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While Walmart has daily rollback deals online, one of the best ways to score a deeper discount at the department store is by signing up for Walmart+. And there’s no better time to do it, as the retailer is launching some new music and entertainment perks exclusively for Walmart+ members.

One of them is a free one-month trial to YouTube Premium, the subscription service that lets you watch YouTube videos and playlists without ads. You can also access YouTube movies and listen to more than 100 million songs on YouTube ad-free. And YouTube Premium lets you watch content offline and in the background too.

Walmart+ members can get 30 days of YouTube Premium for free – a $13.99 value. Choose to continue with the program and your next two months of YouTube Premium are 50% off with your Walmart+ membership. See full details on this limited-time off here.

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While Walmart offers daily deals for everyone, a Walmart+ membership offers loads of benefits, exclusive perks and early access to sales before everyone else. The best part: you can currently sign up for Walmart+ for free with this free trial offer. That’s right, new users can get a 30-day day trial to Walmart+ without having to pay a single cent.

Use the free trial to get instant access to shop all the Walmart+ deals online. Ready to get started? We’ve rounded up a list of everything you need to know about Walmart+ — including how to subscribe for 50% off once your free trial is up. See below for more details.

How to Join Walmart+

Walmart+ is free for 30 days right now and then costs $98 for the annual membership (about $8.17/month) or $12.95 for the monthly membership after the month-long free trial is over.

What Is Walmart+?

Walmart+ is Walmart’s subscription program, that unlocks instant access to a load of benefits including shopping certain sales earlier than everyone else, special pricing and product releases. Walmart+ members also get a ton of freebies.

Walmart+ features member-only offers such as a whopping 50 cents/gallon off fuel at Exxon & Mobile stations, and up to 5% back in Walmart Cash on flights, hotels, car rentals and activities booked through Walmart+ Travel.

What can you get for free with Walmart+? Members can enjoy free shipping with no order minimum, so you won’t have to worry about adding things to your cart that you might not even need just to get free shipping.

The membership also includes free grocery delivery, contact-free checkout with mobile-scan and go, travel deals, free subscriptions to Paramount+ with Showtime, up to five months of free Apple Music and up to four months of free Apple Fitness. New perks include free pharmacy delivery too.

But wait, there’s more. Walmart+ members get free flat tire repair and other auto care and lots of other member benefits. Some of the limited-time offers available to Walmart+ members (as of this writing) include free access to eMeals, 25% off Turbo Tax (just in time for tax season), free online pet care through Pawp and 25% off Burger King (with a free whopper every three months).

Best Walmart+ Discounts, Promotions, Offers (2025)

The best Walmart+ deal right now is to take advantage of their 30-day free trial here.

If you’re interested in more discount options, there’s another ways to join Walmart+ for $49 or 50% off the regular price. Customers currently on government assistance are eligible for this 50% off deal through this sign-up link.

The retail giant introduced its Walmart+ Assist discounted subscription pricing last year. The Walmart+ Assist discount is available to eligible new and existing Walmart+ members. Existing members who qualify for the price cut will receive a prorated refund and the discounted price will begin immediately, per Walmart.

College students and grad students can also save 50% off when they subscribe to Walmart+ Student at a discounted rate of $49/year (or $6.47/month after the free trial).

How else can you save on Walmart+? Subscribing to the Walmart+ annual plan saves you 37% versus paying monthly. You’ll pay a one-time rate of $98 (roughly $8/month) versus paying $12.95 when you go month to month.

You can also give a Walmart+ membership as a birthday or holiday gift. A Walmart+ membership is perfect for shoppers who want access to special benefits such as free shipping and sweet deals.

How do you gift someone with a Walmart+ membership? Simply purchase a Walmart gift card, which can be used to cover the annual membership fee.

Morgan Wallen’s I’m the Problem nets a 10th nonconsecutive week atop the Billboard 200 chart (dated Aug. 16). The set earned 136,000 equivalent album units in the United States in the week ending Aug. 7 (down 5%), according to Luminate. I’m the Problem debuted at No. 1 on the May 31-dated chart, spent it first eight weeks in the pole position, stepped away from the top for two frames, and then returned to No. 1 for the last two consecutive weeks.

Also in the top 10 of the latest Billboard 200, Reneé Rapp and $uicideBoy$ score their highest-charting albums ever, while Yeat collects his sixth top 10-charted set.

The Billboard 200 chart ranks the most popular albums of the week in the U.S. based on multi-metric consumption as measured in equivalent album units, compiled by Luminate. Units comprise album sales, track equivalent albums (TEA) and streaming equivalent albums (SEA). Each unit equals one album sale, or 10 individual tracks sold from an album, or 3,750 ad-supported or 1,250 paid/subscription on-demand official audio and video streams generated by songs from an album. The new Aug. 16, 2025-dated chart will be posted in full on Billboard‘s website on Aug. 12. For all chart news, follow @billboard and @billboardcharts on both X, formerly known as Twitter, and Instagram.

Of I’m the Problem’s 136,000 equivalent album units earned in the week ending Aug. 7, SEA units comprise 131,000 (up 2%, equaling 172.27 million on-demand official streams of the set’s songs — it leads Top Streaming Albums for an 11th nonconsecutive week), album sales comprise 4,000 (down 5% — it rises 16-13 on Top Album Sales) and TEA units comprise 1,000 (down 26%).

Cumulatively, Wallen’s three No. 1 albums (I’m the Problem, One Thing at a Time and Dangerous: The Double Album) have spent a total of 39 weeks at No. 1 on the Billboard 200. That ties him with Elton John for the fourth-most weeks at No. 1 among male artists in the chart’s history, which dates to March 1956, when the chart began publishing on a regular weekly basis. Among male artists, the leaders are: Elvis Presley (67 weeks), Garth Brooks (52), Michael Jackson (51), John and Wallen (39 each), Harry Belafonte and Drake (37 each). Among all artists, The Beatles have the most weeks at No. 1, with 132 across 19 No. 1 albums.

I’m the Problem has now spent 10 weeks at No. 1, One Thing at a Time ruled for 19 nonconsecutive weeks in 2023-34 and Dangerous: The Double Album was tops for 10 straight weeks in 2021.

In total, only six acts, including Wallen, have at least three albums that have spent at least 10 weeks at No. 1. He joins The Beatles and Elvis Presley (four such albums each); Whitney Houston, The Kingston Trio, Taylor Swift and Wallen (three each). Additionally, Wallen is the only act to spend at least 10 weeks at No. 1 with three consecutive full-length albums.

The KPop Demon Hunters soundtrack holds at No. 2 on the Billboard 200, with 100,000 equivalent album units earned (its best week yet by units earned — up 7%). The set has posted a gain every week since its debut on the list seven weeks ago.

Reneé Rapp achieves her highest-charted album yet (and first top 10) as BITE ME bows at No. 3 on the Billboard 200 with 64,000 equivalent album units earned — the singer-songwriter-actress’ biggest week by units. Of that sum, album sales comprise 47,000 (her best sales frame ever, it debuts at No. 1 on Top Album Sales), SEA units comprise 17,000 (equaling 21.85 million on-demand official streams of the set’s songs, it debuts at No. 34 on Top Streaming Albums) and TEA units comprise a negligible sum.

Rapp previously placed one entry on the Billboard 200, Snow Angel, which debuted and peaked at No. 44 in 2023.

BITE ME’s first-week sales were bolstered by its availability across 11 vinyl variants (including signed editions) and five CD variants (including signed editions).

$uicideBoy$ earn their highest-charted album as THY KINGDOM COME debuts at No. 4 on the Billboard 200 with 57,000 equivalent album units earned. It’s the fifth top 10 set for the hip-hop duo, who had previously gone as high as No. 5 with their last charted project, 2024’s New World Depression. Of THY KINGDOM COME’s first-week units, SEA units comprise 34,000 (equaling 45.48 million on-demand official streams of the set’s songs — it debuts at No. 6 on Top Streaming Albums), album sales comprise 23,000 (it debuts at No. 2 on Top Album Sales, boosted by its availability across six vinyl variants) and TEA units comprise a negligible sum.

Justin Bieber’s SWAG is a non-mover on the Billboard 200 at No. 5 (44,000 equivalent album units earned, down 16%), Alex Warren’s You’ll Be Alright, Kid climbs 8-6 (nearly 44,000, down 8%), Wallen’s chart-topping One Thing at a Time rises 11-7 (39,000, up 1%) and SZA’s former No. 1 SOS is up 12-8 (36,000, down 5%).

Yeat collects his sixth top 10-charted effort as DANGEROUS SUMMER starts at No. 9 with 34,000 equivalent album units earned. Of that sum, SEA units comprise 18,000 (equaling 25.83 million on-demand official streams of its songs — it debuts at No. 29 on Top Streaming Albums), album sales comprise 16,000 (boosted by its availability across three CD variants, all signed, exclusive to his webstore, it debuts at No. 3 on Top Album Sales) and TEA units comprise a negligible sum.

Sabrina Carpenter’s chart-topping Short n’ Sweet rounds out the latest top 10, as it climbs 16-10 with 30,000 equivalent album units earned (up 5%).

Luminate, the independent data provider to the Billboard charts, completes a thorough review of all data submissions used in compiling the weekly chart rankings. Luminate reviews and authenticates data. In partnership with Billboard, data deemed suspicious or unverifiable is removed, using established criteria, before final chart calculations are made and published.

Kourtney Kardashian is speaking out after facing backlash over a photo of her 21-month-old son, Rocky Thirteen, seen on a boat without a life jacket.

On Friday (Aug. 8), the 46-year-old reality star — who shares Rocky with her husband, Blink-182 drummer Travis Barker — posted a series of Instagram snapshots, one of which showed her young son on a boat without a life vest, sparking criticism online.

Other photos in the post suggested the family was vacationing in Idaho, where state law requires children 14 and under to wear a life jacket while on a boat.

“Great photo except for the fact the child has no life jacket on,” one user commented. Another urged, “Please, please put a life jacket on that sweet babe!” A third wrote, “You gotta make sure the kids are wearing life vests at all times! Just like you wouldn’t drive them around without a seatbelt/car seat. Water is so unpredictable and can be devastatingly dangerous.”

In response to the criticism, Kardashian addressed the controversy the next day through her Instagram Story.

“Update: bought a life vest that fits!” she wrote over a photo of an infant-sized life jacket. “Good looking out. Honestly didn’t think about some of the dangers. Thank you for making me aware and hopefully this helps make other mommies aware of the dangers of certain types of boating without a life vest.”

The original image showed Kardashian seated at the back of a boat while holding Rocky, whom she welcomed in November 2023 with Barker. The Lemme founder is also mom to three children with ex-partner Scott Disick: sons Mason, 15, and Reign, 10, as well as daughter Penelope, 13.

Other snapshots from Kardashian’s Instagram post included a mirror selfie of herself in a bodysuit, scenic views of the lake, and a variety of meals enjoyed during the trip. “Food for the soul,” she captioned the post.

Selena Gomez is looking back on her music catalog with fondness.

Before launching her solo career, the 33-year-old singer and actress fronted the pop-rock band Selena Gomez & the Scene, releasing three studio albums between 2009 and 2012. Now, she’s reflecting on a standout track from those early days.

In an interview on the Therapuss podcast, released Wednesday (Aug. 6), Gomez told host Jake Shane that her favorite song from her time with the band is “Who Says,” the lead single from their final album, When the Sun Goes Down. The track peaked at No. 21 on the Billboard Hot 100 in July 2011.

“It’s the most powerful moment when I get to perform it,” the Only Murders in the Building actress said. “That’s honestly the only reason I would ever do a tour again … is if I could perform ‘Who Says.’”

Gomez, who hasn’t toured since 2016, said she’d need to “take it down an octave from each year I’ve sang it” if she were to perform it today. She’s also open to re-recording the track, noting that her voice on the original sounds “young.”

“I need to redo it,” she said. “I should recut it.”

The Emilia Pérez star also opened up about the song’s empowering message and revealed that she once teared up while hearing it on the radio during a trip abroad.

“I was like, ‘Why the f—k am I tearing up to my own song?’” she said. “But it was because it was the little me who was there saying these really powerful messages that I still need to hear.”

Elsewhere in the interview, the Rare Beauty founder reminisced about how she first bonded with longtime friend Taylor Swift nearly two decades ago — after both experienced breakups with the Jonas Brothers.

“She and I like to say the best thing we got out of those relationships was each other,” Gomez told Shane. “We became best friends, bonded over the breakup, as girls do. Then we just stuck around for all the ups and downs that came after, and here we are now 16 years later.”

Most recently, the Wizards of Waverly Place alum dropped a joint album with fiancé Benny Blanco, I Said I Love You First, which debuted at No. 2 on the Billboard 200 albums chart in May.

Watch Gomez talking about “Who Says” at the 21-minute mark in the Therapuss interview below.