Alofoke, Dimelo King, Leo Rojas, Molusco Tony Andrades sit down for a conversation on the growing impact of podcasts in media, music, and beyond.
First July, then August, now September: The Summer I Turned Pretty is yet again a dominant force on Billboard’s Top TV Songs chart, powered by Tunefind (a Songtradr company), occupying the September 2025 tally’s top eight and nine of its top 10, led by music from Taylor Swift.
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Rankings for the Top TV Songs chart are based on song and show data provided by Tunefind and ranked using a formula blending that data with sales and streaming information tracked by Luminate during the corresponding period of September 2025.
After a three-season run on Amazon Prime Video, The Summer I Turned Pretty concluded with three final episodes on Sept. 3, 7 and 17 (with a full-length film to follow as a continuation of the finale — look out, Top Movie Songs chart).
Four of the songs on the September 2025 chart are courtesy of Swift, including the No. 1. “Dress,” from 2017’s Reputation, bows atop the survey after its feature in the series finale. That’s on the strength of 10.3 million official on-demand U.S. streams and 3,000 downloads in September 2025, according to Luminate.
Of the four, two were heard in the finale, while the other two were in the penultimate episode. “Out of the Woods (Taylor’s Version),” also from the finale, ranks at No. 4 (4.1 million streams, 1,000 downloads), followed by “I Can Do It With a Broken Heart” and “The 1” from the next-to-last episode at Nos. 7 and 10, respectively.
But The Summer I Turned Pretty wasn’t just a vehicle for Swift’s catalog. Noah Kahan’s Gracie Abrams-featuring version of “Everywhere, Everything” ranks at No. 2 after its turn in the finale (10.7 million streams, 1,000 downloads), while Harry Styles’ “Sign of the Times” is No. 3 (10.4 million streams, 2,000 downloads) after an appearance in the penultimate episode.
One song, meanwhile, is from the Sept. 3 edition: Franz Ferdinand’s “Take Me Out,” at No. 8 (12.6 million streams, 1,000 downloads).
The lone non-The Summer I Turned Pretty entry is courtesy of Gen V, which premiered its second season on Sept. 17. The fellow Amazon Prime Video series’ position is No. 9 via Frankie Valli’s “Can’t Take My Eyes Off You” (10.9 million streams, 1,000 downloads).
See the full top 10 below.
Rank, Song, Artist, Show (Network)
1. “Dress,” Taylor Swift, The Summer I Turned Pretty (Amazon Prime Video)
2. “Everywhere, Everything,” Noah Kahan with Gracie Abrams, The Summer I Turned Pretty (Amazon Prime Video)
3. “Sign of the Times,” Harry Styles, The Summer I Turned Pretty (Amazon Prime Video)
4. “Out of the Woods (Taylor’s Version),” Taylor Swift, The Summer I Turned Pretty (Amazon Prime Video)
5. “Scott Street,” Phoebe Bridgers, The Summer I Turned Pretty (Amazon Prime Video)
6. “I Can Do It With a Broken Heart,” Taylor Swift, The Summer I Turned Pretty (Amazon Prime Video)
7. “I Only Have Eyes for You,” The Flamingos, The Summer I Turned Pretty (Amazon Prime Video)
8. “Take Me Out,” Franz Ferdinand, The Summer I Turned Pretty (Amazon Prime Video)
9. “Can’t Take My Eyes Off You,” Frankie Valli, Gen V (Amazon Prime Video)
10. “The 1,” Taylor Swift, The Summer I Turned Pretty (Amazon Prime Video)
U.S. Marshalls arrested a suspect in the shooting of Sauce Walka and the murder of rapper Sayso P.
As reported by local Memphis outlet Action News 5, Marshalls arrested 23-year-old Kevin “KJ” Brown in Clarksville, Tennessee, on Wednesday (Oct. 22). He was charged with first-degree murder, two counts of employing a firearm during a dangerous felony and theft of property. Brown was apprehended at a motel on Wilma Rudolph Boulevard and taken to Montgomery County Jail while he awaits extradition.
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Another suspect, Jayden Dandridge, was previously found dead in Houston days after the shooting.
Billboard has reached out to U.S. Marshalls for confirmation and further details about Wednesday’s arrest.
Sauce Walka (real name: Albert Walker Mondane) and Sayso P (Latorian Hunt) were shot back in March outside a hotel near Memphis’ FedExForum. A car with multiple people in it pulled up and began firing on the rappers, with Sayso P being fatally shot. Walka was shot in the leg and recovered in a local hospital. Shortly after, Walka mourned Sayso P in a heartfelt Instagram post.
“Words or tears can’t explain the loss I feel!” he wrote. “Splatt, I wish your fat ahh listened to me and stayed in the room. I told you we could smoke that blunt after security and the rest of our familia pull up.. Sosaman told you, ‘F dat weed, wait til we leave an hit Superior first.’ You always so hardheaded blood, but you know I’ma ride wit you regardless. We come together, we leave together. Wish you just went [to] DR with Shimmy and shot off, and skipped this trip to Memphis, but you was to excited I finally agreed to come to da ‘M.’”
In a follow-up interview, Sauce Walka said he had no intention of avenging Sayso’s death, saying that wouldn’t be a “righteous” act.
Demi Lovato is hoping that fans can learn from her struggles. In a raw interview with Las Culturistas hosts Bowen Yang and Matt Rogers posted Wednesday (Oct. 22), the star reflected on the choice to be transparent about their past experiences with eating disorders and substance abuse, despite the stigma surrounding them.
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“I had a decision that had to be made when I had gone to treatment for the first time,” the singer began. “I had this very public outburst when I was 18 … and in that moment, my manager at the time asked me, like, ‘Do you want to be public with what you’re going through, or do you want to sweep it under the rug and not talk about it?’”
Despite the manager telling her, “You have a right to both” and “You don’t owe anybody anything,” Lovato decided to be open with fans. “I was like, ‘I didn’t have a role model at 13 that was speaking up about eating disorders, and I need to be that role model for someone else.’”
“It was this responsibility that I was willing to take on because I wish that I could have had that growing up,” Lovato added.
The Camp Rock alum has long been open about their past battles with self-harm, bulimia, substance abuse and bipolar disorder, delving into them in documentaries such as 2017’s Simply Complicated and 2021’s Dancing With the Devil. One pivotal incident occurred in 2010 when an 18-year-old Lovato punched backup dancer Alex Welch while on tour with the Jonas Brothers, after which the vocalist entered rehab to address “emotional and physical issues.”
“When you punch someone on a plane, enough is enough,” she recalled in a 2011 interview with Elle. “Right after, I texted my mom and just said, ‘I’m sorry.’”
Lovato is now doing better than ever, with the star gearing up to release new album It’s Not That Deep on Friday. The project was led by singles “Fast,” “Here All Night” and “Kiss.”
Listen to Lovato’s full guest episode of Las Culturistas below.
Tropical music stars from different styles and countries came together on Wednesday (Oct. 22) at Billboard Latin Music Week 2025 to discuss the cultural impact their respective genres have had on new generations and how they have embraced it. The panel included iconic Puerto Rican merengue singer Olga Tañón; legendary Peruvian cumbia and merengue band Grupo 5; Puerto Rican singer Guaynaa, who has experimented with urban music, salsa and more; emerging Cuban reparto musician Bebeshito; and Argentine cuarteto star Luck Ra.
In the panel “The Cumbia and Tropical Music Explosion,” presented by Andrea Ramírez PR and moderated by Jessica Roiz of Billboard, Tañón and the members of Grupo 5 recounted their first experiences in music; Tañón in the 1990s, when she thought an audition she attended was to be a Spanish-language rock singer; and the South American group in the 1970s, when they began with ballads and later adopted cumbia as their sound to liven up local parties.
“I didn’t want to be a merengue singer; I’m a merengue snob,” said the artist nicknamed “Woman of Fire.” “I started out doing ballads, Spanish rock, and you used merengue at home to sing and dance, but when they auditioned me, I thought it was for a Spanish rock band.” She recalled that the band’s leader told her that anyone who sings well can sing anything, so she prepared, auditioned, and was chosen, beginning her love affair with the Dominican genre.
In a fluid dialogue, the artists shared with the audience their opinions on how new Latin stars have reinvented salsa, such as Bad Bunny on his acclaimed album Debí Tirar Más Fotos, a musical genre that had its heyday in the late 1960s, marked by legends like Celia Cruz and Willie Colón.
Below are some of the best quotes from the discussion:
Olga Tañón, on the expiration date of a genre: “The musical DNA of a country, which is the culture of a country, will never die. Never. Not merengue, not salsa, not cumbia.”
Christian Yaipén (Grupo 5), on how to make music transcend fads: “We’re always focused on making music in the best way possible to bring it to the audience’s hearts, not just thinking about trends and passing things. My brother Elmer taught me that songs don’t catch on overnight; songs don’t reach No. 1 the following month.”
Guaynaa, on why new generations are experimenting with tropical music: “The first angle is the record label, systematically; and the second is the angle of the street, of the people [who demand it]. The question at the time of creating is how we can impact culture.”
Bebeshito, on the genre of reparto and its success coming from a country like Cuba without digital platforms: “Reparto is made internationally by Cubans (…) This support doesn’t come digitally from the island, but the support from the heart does.”
Luck Ra, on cumbia and cuarteto as the common thread of his work: “There are new [musical] schools that come with a lot of hunger. It’s something that brings you joy, that makes you dance. Cumbia and cuarteto are something that can be heard anywhere in the world.”
Spanning more than 30 years, Latin Music Week is the single-most important and largest gathering of Latin artists and industry executives in the world. This year’s star-studded lineup includes Aitana, Alofoke, Anuel AA, Bebeshito, Carlos Vives, Carín León, Danny Ocean, DJ Khaled, Daddy Yankee (DY), Emilia Mernes, Ivy Queen, Gloria Estefan, Grupo 5, Kapo, Laura Pausini, Luck Ra, Netón Vega, Olga Tañón, Óscar Maydon, Ozuna, Pablo Alborán, Rawayana, Suzette Quintanilla, Tokischa, Xavi, and Yailin La Más Viral, to name a few.
Latin Music Week also coincides with the 2025 Billboard Latin Music Awards, set to air Thursday, Oct. 23, on Telemundo and Peacock, where Bad Bunny will be honored as Top Latin Artist of the 21st Century.
Podcasters Leo Rojas (Venezuela), DimeloKing (Colombia), and Jorge “Molusco” Pabón (Puerto Rico) shared some secrets for making podcasts a successful and profitable product on Wednesday (October 22) at Billboard Latin Music Week 2025.
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During the panel “The Power of Podcasters,” moderated by Dominican journalist and host Tony Dandrades, the three experts discussed the benefits they’ve found in this audio format, which has become a powerful content generator for different sectors, including the music and entertainment industry, as it explores new forms of monetization.
Podcasts “give a voice to those who previously had no voice,” Pabón opined. “Before, breaking into radio was almost impossible; today, anyone who can buy a microphone, a camera, and understand how to create good content can do so.”
Rojas emphasized that podcasts now allow artists to tell a story to their fans and explain why they make their music. “It allows them to be more real, more human,” said the Venezuelan, who hosts the podcast “Escuela de Nada” with Chris Andrade and Nacho Redondo.
Here are five lessons we learned from these famous podcasters:
1. Know Your Audience
“El Molusco” Pabón believes that to make a podcast successful, you must know the audience you will be speaking to, as well as come up with a concept for it. “That video that will change your life will always come along.”
2. Someone else’s success won’t always be yours
DimeloKing points out that some people expect what’s successful on other podcasts to be successful on theirs as well. Some “hope their content will go viral, but you have to put in the work to make that happen.”
3. Take elements from the internet that add to your content
Leo Rojas recommends taking everything you find online that adds to your content. “If you want to be successful, you have to be present on everything that exists on the internet,” he points out.
4. Short Content
DimeloKing says that short content is much more functional. “Of my three Facebook accounts, I have a team for each account.”
5. Recruit superfans
“A superfan is someone who consumes your content on all platforms. They’re someone who consumes everything you do, so you’ve got a percentage of their consumption,” says Rojas about recruiting followers who follow you on all your social media platforms.
Spanning more than 30 years, Latin Music Week is the single-most important and largest gathering of Latin artists and industry executives in the world. The event also coincides with the 2025 Billboard Latin Music Awards, set to air Thursday, Oct. 23, on Telemundo and Peacock, where Bad Bunny will be honored as Top Latin Artist of the 21st Century.
Carlos Vives, Emilia, Wisin and Xavi — the artists behind the 2026 Telemundo World Cup anthem — discussed their process during “The Music of the World Cup” panel at the 2025 Billboard Latin Music Week on Wednesday (Oct. 22), moderated by sports anchor and lead premier league host, Carlota Vizmanos.
“This song is for the family,” Carlos Vives said of the official song for the FIFA World Cup 2026, that will premiere at the Billboard Latin Music Awards on Oct. 23. “In a world where war and hatred are the norm, soccer is the complete opposite. What a great opportunity for this song to speak to that and for Telemundo to be the message that brings it.”
During the discussion, all three of the panelists shared their own personal connections to the sport. “I’m grateful for the opportunity; I’m happy to represent Mexico,” Xavi added. “Honestly, [this opportunity] fell on me like a bucket of water. I’m still processing it. Despite being from different worlds, we all have something in common — and that’s soccer, and that’s why it’s about unity.”
“Soccer unites us,” Vives added. “It’s brotherhood, it’s friendship, it’s love. Even though it’s competition and rivalry, it’s fair play. That’s why it unites us all.”
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“It’s truly something I remember on Sundays: getting together with friends and family, having a barbecue, and waiting for the game. It was a ritual,” Emilia noted.
Meanwhile in Puerto Rico, soccer is “growing tremendously,” said Wisin. “It’s a door that opens to work internationally and have another chance to do something great.”
Spanning 36 years, Latin Music Week is the single largest gathering of Latin artists and industry executives in the world. This year’s event — which also features Carín León, Daddy Yankee, Ivy Queen, Gloria Estefan, Kapo, Laura Pausini, Netón Vega, Ozuna, Pablo Alborán, and Xavi, among others — hosts panels, marquee conversations, roundtables, networking and activations, in addition to its celebrated Billboard En Vivo showcases.
Latin Music Week also coincides with the 2025 Billboard Latin Music Awards, set to air Thursday, Oct. 23, on Telemundo and Peacock, where Bad Bunny will be honored as Top Latin Artist of the 21st Century.
Billboard’s Live Music Summit will be held in Los Angeles on Nov. 3. For tickets and more information, visit the Live Music Summit website.
Bono and The Edge of U2 accepted the 2025 Woody Guthrie Prize on behalf of the band on Tuesday. The award was presented for embodying the legacy of the legendary folk singer. The event was held at Cain’s Ballroom in Tulsa, Oklahoma – and marked the first time Bono and The Edge had been there since a U2 tour stop in 1981 to promote the band’s debut album, Boy.
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The 2025 Woody Guthrie Prize celebration was hosted by the Woody Guthrie Center. Preceding the award presentation, Bono and The Edge participated in an onstage conversation about art and activism with producer and musician T Bone Burnett.
“Our favorite protest songs always had a sense of vision, something to aim for. … You don’t talk about the darkness, you make the light brighter,” The Edge said, adding: “I believe music can actually change the mood of the room and actually shift a culture.”
Bono credited Bob Dylan for leading U2 to Guthrie’s music. “Bob Dylan really did bring us to the place where the song was an instrument to open up worlds. And the world of Woody Guthrie, I wouldn’t have entered if not for Bob.”
Bono also alluded to the current challenges confronting America. “America is the greatest song still yet to be written. The poetry is there but it’s still being written… don’t imagine it will continue to be extraordinary on its own, that if you fell asleep and woke up in twenty years, the world would be fairer or freer. It won’t, that’s not the way it works.”
When speaking with Burnett about the songwriting process relative to protest songs, Bono said, “You can’t write a song to order.” He read lyrics to a song that is a work-in-progress, written about the killing of Palestinian activist Awdah Hathaleen in July by an Israeli settler.
Bono and The Edge surprised attendees with a six-song performance, including two songs in which they included snippets of Woody Guthrie songs (“Running to Stand Still” with a snippet of “Bound for Glory) and “Pride (In the Name of Love)” with a snippet of “Jesus Christ”). Other U2 songs in their set were “Mothers of the Disappeared,” “Sunday Bloody Sunday,” “One” and “Yahweh.”
Guthrie’s granddaughter Anna Canoni and Woody Guthrie Center director Cady Shaw also spoke at the event. “Woody and U2 have been aligned for decades,” Canoni said. “Whether it is protesting against war and violence, standing up for humanitarian rights, singing about greed, corruption and injustice.”
The event served as a fundraiser to support the Center’s educational programs, public concerts, exhibitions and the legacy of Woody Guthrie. The event was presented by the Harper House Music Foundation.
The Woody Guthrie Prize seeks to recognize artists who reflect Guthrie’s belief that music can be a force for social justice and change. Previous honorees include Tom Morello, Pete Seeger, Mavis Staples, Kris Kristofferson, John Mellencamp, Chuck D, Joan Baez, Bruce Springsteen and Pussy Riot, as well as groundbreaking TV producer Norman Lear.
Guthrie’s most famous song is “This Land Is Your Land,” which he wrote in February 1940 in response to what he felt was the overplaying of Irving Berlin’s “God Bless America” on the radio. Guthrie died in 1967 at age 55 from complications of Huntington’s disease. He was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame as an early/musical influence in 1988 and received a lifetime achievement award from the Recording Academy in 2000.
U2, which also includes Adam Clayton and Larry Mullen Jr., has won 22 Grammys, more than any other group or duo in history. Their Grammy collection includes two awards for album of the year, two for record of the year and two for song of the year. U2 was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 2005 and were recently named Fellows of The Ivors Academy, the highest honor in British songwriting.
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With Apple TV+ rebranding to simply Apple TV, the streaming service has now joined forces with Peacock to give new and returning subscribers more originals, live sports and music programming at one low price.
Prices start at $14.99 per month for the Apple TV and Peacock Premium (ad-supported) bundle, which is a nearly a 38% savings, if you were to subscribe individually. You can also upgrade to the Apple TV and Peacock Premium Plus (ad-free) bundle for $19.99 per month, a savings of almost 35% the individual streaming plans.
Apple TV has a great selection of original TV shows, including Severance, Your Friends and Neighbors, The Morning Show, Ted Lasso, For All Mankind, The Studio, Long Way Up and Long Way Home, Silo, Shrinking, Palm Royale, Slow Horses, Invasion, Vietnam: The War That Changed America, Masters of the Air, Pachinko and others.
The streaming service has music specials and concert series, like Soundbreaking, Behind the Music, 1971: The Year That Music Changed Everything, Jennifer Lopez’s Apple Music Live Concert, The Beatles: A Complete Anthology, Bruce Springsteen’s Letter to You and others
If you’re a movie fan, then Apple TV is a good pick for original films, such as Killers of the Flower Moon, CODA, The Gorge, Fly Me to the Moon, Ghosted, Napoleon, Emancipation, Tetris and others.
You can get live sports too with Major League Baseball’s Friday Night Baseball.
Meanwhile, Peacock is the streaming home for NBCUniversal with hit TV shows, like Poker Face, The Traitors, Couple to Throuple, The Best Man: The Final Chapters, Love Island, Yellowstone, Suits, The Office, Modern Family and Parks & Recreation.
In addition, the streaming service has exclusive music programming, such as Girl You Know It’s True, Toby Keith: American Icon, When Metal Ruled the World, America’s Got Talent and others.
Peacock has live sports too with games from the NFL, NBA, Premier League, NCAA College Football and other leagues.
Right now, you can sign up for the Apple TV and Peacock streaming bundle starting at $14.99 per month for the ad-supported plan. However, you can upgrade to the ad-free plan for $19.99 per month.
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YouTube paid more than $8 billion to the music business in the 12-month period of July 2024 to June 2025, Lyor Cohen, YouTube’s global head of music, said Wednesday (Oct. 22) during a fireside chat with Billboard editor-in-chief Hannah Karp at Billboard Latin Music Week.
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The amount the music business receives from YouTube has doubled in just over three years. YouTube paid out $6 billion to the music business — spanning record labels, music publishers and performance rights organizations — in the 12-month period ended June 2022. The $6 billion payout was a big leap from the $4 billion YouTube paid music rights holders over a 12-month period just over a year earlier.
YouTube doesn’t reveal the number of standalone YouTube Music subscribers, but the company announced in March that it surpassed 125 million global subscribers to both YouTube Music and YouTube Premium, an ad-free version of the video service that includes access to YouTube Music. YouTube also offers a less expensive tier, Premium Lite, that provides ad-free viewing for everything except music videos on the YouTube video platform but excludes ad-free listening on YouTube Music. Royalties are also generated from free, ad-supported music video viewers that totaled 2 billion each month.
The platform has extended its dominance from the smartphone to larger screens. Since February, YouTube has topped Nielsen’s rankings of share of Americans’ TV viewing. In August, YouTube’s 13.1% share was followed by Disney at 9.7%, Netflix at 8.7% and NBCUniversal at 7.6%.
You can read a full recap of Cohen’s Latin Music Week conversation here.
