After seven years of marriage, Nick Jonas is still a sucker for Priyanka Chopra.

In a sweet post on his Instagram Story on Monday (Dec. 1), the Jonas Brothers star shared a photo of his famous wife lounging on a towel by a luxurious pool. “7 years married to my dream girl,” he wrote in awe.

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Reposting it on her own Story, the Bollywood icon added, “You’re what dreams are made of.”

The two stars first connected in 2016, after which they attended the 2017 Met Gala together as friends. But come 2018, Jonas and Chopra were fully a couple, with the pair both getting engaged and tying the knot that year.

In January 2022, they welcomed their first child together, daughter Malti. “Thank you @priyankachopra for the incredible Father Daughter sneakers and for making me a daddy I love you so much,” Jonas wrote on Instagram on Father’s Day that year.

The couple’s anniversary comes just a couple of days after Chopra shared photos of her adorable family and reflected on their life together in a Thanksgiving post on Instagram. “Sometimes I catch myself being in complete awe of the beauty, wonder and love all around me,” she wrote on Saturday (Nov. 29). “This thanksgiving I’m so grateful for health, joy, togetherness and the simple pleasures of life that we tend to take for granted sometimes … I’m just reminding myself one of the best things in life is being able to be surrounded by your loved ones.”

Fans of the Chopra-Jonas family can catch all three of them in Hulu’s new A Very Jonas Christmas Move, which premiered on Nov. 14 alongside a corresponding soundtrack. The Quantico alum makes a brief cameo with little Malti at the very end, appearing alongside the rest of the Jonas family to help welcome Nick, Joe and Kevin home for the holidays after a tumultuous world tour.

The life Nick and Chopra have built together will now inform the former’s first solo album in five years, Sunday Best, which is set to drop Feb. 6 next year. Featuring 11 tracks, the project will find the musician sharing his perspectives as a husband and father.

“I’m so excited to share these new stories, candid thoughts, quiet walks home in the city, and snapshots of my life over these past few years,” he said in a statement at the time of the album announcement on Monday. “And while this album was made over the course of the last two years, it was truly 33 years in the making.”


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Kendrick Lamar knows a thing or two about diss tracks — and it sounds like he won’t have to worry about one from Jussie Smollett anytime soon.

During an episode of Cam Newton’s Funky Fridays podcast over the weekend, the Empire star reflected on Lamar’s controversial 2022 “The Heart Part 5” music video, in which the rapper morphed into deepfaked versions of embattled Black male celebrities such as Smollett, Will Smith, O.J. Simpson, Ye (formerly Kanye West) and Nipsey Hussle.

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“Maybe I’m completely naive, so don’t f—ing fill me in about anything… but I don’t know. I don’t know what Kendrick meant by the video. I really don’t,” Smollett said with a laugh. “I respect him as an artist, and that’s about as far as it can go. You ain’t going to see me putting out no diss track against him, I’m not doing that!”

When Lamar dropped “The Heart Part 5,” which won 2023 Grammys for best rap song and best rap performance, he neglected to provide a statement contextualizing the immediately divisive and intensely political music video. Given his selection of Black male celebrities battling various scandals, some viewers interpreted the Dave Free-co-directed video as a commentary on hypocrisy, fame and public perception. “Heart Part 5” earned additional Grammy nominations for best music video, as well as song and record of the year.

The music video, which also picked up two MTV Video Music Awards nods, arrived three years after Smollett was arrested for staging an alleged hate crime, sued by the city of Chicago, and sentenced to 150 days in jail. He ultimately served six days behind bars before being released on bond and having his conviction overturned in 2024. Due to the scandal, Empire writers removed Smollett’s character from the final two episodes of the series’ fifth season. Through the show, Smollett reached the Billboard Hot 100 with soundtrack singles such as “Keep Your Money” (No. 99), “You’re So Beautiful” (No. 47, with Yazz) and “Conqueror” (No. 42, with Estelle).

“Most people have made up their minds about what they want to believe,” the vocalist told Newton. “Either way, okay. Because at this point, my people know. My mother has always known. My siblings have always known. My love has always known.”

For his part, Lamar is up for another nine Grammy nominations at the 2026 awards show. At February’s ceremony, Lamar will contend in a slew of categories, including album of the year (GNX) and song and record of the year (“Luther,” with SZA). At the 2025 Grammys, the Pulitzer Prize winner took home five trophies for his searing Drake diss “Not Like Us.”

Watch Smollett’s full conversation with Cam Newton below.

Last month, it was announced that Pharrell would be awarded Shoe of the Year at the 2025 Footwear News Achievement Awards (FNAAs) for his Virginia Adistar Jellyfish collaboration with Adidas. Now Billboard can exclusively announce that the award will be presented by none other than fellow Virginia Beach native and frequent collaborator Pusha T.

“Virginia is my home. It’s the origin,” Pharrell told Footwear News in their brand-new FNAAs issue (see the cover below). “So, when we create under the Virginia umbrella with Adidas we’re talking about roots, culture and identity —not just the shoe, but the ecosystem around it: the story, the place, the community.”

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He added: “The Adistar Jellyfish was never about playing it safe. It was about expanding the idea of what movement could look like. I see it as freedom. There’s expectation, but really there’s an invitation to go a little further, to explore a little beyond.”

Pharrell and Pusha T met in the early ’90s and have always repped Virginia Beach throughout their stellar careers, so it only makes sense that Pharrell would be presented this award by another hometown hero. “Virginia Beach is already a cultural destination – where community comes together, where artists collaborate and new ideas are born – but there’s so much more to come,” he told Footwear News.

He concluded: “‘Go bigger’ was a mindset. If we’re going to do it, let’s really do it.”

This will cap an excellent year for Pharrell and Push, as they’re each nominated at the 2026 Grammys for their work on the Clipse album Let God Sort Em Out — including the top prize of album of the year — plus Pharrell snagged a best music film nod for the LEGO biopic Piece by Piece.

The 2025 FNAAs will take place Wednesday (Dec. 3) at Cipriani 25 Broadway in New York City.

The event will also honor Tommy Hilfiger with a Lifetime Achievement Award, Coco Gauff as Style Influencer of the Year, and Ronnie Fieg as Person of the Year. Other honorees include Jordan Brand (Brand of the Year), New Balance x Miu Miu (Collaboration of the Year), and Nordstrom (Retailer of the Year).

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When 50 Cent initially announced plans to put together a documentary surrounding Diddy and his longtime foe’s history of alleged sexual abuse tied to his federal case, many figured that was the G-Unit mogul back at his typical trolling ways.

Netflix picked up the documentary, produced by 50 Cent and directed by Alex Stapleton, and a release date for Tuesday (Dec. 2) was revealed last week, cementing that 50 was in fact very serious about putting the docuseries together.

Sean Combs: The Reckoning is broken down into four episodes about an hour in length each, detailing the rise and fall of Diddy, with contributions from those who worked close to him throughout his decorated hip-hop career — as well as those who were victims of his mental, physical and sexual abuse over the years. There’s also an episode dedicated to Diddy’s involvement in the East Coast-West Coast feud, and his ties to the deaths of The Notorious B.I.G. and 2Pac.

“I’ve been committed to real storytelling for years through G-Unit Film and Television,” 50 said in a statement. “I’m grateful to everyone who came forward and trusted us with their stories, and proud to have Alexandria Stapleton as the director on the project to bring this important story to the screen.”

The Reckoning filmmakers also got their hands also got their hands on revealing footage of Combs filming his day-to-day life in the days leading up to his eventual arrest on federal charges in September 2024.

“Being a woman in the industry, and going through the #MeToo movement — watching giants in music and film go on trial, and to know what their outcomes were … When Cassie dropped her lawsuit, I just thought this could go a million different directions,” director Stapleton added. “I wondered how she had the confidence to go out there against a mogul like Sean Combs. As a filmmaker, I instantly knew it was a stress test of whether we’ve changed as a culture, as far as being able to process allegations like this in a fair way.”

Stapleton continued: “This isn’t just about the story of Sean Combs or the story of Cassie, or the story of any of the victims, or the allegations against him, or the trial. Ultimately, this story is a mirror [reflecting us] as the public, and what we are saying when we put our celebrities on such a high pedestal. I hope [this documentary] is a wake-up call for how we idolize people, and to understand that everybody is a human being.”

The docuseries features interviews with a pair of jurors from Combs’ federal trial, who shed light on the jury’s decision to reach a mixed verdict as well as what they saw inside the courtroom.

Diddy was sentenced to 50 months in prison with time served after being found guilty on a pair of federal prostitution charges, but avoided the harsher charges when the embattled mogul was acquitted of racketeering and sex trafficking in October.

A spokesperson for Diddy declined to comment on the specific allegations made in the series. “Many of the people featured have longstanding personal grievances, financial motives, or credibility issues that have been documented for years,” Juda Engelmayer said in a statement to USA TODAY. “Several of these stories have already been addressed in court filings, and others were never raised in any legal forum because they’re simply not true. The project was built around a one-sided narrative led by a publicly admitted adversary, and it repeats allegations without context, evidence, or verification. Sean Combs will continue to address legitimate matters through the legal process, not through a biased Netflix production.”

Here are 10 things we learned about from Sean Combs: The Reckoning.


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The Wicked: For Good film soundtrack debuts in the top 10 across seven Billboard charts (dated Dec. 6), including No. 1 on both the Soundtracks ranking and Vinyl Albums.

Led by its stars Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande, the album soars in with 122,000 equivalent album units earned in the United States in the week ending Nov. 27, according to Luminate. That sum marks the largest debut week for a soundtrack in 2025.

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Plus, on the overall all-genre Billboard 200, as Wicked: For Good debuts at No. 2, it logs 2025’s highest-debut for a soundtrack — and the highest arrival since the first Wicked soundtrack also opened at No. 2 a year ago, on the Dec. 7, 2024-dated chart.

In addition to Wicked: For Good’s chart-topping bow on Soundtracks and Vinyl Albums, and its No. 2 entry on the Billboard 200, the album also makes top 10 starts on Top Album Sales (No. 2), Top Current Album Sales (No. 2), Indie Store Album Sales (No. 4) and Top Streaming Albums (No. 6).

Four tracks from the Wicked: For Good soundtrack also take a bow on the overall all-genre Billboard Hot 100 songs chart: Erivo and Grande’s “For Good” (No. 43), Erivo’s “No Good Deed” (No. 56), Erivo and Jonathan Bailey’s “As Long As You’re Mine” (No. 91) and Grande’s “The Girl In the Bubble” (No. 100).

Wicked: For Good premiered in movie theaters on Nov. 21 and has earned over $270 million at the U.S. and Canada box office. It follows the first Wicked film, which was released in 2024 and garnered 10 Academy Award nominations, including two wins (for costume design and production design).

Need plans for Valentine’s Day? Look no further. Hilary Duff just announced a mini-residency in Las Vegas with dates happening all holiday weekend, with tickets going on sale soon.

As revealed Tuesday (Dec. 2), the Lizzie McGuire alum will be taking the Voltaire stage at The Venetian in Sin City on Feb. 13, 14 and 15 next year. “hey girls… how bout Vegas?” Duff wrote in an Instagram post about the news. “i can’t wait to see you.”

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The singer-actress added that fans can now sign up for a ticket pre-sale, which runs from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. ET on Wednesday (Dec. 3).

Duff’s shows in Vegas mark just the latest development in her musical comeback. After going 10 years without releasing an album, the star announced in November that her next full-length, Luck…or Something, is set to arrive Feb. 20.

“I am often asked how I still have my head on straight after growing up in this industry,” she said in a statement at the time. “The album title is my way of answering that question.”

The Venetian shows also add to the run of intimate performances Duff previously announced for 2026. Her Small Rooms, Big Nerves Tour will kick off on Jan. 19, with stops at London’s O2 Shepherd’s Bush Empire, HISTORY in Toronto, the new Brooklyn Paramount theater and the Wiltern in Los Angeles.

Also on the horizon for Duff fans is a docuseries chronicling her return to music after spending years focusing more on acting projects. Assisting her on her comeback journey is Atlantic Records, which signed Duff to a label deal in September.

See Duff’s mini Vegas residency announcement below.


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UPDATE (Dec. 2): In a judgment entered Tuesday, Judge Cecilia M. Altonaga reduced Megan Thee Stallion‘s trial award from $75,000 to $59,000. The judge said Megan can’t get damages for defamation because the jury found Milagro Gramz to be a member of the media, and the rapper’s team did not send a pre-lawsuit notice required for libel claims against journalists.

Therefore, the judgment finds in Megan’s favor only on intentional infliction of emotional distress and promotion of an altered sexual depiction, two claims for which the jury awarded Megan a total of $59,000. Judge Altonaga struck the additional $16,000 that Megan won for defamation.

Megan’s lawyers will contest the reduction in post-judgment motions. They’ll also seek at that time to add legal fees onto the damages amount.

PREVIOUSLY: A jury has held celebrity gossip blogger Milagro Gramz liable for defaming Megan Thee Stallion and reposting a deepfake pornographic video of the rapper in the wake of her shooting by Tory Lanez.  

A federal jury in Miami determined in a Monday (Dec. 1) verdict, reviewed by Billboard, that Gramz harmed Megan with her social media antics and awarded $75,000 in damages. That number will likely grow later on, since Megan won on a Florida law with a fee-shifting provision that could require Gramz to reimburse some of her hefty legal bills from the elite firm Quinn Emanuel.

“We’re thankful for the jury’s commitment to reinforcing the importance of truth, accountability and responsible commentary on social media,” said one of Megan’s lawyers, Mari Henderson, later on Monday. “This verdict sends a clear message that spreading dangerous misinformation carries significant consequences.”

A lawyer for Gramz, Jeremy McLymont, said in a statement, “We remain proud of the defense we presented and of Ms. Cooper’s willingness to stand up for her voice.”

“Ms. Pete and her attorneys asked the jury to send a message to the community by awarding Ms. Pete with an astronomical amount of damages,” said McLymont. “Indeed, the jury rejected Ms. Pete’s request and refused to send any such message as shown by the nominal damages Ms. Pete recovered.”

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Megan’s lawyers argued during the weeklong trial that Gramz acted as Lanez’s “mouthpiece” to spread misinformation and tank her reputation. Lanez (Daystar Peterson) is serving a 10-year prison sentence after being convicted in 2022 of shooting Megan in the foot during a drunken argument following a pool party at Kylie Jenner’s house in the Hollywood Hills. He continues to maintain his innocence, though the conviction was recently upheld on appeal.

A loyal Lanez supporter, Gramz has for years used her social media presence to doubt the veracity of Megan’s account. Many of her posts about the shooting case have been outright false, such as her claims that Lanez’s gun supposedly went “missing.” Megan’s lawsuit also accused Gramz of violating a Florida law against “altered sexual depictions” by encouraging followers to watch a deepfake pornographic video of her.

Gramz denied being paid by Lanez and said her social media posts were First Amendment-protected journalism. The question of whether Gramz is a protected member of the media became a key issue during the trial. Jurors determined on Monday that she does have some media credentials, teeing up more post-trial litigation over whether the defamation verdict can stand.

Lanez himself was not a defendant or a witness in this trial. The Canadian rapper was supposed to give a videotaped deposition from prison, but was so uncooperative during the repeated questioning from Megan’s lawyers that he was held in contempt.

This story has been updated to include additional details on the verdict and statements from both sides.


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Few times since Billboard’s Hot Country Songs and Country Airplay charts began coexisting have women ruled both lists in the same week. Just as Ella Langley scores her first Hot Country Songs No. 1, fellow country star Lainey Wilson captures her fifth leader on Country Airplay.

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Langley, who has logged five top 10s on Hot Country Songs, all since October 2024, earns her first No. 1 with “Choosin’ Texas.” Co-written with Miranda Lambert, Luke Dick and Joybeth Taylor, the track jumps 4-1 on the chart dated Dec. 6 with 13.7 million official U.S. streams, 11.5 million in radio audience and 8,000 sold in the Nov. 21-27 tracking week, according to Luminate. The song, quickly becoming a career marker, reaches the top in just its sixth week.

Wilson, meanwhile, banks her fifth No. 1 on Country Airplay as the likewise Lone Star State-themed “Somewhere Over Laredo” also surges 4-1, with 28 million in audience (up 22%). Wilson co-wrote the track, which interpolates 1939’s The Wizard of Oz classic “Over the Rainbow.”

Only six times since the two charts began running side by side in October 2012 have solo women commanded both rankings at once. It first happened that same month, when Carrie Underwood’s “Blown Away” topped Country Airplay for two weeks while Taylor Swift’s “We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together” led Hot Country Songs.

Such a double-up didn’t happen again until September 2016, when Kelsea Ballerini’s “Peter Pan” ruled both charts for a week. Gabby Barrett’s “I Hope” and Maren Morris’ “The Bones” paired up for a week in April 2020, followed by Lambert’s “Bluebird” and Barrett’s continued run with “I Hope” for a week that August. Barrett returned for the most recent occurrence until this week, as “The Good Ones” led both charts for two weeks beginning in late April 2021. Barrett and Ballerini are the only females to have led both charts simultaneously.

Billboard launched the all-encompassing Hot Country Songs chart in October 1958 and it became solely based on Luminate’s electronically monitored airplay data in January 1990. In October 2012, the chart adopted its current multimetric formula, while Country Airplay preserved a dedicated read on country radio. Because the charts now track different types of total consumption, they rarely align — which makes this week’s dual female leadership a genuinely uncommon moment.

Elphaba’s story may be complete now that Wicked: For Good is in theaters, but Cynthia Erivo is still defying gravity.

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On Tuesday (Dec. 2), the Emmy, Grammy and Tony-winning powerhouse simultaneously earned her first platinum-certified album and single from the RIAA thanks to 2024’s blockbuster Wicked soundtrack. Billed to Erivo, Ariana Grande and the Wicked movie cast, Wicked: The Soundtrack earned its platinum certification for crossing one million units in the United States. Last year, the soundtrack reached No. 2 on the Billboard 200 and topped Soundtrack Albums, going on to earn a nomination for best compilation soundtrack for visual media at the 2026 Grammys.

“Defying Gravity,” Erivo and Grande’s instantly iconic rendition of the musical theatre classic, also earned its platinum certification for surpassing one million units in the U.S. The duet peaked at No. 44 on the Hot 100 and earned a Grammy nod for best pop duo/group performance at next year’s ceremony. The three-time Oscar nominee also hit the Hot 100 with Wicked cuts like “What Is This Feeling?” (No. 62), “Dancing Through Life” (No. 86), “The Wizard and I” (No. 92) and “I’m Not That Girl” (No. 94). In total, Wicked earned four nominations at the 2026 Grammys.

Erivo has yet to comment on her RIAA certifications — but she also has plenty of musical triumphs to bask in this year. In June, she released her sophomore album, I Forgive You, which reached No. 45 on R&B/Hip-Hop Albums and earned a 2026 Grammy nomination for best arrangement, instrumental or a cappella (“Be Okay”).

By November, she followed that up with the Wicked: For Good soundtrack, once again billed to Erivo, Grande, and the film’s cast. The sequel’s soundtrack also reached No. 2 on the Billboard 200, simultaneously topping Soundtrack Albums. Three of Ervio’s For Good tracks have reached the Hot 100, including “No Good Deed” (No. 56), “As Long As You’re Mine” (No. 91), and the title track, which is now the highest-charting Hot 100 hit of her career at No. 43.


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Holiday gifting is in full swing, which can often mean shelling out on expensive electronics for that special someone.  Luckily, DoorDash is helping shoppers save big without leaving the couch. The delivery site is offering exclusive deals up to 50% off favorite tech gear including Apple, JBL, Beats and more.

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