As Jelly Roll spends a sixth consecutive week atop the Billboard Country Airplay chart with “Liar,” he’s beat his own record.
“Liar” now ranks as his longest-reigning #1, besting “Need a Favor,” which spent four weeks at the top starting in August 2023.
Jelly has seven consecutive chart-toppers, and we now know what the next one might be. He’s releasing “Heart of Stone” as his new radio single from his Beautifully Broken record.
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Snoop Dogg is often seen on the sidelines of basketball games at the University of Southern California, but in May he’ll be delivering the commencement address at the ceremony for the School of Business’ 2025 graduating class.
“I am deeply honored to join USC Marshall’s commencement in celebrating the remarkable achievements of these graduates,” he said in a statement. “Commencement is not just a milestone — it’s a launching point. It’s about stepping into your purpose, applying what you’ve learned, and making an impact that matters. I look forward to welcoming them into the next chapter of their journey as leaders, innovators, and changemakers.”
The commencement ceremony will take place May 17 at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum.
Snoop was previously honored with the business school’s Lloyd Greif Center for Entrepreneurial Studies Entrepreneur of the Year award, the center’s most prestigious honor. While at the school, he spoke to students about brand deals, entrepreneurship, the importance of having great relationships and more.
“What we have in front of us today is the rarest species of business person in the world — that’s a serial entrepreneur,” Greif said at the time.
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Back in 2020 Dua Lipa released the hit “Break My Heart,” which interpolated “Need You Tonight,” the 1987 #1 hit by Australian rockers INXS. And on Wednesday in the band’s hometown of Sydney, Australia, she paid tribute to the band by covering one of their other hits.
Fan-shot footage posted to social media shows Dua performing the INXS song “Never Tear Us Apart” at her concert at Qudos Bank Arena, with the audience loudly singing along with her.
INXS — made up of the late Michael Hutchence, plus brothers Andrew, Jon and Tim Farriss, and Garry Gary Beers — formed in Sydney in 1977. “Never Tear Us Apart” was the fourth single off the band’s biggest album, 1987’s Kick. The single peaked at #7 on the Hot 100.
INXS isn’t the first local act Dua has paid tribute to during her Australian tour. As previously reported, during her shows in Melbourne she covered AC/DC and Kylie Minogue; sang one of Natalie Imbruglia‘s hits, “Torn”; and welcomed Australian singers Troye Sivan and Vance Joy onstage to sing with her.
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Ed Sheeran recently shared an open letter to U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer calling for funding of music education in schools, and on Monday he demonstrated in real life why that’s a good thing.
According to the BBC, Ed performed with the orchestra of Thomas Mills High School — his alma mater — at a gala concert celebrating the school’s 45th anniversary. Ed and the orchestra performed his song “Perfect Symphony,” which was a reworking of his hit “Perfect.”
The school’s head teacher, Philip Hurst, supported Ed’s letter. According to the BBC, he said at the event, “I think music education is in a dire state and honestly, we should be saying, ‘How can every student in this country experience what we’ve managed to experience tonight?'”
In other Ed Sheeran news, Ipswich, Massachusetts — the sister town of Ed’s hometown of Ipswich, England — will host Ed’s new pop-up experience, The Old Phone Pub. It’s named after “Old Phone,” a song on Ed’s upcoming album.
The pub is set to open on Friday, but there’s no address listed. However, North Shore magazine reports the town’s select board approved a “one-day wine and malt” application and a “weekday entertainment license” for that date at the city’s Old Mill building.
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We now know who will direct Zendaya in the Ronnie Spector biopic.
Barry Jenkins will helm the film about the lead singer of The Ronettes for A24, ABC Audio has confirmed.
David Kajganich will write the original screenplay. Rather than reading like a traditional biopic, the film’s story will reportedly center on the singer’s life with her first husband, the troubled producer Phil Spector.
Zendaya was first announced to be in talks to play the rocker in 2020. She was hand-selected by Ronnie Spector, who was an executive producer on the film before she died, to play her. Shortly after Ronnie Spector died in January 2022, Zendaya took to Instagram to pay tribute to the star.
“This news just breaks my heart. To speak about her as if she’s not with us feels strange as she is so incredibly full of life,” Zendaya wrote. “There’s not a time I saw her without her iconic red lips and full teased hair, a true rockstar through and through.”
Zendaya also thanked Ronnie Spector for the time she spent helping to prepare her to take on the role.
“Ronnie, being able to know you has been one of the greatest honors of my life,” Zendaya wrote. “Thank you for sharing your life with me, I could listen to your stories for hours and hours. Thank you for your unmeasured talent, your unwavering love for performing, your strength, resilience and your grace.”
This marks the third collaboration between A24 and Jenkins after the Oscar-winning Moonlight and the upcoming film Sorry, Baby, for which he serves as a producer.
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Blink-182 is headlining the 2025 Four Chord Music Festival, taking place Sept. 13-14 in Washington, Pennsylvania.
The bill also includes AFI, Jimmy Eat World, Say Anything, Jawbreaker and Bowling for Soup.
Tickets go on sale Friday at 11 a.m. ET.
For the full lineup and all ticket info, visit FourChordMusicFestival.com.
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INXS is the latest Australian act to get a shoutout from Dua Lipa during her tour Down Under.
Fan-shot footage posted to social media shows the pop star performing the classic INXS track “Never Tear Us Apart” at her Wednesday concert at Qudos Bank Arena in Sydney, with the audience loudly singing along with her.
INXS — made up of Michael Hutchence, brothers Andrew, Jon and Tim Farriss, and Garry Gary Beers — formed in Sydney in 1977. “Never Tear Us Apart” was the fourth single off the band’s 1987 hit album, Kick, which went to #3 on the Billboard 200 Albums chart. The single peaked at #7 on the Hot 100.
This isn’t the first local act Dua has paid tribute to during her Australian tour. Earlier in March she performed a cover of AC/DC’s “Highway to Hell” during her show in Melbourne.
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The U.K.’s Competition and Markets Authority regulatory body has issued an update regarding its investigation into Ticketmaster over its Oasis reunion tour sale.
As previously reported, the CMA opened its investigation in September after fans complained of confusing prices and a frustrating queuing system while trying to buy tickets.
In a statement Tuesday, CMA says that Ticketmaster “may have breached consumer protection law” in the way it handled its sale, including “labelling certain seated tickets as ‘platinum’ and selling them for near 2.5 times the price of equivalent standard tickets, without sufficiently explaining that they did not offer additional benefits and were often located in the same area of the stadium.”
“This risked giving consumers the misleading impression that platinum tickets were better,” the CMA says.
The CMA also says while “many fans were under the impression that Ticketmaster used an algorithmic pricing model during the Oasis sale, with ticket prices adjusted in real time according to changing conditions like high demand,” it “has not found evidence that this was the case.”
“Instead, Ticketmaster released a number of standing tickets at a lower price and, once they had sold out, then released the remaining standing tickets at a much higher price,” the statement reads.
“We’re concerned that Oasis fans didn’t get the information they needed or may have been misled into buying tickets they thought were better than they were,” says Hayley Fletcher, interim senior director of consumer protection. “We now expect Ticketmaster to work with us to address these concerns so, in future, fans can make well-informed decisions when buying tickets.”
Oasis’ reunion tour, which will mark the first time the formerly estranged Liam and Noel Gallagher have shared the live stage since 2009, launches in the U.K. in July. It comes to the U.S. in August.
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Chappell Roan is taken — but she encourages fans to remain unattached.
Appearing on the Call Her Daddy podcast, Chappell told host Alex Cooper that she’s been dating someone for six months. Asked if it’s casual, Chappell said, “No. It’s serious. I’m very in love. But I am pro-single! Everyone should be single!”
“I’m serious! Be single! Stop dating! Be single! Have a great time alone. Find out for yourself if you can 100% be OK alone before you date,” Chappell advised fans. “That’s what I found out. I had a great time when I was single and I know that I will be OK, and now I have an awesome time now that I’m with someone.”
Chappell said she met her current girlfriend through a friend and made the first move — but notes that it all happened before she became one of the hottest pop stars on the planet.
“I’m dating the same person that I was dating before, like, it blew up,” she revealed. “So I’m not sure how I would date now. I think it would actually be a nightmare. I think I would be, like, so f****** single right now.”
“I’m scared. I don’t trust anyone,” she continued. “Any new person that I am texting, I’m like, I’m assuming they will screenshot this and send it to someone else.”
Chappell also told Alex that she wrote her latest hit, “The Giver,” after dating boys who just couldn’t, um, deliver — if you know what we mean — and that she wrote “HOT TO GO!” after she overheard some girls in high school describe her as “pretty, but not hot.”
But, Chappell notes, “The bad things that happen to me, I can monetize. That’s what’s awesome about being a songwriter.”
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Playboi Carti has dropped the deluxe version of his #1 album, Music. It’s titled Music – Sorry 4 Da Wait, a possible reference to the album’s delay hours after its intended release.
The deluxe edition features the 30 songs from the original album, all of which have debuted on the Billboard Hot 100, making Carti the first rapper and third artist to have 30 or more concurrent songs on the chart. Also included are four new tracks: “Different Day,” “2024,” “Backrooms” and “FOMDJ.”
Music came out on March 14, arriving a few hours late due to samples, clearances and a verse he was waiting on Young Thug to deliver. It’s since topped the Billboard 200, received the highest debut on Spotify for 2025 and debuted at #1 in the U.K., Australia, Canada, New Zealand, Switzerland, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Denmark and Austria.
The album includes singles “RATHER LIE” featuring The Weeknd and “EVIL J0RDAN,” complete with a new music video that has 5 million views. Both songs have debuted in the Hot 100’s top five, with “EVIL J0RDAN” sitting behind Kendrick Lamar and SZA’s “Luther” at #2 and “RATHER LIE” at #4. It’s the first time Carti has had two top 10s simultaneously.
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