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Never underestimate the power of a Super Bowl halftime show: Bad Bunny now has the #1 song in the U.S.

His song “DtMF,” the title track from his current album, Debí Tirar Más Fotos [I Should Have Taken More Photos], has jumped from #10 to #1 on the Billboard Hot 100. It’s his second #1 hit, following his Cardi B/J Balvin collab “I Like It” back in 2018. “DtMF” had previously reached #2 in January 2025, when the album dropped.

Billboard notes that “DtMF” is only the fourth all or mostly Spanish-language song in history to top the Hot 100 and the first by a solo artist. The others were  “La Bamba” by Los Lobos; “Macarena (Bayside Boys Mix)” by Los Del Rio; and “Despacito” by Luis Fonsi & Daddy Yankee feat. Justin Bieber.

In addition, Bad Bunny has three more songs in the top 10, all of which he performed during his halftime show: “Baile Inolvidable” [“Unforgettable Dance”] at #2; “Nuevayol” [a Puerto Rican nickname for New York] at #5; and “Tití Me Preguntó” [“Auntie Asked Me”] at #7.

Meanwhile, Taylor Swift’s “Opalite,” which climbed as high as #2 last year after the release of The Life of a Showgirl, has jumped from #11 to #8 after its release as an official single and video. 

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Breaking Benjamin has announced a U.S. tour for the late summer and fall.

The headlining trek launches Sept. 2 in Camden, New Jersey, and wraps up Oct. 24 in Bristow, Virginia. Openers include Chevelle and Starset.

Presales begin Wednesday at 10 a.m. local time, and tickets go on sale to the general public on Friday at 10 a.m. local time.

For the full list of dates and all ticket info, visit BreakingBenjamin.com.

Breaking Benjamin released a new single, “Awaken,” in 2024. They’ve been working on an album to follow 2018’s Ember.

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Failure has announced a new album called Location Lost.

The seventh studio effort from the “Stuck on You” outfit is due out April 24. It’s the follow-up to 2021’s Wild Type Droid.

Lead single “The Air’s on Fire” is out now. The album also includes a collaboration with Paramore’s Hayley Williams called “The Rising Skyline.”

You may recall that Paramore covered “Stuck on You” on their 2006 Summer Tic EP. Williams also appears in the 2025 Failure documentary, Every Time You Lose Your Mind.

Failure will play an album release show on April 21 in Los Angeles. They’ll launch a U.S. headlining tour in May.

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Jason Aldean’s “How Far Does a Goodbye Go” has made it all the way to #1 on both the Mediabase and Billboard Country Airplay charts. 

“Man, I thought 30 was a milestone…now we’re sitting at 31 number one songs. That’s pretty wild,” Jason says in a Facebook post. “Thank you to country radio, my team, our streaming partners, the songwriters and every one of y’all who’ve listened and turned these songs into something bigger than we ever imagined.” 

Jason’s now tied for the fourth most number ones on the Billboard Country Airplay chart since its start in 1990, putting him in the ranks of George Strait, Alan Jackson and Luke Bryan. 

“How Far Does a Goodbye Go” is the lead single from Jason’s Songs About Us album, which drops April 24. 

On Thursday, he takes his Full Throttle World Tour Down Under, headlining his first show in New Zealand before heading to Australia.

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Since the Winter Olympics began, Taylor Swift has sent a special message to the U.S. Olympians, wishing them good luck, and shared skier Breezy Johnson’s joy when her boyfriend proposed to her using lyrics of Taylor’s hit “The Alchemy.” During Monday night’s primetime coverage on NBC, Taylor was back in the Olympics arena, narrating a promo for the Blade Angels — three members of the U.S. Women’s Figure Skating Team.

In the promo, which is set to Taylor’s hit “Opalite,” she says, “Ladies and gentlemen, I’d like to introduce you to Amber, Alysa and Isabeau. Three American showgirls on ice, who will capture your heart with their stories.”

Taylor goes on to give us background on the skaters — Amber Glenn, Alysa Liu and Isabeau Levito — before concluding, “They’re teammates and friends. They call themselves the Blade Angels. And tomorrow night, they’re taking center stage when the show starts in Milan.”

The three women will be gunning for the first U.S. women’s medal since 2006, when Sasha Cohen won in Turin, Italy. The last time the U.S. women won gold was back in 2002, when Sarah Hughes won during the Salt Lake City Games.

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CHVRCHES have released a cover of The Postal Service’s signature song “Such Great Heights” for the season 3 finale of the Hulu series Tell Me Lies.

The synth-pop trio previously put their spin on the Robert Palmer track “Addicted to Love” for the Tell Me Lies season 3 premiere in January.

“It was such a treat to get to make music for the season premiere and the season finale of this show,” says frontwoman Lauren Mayberry. “Bookending the insanity and the heartbreak of the season 3 arc was an [honor].”

She adds, “”Such Great Heights’ is basically a perfect song so we were excited and terrified to cover it in equal measure. The Postal Service is such a special band and their music means a lot to us.”

Mayberry also opened for The Postal Service during their 2023 joint tour with Death Cab for Cutie.

Tell Me Lies season 3 is streaming now on Hulu.

CHVRCHES, meanwhile, have been working on a new album to follow 2021’s Screen Violence.

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It’s one of the most unexpected stories you’re likely to hear today: Ella Langley’s smash hit “Choosin’ Texas” owes its existence to Miranda Lambert’s pet kangaroo. 

The two helped author the #1 song during a writers retreat, which turned out to be Ella’s chance to cure her curiosity about something in Miranda’s life.

“We’ve always had a lot of mutual friends. One of them told me over the years that she had a pet kangaroo,” Ella explains. “And as a fellow animal lover, I had so many questions about that. And so I figured I had to wait till we were like friends enough [before I asked her about it].”

“So I got done with the first song and I was like, ‘What can you tell me about that kangaroo?’ And she tells me the whole story. And at the end of the story, she got pulled over with the kangaroo in the passenger seat. [The] kangaroo got her out of a ticket, [it] really did. And she had Texas plates on [her car].”

The end of the kangaroo story was the beginning of Ella’s current hit.

“I was like, ‘Well, he’s probably like, “She’s from Texas, I can tell,”‘” Ella recalls. “And just from literally that right there, the melody kinda just fell out.”

“I went, ‘She’s from Texas, I can tell by the way he’s two-stepping around the room,'” she says as she begins to sing the lyrics. “Just like that. And she’s like, ‘She’s from Texas, like the one he went with!’ And I mean, 30, 45 minutes that song was written.”

Miranda co-produced Ella’s new album, Dandelion, which comes out April 10, and contributes background vocals to “Choosin’ Texas.”

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Earlier in February, Lily Cornell Silver, the eldest child of the late Chris Cornell, launched a band called Josie on the Rocks. As she follows in her father’s footsteps, Lily tells ABC Audio how he and his music inspired her.

“His ability to take inner turmoil and turn it into art, I think about that a lot,” Lily says.

In introducing Josie on the Rocks, Lily wrote in an Instagram post, “Playing with these boys pulled me out of an awful place and gave me a sense of purpose I’d never felt before.”

“I find myself when I’m in depressive states or anxious states that I tend to wanna check out or just be on my phone or whatever,” Lily tells ABC Audio. “But it’s a superpower and something really inspiring to be in one of those states and say, ‘I’m gonna externalize it and make something out of it.'” 

The first two Josie on the Rocks songs, “Not You” and “Super Sonic,” are out now. The video for “Not You” is dedicated to the band’s late drummer, Graham Derzon-Supplee, who died in 2022.

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