
On the Top Airplay chart, Warner Chappell has ranked second in 10 of the last 11 quarters — and the only reason it missed out on second in Q4 2024 was because it came in at No. 1. The company also ranks No. 1 on the Top Country Airplay songs chart for the 10th consecutive quarter.
Likewise, Universal Music Publishing Group (UMPG) landed the No. 3 spot in both rankings, and also showed market share improvements. On the Top Airplay rankings, its market share improved to 14.48% (58 songs) from the prior quarter’s 13.92% (44 songs). On the Hot 100 chart, UMPG’s share climbed to 17.55% (47 songs) from the prior quarter’s 16.69% (36 songs), when it ranked fourth. Its top song on both charts in the first quarter was “Man I Need.”
After attaining a lofty No. 2 ranking on the Hot 100 in Q4 2025, Kobalt fell back to its traditional No. 4 spot after a more than 10 percentage point drop to 11.15% from the prior quarter’s 21.43%. On the Radio Airplay rankings, Kobalt finished with a 9.86% thanks to a stake in 32 songs, a drop from its Q4 showing of an 11.59% share and 40 songs. BMG continued to rank at No. 5 on both charts, with 6.19% in market share on Top Radio Airplay (12 songs) and 5.24% (seven songs) on the Hot 100. Concord claimed the No. 6 slot on both rankings, while Top Airplay finished out with Reservoir, Big Machine Music, Mike Curb Music and Sentric, respectively; and the Hot 100 finished with Sentric, Pulse, Bluewater Music and Spirit, all four of which missed the rankings in Q4 2025.
On this week’s Billboard Hot 100 (dated June 6), Olivia Rodrigo’s “The Cure” debuts at No. 5. It arrives as the second single from her forthcoming album, You Seem Pretty Sad for a Girl So in Love, out June 12. The emotional pop track follows lead single “Drop Dead” that debuted at No. 1 in early May.
Elsewhere, “The Cure” debuts atop the Hot Rock & Alternative Songs chart. It’s Rodrigo’s third leader on the tally, following “Brutal” in 2021 and “Bad Idea Right?” in 2023.
So, what does this second single showing mean for Rodrigo’s new album? And with the album release nearing, what else would we like to see from the star before it drops? Billboard staffers discuss these questions and more below.
1. This week, Rodrigo’s “The Cure” enters the Hot 100 at No. 5. It follows “Drop Dead,” the lead single from her forthcoming album, You Seem Pretty Sad for a Girl So in Love, which became her fourth single to debut atop the Hot 100. If you’re Olivia, on a scale of 1-10, how happy are you with a top five debut?
Hannah Dailey: I’ll give it an 8. Of course you’re always going to hope for a back-to-back No. 1 when you’re an artist as big as Olivia, but a top five placement the week after Drake dominated the top chunk of the Hot 100 is a huge feat. It’s clear that she still has people’s attention and excitement surrounding the new album.
Josh Glicksman: Let’s go with a 7. Candidly, I don’t know how much stock she’s putting in her Hot 100 debut for “The Cure” to begin with. She already proved her chart prowess is as solid as ever with her No. 1 arrival for “Drop Dead”; plus, between 29 entries across Drake’s three albums still percolating on this week’s chart and Ella Langley’s ever-strengthening grasp on the mainstream, Rodrigo is up against a tough board. Given that she called “The Cure” one of her “favorite songs I’ve ever made,” perhaps she hoped for a touch higher, but I can’t imagine she’ll be losing much sleep.
Lyndsey Havens: 7. This can be argued both ways: having a new album’s lead single start strong immediately generates hype, while having its second single outshine the first could also prove that the best is still yet to come. So sure, “Drop Dead” scored the higher debut here – in fact, the highest possible debut – but a top five entry is still a stellar start. Especially when you consider who she’s up against right now.
Joe Lynch: 9. A top five Hot 100 debut for the second song to preview a new album is fantastic, phenomenal even when considering “The Cure” is a sad-to-harrowing five-minute journey, more confessional than pop single. Rebecca Milzoff: A solid 8! Knowing that Olivia recently said this is one of her favorite songs on the album, I’m sure she would of course have loved another No. 1. But against the behemoths that are both Drake and Ella right now, and with a (checks watch) over five-minute long song that’s a slightly unusual vibe for early Olivia singles — neither a sweeping ballad nor a middle-fingers-up pop-punk rocker — the No. 5 debut seems like a more than respectable achievement.
2. “The Cure” enters the chart following a Drake takeover and with Ella Langley still holding strong. Even so, is this about what you would expect for Olivia’s second album single?
Hannah Dailey: Yeah, more or less. Her last album era was similar in that lead single “Vampire” debuted at No. 1, followed by a No. 7 debut for follow-up single “Bad Idea Right?” I wouldn’t have been surprised if she’d debuted in a higher position with “The Cure,” but I’m not aghast or anything that she didn’t.
Josh Glicksman: Generally speaking, yes — and if anything, I’d say it’s an encouraging takeaway for Rodrigo. The second singles from SOUR and GUTS — “deja vu” and “bad idea right?” — debuted at Nos. 8 and 10 on the Hot 100, respectively. Being able to set a new best with “The Cure,” particularly amid a difficult chart week with Drake, Langley and a host of other top 10 mainstays, it could be a sign of very good things to come for the forthcoming album.
Lyndsey Havens: If we weren’t amidst a Drake domination following an Ella enchantment on the Hot 100, I would expect “The Cure” to debut higher. But, given the fact that Langley’s “Choosin’ Texas” isn’t going away anytime soon coupled with the fact that Drake just dropped three whole albums worth of music, I think a No. 5 start seems about right for Olivia this week.
Joe Lynch: There’s a world (one where Drake dropped his comeback LPs a few weeks later and “Choosin’ Texas” never two-stepped onto the Hot 100) in which “The Cure” might have had a shot at the top spot, more likely a No. 2 debut. But to my ear, “The Cure” sounds less like a bid for radio play than it does demonstrating her substantial sonic evolution. The fact that is does just that and debuted top 5 is a double win. Rebecca Milzoff: Historically, it’s honestly a bit better: second Sour single “deja vu” debuted at No. 8, while “bad idea right?” from Guts debuted at No. 10. Especially without the onslaught of promotion that accompanied “Drop Dead,” and without any teaser even on her Saturday Night Live appearance, that performance makes it exceed my expectations a bit too.
3. You Seem Pretty Sad for a Girl So in Love is divided into two sections: girl so in love and you seem pretty sad. “Drop Dead” is the first song of the first section, while “The Cure” is the first song of the second section. Given that, what section are you more excited for from the album?
Hannah Dailey: Definitely the second section. I think she’s really onto something with the concept of love sometimes bringing out the worst parts of you, and I’m really intrigued to see what a songwriter as perceptive and thoughtful as Olivia has to say about that across a collection of songs.
Josh Glicksman: As a recently married man, the expected answer for me here may be to say girl so in love, but give me the heartwrenching ballads every day of the week and twice on Sunday. The phenomenon of the tortured artist exists for good reason! Sure, being blissfully in love is cool and all, but try telling me that message hits harder in music than unleashing a full-throated “I’m unraveled!” at the sky during a powerhouse bridge. Sign me up for you seem pretty sad.
Lyndsey Havens: In both cases, “Drop Dead” and “The Cure” were slow growers for me. The latter has been even more subtle, with its indie-rock riff embedding itself deep in my brain and playing quietly on loop. If we consider what we think we know of Olivia’s life of late – namely, the fact that she may have endured a breakup somewhere along the way to this album – that to me feels like a more complex space to explore than straightforward love songs. Even the way “The Cure” unexpectedly builds in its second half helps me feel more excited and curious for that album’s section – and I hope at least one song goes full Ragerigo.
Joe Lynch: The second section, certainly. “Drop Dead” is great and I love an Olivia earworm, but I’m eager to hear Rodrigo get into darker territory. Obviously her breakthrough hit was an emotional weeper, but we’ve never heard her get this dark before – and like Robert Smith, black seems to be a color that suits Rodrigo well. Rebecca Milzoff: Definitely the second. I love the Smashing Pumpkins feel of “The Cure” as a ’90s rock girlie (not to mention the Michel Gondry-esque music video), but I love even more feeling like Olivia is revealing a new level of complexity in how she approaches writing about relationships and her own agency in them. She’s admitting she has issues, that not every breakup can be squarely blamed on one person, and she’s thus finding new layers of how to address the experience of being in, and losing, love.
4. Both “Drop Dead” and “The Cure” nod to the Robert Smith-led band. What other rock act might Olivia reference on the album?
Hannah Dailey: You never know with her! My first guess would be David Byrne, who recorded his own version of “Drivers License” for the single’s five-year anniversary earlier this year (as part of a project that has since seemingly been abandoned?) and made a cameo at Rodrigo’s Gov Ball set in 2025.
Josh Glicksman: Given David Byrne’s “drivers license” cover in January, the first answer that comes to mind would be Talking Heads. That said, why limit it to just bands? I’ll take Avril Lavigne here. She covered the legendary pop-punk star’s “Complicated” during her Glastonbury set in 2022 — where, notably, she more recently covered The Cure’s “Friday I’m in Love” and “Just Like Heaven” last year.
Lyndsey Havens: Jack White, please. Their admiration-turned-friendship has always felt special; especially when it’s White who is inspired to do something cute, like leaving her a note to find in the Saturday Night Live green room. While it simply said “kill it kid,” I will now forever be yearning for a collaboration from them with that title – but, on you seem pretty sad, I’d settle for a secret nod to White or his discography.
Joe Lynch: Oh, I don’t know. I suppose people have said that “Drop Dead” already tips to Foo Fighters, but if we’re keeping on the Cure vibe, maybe another great act moody ‘80s act, Depeche Mode. Livtronica we haven’t quite heard yet. Rebecca Milzoff: I can see The Cranberries being an influence — a band that can veer between righteous rage and gorgeously plaintive melody so well.
5. With just two more weeks to go until album release, what are you hoping that Olivia still might do as part of her rollout campaign?
Hannah Dailey: Honestly? I want her to get a little messy with it. No one has for-sure confirmed the rumors that she and Louis Partridge are broken up, so if she really wanted to get more people to tune into the album, she could drop a pointed remark about him in an interview or throw a little shade in some TikTok comments to get the gossip mill working in her favor. People might have their objections to it, but you can’t say it isn’t a tried-and-true way of selling records.
Josh Glicksman: Maybe it’s because summer is finally here and I’m hungry, but take a page out of Tyler, the Creator’s playbook and craft a collaboration with a premium ice cream brand.
Lyndsey Havens: She’s done a lot. And it all seems to be working to keep the fire lit as release day nears. I think, if anything, it could be really fun to play into the album’s two sides… Maybe host two release parties depending on the vibe fans are feeling: are you in love, or pretty sad? Pick a lane. Each party would only get to hear one half of the album, leaving fans to piece it all together online just as the full project drops.
Joe Lynch: A Billboard interview? Also, her pop-up performance at Pete’s Candy Store in Brooklyn was awesome, and I hope there’s more stuff like that on the docket – genuinely surprising moments that also help boost the profile of a cool neighborhood venue (not necessarily in New York City). Rebecca Milzoff: I loved the quiet intensity and gradual build of “The Cure,” but I’m of course still hoping there’s at least one trademark Olivia rager in the album’s second half to get us all rocking out and psyched for the ultimate release.
Morgan Wallen is making light of his recent onstage piano-flipping incident.
Wallen posted a TikTok on June 1 that seems to have been filmed before his second headlining show in Denver on May 30. In the clip, he assured fans that his piano is, in fact, working properly, after he had previously pushed his piano over and off the stage after experiencing technical difficulties during his Denver concert on May 29.
In the brief TikTok, Wallen is standing behind a piano and addresses fans directly. “Hey, I just want you to know that right now this piano is working,” he says. After starting to turn away from the keyboard, he then turns back toward the camera and adds, “That’s what they told me last night, too!”
“Can’t you tell I’m so distraught over my piano,” he captioned the video.
The piano-flipping incident took place as Wallen concluded his May 29 show at Denver’s Empower Field at Mile High Stadium. During an encore of his hit “Sand in My Boots” — which peaked at No. 30 on the Billboard Hot 100 dated March 5, 2022 — Wallen’s performance had seemed to be going well until technical difficulties appeared to prevent the country star from hearing the piano he was playing. He instead closed out the song a cappella, before flipping over the piano in a manner that has drawn comparisons to “Piano Man” Billy Joel. During his Denver show on May 30, Wallen’s performance seemed to flow smoothly, with no piano glitches.
The Grammy-nominated artist is currently on his headlining Still the Problem stadium run, with upcoming shows including stops on June 5 and 6 at Pittsburgh’s Acrisure Stadium. He’s also set to play shows in Chicago (June 19-20); Clemson, S.C. (June 26-27); and Baltimore (July 17-18) in the weeks ahead.
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Teddy Swims catches up with Billboard at Stagecoach to talk about his rise from early interviews to Hot 100 success, Grammy nominations, fatherhood and what keeps him grounded. He opens up about his journey, the lessons he learned from timing, his bond with fans and the new music he’s working on.
He also shares stories about Jelly Roll, Lainey Wilson and Meghan Trainor, his love for Otis Redding and more!
Fans: Hey, Teddy!
Teddy Swims: Hey, brothers. What’s up, dudes? I paid them to say that so I’d look cool on my interview. For the record. Tetris, I hope you’re dressed. Well, I actually hope you’re not.
Tetris Kelly:Teddy Swims, brother. What’s up?
How are you doing?
Thanks for coming to the-
Love your shirt.
Oh, no. Just for you. I only do it for the cool people.
That’s cool.
The people in my fandom, you know what I mean?
You know what I mean?
Well, thanks for hanging out in the desert with me.
Yeah. Yeah. Oh, yeah.
We gonna kick it today? For real, kick it though?
Yeah, absolutely.
All right, let’s do it, bro.
Do whatever you want, man.
Fan 1: We’re pumped. So excited.
Fan 2: The audience just falls in love with him.
Fan 3: He’s got great songwriting.
Fan 4: For country music fans, I think that makes a lot of difference. That’s Teddy Swims.
So, Teddy, my man, we’ve been, we’ve known each other quite some time.
Yeah, a really long time now.
So I wanna talk about your journey, but we gotta start by going down memory lane.
OK.
I wanna see if you’re even gonna recognize any of this.
OK. Nuh-uh! Like, stop it. Man, we look like babies. That’s so crazy.
Little children. This was 2021.
It looks, uh, it’s so weird ’cause I feel like I’m done growing, but I look such, like, a little kid. We both look like little kids right there.
Yeah.
It looks like we go so far back.
We were just, like, at happy hour getting to know each other.
Yeah. Uh, we are at happy hour.
And, like, you have been a long way since happy hour, my friend.
Oh, my god.
Like, such a long way.
And still stuck there, too.
We’re still kind of at happy- I think me and you are just permanently at happy hour. That’s our vibe.
The happiest one. And what else you got? OK.
And this one was actually the first time I ever officially interviewed you.
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Olivia Rodrigo’s “The Cure” debuted at No. 5 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart dated June 6. The song doubles as a prescription for Billboard to do further testing and see how often a top 10 Hot 100 song title has been the same as an act that has also hit the top 10. With “The Cure” in the chart’s title field, it joins Rock & Roll Hall of Fame British band The Cure, which reached the region in 1989 with one of its many alt classics, “Love Song.”
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While uncommon, songs and artists have occasionally shared names in the Hot 100’s top 10. Below, Billboard runs down those double-ups. Notably, we’re using exact matches, so cases of, say, “Cars” by Gary Numan, a Hot 100 top 10 in 1980, and The Cars, who tallied four top 10s in 1982-86, don’t make the cut.
Other close calls not included, since we’re following wording to the letter and character: Both Mariah Carey and Brenda Lee (coincidentally the only women with holiday No. 1s on the Hot 100) have top 10s called “Emotions,” while The Emotions earned two top 10s; DNA remixed Suzanne Vega’s “Tom’s Diner” for a top 10, while Kendrick Lamar made the tier with (look closely) “DNA.”; and “The Scotts” was a No. 1 for The Scotts, though the group was technically listed as The Scotts, Travis Scott & Kid Cudi.
Plus, Tim McGraw has three Hot 100 top 10s, but Taylor Swift’s “Tim McGraw” peaked at No. 40; Swift’s “Florida!!!” hit the top 10, but that’s a bit away from Flo Rida, who boasts 11 top 10s; and if only Lamar and SZA had named “Luther” “Luther Vandross,” as their 2025 No. 1 is an ode to the late R&B great, who achieved five top 10s.
Get ready to see double (and hopefully find the cure for that) in the recap below of songs and artists that have had identical names in the Hot 100’s top 10.
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A federal appeals court has ruled against 2 Live Crew and overturned a verdict that allowed the legendary hip-hop group to regain legal control of much of their record catalog.
In a decision Tuesday (June 2), the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit ruled that members of the group couldn’t invoke copyright law’s “termination right” — a provision that allows creators to take back ownership of their works decades after they sold them away.
Siding with a label called Lil Joe Records that bought the band’s masters in the 1990s and controlled them ever since, the court overturned 2 Live’s major legal victory in 2024, which saw the group win back control of five of its albums.
The reason? The court said that one of 2 Live’s members, Brother Marquis (Mark Ross), had filed for bankruptcy years earlier, voiding his ability to invoke termination.
“Ross could not exercise his termination interests when he signed the notice because they remained with his bankruptcy estate,” the court wrote in the ruling, obtained and first reported by Billboard. “A debtor has no right to control property of the estate while it remains property of the estate.”
Without the support of Ross, the appeals court said the other two 2 Live Crew members did not have the legal authority to invoke termination for the band’s music: “We reverse the district court’s contrary conclusion,” the decision reads.
The ruling means that Lil Joe will continue to own the sound recording copyrights to five of 2 Live’s biggest albums, including their provocative 1989 record As Nasty as They Wanna Be, which reached No. 29 on the Billboard 200 and was certified platinum.
Richard Wolfe, lead counsel for Lil Joe Records and label owner Joe Weinberger, said he and his client were “gratified” by the ruling: “We absolutely agree with the 11th Circuit. The court properly concluded that when they sent the [termination] notice, they didn’t have the rights.”
An attorney for the 2 Live Crew members declined to comment.
The legal battle kicked off in 2020, when Uncle Luke (Luther Campbell) and the heirs of Ross and Fresh Kid Ice (Christopher Wong Won) notified Lil Joe that they planned to take back the five albums. The group’s fourth member, Mr. Mixx (David P. Hobbs), was not involved in the termination efforts.
The label, which bought 2 Live’s catalog after the group’s previous label went bankrupt in 1995, fought back, filing a preemptive lawsuit aimed at defeating the termination. But after years of litigation, a jury sided with 2 Live in October 2024, an outcome that the group’s lawyers called “a total and overwhelming victory for our clients and artists everywhere.”
Lil Joe vowed to appeal, claiming the case raised novel legal questions that the trial court had gotten wrong. And in Tuesday’s decision, the Eleventh Circuit agreed — ruling that the dispute “presents a question of first impression at the intersection of copyright and bankruptcy.”
When Ross declared bankruptcy in 2000, he never listed his potential termination right as part of his property, and thus it was never addressed during his case. But the appeals court says it was there and, because it was never dealt with, it remained in the possession of the so-called bankruptcy estate – the temporary legal entity that controls a bankrupt person’s property.
“We conclude that Ross’s interests became part of his bankruptcy estate and were held as property of that estate at the time he purported to exercise them,” the court wrote. “So he could not exercise them at that time.”
Without Ross, the appeals court said Uncle Luke and the estate of Fresh Kid Ice could not invoke termination. Under federal copyright law, for works created by multiple co-authors, a majority must sign off on such efforts — and 2 Live Crew had four members: “Two out of four interests is one interest short of an effective termination.”
The 2 Live Crew members and heirs can appeal the ruling, first to a wider panel of Eleventh Circuit judges and then to the U.S. Supreme Court. But such appeals would face long odds of success.
Though it dealt with a novel questions about a hotly-contested area of music law, the appeals court was careful to stress that Tuesday’s ruling was limited to the unique facts of the 2 Live and Ross’s case — and that it was perhaps not the final say on the matter.
“Although we conclude that Ross’s termination interests were property of the bankruptcy estate at the time he purported to exercise them, our decision is limited,” the appeals court wrote. “We do not address how termination interests should be treated in bankruptcy. And we do not decide today what Ross’s heirs need to do to exercise those interests in the light of his bankruptcy.”
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