Danny Ocean chatted with Billboard’s Griselda Flores & Jessica Roiz on the red carpet of 2025 Billboard’s Latin Music Awards.
Jowell & Randy chatted with Billboard’s Griselda Flores & Jessica Roiz on the red carpet of 2025 Billboard’s Latin Music Awards.
Juan Duque chatted with Billboard’s Griselda Flores & Jessica Roiz on the red carpet of 2025 Billboard’s Latin Music Awards.
Armenta chatted with Billboard’s Griselda Flores & Jessica Roiz on the red carpet of 2025 Billboard’s Latin Music Awards.
On Wednesday (Oct. 22), around fifteen employees in U.S. and Latin American music roles at TikTok and ByteDance across multiple territories were told their positions were terminated, according to sources close to the matter. Two sources say a number of those impacted will have their accounts on the company’s business management platform, Lark, deactivated on Friday (Oct. 24), marking the end of their employment.
More music team members at TikTok in other parts of the world are expected to be laid off soon. One source says that some TikTok employees in the U.K. office were recently notified that they had been terminated — a requirement by U.K. law — foreshadowing another round of layoffs.
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Sources say TikTok will focus on current artist and festival partnerships for now. A number of roles are said to have been eliminated on the music-related partnerships and programming teams.
The people who remain on the music team after the layoffs include Tracy Gardner (global head of music business development), Rachel Dunham (artist partnerships lead), Kat Kernaghan (label partnerships director), Jordan Lowy (global head of music publishing licensing and partnerships), Emily Mitchell (manager, music publishing partnerships) and Graham Pierce (music partnerships Americas, Australia, New Zealand), according to sources.
Six months ago, Gardner took over the post of global head of music business development from longtime leader Ole Obermann. Obermann is now the co-head of Apple Music. Gardner’s team remains unaffected by the layoffs.
This would mark the first round of significant layoffs at TikTok’s music division since 2023, when seven U.S.-based staffers on the artist services team were cut to improve efficiency. Those cuts came one month after the company unveiled its TikTok Music streaming platform in several international markets, though that service was wound down the following year as the company said it would instead focus its efforts on its “Add to Music” app.
A representative for TikTok declined Billboard’s request for comment.
TWICE scores its eighth top 10 on Billboard’s Top Album Sales chart (dated Oct. 25) as TEN: The Story Goes On debuts at No. 2 with 23,000 copies sold in the United States in the tracking week ending Oct. 16, according to Luminate. The group’s last eight chart entries have all debuted inside the top three, dating back to 2021’s chart-topping Taste of Love.
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Also in the top 10 of the latest Top Album Sales chart, new projects arrive from Not for Radio, CxM and Testament.
Billboard’s Top Album Sales chart ranks the top-selling albums of the week based only on traditional album sales. The chart’s history dates back to May 25, 1991, the first week Billboard began tabulating charts with electronically monitored piece count information from SoundScan, now Luminate. Pure album sales were the sole measurement utilized by the Billboard 200 albums chart through the list dated Dec. 6, 2014, after which that chart switched to a methodology that blends album sales with track equivalent album (TEA) units and streaming equivalent album (SEA) units.
Holding atop the latest Top Album Sales chart for a second week is Taylor Swift’s The Life of a Showgirl, while the KPop Demon Hunters soundtrack is a non-mover at No. 3. Not for Radio, the solo debut project of The Marías’ frontwoman María Zardoya, bows at No. 4 with Melt. The SEVENTEEN subunit CxM (comprising members S.COUPS and MINGYU) debuts at No. 5 with its first project, CxM 1st Mini Album ‘HYPE VIBES’.
Stray Kids’ chart-topping KARMA falls 2-6 on Top Album Sales, Sabrina Carpenter’s former leader Man’s Best Friend dips 4-7 and KATSEYE’s Beautiful Chaos is steady at No. 8.
Veteran rock band Testament returns to the top 10 for the first time since 2020 with the No. 9 entry of Para Bellum. The band made its overall Billboard chart debut in 1988 with The New Order’s debut on the Billboard 200 in June of that year.
Rounding out the latest top 10 is Laufey’s A Matter of Time, rising 12-10.
Elvis Crespo chatted with Billboard’s Griselda Flores & Jessica Roiz on the red carpet of 2025 Billboard’s Latin Music Awards.
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Clave Especial chatted with Billboard’s Griselda Flores & Jessica Roiz on the red carpet of 2025 Billboard’s Latin Music Awards.
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The 2025 Billboard Latin Music Awards is finally here. Hosted by Goyo, Elizabeth Gutiérrez and Javier Poza, the annual award show will broadcast live at 8 p.m. ET at the James L Knight Center in Miama, Florida. The show will air live on Telemundo and Peacock.
Puerto Rican megastar and the upcoming Super Bowl LX halftime headliner Bad Bunny leads the night with a whopping 27 total nominations. Fuerza Regida comes in second with 15, Rauw Alejandro with 14, Karol G and Tito Double P, each with 10 nods and Peso Pluma with 9 mentions. See the full list of nominees here. On top of his lengthy list of nominations, Bad Bunny is also set to receive the Latin Artist of the Century award.
Here’s everything you need to know about the Billboard Latin Music Awards, including how to watching online without cable.
The 2025 Billboard Latin Music Awards, at a Glance:
Who’s Performing at the 2025 Billboard Latin Music Awards?
Tonight’s performance lineup includes Daddy Yankee (DY), Grupo Frontera, Kapo, Abraham Mateo, Ángel Lopez, Arthur Hanlon, Danny Ocean, Ozuna, Olga Tañón, Laura Pausini — this year’s Billboard Icon Award recipient — La Arrolladora Banda El Limón de René Camacho, Beéle, Juan Duqu, Musza, Netón Vega, NXNNI, and Óscar Maydon.
How to Watch the 2025 Billboard Latin Music Awards Online
The 2025 Latin Billboard Awards will broadcast live on Telemundo. If you don’t have cable, Peacock and Fubo are great affordable options to stream the show live online.
Peacock
With Peacock, there is no free trial for new users but the platform offers cheap plans starting at just $10.99 per month, or you can get an annual plan for $109.99 per year (which gets you 12 months of streaming for the price of 10).
Also, Peacock and Apple TV have recently joined forces 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.
Fubo
Fubo’s streaming plans start at $59.99/month (regularly $79.99) after a 5-day free trial. Fubo Pro, one of the cheapest among the aforementioned streaming plans, includes 202 channels, 1000 hours of Cloud DVR and streaming on up to 10 screens. For Spanish speakers, Fubo Latino is $19.99/month (regularly $32.99/month) to stream 62 channels.
