Burna Boy is stepping up to pay for the funerals of four individuals slain in a Stockton, Calif., mass shooting on Saturday (Nov. 29). The afrobeats star pledged to cover the costs of the funerals after learning about the heartbreaking shooting at a children’s birthday party in North Stockton.

“When I heard about the children murdered in Stockton, my heart broke. After hearing the story on The Breakfast Club, I reached out to Wack 100 and connected with Jason Lee because no family should ever face this kind of pain alone,” Burna Boy said in a press statement. “I wanted to do whatever I could to support these parents as they begin the long process of healing.”

Burna was also particularly moved by the story of Amari Peterson, a 14-year-old academic and athletic standout, who was tragically murdered. “Burna Boy’s generosity is an example of how people around the world want to help, even when they’ve never met the families impacted,” Stockton Vice Mayor and Hollywood Unlocked founder Jason Lee said.

At a vigil for victims over the weekend, Lee added, “It’s never been gangsta to kill kids. Never. You went in a birthday party and shot people’s children. Parents brought their children out and they left with medical examiners. That is not human.”

According to NBC News, the shooter remains on the run. Law enforcement is searching for an unidentified individual, but there may have been multiple shooters.

At least 100 people gathered at a banquet hall in North Stockton for a children’s birthday party on Saturday when gunfire erupted around 6 p.m. PT. Eleven people were wounded and subsequently hospitalized. Outside of 14-year-old Peterson, the ages of the victims were eight, nine and 21.

Burna Boy is doing plenty of giving back this holiday season. The Grammy-winning artist stopped by the Boston Arts Academy earlier this week, where he committed to sponsoring the school’s Free Bodega program to support students’ needs on a day-to-day basis.

Weezer bassist Scott Shriner’s wife, author Jillian Lauren-Shriner, has reportedly filed for divorce from the rocker after 20 years of marriage. According to People, Lauren-Shriner, 52, cited “irreconcilable differences” as the reason for the split, with no additional information available on the filing date, including the date of separation.

The filing came eight months after Lauren-Shriner was shot by police near the couple’s home on April 8 in Los Angeles in the midst of a manhunt for three suspects in an alleged hit-and-run in the couple’s Eagle Rock neighborhood. According to police, while Lauren-Shriner was not involved in the hit-and-run incident, she allegedly fired a weapon at an officer while in a backyard after officials said she repeatedly ignored their commands to drop her gun.

Lauren-Shriner was charged with two felony counts in the incident and pled not guilty on May 13 to charges of discharging a firearm with gross negligence and assault with a semiautomatic firearm; those charges were less severe than the initial charges the author faced when she was booked on suspicion of attempted murder following the bizarre incident.

Officers said that when the LAPD encountered Lauren-Shriner she refused to lower her weapon and aimed it at officers, leading to a shootout in which she sustained a non-life-threatening wound to the shoulder; no officers were injured in the incident. She was allowed to enter a two-year mental health diversion program instead of doing jail time, according to documents reportedly obtained by People.

At press time a spokesperson for Weezer had not returned Billboard‘s request for confirmation of the divorce proceedings.

The couple, who married in Nov. 2005 in Hawaii, have two children, son Jovanni Starshine, 13 and Tariku Moon, 17, and Lauren-Shriner is reportedly seeking joint legal and physical custody. She is also reportedly asking for spousal support and and that Shriner, 60, pay her attorney fees and that her last name be restored to Lauren.

Lauren-Shriner revealed on Instagram in March that she had been diagnosed with cancer and that she’d undergone two back-to-back surgeries, including a full hysterectomy.

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Bad Bunny dominates the majority of this year’s Spotify Wrapped Global Top Lists, which Billboard can exclusively reveal today (Dec. 3). 

Overall, the Puerto Rican star ranked No. 1 as the Global Top Artist of 2025. In second place among artists is Taylor Swift, followed in order by The Weeknd, Drake, Billie Eilish, Kendrick Lamar, Bruno Mars, Ariana Grande, Arijit Singh, and Fuerza Regida. 

Bunny’s DeBÍ TiRAR MáS FOToS album—which hit No. 1 on the Billboard 200 in January — also ranked as the Global Top Album of 2025. The set is followed by popular productions KPop Demon Hunters (KPop Demon Hunters Cast, HUNTR/X, Saja Boys), HIT ME HARD AND SOFT (Billie Eilish), SOS Deluxe: LANA (SZA), and Short n’ Sweet (Sabrina Carpenter).

Meanwhile, Lady Gaga and Bruno Mars’ heartfelt “Die with a Smile” wrapped as the Global Top Song of 2025, followed by Billie Eilish’s “Birds of a Feather,” Rosé and Bruno Mars’ “APT,” Alex Warren’s “Ordinary,” and Bad Bunny’s album title track “DtMF.” 

As for the Latin categories, Música Mexicana ranked as the No. 1 Latin genre for a second consecutive year, followed by reggaetón; and among the Top 10 Global Genres, reggaetón, urbano Latino, and Música Mexicana ranked No. 5, No. 6, and No. 8, respectively. Additionally, salsa, merengue, and guaracha saw double-digit growth, both globally and in the U.S. 

For a sixth year in a row, Karol G ranked as the Top Most-Streamed Female Latin Artists in the U.S. and globally, joined by Shakira, Kali Uchis, Emilia, Young Miko, and Maria Becerra. 

Below, see Spotify’s 2025 Global Top Latin lists.

Global Top Latin Artists of 2025:

Global Top Latin Songs of 2025

Global Top Latin Albums of 2025

Top Latin Albums in the U.S. of 2025

It’s been more than three years since The 1975 released their fifth studio album, Being Funny in a Foreign Language. But according to singer Matty Healy, next year could bring a deluge of new music from the group.

Healy spilled the beans on Tuesday (Dec. 2) during a chat with a fan at Gateshead College in England when he participated in a Q&A with students. The student was curious what the band meant when it flashed the word “DOGS” on a screen at the end of their Glastonbury set this summer. When the group closed out the Pyramid Stage on June 27, “DOGS” flashed on the screen in red across the stage, after it was also prominently displayed on drummer George Daniels’ drum kit during the set.

Healy confirmed to the student that DOGS is the name of their upcoming album, then teased, “we made two. It might be one, it might be two… but yeah, we’ve made two albums.” At press time no additional information was available on the album(s) and a spokesperson for the group had not yet responded to Billboard‘s request for confirmation on the band’s album release plans.

According to the NME, in May, the band’s manager, Jamie Oborne teased that the Glastonbury gig was the only one the 1975 would play this year because they are working to finalize their “pretty extraordinary” new album. Those comments came after fans began getting ramped up for the band’s next era in March of this year when they changed their logo and updated their social media profiles.

Oborne was tight-lipped when it came to details, saying only that Healy and company were “making a record at the moment. I don’t know when it will come out, but they’re making one… I think they’ve earned the right to take their time. The world’s gonna be listening, so it needs to be right.”

Being Funny in a Foreign Language was released in Oct. 2022 and peaked at No. 7 on the Billboard 200 album chart.